Berea Citizen, 14 November 1968

              Student In BC Walkout Seek Greater
College Commitment To Social Problems
By Jim Ritchie
The first lecture of the Bio-
Medical Symposium at Phelps
 Stokes Chapel was interrupted
 Thursday, November 7, when ap-
proximately 50 students walked
 out. The demonstrators were pre-
dominantly Negro, although a few
 white students did join in the walk
 out.
The group said they were dem-
onstrating against the "failure of
 Berea College to fulfill its com-
mitment to the social problems of
 today." After the students had
 made their withdrawal, President
 Willis Weatherford voiced his
 thanks to the group for the order-
ly manner in which they made
their views known. However, he
 stated that he could not condone
 the actions of any group of stu-
dents which hampered other stu-
dents in their desire for an edu-
cation.
A Broader Perspective
 Fred Benson, one of the black
 students who walked out, said, "I
 feel that Berea College is not liv-
ing up to its ideals of racial equal-
ity. Most of my fellow white stu-
dents are not getting an inter-
racial education because of the
 small number of blacks that they
 come in contact with. People can-
not understand other people if
 they are not exposed to their
 thoughts and ideas. This is shown
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