Allen Building Crisis: Tape #3
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- | This is Ross. | 0:03 |
- | Listen, they've gassed the place, this is Mark. | 0:04 |
- | Okay. | 0:07 |
- | I'm not kidding. | 0:08 |
- | I know, I believe you. | 0:09 |
- | It's getting in my eyes, I'm up in GT, second floor. | 0:10 |
There was a big crowd around the thing | 0:14 | |
and around the main door of Alan building, | 0:16 | |
right by the bus stop and there were cops | 0:17 | |
in front of it all with these machines for gassing. | 0:19 | |
They started them up and dispersed the crowd | 0:22 | |
and now everybody's flooding into the dorms. | 0:25 | |
I don't know yet if there's anybody still in the buildings, | 0:27 | |
I can't tell, I can't get near enough. | 0:29 | |
I can't find any of our reporters, | 0:31 | |
that are on the scene. | 0:33 | |
- | Can you give me an estimate how many gas bombs | 0:34 |
do you think were thrown? | 0:37 | |
- | They didn't throw gas bombs, they've got these little-- | 0:38 |
- | Gas machines? | 0:40 |
- | These little machines, they must be-- | 0:41 |
- | Tear gas machines or something. | 0:43 |
- | I don't know whether it's tear gas or whether it's mace | 0:45 |
or whether it's just smoke or what, | 0:47 | |
but they've chased everybody off the quad, | 0:48 | |
there's gas all over the place. | 0:50 | |
- | At this time, has there been any physical? | 0:51 |
- | No, there's been no contact yet, | 0:54 |
but it looks very precipitous. | 0:55 | |
There are students running around the quad | 0:58 | |
and challenging the cops and I don't know | 1:00 | |
what's gonna happen, it really is tense over here. | 1:01 | |
We'll be staying in GT observing out the window I hope | 1:04 | |
and if I get chased out, then I'll go some place else. | 1:06 | |
- | We'll just keep this line open and wait | 1:09 |
till you are coming. | 1:11 | |
- | Stay off the phone, because all kinds of heck-- | 1:12 |
- | That was because I was talking to somebody else | 1:13 |
giving us a story. | 1:16 | |
- | Yeah, okay. | 1:17 |
- | Okay, bye bye. | 1:18 |
- | Alright, I'll see you. | 1:20 |
- | Bye. | |
- | Vast for contemporary kneel is for WDBS | 1:31 |
and I'm right now in the Canterbury hall overlooking | 1:33 | |
the main quad and throughout the window | 1:36 | |
I can see a little bit of smoke still going on. | 1:39 | |
The students regrouped and there goes the grenade | 1:42 | |
right of us, the smoke I can see is pouring up | 1:45 | |
out of it, several people are dispersing running, | 1:47 | |
the students evidently regrouped about 10 minutes | 1:51 | |
after they were dispersed. | 1:55 | |
Regrouped and charged again toward the police. | 1:57 | |
The police then retaliated with the gas | 2:00 | |
and some of the students now are going into the buildings, | 2:03 | |
I hope in a minute to have a student here in just a second, | 2:09 | |
possibly, to tell us exactly what's going on. | 2:12 | |
I don't know if maybe you can hear in the background | 2:14 | |
some of the students now downstairs below me | 2:16 | |
as they come in upstairs. | 2:18 | |
You got one? | 2:20 | |
Alright, just a minute, we have here in just a second | 2:21 | |
a student, who was involved just a moment ago | 2:23 | |
and saw exactly what happened, your name please. | 2:25 | |
- | Bill Rugh. | 2:29 |
- | Bill, where were you when this latest activity broke out? | 2:30 |
- | Staying out in front of FS dorm. | 2:34 |
- | Exactly what did you see? | 2:36 |
- | Smoke. | 2:38 |
- | Smoke and that in a word is just about | 2:39 |
what we see right now. | 2:41 | |
Are the students still out there, | 2:42 | |
are they in any way charging the police | 2:44 | |
or the police charging the students, | 2:46 | |
can you give us a description of what was going on? | 2:47 | |
- | Small groups started getting in close to the police | 2:50 |
and calling them names and provoking them to some extent. | 2:52 | |
Mainly cuz a lot of people getting run out of the rooms, | 2:55 | |
cuz of the tear gas in the rooms. | 2:57 | |
- | We still see, there went another grenade over there | 3:00 |
