Wednesday, April 19, 1995 NATION/WORLD 5B UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Atlanta prepares for weekend bash The Associated Press ATLANTA — Not since Sherman's troops massed around Atlanta has an impending invasion caused such tension. Residents are preparing to flee, businesses are shutting down, the National Guard stands ready and there are dire warnings of violence. Atlanta has become Party Central in a spring rite that grew out of loosely organized gatherings at Atlanta's Morehouse College in 1982. The invasion force: Hundreds of thousands of Black college students who say all they want to do is have fun. "It's sort of designated as the mecca for Black college students (where) students from all over the country can get together and party and have a good time," said Lawrence Patrick, a Florida A&M University student who will head to Atlanta this weekend for his second straight Freaknik. Some activists promote cultural and historical events, such as visits to the home of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and call the spring gathering Freedom Fest. But for most, it is a bacchanalia Some 200,000 young people came last year, angering many locals with marathon traffic jams and crude behavior. Official efforts to halt, or at least control, this year's Freaknik have raised concerns about a possible public relations disaster and about racial rifts in the city. That spurred Councilman Michael Bond, who is also Black, to say, "I personally do not believe that the atrocities people are predicting will happen." At Monday's city council meeting, Councilwoman Carolyn Long Banks denounced police plans to control traffic with blockades and ID checks as apartheid and claimed that law enforcement sources told her of plans to kill Black students to stop Freaknik. Mayor Bill Campbell, a Black man who has heard himself called "an Uncle Tom" and worse in recent weeks, ended a silence he imposed on himself after earlier statements were seen as anti-Freaknik. In his statement Monday, Campbell said the city is committed to ensuring public safety and managing the traffic. He declared, "All law abiding visitors are welcome to our city." Police Chief Beverly Harvard, who also is Black (as are two-thirds of the city's population), sent a letter to traditionally black colleges earlier this month warning against everything from open containers of alcohol to dropped trousers. get stuck in the stacks... come check out our Beer Library! That followed a Jan. 30 letter from presidents of Atlanta's six predominantly black colleges to 140 schools discouraging Freaknik. But Jones sees more parallels for Atlanta in the 1989 experience of Virginia Beach, Va., where a crackdown on Black college students coming for Greekfest touched off riots. "We can only hope the outcome will be different here," Jones said. "I really feel it's overkill," said Charles E. Jones, chairman of Georgia State University's African-American Studies Department. 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