Orangeburg Riots
Negro Leaders Decree
White Store Boycott
ORANGE. S.C. (CPS)—While
National Guardsmen, bayonets
fixed on their rifles, blocked
entry to South Carolina State
College nearby, the black bour
geoisie of this divided town met
at a church Sunday to consider
how they would react to Thurs
day’s slaying of three black stu
dents.
The black bourgeoisie, led by
local and state NAACP officials,
drew up a long list of demands
and then voted to back them
with a boycott of white stores.
Their objectives including
having the National guard leave
town, getting Black people in
government posts at all levels,
integrating the county hospi
tal. reforming the local news me
dia. and setting up a commu
nity relations task force.
Yet even as the group met re
minders of Thursday were still
much in evidence.
In addition to tne National
Guard detachment at the S.C.
State campus, National Guard
forces are posted at various
points around the city. A 5
am. to 6 a.m. curfew is in
force. A state of emergency ex
ists for the entire county. And
the Holiday Inn parking lot is
jammed with state police cards.
In addition, South Carolina State
is closing down and neighboring
Claflin, like S.C. State a predom
inantly Black school, is all but
shut down.
Tension has been building be
tween the South Carolina State
students and white people in
Orangeburg for some time. It
reached a new pitch last Tues
day. however, when a large
group of the students attempted
to integrate a bowling alley in
a downtown shopping center.
Their efforts left to a clash be
tween police and students and
the arrest of 17 demonstrators.
On Thursday the state police,
backed by detachments of the
*00 National Guardsmen who
were called up after Tuesday’s
incident, blocked off the front
of the campus to keep students
from going downtown. A group
of students—estimates of the
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number range from 75 to 200—
gathered near the front entrance
to the college. After some of
them had made a bonfire be
side the highway that runs in
front of the campus, state troop
ers moved forward to give city
firemen a chance to extinguish
the blaze.
Shortly thereafter, one of the
troopers was hit in the face
by a piece of wood thrown by
a student. After he was carried
off, a group of the troopers,
who had lined up along an em
bankment beside the highway,
opened fire on the assembled
students.
When the troopers opened
fire, the students ran for cov
er. Some of them dropped to
the ground, many, including
some of the wounded, made it
to the dorms. Three students
were slain.
Only one arrest has been made
so far. Cleveland Sellers, Or
angeburg representative of the
Student Non-Violent Co-ordinat
ing Committee (SNCC), was
taken in after the Thursday in
cldent. He was charged with in
citing to riot and arson and is
now being held in the state
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penitentiary in Columbia on
$15,000 bond.
State officials, including (lov.
Robert E. Muenair, have said
that "Black Bovver militants”
were responsible for Thursday's
shooting and that Sellers is the
principle trouble maker.
According to two young mem
bers of the S.C. State faculty,
however. Sellers had a very lim
ited following on campus. They
also said that relationships were
not very good between SNCC
and the Black Awareness Co •
ordinating Committee, S.C.
State’s small Black militant or
ganization.
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Panhellenic Chooses Officers by Election
For the first time in the ms
tory of the University's Conn
cil, the offices of president, vice
president, and secretary-treasu
rer will he elective. Previously
these offices had been filled
through a rotational system.
Petitions for offices must be
received by the dean of women's
office no later than Wednes
day, Feb. 14. Applicants will he
interviewed on Thursday by a
panel including 1'anhellcnic ad
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officers.
Elections will be held at the
animal I’anhellenic retreat, Feb.
IB-17, at the Eugene Hotel. Each
sorority will have one vote
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