: t TE MICHIGAN DAILY !PU tlZJh ."1 .. J1'RW.ti UDZJ1'+7 : Ae.. 1S~* _... rFrv n aY. .'v x.a i. VA LHIi e .. F v y i .. ':. ,i toans Impersonal'U' LifeI ons and zeal are University, such an association is the grade getters and fails to e according to essential in order to create a bring about desired stimulation hmann, associate normal degree of enthusiasm." for eager students." atlon school. He said the faculty must realize Lehmann recalled the program se name has been this potential or the University designed to bring together vari- possibility to re- will become only a factory turn- ous areas of the social science dent for Student ing out a mass of fact filled ma- and relate them to present-day . Lewis, said "un- chines. situations. "Only one person wa lege graduates tc Honors Failure attracted, the others feared hav- nly a superficial Commenting on the honors pro- , ing a C on their record since it lack of enthus- gram, he said "it attracts largely did appear like a stiff course." t be taken.". hat the only way 'H WT 1 get noticed today The WeeK To Come: IBM card. veral small pacif-, htits groups'which A Campus Calendar emotion and also' tention," he said majority of stu-' TODAY, SEPT. 20 TUESDAY, SEPT. 22 ack zeal." 2:45 L. Sheffield 1:15 p.m.-Wilber Riddle, archi- ir Itpterests a inrrae tect-coordinator of the Nela Park' Sanational representative of the this was pointed United Auto Workers Union, will Laboratories will '1 e e t u r e on then one student discuss civil rights- progress in Building Illumination" in the ar- to speak to them Michigan at the Bethlehem Unit- chitecture and design school audi- ould be interested ed Church of Christ.. torum- ation of lack of 8:3 pm. Ra* s 7:30 p.m.-Mrs. Alvin Bippus, sn is the ~content 8:30 p.m. - RobertGlasgow, Jr., first lecturer at the Toledo t Isp y the ostu- guest organist, will present a re- Museum of Art, will speak on "The' year he said"It cital in Hill Aud. The program is Classical Heritage of Rome and earthshaadng is- sponsored by the music school. the Oriental Splendor of Byzan- n's hours. Such * * * tium" in the meeting room, Ann ated grading sys- TOMORROW, SEPT. 21 Arbor Public Library. up material nev- ,4 p.m. -Prof. Ferrel Heady of WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23 Cs" that thee'the political science department, 4:15 p.m.-Dr. Peter Venables, sed that; there director of the Institute of Pub- of London, England, will speak on tops between thu lic Administration, will speak on "Autonomic and Cortical Rela- dents. "With thc the topic, "Problems of Govern- tionships in Schizophrenia" in t structure of thement Organization - Implications Aud. B. ~ stucuro~ t for Public Health" in Public s ' * Health Aud. 7:30 " p.m.-Prof. Brice Carna- ) +eadline pm. ,, Thebad han of the chemical engineering and biostatistics departments will .: is8 pcon. -'"- 8Robert G. Th of speak on "An Introduction to Dig- tQ~l Ils economist and joint ,author of ital Computers and the MAD Lan- 'The Triple Revolution," will ia optr n h A a- ° - TheTrile evoltio," ' wll guage" in the Natural Science Aud. on deadline for I speak in the Multipurpose Rm. of I t N istrict of Colum- the UGLI. The lEcononics Society 8 p.m.-The Association of Pro- bly given as Sept and the faculty of the econom- ducing Artists repertory company Daiy. 'The correct ics department are sponsoring his will present "War and Peace" by 6. speech. _____Erwin Piscator in Lydia Mendels- .sn Theatre. The play is based on Leon Tolstoy's novel. Dial668-6416 .!THURSDAY, SEPT. 24 DR DIRK BOGARDES WACKIEST PRESCRIPTION! 8 p.m.-The APA will perform "War and Peace" by Erwin Pisca- ' l /,/s '-tor in Lydia Mendelssohn Thea- tre. r 1'8 p.m.-The Student Govern- ment Council Campus Leaders' Forum will be held in the Michi- gan Union Ballroom. Vice-Presi- dent for Academic Affairs Roger t '' - W. Heyns, Prof. Marvin Felheim of the English department, and SGC President Thomas Smithson,' / '65, will speak. STARRING * * * - .DIRK BOQARDE' MYLENE DEMONGEOT FRIDAY, SEPT. 25 1A SROBERTSON- JUSTfCE 7 p.m.-The International Stu- .AMES dents Association will sponsor a MA$TROIAN NI in "TH E ORGANIZER" folk and cultural evening featur- ingT Japan at the International Center. * * * , 24,1964 AR E THE DAYS ON WHICH 8 p.m.