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Trial Set for 71 Murder Non-Profit U.S. Postage Paid Waterville , ME 04901 Permit Number 39 - Mitch Snyder speaks by David Bullock and Larry Radicao "What does it mean to do our share in the creation o) thousands of the poor in Washington. themselves from harsh realities and justify their own a new and decent world?" Mitch Snyder asked an "Everything today is disposable; paint brushes, inaction. audience of Colby students last Wednesday evening. diapers, razors, and now so are the people," Snyder At one point, Snyder's speech called on Colby He was referring to what he believes could be a final stated with disgust. He believes that the nation as a students to act - - to act with love.... to act without solution to poverty and the plight of the homeless. whole is a reflection of each and every individual; thus caution; to stop "surrounding [themselves] with [their] Mitch Snyder is a hard-nosed activist determined to each'and every one of us has a responsibility. For comfortable cushions and see the real world." bring national attention to the plight of the homeless. something to be done about the rampant problem of the What does Mitch Snyder see as being the solution foi Yet he was not always this way. By age twenty-six he homeless "we must stop compromising and act now. the problem of the homeless of the world? In the had work-d his way into a position as a successful Actions flow out of our proximity to the victims." short-run he would "like to see the government star) Madison Avenue Consultant earning fifty thousand Snyder suggests we should bring ourselves closer to spending some money". He is currently asking dollars a year. But Snyder was unsatisfied; he felt these people, and in doing so, we will be inspired to Congress to help fund his Second Street shelter and void of a purpose. Then one day he "woke up," and, help just as he was. Snyder spends almost every focus more of its attention on the plight of the realizing there was so much more he could be doing, minute of every day on the street, one on one with homeless. In the long-run, he would like to see a left the glory, the money, and the prestige. From there these people. He eats, sleeps, and literally lives with systemic change within society. Said Snyder, "Any he went on a long journey which finally, in 1973, the destitute. In doing so he has become aware that the society that breeds itself on competition is irrational, found him a member of the Community for Creative way society acts is irrational; "Our own abundant dangerous and inhuman." He would like to see a Non-Violence (CCNV) in Washington D.C. This wealth is driving us mad. society whose members treat each other as brothers group, originally formed sixteen years ago in response Snyder indicated that he came to Colby "to educate and sisters... as human beings. To this end, Snyder to the Vietnam War, now focuses on the homeless and and sensitize" the students. He said that people, by will not bend or compromise his principles. the hungry. Fourteen years ago Snyder and the surrounding themselves with the niceties associated In conclusion, Snyder's speech was provocative and CCNV opened soup kitchens to a couple of hundred with such communities as Colby College or the informative and his controversial, utopic ideals left his people a day. Now they serve over two thousand suburbs of the United States, are putting a buffer zone audience with much to think about people a day with food, medical care, and spiritual between themselves and the real world. People who Snyder appeared at Colby as a guest of the Cultural guidance. live in these communities are so detached from the Life Committee. cruelties of the real world, he contends, that they are Mitch Snyder, because of his firm religious beliefs able to go about their daily life without any that we must help our brothers and sisters , will stop consideration for those who have to "look through for no person, and will bow down to no organization. garbage pails for meals and sleep in the street The CCNV in Washington runs the Second Street When these people are confronted by a man in the Trial Set for shelter, and Snyder recently fasted for fifty-one days ir street begging for money, they say "Oh, he's just a order to get financial support for the refurbishing of the dirty bum." They see him, not as a man like you and shelter. His powerful actions persuaded President me, but as a degenerate lacking the motivation to help 71 Murder Reagan to promise the facility would be modernized. himself. In fact, Snyder tells us, the homeless consist by Wendy Dauphinais Later, the Department of Health and Human Services of a variety of society: professionals who run into hard withdrew its promise, but Snyder held his ground times, the mentally disabled and the physically The trial of Alan D. Pelletier, a 37 year old Winslow firmly, and the CCNV would not budge. Eventually handicapped. Stereotyping the homeless as degenerate auto dealer, indicted six mpnths ago for murdering Colby plans for the closing of the Second Street shelter were bums is another way in which people buffer scraooed. and todRV the shelter is & home Far freshman Katherine Murphy on November 4, 1971, has been scheduled for January 12 at the Kennebec County Superior Court. Fifteen years have passed since the body of the 18 year old Colby student was found in a ravine, 35 feet from Mayflower Drive. Murphy's death was caused by multiple skull fractures, believed to have resulted from blows of a large blunt object Prosecu tors claim that Murphy was accidentally struck by a truck while walking up Mayflower Hill.shc was then dragged into a ravine, and repeatedly struck with a large rock. At the time of the murder in 1971, the Colby campus was greatly affected by the murder. A special mass at Lorimer Chapel was held for Murphy, in which over 500 Colby students attended. Security and the administration were busy instructing the students as to safety precautions and they formed a new program of bus service, the Jitney, to take students to and from town. The day after Murphy 's death, Pelletier went to the Waterville Area Communications Center and reported thai he saW' a man beating a woman on Mayflower Hill of Colby Campus. Since his statement, Pelletier has been considered a prime suspect for the investigation of the Murphy murder. On March 10,1986 Pelletier was charged by a Kennebec County grand jury, in connection with the death of Murphy [however ,he was freed on $200,000 bail afte r Paren t's Weekend: Parents and students alike have made for crowded parking and long who made pleading innocent flock to sample Seller's finest at bnrbeque on Hues at restaurants, yet all parents the trip seemed to agree that It was well Pcllcticr's attorney, Daniel Ullcy said that judging from Dana Lawn on Sa turday. Combined the time period of IS years since the murder, the suite ha; upperclassmen and freshmen weekend may worth It. continued on page 3 WORL D NEWS on page 2 FEATURES on page 5 OPINION on page 7 ENTERTAINM ENT on page 14 Fellow Citizens of the World Peace Corps by James Reston by William Safire U.S. Embassy in Moscow in a Russian claims to vast land grabs in N.Y. Times News Service N.Y. Times News Service swamp. We should not have to put Eastern Europe after World War II, WASHINGTON - The Peace Corps celebrated its vibrators on all nprthside in return for what we now see were 25th anniversary here this month, reminding us that WASHINGTON - The following windowpanes of the White House to empty promises. Small wonder that American foreign policy is not all missiles and Stealth speech draft was filched from a defend against eavesdropping beams 20 million copies of that agreement bombers but has a gentler side. White House burnbag; it was not from Mount Alto. have been distributed in the Soviet It was just a week before he was elected as the 35th delivered by President Reagan A new and precisely reciprocal site Union. President of the United States that John F. Kennedy Monday [September 22] in his will be offered the Soviet Union, We no longer need to legitimate summoned the youth of America to get this country welcome to the U.N. delegates. which will be fairly compensated foi those claims to expanded borders. moving again; and dramatized the idea of a volunteer My fellow citizens of the world: the vast electronic surveillance We do not need a forum for the Peace Corps. We gather today at what many of complex it has built in our capital; useless exchange of complaints. The "There is not enough money in all America to relieve us thought would be the opening of parts of which can be used to Helsinki agreement is pot a treaty, the misery of the underdeveloped world in a giant and the Third Era of Detente. Instead, in monitor low-flying ducks as we but a "declaratin of intent," without endless soup kitchen," he said. "But there is enough response to the prospect of a visit to move the embassy to the Tidewater Senate ratification; it was signed in know-how and enough knowledgeable people to help Moscow by the leader of China, the area of Maryland. good faith by one president, and can those nations help themselves.
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