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Lt. SALLY HEMINGS, B.S. Vol 1, No. 20

OKAY, SENIORS. So you've got a big hot degree now. So you'rs gonna get out there, take the world by the horns, show that you're a responsible citizen, join the Jaycees, go to PTA three times a month, become a pillar of your church, have the boss home to dinner, drink a martini every night, drive to work with Fred's carpool, mow the lawn each Saturday, buy that motoboat, go on two week's vaca-tion each year, send your boys first to Little League, then boy scouts, then college, then a brush-fire war (where they'll be killed), get that promotion to Executive Vice-President In Charge Of Sales, work hard on weekends, develop an ulcer, have acid indigestion, find that you have iron-poor tired blood, and finally die of a heart attack. During this period, you will have consumed hundreds of pounds of patent medicine, strewn your beer cans from here to the Eastern Nevada National Forest, smoked several thousand pounds of cigarettes, used millions of gallons of gasoline, voted in more wars, dutifully told yourself the system works, denounced anti-war students, screwed at least six dumb secretaries, and ignored your children. You mortgaged your house, felt threatened by Blacks, invested in a few stocks, bought what the television told you to buy and voted for whom the television told you to vote. You're a 100 percent American. You built an ethic of happiness on consumption. You helped milk the rest of the world of its natural resources. And because of it, nationalists everywhere called you a pig, threw rocks at your embassies, kidnapped your ambassadors, and revolted against governments you helped to buy. If you looked the other way when your government installed petty dictators, you applauded when your government went to war to protect them. ("If it's anti-American, it must be Red.")

And all along, you saluted your banner with the phrase "liberty and justice for all."

THE JOHN WAYLES-WOODROW WILSON AWARD TO: Deans Alan Williams and Robert Canevari for making the Lawn safe for Democracy.

THE SAMUEL ADAMS-WEATHERMAN AWARD TO: God for cleansing the lawn of the makers of war on the sixth day of the sixth month: "...all the fountains of the great deep [were] broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

"And the rain was upon the earth...

"And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth..."

THE BOYS IN THE BAND AWARD TO: The Boys in the Band.

"SLAVES ARE PEOPLE WHO WAIT FOR OTHERS TO LIBERATE THEM."

TheSALLY HEMINGS Vol 1, No. 21

Well, Kiddies, the great Universitatsmachine is busily cranking out retribution for some of the things it didn't like during the recent student strike. And make no mistake: If you were involved--even as a Marshall--you could be next. Let us examine some recent events...

A trial held in County Court on June 23 effectively established that STUDENT MARSHALS ARE DISRUPTERS. The trial was that of Robert Owen Collector, one of the originators of the Student Marshal idea at U. Va. Specifically, Collector was charged with violation of the State Riot Law, which says assemblies of people who intend violence are unlawful. Collector arrived late in the even-ing of the Great Police Bust, and seeing police in the streets at University and Rugby, he worked his way through the crowd to Vice President D. Alan Williams. Collector thought he could cool the situation. But the police charged, and Collector was arrested. Despite his own testimony that he was there to prevent violence, and despite the fact that he was working as a Studnet Marshal, he was found guilty.

Now, you may be asking just what the University"s role in this trial was. Well, guess what? D. Alan Williams was a witness for the prosecution. One might assume that a Vice President for Student Affairs would seek to help students--especially Student Marshals. Wrong! In spite of numerous opportunities to do so, Williams did not mention that one hundred students have filed affidavits stating they did not hear any order to disperse. Williams did not attempt to refute or even to ques-tion the prosecution's emotional contention that no one involved in the first Maury Hall takeover could be a Student Marshal. Never mind the fact that the Student Judiciary Committee cleared Collector.

More serious, however, is Williams" clear statement that night-time assemblies "normally re-quire some prior agreement for use of particular territory." Three or four questions later, Williams finally admitted that the policy he has worked with for at least two years holds that: "University space is available to any student or group of studnets for use in a manner which is not physically destructive, which is not unlawful, which does not discriminate..."

In Williams' words, "They [students] do not need a permit per se, but their conduct could not disturb others."

We hope Mr. Willimas has an explanation for his testimony.

ANOTHER CHEERFUL EVENT: Tom Doran, who had been officially informed by letter that he was admitted to the Summer Session, was later refused admission by D. Alan Williams. The Uni-versity's Committee of Studnets [it contains no students] upheld Williams' refusal to readmit Doran. Williams' grounds were these:

--Doran was ARRESTED and charged with setting fire to ROTC offices (based on affidavits from two their-year Nuclear Engineering students, Kristin L. Allen and Richard Fredenburg--neither of whom saw him commit the act).

--Doran was tried and convicted of the curse and abuse of University Security Chief Rea Houchens. Coran was tried and convicted in absentia in Judge Spitzer's Municipal Court. (He had been told by the Court Clerk that his trial had been continued.)

