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The Chronicle 76th Year, No. 113 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Monday, March 16, 1981 March mourns Atlanta's dead ATLANTA (AP) - Approxi said. "The sickness and mately 2,500 people — from as insanity that has been heaped far away as Mifchigan, Iowa upon our community must be and Indiana — marched stopped." Sunday in a silent Save The The Rev. Joseph Lowery, Youth Walk-A-Thon in memory national president of the of 20 slain black children. Southern Christian Leadership Volunteers, meanwhile, Conference, said, "We are tired searched the woods on the of black folk being killed in this southeast edge of the city for country, from Buffalo to clues to the slayings and the Atlanta, from Miami to disappearance of two other Chattanooga. black youths, but the effort "We don't know who is killing failed to turn up any apparent our children, but we know what UPI PHOTO evidence in the cases. — hatred and violence," Lowery said. Classmates of a victim of Atlanta's children slayings carry his coffin to the gravesite. Coretta Scott King, widow of slain civil rights leader Martin When Leon Hall, represent Luther King Jr., joined ing Mayor Maynard Jackson, entertainer Ben Vereen to lead rose to address the crowd, he the three-mile march sponsored was greeted with shouts of, Colleges fear Reagan's cuts by the Association of Christian "Where's the mayor? Where's Student Leaders. the mayor?" The march concluded in a Hall, the city's community Financial aid chops could hurt students field at Morehouse College, affairs director, replied, "We From staff and AP reports Student Loans, a program concerns are parents and across the street from the assure you that the killer or As both a college administra Reagan wants to make more officials at North Carolina's 16 Martin Luther King Jr-. Chapel. killers of our children will be tor and a father, Harold Doster expensive for borrowers, Doster public and 38 private colleges "We gather here today captured. They will be brought has double trouble facing is worried his own children may and universities. It's estimated because we care," Mrs. King to justice and this nightmare President Ronald Reagan's be unable to pay for college. that one-third to one-half of the told the sometimes rowdy will end." proposed cutbacks in financial "When push comes to shove, 165,000 students receive audience. "We care about our When the marchers arrived at aid to college students. we may be forced to turn to a financial aid. children. We care about the college campus, many As president of Atlantic state university," he said of his Officials say the cuts would survival of our families. We care expressed anger over the Christian College in Wilson, daughters' collegiate future. "I affect students in one of three about the quality of life for our mandatory silence imposed by Doster is worried the cutbacks don't know what other ways — most students would children. And we care about our march leaders. Several said will mean fewer students will be alternatives we have, except for have to wait for loans, some city, for this is our home. that along the parade route they able to pay the cost of college. them to find work for a year, would have to work to earn "As long as black children are were ordered to stop singing the As a father putting two and that's almost impossible." college money and a few might not safe on the streets of civil rights song, "We Shall daughters through Wake Forest Doster is not alone in his not get to go to school at all. Atlanta, no child is safe Overcome." University with Guaranteed concern. Sharing the same See Tuition on page 3 anywhere in the world," she See Marchers on page 2 Duke to play Alabama tonight at 8 in Cameron Devils win battle but lose Banks in NIT win By Dave Fassett Stadium, attempting to block arms of fellow senior Kenny With 9:07 remaining in the an Aggie shot. Dennard before playing what first half and Duke well on its The scene was certainly a was supposed to be the final way to an otherwise uneventful familiar one. For four years home game ofhis college career. 