Support Your Fellow Men
North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia have seen numerable
protests and demonstrations on their college campuses during the past
few weeks. The protests were begun as a result of the killing of three
Negro college students in Orangeburg, South Carolina, February 8.
Students from A & T State University burned South Carolina's Governor Robert McNair in effigy last Thursday night on the Guilford
County Courthouse lawn. McNair was responsible for sending in
South Carolina National Guard troops to Orangeburg to stop student
demonstrators who were demanding integration of Orangeburg, South
Carolina's only bowling alley.
It is evident from the above accounts that southern Negro college
students and some white students, especially those in the Piedmont section of North Carolina, are deeply concerned about their rights. In addition, they are interested in combatting their injustices. As a result of
the killings in Orangeburg, college students in this area were interested
in showmg their sauness and anger about the deaths. What alternative
did these students have? Could tnese students sit back and do nothing
after they heard that three college students had been killed? After all,
the students in Orangeburg were trying to make another positive step
forward in the integration of public places.
What seems to be appropriate here to ask is: What can the fellow
students of these protestors do? First of all, the college students of today will be the leaders of this nation tomorrow. And so, the students
of today must learn to live in harmony with their fellow students. There-
tore, the students of today can support and help the protestors. This
does not mean that students need to involve themselves in violent racial
riots. In fact, it does not mean students need to participate in marches
or demonstrations. What it does mean is that students can and must
learn to work and socialize with their fellow man, whether he be black
or white.
More specifically, the students at Greensboro College need to learn
to associate with the students at Negro colleges. Some of the Collegian
staff members, along with students trom the newspaper staffs of the
four other schools in Greensboro—Bennett, Guiltord, UNC-G, and
A & T State University—met a tew weeks ago to exchange ideas about
their campus papers. This is only one example of how tne students of
Greensboro College can learn to live in harmony with their fellow man.
Perhaps the student government interacts with the Negro colleges in
this area, but in adaition, other organizations need to cooperate and ]
exchange ideas with the other schools in Greensboro. If all five colleges "
in Greensboro would learn to work and socialize in harmony with one
another, then at least the students in this area could feel as though they
had made some contribution to solving the racial problem in the United
States. t