--Doran was accused [not convicted] of pasting posters to pillars on the Lawn. (What greying Dean whom we all know has been tearing down posters around the Lawn for quite some time?)

--Doran was accused [not convicted] by Samuel Manly and Edwin Wills, Jr., of being in Maury Hall the night of the second occupation. (a Student Marshal who was there testified at the hearing that Doran WASN'T THERE.)

--Doran was accused of swiping reporter Peter Shea's notebook (in which was discovered strange information about fellow students). Doran admitted this.

With this tenuous "evidence," the Committee ruled for Williams and against Doran. Oh well, as University Counsel Lee Middleditch said: "We're not dealing with burdens of proof comparable to those which would be required in court..."

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FOR YOUR EDIFICATION: A pair of students who have been turning your names in to the Adminis-tration (this list comes to you courtesy of the Administration, itself)

--EDWIN E. WELLS, JR., 1962 Lewis Mountain Road, No. 2, a former law student now studying for the New York State Bar Examination.

--SAMUEL MANLY, 1718 Jefferson Park Avenue, also a former law student and currently Director of Madison Hall.

WE WONDER HOW MANY OTHER STUDENTS ARE WORKING FOR D. ALAN WILLIAMS??????? --------------------

IS IT TRUE BLONDES HAVE MORE FUN? THE PEGGY SHIPPEN-DUST IN THE EYES AWARD TO: Ed Wells who, though he may not be a blabby buxom belle from Philly, has told the enemy quite a bit... but maybe not everything. (Could it be...?)

liberal (lib er al), adj. --someone who still wants to be President.

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The Sally-Hemings Extra

A NOTE TO OUR READERS:

A typographical error in some of yesterday's "Sally Hemings" [v.1, no. 21] indicated that "Edwin Wills, Jr." had accused Tom Doran of being in Maury Hall the night of the second occupation. Those of you who read yesterday's "Sally" undoubtedly noticed that this name was in error.

But for the record, the person who accused Doran of being in Maury Hall the night of the second occupation was Edwin E. Wells, Jr., of 1962 Lewis Mountain Road, Charlottesville. This is the same individual to whom we made reference at two other points in yesterday's "Sally."

We regret the typographical error.

--THE STAFF OF "SALLY HEMINGS"

The SALLY HEMINGS Extra CA. Feb. 22 72 Never distributed

The State is making ready to grind up Angela Davis. This, after Kent State, Jackson State, Attica, George Jackson, Fred Hampton, and My Lai. People around the world decry not only the commission of these crimes but also the absence of justice in dealing with them. One of the most per-sistent critics is Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Indeed, on the subject of American atrocities, his tongue rolls on like the Volga.

It has been said that Yevtushenko will instantly compose a poem about any injustice anywhere in the world. Anywhere, that is, except in Mother Russia. Oh, sure, during the official "thaw," he (and Kruschev) were anti-Stalinist. But he has since repudiated his anti-Stalinist poetry. Like a poinsettia, Yevtushenko seems to be red only in season. And once again, the seasons have changed.

Now the official climate demands silence on the oppression of Czecho-slovakia, Hungary, and Soviet Jewry. Obedient citizens are also expected to applaud the official oppression of Soviet dissidents. Who are thesedissidents? We all know of Solzhenitsyn, but who has heard of Vladimir Bukovsky?

Bukovsky has spent nine of his 29 years in Soviet prisons and mental institutions, and he currently faces another sentence of 12 years. His "crimes" have included organizing an underground literary magazine, setting up an underground art exhibit, and demonstrating to protest Soviet political trials. His most recent offense was smuggling out of Russia various papers relating to his commitment, for political reasons, to Soviet mental institu-tions. He was kept in prison for eight months before his most recent trial. The entire trial lasted only one day. Of 12 defense witnesses he requested,none were allowed to testify. Bukovsky was permitted to have legal counsel only one month ago.

The State prosecutor proclaimed Bukovsky was a "vicious anti-Soviet element" and the inventor of a "slanderous tale" about inhuman treatment in Soviet mental hospitals. And what does Yevtushenko say about this? You guessed it! When the Kremlin bell rings, Yevtushenko salivates. The bard claims that Bukovsky and others like him are "slanderers."

Who is speaking here? Is this the same man who protests so eloquently against American oppression? Why does the poet have this blind side? Is this the price he has paid for his car and his airline tickets to the West?

Yevtushenko, we ask you:

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PERSECUTION OF ANGELA DAVIS AND THAT OF VLADIMIR BUKOVSKY?

WHY ARE YOU HERE WHILE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER SOLZHENITSYN IS UNDER VIRTUAL HOUSE ARREST?

WHY HAVE YOU WRITTEN ONLY OF WESTERN ATROCITIES AND NOT OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND HUNGARY?

WHEN WILL YOU SPEAK OUT???