The hearing for KSU sophomore Glenn Perusek, on Thursday, April 13, at 4P.M., must not go unnoticed by his fellow KSU students,  Here are some facts which concern Glenn's situation and should be understood clearly by all.

Glenn faces expulsion at this hearing because he committed the dreadful crime of passing out a leaflet (against the tuition increase) inside the student center. Glenn's hearing on  Thursday is actually a second attempt at expulsion, following last week's hearing which was adjourned when eighty of Glenn's supporters raised heir voices in objection to the mockery of justice which was witnessed at that first "hearing"

It is true that Glenn remains firmly opposed to the continued injustice of the 1970 massacre. It is also true that Glenn was a leader in the movement to fight against the recent costly tuition increases.

We must all support Glenn and defend his right to an education and his right to free speech. This first attempt to silence rightful student dissent through "new rules" and expulsion must not succeed. In 1970, this university allowed bullets to silence student dissent and free speech. Now they only use fabricated rules, arrests, courts, jails and their phony little "committees".

Defend and support Glenn Peresek! Join Glenn on Thursday to demand an open hearing and demand that the charges are dismissed. These "new rules" must not be enforced. Otherwise, closed hearings such as this one chaired by a  former state highway patrolman criminal justice student, a man who is quite biased, will be used again. Without your support, as always with causes of INJUSTICE, the victim hasn't got a chance.

interior rejects
what  is  left  of
may  4th  site
It comes as no surprise that the Interior Department has refused to designate the site of the May 4th shootings as a historic landmark. It was during the height of the gym protests that the Interior Department decided to consider making the site a landmark. Their decision in July to even take up the study was a clear indication of the power and significance of the struggle to Move The Gym. Their claims now that the site and the murders that took place there are historically insignificant, mark another step in burying May 4th and the Vietnam war.

Whether or not the Interior Department or any part of the government for that matter ever decides to give the site landmark status means little when all is said and done. Every move to whitewash the events of May 1970, every move to obliterate the site itself only intensifies our anger, develops our understanding and increases our determination to fight for justice with the same daring and courage as the students in May. 1970.
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SUPPORT THE
MAY 4th TASK
FORCE  program
ON MAY 4th
reject the rage of brage!

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gathering on May 4, 1978, and not be fooled by Golding's attacks on the Task Force and so-called 'outsiders'.

Golding has stated that he may seek an injunction to ban 'outsiders' and all those opposed to the injustice. He says, "I'll do what I have to do. l don't know what that is-it depends on the circumstances." He further states that he is asking, "the public, students, faculty and staff to avoid the activities on this campus" on May 4.

These are clearly the frantic remarks of a desperate man who wants to prevent us from thoroughly exposing the cover-up of murder and injustice at Kent State. Referring to those of us who have struggled for so long to expose this injustice, Golding states: "they want crowds. I don't want that to happen."

Well, we have news for you Brage, Governor Rhodes and your National Guardsmen. The May 4th Task Force Program on May 4th, 1978 will be sponsored by the students and not outside agitators from Golding's phony committee. Thousands of people of conscience WILL gather at Kent State to demand JUSTICE for our brothers and sisters who sacrificed their lives in 1970. Only the unity of thousands demanding justice can bring the truth about Kent State to the people of the world.

MAY 4, '78' activities:

May 3, 1978
7:30 p.m...BENEFIT FOR THE KENT LEGAL DEFENSE FUND...MUSIC AND THEATRE PROVIDED BY THE PROVISIONAL THEATRE OF LOS ANGELES

10:30 p.m....ANNUAL CANDLE LIGHT MARCH AND VIGIL SPONSORED BY THE CENTER FOR PEACEFUL CHANGE, INCLUDES FAMILY MEMBERS AND ATTORNEYS OF THE 1970 VICTIMS AT KENT STATE

May 4, 1978
11:30 a.m...POLITICAL FOLK MUSIC PROGRAM

12:00 noon...ANNUAL MAY 4th, TASK FORCE PROGRAM.
SPEAKERS LIST....

DANIEL ELLSBERG  ANTI-WAR ACTIVIST AND MAY 4 RESEARCHER.

VERNON BELLECOURT  LEADER OF AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT

CONSTANCE SLAUGHTER  ATTORNEY FOR JACKSON STATE VICTIMS.

ABDUL ALKALIMAT  LEADER OF AFRICAN LIBERATION SUPPORT COMMITTEE.

CLARK KISSINGER  FORMER NATIONAL PRESIDENT OF STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY.

ALAN CANFORA  KENT STATE STUDENT WOUNDED IN 1970.

BILL ARTHRELL  MEMBER OF THE KENT 25 and THE FIRST AMENDMENT FIVE.

KENT STATE
POLITICAL HISTORY

Political activism at Kent State was born in 1965 when the first ant-war demonstration was organized on campus. The Kent Committee to End the War in Vietnam (KCEWV) was later formed in the fall of 1965 by a dozen local activists. KCEWV held peaceful, weekly protests against the criminal war in Southeast Asia.

KCEWV deteriorated and was replaced in the fall of 1968 by a chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The local chapter of this national organization was very effective at linking the war to other abuses in American society and the world. such as racism, poverty and male supremacy. The rich class and the American government were clearly targeted as the enemies of students and working people.

In October of 1968, SDS organized 200 students who went to nearby Akron University and repeatedly shouted down presidential candidate Richard Nixon. On November 15, 1968, SDS joined with Black United Students (BUS) and held a massive sit-in which forced the recruiters of the racist Oakland (California) police department off campus. When several student leaders were then arrested, 600 Black KSU students dramatically marched off campus and stayed away for several days. A total victory was gained when all the charges were dropped by the university and the Black students returned triumphantly to campus.

During the winter of 1969, two significant developments occurred. SDS organized a group of 50 students who joined thousands in Washington, D.C. to militantly protest Nixon's first inauguration. Secondly, SDS effectively awakened KSU politically with an intensive educational campaign.

FIRST IN A SERIES

military industrial complex in America. Nearly 100 were arrested during this series of actions on campus.

Even though SDS subsequently was eliminated from our campus after the spring of 1969. the political and educational groundwork was well established for future political actions, especially against the war in Indochina.

A few further anti-war marches and demonstrations happened at KSU in the fall of 1969, including large "moratorium" marches in Kent and Washington, as well as in the spring of 1970. But these were nothing of the magnitude of the SDS and BUS mass actions of the previous year. which united students in large numbers.

Before May of 1970, few people in the world knew of the great potential of students at Kent State. However, national SDS leaders had previously referred to Kent as "the vanguard of the student movement". In May of 1970, that analysis proved to be true after Richard Nixon announced the criminal invasion of Cambodia.

In May of 1970, the political awareness of KSU students was shown. Thousands of Kent students courageously joined millions of other American students on campuses across the nation and protested the expansion of the war into Cambodia. Then, as now, it was correct to oppose injustice. Students at Kent State, with life and blood, wrote a proud and heroic chapter in the history of the American student movement in May of 1970.

NEXT WEEK:
KSU STUDENTS REACT TO
NIXON'S cambodia (kampuchea)
invasion.