Broward Community College - Silver Sands Yearbook (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

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'75'6 444 544 J The Trustees of Broward Junior College wish to formally acknowledge their gratitude for the fine manner in which the administration, faculty, staff, and, more important, the students on the recent Moratorium Day all co-operated in expressing their feelings with dignity and understanding of the rights of others. lt is co-operation such as this that will enable the Trustees to fulfill their goal to give Broward Junior College an envied position with other schools. This admirable form of expression will help assure the College's growth and multi-campus expansion, to serve even better the communities of Broward County. ' We, as Trustees, are extremely proud of our College citizens and wish to express our gratitude For the record. fg-s r w 3,5 arg, 1 -Q 4RNow ,ffilxxm ,ffflhwml J I J. u Q5 fr

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iews on Vietnam oiced During oratorium by Rich Defievere Wednesday, October l5,l969,9, -the Vietnam mora- torium day. On this day millions of American citizens across the country gathered in parks, churches, auditori- ums, streets, and on college campuses to voice their discontent with U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war. Some of the protest started the night before. At near-by Florida Atlantic University, students stayed up all night to read aloud by candlelight the names of Florida men killed in Vietnam The student government at the University of Florida declared the day Gentle Wednesday, and over three thousand students gathered on the Plaza of the Americas to sing Give Peace a Chance. A small but sincere crowd of young people held a sunrise peace ceremony on Ft. Lauderdale beach. College and university students generally held the longest and most earnest of the demonstrations, although little violence was reported. On the BJC campus, sophmore student Carl Grosskurth, a 25 year-old Navy veteran who worked as a civilian in Vietnam for six weeks during the bloody Tet offensive held his own one-man demonstration against the war. He draped an American flag - borrowed from a hippie friend -over a mock coffin. Against it he placed a sign reading He wasn't even old enough to vote. Sitting near the coffin front of the Hospitality Center, Grosskurth displayed three statements of position on the warg one of dissent, one of consent, and one middle-of-the- road statement of determination. As students passed on their way to classes, some stopped and Grosskurth explained why he was there and asked them to sign the statement of their choice. My main purpose in demonstrating was to present the problem to the students, and to give them a chance to speak on it, Carl said. Most who passed his.display did not speak, however. The majority were just curious. They stopped, looked at the statements, looked at Carl sitting behind his table, and moved on. Some did sign the statements: 285 signed to dissent, 25 for consent, and 65 for determation. Four students wrote and signed statements of their own. Grosskurth said he would send all the statements and signatures to Republican Senator Fd Gurney in Washington. Grosskurth said he was most pleased with two particular aspects of the demonstration. First, he noticed that many students, administrators, instructors, and even one mainte- nance man who stopped to look at the display got into long, sometimes heated and involved, discussions about the war as they stood in front of the table. I was really glad to see them talking seriously about it, Carl said. One of the main reasons for my demonstrating was to generate just that sort of interest. Another good result of his demonstration, he said, was that some people, after carefully reading the three statements, were unable to decide which to sign. They couldnit make up their minds, Grosskurth said. They suddenly realized that there was a lot they didn't know about the war. They walked away looking sort of sad and contemplative. I was glad to see that. There were, of course, those who were not in support of Grosskurth's demonstration. The Veterans Club put up a sign to the effect in front of Carl's coffin. Some exchanged sharp words with him across the table. Signs favoring the continuation of the war appeared on bulletin boards in the Hospitality Center. A campus newspaper reporter wearing a black armband as he interviewed students at the demonstration was asked why he didn't wear a hammer and sickle too. But there was no violence. Dean of Students George Young and Security Chief Julius Debroski sat at a table near the demonstration to make sure. Grosskurth had asked and received permission from the administration for his non-violent protest. Finally, in the late afternoon, Grosskurth quietly took down the coffin, flag, and table, and went home. Asked if he would do it again, Carl said It would be like painting a chair twice that only needed one coat. I wanted to get them fthe studentsj to think, to be aware of this war we're in. I think I did that. A second demonstration isn't necessary. On the second moratorium day, a month later, while over two hundred thousand demonstrators marched in the nation's capital, BJC,s campus was relatively quiet. Only a few inconspicuous black armbands spotted the classrooms. The onslaught of the first demonstration had quelled most of the desires for another peaceful protest on this campus, either for or against the war in Vietnam.

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