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THE BLACK INK
April. 1973
DCRP Blacks
demand
by Angela Bryant
.Vrvi'.v t Jilor
Editor:s note: The
following article is taken from a
memorandum published by the
Black Students in the
Department of City and
Regional Planning. These
students have taken a beautiful
step; we encourage and support
them.
"The Department of C ity
and Regional Planning (DCP.P).
the Graduate School and the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, have in the past
practiced and continued to
practice racism in policies
dealing with the fundamental
issue ot Black people's admission
to and training in this institution
as a matter of right. Black
students, spanning each level of
the decision-making process, are
therefore forced to articulate the
following position statements
setting forth policy or
administrative action that will
establish that right and
promulgate its usage."
Position Statement 1.
RECRUITMENT AND
TRAINING OF BLACK
STUDENTS WITHIN IHE
DCRP. A definite and
affirmative action plan setting
forth methods and processes for
the recruitment of Black
students should be established as
an on going policy. Further, the
number of Black students
coming into the Department for
training in the prescribed
program leading to the MRP
degree, or combination of
degrees offered by the
Department, should be set at not
less than 33% for the 1973-74
incoming class.
Position Statement 2.
REVIEW OF APPLICATIONS
FOR .ADMISSION: The process
for the admission of Black
applicants should be that Black
students will review the
applications of Black applicants
and make recommendations to
the Admissions Committee.
Position Statement 3.
FINANCIAL AID: The
recruitment of Black students
necessarily requires an implied
commitment to make available
financial resources that will
allow Black students to apply
for and accept admission. This
means that Black students must
not be excluded from any of the
resources at the University’s
disposal. This also means that
the method of dispersal of aid
must be reevaluated in terms
that establish priorities
consistent with Position 1,
above. Further, minimal support
levels for Black students should
be set.
Position Statement 4:
RECRUITMENT AND HIRING
OF BLACK FACULTY: A
commitment must be made and
an affirmative action program
for the implementation of
policies to increase Black faculty
and high ranking administrative
and staff officers instituted. This
program should include an
across the board freeze on the
hiring of any faculty until at
least two Black faculty members
are hired in the DCRP. Also,
Black students must be
explicitly afforded a
decision-making role in the
hiring of Black faculty.
Position Statement 5:
ACTION OF THE GRADUATE
SCHOOL: We ask the
Department’s concurrence in
change
(and placing on the Graduate
I- a c u 11 >■ Calendar) t h e
r e c o m m e n d a t i o n that
immediately a Black associate
dean of the Graduate School be
hired. .Again, within the
Graduate School, Black students
must be afforded a
decision-making role in the
selection and hiring of such a
dean. Further, at the time of the
appointment of a Black associate
dean. a Graduate School
committee, co-chaired by a
Black graduate student, said
dean, and a Black graduate
faculty member, would be
formed to deal with an all
encompassing range of problem
areas significant to Black
graduate students.
"We're sure there is little
need to state that time is of the
essence. Therefore, we can save
communication by assuring you
that the Black students in the
DCRP are ready to help in the
implementation of this
document within the confines of
our academic responsibilities.
Additionally, barring any formal
communications from the
Department, Graduate School,
and University Administration
within the next two weeks, we
shall assume this document to be
the new policy in the area of
Black student affairs at the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill,”
Moments come wherein
I am laden ail at once
With life’s despair
Seconds pass and I
Find no shelter
Time creeps extending
Defeat and I succumb
to weariness
For a while
—Karen Dacons
Touch me
Softly
I bruise
easily
glance — don’t stare
as I have a quick feeling
for eyes that watch too close
and .soon grow impatient
at prolonged discoveries
And when you speak—
think:
for I listen with
my soul.
No words walk
unheeded
Nor are they buried
while resting
their spirits in motion
exist as recollections:
sketchings of past moments
to be stained with oil
of future colorations
And ril repaint
Impressions of you
When leaving
Know
That you have felt
My life
And if your hold was harsh
or grim
My texture shows that pring
It may be wet.
