The LAWRENTIAN Volume 80 - Number 17 Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin Thursday, February 9, 1967 Rockwell Appearance Climaxes Month of Controversy
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The LAWRENTIAN Volume 80 - Number 17 Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin Thursday, February 9, 1967 Rockwell Appearance Climaxes Month of Controversy George Lincoln Rockwell spoke ter a brief introduction, but the Prior to his campus appearance He disavowed the terror meth speaks differently on a date from last night in the Chapel of Law audience behaved in a fashion Rockwell held a press conference ods of the Ku Klux Klan, rejected the way he speaks in the frater rence University. A month of bit not uncommon for speeches at at a downtown hotel for journa its anti-Catholic stance, and said nity house. ter controversy and discussion Lawrence, usually laughing only lists and cameramen from six that some of its members are In his speech, entitled "The concluded with a speech that, at his jokes and breaking into loud television stations, eight radio “stupid and juvenile.” but Rock Academic Community—'The Last while it offered some surprises, laughter at his revelation of his stations, 12 newspapers, and Un well pointed out that the Klan Vestige of Free Speech,” the risked being anti-climatic com membership in Beta Theta Pi fra ited Press International news and his party share a number of Nazi leader first criticized the ing in the wake of the uproar it ternity. At the close of the ques service. Many of the points hr» basic beliefs. articles about him which have precipitated. tion period following the speech, made in response to the news Among these are two theories appeared in “ Playboy” and “Es The auditorium was not fillet!, there was scattered applause men’s questions were repeated in which dominated Rockwell’s press quire” magazines, pointing out but the audience was close to ca throughout the auditorium. his address later in the evening, conference and his speech: the in that one was written by a Negro, pacity in spite of attempts to in Rockwell said that the audience but some interesting points came timate connection he secs be the other by a Jew, and asking stitute a student boycott of the was neither particularly respon out that the student audience was tween Judaism and Communism if anyone would believe an ar speech. sive nor particularly cold. He not to hear. and his belief in the superiority ticle "The Truth About David A plan to have the students said that more students had walk He commented that the closing of the “white race.” While not Ben Burion” by George Lincoln walk out as a body at the con Rockwell while they were willing ed out of his speech at Antioch of his speech to the public disap condemning the Jews as indivi clusion of the sj)eech, before any College but that he was not at all pointed him because it would pre duals, the Nazi said that the Com to believe the other articles. questions could be asked, was Rockwell produced a number disturbed by “walk outs" when vent some local conservatives munist movement is directed by more successful as about three- of documents, of which he offer he felt they were staged as an from hearing him speak, but he Jews and that Jews are to a quarters of the audience filed ed free copies to anyone writing expression of pre-formed judg welcomed the fact that it also large extent involved in it. He out; but it was difficult to as to him at his Arlington, Virginia, ments of him and were not valid excluded groups such as the Jew said each Jew would have to be certain how many of the aepart- headquarters which he used to reactions to his ideas. ish War Veterans, which he said judged individually and if he were ing audience meant their leaving substantiate his claims. One was Outside the Chapel faculty, stu often resort to "force and vio a ‘‘good American lie should be as a gesture of protest since Rock a newspaper article written by dents, and other interested per lence.” left alone.” well concluded his talk by in sons picketed in a circle denounc Winston S. Churchill in 1920 The Nazi commander also re However, Rockwell labeled him viting anyone who wished to walk ing the Nazi leader’s clearly pro which claims that most of the vealed that he had been in Ap self as a racist and said that he out or who did not care to remain claimed racism. Carrying pla Russian revolutionaries were pleton before when he made a firmly believes in the basic in for the question period to leave, cards linking Rockwell’s pro Jews. He also produced an Army "pilgrimage” here on his way feriority of aarker skinned races. and after an hour of Nazi doc grams to the horrors of the Nazis intelligence report from the same home after the Korean War be He said that the Oriental races trine many students seemed ready in World War II, the demonstra cause he “wanted to visit the period wrich agreed with the are almost as smart as whites Churchill article. to leave, protest or no. tors numbered about 75 a quarter home town of Joe McCarthy.” and that intelligence varies pro Rockwell said that his adoption There was no applause as Rock of an hour before the speech be The right wing leader bemoaned portionately in relation to the of Nazi name and insignia was well quietly took the podium af- gan. the fragmented state of the right lightness or darkness of skin. an attempt, rather successful, to wing of American politics which Rockwell admitted that he gain attention for his ideas. He he sees in a state of major weak adopts a different speaking tech accused the “Jewish-controlled ness. He spoke of the John Birch nique in addressing college au press and television” of attempt Society as a “ kinaergarten” for diences from that which he uses ing to stifle the dissemination of Nazi party members and said Lest ^¡e Forget in mass rallies. He said he conservative ideas and said that that many members of the Amer adapts his style of speech to the the Nazi connections he uses ican Nazi Party were former group which has invited him bring attention to his views when Birchers. EDITOR'S NOTE: The following ¡s a state during the school year. just as, he said, a college boy nothing else could. ment from the deans. As each student generation pass We take seriously the prohib es through Lawrence, the im ition of possession and use of pression recurs that the “all-col alcoholic beverages on the cam lege rules” provide window dress pus or in any university build Lawrence Soph Adrienne Kulieke ing rather than ground rules re ing. flecting a genuine desire on the part of the faculty “to maintain We remind you that the car Wins Title of Miss Appleton ’67 the character and the educational rule, as recently amended' by A crown, a cape, and three The contestants had personal our summers in Wisconsin and aims of the university as a con the faculty to permit the seniors dozen roses later, sophomore and group Interviews with the now I practically live here all tinuing community and to serve to have cars, still prohibits Adrienne Kulieke reigns as Miss judges at a Sunday morning year” But she also added that the best interests of the students.” members of the three lower Appleton. She was crowned Sun brunch. Adrienne’s reaction to most of the contestants were ac The reasoning goes like this: Al classes who do not live with day night, February 5, at the the interviews and the uncom tually not from Appleton any though the university says that their families while attending Appleton High School in the fortable questions asked may be way. its normal penalty for violation of Lawrence to “maintain or drive eighth annual Miss Appleton summed up in one word: "aw a motor vehicle except when Of course what is most on her one of these three rules will be Pageant. ful!” authorized to do so by the fac mind is the moment of victory. suspension from college, in fact, The pageant was run very simi ulty Committee on Administra-' Miss Appleton receives a $400 “ I was sobbing—didn’t anyone violations do occur much more larly to the Miss America Page tion, or when accompanied by scholarship, a $250 clothing al notice?” The worst time for her frequently than suspensions; since ant, being a preliminary to the one of his parents or guard lowance, one year of dry clean was when the finalists were an the deans and other faculty mem nation-wide event. The contes ian.” This rule means—and we ing, and one year of free hair- nounced, and the tension mount bers must know about these vio tants were judged on talent and say this explicitly to remove styling. Her sponsor, Newman’s, ed. When her name was an lations, they apparently don’t poise besides the evening gown doubts or misunderstanding — an Appleton clothing store, gave nounced, all the contestants and care, and so why should students? and swim suit competitions. But that the students who fall under her a new formal. last year’s Miss Appleton were Some rules are now being vio for Adrienne, the hardest part this prohibition may not main But according to Adrienne, the in tears. lated by students. The failure of was remembering to smile con tain a car nearer to Lawrence material gains cannot match the Adrienne’s parents and broth the Deans’ office to learn about stantly, even when the tension than their own home.