Friday. November [4. “76‘? Charges Dropped Against Two Here At Chicago Trial Charges against two Grinnell students arrested while in Chi» cago during last month's 5135 action were dropped last Fri- day during a Chicago trial. Senior Charles Garman had been Charged with possession of a concealed deadly weapon, and freshman Scott Davies had been charged with disorderly conduct. Garman and Davies were stopped by police while driving in Chicago Oct. 10, because of faulty orakelights on Garman's car. They then went to the po- lice station to post bond, and one of the officers found a tear gas pen while searching the car. In court last week, the de- tendants’ lawyer alleged that the search of the car was ille- gal, since the arresting offi— cers had no reason to enter the car unless they had seen something suspicious from the outside. Because of that alle- gation, and the fact that the policemen to l d conflicting stories under oath, the judge granted a motion to suppress the evidence found in the s e a r ch. Consequently, there was no case for the other charges, and they were dropped. The judge also ordered the brakelight violation to be dropped. He said the normal procedure for such an offense was a warning to the driver to fix the lights. The case was the last of four Grinneli students arrested and charged in Chicago during the demonstrations. Earlier, fresh- man Deborah Feldman was placed under court supervision for six months for running away from the scene of a broken window, Freshman Kay Sophar was fined $500 for re- sisting arrest and disorderly conduct. Quote of the week: “I feel that managing a col- lege now is like managing a college on the Virginia- South Carolina border dur- ing the Civil War with troops from both sides pass- ing through.” Glenn Leggett SCARLET AN D BLACK Page Three John Froines: "Our Cultdre Is on Trial" By Ida Gudema “What‘s happening in Chi» cago has nothing to do with the anti iot act. Our culture is on trial. What's really on trial is our survival," John Froines, a member of Chicago’s “Conspir- acy 8,” told approximately 200 students last Saturday after noon in Roberts Theater. Froines, a chemist, is accused of conspiracy in connection with the demonstrations at the 1968 National Democratic Cone vention. Commenting on the trial, Froines said, “What’s happen- ing to us in the court in Chi— cage is the same thing that happened in the streets of Chi- cago last summer." He ex- plained that statement by say- ing the defendants are being brutalized legally in the court- room rather than by the police in the streets. He added, “We're surviving, and we're winning.” Froines said he feels the most important part of the trial has been events involv- ing Bobby Seale, one of the de- fendants, Seale, N a t i o 11 a1 Chairman of the Black Panther Party, was recently gagged and shackled in the Courtroom. He has since been sentenced to four years for Contempt of court, and a mistrial has been declared for him. Froines described S e ale ' s gagging as a symbolic attempt to gag the Black Liberation Movement in America. He said, “No matter how hard they try, they can’t gag him, and they can't gag the Pan- thers.” Froines also accused the news media of telling only half the truth. He said they emphasize Seale’s verbal at- tacks on Judge Julius Hoffman, rather than his attempt to de- fend himself. since he has been forced to accept a lawyer ap- pointed by the court. While encouraging anyone in. terested to come to Chicago to see the trial, Froines Warned that anyone with long hair, a beard. or “looking like a hip. pie” will not be admitted. Those who are admitted are searched several times. Once in the courtroom, Froines said, any spectator who smiles, talks, laughs, or makes any JOHN FROINES other suspicious movements is immediately expelled. Although painting a ludi- crous picture of the trial, Froines stressed that it is no joke. He said people tend to see it as a burlesque. but it isn’t. since all the defendants expect to be tound guilty and be sent to jail. He said, “We are trapped in the courtroom. There is no way to escape it for us." in order to stop the trial, Froines encouraged the audi- ence to go to Washington this week to participate in the march to the “Department of Injustice." He also urged stu- dents to send letters to the judge or other government of- ficials to Stop the trial. Speaking of this week’s ac- tion in Washington, Froines ex- pressed his belief that the per— mit would be granted for the massive march on Saturday. (The permit has been granted.) He also said any violence in Washington would be caused by the police, not the demon< strators, since all of the protest leaders, including the most militant, have denounced the use of violence. He said, “If anyone has the gaul to use vio- lence that will hurt us, he doesn’t belong in