Vol. 36 No. 5 , October 12 , 1989
The Search Is Over Future Leaders Homecoming win Students turn in Freshmen elect class officers the missing Marist sign in record turnout Football team beats Siena — page 3 —- page 5 — page 12 THGCIRCLG Volume 36, Number 5 Marist College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. October 12, 1989 Students march to protest racism by Nathan J. Robinson Amid cries of "Stop the hate, before it's too late," 250 college students, including a group from Marist, marched through the city of Poughkeepsie on Sunday to protest racism. The march followed recent recruitment efforts by the Ku KLux Klan in Dutchess County. Members of Marist's Black Student Union, marching with students from five other colleges, made charges of racism on this campus, but they refused to comment on specific incidents. Students from Vassar College, Dutchess Community College, SUNY New Paltz, Columbia University and Howard University in Washington, D.C., walked hand-in-hand down the city's streets on a 12-mile "March Against Hate," beginning and ending at Vassar. The route took the marchers p st the Dutchess County Jail, where the grand drtfgon of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana was held earlier in the week. Douglas Tuttle, 24, was arrested October 1 in Fishkill, N.Y., on a weapons charge. Tuttle had been stopped by state police in a routine traf fic check, and a loaded handgun and a blackjack were alledgedly found in his car. BSU members who attended the march said it was not held to protest „ - - .- *•* the KKK in particular, but to protest hatred in general. St.
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