To the Editors of the CRIMSON.
Is it true, as I have heard rumored, that several student leaders of the Peace Action group received $700.00 from the Faculty Discretionary fund in order to fly to Mississippi to participate in memorial servcies for the black students slain at Jackson State College?
If that is true, then I suggest that another $700.00 be taken from those funds immediately and given to the families of the two murdered students. To send a delegation from Harvard is a decent gesture, but the funds should have been used for a practical perpose such as helping financially. Any one of the black cooperatives in Mississippi, or the Panthers Defense Fund, could use money.
From what I understand, one of the Peace Action group members on that trip could have used the royalties from his recent book on the strike of April 1969 to finance the flight to the funeral. Let's hope he will now donate from those royalties a large amount to the family of James Earl Green and show his personal grief.
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