WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1969
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Ohio University expresses
tribute to Dr. M. L. King
The verdict and the battle-cry
reverberated off the walls o f
Memorial Auditorium at Ohio
University as Kijiji Cha Wau Weusi
(the black community) paid tribute
"in their own terms" to fallen leader
Martin Luther King.
In painfully explicit speeches and
poetry, dance and music, the black
students praised King to the assembly
of nearly 2000 for his dissent against
the status quo. They praised him for
seeing, although not until the end of
his life, the "promised land" the
ideology oi black liberation.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was
written by Carol Towarnicky lor the
Post, the student newspaper at Ohio
University, Athens, Ohio.
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But King's early ideologies were
rejected.
"What will last on the already
washed-out minds of Americans?"
black student Andrew Love asked.
"The marches for civil rights
rights that should have already been
inherited? The endeavors for integra
tion that is, the affixing of plastic
minds into the rotten fruit o f
American reality?"
'The non-violent philosophy
which perpetuated the faggotness in
the black man's already questioned
manhood?
His deep and often blind faith in
the mystical deity In the clouds? It
never answered him, it only answered
his enemy," Love said.
". . . the best confused you,
Martin," black student Jim Steele
said in a poem, 'Montage for Martin':
"made you the prince of self-delusion
leading blacks into a mythical
fantasy,
a dead-end alley known as in
tegration, also known as suicide,
made you the apostle of absurdity
with 30 million blacks as the
punch line
. . . jived you and connived you
into dreams of Paradise Lost,
into sitting on your ass,
into marching "in," instead of
'"out,"
lno. praying to an unmerciful
spook . . .''
Steel attacked the white man,
who with his "Jekyll and Hyde
personality," he said, sought to
eulogize King, "to make you a two
time loser: loser in life, loser in
death."
Although his Ideology was wrong,
Steele said, near the end King saw
the truth.
"and who and what you are hurtled
you
to the mountain top," he read.
"But the beast saw that you saw
and shot you dead. Down, dead.
. . . convicted in life for not
knowing,
convicted in death for knowing."
What King finally knew, ap
parently, was the ability to see things
in "black perspective, which means,"
Love said, "all of us or none of us."
King should be remembered, Love
said, because he left the seed of
dignity that has almost perished from
this civilization.
King's greatness, black student
McKingley Broadus suggested, lay in
his discent against the status quo.
Broadus attacked Ohio University in
particular for being a part of the "sick
society," in which, he said, a minority
are dissenting.
He charged the University with
practicing "educational and economic
genocide" by continually raising fees,
and added that students choosing a
major have "only chosen a place in
an impersonal machine that will turn
them into robots and prepare them
for a place in that sick society."
"Ohio University ... places
materialism over humanism, and as
long as it remains materialistic there
will be conflict," he said.
Steele pointed to King's last speech,
and the "promised land" that he
spoke of in it as an acknowledgment
of "group consciousness . . . that we
as a people will make it."
"The death of Martin Luther King
represents an attempt to prevent
change," Steele said. Reality is
another problem in White America,
he added.
"And black people represent change
in reality. They are in fact
change and reality."
"We are slaves on twentieth century
plantations called car factories, and
IBM and Pillsbury. And universities
and high schools. We are a colonial
people who have no say. We are
allowed to talk, but have no say,"
he declared.
This will change, though, nothing
in history which has tried to impede
change has ever succeeded, he said.
"I will die in the rubbish-filled street
of the concrete jungle," he read,
I have no dreams to offer, Martin.
Nothing comes to the dreamer but
dreams.
I have only my life and black
reality.
. .. because the spiritual world
got filled up with corniness and
death . . ."
Dim lights, spirituals and dance
emphasized the black students' ap
parent disgust at the "world filled
up with corniness and death."
At one point in the program, after
a singing of King's favorite hymn,
"Precious Lord, Take My Hand," the
black students walked to the front
of the stage chanting different
phrases, in a cacaphony which grew
ever louder and louder. The chanting
descended to a whispered, "Peace .
. . peace .. . peace . . ." and then
rose to "Peace . . . and power .
. . .and power . . .and POWER," until
all the students were screaming
"POWER" in unison.
But perhaps the most telling, most
profound expression of disgust at the
"corniness and death" that they spoke
of was represented when Steele, near
the end of the program, strode to
the podium and began a traditional
eulogy of King.
The other black students stormed
him, and pantomined beating him.
Overcoming him, they began to drag
him of fthe stage.
"Father, forgive them, they know
not what the hell they do," he gasped
as they pulled him off, hands
outstretched.
Andrew Love walked to the podium
and repeated what Kijiji Cha Wau
Weusi had said in dance and poetry
and music for over an hour:
"Martin Luther King is dead."
Applications available
for yearbook positions
Applications are now being ac
cepted for managing editor positions
on the 1970 Cornhusker yearbook
staff.
Seven managing editors and a
panel editor will be chosen. Inter
views will be held Sundav afternoon,
April 20.
"We're looking for people with
new ideas, creativity and a desire to
contribute to a successful year
book," Bob Thacker, 1970 editor
said. "Past Cornhusker experience
is actually not necessary. We're
more interested with what a appli
cant wants to accomplish with his
job." .
Applications are available in the
Cornhusker office, room 51, Nebras
ka Union. Applicants s'hould return
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appointment by Friday, April 18.
Next year's Cornhusker yell squad will include three new girls: Kay Calkine, Annette Hudson and Lynn
Smith. The three were selected in tryouts before spring vacation. '
Applications taken
for Stillman exchange
Any University student Interested in
broadening his or her college exper
ience may want to attend next fall's
classes at Stillman College.
The small Presbyterian college lo
cated in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and the
University have an exchange program
where Stillman students have a chance
to attend a large university and NU
students have the chance to exper
ience a semester at a Negro college.
Kathy Riesselman, chairman of the
ASUN selection committee, says that
anyone who is interested may apply.
The only requirements are a 2.0 grade
average and an interest.
"Most of the students who have
spent a semester at Stillman come
back with a changed attitude toward
blacks. They are able to accept the
black as a person and vice versa,"
Miss Riesselman said.
Many are as impressed with the ex
perience of attending a small college
as they are with their experiences
with black students, she added.
Interested persons may pick up ap
plications at the ASUN office or talk
to Miss Riesselman. The deadline is
April 25.
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