or that might just been a little bit of smoke | 3:03 | |
still going on form one, that recently gone off. | 3:05 | |
I see also a lot of photographers out there, | 3:09 | |
a lot of bulbs, a cheer going up just a bit, | 3:11 | |
I'll try to see what exactly is going on. | 3:13 | |
- | They got and threw it back. | 3:14 |
- | One demonstrator picked up a grenade, | 3:16 |
threw it back at the police still smoking | 3:18 | |
and that evoked a great cheer from the crowd | 3:21 | |
and to the spectators surrounding them. | 3:23 | |
I see now, that looks like there is some activity | 3:26 | |
going on right in front if me down below. | 3:28 | |
A lot of students are regrouping | 3:30 | |
and are those students or police going | 3:33 | |
toward down the building there? | 3:36 | |
- | Those are police. | 3:37 |
- | Those are police, they're heading back | 3:38 |
toward Alan building. | 3:40 | |
Just police right at the moment out there. | 3:42 | |
Right now it's hard to say exactly what is happening, | 3:46 | |
I see some more students falling back, | 3:49 | |
perhaps the threat was put out for another smoke bomb | 3:52 | |
or whatever that is, that is being thrown out there | 3:56 | |
the very mild tear gas? | 4:00 | |
- | Mild tear gas. | |
- | Thank you, that's about what we have right here now, | 4:01 |
as I said, once again, students seem to have regrouped, | 4:05 | |
one more thing? | 4:09 | |
- | Yeah, when this tear gas is coming, | 4:10 |
a lot of the students are running back into the dorms, | 4:13 | |
very hel-der skel-der. | 4:15 | |
A lot people are gonna get hurt smashing into the doors | 4:16 | |
and some of the chains. | 4:18 | |
We've taken down some of the chains to avoid that, | 4:20 | |
but if you're outside, you're out there later tonight | 4:22 | |
or sometime and tear gas starts coming, | 4:24 | |
for God's sake, take your time, don't panic, | 4:28 | |
cuz you'll hurt somebody or you'll get hurt, | 4:30 | |
one of the other. | 4:32 | |
- | While he was talking, I hear two or three grenades | 4:33 |
go off, there's lights on all outside in front of here now | 4:35 | |
as the students once again are charging inside the building, | 4:37 | |
there's another smoke bomb going off | 4:40 | |
right between here and Alan building, and that quad. | 4:42 | |
There went something, I couldn't tell exactly | 4:44 | |
what that was. | 4:46 | |
Evidently, there still is a lot activity going on out there, | 4:49 | |
which is the understatement of the year. | 4:52 | |
It's little quieter now out there, | 4:56 | |
there went another grenade, I can't see from | 4:58 | |
my vantage point exactly what is going on down there. | 5:00 | |
I see a lot of smoke flowing around, | 5:04 | |
lot of people running, I hear a lot of cheering out there, | 5:07 | |
but at this moment, I can't exactly describe | 5:10 | |
what is going on for the windows are just to my left | 5:12 | |
and the activity is just to the left of the windows | 5:16 | |
and I can't see around that corner. | 5:18 | |
- | Hello, Kip? | 5:20 |
- | Yes. | |
- | This is Ken, can you tell me | 5:20 |
where are the black students themselves? | 5:21 | |
- | I can't tell exactly, Ken, perhaps you can, | 5:23 |
could you tell me where the black students were in this, | 5:26 | |
were they out front or were they interspersed | 5:29 | |
with the crowd or what was their location? | 5:30 | |
- | Right immediately in the mediate pass? | 5:33 |
- | Before you came up? | 5:35 |
- | From where I was, there were just a few interspersed, | 5:37 |
the main group is right out in the middle quad, | 5:40 | |
in the intersections and I'm not sure what's out there. | 5:44 | |
- | Alright, thank you and while he was talking, | 5:47 |
some more grenades went off, you can hear them | 5:48 | |
spewing in the background perhaps, | 5:50 | |
the windows now have been closed, | 5:52 | |
so the gas will, hopefully, not penetrate in here. | 5:54 | |
It's coming in. | 5:59 | |
Right now I can't say too much more, Ken, | 6:03 | |
in fact the whole outside right now | 6:05 | |
is looking rather smoky. | 6:06 | |
