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Show Yippie leader Calls on students to work for equality By JoAnh Jacobsen Staff Writer John Wagner, Columbia University yippie leader, challenged students to make the University an institute for equal educational opportunity. In discussing the "Chicago Sit-in: Races and Education," Friday, Mr. Wagner told white students that it is up to them, as members of the ruling majority class, to instigate a pluralist society, and to make the University an institution that will educate all people-black, poor, women-on an equal basis. Said Mr. Wagner, a sociology graduate student at the University of Chicago, educational equality was one of the major causes of the Chicago Sit-in. He stated that he and other University students, not members of political groups, took over the administration building, not to obtain student power, but to protest denial of student rights. The height of confliction between students and the faculty occurred when the administration fired Marlene Dixon, a popular, radical writer and instructor, he said. This expulsion exemplified discrimination because of sex, provided further incentive for student revolt, he stated. While occupying the Chicago University building, protestors insisted that they be given the following justices: (1) The rehiring of Marlene Dixon (2) Equal participation with the faculty in the firing and hiring of instructors. (3) Continuation of salaries of faculty members participating in the sit-in during the period of protest. (4) Elimination of amnisty against protestors. (5) Opportunity for equal educational opportunity for all people. Resulting from the sit-in, indicated Mr. Wagner., was the organization of the Department of Political Supression, directed by the University Students. He insisted that it is now up to University students to continue the protest for these rights, to be radicals concerned with fundamental change in society. Mr. Wagner dared the "elite" college students to dissolve the homogeneous society which attempts to destroy racial cultural integrity, and to solve the presently existing white problems. Students interested in actively participating in this educational movement are advised to contact Perry Seagle, director of "Encounter." |
