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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
October 20. 1970
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Tom Goodmg, Ed tor
Courts Unconcernec
With Jostice, Ki
KENT STATE, Ohio (UPI)-The
entire field was covered with a gray
haze of gas. The gas felt like a file
had been thrust up my nose and
rasped against my eyelids. Tears
rolled down my cheeks.
The demonstrators split into two
groups and ran behind the
administration building on the
knoll. Troops pursued them behind
the building, and they ran down to
a recreation area with a practice
football Held. The crowd had now
swelled to more than 1,500
students.
The troops formed in regimental
order on the football field with
their backs to a fence. The
demonstrators surrounded them on
three sides.
A student leader wearing a green
headband and carrying a green flag
pole led a group of demonstrators
towards the encircled troops. The
students tossed rocks about the size
of baseballs.
Suddenly a volley of shots broke
out. By their sound and intensity I
immediately thought they were
blanks. It was inconceivable to me
that the troops could fire such a
barrage at the demonstrators.
The troops were now retreated,
and the demonstrators milled
around in bewilderment. I noticed
one demonstrator lying on the
ground. He was covered with blood.
Several of his comrades stood by,
some crying and others angered to
the point of incoherency.
He had a gunshot wound in his
hip the size of a half-dollar and was
barely conscious.
A quick look around confirmed
three similar scenes. All three were
Financial
Cuts Hurt
A letter to the editor on another
part of this page asks why only 300
copies of The Daily Tar Heel are
delivered to Morrison dorm each
morning when 1,000 students live
in Morrison.
Only 300 copies of the paper are
delivered to Morrison because only
13,000 copies of the paper are
printed for a student body of more
than 17,000 students.
The press run of The Daily Tar
Heel is governed by the amount of
money given the paper by the
Student Legislature.
The printing appropriation for
The Daily Tar Heel has been
decreased every year for the past
four years. For example, three
years ago the paper had S88,000
for printing. Now it has only
$83,000.
As long as the appropiation falls,
The Daily Tar Heel will be limited
in the number of papers it can have
printed. We can only print the
largest number our budget will
allow.
During this time the enrollment
of thie University has increased
from 13,000 to 17,500, and
printing costs have risen sharply.
Unfortunately, this number is
not even close to the number
needed to supply each student with
a copy of the paper, not to
mention supply subscribers with
their copies, advertiser with
tearsheets and the files in both the
library and The Daily Tar Heel
office.
Until our budget is increased,
however, we can only ask that the
students bear with the situation.
lling
men and all three seemed to have
been shot in the lower abdomen.
All bled profusely.
One victim lay in a pool of
blood in a concrete walkway.
As I got closer, I saw he had his
skull split open by a bullet, his eyes
were crossed and blood was pouring
from his mouth and nose.
Students screamed for
ambulances. In five minutes the
wounded and apparently dead
students were taken from the scene.
Enraged students yelled, "Kill
the pigs! Kill the pigs!"
One professor broke into tears as
he spoke.
The crowd dispersed.
That was the scene last May 4 in
Kent, Ohio according to United
Press International.
The scene in Ravenna, Ohio, last
Friday was quite different. A
special state grand jury exonerated
National Guard troops who fired on
students during that campus protest
last May 4.
The grand jury wasn't content to
let the issue die there. They also
indicted 25 students and
"agitators" on 43 offenses of
"deliberate, criminal action."
The grand jury said the
"over-indulgent and
permissiveness" of the Kent State
administration led to the campus
deaths last May 4 during student
demonstrations protesting the
invasion of Cambodia.
Bernard Miller of Plainfield,
N.Y., whose 20 year old son Jeffery
was killed, said: "You mean you
can get away with murder in this
country?"
Unfortunately, the answer to
Miller's question is in the
affirmative. The courts of this land
have consistently refused to find
the appropriate legal authorities
guilty of murdering black people.
Now the courts have begun to
exonerate people for killing
middle-class white students.
A member of the President's
Commission on Campus Unrest,
James F. Ahern, who is police chief
of New Haven, Conn., said the
grand jury's findings were
"inconsistent with the facts"
presented to his commission.
Unless the courts of this land
become more concerned with
justice and less concerned with
political expediency, the only
choice for those demonstrating
against the government will be
between the grave and the gun.
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Some students have told rr.e that they
2re going to Raleigh next Monday the
26th to heckle Agnew. Nothing could be
bigger mistake.
Agnew is an evil man. He tnes to play
on people's anxieties and on their worst
sentiments. He appeals to what is
smallest in man: his hatreds, jealousies,
and fears. He is just looking for sorneone
to point his maligned finger at, someone
to blame, someone for everyone to join in
jeering at.
