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The Sally Hemings Vol. 2 No. 1

T HE MAKING OF AN OUTSIDE AGITATOR by Pubicus

Tom Doran has a bushy red beard, an endless supply of leaflets, and a lot of screwy socialist ideas. How does the University interpret all this? "Everybody knows," according to Rae Houchins, Chief of Security, "that fella Doran's intimately mixed up with the Black Panthers." If Doran were just the only local red-haired Black Panther, perhaps the University wouldn't care -- live and let live ya know -combat error with truth and all that. The problem is that Doran isn't a student -- mainly because he hasn't been permitted to re-enroll.

Everybody knows what a politically hyped ex-student is: an OUTSIDE AGITATOR. Outside agitators are those people who spend all their time telling lies to "our basically decent students" and getting them upset about the Vietnam War or Racism or some other outside agitator fabrication.

Last spring Doran was charged with breaking some windows in Cabell Hall. He denied the charge, and still does. A couple of University witnesses "weren't 100% certain" that Doran was the culprit, but that's never stopped justice in Virginia and Doran was convicted. He's an outside agitator, right?Of course he broke the windows.

Doran got off with a fine, which didn't suit D. Alan Williams (among others) one little bit, 'cause Doran is a MENACE. Williams sent Tom a letter threatening arrest for trespassing should there be more "agitation." Then things were quiet for a while, even though Doran insisted on 'trespassing' with his infernal leaflets.

Last week, a local grand jury indicted Doran for perjury, a felony, for pleading innocent to breaking the windows, a misdemeanor. Yesterday, the local police 'trespassed' on campus just long enough to walk off with Doran, whose bail has been set at $5000. D. Alan Williams was not reported to be in tears.

The Moral (or immoral, as the case may be): If you're on the Uni-czar shit list and you don't have an airtight alibi for every broken window on the Grounds and you don't want to pull five years for pleading innocent to such a misdemeanor, then you better find your ass another academic village.

THE JULIUS HOFFMAN FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION AWARD TO: Judge George M. Coles for his refusal to lower Doran's $5000 bail. After which he put his book in his pouch, balanced back on his tail, and hopped out of the room.

TO JOHN HERRING: 25 grains of grass and a can of Tree Frog Bear inscribed with this phrase: "A fool-ish consistency is the hob-goblin of little minds." --Emerson

HEY, D. ALAN WILLIAMS -- We bet you never expected to see us back!

CONTRIBUTE TO THE TOM DORAN DEFENSE FUND!

The Sally Hemings would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to the University of Virginia. We would remind you, however, that under the preventive suspension code, anything vaguely resembling the exercise of freedom of speech may be highly dangerous. (Consider this a clarification)

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The Charlottesville community will meet tonight at eight o'clock in the Newcomb Hall Ballroom in order to organize a bail fund for our city.

How are YOU fixed for bail money? Irrelevant question, innocent ones? The testimony of two "witnesses" who weren't a hundred per cent sure was enough to convict Tom Doran. To keep Doran on ice the court set bail at the exorbitant figure of $5000 in a town that has no bail bondsman. Not until today, when a Richmond bail bondsman received court certification to put up bond--for a $550 fee--was Doran released from Charlottesvilee's lovely medieval jail. Two hundred and twenty-five dollars are still needed to repay money loaned to meet the bondsman's fee. Please send checks for this purpose to:

Rev. Howard Gordon Box 3365 Charlottesville, VA. 22903

Last May's "campus disorders" raised several issues: University involvement with the military, Unicops carrying guns, de facto segregation. U.Va's administration could have taken a long look at these problems and acted to solve them. But we should be so lucky. To the administrations, what bugs the Virginia establishment is far more important than what bugs the students. And to the Commonwealth puppeteers, intimidating statements of Lawn Order are far more impressive than real solutions to real problems. So, true to form, the Board of Visitors responded not with solutions but with rules, rules, and more rules. We note this without surprise. But we note particular points of these regulations with virtual awe.

Mr. Shannon states, in his report of Sept. 9, that the University of Virginia is a community of scholars in which the ideals of freedom of inquiry, freedom of thought, freedom of expression, and freedom of the individual are sustained. It is committed to preserving the exercise of any right guaranteed to individuals by the Constitution. He then lists certain standards which belie this eminently reasonable introduction. In particular, No. 8 (which prohibits "disorderly conduct or lewd, indecent, or obscene conduct of expression"), No. 11 (which permits the University to intervene in "any violation of law in a way that affects the University's pursuit of its proper educational purposes") and the interim suspension (which sounds to us too much like preventive detention) are downright objectionable, to say the least.

Student Council, already half-way through a proposed "revision" of these rules, is mounting its white horse more as a defender of the Boards' presumption than as a defender of the students' rights. Council will continue this consideration on Tuesday night at 7:00 p.m. on the fourth floor of Newcomb Hall. If you have anything to say in self-defense, then y'all better show up.

The American Bar Award and a recording of "Wil Turkey in the Straw" by John Philip Souse to The Honorable Alan Spitzer, for meritorious service on the other side of the Bar.

REMEMBER THE MAYFLOWER: GIVE TO THE CHARLOTTESVILLE BAIL FUND

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A CALL TO THE PEOPLE

The credulous among you, in your academic isolation, have a rare opportunity tomorrow to get a real life civics lesson. At 9 a.m. (Tuesday) in Corporation Court, 4th and High Sts., the Commonwealth will put her shoulder to the wheels of justice for the second try at grinding up Tom Doran.

