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A THREE-RING CIRCUS N THE MIND

When Juel Cook, the last remaining Black Pan- ther field worker was here, he did something that to my knowledge hasn’t been done before at UPEI. He laid a rap on us.

As is usual with anyone who speaks to the stud— ent body with passionate conviction, he was very well applauded. And as is usual with anyone who wanted more response than the collision of one hand with the other, he didn’t get it.

The role he was hoping that the 400 or so peo- ple in Duffy would fulfill would be to give a little money to what Rocky Jones called “The brothers on the front lines.” Out of that crowd they got about $25.00.

They’re trying to raise $6 million for bail. That wouldn’t bail a guy out of city jail for jaywalking.

The reasons for the abrupt split between ap- plause and‘ response are interesting:

One was surely the fact that few if any students come from a cultural background of violence, hat- red and oppression, and couldn’t really get on the man’s wavelength. Not that you have to be a poor black from Oakland or Watts to understand the reap son for the Panthers emergence on the American scene. For example, magazines like Ramparts and the Guardian, (The Guardian—from New York), and books like The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Gene Mari‘ne’s The Black Panthers, and the works of Franz Fanon and Eldridge Cleaver give some» background to black ghetto experience. ”

The inability of a majority of middle-class whites to believe that policemen can kill people for little or no reason, and then escape prosecution be- cause of the machinery of “justice” is definately a stumbling block to comprehension.

A closer to home example of typical police men- tality is found in the survey taken in Quebec where the police were found to dislike “hippies” more than they dislike criminals. And it is indisputable that many white cops have a similar if more violent pre- 'udice to blacks.

Certainly no one pretends that black people are I ever violent, never “let their rhetoric get carried way with itself—but they have been oppressed on he continent'and especially in the United States of erican for hundreds of years. They are a colonial

|o - ple of the run-away monster USA.

There were the usual bright-eyed idealists who 'uestioned Cooks philosophy of violence, who ac— used the Panthers of racism even though Cook tried 0 emphasize that “it is a class struggle not a race truggle.” Many expounded the old bullshit SNOC sive resistance theory.

Of course the fact that the University commun- ty reduces every struggle big or little to an intel- ectual abstraction in which the catch phrases and uperficial appearances are bandied about Without ny assimilation of their spirit and motives, dooms ny effort before it starts.

The large crowd was obviously looking to be ntertained. Juel would have been a bigger hit if l e had come with a black beret, a submachine gun a d a bandolier of bullets.

—Hornby

T h e Ca d re ditor/buffoon: jim hornby

o 1 menial: dennis mackay ailings/profund‘ty: martin kenny, garybear en assistance: the mysterious layouter olumns/ waste: mcgaughey, karl m, agamemnon id ock tock: dave mitchell - eporters: very funny hotos: hornby and mackay yping: various token women ewd behavior: captain bearheart ndecent exposure: the bear party nspiration: the pusherman

artin deserted the forte for new york where he will prac- ice his joe buck routine: dennis is ratso from afar( the best ‘- to take him we find) while in the office staffers come nd go talking of michelangelo (i made that up: they dont eally) the secret southport agent snuck in a few nights for uickies. wendy and gail typed one night whilst terry was uthlessly efficient. captain bearheart walked around with ts fly down to the delight of mcgaughey who just idolizes uch cheap hypes. well thats showbiz fokes. keaveny was ilked for about $6 by crafty hornby—better known as grafty rotection money for the darling of the press. you do_get athei- tired of typing up your own crap for the fourth night in a row. next week we absolutely positively promise a new reate canadian novel, gross cartoons and (below all) the ». r manifesto. cross our bear-heart and hope to die!

,CVHARLOTTETOWN‘, P. .E. 1.

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“. ..and did you voluntarily accept a ‘free, hot meal from known Black Panthers at nine a.m., February nine, nineteen hun’ert an’ seventy ?”

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There are two things which bother me about the Sir George Williams Computer affair which were pointed out by the speakers from Sir George who visited the Campus recently. They were never mentioned in the local press nor national news me- dia, yet they are both very important. The first one is the make up of the jury by which the students are to be tried. The second one is the refusal of either the provincial or the federal government to allow a full scale government investigation into the matter.

