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University of Iowa anti-war protests, 1968

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     Black Tuesday Boycott

   Floyd McKissick (CORE) has called for a national work boycott by black workers tomorrow.

   What has been taking place in cities all over the country in the last few days is a response to years of frustration with white America's "solutions" to ghetto problems. Now the same "solutions" are being implemented by thousands of national guardsmen and army regulars.

  The university has the same response to student demands. When Bowen tells the senate to forget thinking about the student control of their own lives and allows riot squads and highway patrol to settle differences with students on recruitment policy (Dec. 5th) it is safe to assume that neither power is concerned with realistic approaches to these problems.

  The needs of the black population of this state have not been recognized by the university. Our schedule of courses includes classes in Chinese and Oriental Studies, English, Russian, French, Spanish, and German Literature and culture, and countless other cultural studies of interest" to our white racist society. Many black students are interested in studying their own black heritage, and only this semester were allowed ONE free university course in Afro-American literature.

  Our white economy in Iowa and throughout the United States does not leave black youth with the same opportunities to enter the colleges of their choice. The percentage of black students on this campus and on our other state campuses is not proportionate with our state's black population. Shouldn't we offer more scholarships for black students?

  Of course our class time is important, but more important than that are the problems that rock our nation at home and abroad. Our racist government has created and has not even been able to forcibly suppress the disturbances in the cities, and has certainly made no meaningful attempt to get at the roots of these problems. It is time for us to meet and examine our black citizens. We must also meet to begin meaning ful action to have our demands as students met by the university. One day of class time is certainly a small sacrifice for the organization of realistic approaches to very real problems.

  We must come together as students to demand change. Riot squads and army regulars have thus far been used by our government and campus administrators to merely maintain the disgraceful status quo. Racial strife, the war in Vietnam, the Dominican Republic and Guatemala, and even the recent economic crises have more than shown that we need immediate changes in our foreign and domestic policies. Any student on campus can remind us of the immediate changes we need here.

  Tomorrow we have the opportunity to boycott our too often irrelevant classes in order to come together to formulate real demands and work for their implementation.

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Black Tuesday Boycott Floyd McKissick (CORE) has called for a national work boycott by black workers tomorrow. What has been taking place in cities all over the country in the last few days is a response to years of frustration with white America's "solutions" to ghetto problems. Now the same "solutions" are being implemented by thousands of national guardsmen and army regulars. The university has the same response to student demands. When Bowen tells the senate to forget thinking about the student control of their own lives and allows riot squads and highway patrol to settle differences with students on recruitment policy (Dec. 5th) it is safe to assume that neither power is concerned with realistic approaches to these problems. The needs of the black population of this state have not been recognized by the university. Our schedule of courses includes classes in Chinese and Oriental Studies, English, Russian, French, Spanish, and German Literature and culture, and countless other cultural studies of interest" to our white racist society. Many black students are interested in studying their own black heritage, and only this semester were allowed ONE free university course in Afro-American literature. Our white economy in Iowa and throughout the United States does not leave black youth with the same opportunities to enter the colleges of their choice. The percentage of black students on this campus and on our other state campuses is not proportionate with our state's black population. Shouldn't we offer more scholarships for black students? Of course our class time is important, but more important than that are the problems that rock our nation at home and abroad. Our racist government has created and has not even been able to forcibly suppress the disturbances in the cities, and has certainly made no meaningful attempt to get at the roots of these problems. It is time for us to meet and examine our black citizens. We must also meet to begin meaning ful action to have our demands as students met by the university. One day of class time is certainly a small sacrifice for the organization of realistic approaches to very real problems. We must come together as students to demand change. Riot squads and army regulars have thus far been used by our government and campus administrators to merely maintain the disgraceful status quo. Racial strife, the war in Vietnam, the Dominican Republic and Guatemala, and even the recent economic crises have more than shown that we need immediate changes in our foreign and domestic policies. Any student on campus can remind us of the immediate changes we need here. Tomorrow we have the opportunity to boycott our too often irrelevant classes in order to come together to formulate real demands and work for their implementation. Sponsored by S D S