the CAPITOLIST Vol. 1 No. 1 Campus Participates in Moratorium The nationwide Moratorium on October 15 th was the idea of a few student activists who sent out let ters to eighteen colleges across the country, urging them to partici pate in a peaceful demonstration against the war in Vietnam. The idea caught on, and soon students, educators, business man, and pro fessional people throughout the United States abandonned their schools and offices to join in. Armed with black bands, buttons, and literature, these people spent the day working for the cause of peace. On October 15th, the flag flew at half mast over the Capitol Campus. At 10:00 a.m., a crowd of an estimated ninety students gathered in front of the Administration Do You Want to Vote? Eighteen-year-olds will appar ently have to wait another year before they find out how soon. . . if ever . .. they will be allowed to vote in this state. Pennsylvania’s General Assembly has performed the somewhat difficult task of re taining the 21-year-old vote re quirement and at least temporarily disarming the opposition forces. Last spring two different reform measures were introduced in Har risburg; one passed the Senate, lowering the age to 18, and an other passed the House of Repre sentatives, lowering it to 19. There appeared to be some partisan poli tics at work, as the Senate is Re publican controlled and the house is Democratic. The problem now rests in a “conference committee” comprised of members of both houses. But legislative leaders claim that fis cal problems are too pressing now for any other matters to be con sidered; so the voting age reform seems dead for the rest of this year, while vast majorities in the legislature supported a change. The state Constitution requires that an ammendment (which low- “All The News That Fits .... We Print” CAPITOL CAMPUS Middletown, Pa. Building for a tree planting cere mony in honor of the War Dead. Later in the afternoon, students canvassed Olmsted plaza and Mid dletown, “pushing this button for peace.” In spite of some frustrat ing moments, (“How do you tell a patriotic woman with two sons in Vietnam that the war they are fighting is unjust?”), the students worked tirelessly handing out leaf lets and petitions. At 7:00 p.m., students from the Capitol Campus Dickinson, and H.A.C.C. met at the Forum in Harrisburg to hear Strom Thurmond speak. Students at Capitol Campus are also expected to participate in the second Moratorium, a March on Washington in November. ering the voting age would re quire) to the Constitution be pass ed by two successive sessions of the General Assembly and then be approved by popular referendum. Since a session lasts two years, the earliest the question could come to the voters is the primary election of 1971. XGFs In Action The XGI Fraternity at Capitol has been developing a blood bank with the Highspire Jaycees. On October 20, the bloodmobile was on campus. All day students and faculty members participated in the activity. The blood bank will provide a supply of blood to the college and the residents of High spire. The day was successful as it has been in the past. The campus would like to extend our thanks to the XGl’s. We hope the good work will be continued in the future. October 31, 1969 Impact Week By Paula Dillon. The Harrisburg Area Commu nity College Cultural Committee recently presented a successful series of controversial lectures to the area. Titled “Impact Week”, the series began October 12 and ended Monday, October 20. The lectures were arranged and co-ordinated largely through the efforts of Corwin Hale, assistant Professor of Social Science at the community college. The expense and difficulty of securing such sought-after speak ers and prominent public figures as Dick Gregory, Strom Thurmond, and Benjamin Spock seemed well appreciated in the culturally over looked Harrisburg area. Capa city crowds jammed the Forum to hear Dick Gregory and Senator Thurmond, while Doctor Spock spoke to a sell-out audience in HACC’s less spacious Student Center function room. A dynamic speaker and a largely sympathetic audience got “Impact Week” off to a running start on Monday, October 12. Dick Greg ory, a man who well knows both the comedy and tragedy of Amer ica, began his impassioned invec tive by breaking up the crowd with his incisive humor. Throughout his talk, Gregory both praised and challenged to day’s youth to organize to revolu tionize the corrupt, racist system, which sends its young to slaughter in a senseless war, which glories in its tremendous affluence, while countless children starve within its boundaries, and which preaches freedom and equality, while prac ticing policies of racism. “The number one problem con fronting America today,” said Gregory, “is not air pollution, but moral pollution.” According to Gregory, America’s image is false and hypocritical, for while she claims to be the world’s major exponent and guardian of freedom, she chains America’s for gotten red men to the degradation and deprivation of the reservation. She claims to be the land of op portunity, while she ignores the black urban ghettoes, the plight of the migrant laborer, and the desperation of Appalachia. Over and over, Gregory empha sized the magnitude of the job con fronting those working for change. He compared last year’s Chicago demonstration to the revolution aries’ struggle in 1776. The Chicago convention is evidence that Mayor Daley and those who profit by the corrupt system wish to maintain it at all costs. An American phenomenon which amazes Gregory is the inevitable charge of communist agitation after a riot or demonstration. “Your moms and dads are stupid enough to believe that we needed communists to come over here and tell me this honky’s had his foot on my neck for 300 years. This stinking racist system doesn’t even give a nigger credit for getting mad on his own.” No one from outside has to show the corruption of a system that pays Senator Eastland of Missis- continued on page 4)
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