State Rep. Joseph Forbes Calls for Legislative Action to Stop Anti-Semitic Activity on WSU Campus
The South End paper de-
rives its revenues partly
from advertising and the bal-
ance from the University.
This points out that perhaps
the Legislature is support-
ing papers such as this which
spew hatred throughout the
community. It is time we in
the Legislature took a stand
on what is fair and what is
right.
"We should take some
drastic action against this
outrageous policy of foment-
ing hate so that once again
we can have a paper with a
voice that shows all sides of
the argument and not just
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President George Gullen with
members of the university's
board of governors and the
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student publications board.
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Sunday editorially condemned
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irresponsibility of the stu-
dent journalists under the
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heading "The South End: No
anti
Excuses" and stated:
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"Editors of The South End,
student newspaper at Wayne
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State University, admit they
made "a grave and tragic
error" in superimposing a
Nazi swastika on a Star of
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David, and we take their
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apology to be sincere.
"The offensive design ap-
peared with an article which
a spokesman for the Anti-
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come something of a habit
on the South End. For that
we blame the publisher—the
Student Newspaper Publica-
tion Board acting for the
WSU Board of Governors.
"Irresponsible, semi-literate
students can be found on any
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large campus, but we are
confident a good many re-
sponsible, literate students
could also be found at WSU.
Many doubtless would be
literate enough at least to
spell "anti-Semitism" cor-
rectly—a feat that defies the
present staff, burning issue
though it is.
"If the SNPB cannot find
any of these students, it
should lean on the present
student staff to be more re-
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sponsible. Failing that, the
great collection
board of governors — who
of cruise and
supposedly represent the peo-
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ple of Michigan — should set
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newspaper representing more
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have done some screaming
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about violation of their First
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tors are responsible to their
publishers. If that displeases,
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they are free to start another
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paper, if they can find sup-
port.
"B u t anti-Semitism and
anti-Zionism are not attitudes
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at all representative of either
Wayne State University or
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the state of Michigan, and do
not merit their support.
"The board of governors
certainly has the power to
act, if the student-dominated
publications board will not.
The governors should do
more than publish a state-
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ment urging discontinuation
of
'the editorial policy which
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permits the publication of
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such vicious and abusive
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articles.'
Joseph Forbes, Democratic State University newspaper,
member of the Michigan and accused it of "spewing
House of Representatives hatred against the Jews."
Rep. Forbes, who was
from Oak Park, in a state-
ment he circulated among all mayor of Oak Park before
members of the Legislature, being elected to the Michi-
called attention to the "con- gan House of Representa-
troversial South End, Wayne tives, charged that certain
constitutional "freedoms are
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and since its funds come
from state allocations "I
think it is about time we in
the Legislature took a stand
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on what is fair and what is
PERMANENTLY right."
In his collective statement
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Forbes wrote:
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000 of them died under the ingham, South End editor,
totalitarianism of Hitler. But speakers who were scheduled
just as surely, 5- to 7,000,000 to address Thursday's meet-
blacks were exterminated in ing included John Watson,
the Congo and millions more former editor during whose
died under the democracy of direction t is e anti-Jewish
the American slave trade. campaign was conducted five
"Any individual or group years ago; the present man-
having as its objective posi- aging editor, Reggie Carter;
tive social change who fails and Charles Simmons, of
to interpret the realities of Afro-World Associates.
Jewish power will surely feel
it as you are now aware ..."
The South End staff
planned a support rally, for
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"The board has responsi•
',Hales to WSU students and
faculty and to the citizens
of Michigan, a n d it h a s
evaded them so far."
On Wednesday, the South
End printed a letter to the
editor signed by the "Wol-
verine Student Bar Associa•
lion Black Alliance Faction"
which assailed "the entrench-
ment of a Jewish power as a
real social dynamic in the
political and economic hege•
mony of America—naturally
as another vested interest in-
herently obstructing the
movement for true egalitar•
ianism."
The letter appeared over
another apology by the South
End editors "to those who
were offended by the un-
fortunate use of the Star of
David and swastika Jan. 10
and 11. Due to the pressure
applied to the editor by the
draft board and the lack of
night personnel caused by the
budget cuts, this error was
committed."
The "Wolverine" letter
stated that "Just as every
white is NOT a honkie im-
perialist. neither is every
Jew a Zionist. But a fact
which has to be reckoned
with is that the Jewish people
as a national ethnic minority
in America are as rip-off
minded as the hankie. and
this every Negro, admittedly
or not knows."
The letter also suggested
that the 1967 "ghetto upris-
ing" was "as much a revolt
against Jewish business in
the ghetto . . as against
WASP dominance."
After assailing Israel's sale
of polished diamonds to South
Africa, the letter says that
"the tremendous influence,
'nterest and control of the
Jewish minority cannot be
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