Montana Kaimin, October 5, 1967 Associated Students of University of Montana

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MONTANA University of Montana Thurs., Oct. 5, 1967 Missoula, Montana AN INDEPENDENT DAILY NEWSPAPER Vol. 70, No. 5 Gregory Calls U.S. 'Morally Polluted By DOUG MOHER Kaimin Reporter Dick Gregory said “moral pollution” is the biggest problem in America today. He spoke to an audience last night that greeted most of what he said with applause and gave him a standing ovation at the end of the 90-minute speech. “America is the number one most racist country on the face of the earth,” Mr. Gregory said. Americans are not re sponsible for their racism because they inherited it from their parents. “The whole sad, sick thing,” he said, “is 1967 and a whole nation refuses to admit it.” Gregory said it’s not only the white man who is racist. “Black folks is racists,” he said. “We City Landlords learned it from you.” The white man has preached and Violate Law practiced racism for 400 years and Many of the owners of Missoula there is no way in the world the apartment buildings and boarding Negro couldn’t be a racist, he said. houses surrounding the UM cam There is no honorable way to get pus are violating city laws, accord out of Vietnam, according to Mr. ing to City Atty. Fred C. Root. Gregory. “Americans are going all Missoula Building Inspector Joe over the world to help keep the Durham said the city cannot de commies out,” he commented, “and termine the exact number of vio then we turn around and bring the lators, since any boarding house Russian track team to America.” set up before January, 1966, is “If democracy were right you exempt from the law. wouldn’t have to jam it down Mr. Root pointed out that ac someone’s throat,” he said. “When cording to ordinance 1029-A of the we solve our problems at home, We Missoula city code book, passed in got a swinging thing going. One January, 1966, new boarding day we are gqing to have to tell houses and other multiple-resi ourselves the truth.” dency dwellings are not allowed in America: ‘Sick Nation’ Zone A east of Higgins Avenue Mr. Gregory referred to Ameri from Sixth Avenue South to South ca as a “sick nation.” “This sick Avenue. However, the law does al nation can justify a nigger chasing low corporations such as fraterni a Viet Cong through the jungles of ties and sororities to build and Vietnam,” he said, “but that same RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT — Dick Gregory porters before delivering a speech to a capacity occupy house in specified areas. nigger can’t chase a ‘red neck’ ponders a question during an interview with re crowd at the U Theater. (Photo by Jim Noon) “Any person desiring to set up Klu Klux Klan man through the an apartment house in Zone A swamps of Mississippi.” must petition to be exempted from Mr. Gregory warned that peo the housing ordinance by the city ple have to understand the Rap Poets Writers to Speak Painted Coeds Board of Adjustment,” Mr. Dur Browns and Stokeley Carmichaels , ham said. because there are thousands where He said that there are undoubt they came from. Plan Protest edly many owners who have “These are the people who were At fAmerica Forum Panhellenic Council plans to send started renting since the ordinance under the gun five years ago when a delegation to the next meeting of was passed, but have failed to peti the southern schools were being in Author Colin Wilson will lead He spent the summer of 1965 in the Interfratemity Council to pro tion for exemption under the law. tegrated,” he said. “These are the a forum for young writers tonight India and Nepal and is the editor test the painting of sorority pledges Residents must file complaints people who were a part of the ra at 8 in the University Theater. last Saturday. cial clashes. They stood under the As part of the forum, Howard of “New Indian Poets.” against owners violating the pres gun while you and I was reading Some of Sister DeFrees’ works At a Tuesday night meeting, ent law in order for the city to McCord, Northwest poet, will give council members told Stacy Boros, take action against them, the our books and having our fun.” a reading today at 4 p.m. in LA11. are “Spring of Silence,” “Later council president, that many of the building inspector said. Brown, Revere Compared Other panel members are Sister Thoughts From the Spring of Si sorority pledges had been painted Mr. Gregory compared Rap Madeline DeFrees, poet and visit lence” and “From the Darkroom.” from head to foot and had paint on Brown and Paul Revere. Rap ing lecturer at UM, and Earl Gantz Many of her poems, short stories, contact lenses, hair or glasses. Brown tells the Negro to get out short story writer and assistant reviews and magazine articles It is a tradition for fraternity Valach to Head his gun and everyone gets excited, English professor at UM. have been published. members to catch the pledges on he said. Mr. Wilson’s works include “The She received her B.A. at Maryl- their first Saturday trip to the The Americans of Paul Revere’s Outsider,” “Beyond the Outsider: hurst College, her M.A. at the Uni sorority houses and paint fraternity Student Union time revolted over a tax on tea. The Philosophy of the Future,” versity of Oregon and an honorary initials on the pledges’ posteriors. “What the hell you think we gon “Introduction to the New Existen LL.D. from Gonzaga University. “This year they went too far,” Miss na do for our souls?” he asked. tialism,” “Rasputin and the Fall Boros said. In U Center Mr. Gregory said the northern of the Romanovs” and “An Ency Stories and articles by Mr. Ganz have been published in periodicals. The council also decided that Anthony Valach will be Student liberals are as obsolete as the pony clopedia of Murder.” Greek Week, which was scheduled Union program director in the $4.5 express. After thanking the north Mr. McCord is assistant profes He attended Tufts College, Har vard University, Cornell Univer for Oct. 5-8, would not be held million University Center when it ern liberals for “taking us to the sor of English at Washington State this year because no pre-arrange is completed in October, 1968, ac threshold of manhood,” he said, University, Pullman, where he sity, and received an M.F.A. from ments had been made. the University of Iowa. cording to Ray F. Chapman, direc “We is ready to move on now.” teaches poetry, mythology, and Council members discussed pos tor of student services. American Negro Insulted Eastern civilizations. The writers’ forum will be the sible games for the Sigma Chi Mr. Valach, Student Union pro The Civil Rights Bill does noth fourth presentation of “Project Derby Day, Oct. 14. Reports on fall gram director in the Lodge, is pre ing but insult the Negro, he said. America ’67” sponsored by ASUM rush in the various houses con paring to transfer to the new cen He also called the Fair Housing Program Council. cluded the business meeting. ter. Bill an insult. A Russian exchange Coeds Found, Born and raised in Lewistown, student has no problem in finding Mr. Valach spent two years in the accommodations on an American Two Students Around the World, Nation Marine Corps. He received his B.S. university campus, he said, but the in Business Administration in 1958 American-born Negro has trouble. from UM. •“I don’t care about no flag,” Mr. Still Missing Gallup Shows GOP Ahead In 1962 Mr. Valach completed Gregory said. “It’s just a rag and Three UM students, Anna Mae work for his MJE. degree in Guid my mother use to put rags on me Lame Bear, Sandra Plante and PRINCETON, N. J. — A Repub gan against the White House in ance Counseling. He taught a year for diapers when I was a baby. Rosalie Wing, were located Wed lican ticket of Rockefeller and Rea cumbents resulted in a 51 per cent of high school English in Hamil The day we can learn to respect gan polled 55 per cent of the vote for the Republicans and 49 per ton, and served as assistant to UM each other we’ll solve all the prob nesday after they were reported cent for the Democrats after allo Dean of Students, 1962-1966. lems all over the world.” missing from their dorms since to 41 per cent for President John cation of a 4 per cent undecided Monday night, according to Allen son and Vice President Hubert H. vote, Gallup said. Pope, Adult Education Center di Humphrey, the latest Gallup Poll rector.

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