KKK Goes to College

              KKK Goes to College
BY CAROL O'CONNOR and we feei yOUth involvement An investigation of the inci-
David Duke of Metairie, La., is vital," he said. dent   found   that   the   six
is a "Grand Wizard" intheKu Activities    on    college White   Marines   had   a   .357
Klux Klan who claims to have campuses   are   "low-key"   and magnum revolver,  eight  night
travelled to several private and designed to appeal to the aver- sticks,  a knife,  KKK literature
public universities the past two a9e   White   student   who   is and   a   list   of   17   persons   at
years  delivering  paid  lectures "tired of being pushed around Camp Pendleton  in  the  KKK.
on the White supremacist ideals by minorities," the 26-year-old Daniel Bailey, the Klan's leader
of the KKK. graduate   of   Louisiana   State at Camp Pendleton, says that
His $1,200 "talks" have been University   explained.      When the  Klan  is  "in the  hundreds
purchased  by such schools as asked how many students were at the base."    The Center for
Vanderbilt    University, involved,    Duke   refused   to Service   men's   Rights   in   San
Nashville, Tenn., the University answer claiming that the Klan Diego,   Calif.,  said  that  there
of  Georgia,   the  Univeristy  of does not allow that information have  been  at  least  50 racial
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to be released. incidents at the base in the past
the University of Southern Calif., H®   claimed,   however,   that three years,
the  University  of  the  Pacific, there are 200 active university The Marine Corps has respon-
Stockton,   Calif.,   and   Rice chapters   of   the   KKK   in   the ded   to   the   charges   of   Klan
University in Texas. United States now.  Duke's "talk" activity at Camp Pendelton by
Duke claims he even had a to college audiences asserts that transferring some KKK members
lecture contract at San Jose the KKK is no longer involved to other bases. The 14 soldiers
State College in California until m violent acts. "All our members are expected to be charged with
a "bunch of Communists and take a sworn oath which forbids conspiracy and assault to
left-wingers started raising a them to partake in any illegal attempt murder. In the 1960's
fuss." A student protest at the activity." when the Marine Corps found
University of North Carolina Duke says that the incident some Black soldiers to be
prevented Duke from espousing in November at Camp members of the Black Panthers
his ideas. San Jose college Pendelton, Calif., involving those soldiers were given dis-
officials could not confirm or Black and White Marines is just honorable discharges, accord-
deny Duke's claim that he has an example of "how the Jewish ing to Liberation News Service.
been given a lecture-corrt*a«i and   minority   members   mani- "Why   some   of   the   nicest,
He says that when he appears pulate   tne   luerOe   ia   this friendliest  people I know are
before a  college audience he country."     The  attack,   which members  of  the  Klan,"   Duke
doesn't wear his white gown and resulted in injuries to six White said.    "In Boston I met many
cap.    "We try to be as profes- soldiers and placed   14 Black people  on  the  southside  who
sional  as  possible  about  this, soldiers in the brig, "was for no were  receptive  to  the  Klan's
The Klan is in a growing period good reason," he said.
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