Fortunately the windows are closed at the present | 6:08 | |
and I have a nice wet handkerchief at my side | 6:11 | |
in case I need it. | 6:14 | |
- | Thank you very much, Kip. | 6:15 |
- | Were you outside? | 6:17 |
- | I'm with you, Kip, I gotta come. | 6:18 |
- | Certainly, we've got another line here we gotta use. | 6:19 |
- | Alright, Kip, we'll wait for your next call, | 6:22 |
thank you very much. | 6:23 | |
- | Okay, I'll check in again in about, | 6:25 |
give me five to six minutes, Ken and I'll call back. | 6:28 | |
- | Alright, fine, Kip, thank you very much. | 6:31 |
- | Thank you Ken, this is Kip Vostrick, | 6:32 |
WDBS contemporary news. | 6:33 | |
- | That's the way it stands right. | 6:35 |
- | James Bond's? | 6:39 |
- | James Bond's. | 6:40 |
- | James Bond's. | 6:41 |
- | You were in the building at the time, | 6:45 |
what time was that? | 6:46 | |
- | Eight o'clock. | 6:47 |
- | What do you in there this moment? | 6:52 |
- | I'm a secretary. | 6:56 |
- | What office? | 6:58 |
- | The system division and registrations office. | 7:00 |
- | Did they just ask you to leave, is that it? | 7:07 |
- | Yes, also ordered us escort down. | 7:10 |
- | You agreed to leave right away, is that it? | 7:15 |
- | I wasn't gonna stay, | 7:18 |
- | They didn't threaten you, did they? | 7:22 |
- | No, they didn't. | 7:23 |
- | Possibly, how many other more, could you make a guess? | 7:25 |
- | I guess 70 to a 100. | 7:28 |
- | Could you tell were they all negros? | 7:34 |
- | As far as I know they were, I didn't see any white. | 7:37 |
- | Thank you. | 7:40 |
- | Vard, why did you decide to do this today? | 7:46 |
- | It felt, that it was a good strategic move today, | 7:49 |
we sought, that timing was right, right after black week, | 7:52 | |
everything's coming off smoothly now, | 7:56 | |
we feel, that it has proved, that the time was right. | 7:57 | |
- | Alright and what do you plan to do | 8:01 |
as far as waiting out the demands? | 8:02 | |
- | We plan to stay here until the university | 8:05 |
can seize to our demands or offer us something better | 8:07 | |
at this institution, at this time, we have nothing off | 8:09 | |
and I said this institution, but a white man's education, | 8:12 | |
which has no relevance to us here. | 8:15 | |
- | Alright, thanks very much, Vard, | 8:17 |
we'll see you later, bye bye. | 8:19 | |
- | Okay, I am outside superior court room, | 8:25 |
number three in the Durham county court house | 8:28 | |
and just a few minutes ago James Robert Cromwell, | 8:30 | |
who is a junior from Fairfax Virginia, | 8:35 | |
who lives in Windsor was on trial | 8:37 | |
and the outcome of it is, that he was found guilty, | 8:39 | |
but he will appeal the case | 8:43 | |
and the court is scheduled to meet again | 8:45 | |
this afternoon at two o'clock. | 8:49 | |
This is Bill Amlien for WDBS news. | 8:51 | |
- | Okay, thank you very much. | 8:54 |
- | Okay, thank you very much, Bill, one more thing, | 8:56 |
what about some of the other, what other trials do, | 8:58 | |
do you know any result of that? | 9:00 | |
- | They're coming back, the only other person, | 9:02 |
who testified this morning, who was on trial, I think, | 9:04 | |
was a news reporter from Macon Georgia, | 9:07 | |
who works for the Macon telegraph, John Guthrie. | 9:10 | |
Court will be back in session at two o'clock | 9:14 | |
this afternoon. | 9:16 | |
- | Will they be able to take care of the four at that time, | 9:18 |
be able to process them through? | 9:20 | |
- | I haven't heard anything about that at the present time. | 9:22 |
- | Okay, thank you very much, Bill, keep in touch | 9:25 |
and we'll be putting you on again later. | 9:27 | |
- | Okay. | 9:29 |
- | Thanks a lot, Bill, goodbye. | |
- | This is Bill Amlien | 9:38 |
for DWBS news in the superior court room | 9:39 | |
number three in the Durham county court house. | 9:42 | |
After two trials this morning, the latest heard | 9:45 | |
was that of mister James Guthrie or mister John Guthrie, | 9:47 | |
that is, who was charged with interfering with the law | 9:52 | |
last night and this ties in with the Cromwell case | 9:56 | |