-The APA will present; "War and Peace" by Piscator in INMENT HISTORY WILL BE MADE Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. S ,* * * SE 8:30 p.m.-The Chicago Sym-; phony Orchestra; with Jean Mar-" rD.R tinon conducting, will perform in RI~hARD:* * SATURDAY, SEPT. 26 B U ''5 and 9 p.m.-The APA will pre- sent Piscator's "War and Peace" in Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. t * * * 8 p.m.-The International Cen-I B IA IJILEI ter will sponsor a reception for 'r foreign students. Following a wel- with the aibstar cast of the hit Broadway play! coming address in Rackham Aud.,E . ... ma. s -- - - - -r... . there will be a reception in the Michigan League Ballroom. MICHIGAN THEATRE * * *r .8:30 p.m.-Ahmad Jamal will Tickets sold in advance give a Pershing Rifle's Concertf in1 Not Reserved Seats Hill Aud. Guaranteed Seats at al 4 Shows SUNA, S . 2 Matinees at1_:31.03 SUNDAY, SEPT. 27 Matinees at 15:30-Price $1.50' 3 and 8p.m.-The APA will pre- Nights at 8:00-Price.$2.50 I sent "War and Peace" by Pisca- I I tor in Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. F OFOWrers Fight'Closedociety (Continued from Page 1) . .. w -, ___________________________________..:_____,>. "In the Hattiesburg area where I was, the people were generally cooperative to talk to but often afraid to act. About three fourths of the ones who promised to ac- company us to the courthouse backed out when we came to pick them up," she recalled. "There are legitimate reasons for their fear. Although there is no great probability of their being physically harmed in Hattiesburg, many have lost their jobs and some have been cut off from state welfare payments for registering. The local newspaper publishes the names of Negroes who register, a standard policy in Mississippi," Miss Runkle said. A second block to registering Negro v o t e r s is Mississippi's voter registration test. Not only does this exam require literacy but in most places includes interpre- tive questions about the consti- tution that must be answered to the satisfaction of the registrar. Local authorities have used this last requirement in varying de-' grees to exclude Negroes from voting. Cooperative. In Gulfport, Walker reported' the registrar- had been compara- tively fair to Negroes for many years before local white citizens; began insisting on a more dis- criminatory policy. But as a re-; sult of his former cooperation, the, Negro registration figure in the Gulfport area is about 20 perl cent of the adult population-one; of the highest in the state. On the other hand, in Panola; County, where Ericksen worked, the interpretive questions had been administered with such overt1 discrimination that the federal ( I 4 THIS MISSISSIPPI NEGRO CHURCH. (left) served as one of COFO's "freedom schools" when the more prosperous churches refused to let the civil rights workers use their facilities. Inside the church (right) a special session of one of the "freedom schools",is under- way. Most of the classes were larger than the one pictured. tive Mississippi Democratic Party,. which often opposes national Democratic programs, with a lib-+ eral group dedicated to the civil rights cause and to the national party.. "We tried to persuade as many people as possible, both voters and non-voters, to register as Freedom1 Democratic Party members," Rowe: said. "We wanted to show the Atlantic City convention that the Freedom Democrats have a broad base of grass-roots support. We sought to develop a self-sufficient movement in Mississippi repre-; senting the national Democratic viewpoint. 'Our 'freedom registration' cam- paign was quite successful and I. am optimistic about the future . Although Miss Runkle described the city as having been relatively quiet this summer, she mentioned that violence had broken out ear- tier when Negroes picketed the courthouse there. One of the few recent acts of outright aggression in Hatties- burg involved Werner, who was beaten on the main street of town in broad daylight. "The beating was not part of any organized campaign against COFO," he remarked. "Yet it is indicative of the hostility that lies under the surface. Both Charged "Although I was hit from be- hind and did not strike back, the police took me to the station along with my attacker and charg- ed both of us with assault and battery. The charges against me subsequently were dropped.. "The other man was fined $40, but in delivering the verdict the judge pointedly expressed his sympathy for the defendant's mo- tives."