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the situation at Tamil pius High School must be faced directly and it must be faced now. So stated. The ad hoc committee for concerned students. As a result, the classes here at tam Hi were dismissed today in the student body participated in operation breakthrough. A unique

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effort entirely organized by the students For the purpose of finding a solution to self imposed racial segregation and tensions that has existed on this campus. Of 1700 students, only 170 of whom are negro. The first major speaker of the day was the right reverend C. Kilmer

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Myers, Episcopal bishop of California. Then the students broke into small discussion groups to air their feelings about the racial problems at Tamil pious High School. At first, some suggested there was no problem and what was this all about, But as the discussions progressed, they learned this

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was not entirely true. If you see somebody who does something bad of a minority, then you take care of the stereotype and you just think the whole minorities like that, you just have to take it for granted because if you do take it for granted, you

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know, you're just going to get set race or whatever. You have to get to be an individualist, put your ideas in that, wow. How how are we to actually feel what other people are feeling? How, how can we be able to get this exchange of feelings,

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get this exchange understanding or misunderstanding so that we know what we're what we're dealing with, what's happening. How can we, how can we find out the differences, the actual differences that the person feels in relating in respect to someone else. You have to understand how it

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feels to be black. Damn it's But how would you say you can I mean like if you read about an accident and the paper you feel sorry for the guy, but you don't know how it feels and that's the main point to know how I feel.

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It's not so much that you have to be discriminated against. It's not just it's just being a minority. Mhm. People are always interested when students are doing something and youth is involved in this program and also the idea that racial understanding is the issue and that

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we're trying to do some good and to let the community know that we're working to better relations. I keep thinking about 20 years from now Sylvia. What do you hope our world will be like then? Well hopefully if things like this keep happening and people really

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work towards understanding there will be better communications among all the people. How are you going to get over that hurdle? Well, that's what I call a personal problem and the personal problem can be met only by what you're doing that is face to face eyeballed eyeball,

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so to speak with no holds barred with a frank facing of all the stereotypes, which white people have of negroes. And indeed the stereotypes which negroes frequently have of white people like when you're a freshman, you almost always end up in the middle of the junior

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class or something at one time and you feel kind of funny, I mean you're sitting there and everybody just looks down at you and you just feel completely different. You make a fool of yourself. The motto for the event today was coming together is the beginning.

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Keeping together is progress. Thinking together is unity. Working together is success. One of the student organizers said this program is by no means an end, but it is a beginning. Hopefully this is true and maybe Tamil Pius High School is now on its way to solving

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it's racial tensions. If it is, then this whole idea may spread to other schools throughout the nation. Rollin post KPI X News at Tamil pius High School in Marin County