heard earlier this morning, John Robert, the Duke student. | 10:01 | |
It is hard to be subjective and reporting this kind | 10:04 | |
of a story, because the outcomes of both trials | 10:07 | |
have been very surprising, but nevertheless, | 10:10 | |
mister Guthrie was charged with interfering with the law. | 10:13 | |
This is Bill Amlien reporting from the court house. | 10:19 | |
- | Hank, could you give us the extent of those injuries, sir? | 10:32 |
- | One of the was hit on the head with some object, | 10:34 |
that was presumably a brick or a piece of rock. | 10:37 | |
- | I understand. | 10:41 |
- | Bursted his helm and cut his head a little, | 10:42 |
knocked him out for the time being, | 10:44 | |
but he was not hospitalized. | 10:48 | |
- | He was not? | 10:50 |
- | No, the other officer, who was apparently knocked down | 10:51 |
and the report was that he was kicked in the side, | 10:55 | |
I don't know, but anyway, it fractured two ribs, | 10:58 | |
he was hospitalized, but was released. | 11:01 | |
- | Alright, thank you very much. | 11:04 |
Also do you have any information concerning | 11:05 | |
any of the people involved, the students, | 11:07 | |
that might have been injured? | 11:10 | |
- | I didn't have a report, that anyone was | 11:11 |
or I didn't get the report. | 11:13 | |
As far as I know, there was no students injured. | 11:16 | |
- | Alright, sir, one more information | 11:19 |
you might be able to give us, could you give us | 11:20 | |
any of the specific charges, that the students | 11:23 | |
were arrested for? | 11:25 | |
- | I don't know, that they were all students, | 11:28 |
but there was five people arrested, | 11:30 | |
three of them were charged with assault on an officer, | 11:32 | |
one with interfere and one with cairn to conceal a weapon. | 11:36 | |
- | Alright, sir, there was a boy, | 11:40 |
that came up for trial this afternoon at Jim Cromwell, | 11:41 | |
could you please give us, If you have that information, | 11:45 | |
what he, specifically, was charged with? | 11:49 | |
- | I'm sorry, I don't have that, he was arrested | 11:50 |
by our officers, the desk officer | 11:53 | |
would have that information, he has a book applaud us, | 11:56 | |
but I don't have them in my office | 11:59 | |
and I'm not where, that I can reach him right now. | 12:02 | |
- | One other thing, sir, could you tell us | 12:05 |
what the concealed weapon was, | 12:07 | |
that this demonstrator was carrying? | 12:08 | |
- | It was a type of homemade, | 12:10 |
I'm not sure this is what they charged him with, | 12:14 | |
he had several different things. | 12:18 | |
One of them had a can of some type of gas, | 12:19 | |
another had, or they found, something like | 12:25 | |
a homemade blackjack, looked like made out of a tool | 12:28 | |
wrapped in tape, but I'm not sure which object it was, | 12:33 | |
that they charged the man. | 12:38 | |
Some of the was found not on the person. | 12:40 | |
They had thrown down, went past the buildings, | 12:44 | |
but the item, that the man was charged under, | 12:48 | |
was found on his purse and I'm not sure which it was. | 12:52 | |
Whether it was the canister of tear gas | 12:55 | |
or whether it was the homemade blackjack. | 12:58 | |
- | The canister of tear gas you mentioned, | 13:02 |
was that something, that the police | 13:04 | |
had brought out and the boy had picked up | 13:05 | |
or is that something of his own? | 13:07 | |
- | That wasn't ours, it was some, | 13:08 |
that he had gotten somewhere else, | 13:10 | |
that was not our tear gas. | 13:13 | |
- | Alright, thank you very much. | 13:15 |
Could you get me in contact now with the desk? | 13:16 | |
- | I can't transfer you from here, | 13:19 |
you'll have to call switch board back | 13:21 | |
and ask for the desk officer, | 13:24 | |
- | The desk officer? | 13:26 |
- | Yes. | |
- | Thank you very much, sir. | 13:27 |
- | I'm standing now on the Duke chapel steps | 13:35 |
and just recently there has been a small march | 13:38 | |
by a group of students, supposedly, form the the university | 13:42 | |
of North Carolina. | 13:46 | |