> Goldstein and Rowe, both of, whom worked in Gulfport, alsoj mentioned the white's resentment of the civil rights movement, "They considered us meddlers who know nothing about the southern Negro. But they themselves have only a superficial contact with their Negro neighbors and no un- derstanding of the racial situa- tion," Goldstein charged.. No.Acceptance, "The Mississippi white, for ex- ample, has not accepted either the inevitability of integration or the ultimate authority of the federal government." "While many whites do not dis- like the Negro, they do not look on his as an equal, either," Rowe added. "In fact, they seem to find it impossible to believe that white people of character and intelli- gence can support integration. "There are unusual conditions in Gulfport that hold back basic hostility. Gulfport is a tourist. town and must project a good im- age to attract tourist trade. Fur- thermore, it has a relatively low percentage of Negroes compared to the rest of the state." Still, Gulfport is no haven for. the Negro. The people are better off financially than the tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and day laborers of Batesville's cotton plantations, but their situation is far from ideal. "Except for a federal housing project, their living conditions are not really good," Goldstein said. "Many are comfortable compared to others in the state; they gen- erally own television sets and quite a few seem to have adopted middle-class values. "Yet, their work is largely ir- regular and the rents they pay are exhorbitant.". Law enforcement in Gulfpot was describedby'nRowe as "re- sponsible if not friendly. There was never any arrest without legal backing.", But Not Much The legal backing was some- times tenuous, however, as a case involving Goldstein indicates. The situation' developed' as several COFO workers were escorting a group of Negroes up the Gulfport cour thouse steps to the registrar's office. Goldstein was at the court- houseeon Other business andrap- peared to be a -part' of 'the group. Law officers arrived and ar- rested Goldstein, and two other The pictures were taken by Sam Walker, '65, during his stay in Mississippi as a COFO worker. COFO workers for picketing, which is illegal in Mi ssissippi. The case is now in the courts, and Gold- stein will have to return to Gulf- port for the trial. "COFO prepared us for things like this before we went down," he remarked. "We were given the facts about the racial situation in Mississippi, ranging from prac- tical information on how to pro- tect ourselves from attack to a philosophical background of the integration movement. "I was impressed with the cyni- cal but hopeful attitude that emerged as a trademark of COFO leaders. While they dream of a. different society with less em- phasis placed on middleclass ma- terialism, they realize the int- mensity of the task and have not lost sight of ;more immediate ob- jectives. - Though their speciality this summer has been the cause of the American Negro, the students ar= ticulate a sense of social obliga- tion that transcends any single movement. Some have already been active in other fields.. Walk- er, for example, dropped out of school for a: semester to teach in a children's psychiatric hospital, and Rowe spent a summer in Senegal with "Operation Cross- roads: Africa." Help Negroes As Werner commented,''I want- ed to give substance to one of my convictions by helping the Negro people." Yet the hummer's work has in- tensified their interest in civil rights, and all said that they would like either to return to Mis- sissippi or to work in some other phase of the integration move- ment. "Mississippi still. needs help from the outside," Ericksen com- mented. "The white community is not ready to accept the changing times. Liberals dare to be liberals in thought only; the society does not tolerate difference of opinion. "Whites fear even chance as- sociation with the integration movement that could be miscon- strued by their neighbors. We had difficulty in some places just. find- ing