Dillon Demands Militancy

"There's no longer a role for non-violence in the face of police terror" said a leader of the San Francisco student revolt in Lowell Lecture Hall last night.

Hari Dillon, a Central Committee member of the Third World Liberation Front, said that "for the first time in a mass way the students are fighting back...The main thing the administration used was the armed force of the state."

Demands

The Third World Liberation Front, a coalition of five non-white student groups which organized the student revolt at San Francisco State, presented 15 demands to the administration. Among these were demands that all Third World applicants should gain automatic acceptance to San Francisco State. In an interview, Dillon stressed that "our demands are absolutely non-negotiable."

Black Studies

Dillon said he favors a Black Studies department for Harvard and every university in the country. "What we're fighting for is a revolutionary Black Studies department that will speak for the needs of the students."

Also speaking last night was Jan Solganick, a white student who is working with the Third Worlders. She said the important thing about the San Francisco struggle is that it points toward a worker-student alliance rather than a community-university separation.

On to Yale

Dillon and Solganick have spoken at Yale and Boston State Teachers College. Their next speaking engagements are in New York City.