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A total of 84 UNC faculty
members and teaching
assistants have pledged to grant
amnesty to students missing
classes or exams during the
student strike now in progress.
Jim Smith of the sociology
department, one of a group of
faculty members circulating
the list, said many more names
are expected.
Smith said he knew of a
"number of people who will
sign the list that we haven't
been able to contact." He also
said he is planning to get
additional names at the general
meeting of the faculty today at
4 p.m. in Hill Hall.
"I would hope," he said,
"that at the rate we've been
going, we may get 300 or 400
signatures."
The amnesty would enable
some students to strike and
receive the grade they are
currently carrying in their
courses, if they wish.
However, Fred Thomas, a
member of the Strike Steering
Committee, warned students to
check with their instructors
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The following is the text of Tommy Bello's address to the
student body Wednesday afternoon.
In standing here before you this afternoon, I cannot help but
look back on this year and recall the moratorium activities of
Oct. 15 and that day of hope. I remember Nov. 15 th in
Washington with the "Hair" cast in front of me, looking over a
sea of people dancing and singing, "Let the sun shine in." Indeed,
for that one day the sun of human communion and mutual
understanding did shine in. Yet since that day up to the murders
of this past week, I have come to realize in my innocence that
things are really not getting better, that we shall not overcome,
and that unless we act, this country will destroy itself.
The evidence is obvious. By sending troops into Cambodia,
Nixon's administration has admitted that it has learned nothing
from the hundreds of thousands of dead in Vietnam. By resuming
the bombing of the North, Nixon has shown that rather than
seeking 'to bring us together he seeks to polarize this country as
never before. .
At Kent State University, we have relived the horrors of My
Lai. Today these students Jeffrey G. Miller, Alison Krause,
Tommy Bello leads march
Number May Reach
before assuming they will
receive amnesty.
Some of the signers noted
provisions beside their
signatures (a) means extra
work may be done to raise
final grades; (b) means
make-up exams will be given;
(c) means to see the professor
for grading arrangements
(important); and (d) means
incompletes only (see
instructor).
The faculty who signed the
pledge by 7 p.m. Wednesday
include:
Anthropology Ted Cloak,
Robert E. Daniels (a), Steve
Pol gar (a), John T. Honigman
(a), Dorothea C. Leighton,
Fritz Hafer.
Art Robert Kinnaird
Biostatistics David
Kleinbaum, P.A. Lachenbruch,
P.C. Joshi, PJK. Sen, B.G.
Greenberg, M. Ghosh, R.R.
Kuebler Jr., M. Sheps, H.A.
David.
Botany William J. Koch.
Classics David Sider,
Gerhard Koeppel.
Economics Larry Asch,
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Charles Richter, Hugh Knox.
Education Michael L.
Tracy.
English Edward D.
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By Mike Parnell
Staff Writer
More than 3,000 students
marched on the homes of the
chancellor and president of the
University Tuesday night in a
spontaneous rally which began
with 40 people at Granville
Towers.
Two hours before that
march, at a meeting to discuss
the strategy for Wednesday's
boycott, Student Body
President Tommy Bello told a
crowd of 1,800, "If the only
way this nation is going to
Sandy Scheuer and William K. Schroeder lie dead, the tragic
victims of Nixon's latest move to bring us together. I am bitterly
disgusted and horrified at the atrocities committed at Kent State
and in Southeast Asia! WTe will not forget Kent State. We will
never forget what Nixon is doing to America and to Asia.
And yet we cannot give the WThite House the satisfaction of a
violent and destructive reaction to Nixon's and the troopers'
demonstration of intolerance, impatience and aggression. We
must not fall to their level of inhumanity. Violence is intolerable,
whether it be in Cambodia, Vietnam, Kent State or on this
campus.
Therefore, listen today to each speaker, be he SDS member or
chancellor. We are not those troopers. We will possess our
humanity, our tolerance and our desire for nonviolent, peaceful
solutions.
These students at Kent State must not have died in vain. And
by that I mean we must not respond to their deaths by violence
and destruction.
We must know by now that the politicians that run this
country are cold, hard, calculating men, men untouched by
reason. They realize that if students all over 'this nation close
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The strategy meeting to
discuss the boycott; wihich'i
being held to protest U.S.
policy in Indochina, began at
7:30 in the Great Hall of the
Student pinion. However, the
crowd was forced to move
outside to the pit because of its
size. .
Bello made his firs speech
of the demonstration, after
which he received a standing
ovation. He told the gathering
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By Rick Gray
Associate Editor
More than 4,000 people
marched through downtown
Chapel Hill chanting, "On
Strike. Shut It Down."
Wednesday afternoon.
The march, held in
conjunction with a student
, strike, was led by Student
Body President Tom Bello and
four coffins symbolizing the
students killed by National
Guardsmen at Kent State
University Monday.
The line of marchers was
about half a mile long,
stretching from the Carolina
Theater back to the Chapel of
the Cross.
Crowd estimates ranged
from 6,000 down to 4,000
students,' faculty members and
townspeople.
It was the second day of a
strike by UNC students in
protest of U.S. involvement in
Cambodia and all of Indochina.
