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Rhonda Cato: a 'Beautiful by Michael K n. Blaell Stll.eat Voice of Nonll... t .... UDivaaity 0 • December 1, 1976 IIIIIAIGII Black vote lfiiCIIIY elects ·Carter Ill tbousalds of votes cast for acll candidate ~IU(I[ CARTER • by 2,071,506 and also defeated · the most powerful weapons by Anthony Jenkins against Republicans. Republicans PENNSYLVANIA President Ford in the electoral Onyx Staff Z.IZ3WN college; by a very slim margin. can no longer. afford to overlook -2t President-elect Carter r~eived blacks in any areas. It is also reasonable to say that President-elect Jimmy Caner Ford won 55 Ofo of the white OHIO many congratulations from well 1.111Mfi had President Ford payed more .lost the white' popular vote 47 .60Jo vote in the South, yet Carter's wishers while President Ford, who attention to blacks he might have to 51.3% IN THE 'Nov. 2 massive black support in that area maintained his proud image after MISSOURI picked up more votes from the Presidedtial Eiection, but he won made th.e South solid for him. I MW-1• losing to Caner, works diligently minorities that could have cut the roughly 920To of the ~.6 million The 52-year-old former Gover­ 12 to help make a smooth transition to the office of the presidency for 2,000,000 vote deficit to win the black votes·.cast and will become nor from Plains, Ga. defeated the TEXAS popular vote. the 39th President of the United incumbent President after . he I 1.74SMIM President-elect Carter. Black politicians wanted hope, States because of his black served his country for two years in The election was won for LOUISIANA promises and verbal commit­ support. the White House. Both President Jimmy Caner by blacks and other I d7Mii ments; they got that from Carter, The figures compiled by Wash­ Ford and President-elect Caner minoriti'es who supplied outstand­ -11 they didn't get them from ington's Joint Center for Political ended tl{eir campaign trails weary, ing support for President-elect MISSISSIPPI President Ford and that was the Studies show that Carter would but both pledged to serve their [:mll-141 Caner. It is estimated that 92% of deciding factor. Next time Repub­ have lost the states of Pennsyl­ country to their highest capacity. -11 all blacks that voted, gave their lican politicians and campaign vania, Ohio, Missouri, Texas, President-elect Carter defeated MARYLAND vote to the Carter-Mondale ticket. strategists will be forced to think Louisiana, Mississippi and Mary­ President Ford's bid for re-elec­ I 17BJ It also reminded the Republican 15 quite differently. land without the overwhelming tion to the presidency by winning party that the black vote in this Source: Jotnt Ctntt• fOr PolltJCtl StYdlt1 support of blacks. the majority of the popular vote country, when unified, ~s one of Carter, p. 4 B.U. HOST TO NSCAR CON~ENTION lri~b ind~dence. 8ctivist Berna­ trial for her son. by J. Monroe Harris dette Devlin McAliskey, Juanita "Jack Peebles," Gary's lawyer, Onyx Staff Tyler, mother of Gary Tyler and "argued for a new trial or else a Clyde Bellacoun of the American release and the statre (Louisiana) Students from aJI walks of life Indian movement, was temporari­ on the Nov. 19 to 21 weekend argued that Gary should remain m ly held up because of a bomb prison. I am still waiting for the gathered at Boston University to scare. No bomb was found. discuss and take stands on issues decision," she said. Other speakers included Tho­ Tsietsi Mashinini, 19 year-old involving racism, sexism and mas Atkins, Robert Allen, editor South Africa. central leader of the Soweto of Black Scholar, Tom Turner, Student Representative Council in The occasion was the third Joe Madison, executive director National Conference of the South Africa also spoke Friday of the Detroit branch of the night and participated on a panel National Student Coalition NAACP, Luis Fuentes, Imam discussion on opposition to Against Racism (NSCAR) m Kazana and Herbert Vilakazi. B.U.'s Hayden Auditorium. apartheid Saturday morning. When she arrived in Boston a The Saturday workshops, The _initial night of the day before the conference began, conference, in which internation­ Juanita Tyler indicated that she is NSCAR, p. 2 ally known civil rights leaders like waiting for a decision on a new NSCAR Supporters Juanita Tyler: 'A star is born By Connie Haith 'Free my son Gary.' Onyx Staff Juanita Tyler has spent two "I feel like I'm a messenger of some kind and what talent I have, by Terri Caldwell long years trying to free her son I have to share it .with people around me," said the man who Onyx Staff Gary, 18, from jail in