the Move» ment." Other comments Froines made in his speech and dur- ing a question-and-answer pe- riod: 0n the trial m “We are in contempt of that court. We figr lire We all have about two years (in jail)." On the judicial system — “There's basically no justice in this land." He called Judge Hoffman a fascist, but explain- ed that Hoffman is only an agent of Attorney General Mitchell and Nixon, 0n Vice - President Spiro Agnew — “Agnew is the dead center of the Nixon adminis- tration, maybe even a little libs eral.” He later added, “Age news right on,” since he une derstands what's happening in America. On the recent SDS Chicago action — “The Conspiracy sup- ports any demonstrations that support us. . . . We must look beyond the broken windows, to the political State. We're not going to create violence — at least I'm not —- but We must understand that there is vio- lence because of Vietnam, not because of the Weathermen." 0n society — “We want to be free . . . to have a society not hung up on property rights. Society has to fit the needs of the people in it, not an elite." On his future — “I don’t want to leave the country, I want to work here. . . . After I get out of jail, the govema merit will persecute me, but i have to keep on doing what I do.” During the morning, Froines spoke to a Political Science class and a group in the Science Building. Letters or contribuaons to the Conspir- acy can be mailed to 28 E. Jackson Blvd, Chicago, Illi- nois, he said. Black Historian Redding Calls for Application of Humanistic Knowledge By John Gardner Professor Saunders Redding of George Washington Univerr sity drew an estimated 200 stu- dents to a Tuesday lecture on the “Black Reaction to Post» Reconstruction America,“ in the American Civilization 225 lecture series. Redding. the author of several books on black history and literature, delivered a scholarly and quiet speech, using many or the as- sumptions of black identity in- herent in what he called the “new Negro" Consciousness, but avoiding the anger and Verbalized frustration equally inherent in recent Movement statements. His rocus was “the applica- tion of humanistic knowledge” to racial problems. He saw a post—1954 Zeitgeist (spirit-of» the-times) as a determining factor in black and white prob» lems. This spirit was one of the translation of the wishes of black people into legal actions. such as desegregation deci- sions of the Supreme Court. However, Redding said, “No man m black or white — so- cialized in America in the past century can escape the effects of racism." He said that a hu- manistic revolution is impera- tive because the law alone THE DEFENDANT ALLEEE$ Tlilfi COURT HAS DEPENED TlOAJAL % J RBHTS. Tile mass is CRiTlCAL. 6A6 ‘RHE VEFEMDAMT THE WMTRW (5 THE CD‘VEFEWAUTS SiDE Mill THE DEFENDANT \ $5 5 UESTER THE COmBNTRV, éHACKLE THE \CO—WEWAMTE. Th5 MEASUR5§ TAKEN HERE TODAY ONLY T0 [USURE FAIR TRlAL- (c) last Jules Foiller “will not free the black man from the effects of his sell-re- jection.“ Preferential treatment for the black man in America seems to Redding to be the natural course, and he rejects a once-common notion that the solution to black problems could come by the same means as the solution to Irish, Jewish, and Italian friction. The very fact of color mili< tated against the ease of this optimistic idea; Redding put Blacks, Mexicans, and Italians in roughly the same place as far as easy assimilation into the “melting pot” (a term Redding also questioned). “We must determine to- gether,” he added, “where the primary areas of policy con- cern are,” coming out strongly in favor of “pluralism, individ- ual assimilation, and desegre- gation." The black man, he ex- plained “wants no one out — he wants in.” The respect of the audience, coupled with their apparent lack of enthusiasm might pos- sibly be reflected in the differ- ence in titles between one of Redding's books, On Being a Negro in America, and the contemporary Nigger by Dick Gregory, Near the end of his speech, Redding declared, “In short, I advocate equality. Pe- riod.” Gregory. however, in his autobiography, regards the advocacy of equality to be so obvious that he spends little time discussing it formally. Questioned by a student on what he thought about Afro haircuts and dashikis, Redding replied that he saw the value of distinctive styles in reaf- firming black identity, a value which came out, often subtly, in all of his remarks. The com- pensatory or preferential treatment he saw as necessary for the black man in America, and which has been supported by Whitney Young of the Ur- ban League focuses, “direct» ly," Redding said, on “400 years of mistreatment”; this statement was one of the few that Redding made which re- vealed a suppressed anger be- neath his systematic, practical and humanistic attitude toward racial problems, 1969.