February, 1973
BLACK INK
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Health schools recruit
UNC minority students in
health sciences have formed a
new organization to recruit more
minorities into the university’s
schools of health. Cyril Allen,
second-year medical student and
head of the new Health Careers
Organization, said in a recent
interview, “We’re concerned
about the low numbers of
minority students in all health
training schools, but we’re
concentrating in UNC because
we’re students here and because
this is a state school. Minorities
are citizens of North Carolina
like everyone else, but minorities
are grossly under represented at
the University of North
Carolina.”
According to Allen, the new
organization will introduce UNC
undergraduates and local high
school students to particular
areas in health through
recruitment sessions, lectures
and group discussions. When a
student expresses interest in a
health career, organization
members will help him sustain
that interest until he’s ready to
apply to a health school, then
Emma Pullen
Associate Editor
The Consortium for Graduate
Study in Management is a
national organization of select
business schools which,
according to its director, Dr.
Sterling H. Schoen, is dedicated
to “hastening the entry of
minorities into managerial
positions” in private
corporations and public
institutions.
On Tuesday, Jan. 16, 1973,
UNC-Chapel Hill became the
sixth member of the
Consortium, joining Indiana
University, the University of
Rochester, the University of
Southern California, Washington
University (St. Louis) and the
University of Wisconsin.
The association was formed
in 1968 after a 1966 study
revealed that there were less
than 50 Blacks enrolled in
accredited graduate business
schools across the nation. With a
$400,000 grant from the Ford
Foundation, which was matched
with several times that amount
from business and industry, the
Consortium set out to attract
Blacks to the programs.
In a press conference which
followed the luncheon held in
the U Room of the Carolina Inn
to honor the occasion, Schoen
said that the Consortium
conducts an “intensive search
for applicants”. It recruits on 50
predominately Black and 200
predominately white
universities, obtaining applicants
through placement services,
minority groups and student
leaders on the campuses.
The program, which now
includes all ethnic minorities, is
financed by 135 companies
across the nation, including
three from North Carohna
These businesses also provide
summer internships.
aid the student with admission
and with any problems he might
encounter once accepted.
“The idea,” said Allen, “is to
let minority students know what
a particular health career
involves as early as possible.
Often these students aren’t
familiar with the terminology
thrown at them by recruiters;
they’ve never heard words like
‘cytotechnology,’ so they can’t
begin to think of choosing it for
a career. We’ll explain the
terminology and try to give
them a feel for what it would be
like to be in a particular
discipline, help them prepare for
admissions tests, and talk about
the kind of attitude they’ll need
to stay in school.”
Under the over all Health
Careers Organization, separate
groups have been formed to
work in each of the health
disciplines, headed by a minority
student studying in that
discipline. The organization will
place particular emphasis on
health careers which do not
require a college degree. “More
minority students are qualified
In the past five years, about
40 students from North Carolina
were among the 170 graduates
of the Consortium. They are
now working in such areas as
corporate finance, banking,
accounting and marketing in
approximately 17 states. Five
who are employed in this state
attended the luncheon.
The success of the program
can be measured by the fact that
some of the alumni make regular
financial contributions.
One reason for UNC being
accepted as a member of the
organization is its strategic
location in the South. In
previous years, interested
candidates had to leave the area,
Wisconsin being a heavy
recruiter.
The University views its
membership as a means of
keeping the students in the area
to help improve business and
industry and the economic Hfe
of the South.
There are no B lack
universities in the Consortium.
Dr. William Emory, a member of
the Board of Directors from
Washington U, explained that
until recently, no Black schools
had a nationally accredited
graduate school of business.
Now there are two — Southern
U of Texas and Atlanta U.
A candidate with a B.A. in
any field and good academic
standing is eligible for the
program. If chosen, he will
receive a fellowship which
includes tuition plus $2000 the
first year and tuition plus $1000
the second.
Interested students may
contact WiUiam F. Paulsen,
executive director of the MBA
program at UNC. According to
Paulsen, only five Blacks are
among the 120 students in the
first year class The second year
class has 110 students; none are
Black.
for careers as dental assistants,
cy totechnologists, medical
technologists, and other allied
health careers,” said Allen, “but
there are few minorities in these
areas because minority students
don’t know about them and no
effort is made to recruit them.”
Constance Caldwell, who
teaches nursing at North
Carolina Central University and
is in graduate school at
University of North Carolina,
heads the effort to recruit more
minority students into nursing.
“We’re primarily concerned with
high school students,” said Miss
Caldwell, “because that’s where
the real recruitment possibilities
lie in nursing. Minority females,”
she added, “tend to go into
lesser programs like LPN, but
that field is now overrun. The
talents of these students are not
being utilized enough, so we are
helping them choose
professional nursing.”
The dentistry recruitment
group is headed by Owen
Justice; non-degree technology
programs by Marcono Hines and
Billy Hunter; public health by
William Small; dental assistant
and dental hygiene programs by
Barbara Kirby; pharmacy
recruitment by Doris Taylor;
medical technology by Violet
Locke; and medicine by Cyril
Allen. The organization is a part
of the North Carolina Health
Manpower Program, an
organization devoted to
increasing the numbers of
minorities and disadvantaged in
health careers, and improving
health services to minority and
disadvantaged communities.