79-69 victory over North Banks had used the Cameron After swishing a 19-foot jumper Carolina A&T Thursday, Blue floor as a springboard to at the end of regulation play Devil All-ACC forward Gene national acclaim. Just 10 days and sinking a layup in the final Banks skied high toward the before he had tossed roses to the seconds of overtime to beat rafters of Cameron Indoor crowd and wept openly in the North Carolina, he capped his emotional farewell by telling the Duke fans, "You are my All- America team." To be certain, Gene Banks Alabama ticket info had left an impression on Duke that would not soon be Student tickets for tonight's National Invitational forgotten. Tournament game between Duke and Alabama will be on But one week later, after a sale between 8 a.m. and noon this morning at the Cameron close loss to Maryland in the Indoor Stadium ticket office. The tickets cost $4,7 opening round of the Atlantic Duke has reserved the bleachers, which hold Coast Conference Tournament approximately 3,200 people, for students. Almost all ofthe killed his final collegiate goal — upper-level seats have been sold to the general public for $? to make the NCAA Tournament apiece. for the fourth consecutive Any student seats that are not sold by noon today will be season — Banks was back in offered to the general public for '$?, Student seats have been Cameron, playing against a on sale since Saturday. school from Greensboro in the PHOTO BY MARC RUBINSTEIN The game, scheduled to start at 8 p.m., will be telecast live first round of the National Gene Banks writhes in agony after breaking two bones in by WRAL-TV (Channel 5). Invitational Tournament. his left wrist during Thursday night's 79-69 victory over See Banks on page 15 North Carolina A&T. Page Two The Chronicle Monday, March 16, 1981 Marchers grieve for murdered children Continued from page 1 group, Carter said: "We don't need a crowd. We are Michael Langford, a search organizer for the United Several mothers ofthe slain children spoke briefly to looking for people who care." Youth-Adult Conference, responded to criticism that the crowd, criticizing the news media and police for About 50 searchers gathered mid-morning in nothing has been found recently by pointing out insinuating that their children were "street hustlers." suburban College Park, just southwest ofthe city line, Saturday's discovery of a child's blue warm-up jacket Participants in the day's activities included to search heavily wooded areas there, but turned up with white stripes. Joseph Bell, 15, was wearing a representatives from Washington, D.C, Indiana, nothing. similar jacket when he disappeared March 3. Iowa, Baltimore, Houston, Florida and from throughout Georgia. There were teachers from New Orleans and several labor unions, including the Amalgamated Transit OurWorld Union Local 689 of Washington. meeting their students March 26, providing their "St. Louis Is With You Atlanta," read a sign in front Fall '81 schedule changes guests with a floor to sleep on (the students are of one contingent. Fifteen students and a teacher from encouraged to bring sleeping bags) and showing a Detroit high school said they drove 16 hours to be The University Scheduling Committee has the students to meeting spots on campus. Hosts there. made several changes in next semester's are welcome to participate in all the activities of Some in the march wore T-shirts that read: "Save academic calendar. Undergraduate classes will the weekend, including a picnic in the gardens and Our Children," while others peddled radical end at 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 11. Undergraduate a party Saturday evening. For more information newspapers and told people: "Stop racist killings, vote reading days will begin Saturday, Dec. 12 and will call Tom Condon at 684-7861 or Susan Deaton at Socialist Workers." run through Monday, Dec. 14. Exams will begin 286-4605. ___^^_ When the group reached the Richard B. Russell Tuesday, Dec. 15 and last through Monday, Dec. Federal Building one-third into the march, Vereen and 2L ___ Ehrlich to speak at State several others paused for a silent prayer, then rejoined the parade. AFS guests need rooms Paul Ehrlich, professor of population studies at The Rev. David M. Smith, national president of the Stanford University, will lecture on "Coevolution, student group, said that in past marches participants You probably didn't have time to travel halfway Agriculture and the World Food Problem" 7:30 walked "single file, alone — just like the children were across the globe during spring break but that tonight at Stewart Theater on the North Carolina when they were snatched. doesn't mean that it is too late. You can have a bit State University campus. of the world right in your own room. From March Ehrlich has • done policy research on the "It's very possible if these children had someone 26-29 approximately 50 foreign students will visit with them they'd still be alive," he said, "so today we'll population, resources, environment crises, and is Duke for the annual American Field Service the author or co-author of 20 books and more than walk two-by-two, sideby-side." weekend and they need a place to stay. The Rev.