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Some Cliffies have objected that students would do better to send a personal contribution to the feedom movement instead of participating in a "gimmick," which only supplies SNCC with 50 cents for each fasting girl. But the fast should not be regarded as an alternative to an individual donation; anyone who wishes can give to SNCC on his own. Rather the fast provides a convenient channel by which many students--some of whom might not have otherwise given--can make a small personal sacrifice in order to aid the civil rights cause. Furthermore, the fast itself should be a significant...
Members of the RGA Legislature yesterday passed overwhelmingly a proposal to allow Cliffies committed to the cause to abstain from eating dinner in the dormitories on May 14 and to donate the money saved to the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC...
Ellen Lake '66, who proposed what she called the "Fast for Freedom," predicted last night that over 500 students would volunteer to take part. President Bunting has indicated that unless that number sign up, the fast will be cancelled. If it does take place, SNCC will receive approximately 50 cents for every fasting Cliffe...
...battle-lines are in the South, where volunteers have heard from last summer's veterans that life is rough. Volunteers expect frustration and they are prepared for danger. Bullets smashing through rustic SNCC offices, water hoses, cattle prods, beatings and the consciousness of possible death--to say volunteers are "prepared" for this is perhaps too kind. For too many, none of whom admit it, violence is the summer's wage...
...enclosing a facsimile of an article which appeared in the March 31st issue of the Jackson Clarion-Ledger. It is one of several hundred 'scare' stories which have appeared in Mississippi papers since SNCC announced 'Mississippi Freedom Summer' last December. The CRIMSON'S editing of my remarks seems to have been carried several steps further by the Ledger. It is my fondest hope that I will not be jailed for insurrection when I return to the Sovereign State--at least not on the grounds of this one half-whimsical remark. Though nothing I could say could possibly damage SNCC...