Agnew is a walking moral outrage. He
knows that people are uneasy about
campus freaks and it is easy to tag the
college kids with violence. He knows no
one likes immorality, and it is easy to call
college kids immoral. He will be hoping
for some hecklers. It will make his day. It
will give him the living proof that
Cureton Johnson
For Blacks The
(Editor's Note: Vie writer is currently
chairman of the Black Student
Movement.)
From a logical standpoint, .brothers
and sisters can sit by and vsdck-up
Carolina's white culture, sports,
education and various resources.
But is this kind of white logic what we
desire?
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To some it would have been logical for
Harry Bryan
Durham Diner At 3A.M.
The following is a story about pigs and
blacks, police and Niggers or police and
blacks, whichever the reader prefers. But
no matter what terminology the reader
wishes to use, the story is true
Several weeks ago my date and I were
sitting in a restaurant in Durham waiting
to be served. It was about 3 a.m. on a
Saturday morning, and the place was
packed.
Behind us a black couple was arguing
about whether or not they should leave.
They had been waiting about 15 minutes
to be served, and the guy was really
getting mad.
Finally, after we had listened to them
arguing for about five more minutes, the
waitress-black and obviously new on the
job -brought their order, or at least what
she said was their order.
"I didn't order ham and eggs," the
black guy said. "I ordered a ham and egg
sandwich."
"You did order ham and eggs because
that's what I wrote down," the waitress
replied, showing him the check.
"I didn't order ham and eggs, and I'm
not going to pay for this."
And so it went for a few moments
before the couple got up to leave and
walked out the door.
As the couple was getting into their
car, the waitress told the manager-at
students are intolerant, disrespectful, and
deserving of far harsher treatment than
they are receiving.
Let's don't give him the pleasure of a
rowdy performance. Let's don't play mto
the hands of a crafty man whose sole
touchstone is political gam.
Our best tactic is to let the people hear
Agnew. Let no distractions deter their
attention to his every word. Let him
stand alone in his awful nakedness. Let
him h3ng his own political neck.
Don't forget that Spero T. Agnew is
the man who only two vears aeo the
Republicans. were trying to shove"under
the rug to save a presidential election.
Spiro T. Agnew is the man who every time
he opens his mouth loses the support of
suburban, educated America-where most
of the votes are. Spiro T. Agnew is the
man who some political observers already
Jackie Robinson to play ball with a Black
team rather than with the lilly white and
racist Brooklyn Dodgers. Others would
see logic in Muhammed Ali's entrance
into military service rather than fighting
the screwed-up system.
In that case, it might have been more
logical for my mother to use birth control
rather than conceive me. But logic like
many abstracts, is relative to people,
place, situation and time. These four
factors are important to Black students
here.
First of all, what people are we?
least I think he was the manager; he was
white and seemed to be running the
place-what had happened, and he rushed
out the door and stopped the couple
before they could pull off.
The manager argued with the black
guy for a minute or two, wrote down his
license number and walked back into the
diner and called the Durham Police
Department, as the black guy pulled off.
All this time my date and I had been
waiting to be served, and we were
watching the show with interest. Neither
of us had ever known any type of
restaurant to make a customer pay for
something he did not want-at least we
had never known any type of restaurant
to make a white customer pay for
something he did not want.
A few minutes later a Durham police
car screeched to a halt in the parking lot.
and two Durham policemen jumped out
the car with nightsticks drawn.
Another car arrived a few seconds later
and a third patrolman jumped out with
his nightstick out.
The three talked to the manager, who
by this time was so uptight he was almost
shaking, and left to our great surprise,
without hitting anyone.
Right after that another policeman -an
officer, we presumed, due to his graying
hair and the size of his gun -arrived at the
are predicting wiii lose the Republican six
to eight Congressional seats. Spiro T.
Agnew is the man who has hs feet in his
mouth far more consistently than on
calm, reasoned ground.
Pollster Lou Harris who casts a
scrurinous eye over the entire national
scene is predicting for Agnew a repeat of
the Wallace phenomenon.
If you remember in 69, George
Wallace rose in precentage points until he
deserved national attention. However,
when the eyes of the nation finally did
focus on him, he was seen for what he
was, and his popularity dipped
accordingly. Harris predicts much the
same with Agnew.
Give Agnew a chance to flame in all
his glory. Give the North Carolina voter a
chance to view this Vice-President
without any deterrents. I cannot believe
Time Is
We, in the American white context,
have been called niggers, colored people,
coons, negroes and other unmentionables.
