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2 The Gold Bug, Mar. 10:-1967 Oh, Say Can You See? Culture And Academics Engulf Somebody Up There 1 Visitors CuriousAbout OldGlory (fork Exchange Students on Hill by Robert Cartwright Black Power? On Wednesday, February 22, reason to give him. He seemed our cam pus was visited by to be taken aback, but changed by Dean Ira G. Zepp twenty-five military officers rep- the subject, in Oriental fashion, resenting countries friendly to to save me from further embar- the United States. This con- rassment. It was 0 b v i 0 U S, It is strange that Stokely Carmichael's call for "black power" tingent spent the entire after- though, that he continued to stirred up so much fuss among white Americans. We Americans noon touring the campus, ex- think about it. have always been impressed with power. It is our language- amining its facilities, and talk- Overall Good Impression horsepower, atomic power, financial power, intellectual power, ing to students, faculty, and Overall, these officers seemed personal power, political power, military power. But "black staff. They were also allowed to be very impressed with the power" is something else. This is where the white liberal gets off the dubious pleasure of eating college-its grounds and facifi, the civil rights bandwagon. chicken pot pie in our dining ties, the faculty, students and In our guilt, it is difficult to see beyond or beneath the super- haiL staff. I can't help but wonder, meaning of this new slogan. Perhaps its emotional charge Now, in the several hours though, how much this overall offensive and threatening for us. For if it means voting these officers e pen t walking good impression was negated by that is nothing n-ewor undemocratic. Ethnic and minority around the campus, many of the fact that, to at least two have been doing this in America for years. It is certainly them must have noticed a tall, officers, the cam pus family a rallying cry for the frustrated Negro, however psy- thin, so mew hat cylindrical seemed, to use a word that is necessary it might be at this time. structure located between Me- doing an overtime job on the morial Hall and McDaniel Dorm. Hill, apathetic in its patriotism. They must have known the pur- The fact that the flag cry of "black power" reaches deeper than just the pres. pose for which it was con- been flown for so long bring to bear upon white suburbia for pinning them structed. does not indicate a steaming walls of the ghetto. Interesting Quest.ion patriotism on the part of imagination we should be able to detect something Actually, there is no doubt college's personnel. in this cry. It comes from and speaks to the depths that at least some of them did underscores the indifference means to be human. It is a cry for self-respect, man, notice it because one of them better, the laziness of those and group identity. asked me a very interesting are responsible for us to forget how deep color runs in our society question about it. He wanted to and lowering John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me?). Many Ne- to pray that their mulatto children would eventually ~nn;.'vI~h:istho~~:~S t~~ ~~~e~~~ bei::; t~~es . . 5Ma~~~e~~~r;:~~:~~ ~:~~~, .. , line and then be a "man," which meant being white. of the flag was all the more con- tion. A usually . Hudson, and Es, gIR. 