Stokely Carmichael, the former Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party, came to TESC during a speaking tour around 1973. The lecture hall was packed with a mostly sympathetic crowd but this presentation ended with Carmichael angrily stomping offstage. I have never seen a speaker squander an opportunity like this. At first he spoke about "scientific socialism" and how it applied to African liberation. Pretty typical fare for those days. But then he went out of his way to antagonize the crowd. He launched into what was probably part of his canned delivery, but since it was obvious no one had clued him into the fact that Evergreen was Evergreen, the effect was comic. It started when he accused the students of hiding from the world by living in fraternities and sororities. After a round of laughter, he looked puzzled and I think he lost his bearings. It went downhill from there, as the students smelled blood and went after him for a variety of reasons. The questions were pointed, and grew more so as Stokely reacted with rising annoyance, finally culminating in his walking off. It was very dramatic and totally ignored by the local news media.