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Vol. XL No. 7 A News Service for the Educational Community. Monday, November 1, • ., ••
Student Support Needed "The majority isn't silent, College Council Tries the government is deaf." To Re-establish - ~ David Harris Raps
The planning stage for the All Students requested that the College Council began in the fall of Council convene to check in • 1968 when Roger Williams College justices of the cases. The Board tn Bristol was located entirely in Providence. convened and asked the two It evolved when student leaders faculty members to appear in from clubs and organizations met. person before them. Neither On Tuesday, October 26, Roger refusal to serve in any capacity in which we live, one snouJd not These students found that a lack of member showed up. Students Williams College played host to a the Armed Forces or related necessarily fear being imprisoned, communication existed between appealed again and again the speaking engagement by an ex-con duties. When asked by a student if because" jail is just freedom in a administration and the student Board conve!led; by this time the-"at Bristol High School Auditorium. he didn't think that application for much smaller situation." He noted body; therefore this group united Board lost some credibility. But the speaker was no ordinary conscientious objector status was that during his 20 months in prison to promote the elimination of this In September 1969 the Bristol ex-con. He was David Harris, who sufficient answer to the draft call, he instituted 4 strikes and was the communication block. Research campus opened. Lack of recently completed a 20 month Harris replied, "I was just more of subject of 26 disciplinary reports. followed and a nonformal organization prevented election of stint in a Texas penitentiary on a a conscientious objector than the Asked if he thought that there development committee of officers in Bristol. Students draft evasion conviction. Harris is law allowed." Harris feels that it is was real progress belng made by students, faculty and some ad directly involved in the Council currently touring the country, possible to bring about a revolution his actions and those of other m in is tr at ion constructed either graduated or transferred. talking about the resistance guidelines for the Council. - The Council couldn't maintain movement, and discussing with In the Spring of 1969 the Council stability. students the various possibilities was formed consisting of six In the fall of 1969, Dr. Gauvey for non-violent revolution. students composed of club and contacted Ron Davis on the status Harris began his talk by defining organization Presidents, four a few of the terms which are often faculty and four administrators. of the Council. There was no student support at that time, the carelessly bantered about. He said The student body at that time that a revolution must have at least people initially on theCounci~ were banned together supporting this three important facets; first, it not there. The Council be~ame Council and signed a petition defunct and never reconvened. must be non-exclusive, that is, it consisting of over 700 names and must not be a revolution for those presented "this petition, voicing This year, the sell-evaluation who wear their hair in a certain their support for the Council, to report on accreditation shows that fashion or listen to a particular President Gauvey. He agreed it governance was not anything too kind of music, second, it must was a good idea. This Council strong. Dean Payson found out actually meet the needs of the functioned as a group of people about the past Council and people in a real and vital way, and representing the three factions of received the Council's complete finally, it must be an exercise of Roger Williams which overviewed file. A new draft is in the making genuine human love. Power, the students, faculty and ad and was submitted to the Harris said, is merely the sum of ministration. The students didn't President's Advisory Council. The accumulated lives involved in a know what the Administration was exact structure isn't finalized but it particular situation. Therefore he doing and this Council would try to consists of an 18 member board of noted, it is not necessary to seize alleviate this problem. The faculty faculty, students and ad power from the government, it is met and approved the Council. Ron ministrators. It is a much stronger only necessary to withhold it. In Davis was elected Chairman. Board with more legislative this way, Harris said, we can In late Spring of 1969 the Council a bilify, but do the students want it? "begin to make it impossible for convened for two cases, con Can the students get together? In the monster to function." cerning two faculty members; one order for this Council to be ef Harris discussed many ways in David Harris Credit: Cing Mars member was not rehired, another fective, it must have student which this witholding action might without bloodshed by creating new resisters throughout the country, was hired for Providence on1y. support. be