You may recall that Doran was convicted last summer of some minor window breaking during last spring's strike. Now Doran is on the line accused of perjury (a felony) in this misdemeanor trial. Not that we have a case of double jeopardy here, for such would involve merely another small-time trial for window breaking.

Citizens, behold the process of eliminating "outside agitators." Find a busted window. Get a witness whose story should be short and obscure. Get a conviction. Is the sentence too light? Then rip the defendant off for 10 years on a perjury charge. Perfect, no?

Poor Doran has spent a solid month in jail before going to trial (his bond was a mere $5,000). Further, prosecutor Camblos refused to reveal the particulars of the charges until they were pried loose by a defense motion last week!

Tom is gambling up to 10 years of his life in court tomorrow. He claims the state's witnesses in the first trial couldn't have picked him out of a crowd of similarly attired and hirsute people. TEN YEARS OF TOM DORAN'S LIFE DEPENDS ON HAVING A BIG, HAIRY AUDIENCE IN COURT THAT NOBODY COULD PICK HIM OUT OF.

We are Doran's defense, and he, in turn, is our early warning system. Remember: Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty!

ANOTHER TOM DORAN...

Unpublicized because he's black. An appeal hearing for Tommy Johnson, a member of the Black Panther Party from Charlottesville. Johnson was convicted of "robbery" last summer. Same place as Doran's trial, 4 p.m., Tuesday, December 15.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them. In it they can reduce women to the status of objects. That is the great distinction between sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationship between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an extra dimension of feeling that we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women--and absurd. I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationships with out fellow men. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death.

--John Fowles, The Magus

THE GENERAL THOMAS GAGE-DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AWARD: To the Redwhiteandblueblooded Colonel-Professor Arcey Dart (U.S.A.) for the courage to stand erect for Amerika! The Col.-Prof. exposed to his captive audience the Nervous Nellies among us: notably those lukewarm professors who did not fight hard enough for ROTC credit, the corroders of respect for our fighting forces, and assorted dupes and fellow travelers.

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TO THE PRESIDENT:

Dear Edgar:

It is the desire of your Board of Visitors that you be commended for the meritorious manner in which you have handled your recent student troubles. We are again impressed by the subtle and perceptive way in which you have managed to guide student protest toward the best interests of the University, not to mention the students, themselves.

As you know, the recent student disorders could have taken an ugly turn. We call to your attention, for example, the periodic unreasonable student demands for increased admission of negroes, young ladies, and lesser qualified white citizens. In the past, students seemed to be ignorant of the fact that there are already numerous educational institutions around the state intended to handle the special educational problems of these groups. Certain misguided youngsters of our University too often seem to forget that indiscriminate admissions will hamper the University's function in providing the fine leadership so essential to the preservation of our society.

Fortunately, the students didn't add the equal admissions question to their demands. Although we are having to pospone expansion for a time, this postponement has had the salutary effect of allowing us to be more selective in future admissions. Senator Burrd has assured us that any objections raised by H.E.W. will be "adjudicated" by the White House.

Gratefully yours,

Your Board of Visitors

TO THE BOARD OF VISITORS:

Excellencies:

Why are we weighed upon with heaviness, And utterly consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness?

Yet waft me from the harbour-mouth, Wild Wind! I seek a warmer sky, And I will see before I die the palms and temples of the South.

[So] Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow lotus-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like gods together, careless of mankind.

Sincerely,

Edgar

P.S.--Someone had blundered...

PLEASE TURN OVER

For the past few years, students have been working hard to open admissions to Blacks, women, and poor whites. However, there are still many in the Administration who want to restrict admissions to "qualified" people. An anti-expansion campaign that ignores the admissions question could well play into their hands.

The question of fair admissions is intimately tied to the problem of expansion. Unless students recognize this, the Administration can manipulate this campaign in an attempt to keep the University closed to the marjority of this state's population.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------CHARLOTTESVILLE, Oct. 7, 1972 (AP)-Virginia Governor Linwood Holton today assured a delegation of Charlottesville Blacks that their relocation camp would soon be provided with sewage facilities. The Governor said that he sincerely regretted the inconvenience of relocation caused by University expansion. The Governor reportedly told the group that they would recieve attention immediately after the student campsite on the University Lawn received its facilities.

"It is the ultimate hope of the state," the Governor later told newsmen, "to actually provide wooden floors for tents in the relocation camps." Another three thousand residents of Charlottesville's poverty areas were displaced last month as the University began construction of a new football practice field.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------THE GENERAL ARTHUR ST. CLAIRE - CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AWARD TO: The University Administration, for threatening to place on interim suspension three student leaders of the anti-expansion campaign.

THE LET AN ADMINISTRATOR WALK TO WORK - INTO THE VALLEY OF DEARTH RODE THE SIX HUNDRED AWARD TO: The ding-a-ling who suggested that University workers pay 180 dollars a year for parking privileges.

THE MOLLY PITCHER - BELLA ABZUG AWARD TO: The WTJU staff for its sexist contests. Sally will give a free autographed photo of D. Alan Williams to the first WTJU staffer who shows up in the rotunda wearing a peacock

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