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I ! ' . . The newspaper, which recciiUy underwent a change in cditw- ship had previously been headed by a Negro sludent who had dedicated the paper to the "bhck Marxist revolution and the cause of the Black Pather Party. I' Under the present editorship (chief editor is a nine- teen-year-old white girl), the black mnthers that. formerly flanked the masthead gave way to white mthers (a symbol of white radical- ism). - The change in editom brought only a change in emphasis irom black to white radicalism. The anti-establishment and Pro Ma0 Tse-tung and his little red book philosophy persisted. In the last issue published (July 3) 'the United States mas described as the most repressive, inhume ca@tdisk-imIrerialistic nation the world h a s ever seen. b 4 The present editor, Clicryll McCal1, who statcs that Uie pap?r will col?tinue to be printed and sold for 15 cants a cc3py (presently dis-. tributed €ree), told a news conference that Dr. Kcast moved against her and not her pyEdecessor because Keast was frightened to death of the Negro xlitor (and the racial trouble that might follow such a move on the downtown Detroit campus of WSU). F4r. Scoqo E. Gullen, Wayne State Vicc-Prcsidcnt rclutd I s . 4 i . x McCdl's contention mid stated. Um t Uic bttii because of dirty language and content. President Keast lird not moved earlier to shut off the paper be.cause he was concerned about censorship. to 15,000 was not being read by studenb, "Tlicy put tlxm wound in - big racks and fken throw thousands of them away. Kids just don't bother to pick them up. 'I 1 . w had becn s u ~ p ~ i ~ J c d . - E&. Gullen said tlrirt the paper which INS [il'ess rui; of 10,000 'Sl~e I3lack. Ranthers revolutionary confcrcncc- scheduled for this weekend at Mcrritt College (alma mater ol Huay PJcwton, b b h y r~nlc, ,and other prominoit tny xrcn Rrithc:rr;) ir; dwtincd to I C ;L sl.~-:in~jc rriixturc rrl llv: niwh:rn rovdutiotimy ~ I Y X ~ c (:;x :;iluaticm fiirtmnatioii hc1mt.t cxlr:tidnr item 18 to 21 July): Wt,:rt the ::tatcii ol$*clivc.s x; wc11 :I:; Uic rvG1 otJjrxAivw r ) l I.~v- ~ : ~ l t ~ r f : t - ~ ~ t l ( : t ~ :iw I I V W caused considerable spcuatibri STiTlRg radical watchws. Tlic startling inconsistencies .must lead observers to believe tliat, in fact, the Panthers have no philosophy aside from the intFrna.lly . embraced lex non scripta of 'cause trouble wherever and %henaver possible. I * - .* 2 : '.. I f" . - 1 I