In the background, perhaps, you might be able to hear | 13:48 | |
them chanting as they march around support Duke strike UNC. | 13:49 | |
They're marching now beyond the chapel, | 13:54 | |
past the Divinity school, heading now | 13:56 | |
toward the library. | 13:58 | |
- | UNC, support Duke strike! | 14:01 |
UNC, support Duke strike, UNC, support Duke strike, | 14:04 | |
UNC, support Duke strike, UNC. | 14:12 | |
- | The group was a fairly one, I would estimated | 14:18 |
about 75 to a 100 students. | 14:20 | |
A very conservative estimate, they're marching now | 14:25 | |
down past the library, the man in the front | 14:28 | |
has a sign, I'm unable at this point to see | 14:31 | |
exactly what it does say, I'm trying to move my way up there | 14:33 | |
to see exactly what is on that sign. | 14:37 | |
They're now turning at the Alan building | 14:39 | |
and heading up toward the hospital and still chanting. | 14:41 | |
The estimate originally given of 75 | 14:44 | |
is a little on the conservative side, | 14:46 | |
I'd say probably closer to a 120 to a 150 students, | 14:48 | |
supposedly from university of North Carolina. | 14:52 | |
They're now making a turn at the hospital, | 15:14 | |
heading down by the Ken building. | 15:16 | |
In just a minute I'll be able to see | 15:18 | |
what that sign, it says, "No more talk". | 15:19 | |
One other sign up there, "Support school strike, | 15:24 | |
boycott our classes". | 15:28 | |
I imagine you can still hear in the background | 15:30 | |
the chanting as the students now are up at the base | 15:32 | |
of the hospital heading back by the chemistry building. | 15:37 | |
- | UNC, UNC, support Duke strike, | 15:43 |
UNC support Duke strike, UNC, | 15:46 | |
support Duke strike, UNC! | 15:52 | |
- | The group is now heading back by the language building | 15:57 |
heading down toward the library and heading back | 16:00 | |
toward meeting quad. | 16:03 | |
The rally started approximately, I would estimate 2:40, | 16:05 | |
they grouped in front of the union, | 16:10 | |
they marched silently through the Cambridge Inn, | 16:12 | |
towards marched silently through the Flowers lounge, | 16:15 | |
proceeded up to Paige auditorium | 16:19 | |
and when they came out of Paige auditorium, | 16:21 | |
it's when they started their chants. | 16:23 | |
They have been chanting support Duke strikes, UNC. | 16:26 | |
- | UNC, support Duke strike, | 16:33 |
UNC, support student strike, UNC support Duke strike. | 16:36 | |
- | They're now heading back toward Alan building | 16:43 |
with the march, I imagine they'll be turning right | 16:45 | |
in just a minute and heading back toward the main quad, | 16:47 | |
where the rally will be held I just a moment. | 16:50 | |
The group has now proceeded and turned left, | 16:53 | |
they are now at the door of Alan building, | 16:55 | |
lining up and standing in front of the door, | 16:57 | |
in just a minute we'll try to get a member of the group | 16:59 | |
in with the microphone here | 17:02 | |
and tell us exactly what the plan is going to be. | 17:04 | |
It's time to get into the group, | 17:07 | |
the group is now proceeded through Alan building, | 17:09 | |
the chant getting louder all the time. | 17:12 | |
Support student strike, UNC. | 17:14 | |
The group is now coming out the other end of Alan building, | 17:17 | |
now beside the side door, where just last night | 17:19 | |
the police were barricading the door. | 17:22 | |
There's marching up now toward main quad, again, | 17:24 | |
chanting support student strikes, UNC. | 17:26 | |
On the main quad, meanwhile, there are many students | 17:29 | |
gathering for the rally to be started in just a matter | 17:32 | |
of a few minutes. | 17:35 | |
I see several signs, amnesty wanted, support the strike | 17:37 | |
and many other signs. | 17:41 | |
Students in front of the student union, | 17:44 | |
I would estimate the crowd is about 300 to 350 students, | 17:47 | |
mostly just mowing around, many curious onlookers | 17:53 | |
looking on at the proceedings as the 150 to 200 UNC | 17:56 | |
