CARLET & BLA€K Student Newspaper of Grinnell College once again, the oldest college newspaper west of the Misritsippl WI. LXXV‘ Grinnsll. Iowa, Wednesday, November l, l967 No. l0 KING PREACHES AWAKENING By SUE MILLER Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his Sunday sermon to a capacity audience of almost 4,000 in Darby Gymnasium. Delayed by flight trouble en route from Chicago, King arrived one hour past me scheduled sermon time at 10:45. King, ”a prophet in the twen- tieth century“ according to Benjamin Mays, “is one who does not seek popular causes, but right ones." ”Few men in our time," the ‘President Emeritus of More—- house College slated, are “as persuasive and as consistent in pointing out the social injus- tices and modern issues of our day." King apologized tor his com- ing in on a “dash-in, daslwut basis," but said he must face five more days of jail (his 19th jail sentence) as a result of his action in the 1963 Birmingham movement which brought about the Civil Rights legislation of 1964. Speaking or “Remaining A- wake Through 8. Revolution," King compared Rip Van Winka le's predicament to our own. His zoycar long nap has par- tially obscured a more import- ant issue or the story~that or sleeping through a revolution, King said. Rip Van Winkle, who passed a picture of King George III at England when he climbed the mountain to sleep, King said, came down to find that George Washington’s picture was there. We are today who are finding ourselves in a great period of so- cial change, but who (all to de velop a new attitude and men. tal outlook of the social order, The challenge today, he stated, is to develop and maintain a world perspective; any individ ual .. or nation — today that feels. he can live alone is sleep- ing through a revolution. “Although: we have made of the world a neighborhood. we have not yet developed the ethi- cal wmmitrnent to make it n brotherhood." All mankind is caught up In the “inescapable network of mutuality." King said, “and whatever ailects one directly, affects all indirectly." “Each of us lives in two worlds, the Within and the With- out, by which we live, gov- em our religious and spiritual ‘within.’ We must," K i n g concluded, “never let the means {or which we live outdistance the ends for which we live,” We “must struggle passion Ately and umelentingly to get rid at every aspect oi racial injustice," King continued, or we Will bring “the current of doom down on civilization." The second myth couceming KING— (Conllno/ad on Page 2) Fholo by Dick Treulnalm "I never lnrend to adios! myself to militancy or the self- Iacemiing effects of violence , . . I constantly raise my voice against riots. But after condemning riots it is necessary to condemn iusr as viciously the conditions flint riots form under . . . " October 29. 1967 —Martin Luther King, Jr. iilliiiiliiiiilliiiiiliiiillliiilllliiiIIliiiiilliiiilliiilllliiiilliiiiilliiiiilililllliiilllliiIIliiilliiiiliiiilliiiiilliiiillliiiililiiillliilllliiilllliiiilliiiiilliiiillliillllil HONORARY DEGREES FOR TWENTY-ONE Several irregularities in the traditionally tedious ceremony changed the tone or the Sunday afternoon termination of Grin~ hell's Super - Weekend with an Academic Convocation for the awarding of Honorary Degrees in Darby'Gym. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, was given his Honorary Doc- . torate of Humane Letters first (out of alphabetical order) be cause he had a pressing en- gagement in Atlanta. Marshall McLuhan Was conferred his Honorary Doctor of Letters in absentia because of illness. Movie cameras ostentaciously began whirling as Ashley Mon— tagu received his Honorary Doctor of Science. Robert Rouschenberg was wearing a flaunty pink tie and Calvin Plimpton had to duck so that Professors Mendoza and Dur- kee could place his hood on him. in his introductory remarks, Ric MacDowell, President of SGA. commented that the con- vocationees had honored Grin- nell College by being here so we honor them, The twenty- one recipients oi Honorary De- grees new are the “Doctors of the Class oi 1967, Grinliell Col- legs.” The convocation address was CONVO— (Contlnued on Page 2) lillliiillliiilliiiliiiiiillliiilliiiiIIliiiillliiiiliiiiillliiiilliiiillliiillliillllii MONTAGU CALLS FOR JOHNSON'S IMPEACHMENT Alter dubbing the Vietnam War “the most immoral and il< legal conflict in the history of America," Princeton, New Jer- sey anthropologist Ashley Mona tagu informed a capacity crowd in ARI-l auditorium Sun- day that President Johnson “ought to be impeached.“ “1968 is the moth anniversary or the impeachment of the irrst president Johnson," Montagu told an estimated 550 students, visitors, and tacuity members at Sunday’s Vietnam Rally. “And i suggest to you that it would be a good idea to pro- ceed with the publishing 0i grounds for the impeachment of the second President John- Son.” Montagu outlined eleven points as grounds tor the im- peachment of Johnson: 1. “Violation of U. N. Char- ter, which says that one can legitimately only use force against armed attack." 2. “Violation of OAS Treaty which says that states cannot intervene in the affairs of other peoples without consultation." 3. "The assumption by the executive oi unprecedented powers for determining policy. . . Johnson is waging a war without a declaration of war.” 4, “Outraging the Geneva Conventions In the use of na- palm, the treatment ot prison< crs, area bombing. . ., the heating of tunnels to 1000 de- grees to kill Viet Cong. 5. “The outraging oi the Hague Conventions of 1399 and 1907 which speclly the rules or war." 6. ”The breaking Oi the Ge« Speaking over a copy of the Vietnam Commiiiee's pe- liiion (roped to his rosinnni, anthropologist Ashley Montague presents grounds for ihs impeachment of Lyndon Johnson to .n sslimotod five hundred in ARH auditorium. Photo oy Dick Treurntnn neva Agreements 0! 1954 and 1962." 7. “The complete disregard of the principles and declara- tions of the Nuremberg Trial. which stated that the greatest crime against mankind was the waging oi an illegal war." 8. “The bombing of Cambodia and Laos." 9. “Presence of our troops in Bolivia." m “The use of power promis- cuously." ll. "Malversation in a posi. tion or trust." Montagu concluded his shot! address pointing to “the harm this one man has done." Montagu also gave a lecture in Darby gym Saturday on “Race, Science, and Humani- ty." “Until we can regress the wrongs we've done in educa. tion and sociological prob- lems," Montagu iniormed, “we won't serve the race problem, the human problem." Also a keynote speaker at the rally, sponsored by tho Grinuell Student Movement and its Vietnam Committee, was Yale drama protessor and critic Richard Gllman. “You are a generation with a social Consciousness, and that is rare.” Gilman told tho crowd. “I hope you don’t lose it.” Montagu and Gilmnn were in- Lroduoed by Chairman of the Faculty Joseph Wall. SGA President Ric MacDowell also addressed the rally. Professor Ezra Mendelsohn (history) told the rally crowd that the peace rally was “like it tootball rally." “My friends already agree with me, and my enemies won’t be persuaded here," be ‘con. . eluded. The Sunday- atternoon meet-‘ ing was presided over by Viet- nam Committee’s Ron Miller. Over five hundred students signed the GSM’s anti-war po- tition, according to Miller. Montagu, Gilmali, and about 40 iaculty members signed, stating that the war was "rm. moral in its useless destruction oi human lives. . ." The last signature on the pe- tition, a GSM representative told the rally, “is Martin Luth- er King Jr." The rally was origin-any scheduled to be held on Barber Plaza 12:30 - 1:30 Sunday. In< clement weather and the late arrival of Dr. King forced the GSM to move it to ARE tol- lawlng the special chapel serv- ice in Darby Gym.