Further information may be had
by calling 966-3126 or writing
Health Careers Organization, c/o
N.C. Health Manpower
Development Program, Old
School of Nursing Dorm, UNC,
Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514.
“Today’s Black college
students fall into two categories:
the serious and unserious. By the
unserious, I mean the lesser but
growing portion of Black
students who attend today’s
universities with the attitude
that they are “students and
nothing else. Whereas being a
“student” implies superficial
intellectuality that borders on
hipness--that is, being hip
enough to be able to quote all
the current writers to impress
those who are impressed by that;
very little study (that’s for
squares, you a brain anyhow); a
lot of partying (with the 3 R’s of
Reading, Riting, and Rithmetic
being replaced with Ripple,
Reefers, and Rappin’); and a
possession of the attitude that “I
got mine, you get yours” or
“Every man for himself,” so
there exists no real commitment
to themselves or to their people.
And lastly, we have the student
who will say that all the courses
are irrelevant - not realizing it’s
going to take some of that
irrelevance to put us in a
position for survival.
Finally we have the serious
student who is not only to
himself, but to this people.
Students who realize that they
come to college as Black men or
i am 25 years old
black female poet
wrote a poem asking
nigger can you kill
if they kill me
it won’t stop
the revolution
i have been robbed
it looked like they knew
that i was to be hit
they took my tv
my two rings
my piece of african print
and my two guns
if they take my life
it wont stop
the revolution
my phone is tapped
my mail is opened
they’ve caused me to turn
on all my old friends
and all my new lovers
if i hate all black
people
and all negroes
it won’t stop
the revolution
i’m afraid to tell
my roommate where i’m going
and scared to tell
people if i’m coming
if i sit here
for the rest
of my life
it won’t stop
the revolution
if i never write
another poem
or short story
if i flunk out
of grad school
if my car is reclaimed
and my record player
won’t play
and if i never see
a peaceful day
or do a meaningful
black thing
it won’t stop
the revolution
the revolution
is in the streets
and if i stay on
the 5th floor
it will go on
if i never do
anything
it will go on
Nikki Giovanni
women who will come out as
doctors, lawyers, teachers,
historians, writers, etc, who
happen to be Black. No, you are
Black men and women first, and
products of your vocation
second -- therefore
understanding our priorities.
These are New World students
who are in the process of
developing the necessary group
consciousness, nationalistic
consciousness, or Black
consciousness that is absolutely
necessary for real development.”
-Don L. Lee
Find out just what any
people will quietly submit to
and you have found out the
exact measure of injustice and
wrong which will be imposed
upon them, and these will
continue till they are resisted
with either words or blows, or
with both. The limits of tyrants
are prescribed by the endurance
of those whom they oppress.
—Frederick Douglass
Black people know how to
relate to white people; that part
of the survival kit is cooled out.
But us relating to each other,
that’s another thing. We have
still to get that together.
Larry Neal
We must
Choose
Our own
by Deryl G. Davis
Staff Writer
The Black Student Movement
evolved on this campus because
the Black students had needs
other than those recognized by
the Student Government and the
Administration. However, since
the birth of the BSM, our
student government
organizations and administrators
have failed to realize that BSM is
not just a “bullshit organization
consisting of- a bunch of noisy
niggers,” but a unified body of
“together” Blacks working to
bring about the changes that are
necessary if this University is to
meet the needs of all its
students.
The only way in which we
are going to accomplish this is
through our leaders, chosen by
us and not those chosen for us!
We need leaders who will
represent and not just be present
when the roll is called.
Our lighter constituents feel
that we are still infants,
incapable of representing
ourselves and choosing our own
leaders. It is about TIME that we
delete this idea from their minds
and make it known that we
refuse to be run over by them
any longer! We must take a
stand! We must not continue to
let them “father” us forever!
With this in mind, it became
necessary to make it known
publicly that it’s time for
“Charlie” to move over, because
the Black man has arrived!
A recent bill being presented
to Student Legislature reads as
follows:
WHEREAS in the past the academic
and social welfare of minority
students have been viewed in a
narrow perspective by the majority
of the Administration and student
population,
WHEREAS minority students have
special academic, economic, and
social needs, and WHEREAS only
minority students can best provide or
select their representatives to meet
these special needs,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE
STUDENT LEGISLATURE OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH
CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
THAT:
Article I. All Black minority student
appointees to Student Government
positions or positions for the soul
purpose of representing Black
students, be submitted to the Black
Student Movement (BSM) for
consideration before an appointment
is made.
Article IL All Black minority
employees employed for the purpose
of aiding Black minority students be
brought before the BSM for
consideration.
Article III. The needs of Black
minority students be recognized by
the Administration as well as the
students on the campus of the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
Rep. Karen Dacons, Rep.
Karl Fox, and Rep. Deryl Davis
ask for your support. If we stick
together and push forward, we
can break the “gates of HELL”
that exist here in America!
Consortium seeks to
increase minorities
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