Challenge '67 Program .Looks at ~Prosperity' Rockwell: Negroes Lert
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Dean Wilson 'Cool' Toward· Credits For Baby Deacons Win Four Of Last Five Outside Activities Basketball Contests • !"age Sb: Utt Page Ten VOLUME LD * * Wake Forest College, Winston.Salem, North Carolina, Monday, March 6, 1987 * * NUMBER 20 Challenge '67 Program .Looks At ~Prosperity' Rockwell: Negroes lert. ' . Gregory: US Must way, Communist Backed 18// op. Solve Race Trouble 1888 By RALPH SIMPSON I Of ASSOCIATE EDITOR By HENRY BOSTIC, JR. ~t The commander of the Nazi Party in America MANAGING EDITOR told 2,500 jeering, heckling students at Wake One of the nation's top Negro comedians and Forest College that civil rights and the communist social critics said Friday night "humor pays my =r revolution mean the same thing in the United States. rent ... but don't think for one minute that the George Lincoln Rockwell's speech before the social problems in the country will be solved with delegates to the College's secon~ Challenge sym humor." posium was interrupted ove~ 20 times by flag~;vav Dick Gregory made this remark to the more than . ing students, who the Naz1 called the most pro 350 students, faculty, and delegates attending Negro group" he had ever seen. Challenge '67's formal 'banquet Friday night in ,. Near the end of his hour ----------- the cafeteria. and a half emotional speech, fr:-;.~ :. ..: ~.: ·~;~...,:::s:~~;:::;:: :~,.:::: ;{~: ::~ :-.: :::-: ·· ~~~~: ~~~:-;: ~:~];~ Mter hi:s typical beginning Rockwell was interrupted by with a barrage of jokes about a Negro student who ran to j'1 Spence-Yea, ~ the Negro problems in the s th& front of the auditorium Outstanding United States, Gre-gory quick and told the audience that ly cut in to the meat of 111--lhat his ancesters "had worked as HRockwell, Neinf~ he came to say. "I came here hard as anybody's to make : ~ Seniors to inform you," he said, "not America great." Student reaction Jto two Chal --PHOTO BY CLARKE to imp ross you.'' Bob Grant, a junior foot lenge speakers Friday after "GENUINE DOCUMENTS" were used by George Solve Problems ball player from Jackson noon was dJiame.trically oppo- Lincoln Rock"·eU Friday afternoon as he attempted to show Recognized ville-, received a three-minute site. students the "real truth." Here he holds a newspaper article --PHOTO BY JOHNSPN "We keep sweeping our standing ovation which led to' DICK GREGOR~· • • • launches into an attack on ihe Craig Spence, special cor written by W~ston Churchill, who Rockwell said credited the F1fiteen members of the social problems under t:he a walk-out from !!he auoditori- social problems facing American yonth during the banquet respondent for the MUituaJ Russian Revolution to a Jewish Revolution. Rockwell also Class of 1967 were elected by rug," the comedian empha um. of the Challenge '67 program. Gregory suggested that tbe Broadcasting Sy:stem, captured used such "documents" as U. S. Intelligence Reports and their classmates as Ourt.stand sized. "We ke€1P lying about his audience with his com problems of the Negro could destroy society before society them. If we don't solve them Second Address "Who's Who In World Jewry." could destroy the Negro. ing Senior PersonaQities Tues ments on 1the Vietnam war, doay. This three per cent of in the next four or fiv~ years, they will solve us." · Rockwell's ·speech was t11e and George Lincoln Rockwell, the graduating class was cho second major address to the "self-appointed Fuhrer of the sen on the bas·is of what each He told the group that 200 visiting delegates frt>m Ame-rican Nazi Farly," en has contributed to his class or America was probably the colleges all over the East Spence Keeps Attention Of Audience number on& racist country in raged his audience with /his school through four yeall'S. coa·st. •Most of his audiencE\ comments on the Negro and tlh.e world. "We're living in however, were Wake Forest the Jew. Chosen for the honor, which it," he said, "and don't real students and townspeople. ize it. And probably the big· It was not ptimarily whpt is the only one conferred by Other participants in the gest racist of all is the N~gro. ·spence said but 'the way the cJass itself, were Butch symPosium, \\'hich delved into he With Facts And Opinions On Vietnam The Negro says he is not a said it that captivated the stu Pate, of Dunn, prestident of the the "Implications of Pros !Student body and member of racist, but he is lying. perity," included Dick Greg dents. With an amazing taleDJt ·for of the Vietnamese chi'!dren un. a bigger problem !in the fu t Upon being asked to answer ODK; Jim Snyder, of Lexing "But the problem with the ory, Negro comedian and so Numerous ·speakers have entertaining, let alone infor der age five, died of fever; ture." questiOI!IS, Spence with a per ton, basketball pltayer, presi United StatEJos is not that cial critic; Socialist Norman rambled along abotut the lack ming, Mr. Craig Spence man our dvil progrnms have chang He ended on much more a fect poker face dnformed the dent of the senior class and racism exists but that we Thomas, five-time candid-at~ of responsible reporting of the aged to keep the fascinated ed this 'to a relatively smaUer phdlosophdcal, if unexpected, audience that .this was "their last year's junlior class· presi dcm.'t realize it," Gregory said. fe>r the presidency of the Unit fac.ts; many speakers have attention of Wake Florest stu f•igure. The•se are the advances note by comparing John first chance t() escape" and dents and viLsitors as he spoof dent; Hoke Smith, of 1'11fni.ty, He repeatedly mad~ refer ed Sto.tes; Senator William insisted that the United States not presented by our commu Donne's "No man is an .is ed charncters and exploited in the same breath to ·the fi!'St president of lthe MRO and ence to the role of the young Proximire, De.-mocrat of Wis must stop its bombing of Nol"th nications; just at the ·leeches land'' to a world situation raised hand said "fire." consin; and Herb Ka;plow, ideas in a rather vague yet ch$man of the Men's Judi people- who will have to deal Vietnam - that it must con. and fighting. conditions are not. where ideals may beo sought From <then on both Spence National Broadcasting Com thoughtful vein during his 2:00 cial Board; ~2nd Paul Long, of with this problem. "Young tinue bombing even while it According to ·spence, the but not found and men must many's Washington corres P. m. lec,ture Friday afternoon. and the audience tried to • 'es LoUiisville, Ky.,. captain of the people must face these social negotiates. American officer is faced wilth diie and we must care. cape fire." problems now," he said. pondent. Yet many ministePs could Bobby Kennedy became tihe basketball team.~ ' two aO.ternatives when he en ,., l "Wc'v~ got to get over our "America .. doesn't have a take notes on his style of "Beatie from New York'' while group of peasants," the radi d,e coUDtters enemy forces: call Also honored · wen~ •steve embarrassment first," Greg !ivery - hilS Ill~~liured::. :d,~li Jackie Kennedy's ... actions.. .he .. for aid il!tilizdng what the U.S. cal-ri~t-wllige.-r said, "but It Burns, of Charlotte, student ory_ . pointed out. •~Th!!re is does' ·Ira·ve' 'Dlac'k...,.. 'iipPI"esseii . lJerate speech,{purictuated by pr~"~P~~ ~s Queep. V·l~toria forces have as their best ad Medical School~~.Qeceives government .,;..~~mlJer and nothing wrong with having - ·p~qf:f:rl1s per se. --- ~- ---- people. · · ··· - · · · qJ'a!llqtil! ~ .. vantage - arbillery forces. - chairma1f of or1enta:tiob;- Ken cancer. We realize. it and do ''These are the troops of Sdf-confidt-nc.e 'j.UYoum:ls him TJme became the "Gospel or remain as he is ·and fight, ny Hauswald, of Clark', N. J., something about it. tim Communist revolution in -- sc!f-conflaence tgained from according to 01-adre · Booth losing his own men. Grant For New Facilities presidelllt of .Delta Sigma Phi "It Should be the same America;" Rockwell scream :.nowledge arid. fil-si-hand 1ex· Luce," Newsweek the "Poor This brings us to Jthe crux :fraternity and fuJI.lback on the way with social problems," ed, ·pointing out to Negroes ::-~ricnce; self-confidence en Man's Time," and U.S. News of the matter. The Viet Cong The Bowman Gray School of the school's gradu31te educa fooltbaH team; Johh Snow, of he continued. in the audience. abling him to·,; speak without & World Report a t:iction with are not as mechandca,lly ta Medicine has received a $974,- trl.on program. This expansion Murphy, tackle, op the football the benefit of notl:es. statistics. 000 grant from the Health Re Nature Wins Two Revolutions leruted as \~·e are; they oon, wiiH enable the medical center team; Tom Baker, of Raleigh, He exudes warmth and youth From this ra·ther amusing however, put up a much better _search F•acilities Branch of the to help relieve, in part at former chairman of the Men's "We are dealing with na H~ said this is only part - a double "attraction for stu format he moved on to the U. S. Publie Health Service to Judicial Board; and Richard ture not man," Gregory em of the over-all American par man-to-man show. This iis im rreast, !the aclllte national short mt dents. This is illustrated by inadequacies of commun-ica support the con.sttruct.ion of new Flaillis, of Nashville, Tenn., edi phasize-d.