Today, however, we know and pride
ourselves in being African. Black
Africans. There is no way to escape this
cultural fact. We know that our history in
America is one of suppression and that
freedom in this capitalistic system has
always been left to whitey's discretion.
We may not yet be totally and
ideologically agreed on what we want,
but we damn sure know what we can't
stand.
scene of the crime(?) and inspected the
two plates left by the couple and the
tickets.
He talked to the manager, who by this
time had settled down to the point that
he had stopped shaking and was then
only a little pale, in what we guessed was
the back office.
He then came out and looked at the
table at which the couple had been
sitting, and feeling the urge to do
something, I pointed out the fact that the
couple had not touched their food.
In his best college-kids-are-all-right-a
s-1 ong-as-they-stay-in-their-place form ,
he told me, "They ordered it (the couple'
had said they hadn't) and it don't make
any difference what they do with it; they
still have to pay for it."
He also intimated that J was all right as
long as I stayed in my place and that I
had better get into my place fast.
And so my date ate her waffle, and I
ate my hamburger with lettuce, tomato,
mayonaise and mustard, and we left. I
don't know what happened to the couple
and probably never will.
We left Durham with a totally
different feeling about that restaurant,
those four members of the Durham Police
Department and the society that created
them.
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But we are Africans.
We left our homes, families ai
communities (most of them in the miv
of poverty) to come to Carolina.
That leads us to question two. Whe
are we, and what is this place?
UNC is a one-tract European schcx.
The culture and life of white sto
shipped from Europe is her business.
UNC is a state. North Caroliniar.
Black and white pour their tax doll.f
into this institution. Black parents seii
their children here - here to racism a;l
whiteness. This place thcrefo
accomodates a few Black people, t'
number she thinks she can control a;l
brainwash.
So UNC is simply a "white school."
Upon arriving at Carolina we sa
through her liberal facade.
And question three arises. Wh!
position did we put ourselves in or whas
our situation here?
Our situation is that of a thief. We a.'
here to rob, steal, lie and cheat. We a'
here to regain the skills and knowled?
which our people initiated in the fiit
civilizations those of Africa.
We are here to "snatch back"' tr
wealth and prominence that was ours i
the homeland and help free our brother
around the world. But first we must fre
those in our hometown community
suffering here in Babylon.
We are here, as Du Bois would veri'
in his theory of the Black 10 per cent,
become a vanguard leadership for Blac
people rather than an Uncle Tom fore
for the racist Amerikan system.
So our situation is at odds with tt
university.
Then our goal is Black liberation. ;
What time is it?-stems from this gel
It is time to think, brothers and sistei.
For those of you who have been thinkhj
it's time to put thoughts into action. Bt
make sure you've thought efficientl.
Spend your years here in thought if yu
must, and the time will come when yor
mind will be free to act.
America is sick and dying. For scors
of years Black people have been sick ari
mentally asleep in the face of America
racism. Fighting little battles b.i
nevertheless moving too slow.
Frederick Douglas, in an excerpt fron
the narrative of his life, can bea
summarize my feelings about time,
thought and liberation.
He said: "I have observed this in my
experience of slavery-that whenever my
condition was improved, instead of m
increasing my contentment, it onV
increased my desire to be free and set m
to thinking of plans to gain my freedom
I have found that to make a contented
slave, it is necessary to make
thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken
his moral and mental vision, and as far as
possible to annihilate the power o
reason. He must be able to detect no
inconsistencies in slavery; he must be
made to feel that slavery is right; and he
can be brought to that only when he
ceases to be a man...
"...I did not hesitate to let it be knowr
of me that the white man who expend'
TtT' TOthTSl Be wn, sisters'
The people, place, situation
Letters
More Papers
Are Needed
that the rational voter will i
Agnew. Rather, it ss be
increasingly clear that the America
is tiring of the derision, irrational;!
sheer inhumanity this man personify
In any case, the mencan v
already knows we as students dor. t
the man. It's like telling your draft h
you don't want to be drafted. They v
that. The voter knows we don't h
trust Agnew. Going to his rally
expressing our feelings in oh
gestures will prove nothing. We nu--better
than he. Obscenity on our si-'
only lower us to the level of a nun v.
very verbal utterance is an obscenity.
Let us preserve our basic deccr.cv .
let the American voter be given
chance, without any harassment
distraction, to realize above all else
this m3n is truly in the wrong place.
To The Editor,
eve sudent
Sincerely
Robert L. LaWs iff
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