April 8, 197:
The Carolina Journal
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(Reprinted from the BULLET, Mary Washington College,
March 22, 1971)
College press releases these days look like observations on
an Orwellian world of Big Brother surveillance and
clandestine snooping. Information on drug traffic and
political activity are the prime aims of such
Federally-administered and often university-sanctioned
pursuits.
An important lead in much FBI undercover work comes
from those students who inform on the illegal or incendiary
activities of their fellow classmates. Charles Grimm, a
Well-known student radical at the University of Alabama and
a leading activist in last May’s student strike there, admitted
recently to being an agent for the FBI and the local police
department. Although charged with arson and other
‘criminal” acts, his case has failed to appear before court.
Grimm explains that his duties as an undercover man were to
. .infiltrate the student movement. . . to identify the
leaders of the student movement, to engage in radical
criticism of university officials, to provokd students in to
committing acts of violence, and to make regular reports” of
the activities of those whom he observed. Seven students at
the University of Delaware have admitted to the student
newspaper there that the FBI has contacted them in hopes of
garnering information on campus drug-users and political
activists.
College administrators may claim ignorance of such
Undercover work, but there is evidence that in some cases
they permit and even work in close alliance with it.
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interviews to be conducted between student informants and
FBI agents. Although, the University now denies its
involvement, eye-witness accounts of actual phone calls and
interviews between University officials and students confirm
its knowledge of and assistance with the transaction. News of
the FBI contacts came to the Delaware campus amid reports
of increased use of plainclothes police by both the campus
patrol force and the city police department.
The University of Oregon abetted FBI agents concerning
campus political activity by giving the agents official school
records. The University Registrar denied the student
newspaper at Oregon and classmates of the particular student
access to the same records. University officials justified the
witholding of the information from the students by blaiming
that the records were “privileged” information. In a clever
legal maneuver University officials turned around and said
the records could be viewed by the FBI and the general
public since they are considered a “public writing” of the
state under statues of the state public records act.
On a state and national level the nightmare world of 1984
is stepping closer into present-day reality. A bill is currently
pending before the South Carolina State Legislature that
would force all students who wish to attend public schools or
institutions of higher learning in the state to undergo
fingerprinting as a prerequisite to attendance. The bill is
intended to help police investigation in kidnaping cases, but
its unconstitutionality and its violation of individual rights
can’t be ignored. The fingerprinting of all South Carolina
students is an invasion of their privacy -a right guaranteed in
the U.S. Constitution. Such files would exist for decades and
would constitute a potential force for abuse by police
officials.
On a national scale, ubiquitous Federal agencies keep
constant surveillance on one out of every eight Americans.
Ramifications of this action are most severe for students
because their political actions are most overt. A complex
military-domestic intelligence system provides daily reports
of political demonstrations and campus rioting to top Army
officials. The Selective Service keeps dossiers on those it
considers “malcontents,” and the Justice Department
computerizes date on individuals and organizations that
engage in political activity.
A more terrifying thought for America’s dissenters is the
existence today of U. S. concentration camps. In World War
II the camps were used to incarcerate Japanese-Americans
and have since been abandoned. Today they exist as potential
prisons for members of the Black Panthers, the SDS, and
other revolutionary groups. Government sources have named
these groups as possible future inmates of the camps, since in
the event of an internal security emergency their dogmas
could easily meet the Internal Security Act’s requirements
for imprisonment.
Whether on the college, state, or national level undercover
work is an odious business. It breeds distrust and fear among
people and increases the already existing polarity between
the government and the public or the administration and the
students. More importantly, if the maintenance of political
files and the presence of informers on campus inhibit free
exercise of speech and thought, then they constitute a direct
threat to an individual’s basic civil liberties. But the biggest
horror of undercover work is the fear that inspired it into
practice. If the government is so frightened that it feels it
must restrain political dissent, our nation is closer to the
world of 1984 than we think.
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Library, Fine
Arts Openings
(Continued from Page 1)
They are tentatively planning
either to close the library for
about six weeks using their own
staff for manpowe? or to ask for
student and faculty volunteers
trying to move everything in a
minimum of time.
Vaughn predicted that staff
and faculty would begin moving
into the buildings anywhere from
the 15th of June to the 1st of
July.
The Music, Art, and Drama
departments will definitely move
their offices into the Fine Arts
building. Other departmental
assignments are still indefinite.
There are indications that
classes could possibly be held in
the buildings by the second
summer session.
When asked about other
building projects in the immediate
future, Vaughn said that plans
were being finalized for another
dormitory and bidding for the
contracts would begin soon.
Also, pending approval by the
N.C. Legislature, a new Earth-Life
Science building could soon be
underway.
Vaughn stated that the
obtaining of funds for this project
was considered as "top priority”
for the planning committee.