O o H o o < fiflijgrjfiifll Hfif‘fl 6% AAAMAAAMAAAMAAAAAAA/AX WM®M®Wmmmm I'Ndll 'em up if they don't dcliucl‘l” Colonel Leggett’s Return From The Plantation That President Glenn Leggett was in Mississ- ippi — the traditional bastion of White Supremacy -— at the time of Dr. Martin Luther King‘s death is I matter of coincidence. That he traveled 1,100 miles from Grinnell to the Gulf Coast for a meeting is a matter that might have escaped all notice, were it not for the national publicity and national remorse attending Dr. King’s murder and funeral. That Leggett went to the meeting in Pasca- goula at all (see story, PAGE FIVE)) is a matter of concern for everyone at Grinnell College. The conference that the president attended was a board of directors meeting of the Associated Col- Ieges of the Midwest (ACM), an organization ~— we need scarcely point out — that has no members farther south than Grinnell, la. — let alone in Southernmost Mississippi. Whether or not Leggett was a party in decid- ing on the site of the meeting; whether or not he had to attend as Grinnell‘s official emissary to the ACM; whether or not a national tragedy occurred during his sojourn; whether or not he enjoyed his excursion — the editors of the 5&3 agree with the faculty members and students at Grinnell that the trip to Pascagoula, Miss. “was not a very good idea at all.” If Beloit College President Miller Upton -— the man who allegedly slated the ACM conference at Pascagoula — or President Leggett or any other president of an ACM college wants to spend his va- cation in Biloxi or Pascagoula or Las Vegas or whereever, that’s his own business —- when he’s acting as an individual. But as a representative of a liberal arts college supposedly trying to keep rapport with —and re- cruit more of — Negro students, he has no business going to Mississippi at the time of Dr. King's death or any other time. And, as members of an association of Mid- western schools, the colleges involved had no busi- ness letting their representatives spend college funds on the Gulf Coast. In the world of athletics, representatives of groups, agencies, universities, and colleges have been known to boycott games, meets, and confer- ences in segregated locales and at segregated estab- lishments. When White and Negro athletes boycot- ted the track and field meet sponsored by the seg- regated New York Athletic Club earlier this year, educated people everywhere applauded their ac- tion, The S&B would have applauded Leggett had he boycotted last week’s ACM conference in Miss- lssippi. Leggett and other representatives of the ACM were rooming in Longfellow House — an erstwhile plantation and presently a discriminatory hotel- motel in Mississippi. That they were there at a time of national tragedy — tragedy particularly for Black Americans—adds injury to insult. Welcome home from the plantation house, Col- onel Leggett. We hope you enjoyed your trip, and now that you’re back on campus the editors of the 8&3 hope you don't have even more problems com- municating with our Negro students than you had before your Mississippi vacation. V VVVV/VVVV/VW/VVY/VVVVVVVWX f SCARLET AND BLACK if? RALLY (Continued from Page I) legislalilin for black control or black communities." To the sanitation workers, Gl‘mnell sludents wrote: “We support yoli in your struggle and have sent a lclegrom lo the mayor. . . enclosed is money to help you in that struggle.” Originally slated (or 1 pm, the rally began at 1:40 alter the planning group waited in vain for Buildings and Grounds personnel to turn on electricity ior their microphones and am} pliiiers. Use of the Barber Plaza fa- cilities, SDS member Joe Ber- ry told [he 5&3, had been ar- ranged ior hours earlier. The electricity was never turned on. Standing on the hood of a car parked on the paved rec< tangle, Berry began the rally shouting out the closing pas- sage at Black Power, a bank by Neglo leader Slokely Car- michael and Professor Charles Hamilton at Roosevelt Univer- sity, Chicago: "THE MAKE-SHIFT PLANS PUT TOGETHER E V E R Y SUMMER BY CITY ADMINIS~ TRATIONS TO AVOID RE- BELLIONS IN THE GHETTOS ARE M E R E L Y BUYING TIME. W H I T E AMERICA CAN CONTINUE TO APPRO- PRIATE MILLIONS OF DOL- LARS TO TAKE GHETTO TEEN-AGERS OFF THE STREETS AND ONTO NICE GREEN FARMS DURING THE HOT 5 U M M E R MONTHS. THEY CAN CONTINUE TO PROVIDE MOBILE SWIMMING POOLS AND HASTILY - E U I L T PLAY- AREAS, BUT THERE IS A POINT BEYOND WHICH THE STEAMING GHETIOS WILL NOT BE COOLED OFF. IT IS LUDICRDUS FOR THE SOCI- ETY TO BELIEVE THAT THESE TEMPORARY MEAS- URES CAN LONG CONTAIN THE TEMPERS OF AN OP- PRESSED P E D P L E. AND WHEN THE DYNAMITE GOES OFF, P I 0 U S PRONOUNCE» MENTS OF PATIENCE SHOULD NOT GO