students chant support student strike, UNC. | 18:00 | |
Is now gathering in a quad between FF dormitory | 18:04 | |
and the student union in that quad. | 18:07 | |
The group is gathering up and I imagine the rally | 18:10 | |
will be starting momentarily, I'm still trying to get over | 18:13 | |
to one of the members of this group to see | 18:15 | |
which group on UNC these members represents | 18:18 | |
and why they are here. | 18:21 | |
- | I have here with me now a member of the UNC | 18:23 |
student body and your name, please. | 18:25 | |
- | Clinton Ponn. | 18:27 |
- | Clinton, which group on UNC is your group representing? | 18:28 |
- | Well the people here from | 18:31 |
the southern student organizing committee, | 18:32 | |
from the young socialist alliance, | 18:34 | |
from the united annual mobilization front | 18:36 | |
and then just some other people, | 18:38 | |
who are not tu-dae with tec-tor groups, just sympathizers. | 18:40 | |
- | Alright, thank you very much. | 18:43 |
I'm now standing beside Mark Pinkskin in just a bit, | 18:44 | |
Mark, if you wouldn't mind, could you please tell us | 18:47 | |
what the purpose of this rally will be today? | 18:49 | |
- | Essentially just to talk things over, | 18:52 |
to see how things are going on. | 18:55 | |
The speakers are Chuck Hopkins, Ree Craemer, | 18:57 | |
Howard Fuller, see the segments, | 19:03 | |
that people are represented as the white students | 19:05 | |
and the Afros and Howard Fuller speaking | 19:07 | |
about or for the community. | 19:09 | |
Doctor, wait a second. | 19:12 | |
Cook May may be speaking for the fact, | 19:19 | |
that who care, there are not too many, | 19:23 | |
so they don't ask for proportionate share of time. | 19:25 | |
Generally Douglas to talk about the free university, | 19:28 | |
to talk about the boycott, to announce plans | 19:30 | |
for what's gonna happen at or after doctor Knight's | 19:33 | |
speech tomorrow. | 19:37 | |
Part of it are the UNC students, | 19:40 | |
who are here about 150 or 200 UNC students | 19:42 | |
to show the solidarity with us. | 19:46 | |
- | Did you ask the UNC students to come over here | 19:47 |
or did they voluntarily come up here. | 19:50 | |
- | It was a cooperative thing, I think, | 19:52 |
that they spontaneously felt some need to support us | 19:54 | |
and they spoke with us and they asked us | 19:58 | |
what they could do. | 20:00 | |
We invited them over here, so they're here | 20:02 | |
and we're happy to have them, | 20:05 | |
and I get the feeling of working together and being together | 20:07 | |
and getting over that nonsense about rivalry | 20:12 | |
and amas-tidy based on nothing, | 20:16 | |
that's been going for several years. | 20:18 | |
People who feel like-minded are here today. | 20:21 | |
This is as opposed to a forum, | 20:25 | |
this is a rally and for the people, | 20:27 | |
who are involved emotionally | 20:29 | |
and as anybody else wants to yell or heckle | 20:30 | |
or participate. | 20:33 | |
I don't think it will be too long, | 20:34 | |
they only run maybe now or half of that thing is, | 20:35 | |
more excitable things happen and I don't know, | 20:39 | |
if anything will happen and excitable. | 20:42 | |
I think it's just generally | 20:44 | |
and it's for all the spooks and university people | 20:45 | |
see if they can find out and second guess things. | 20:48 | |
The press of course, a lot of press people here, | 20:51 | |
the national press people here and photographers, | 20:53 | |
and I suppose FBI and anybody else. | 20:55 | |
- | Thank you very much, Mark. | 20:58 |
- | Hear with this class speaker | 21:00 |
until the other equip and arrive. | 21:02 | |
We've checked, that supposedly enough | 21:05 | |
the maintenance shot and going as well over here, | 21:07 | |
but they haven't had class frankly before they got here. | 21:10 | |
There will be a few moments. | 21:14 | |
They're still on their way back. | 21:18 | |
We do have a couple of announcements to start with. | 21:21 | |
Most of you may have been in Paige last night, | 21:27 | |
when that broke the ball. | 21:31 | |
Directed a steering committee to operate | 21:32 | |
