The Chronicle 75th Year. No. 52 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Monday, November 12, 1979 - 4«N Greensboro march wet, but peaceful By Scott McCartney Party staged a peaceful funeral procession. GREENSBORO - funeral march yesterday According to Stuart Under the watchful eyes to bury five members of Kwoh, a spokesman for of 900 heavily-armed their party killed last week the CWP and a lawyer officers of the Greensboro in a shootout with the Ku from California, the group Police, the North Carolina Klux Klan. threatened the city with State Police and the five lawsuits. The CWP, which National Guard, 450 included members from Kwoh charged that the PHOTO BY SCOTT MCCARTNEY sympathizers from the police were blockading the Members of the Communist Workers Party assemble next to caskets of Communist Workers New York, Ohio and slain colleagues prior to yesterday's funeral march. Virginia, as well as from marchers from entering the Durham and the the march area, that Greensboro area, held the police were harrassing march "to avenge the demonstrators, and that death of the CWP Five," the city had reneged on a BSA meets with administration; according to its literature. previous agreement to allow widows of the five Officials in Greensboro slain men to bear Afro-American Studies discussed prepared for violence in unloaded rifles in "a the wake of last weekend's symbolic gesture." By Karen Dunn submitted several years earlier and that no effort had shootout between the The Black Student Alliance concluded a week of been made to procure the persons listed, Pye responded CWP and the Ku Klux Kwoh said the march activities Friday morning by.meeting with Chancellor "well then, the system needs to be examined and Klan. Yet the march would not progress until A. Kenneth Pye, Provost William Bevan, and William changed." passed without incident the city had met the as outside groups, were Griffith, vice president of student affairs, to discuss Pye said that the search committee was having a CWP's demands. the issues introduced at the BSA rally last Wednesday. blockaded by National difficult time finding professors who want to be a part Guard troops. Finally, National The issues, which will be presented in the form of of the Afro-American Studies program. Rector Guard troops delivered a petitions later, are a complete Afro-American Studies responded that the apprehension may be due to the The start of the march dozen unloaded weapons program; a full-time director for the Afro-American lack of a complete department. "With only a few was delayed an hour and a to the demonstrators, and Studies program; an increased "number of black courses we have no program to offer," she said. half as CWP committee the march progressed. faculty; and a cultural center. The petitions are still Rector said that the search may be slow because it members and Greensboro Through a driving rain, circulating. has been limited to only "world-renowned blacks. "We officials negotiated over the marchers followed a Pye said he would make a formal response to the don't have to look for all C. Eric Lincolns," she said. the right to have an honor two-mile route lined with demands of the BSA in the form of a report addressing "We should also try looking for younger blacks who guard bear unloaded police and troops to the each issue. He said that the report will only contain his are willing to help implement a new program." weapons during the Continued on page 11 opinion and will not be the final word. According to Joan Rector, programming chairperson for the BSA and a Trinity senior, the purpose of the meeting was to examine each demand Anti-nuke groups hold fair on the petition in detail and to give the administration a concrete idea of what each means. By Paul Goldberg bathroom and refrigerator of "heavily into Methagnalone, a Pye commended the BSA for their organization of Two campus groups opposing Silkwood's apartment. hypnotic sedative, to lessen her the march, rally, and presentation of the demands. nuclear energy will sponsor a series The Kerr-McGee case states that anxiety during her last months." Pye went on to say that he could "sympathize" with of events this week, commemora­ Silkwood deliberately poisoned The matter of whether Silk­ the black students and their desire for more black ting the mysterious death of Karen herself with plutonium so as to wood's death was or was not an professors and an Afro-American Studies program. Silkwood, an employee ofthe Kerr- produce evidence to be presented to accident remains unresolved. He said he was concerned with how to encourage the McGee Corporation, once the her labor union and the press. white student body to participate in such a program, country's largest producer of An article in this month's The Karen