accomplished, including his own mechanisms which in fact satisfy Harris replied that in 1971 the the needs of the people. He men- goyernment must draft three men $ $ tioned the forming of a food in order to get one into the U.S. cooperative, which consisted of a production cooperative in the Army. It is this kind of revolution, To All Students Who Need Money!!. country and a consumption he said, that must inevitably cooperative in the urban areas, succeed. that provides viable alternatives to In closing, Harris warned the Due to recent congressional approval of the 1971-72 Student mass-produced, pre-packaged students that "the majority isn't foods, and at the same time returns silent, the government is deaf,'' Financial Aid Budget, Roger Williams College has been awarded power to the producer and con and that "the most powerful tool at additional money for the College Work Study Program. sumer by eliminating the middle hand is the general strike. No in If you are in need of extra money and feel you are qualified, con man. Another mechanism that vasion has ever worked without the tact: Harris described was the popular cooperation of the conquered referendum. He said that in people." California there is now a law on the Unfortunately, David Harris' books, currently unenforceable presence in the Bristol area was . THE FINANCIAL AID OFFICE because -of its wording, .that met with something less ~n - prohibits ownership of more than enthusiasm. Only about 100 people . 266 PINE STREET 160 acres of land by any individual showed up for the talk, and on the PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND or company. By using the popular day following his appearance, one referendum to re-word the law, student noted, although Harris sat or Harris feels that it is possible to in the Roger Williams College telephone 274-2200, ext. 61 effect the redistribution of great cafeteria for nearly an hour areas of land presently owned by drinking_coffee, on1y a handful of The additional funds received from the Federal Government are gigantic corporations. students recognized him, and still limited--Apply Immediately! fewer made any attempt to speak Harris said that in engaging- in to him. Against this kind of apathy $ the struggle against the "par David Harris can on1y be wished a $ ticipatory totalitarianism" in great deal of luck.
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I don't know if It's the Same inspiration he gave to his army of there has ever been a ease of a nonviolent, highly disciplined bomber dropping his bombs on Ole Story David Harris Satyagrahis. That Gandhi's humans whom he knew to be Last week a · very important By MICHAEL HAVENAR nonviolence worked, and that it clearly nonresisting. The victims incident occured which had a worked largely because of his may have been helpless, and serious affect on the Sophomore I was impressed by David other method has been tried. leadership, is practically in battlefield mistakes have bombed class in Prov. Harris' sincerity before he spoke in Nonviolence. is as foreign to disputable. The same could be said the wrong targets, but I doubt that It .seems that apathy reared its Bristol Tuesday night, and I still Americans as MacDonald's for the nonviolent resistance led by any organized Satyagrahis had ugly head once again last Thurs am. But I came away from the hamburgers are to Chinese. Dr. Martin Luther King. To a announced their intentions to stand day at the allaged Sophomore encounter with a vague feeling of As a white, mail American who limited but significant degree, it passively under the bombs class meeting. The attendance at disquiet and some unanswered was reared in the Deep South, my worked. In both cases, nonviolent before~nd. At any rate, the this meeting was poor. Besides our questions about the depth of his life has been as violent as most and resistance was effective for as long anonymity of ~he people. below three class officers, thtre was only commitment to non.violence as a probably more violent than many, as there was one man who had a makes the.questlon~cadem1c. How_ one tepresentative !tom the political and moral instrument. so I don't intend to set myself up as clear conception of nonviolence, would a pilot know . Sophomore class The reasons for my disquiet are an authority on nonviolence or to who had love in his heart, and who Gandhi carried ~is ~om'.olenc~ to The purpose of the meeting was complicated and vague, even to ~ave these remarks construed as could supply his people with just eyery ~spect ~f his hfe, mclud1~g threefold: me, but I think they deserve criticism of David Harris' brand of reasons for nonviolence and give his eatl~g habits. He was a s~r1ct 1. To discuss our president examination. nonviolence. Instead, I would like them moral certitude through his ve~etarian becau~e he practiced Dennis Tessa who is a coop There is no good reason to doubt to examine it and determine if it is own example and willingness to ~h~msa--not hurtmg--toward all student. . his sincerity. It seems to me that a nonviolence, and at the same time suffer. When they were killed, the hv~ng