'I'hls IS Pat a exchange is no longer true. As one young Negro put it, "In their ~~~~~:~:tot~,~2~~~~~~~~ G;~e;e ~~r~~~ :~I~at . . _ ~ere to I fly f~m ~~I~h~t f~~:: :~:~I~Yh:;~n:a~~ blackness, many American Negroes have errone- that it is more important to be white than human. as if to soften wha~t might be had . .. of Je::inst:~ insight of others an.d.also of the therefore, is an effort on the part of black America taken as rude crlttcism by a to the the WMC tW? ~chools. Patfl?la Hudson, . from the fetters of self-hate and child-like de- guest, he said he felt sure there cal Plant. If . in the ex- a junior French major, was se- to participate fully and productively in our was a good reason for the Stars doesn't this 1'.1 h 5 lected to go to DePauw as and Stripes not flying, such as typical efflcieucy and . own plane an;~rin~r~ack exchangee. !'tt ff els . tha",'"",.I"o._ ... He couldn't seem to come power to insure that the flag Clark coeds on his return excha.nge wII. he p up with a good reason so while flying when it is supposed t01 fl'ght the same day Due to in- standing i he "Black power" equals affirmation of blackness equals desire ~~~tU~~~~e~::~e~l~ a~:p~:i~:d re~~;~~~~fi~~, °tfh:v::nt~~~:~ !~~~l:~~~t ;:ea;:~;, ~:. ~;:: ~~: i:g:s~~al, humanness. What this means is described well by Gerald to him that as far as I could sence of t~e flag. from its place \Vestminster airport, thus the Pauhne.. . Smith, a student at Howard University. remember, the flag had not been of honor IS an insult. to those Clark girls came to Baltimore ~ore maJon~[{ ; "You've never been ashamed I am not now ashamed flying for nearly a month. That who spent th.eir lives in the by commercial flight. They ar- 1S from Was m h on, '.' was all I could say. I had no country's serVlce. rived at 2:30 am on March 7. ~hao~r:e ex~oa~;: I was dead, but now am alive I was lost, but now have found myself Clower Quintet Drops Two; I searched every day for a thousand years I searched for beauty, for depth for myself You knew the answer, you knew that I would find it Closes Season with 9-15 Mark You waited, I wandered And now we have both found new life. God made me free and Black by Joe Anthony \ played an excellent game on the I've made myself a Man The Green Terrors dropped boards and shows definite prom- Won't nobody take it back their last two games ofthe sea- tse for next year. BLACKNESS IS MY SONG ~~~a~~o~~~~;gth;ir :i~~l l~~dto1: A ve~topr:~=~~ni~~~a~: I"':~================I ~_A_N_D_I_S_H_A_L_L_S_IN_G_F_O_R_E_V_ER_M_O_R_E'_" ---. losses. 7-3 record and a On February 23 the B'ballers holiday tournament traveled to Delaware Valley and season looked as if it could be ran into scoring problems. They great, but then things started SPORTS lost by the staggering total of happening. The team's defense 125-88, which was by far the good up to this point, but worst defeat of this season's seemed to fall to pieces by Rick Robbins although we scored enough with Clint to win key games, the op_ Last season Western Mary- parent to his began to find too many land's track team had some mo- Frosh Ruffin Moore GrllpplersImpress inM-Ds; team, however, did ments of glo:y, that made other Terror opponents t!ven hustling. You have to schools realize that Wes~ern worry about in the pit. as many points Maryland owned some top-fllght high jump Pete Markey Bill Dudley will take (olltll Plellset! iJy Silo wing happens to talent. . and will be assisted by Randy to basketball The Terrors' overall record Klinger. very impressive nor the pole vault and will hopefully Special recognition should go of the strong efforts soar to new heights in the ab- out to Gary Fass who led the by all. This year the sence of injured Jay Sybert. team all year. He will sorely thin _clads have well- founded be missed next year. Another hopes for a much improved sea- ~~~ryOfSu~:r, c~0,Sht~~~~g1° t~~ ~;~im~;:i~~~:/~~~;nth:~: ~~!~Dons Drop Riflemen; last half of the season, played termen-were lost through grad- b~~~:~~~~dac:~t~~~ ~::~~~ingTt~i:m 7se~~~edt~~;h !~~Dickinson Must Fall year's. squad. Mike perienced runners and jumpers. On February 24 the riflemen Fass are the only two Missing are Piet deWitt, long of Western Maryland College for next season and we j_umper, Charl.ie Wheatley, the were ambushed by the Grey_ revert to the old cry blazing two-miler, and the spear hounds of Loyola on a mission ~~oo~IY~.Dodger fan~ chucker Denny Gosnell. In spite into Baltimore. Shooting "':'~;:~:i::1:'d.