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The Sally Hemings Vol.1, No. 9

WHO SHALL OVERCOME?

May 5, 1969: Kent; Ohio--National Guardsmen shoot and kill four white students at Kent State. Result--Five hundred American colleges on strike within a week. "Shut it down. Shut it down."

May 8, 1969: Charlottesville, Virginia--a bust. Nobody hurt; nobody killed. Result--U. Va. radicalized; students strike. "Shut it down. Shut it down. "

May 11, 1969: Augusta, Georgia--a series of murders. National Guardsmen shoot and kill six blacks. Result--U. Va. silent; students unconcerned. "Business as usual. Business as usual."

May 14, 1969: Conclusion--Police, or whatever we call them, deign to touch our precious white bodies, and we are up in arms, screaming bloody murder about injustice. Police, or whatever we call them, wipe six black bodies off the face of the earth and we remain unmoved, piously asserting to ourselves, "No, of course not. We're not racists. Not us." Keep talking, folks. But just remember, chickens come home to roost; no man in as island; and all that...

WE THE PEOPLE (Part III) The past week's events have shown that a good many of us in this community are getting "the raw end of the deal." For those in the community who have been facing it and fighting it for a long time, sentiments probably justifiably run, "better late than never." A great deal has been stripped away now, and we are in this together. We therefore plead, let's look to each other as men. In a real sense there are no workers and no students in the United States. We shouldn't be at each others' throats. We are being trod upon together. Remember the slogan of the great revolution of this country--"Don't tread on me."

"We the people..." begins the U.S. Constitution. We have, up to now, been many peoples, divided unto ourselves. But let us now come together not as a university united against a city, but as one community, sharing the same battles, fighting the same wars. LET US BE ONE !

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TODAY'S PORK FUTURES: More than likely the cost of pork will go up, because the price of keeping pork on the hoof in the local area is $8.00 per hour.

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THE JOHN WAYLES LAMONT CRANSTON AWARD TO: The Daily Progress for having been unable to discover the mysterious and ethereal source of the University's secret conscience--us.

IS IT TRUE THAT T. MARTIAL HAHN'S FIRST NAME IS "THE"? HAHN(K) FOR PEACE.

REMEMBER THE MAYFLOWER