cr~a~ures. He felt that 2. To vote for our class advisor. person's willingness to suffer for learn more about the nature of idea waned and its force receded. ammal-k1llmg was needless 3. For new ideas on how to raise his belief is proof enough of his nonviolence, itself. If mine or Today, ·India is armed and on the ~utc~ery because human~ can money so that we can keep the cost sincerity, depending upon the anyone else's understanding of it is verge of war. Many black people in live in perf~ct health w1tho':1t of your graduation down · degree of voluntary suffering in improved, the purpose of this the United States are arming meat. The importance of his . · volved. David ref1lsed induction article is served. themselves in preparation for war. vegetarianism in relation to We.are planrung .to hold a second into the army because he did not David Harris didn't speak too We may inductively reason from his nonviolence cannot ~eetmg ~oon. It will be ~nnounced believe in war, and, for his belief, much about nonviolence to the 100- these developments that non be dismissed as irrelevant. The m the Quill, and there will be signs he suffered 20 months of a 36- 200 people in Bristol. He spoke of violence is effective only insofar as concept of not eating meat may put up ~ro~nd the school. Your month prison term before he was the need to · devise new it is understood clearly by those seem silly or absurd to meat- cooperation is. needed, please help paroled earlier this year. He did "mechanisms" in our efforts to who mean to apply it. But how does hungry Americans, but the basis of us br attending . our. next class not have to go to jail. He could have end the war and change society's it work? If I knew, I would teach it the concept is the extension of meetmg and making .1t a succes~ . emptied hospital bedpans as a institutions. He spoke of the in to as many as I could reach, and humanitarian principles to include David Serrecch1a conscientious objector, or he could terdependence of armies and convene a world disarmament animals. It may represent a moral Sophomore Class have gone to Canada. I don't know emphasized how, as the factory conference as soon as leap in human thinking and Treasurer how many other alternatives were depends upon its workers, the possible. "Passive resistance " behavior. Protection of animals opef! to him. He told us that he army must depend on its privatts. as most peop"Je ·use the term, is n~t may seem less absurd if we reflect Senate Notes on the parallel it has with couldn't gain conscientious ob He told how he and others recently the Gandhian conception of non On Thursday, Oct. 28, a jector status because his ob organized an effort in San Diego to violence. To Gandhi, nonviolent ecological thinking, the need to protect and preserve all organisms Providence Student Senate jections went beyond the govern prevent a large aircraft carrier--! resistance was expressed as meeting was held to discuss budget ment's. requirements for believe it was the Constellation- 'Satyagraha', literally, "truth in the chain of life simply for our own self-preservation. proposals for the fiscal 1971-72 legitimacy, and he didn't go to from sailing for Vietr -. m. He said force." The effectiveness of the year. Canada because he felt his position that the people in the military Satyagrahi rests upon his devotion At any rate, Gandhi said he gained strength from The first business taken up was was right, and, if anyone should community of San Diego were to truth and his willingness to with the Ski Club. Representatives have gone to Canada, it should surprised at being asked their suffer and die, if necessary, to vegetarianism, and the habit in d1icates how deeply his life was of the ski club informed the senate have been the government. He views on the situation, and many of prove his commitment to the truth budget committee of its problems stayed, fought it out in court, and them expressed disapproval of the of his nonviolence and the pervaded by the concept of non violence. The depth of his com in developing a budget, and also lost. Given his political awareness, ship's departure. The ship did correctness of his position that the budget would be submitted it is probabiy safe to say that he depart, of course. In all, Harris regarding the principle in dispute. mitment to nonviolence, naturally, had direct bearing on his ability to at a time past the budget deadline really didn't expect to win. At spoke in somewhat pleasant No greater sacrifice to truth is of Nov. 2. least, he knew there was a good generalities .. SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY 10:30 AM to 11 :00 PM FRIDAY, SATURDAY 10:30 AM to 1 :00 AM Time to eat. Get good food at good prices practically any time of the day or night. Fast service, too. / 636 METACOM AVENUE n McDonald's RT. 138 WARREN, R.I. u Li® SPORTS TALK! Brown University Coach Featured The Roger Williams College DRAG TIME The Bubble Power Workshop on Defense in Modern Basketball will enter its fifth week ~y Andy lamascia by Pete Greenberg with Jerry Alaimo of Brown as the The surprising thing I learned