through until the next large meeting. | 21:36 | |
That committee at this morning | 21:39 | |
and has submitted a request or demand, | 21:42 | |
whichever you wanna call it, | 21:46 | |
to doctor Knight asking, that two additional speakers | 21:47 | |
will be allowed at the convocation tomorrow | 21:52 | |
in which doctor Knight is gonna speak. | 21:55 | |
They would be representatives from the Afro Americans | 21:58 | |
and from the free university group, | 22:01 | |
that formed in Paige last night. | 22:03 | |
So far if anyone here has got a word on that, | 22:07 | |
I'd like to know. | 22:10 | |
As far as I know, we haven't received a reply, | 22:12 | |
negative or affirmative, no response. | 22:14 | |
We're expecting some kind of reply in 15 minutes. | 22:26 | |
One announcement, which will help folks, | 22:39 | |
that are under for assaulting officers last night. | 22:42 | |
Anyone, that has clear pictures of what went on, | 22:48 | |
I guess it's bribing any of the five people. | 22:53 | |
Any kind of pictures. | 22:57 | |
Good pictures of tear gas. | 23:01 | |
If you would bring those pictures to the low office | 23:04 | |
to grab some flowers later, those would be appreciated, yes? | 23:07 | |
- | Representatives out it can of this time | 23:14 |
are the American civil liberty's union | 23:16 | |
are investigating what has gone on so far | 23:18 | |
and we expect representatives from the president's | 23:22 | |
commission on violence to appear on campus next week. | 23:24 | |
We need to get that documented and fair. | 23:39 | |
Check by the clerical office or just pick out a scar | 23:45 | |
from the crowd and start to get into the photographing | 23:49 | |
with your injury, show your scars. | 23:54 | |
I now say welcome our friends from university | 23:57 | |
of North Carolina for the help and support. | 24:01 | |
(applause) | 24:05 | |
we appreciate your presence today | 24:11 | |
and we hope, that we continue to work together | 24:13 | |
on these kind of issues. | 24:16 | |
Also today the university of Christian movement | 24:24 | |
will be holding a gathering of the staff this center, | 24:28 | |
some representatives of various groups | 24:32 | |
to talk about this business, what went on | 24:35 | |
and what it means throughout the university. | 24:37 | |
That's the younger in Christian movement | 24:41 | |
and so is connect with the walls and YW and YMCA's, | 24:43 | |
anybody who'd like to come over, | 24:48 | |
dinner is 50's contribution, maybe about 50 cents. | 24:49 | |
We should have some interesting discussion, | 24:56 | |
I'll try to get somebody there for the administration. | 24:58 | |
Discuss, that's rational discourse | 25:02 | |
with people, who were gassed last night. | 25:07 | |
I thank you all now, doctor Tom Rany, | 25:21 | |
- | Doctor Rany is now approaching the microphone. | 25:27 |
- | I suppose what I should do is to give you a progress | 25:37 |
report on faculty activity, | 25:40 | |
which is a contradiction in terms. | 25:43 | |
That is 4:30 to set up to down, | 25:51 | |
there will be a free faculty senator Duke university, | 25:54 | |
which will not only hope to represent | 25:58 | |
the real constituency, that is the students | 26:04 | |
of this university in terms of working out | 26:07 | |
some alternative learning experience. | 26:11 | |
I think that's what they say in the adverts now. | 26:17 | |
What I saw was solicit student participation | 26:21 | |
and the formulation of this alternative experience. | 26:24 | |
In addition | 26:30 | |
we're trying to work out some of the complexities, | 26:33 | |
some of the structural complexities | 26:36 | |
and some of the tactic complexities | 26:39 | |
about a free university and one of the beautiful things | 26:42 | |
about this is, that the exchange of ideas | 26:45 | |
and the political, social and economic understandings | 26:50 | |
and misunderstandings, that demonstrated | 26:57 | |
in these exchange of ideas. | 27:00 | |
It's our education, that seems to me, | 27:04 | |
and I wrap on this quite a bit. | 27:08 | |
