Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

VOL. LXII -NO. 79 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 29208 4V4 Project gets good start Volunteers help clear the way for the walk leading into A.C. Moore Park behind South Building and South Tower. The project is sponsored by the Senior Class. (See related story and pictures on page 8.) Black studies speak rebolutionary 's life By BARBARA MURRAY niggers in Paris." Staff Writer medicine. Henson Frantz Fanon's life as a revolutionary was traced "behavior of the in a speech by Emmanual Henson last night. Henson divided Fanon's story into three parts. In France, Hensc First, he discussed Fanon's life and personality, racism again. He saying that one could not understand the ideas unless hypocrisy and orga one understood Fanon's life. 1953. he went to i hospital. Henson Fanon was born in Martinique, in the French West here because Alge Indies, where a rigid social structure existed. At the top of society were the French people, followed by the "ietrsl ft black bourgeoisie. At the bottom were the black watoedhiws proletariat, of which Fanon was a member. Henson H a xeldf said Fanon was "not an unusual child, though he srk n ett was restless and did a lot of fighting." luei nteU Fanon was educated in the French manner--he was Hno eto taught to be patriotic to France. According to hen- ms oeotyo son, African culture was denigrated, while French Eat.Thsbo culture was praised. Halfway through high school, ofrvltnayi Fanon quit to join the French army and fight in the second World War. Hie was wounded while in the Fnnwsap army and won a bronze medal for bravery. It was at Iesn ao i this time. Hlenson said. Fanon was actually exposed intmetoop to racism. Fanon was first a b)lack man and then a rtoa en.rs Frenchman. TIhis, lienson said, was the awakening Fnnvee a 01 l'anon's polit ical consc(iousneCss.h'wa(orptdb Alter the war, I'anon c'omplete'd highi school tochngdsc becaim' a very introspec'tive' person. lIe won a '\''Iilgtle, scholarship to st udy dentist ry in Par is. buIt left Paris l)t'caiS(',in l"non ' Word. ''953',thWelwetno toai/ Studer protesi The National Student Assoc iation has called for a nationwide student strike Friday to protest renewed bombing of North Viet nam. Riot-equipped state troopers halted a brief anti-war demon stration at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md., yesterday after a rally there terminated in a rock-throwing incident. About 300 persons par ticipated. Two arrests were made and no injuries were reported. A total of 170 persons have been arrested from San Francisco to New York as protests against the war increase. In San Francisco 29 anti-war pickets were arrested at the Federal Building. Forty-one others were jailed at the Alameda Naval Air Station. A Navy car burst into flames near the San Francisco Federal Building after 1,500 protesters surrounded the building. Across the Bay, folksinger Joan Baez led 200 persons to the gate of the Alameda Naval Air Station. One San Francisco policeman received a chin cut after being hit with a brick, but no serious injuries were reported on the West Coast. In Detroit 23 persons were arrested and led from the office of the U.S. Senate's Republican Whip Robert Griffin as they protested the renewed bombing. :er tells story He then went to Lyons to study said Fanon was disgusted by the lack bourgeoisie." n said, Fanon became exposed to was disturbed by this racism and nized left wing political rallies. In digeria as head of a psychiatric said Fanon became disillusioned ria suffered from the same op ought that this oppression was a e colonial system" and 'the only "to remove the colonial system." m Algeria after taking part in a Tunis. Fanon died in 1961 of lited States. o discuss the works of Fanon, the which was "The Wretched of the s a powerful argument for the use alence, Henson said. litical philosopher, according to wed man "as an end, not as an ession" and thought man is a >onsible to himself. Hlenson said as being inherently good, but that society. Fanon's solution to this ety through violence. isonl. F'anonl believed that mnan's innU(t( on Page 7 it assoc ts bomi The Student Body Presidents of the University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University are urging students on those campuses to boycott classes Friday in protest of the bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong. A march from the N. C. State campus to the Capitol in Raleigh also is planned. Protesters in Boston's Harvard Square set fire to Harvard University's International Affairs Center. At the last report, 200 persons participated. No arrests were made. At the University of Penn sylvania, Hubert Humphrey had a vocal run in with students who asked why voters should support him because he apologized for the Vietnam war during the Johnson Political senes to start "The New Voters," a closed circuit television series which will feature political figures questioned by students, will be aired today and Thursday. The following is the schedule of where and when politicians will be featured: Wednesday, Columbia Hall Lobby - 10 a.m., Sen. Hubert Humphrey; 11 a.m., Robert Dole, chairman of the Republican Party,aand Lawrence O'Brien, chairman fo the Democratic Party; 12 noon, Sen, Eugene McCarthy; I p.m. Rep. Shirley Chisholm; 2 p.m. , Julian Bond; 3 p.m., Sen. Edmund Muskie. Wednesday, Bates House - 6 p.m., Sen. Henry Jackson, 7 p.m., Dole and O'Brien; 8 p.m., Sen. Robert Taft; 9 p.m., Bond; 10 p.m., Muskie. Wednesday, South Tower - 6 p.m., Muskie; 7 p.m., McCarthy; 8 p.m., Chisholm; 9 p.m., McGovern; 10 p.m., Humphrey. Thursday, Horseshoe andMaxy (100 Harper) - 6 p.m., Jackson; 7 p.m., McGovern; 8 p.m., Mc Carthy ; 9p.m., Bond, 10 p.m., Dole and O'Brien. Thurdsday, McClintock - 4 p.m., Chisholm; 5 p.m., Dole and O'Brien. Thursday Wade Hampton -6:30 p.m., Humphrey; 7:30 p.m., Muskie. Thursday, Sims - 9 p.m., .Jackson; 10 p.m., McGovern. Each speaker will have 50 minutes, during which he will be questioned by students representing every' political Snecit-um. 10 10 ation )g administration the way Secretary of State Rogers and Nixon are apologizing for it now. The Columbia SPECTATOR, the newspaper at Columbia University in New York City, ran a story carrying a banner headline on the front page about the war. Next to the article appeared an editorial in a Benday Box. The editorial called for a moritorium day on Friday against "business as usual." In Des Moines, Iowa, about 150 protesters gathered around a flag draped coffin. The week long anti war protest is scheduled to end Saturday with mass rallies in New York and Los Angeles. Last night NBC aired "Update of Vietnam: The Stepped-Up War," and included in this special a report saying that more than 40 colleges and universities report students walking out of classrooms in protest of the war and said that more such demonstrations would probably follow. Yesterday the World Council of Churches issued a statement saying the bombing undermines any confidence that the United States seriously seeks a political settlement of the war. Sweden's Foreign Minister denounced what he termed Nixon's "continued escalation of the war" and said Sweden will seek an in ternational ban against in discriminate bombing. In Indianapolis, however, the American Legion National Headquarters pledged its support to Nixon in his decision to resume the bombing in a statement from its office. Meanwhile, Secretary of the Defense Melvin Laird said in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that any area in North Vietnam is subject to bombing by U.S. war planes. Before national television audiences Laird denied a rumor that the Administration has decided to suspend bombing. He said he believes the air strikes against Hanoi and Haiphong are in retaliation for the Southern Communist invasion and the raids are aimed at destroying supplies for the offensive. North Vietnamese troops in creased attacks along two high (Continued on Page 5) Shawn Phillips WUSC-FM (89.9) is running the third part of the exclusive Shawn Phillips interview from 5 5: 30 p.m. tomor row. The interview was recorded during Spring Thing.