~i"~wh.a~"TI:'t"I~n~ex~'~Yli"~'!:;\ of these losses, the lettermen 50 points under its it and a few freshmen prospects team lost by four, HEAVYWEIGHT indicate improvement over last It was a bad day opponent in Gill Gym. \ for the Terrors by Frank Bowe town, where evc!Y ,;man Jost in The big question in the scores indicate. "What now, my lovel Now a 33-0 shutou~. I~'?'tween they sprints is, will Dana Huseman who usually . over," sings Sam Case came _close .m ElVeral ~eets make an appearance this season shot only 254. Jim wrestling season (Johns HopkinS ...Fl"ostburg and better his conference dash eight points below his a close. Monmouth) .. Reversing these ~e:t~rnse~~::;I:ndIf W~l~:!!~aw:;:~ Pete . 5~~e ~appl~rs faile~ :qU~~~~~~gml!~:s!:.ve ~:~::::' . to worry about in his Brian Mills, to be ~ati:~d ;~th g~~e they only "came close." department for he won 16 races ability to do better season. "We had four guys Looking aht;ad to next year, in 17 starts last season. Back- occasions, shot a 219. didn't have any experience, S~m turns clairvoyant and pre_ all season. ing Dana will be Bob Cart- chor man on the squad really improved as the dJcts a good season. Although injured continued to grow wright, a newcomer to the Jobst Vandrey who tied wore on " he notes. "The Hvidding and Chuck Miller will Lednum sprained her squad. Meekins at 210. Jobst was the worked hard and their be graduating this spring, the Lynne Howard dis_ One of the other two ques. one who qualified, because his pald off" rest of the squad will return, afterwards that she tions facing Coach Ron Jones is off-hand score was a little better The chmax of the season was glvmg the 1967-68 team rare three-quarters of the the quarter mile. There are no than Gaye's. reached at the Mason-Dixon depth . a broke~ hand. The returning lettermen for this The Terrors spent the last ChamplOnshlps at Johns Hop- M~morles every Terror ~Ill !hs~~r:~?!~~;i, :;~~t ~~: f:~~~a~r~!~:e R~c~d i:r:e;e;~: ;~f::;P~~! ;;:: ud~~ve~~~t!'seT:e~~~~u~o~~ (~e:lsi a~:::e :~o~;:'?ra!~~:~ 'in"l.h;~d"dlyo I 11 may be the answer to the 440 will journey to Carlisle, Penn_ n n u a I event. Ric k y ciuse~s~veral ~ro~pectI~ grap_ question. sylvania, where it wilJ do battle Jim Hvidding, and p ~rs. r~p ou 6h ~r? onover Hood we~;~t~as~~;~1 o~I~b~~: ::tt~~~ with the Devils of Dickinson. ~ll :n~i~:: c~~~~~~i~~r:,nt;;t;o:undr:s ~~:rsw:~;~;; O;a:'fa~~~ 7;'r!~mense~:~~ man, Joim DailYbfhe team faces .King garnl~re~~ ~~:n h;:~~t;lgtoo:o::o~e~ff~p~~: ~~eb~~~ f::::s,ina~~e t~Ue~a ~e~e:e:::n~:; e::~ts seem to ~:~~~t o~hezOy~~~erI~~S:t g!~~ m .theasU~ l~~ole ~~r;~~e~h:e~:~;~d b~~~r~ ~~! out a victo:r:y . Everyone WMC a tremendous poten_ be in competent hands. Pete bet the Terrors will be up for In a ten team Case kept knocking on the door helped with the scoring here, and depth to build on in the Kinner and Bill Chasey return this one, and that Dickinson at Gallaudet and wondering why but Sue Smith again was high future. the half mile post backed by [might go down to one of its the best way to de_ nobody answered; and the long with 21. The Towson game Volleyball intramurals start Randy Blume. The worst defeats in years as the' 1966-67 Terror team bus rides, which were either found the Terrorettes starting March 7-anyone interested in . and two-mile belong to Terrors try to prove that the would be "inconsistent." They standing (or rather, moving) ::~~ : ~~~~d:: ;, ~~dt!~is;:~~, iil::~~~ .s~~u~~ns:i~~!~i~es~~~i w~flb~~~:l;~~v~~~e ~~~~~~ :~:~y toac~i~~~t. ;,::5 t~eur~~ey~ I~~e :!:~~~n b~~i~~r~li~~g~;~~: ~~~::q~eep:~~7:g o:nwt~!e~~: fouled ou and Gail Lentz was ,21-see Carol Jesatko . . . tion trouble at these spots. Jim bou~ds. Iand at thetr worst at Elizabeth_ team had done that night.