dilemma? Further, what do kids do featured speaker. In our last article we gave you receives too much fuel to burn about this structure was that during bad weather? The answer The sessions are held on Wed some ideas about what to do to effectively) the motor you are in it only tak:es twenty-four hours to has been found and well nesday evenings at Our Lady of your wheels to get them to run a need of a cam replacement. I do assemble it and about a day or two researched by the athletic and Providence Seminary on Regent little faster. If you've gone through not intend to go into great detail on more to lay out its cement foun- Financial affairs Departments Avenue in Providence. Lectures the trouble of getting headers, a cam specs, but a rule to follow is, if dation! The correct official name and the solution was the creation begin at 7: 30 p.m. good carb. and manifold and a you're using your car for the street for it is an "air supported struc- of a Bubble. So it is from this Past speakers have included good set of gears, you're about as basic transportation it would ture." This bubble, sometimes conception of a Bubble-like Jack Kraft of Villanova, Dave ready for some other goodies. serve you well to stay with a mild taking on the appearance of a structure that a once-dream Gavitt of Providence College and If your mill is still not pulling the grind. If you have a definite U.F .O. or that of a Blob Monster, will soon be a reality with the Joe O'Brien of Assumption kind of revs you would like it to, question let us know and we'll see will probably be the center of at- support from the students. College. you are in need of a little what we can work out. traction for the students to use it as The cost of the structure will be The remaining sessions are open distributor work. In this area I Now we come to a very tricky a rallying point such as concerts , under the $100,000 to build-a far to the public at a small fee. have found that trying to rebuild a subject, shifters. Behind every plays, speakers, singers, con- cry from the permanent athletic stock distributor to make it per good driver sits a good shifter. vocations, Winter and Spring facility against the likes of a four 1971 - 72 form as a good high performance Brands such as Hurst, K&G, P&G Weekend events, etc. Also it will be million dollar deal. Recreational -item, is impossible! You will and Mister Gasket do a fine job, used by what we call " non-athletic Finally, the future use of the Hockey Schedule usually end up with something and if you run a three speed gear type" for just working out with Bubble, after the permanent gym along the lines of a part that box we recommend the Syncr<>-lok. 1. Nov. 17, 10-11, Richards, Wed. weights or Judo or just plain is built, may well be used by the belongs in a junk yard rather than · Now that your machine is a fire 2. Dec. 8, 10-11, Richards, Wed. fooling around to break up the Hawk Hockey Team as an indoor screaming stocker. breathing, wheel standing, terror 3. Feb. 9; 10-11, Richards, Wed. monotony of a long drab school and outdoor rink. It will hold up Your best bet is to get out and of the open highways, you need one 4. Feb. 16, HHl, Richards, Wed. day. However, this facility will wards of 2-3 thousand people. buy a good dual point distributor. more thing. The car isn't worth a 5. Mar. 1, 10-11, Richards, Wed. enable us to create our own home The future is indeed bright for Some good ones to try are Mallory cent if you don't know what to do Open to Roger Williams College and Accel, both of which ser:ve the ~asketball games on campus; to regi:essive RWC . No longer will with it. If you think you're going to Students Faculty and Staff. hold tennis practice as well as this school take a back seat, either purpose above and beyond the call go out and blow the doors off Equipment must be provided by Baseball, Indoor track, Golf, to the town of Bristol or the city of of duty. everything in sight, you're not. individual participants. Soccer and Football. The Bubble Providence for ..rental of athletic Some advantages of having a Your car is going to react in a would be open from 8: 00 in the facilities for unreasonable costs! Participants must be covered by dual point distributor are, longer different manner than what you morning till 10: 00 at night, seven Get with it students, the rallying the College offered Insurance plug and point life, better spark are accustomed to, so take the time days of the week. - cry is out--Fight for Bubble program or one of comparable and more even ignition. Take my and figure out what's going to Therefore, from a recreational Power! ! coyerage. word for it, it's well worth the happen when you "put it to the viewpoint why was there a effort. wood". But it's nice to know that If you have completed the you're not going to get blown off at should do so. prescribed modifications and you a stop light by some little old lady REVIEW believe we should examine As I said, I've no doubt about < (' ontinued from Pg. 3 ) whether the depth of our com find out that you're bogging in her "Flamin" Six cylinder Dart. David Harris' sincerity, and I