facilities in which to conduct school classes and hold meetings." National Involvement Added Walker, "I enjoyed as- sociating with the people involved in this movement. Working with people from all parts of the na- tion, including local supporters, gave our efforts a sense of nation- al involvement, which is impor- tant because Mississippi is really a national problem. "More help from the North, along with greater aggressiveness by the federal government, is needed to raise living standards, develop better local civil rights leadership and, eventually, elim- inate discrimination in Missis- sippi. , THE CHARACTERISTIC group singing of ."freedom. which has buoyed the rights movement since the first kept spirits up in the hostile atmosphere of Mississippi. songs," sit-ins, Justice Department brought a suit against the county registrar. A federal court ruled last May that the questions had to be elim- inated, opening the door for Ne- gro registration last summer, Ericksen reported. He said, however, that Negroes still face many difficulties in try- ing to obtain their voting rights. "The literary test itself is un- fair to Negroes," Ericksen said. "Lack of educational opportunity prevents many from learning how to read and write, and the test denies them voice in government." The other .students agreed that the literacy ,test is not legitimate. Miss Runkle pointed out that, with modern means of communication such as television, reading is no longer necessary to gain a gen- eral knowledge of current affairs. According to the COFO work- ers, the voter registration drive did not produce spectacular num- bers of new voters during the sum- mer, because of the difficulties just discussed, plus a second fac- tor: the emphasis that COFO placed on developing the Freedom Democratic Party. Cornerstone This organization is a key ele- ment in COFO's plans. It is an attempt to replace the conserva- opera ion of the party structu set up this summer. Some COF Sworkers have remaihed in t South to. help guide the ne party." Optimism, But Other students echoed Rowe optimism. But all declared tha there is a great deal still wrong Mississippi. They understand tha the tension is there; they feE that it may increase as civil right activity is stepped up. And the are areas where racial hostilil already is being expressed con sistently and with open violence McComb is such a place. "Thei were six bombings in . McComl this summer, one while I wa there," Werner remarked. "Th people are horrified. "When I canvassed neighbor hoods for the 'freedom registra tion drive a few Negroes wouldn even open their screen door whi: we talked. They kept looking u and down the street, counting th seconds until I left.: "In many cities COFO hel adult classes to supplement thi freedom schools. None were sched uled because the adults are afrai to go to integration activities." The white attitude toward CO FO in McComb is illustrated by a incident involving a soft-drin firm that installed a vending ma chine for the convenience of CO FO workers. Whites boycotted th company's product until the ma chine was removed. Other places displayed hostilit in less open form. Ericksen re ported one tear gas bombing i; Batesville but no other major in cidents of violence. "The local White Citizens' Coun cil had a restraining influence o anti-Negro aggression," he com mented. "It represents the wealth and business interests of the are and fears that violence will scar away industry. Criminal Resistance? "However, Batesville had no had much civil rights activity be fore this year, and I am concerned that resentment of the more po tent integration movement may take criminal forms if national in terest in Mississippi wanes thi fall." Past events in Hattiesburg give credence to Ericksen's evaluation. re w 's at in at ar Ets ire .ty 1- re Lb as he ,r a- 't ile up he he d- d - n k a- - Ze a- -- - -. L ( Sylvia Homer, L.l.S.T.D. 0/ Dance offers CLASSICAL BAILET, C.M. for PROF ESSIONAL-I NTERMEDIAT E and BEGINN ERS MODERN JAZZ CLASS taught by "MAC JOUBRAU" RiDHARD AVA BURTON GRDNER Ending Tuesday Dial 665-6290. SHOWS AT 3, 5,7 and 9:10 p.m. DEOALU 525 E. Liberty f established 1932 * Phone 668-8066-668-7227 TENESSE lLAM One Man ... 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