For I shall cry
unable to forget
Touch me
delicately
My petals prone to crush
Feel me with understanding
gently to caress
or
Leave me be to reap warmth from
the sun
let your touch be
one left
undone.
—Karen Dacons
BSM...
Larry Mixon
Staff Writer
Once again we are closing
out another school year, and
chapter in the history of the
B.S.M. Throughout the year
‘72-73, we of the B.S.M. can
proudly say that we have
reached new plateaus of
achievement. Upendo Center for
Black Students is officially open
to serve our needs, and is under
our own jurisdiction not some
arbitrary dorm authority. Black
Sounds provides us with music
(Cont. from pg. 1)
The 1973 University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill Summer
Program will run for ten weeks
and will focus on upper-level
college students, providing
intensive preparation for health
professional training. Much of
the program content will be
based on the 1971 and 1972
summer programs, also directed
by Dr. Farias. The
self-instructional materials
developed for the program by
James Lea of the University of
North Carolina Office of Medical
Studies will be used again in
1973.
Dr. Farias, an assistant
professor in the School of
Medicine has found that
self-instructional materials have
great applicability in
professional health schools and
their use has substantial benefit
for retention purposes in
Medical schools. This success has
led to requests for these
materials by medical schools in
the United States and Latin
America as well.
The new Western Carolina
University summer program will
from th' Black e.> periet)Ce, We
have finally received recognition,
token though it n be, f^oni
the uravei.^'ty a J ministration.
We have b'-r'Ughi various
speakers iowp to help us
beconii., a wars of curruit
movements, i.e. - North
Carolina PoUtical Prisoners,
Black Christian Consciousness.
Yes indeed things are looking
up.
The Gospel Choir now has
robes, and continues to draw
acclaim. The Coronation Ball ‘72
overwhelmed all with its
run seven weeks and will be
designed to develop interest and
motivation in health careers for
high school graduates and
younger college students. With
the opening of this program,
Western Carolina is becoming a
regional center of the Health
Manpower Development
Program, specializing in
compensatory health education
programs for minority and
disadvantaged students. The
development of the new center
is under Dr. Harry Ramsey,
Program Coordinator, School of
Health Sciences and SErvices,
Western Carolina.
Limited financial aid for the
summer programs will be
available to students who need it
in order to attend. Apphcations
forms and brochures for both
programs may be obtained by
writing the summer program
director, Dr. Hector Farias,
Office of Medical Studies,
University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill Medical
School, the N.C. Health
Manpower Development
Program, 201 NCNB Plaza, 136
E. Rosemary St., Chapel Hill
N.C. 27514.
ni^jgiiificeuce. The BJack .\rts
‘73 reached u rir'v.
of success, a;id preiir ,
Oivc would agree, the ls.,^i.iyl.
illiU lUlS
Gon'i or roiinunized are such
responses as “the B.S.M. ain’t
shit.” Increasingly one hears less
emphasis on the B.S.M. as a
separate entity from the
students themselves. Now one
hears “We” ought to do this, or
more importantly we can do
that. Participation levels while in
some areas is sagging, si overall
on the increase. Thus one would
have to agree that the horizons
of the B.S.M. are expanding.
Crucial questions and
problems however still remain
unsolved. We still have not
organized ourselves in the way
we should — i.e. on a broad basis
with all being judged on
commitment and service, not
friendship and mouth. The
Central Committee must emerge
as the leadership body of Black
students and begin planning
vigorously for the future, using
all the Black resources at its
disposal. The Choir, Opeyo
Dancers, Drama group, and
Ebony Readers must be
institutionalized and made to
feel as though they are an
integral part of the Cultural
Committee, and B.S.M.
leadership. Their support, and
effectiveness in fund-raising and
in instilling values of Blackness
has yet to be tapped. We must
begin to coordinate all our
resources (Upendo, Black
Sounds, Black Ink, Social
Groups, etc.) towards increasing
communications and
commitment among Black
students, as well as vocalizing
our intent and importance.
And lastly, we must
continue to force the University
Administration and Community
to react positively to our
existence. Our horizon is bright
and looms large before us. Let us
move to reach it.
Health in summer