Illinois Wesleyan University - Wesleyana Yearbook (Bloomington, IL)

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Ti-Grace Atkinson spoke to 500 people in the Main Lounge one September eve- ning. The former head of the National Organization for Women dealt with the issue of sexism in American society, in its law enforcement, religious institutions educational establishments, and in the mind-sets of the vast majority of its citizens. Exploitation, sexploitation, the need for extra-uterine reproduction, HAH churches will have to go . . . What has religion ever done for women? , the womanis image slandered in advertising, police brutality practiced upon prostitutes for whom no one will fight or to whom no one will offer real help, the social crime of marriage, and more. Where are your heads at, girls? Will you acknowledge your sisterhood? James Farmer was the Founder's Day Convocation speaker. The former head of the Congress on Racial Equality and recent Undersecretary of Health, Educa- tion and Welfare told how everything has changed, only everything's the same. Conditioned racism is a fact of American society. People must be made aware of this effect. It is impossible for a white to grow up without some feeling of supremacy, blacks are taught self-rejec- tion and self-hate. The young have changed that inferior feeling to Black is beautiful. One needs to love one's self to love others. America is a pluralistic culture, not a melting pot. We are a country of hyphe- nated people. Americans need to sense their heritages and be willing to work together. From a letter in the ARGUS from the Black Student Association: . . . To our great dissatisfaction, unlike other Founder,s Day speakers, flames Farmerj was not awarded an honorary doctoral degree. It strikes us as being quite strange that this particular year would be chosen to dispense with the customary ritual . . . It seems it, uh, didn't occur to them what makes the choice.

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All that jumping around pooed out cheer- leader Kathy Luginbill who took refuge behind the Sousaphone. Soon the V for victory was raised and met with a cloud of confetti, and the campus adjourned to wait for the evening's concert. The Brothers Four, above, sang in popular melodious style of the Lettermen, the headliners at the previous homecoming's concert. Controversy somehow cropped up over the hillbilly rock performed by the Fly- ing Burrito Brothers, right. Over 500 of the audience decided that they would rather be elsewhere, and left during the Burrito's performance.

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ul am somebody is not enough, it is the who and the what. Speaking in convo- cation, former Cornell University poet- in-residence Don L. Lee urged black stu- dents to sustain and further create an ongoing and working black culture. Culture is the sustaining force of any nation, and we black people have let others guide us . . . White nationalism is our teacher and white nationalism is our philosophy . . . The most effective weapon against us is education . . . We are Africans who for the most part have been controlled and directed by white European culture. Everything the white world does concerns us, however remote. A culture must control itself. That is why the most important factor is the next generation of black college students. There must be a committment in college. There may be courses that are irrele- vant, but it is going to take some of that irrelevancy for survival. That is what we are talking aboutf' Stop romanticizing the black revolution. Can you create as well as you can wreck? Can you teach as well as you dress? . . . Change is the on-going process of the definition of the soul . . . The watchword is culture . . . We need producers of positive change, No one is going to do it for us. ln every area of American life, housing health, education, transportation, the welfare state does much more for the rich that it does for the poor. The Politics of Poverty was the topic of Dr. Michael Harrington's convocation. In welfare, only one-third of the people entitled to welfare receive it, and those who do get only half of what they need. In health, the Medicare and Medic-aid programs have the effect of driving up the cost of medicine, thus improving the health of one group at the expense of another. Also with the uneven distri- bution of health funds, the quality of health in the United States is going down. The infant mortality and child- hood morbidity rates are rising, and it is the poor who feel the effects first and most seriously. Every American should have the right to work and the right to a decent income. We should not look on the poor as a burden on society. They are a tremendous resourse we are wasting?