Silkwood Week activ­ but felt that "any student who graduates without plutonium. Saturday Evening Post portrays ities started yesterday with an having some idea of the Afro-American culture is The activities of Karen Silkwood Silkwood as the "martyred Joan of afternoon energy fair conducted in lacking in his education." Week are sponsored by the Duke Arc...; a troubled young woman... Flowers Lounge. Activities will Pye also referred to an article in the Washington Students for Alternatives to who sought to end her torment by continue today with the showing of Post that pointed out that demand for black studies in Nuclear Energy, the Duke Faculty twice attempting suicide..." The films about energy alternatives. colleges in the Washington area has significantly Commitee for Alternatives to story states that Silkwood was Continued on page 10 decreased. However, Rector pointed out "that since Nuclear Power, and NC-PIRG. The Washington is over-whelmingly black, black studies is two former groups were formed in not as necessary since you can learn about the culture the wake of the Three Mile Island just by living there." nuclear accident last spring. Bryan Fair, BSA political chairman and a Silkwood was killed as her car sophomore in Trinity, toured several major ran off the road Nov. 13, 1974. She universities on the East Coast this summer to examine was on her way to an interview their black studies programs. Fair found active with a New York Times reporter. participation in almost all the programs. She had with her a manila envelope The cultural center would be a location for BSA with information pertaining to the meetings, Black Mass Choir, Karamu (drama group), safety of the Kerr-McGee plant. Dance Black and other group performances, in The manila envelpe was never addition to housing information and artifacts of Afro- found. American history and culture. The BSA proposed the Last May, as a result of a civil center be located in the Jordan Center on Oregon St. suit against Kerr-McGee, the However, Pye is concerned that the black students Silkwood family was awarded will be segregating themselves. He said that if the idea $500,000 in personal injury and $10 is to expose other students to the black culture then million in punitive damages. Kerr- perhaps a center that has room for all cultures might McGee was found guilty of be better. negligence regarding the safety of the plant's operation. Bevan, who is on a search committee for black UPl PHOTO faculty, gave a committee report that confirmed that Nov. 5, 6, and 7, 1974, Silkwood IRANIAN MILITANTS — Supporters of the militant students the search is active. He also encouraged the BSA to was discovered to have been burn another U.S. flag opposite the U.S. embassy in Tehran. submit the names of any black Ph.D's that they are contaminted with plutonium. The . Inside the embassy, the militants are going on their ninth day of interested in seeing become Duke faculty members. Kerr-Mcgee investigation found a occupation, holding approximately 60 Americans hostage. See When it was mentioned that a list had been high level of radiation in the story on page 3. Page Two The Chronicle Monday, November 12, 1979 Campus groups Spectrum* Special Events Meeting for all groupies of this terrific committee 5:3(1 p.m. in 207 Flowers. Be there. Aloha. Paesani: Italian Table meeting Tues. endorse thought, ASSOCIATION of Duke Women: at 6:30 p.m. at 21111 Yearby St., Apt. E. CLASSIFIEDS Important meeting Mon., at 7:30 p.m.. Vi vediamo! in Aycock Parlor. AH in teres ltd in upcoming ADW events. Don't Miss Out!! Solutions to campus security GENERAL bia what would heyourdeadly not candidates problem will be discussed. Interested in working on Alumni/ Announcements Student Conference on Career Choices'.' fear? If you know the correct By T.J. Maroon ASDU Athletic Affairs: Meet in We need lots of participation from SSD has the following answer, don't be afraid to call ASDU office Mon. at 5:15 p.m. students. Sign up in ASDU office - 104 vehicles up for bid: 1 ea. 1965 684-3811. The first correct With ASDU elections one day away, it appears that, Attendance mandatory. although most campus organizations are not backing Union or in the East Campus Union. Step Van, 1 ea. 1970 Chev. For answer will be triumphantly Tobacco Kuad: meeting-MO p.m...'SOI acknowledged Power Hungry? Production Council further information call 684- a particular candidate, many groups are discussing Union. Everybody working on first and 2964 Monday thru Friday. Chronicle. second issue must be present. needed for Hoof 'n' Horn's Music:il the issues involved. Revue. Show Dates: Jan. 26-S. Fed. 1,3, Bids will close November 19, Services Offered Of the groups contacted, only one, the Black Student ECOS (formerly DSAEE): Meeting 7, 10.