Opinion ID: 2342172
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: The Vigil

Text: This you'd have to see to believe, so many misguided, uninformed kids sitting in the quadrangle protesting everything. What a disruptive and wholly immature performance. And to cap the climax, they even had Mr. Tisdale, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, joining hands and singing the black national anthem, We Shall Overcome. (Written by Communist Pete Seegen) This brings you up to date. It is a weird and fantastic situation, however, Duke is an old institution and won't be destroyed overnight. We expect to muddle through and hope you will bear with us while we are doing it. In any event, if you took more of a personal interest and involved yourself to the same extent as do these shaggy-haired, sideburned liberals, we wouldn't have to fight these battles alone or give in without fighting, as has been our practice. We hope very much that you will be sympathetic to and support our position. We surely do need support from some place. We have been catching trouble from all sides. It just doesn't pay to take money you haven't earned and then be required to dance to the other fellow's music. Thank you.