The strike began Tuesday
when approximately 15
graduate teaching assistants in
the English department refused
to meet their classes and held a
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3ie'.gras "goddamned tired of
the'rhetorjc students have been
hearing from Nixon.
&nf tired, after the deaths
of the students at Kent State,
tojiear Nixon say people like
tlt bad t coming to them,"
Bello &id.
"Well, he's got it coming,
and he's gonna get it!" said
Bello, eliciting enthusiastic
applause from the students.
Bello recognized the
"student brotherhood of this
country," calling for an
indefinite strike of the
University' to show the
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down the universities that they, the politicians, will have
everything to gain. These men realize that: first, such action
would hurt only the students and the faculty, who are foremost
among the compassionate, intelligent, and concerned individuals
this nation has; second, that such action would be politically
ineffective even politically destructive, because of all the citizens
such action can alienate; third, closing down the university would
dissipate the energies there.
Yet those politicians apparently have not learned what we are
capable of. WTiat happened to Johnson is going to continue to
happen until this nation quits its wanton aggressions.
Over 300 universities are now on strike. I am on strike and am
urgintr strike, not to shut down this university, but to express my
commitment to whatever I can do to end the political careers of
these insensitive, insecure and blantantly inadequate individuals
who hone to gain at the expense of lives in Cambodia or Kent
State. We must not be fooled by these cold, cruel men. If they
will not come to us, we will go to them. Instead of burning ROTC
buildings, , e will beat these men at their own game cf politics.
Our focus is Washington.
And even more than this, we go on strike to open up a new
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noon rally which drew about
2,000 students for a march
through campus.
At a 1 p.m. meeting of the
student body in Polk Place,
Bello urged students to
continue the strike and asked
that they remain non-violent.
"Since Nov. 15 up to the
murders of this past week (at
Kent State)," he said, "I have
come to realize in my
innocence that things are really
not getting better, that we shall
not overcome, and that unless
we act, this country will
destroy itself.
"... I am bitterly disgusted
and horrified at the atrocities
committed at Kent State and
in Southeast Asia," he
continued. "We will not forget
Kent State. We will never
forget what Nixon is doing to
America and to Asia."
Bello asked the students to
remain non-violent, saying that
violence would not help their
cause.
"First," he said, "such
action (violence) would, hurt
only the students and the
faculty . . . ; second, such
action would be politically
ineffective, even politically
destructive, because of all the
citizens such action can
alienate; third, closing down
the University would dissipate
the energies here . . .
"We go on strike to open a
new university," he continued,
"to create a free university.
This meeting is not the
culmination of our efforts;
rather, let it be the beginning
of an educational system built
not on class attendance or
grades, but . . . one built on . . .
free exchange of ideas, open
President students mean
business when they call for the
removal of American troops
from Southeast Asia.
To prevent the deaths of the
four students at Kent State
from being in vain, students
must force Nixon to get out of
Indochina, said Bello.
After Bello's speech, Casey
Donovan, a member of the
Students for a Democratic
Society, advocated three mair
objectives of the Wednesday
boycott.
The three objectives were.
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expression of opinion and
learning through personal
interaction and involve
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"We have slept through the
nightmares for too long." he
said. "Today we begin to live
the dream. Together and
non-violently, compassionately
and intelligently, we strike to
begin anew."
Bello's speech drew a
standing ovation from the
audience which stretched from
the back of South Building
past the flag pole at the center
of the quadrangle.
Chancellor J. Carlyle
Sitterson, speaking at the rally,
read a telegram sent to N.C.
Senators B. Everett Jordan and
Sara Ervin signed by
Consolidated University
President William C. Friday
and the chancellors of all six
campuses of the Consolidated
University.
"We report to you," the
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university, to create a free university. Ihis meeting is not the
culmination of our efforts; rather, let it be the beginning of an
educational system built not on class attendance or grades but, as
evidence by this meeting today, one built on the principles of free
exchange of ideas, open expression of opinion and learning
through personal interaction and involvement. We strike to
establish a university that will espouse what this society so
desperately needs: mutal love, respect and understanding.
Today we peacefully and responsibly commemorate the deaths
of our fellow students at Kent State. Tomorrow we begin with
the professors and educators also on strike to establish
constructive educational alternatives. We will fast, we will pray,
we will vigil. We will talk to the citizens of Chapel Hill and North
Carolina. We will go to Raleigh with our funeral procession. We
will go to Washington and show Nixon what real power looks
like not the power of guns and bayonets, but the power of
people.
We have slept through the nightmares for too long; today
we begin to live the dream. Together and nonvio!er?tiy,
compassionately and intelligently, we strike to begin anew. Thank
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telegram read, "that deep and
widespread apprehension is
developing among students and
faculty on the campuses of the
University of North Carolina
over the widening of our
involvement in Southeast A Sid.
We share these concerns.
"We ask your support of
immediate steps and actions to
prevent any further
ac ceieration of our
involvement in Indochina and
to hasten the end of our
conflict."
Dick Roman, a full-time
instructor in the sociology
department, told the rally, "I
call on Chancellor Sitterscn to
say he will struggle to end the
disruptions policy.
"I personally call on all
faculty members to st rike.
"I would like to ask the
Chancellor if he plans to
enforce the disruptions policy
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