Louisiana organized and conducts the fifty-piece orchestra and chorus better where he has been in prison since known as the 'Post-Pop Space-Rock BeBop Gospel Tabernacle age 16 for allegedly shooting a Orchestra and Chorus.' white youth. This group produces one of the finest musical sounds around "I'm in Boston to tell the today and undoubtedly this successful sound reflects a talented student· at the N.S.C.A.R. musician, whose years of hard work have developed into convention what is happening something special to hear. The man responsible is Webster Lewis. with Gary's fight to get a new trial The sound Webster Lewis crea~d is all the music that he's ever and be set free. heard and played: jazz, blues, rock n' roll complied into one. He "I am asking you to help fight first learned to have an ear for music in a church in Baltimore, for Gary's release, because the where his mother was an organist. frame-up of Gary Ty~r could be At a very early age he started taking piano lessons: "I knew I one of you," saia .Juamta Tyler at was interested in playing," said Lewis, "but I didn't know at that a rally sponsored by N.S.C.A.R. point what options were open to me. As far as I knew at that time it was just playing the piano. Juanita Tyler Tyler, p. 2 Webster at Jordon Hall Lewis, p. 19 Rhonda Cato: a 'beautiful by Michael K. Frisby person' Onyx Staff Springfield - This is the type of aiming at her male friend. For 17 But for Rhonda the struggle for person inside and out, her friends . small, almost rural city, in which days she lay motionless in Beth life was against unsurpassable say. "She was fun. Someone you news travels quickly from one Israel Hospital, fighting for her odds. The bullet had passed could become friends with and she black family to another. For the life. through her aorta and her brain would always stick by you," said past four weeks, the news spread Her friends . from Boston and had been deprived of blood. Fay Thomas, a Northeastern in barbershops and hairdressers Spdngfield, came to the hospital Doctors treating her gave little student, who has been close to brought tears to many a patrons' to be with her family to pray and ·chance of recovery. On Tuesday, Rhonda and her family, since she eyes. hope that she could pull through. Nov. 16th, she died and people in was in the 7th grade. · On Oct. 31, Rhonda Cato, a "We haven't left this waiting Boston and Springfield, mourned "If she disagreed with you, she Springfield resident, was shot in room all week,'~ said her brother the loss of a 21-year-old woman, would let you know, and if 'you the chest by a gunman in Boston. Robert, "she is still hanging in who never harmed anyone. asked her opinion, she would let there.'' It matters little that the man was Rhonda Cato was a beautiful Cato, p. 2 Juanita Tyler Weber's murder, if they didn't. testify against Gary. Natalie Blank's lawyer, Sylvia Taylor, at :' which were divided into two In a related matter, NSCAR · Detroit NAACP. consciousness is higher, he added. that same hearing testified that drafted a resolution towards According to Vince Eagan, Judge Marino and Prosecuters series dealt with a wide range of "If we don't see more massive subiects such as racist deoorta­ abolishing the death penalty. staff manager of· t~e Boston movements in the future, we're Hymel and Pitre had granted "The death penalty has no chapter of NSCAR, the seven Natalie immunity in exchange for tions, pollee brutality, community going to get smashed," Eagan control, the Wilmington 10 case, place in a humane society. The national coordinators, (previously said. her testimony, and that they had U.S. Supreme Court's decision to five) are the leadership body and refused to put it into writing in gays and racism and affirmative The existing black leadership action. legalize capital punishment is make policies. The general staff generally responds slower as order to hide it from the jury. · overly racist. Historically, the does most of the work though, he The problem at the hearing John Taylor, president of the compared with black leadership National Campaign to Aid death penalty has been primarily said. several years ago, Eagan said. was that in spite of the new used against blacks and other The highest decision-making evidence, the judge was ·Ruche· Friends and Families of Prisoners, discussed racism and prisoners oppressed nation~ minorities. It body of NSCAR between national Students Play a Part Marino, the same judge that had is used to terrorize the most conferences is the National pul Gary on Death Row. He· and his personal experiences.
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