It is a basic principle of Anglo-saxon’jusrtice r

that a man shall be tried by his peers. Yet of the candidates for jurymen in the trial not one of the candidates were black. Surely there are enough black people in Montreal toallow for having some of them on the jury. Also the jury in general were

middle aged. Can it be said that these students are

going to get a fair trial.

It is also interesting to note that the average bail for black students was $4,000 and for the white students only $1,500? '

Because of the conflicting statements made by the police and members of the Sir George Williams administration it is quite clear that the fact have

not all been brought out. While the black students ' ‘

are willing to accept their responsibility for certain events they have persistently called for a full scale investigation of the matter but have been refused this by both the federal and provincial government. Why? I personally believe that it is not merely the black students who are on trial here but Canadian society which is being charged with blatant racism. Canada is on trial also, and University and govern- ment officials want the whole thing swept under the rug as quickly as possible. And at what cost is “justice” passed on 42 black students. _

February 26 is a national day of solidarity with the Sir George students. I would urge that the mat- ter be discuss-ed by council and if it seess fit, some form of action should be taken to show support for the demands being made by the Black students at Sir George. ‘

A telegram of support — requesting an inves- tigation — seems to be in order. 5

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FEBRUARY 20,‘ 1970

Reply and fugue

I do not like the editorial we reprinted for Carolyn Duffy on page 7. The reasons she quotes me as havmg given were somewhat rhetorical, 31—: though I think that they can be quite easily justi- fied -— except for “fascist,” which was probably in ' reference to some things I have heard Miss Clancy v (the outhor of the piece) say, and as such are not germane to this discussion.

Firstly, I felt that it was naive in its conception of the womens liberation movement. The movement, as I see it, consists of women redefining their role in soc1ety as something other than another instru- ment of man’s gratification —- a sexual object for man 3 use.

. The image of a woman going to university mainly to catch a husband, or to geta job to sup,-

I V . port her until she can; of women being nurses but

not doctors, teachers but not principals, etc. This image is largely the responsibility of women, and the women’s liberation movement is trying to change

_ it. These people are not a bunch of slightly butch,

repressed potential old maid stereotypes, who have no sex appeal and are bitter about it: they merely want to define themselves as equal to' men, instead of having equality a rare and (literally) remarkable occurrence.

J aniel Jolley, the SFU protest candidate in the Waterloo Lutheran Win-ter Carnival Queen pageant, is an example of the rebellion against the Playboy- image of women as cattle whose worth is j udgedl by externals.

As far as snobbish goes,lI think the reference to people being unwashed and “exuding a peculiar odor” needs no amplification.

Smugness is indicated in Miss Clancy’s totally unfounded assumption that she presents a threat-to the radical movement and would thus be “the first to face the firing squad.” The statement that “We bourgeoisie, pigs are safe as long as (the radical movement’s) growth is numerical and not intellec tua ” also strikes me as smug. ‘

Her opinion that radicals who call themselves Marxists don’t really know what Marx was‘writing about, strikes me very funny, coming, as it does, from one who has told me that she is a “Trudeau phile”. Her own knowledge of Marx or anything radical has never struck me as being anything out of :the ordinary —— which is to say, practically noth— ing. This opinion is certainly uninformed.

I call the article intellectually dishonest because it is so convinced of its righteousness, when it dis- plays a frighteningly superficial View of the situa- tion it is purporting to describe. . ‘

As I have indicated, I don’t feel that the ar- ticle is very important. What is important is that Miss Duffy took the time to express her views. The importance of the View one expresses is, at this early stage in the development of UPEI, secondary to the fact of the expression itself.

Dialogue is surely the thing we need most if we are ever going to develop.

COUNCIL QUOTE OF THE WEEK Keaveny: “What’s the motion?”

MacKay (acting chairman) : “Well. . . Everyone knows what the motion is.”

“Prowl Car 39 thinks he just seen a suspected Black Panther

pon.”

carryin’ what he imagines could be a concealed lethal wea-