One thing, that seems to me, | 27:11 | |
that we should be thinking about | 27:12 | |
is not just education per say, | 27:15 | |
not just a free university to give us a lot of groovy ideas | 27:18 | |
and to help us stroke each other along, | 27:23 | |
and help isolate ourselves from the rest of this world, | 27:27 | |
but also to give us some | 27:33 | |
some sense the necessity to find the je-ra-ty | 27:42 | |
between action and knowledge. | 27:46 | |
I take this stance and it's one, | 27:49 | |
that I think, that might be considered | 27:51 | |
as an alternative or the sort of monstrous escape | 27:54 | |
from freedom, that we've noticed along faculty members | 27:57 | |
and as late as three o'clock yesterday, | 28:00 | |
when they slipped in the lawn giving up | 28:04 | |
the responsibility, that is theirs | 28:08 | |
as mild individuals to the structure, | 28:10 | |
that we may talked about the necessity | 28:14 | |
to start this unity between action and say, | 28:17 | |
and take the position, that a man is either | 28:22 | |
an authentic or a superfluous man, | 28:26 | |
then he stand his willingness to roll upon his ideas. | 28:28 | |
- | That was Doctor Rany. | 28:35 |
- | An announcement concerning what went on | 28:40 |
in the Durham county courthouse this morning. | 28:42 | |
Ben Stokes, one of those persons charged | 28:46 | |
at this result of the incident says, | 28:52 | |
his case was post upon, cuz he was charged, | 28:56 | |
the reason to admitting an officer, | 29:00 | |
but he actually threw a canister | 29:02 | |
and that changed during, that idea strap. | 29:05 | |
Jim Cromwell was convicted of assault on an officer. | 29:11 | |
Hello, yes. | 29:26 | |
He was convicted as charged with assault, | 29:29 | |
the other three are coming to trial | 29:33 | |
probably this afternoon if there's room for them. | 29:35 | |
We hope, that we don't forget these persons, | 29:41 | |
it could have happened to any of us last night, | 29:44 | |
they were out there, the guy, as I understand it, | 29:47 | |
that was convicted had only been on campus a short time | 29:51 | |
and really didn't know what was happening | 29:56 | |
and somehow got involved. | 29:57 | |
He wasn't the stereotype of the radical, that we have. | 30:01 | |
I think we can all realize, that it could have happened | 30:05 | |
to us, had we been in the wrong situation | 30:08 | |
or wrong position at the wrong moment | 30:11 | |
and we don't wanna forget what's happening to these people | 30:13 | |
and we gotta continue to support them | 30:16 | |
and call on this university, | 30:18 | |
who brought the police in here in the first place, | 30:21 | |
to come to the aid of these students | 30:24 | |
as they continue the appeals process, | 30:26 | |
that they can be exonerated. | 30:31 | |
- | Where is the one student, that has already been convicted, | 30:36 |
is he out on bail pending appeal or not? | 30:39 | |
- | I believe he is, | 30:45 |
he hasn't been sentenced, | 30:48 | |
there were holding sentence until all of the trials | 30:51 | |
have been completed, as I understand it. | 30:54 | |
The coordinated executive committee, I have a flyer here | 30:57 | |
being circulated by the executive committee, | 31:01 | |
the coordinating council in the Divinity school, | 31:03 | |
who met last night in response to what happened, | 31:07 | |
quoting and said what emerged from the council meeting | 31:11 | |
was a list of various activities | 31:13 | |
in which students might become involved | 31:15 | |
as a sought to make individual responses | 31:17 | |
to the Alan building incident and the extended problem | 31:19 | |
of faculty student administrating relationship. | 31:22 | |
The encounter black and whites on Duke campus | 31:26 | |
and their experience in the Durham community. | 31:28 | |
If you're interested in the list of activities, | 31:31 | |
that this group drew up, | 31:34 | |
you should check at the Divinity School. | 31:36 | |
It's another one of the responses being made | 31:38 | |
on this campus to what went on last night. | 31:40 |
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