The Carolinian [March 14, 1969]

              The Carolinian
Volume XXXXVIII University of North Carolina at Greensboro, N. C— Tuesday. March 11, 1969 Number 37
Symposium Examines 'New Left9 Goals
_„ who has
become * symbol to many "New
Leftera" appeared on the official
programs and potters for the 3
day symposium.
Panel
Talks
Politics
The panel discussion in the
fourth session of the University
Symposium Tuesday evening in
Cone Ballroom explored the
New Left's attitudes toward
"The Politics of Confrontation".
The questions raised by
moderator Dr. Robert Rosthal
and members of the audience
centered on tactics versus
strategy of the movement, the
attitudes toward the military,
demands on campuses
concerning racial issues and the
general aims of the movement.
Panel members included Bill
■Freeland, Car! Davidson, Ray
Mungo, and Randy Furst.
Carl Davidson spoke of the
tactics used at Columbia
University during the crisis there
as an education for the
uninformed that "proper
channels are dead-end". For the
year and a half period prior to
the eruption he said the channels
were exhausted until the
students were finally backed to
the wall. "Then the militants
take exemplary action." He said
the violence of the students to
far has been not against people
in general but against the police.
Mungo spoke of inept
administration as bringing
reaction upon themselves. "It
might have been smarter not to
send police on the Columbia
campus because the students feel
physically oppressed. A girl from
the audience applied the same
point to the Duke situation that
the action of the police "make
many other people mad who
weren't involved before."
Concerning the military,
Davidson cited the military
exploitation of the universities
in ROTC programs and grants
for professorial studies which
"go into the Pentagon Tiles."
Lincoln Ladd, English
instructor at UNC-G, asked if
the panel objected to the
military or to the use of the
military. Davidson replied, "The
National Liberation Front and
the people's Liberation Army
are my kind of army." He did
not object to war of military
establishments per se as he called
the North Vietnamese struggle
"the most heroic struggle I can
think of in all history," but
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Local Problems Discussed
In Final Symposium
The New Left Symposium
ended Wednesday with a panel
discussion of "The Problems in
Our Area," centering their
discussion around recent student
unrest at University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke
University, and A&T University.
Bill Cokes, Episcopalian
chaplain at Chapel Hill, spoke
about the nature of the
university in connection with
the cafeteria workers' strike at
UNC-CH. Cokes stated that it
was a tragic situation when a
university, which should stand
for free and open debate, has its
chief administrator refuse to
answer questions in public
"because students might be
there."
"For some reuson," Cokes
said, "something happens in
crises that reveals the university
as a house of cards. This could
lie due to the structure of the
university or the personality of
administrators. . . (When the
university) waits and hopes that
the crisis will go away, then it is
partially to blame for disruption.
It may not go away, it may turn
into an explosion."
Cokes spoke of the challenge
that students should present
administrations that conditions
that will proved* a crisis should
be recognized and changes made
before a crisis develops.
Cokes outlined the
background behind the strike of
the cafeteria workers, stating
that their demands were simple,
but that they were still not met.
The workers demands included a
$1.80 minimum wage, black
supervisors, proper classification,
and an overtime fee.
According to Cokes, the
administration does not have
charge of the negotiation with
the workers any more. Instead,
they will negotiate with the
Attorney General. Cokes credits
this, the continuation of student
participation, and increased
faculty interest to Governor
Scott's call for troops to be
placed on the campus.
A spokesman from Duke
University stated that the black
student withdrawal there is due
to Duke's lack of community
involvement which he says the
new Malcolm X University for
Liberation will have.
Wall-to-wall
Joyner Lounge had
wall-to-wall people. Wednesday
afternoon, they gathered to hear
the new Left reflected in the
arts.
The students listened to folk
and protest songs, poems read
by Fred Chappell, Lewis Lipsits,
and John Roscnthal. Chappell's
selections were from a recently
published book by former
graduate student at UNC-G,
William Pitt Luke. One of the
poems concerned the poet's
childhood when he was learning
to live while his father was
learning to die. Another of
Luke's poems concerned hit
small daughter and her
fascination with the sound of
crickets in the moonlight.
Lipsitz read several poems he
wrote himself, including one he
wrote while he was "tired of
war," but realizing the little
effect poetry would have. The
poem is entitled "Poem in Which
I'm Willing to be Bribed by
Politics." Lipsitz also read a
poem stating "Why I Became A
Social Scientist."
Rosenthal read a narrative
poem about the "Ballad of
Pentagon," concerning a man
who poured gasoline over his
child and then asked if Pentagon
officials would light it and burn
it as they did the "yellow
babies" in Vietnam.
A New Left Mosaic: Carl Davidson
Keynoter
Davidson Cites
"Cold' Violence
The final performance of the UNC-G Dance Company'a winter
concert wil be held tonight in Taylor Theatre.
Carl Davidson delivered the
keynote address to the fourth
snnual Student Government
Association Educational
Symposium. Despite a rumored
walk-out or disruption, a large
crowd listened to the former
SDS chairman's "Introduction
to the New Left."
Davidson began by tracing the
origins and background of the
Students for a Democratic
Society, which he cited as one of
the main organizations of the
New Left. The SDS, according
to Davidson, is a social
democratic organization that
was formed to "gel rid of the
Dixiecrats."
Davidson cited many factors
contributing to the general
unrest which caused the SDS to
be formed, including the
Hungarian Revolution, the
Cuban Revolution, the early civil
rights movement, early Berkeley
demonstrations, and marches
against nuclear war.
Davidson stated that the
political views of the SDS have
changed greatly since its
formation. He said that when
they first began the majority
viewpoint on the foreign policy
was that it was "basically okay,"
but they felt there should be
more Peace Corps workers rather
than more Marines. What was
then the minority viewpoint was
that emperialism is a system and
that it is basically bad. There is
no good thing, according to
Davidson, that s government can
do in such a situation.
Davidson spoke of what he
called Ihe "cold violence, the
silent violence." He said that
mothers will kill their children
rather than have them go
through Ihe auony that a child
dying of starvation suffers. "Tr is
is a violence," said Davidson,
"caused by emperialism."
Davidson talked of the ci'il
rights movement in connection
with the SDS attitude toward
domestic policy. He said "In the
beginning the reaction to racism
was moralistic. It seemed simple
.that blacks should have as much
! right as anyone. This captured
the imagination of a whole
generation of people. But in it
was a paternalistic approach it
had white supremacy built into
it, because we were going to lift
the black man up to our level."
Davidson related an event that
happened to him in Mississippi
in 1966. A small black girl was
admiring his fine, straight hair,
then she said that he had "good"
hair, while hers was "bad."
Davidson could not convince the
girl that her hair was as "good"
as his. According to him, this is
the basis for the black power
movement "Tell your daughters
that they are beautiful."
Davidson said that a culture in
which these conditions exist
should be "destroyed, smashed,
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