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Show Fast For Freedom Students, even those ordinarily too busy acting in their role as Student Princes to participate in the outer world of society, will have an opportunity today to participate in a most worthwhile activity The Thanksgiving Fast for Freedom. The University is one of over 125 such institutions to participate in the fast. Direction of the project is by the campus Committee of the National Student Association Asso-ciation (NSA). Last year 42 campuses raised $10,150, which provided pro-vided more than 80,000 pounds of food for hungry and impoverished Negro families in Mississippi. With the additional campuses participating this year, the campaign cam-paign may help feed three times the number of needy Negroes. The ASUU Senate last week passed emergency legislation supporting the Fast. The "principle" and "declaration" sections of the bill stated the following: fol-lowing: "The ASUU Senate feels that students have the duty to participate in such programs will help correct the conditions of poverty, hate, and injustice that have created the present civil rights crisis. . . . The Senate therefore fully endorses the Thanksgiving Fast for Freedom and urges all University students to participate partici-pate in it." THE COMMITTEE of sponsors for the campaign include former Utah educator Dr. O. Meredith Wilson, president of the University of Minnesota, Roy Wilkins of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Dr. Arthur Flemming, president of the Uuiversity of Oregon, Ralph Bunch, winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace and a U.S. representative to the United Nations, and Martin Luther King, also a Nobel winner. How can you contribute, and thus help combat hunger in Mississippi? It's very simple and completely painless just forego your evening meal, then bring the price of that meal to the Student Activities Center, Union 318, and sign up there. The price to you is very little. The benefit to a hungry American through our mutual efforts may be very great. |
