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Putting us down
Spiro Agnew and Robert C. Edwards are an unlikely
duo, but each played a part last week in slapping
America's youth in the face.
Agnew---he's the vice president of the United States,
incidentally---continued his abusive slandering of
protesters in the U.S. Not content with labeling dissenters
"an effete corps of impudent snobs," the vice president,
never noted for his tact and wisdom, hinted that repression
may be needed to cool protest in this country.
Roberts, president of Clemson University, took his shot
at academic freedom when he denied a request by
Clemson students to host a two-day regional moratorium
observance this month.
It is stunning that the vice president of this country finds
it necessary to rant wildly against the sacred right of free
speech. Dissent, of course, has'been fundamental to this
country since the Revolutionary War, and for the vice
president to so heedlessly attack it is deplorable.
War protesters may be right or wrong in their ideas, but
they are decidedly proper in their open discussion.
Repressing free speech is not the way to preserve
democracy, but to destroy it---from the inside.
As for Roberts' action, it is a short-sighted try at
keeping needed discussion and thought off the Clemson
campus.
Restricting the Clemson observance to Clemson
students does not contribute to educating them. Instead, it
stifles their desire to exchange ideas with students from
several schools, depriving them all of a healthy,
reasonable experience.
Contending there would be an overriding security and
housing problem if the regional meeting were held,
Roberts has undermined the ideals of academic freedom.
It is possible only to conclude that the moratorium was
deemed too controversial for Clemson soil.
Such reasoning imposes an authoritarian wall around
the Clemson campus, dutifully guarding students againsi
corruption by non-conformity, outside ideas and new
thoughts.
We hope Clemson students have their regional
moratorium and we hope Roberts is reprimanded for his
oppressive tactics.
if Clemson demurs, however, we urge the Carolina
moratorium to invite the regional meeeting here.
Somewhere in South Carolina, we hope, free speech and
discussion are welcome.
THE GAMECOCK
- Carl Stepp Jack Padgett
Editor-in-Chief Business Manager
(Not) At the movies
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was previewing and spending the thispnnghsmoefr
students' money on. It was comte'plau.
demanded by the the vice-JANNA
president of the University Union.,Cara GnrlWi
Scottie Barnes. that we leave.('miteoth
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when I pass Biology 101,"
he says, staring out of the
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least, that's what we
thought he said.
Letters
Anyone
Dear Mr. Stepp:
The private office of President
Thomas F. Jones occupies the
northeast corner of the Ad
ministration Building. Few
students have been there, but how
many have tried and were barred
from admittance?
Dr. Jones and his wife, who has
no official responsibility to the
students, have given their time and
help to AWS in the past. We have
taken issues concerning the
women students to him in that
"foreboding office" and have
found him to be the most interested
in the problems and the growth of
students.
Through his help and en
couragement we had our first
honor residence hall, Capstone
House. He and his wife opened
their home to us for the planning of
University Night at "The Liberty
Tree."
The Jones' took the opportunity
of being with students at the
presentation of "The Liberty
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By THOMAS RICHARDSON
Columnist
In this Renaissance of the Black
man many concepts and traditions
are being challenged and
sometimes altered. Especially
considered are the attitudes
towards slavery.
Until recently, Afro-Americans
have been taught to :e ashamed of
their history of bondage. The true
culprit, however, was white
America and this fact is now ac
centuated. Whites are guilty of the
wrongdoings, thievery and en
slavement, and they should be
pitied. The blood of Black America
still drips from the teeth of the
white savage.
Black churches are bombed,
Black children are murdered,
Black campuses are shot upon,
Black babies are starving, and
other destructive atrocities are
committed, threatening the very
existence of Black people.
The trademark of this an
nihilative doctrine is the Rebel
flag. It enshrines the attitude of
turned
and alcohol. What kind of
statement could Dr. Jones make
concerning these problems other
than ones which uphold the law.
When he speaks, his words are
interpreted as University policy,
not as the opinion of Dr. Jones.
There is some prestige in being
president of the University of
South Carolina, but this prestige
does not compensate for the
personal sacrifice required for him
and his family. In our personal
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shipped as such by many southern
whites (the South being south of
the Canadian border).
Whites rationalize by saying it is
the heritage they are honoring,
meanwhile continuously fighting
the war. The Confederate flag and
"Dixie" are defended stronger
than are the American flag and
"The Star Spangled Banner."
It has been stated that
previously an attempt to ban the
flag and "Dixie" polarized the
campus. Actually the campus was,
and is, polarized because of con
flicts of interest and the lack of
concern for the smaller voices.
If things must always come to a
confrontation before animosity is
sensed, I must say that this
campus is in a pitiful state.
Last year it took harsh action
before the administration became
interested. As of the present,
"Terrible Tom and the Boys" are
far removed from the activities of
the campus.
The pressure that is being
withheld does not mean by any
away?
contact with President Jones
through the Associated Women
Students, an organization con
cerned solely with the average
woman student, we have found this
man's primary concern to be
students' problems and the growth
and education of the students.
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stretch of the imagination that all
is well.
Therefore, Black students, high
school and college, cannot relate to
any event which perpetrates ex
cess racism. The garbage which is
given to rationalize the racism,
which some refuse to admit as
racism, is just that--GARBAGE.
For some reason ot other, white
folks always think that they are
giving the "Negroes" something
whenever a demand is met, a
request granted, or justice is
administered. However, in this
dynamic period where ideas are
formed and new attitudes taken,
Afro-Americans are not grateful
for concessions. It is just time.
Included in this is the basis of the
Black peoples' so-called freedom
from slavery. Paravhrasing a
general consideration by Malcolm
X, the entire freedom structure for
Blacks originated on a miscon
ception.
Afro-Americans have
inalienable human rights, just as
other people. These rights cannot
be legally nor justly transferred to
another. Our human rights belong
to us, as to all people, through God,
not by the desires or fantasies of
other men.
For this reason and others, the
"Emancipation" Proclamation
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sentiment, not on reality.
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Emancipation is: "To deliver up or
make over as property by means
of a formal act from a purchaser."
However, we must remember that
human beings, cannot be justly
bought or sold nor can their human
rights be legally or justly taken
away.
Slavery was, and still is, a
criminal institution, that is: crime
en masse. No matter what form It
takes: subtle rules and policies,
apartheid, etc., slavery and op
pression of human rights stand
major crimes against God
humanity.
Therefore, to regulate or change
the state of such criminal deeds by
means of vague legislation and
noble euphemisms gives an honor
to horrible commitments that is
totally inappropriate.
We, as enlightened Afro
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