FORTH. BLAME S H O U L D NOT BE P L A C E D 0N ‘OUTSIDE AGITATORS’ OR 0N ‘COM- MUNIST INFLUENCEY OK ON ADVOCATES OF BLACK P 0 W E R. THAT DYNAMITE WAS PLACED THERE BY WHITE RACISM AND IT WAS IGNITED BY WHITE RACIST INDIFFERENCE AND UNWILLINGNESS T0 ACT JUSTLY.” Speakers included L o e w i. Farbes, and Thomas. The newly- elected SGA president told the cmwd that “social concern has been dead at Grinneil. social Icflon has been dead at Gfln— nell. . . too long." "Illa: it should take a na— tional tragedy to prompt lhis. . small . . . action . . . is sad," Thomas mncluded. WALKER ASKS FOR MORE THAN TALK Roy Walker (Smith senior), a member of Concerned Black Students and a prominent lig- ure in athletics at Grinneil. surprised the rally with an imposing and powerful im- promptu address. “I didn’t wan! to give I RALLY— ficonfinued on Page 10) gammrnhfirmmn may“? ignite.“ 63o? . gig @he adder?“ Memphis Irony Sir: Say, Grinnell, are Com< munity problems gelling you down? May I suggest a flip South for the winter. . . -—Vc.l Budig '70 Lo Mayne college (Memphis, Tenn.) 0 The above letter was sent on February 5m oi this year by one of this semesler’s exchange student’s to Le Moyne, a Mem- phis Neyo college. A Tuesday night inquiry by the 5&3 deter- mined that the college has not experienced any or the violence prevalent in the rest of Mem- phls. The college closed hu- three days lollowing Dr. King's assusslnatlon. -—EDITORS ROTC Deiended Sir: I feel as a member oi the ROTC delachmenli here on the Grinneli campus, 1 should re- spond to the recent statements of me Ptemrlaclyl. it nothing else. I just emphasize the ne- cessity to mainlain the right of any person to arrive 31' his own system or beliels, and . . . to voice his beliefs and act accordingly. Yet those who seek io re» move ROTC irom Grinnell deny this right to persons who do not believe as they do. They would deny the opportunity 01 a person to make some valu- able use of the time he must spend in me military, They reply that there is 075, but it is nearly impossible to get inio 0T5 now. I would like to comment on Indoctrination and Curriculum. The rorc deparlmeni has acted on student opinion in the courses and activities iar more Friday. April l2. me than any other department 0! which I am aware at Grin- hell. If a cadet displays confusion or objections to the program (Mr, Walters refers to this as a “bad attitude”), a cadel oi. iicei . . .tries to explain why something is done in a paroch- lar way. It the cadei has it suggestion, it is considered. I spent some time talking It} Duncan Waiters last semester. He understood his contract from the beginning. Although I disagree with his statemenls I respect his opinions and leel that if his beliefs are sincere, he made the right decision in leaving ROTC. The statements concerning his fate in the Pierodaclyl are highly exaggerated. Waiters cannot be tried as a deserier or a traitor. Skinner can find no laws military or civil, which make such action legal. Tho Ptemdactyl has engaged in mis- representation to create their own picture of ROTC. The slam men: on “attitudes which make one capable of killing in rim: of war" and on high-school sign-ups to eliminate cadets with the “wrong‘ attitude are completely false. The ROTC course does not attempt to prepare cadets for killing. The curriculum aims at preparing managers and leaders »— not soldiers. Let me close with one last remark. i don‘t plan an Air Force career and have no great compassion for the mil~ itary and the job they must do. i maely believe that all per- sons are entitled to free thought and action regardless of the fact that ii may be considered “conservative” and “immoral" by the “liberals." If the 11de cales I)! this “morality" deny this right to others then they seek in eliminate an op. posing point or view — me very act which may condemn ill ROTC. —Rick Sproll ’08 IlllllllllllllllHllllllllllllllllHllIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllIIllllllllllllllllllllHlllllHillllHllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIllllIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllull ., itfilflihflfl i. l7 Serving The Ilitclli’gznisia of Iowa Cow‘rlem 1968 by Ne|l Fischer Student Newlpepor of Grinnell College \202 VARK sure! ERINNELL, IOWA son: An independent newspaper Published weekly, except during holidnys And mun. naiwn periods, by the Grinnell Commune on slndm Publications. aeoresenlcd lor nirlonai Idverusink by whom Educa- lionci Advertislnz services, 360 Lexington Ave. New York. N31. men. Second class postage p-id nr Grin-roll, la. subscnpnon me 35.00 per xchool year, laoo paid “DA liberation Hm- Erwin urintions. 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