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Show THE UTAH INDEPENDENT May 14. 1970 Page 7 (Reprinted by permission from National Research Group) Reprinted With Permission the official publication of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, an organization associating and regulating most of the colleges and universities of United States through their athletic programs. NCAA News is DOING GREAT DISSERVICE TO BLACK COLLEGE ATHLETES black athete will earn his own self respect and leadership status in the United States not only with fellow Negroes but with the American citizenry at large by his preparation and accomplishments as a student with the assistance of his athletic success. At the same time, the University of Washington on two occasions has excused black athletes from accompanying a team on an athletic trip because of concern for the athletes' safety. Threats of physical violence to the black team members Were factors in both instances, including mob threats at the point of departure in the most recent incident. licized eruptionsv The community divides, some members of the faculty tend to polarize over a sustained issue and finally the athletic squad splits. Student leaders usually take sides, but more often than not the vast majority of the student body takes no active role in the matter. 6. he can do little to offset the extreme outside pressure visited upon the athletes and usually is forced to take a side. j 7. There is little evidence that the BSU concentrates on the probblack students; e.g., housing. One oblems of server remarked "They could care less about them. There is no publicity value in that." Other Key Points Developed non-athlet- ic Other important points, developed during the NEWS study of this problem, follow: several instances, black athletes have had legitimate complaints and concerns about which the athletic department management was hot aware. Corrective steps were needed; communications needed to be imIn 1. 8. or overt actions at a time of team activity or at a time which would conflict or interfere with team activity. When complaints of a bona fide nature have been advanced, the greatest improvement has occurred on an individual basis, athlete to coach 9. or athlete to athletic director. BSU representatives or other outside interests, including "volunteer" professors or lawyers, in the main have complicated the problem and widened the schism. In conclusion, it is the NEWS' judgment distribution. White athletes generally are more sympathetic to the problems of. the black athlete than the white community as a whole; however, the black athlete usually loses this support when his organized protestations result in specialized "kid glove" treatment by the coaches andor publicized university administration interference. A happy team becomes an unhappy one. 5. The . that (1) the BPP and BSU are doing a great disservice to the black athlete; (2) many "innocent" parties are being swept up in the often manufactured incidents, thereby giving such occurrences the additional publicity the militants desire; and (3) discouraging problems encountered by the black athlete should and can be best resolved on a personal basis within the existing framework of institutional personnel and procedures. Editors Note: With this story , the NEWS inaugurates a policy of periodic special features on issues pertaining to college athletics written either by staff members or outside contributors. objective of dividing the races frequently works in pub BPP-BS- U and white athletes usually have adjustment problems when they first arrive on campus. Previous high school acclaim and the reBoth black cruitment process accentuates the temporary "let down". Black militants exploit this. 3. In many instances, the lists of "demands" have been so structured and repetitious as to clearly indicate centralized 4. Most coaches involved have made it clear in advance of the season (recently some apparently have been doing this during the recruitment period) that team policy shall be to prohibit any political demonstrations proved. 2. The presence of a black' coach as a communicator frequently does not help when an explosive situation occurs. Presumably the reason is that J. Edgar Hoover Describes Communist Front Groups Testimony From Hearings Before A Subcommittee of The House of Representatives, April 17, 1969. BPP: The political philosophy of the Black Panther Party is. . . Mao Instructions have been given to members on the making and the use of Molotov cocktails . . . been instructed in guerrilla warfare. . . for a showdown with established authority. BSU: Mr. Hoover did not place the BSU in a separate category but connected it with the BPP by naming some of the leaders who held positions in the two groups concurrently. The BSU also fits into the NEW LEFT category as defined above. (See the testimony of the McClelland Committee regarding the Tse-tun- g. NEW LEFT AND BLACK EXTREMMr. Hoover has defined some of IST STUDENT MOVEMENTS: . . . the campus groups that have been has contributed greatly to the deinvolved in the riots and protests velopment of a lawless and insurrectionary atmosphere which has against BYU as follows: encouraged widespread contempt for established authority and pro- SDS: The Students for a Democratic Society advocates. . . revolutionary two of the newly elected national officers publicly Communism. . . identified themselves as Communists with a small c, as many New Left adherents do to signify that while they are Communists they are a brand apart from those in e Communist movement. the old-lin- While the distinction may seem important to them, it is irrelevant to the rest of Americans because, the basic objective of both New Left Communists and their adherents in our society is to completely destroy our form of govern- and old-lin- ment. SNCC: e ... a moted criminal, violent behavior. Overall. . . these groups are clearly subversive forces which represent an ever increasing danger to our national welfare and security. we have developed information on a number of occasions whereby nonstudents appeared on campuses during periods of student agitation to participate in campus disorders. . . indicating that extremist agitators have traveled from one campus to another exhorting students to protest. There has been a steadily inComcreasing degree of hard-cor- e munist influence in the New Left movement which has resulted from a growing acceptance of Marxist-Leninirevolutionary concepts the leaders of the movement. by ... st full-blow- n all-Neg- ro revolutionary organization. BSU on page two.) BSA: Ditto above. YIP (Yippies) Mr. Hoover grouped the activities of the Yippies with the Communist Party-U.SA- ., SNCC, SDS, and the BPP. Mr. Hoover's testimony of these groups leaves no room for doubt regarding their true nature. They are not just youngsters on a spree. They are revolutionaries, with Marxism and Maoism as their ideology, destruction and violence as their method, and the overthrow of America as their objective. a) HOOVER SAYS ACTIONS OF SOME SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS ENCOURAGE MILITANTS What is needed is more guts on the part of many presidents of the uni- versities and colleges. They should expel the violent militants who take the law into their own hands rather than grant them amnesty for their criminal acts. These militants, under the pretense of the struggle for student rights, deny the majority of students their right to pursue education in a peaceful and orderly atmosphere by their disruptive tactics. Yet, at the same time many naive school administrators even go so far as to interfere with the prosecution of these militant hoodlums in criminal courts. Many of the school administrators appear unable to distinguish between legitimate protest and unlawful acts and there are far too many bleeding hearts among them whose palliative attitude has served only to magnify the problem by encouraging the escalation of demands and further disorders. |