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Freedom
Justice
Unity
POWER
March, 1974
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BLACK STUDENT M0VEMP*“'
University of
Williams
^.ume 5, Number^ ^
Emma Pullen
Editor-in-chief
Progress through political
action is generally considered the
focus of this stage in the Black
Movement. The success of this
thrust is evident by the recent
increase in the percentage of Black
voters and Black office holders.
On the local scene. Black
political candidates scored one
more time. Marcus Williams, a
junior political science major from
Lumberton, North Carolina, in a
recent election, became the second
Black student to win the UNC
student body presidency. Richard
Epps of Wilmington served from
1972-3.
Williams has a lot of experience
in administration. While in high
school he was elected vice president
of the student body of a high school
that had just been consolidated.
His senior year he was elected,
without a run-off and with only 3
candidates running, president of
that body, which was 65 percent
white.
His three years at Carolina have
also been spent in administrative
positions. He was treasurer of the
Morehouse Residence College, a
member of the Residence Housing
Association, Chairman of the
UNC Housing and Budgetary
Advisory Committee, a member of
the BSM Central Committee and a
Residential Advisor (RA) for two
years.
Williams ran on the campaign
slogan of “progress through
interaction.” He elaborated on this
idea during a recent interview.
“We will try to open up
communication at the grass roots
level by going to the people,
especially students in the dorms,”
Williams said.
“Student government, especially
during the past administration, has
been invisible,” he added. “It was
over here and the students were
over there.”
Williams added, “1 feel that there
is not a high rate of apathy on
campus, but a high rate of
unawareness.” For this reason he
plans to expand the student
information service and, in every
dorm and, hopefully, all the
apartment complexes, put up a
bulletin board announcing current
’74 Festival set
Linda Williams
Lay-out Editor
The BSM Cultural Committee
has again planned a week-long
program of activities for the UNC
Black community's annual spring
celebration of Black culture.
The 1974 Black Arts Festival
(April 6-14) will open with music.
On Saturday. April 6, the Kuumba
Singers will perform at 8 p.m. in
Memorial Hall. The group is
composed of Black students from
universities in the Boston area. On
Sunday, also at 8 p.m. in Memorial
Hall, the BSM Ciospel Choir will
be in concert.
The BSM Cultural Committee
has again planned a week-long
by the BSM Drama group. Ebony
Readers and poetry by William
l.ucas.
Dance is scheduled for 1 uesday.
with the Opeyo Dancers
performing at 8 in Memorial Hall.
Congressman Ron Dellums will
be in Memorial Hall at 8
Wednesday for a speech.
Congressman Dellums is one of the
two Black Democratic
representatives from California
and a member of the Congressional
Black Caucus.
On I hursday at 8, it'll be music
again. Sonny Terry and Brownie
McGee will sing the Blues in
Memorial Hall. Friday will brir^ga
Cabaret at 10 in the Great Hall
featuring Fungas Blues, a group
from Charlotte.
Everybody’s invited to^a picnic
in the Forest Theater at 2 Saturday
afternoon. I he festi'val ends
Saturday night with a Consortium
at 8 in Memorial H;
student government affairs. His
office will send out a bulletin each
week.
Other programs, which were a
part of his campaign proposals,
that Williams plans to implement
as soon as possible include;
establishing an accounting board
in student government to first of
all, force all student funded offices
to submit a monthly report of
financial transactions of that
month and to see that the tiioney is
spent in such a way as to support
human relations on campus; the
dispersal of book-purchasing
credit cards to all students waiting
for the arrival of financial aid
checks and an immediate revision
of the interview process for student
government appointed positions.
Commenting on the last
proposal, Williams explained,
“One stipulation foT working in my
campaign was that it was merely
for personal gratification, there
would be no political payoffs.”
Williams said that he would like to
get more Black freshmen and
sophomores into student
government to insur’e me
continuation of Black
participation in this area and other
Black presidents in the years to
come. “Some people won’t
understand a lot of appointments
that 1 make,” he said.
Reflecting oh his past campaign,
Williams said, “The results were a
reflection of the effort that was put
into it. 1 was confident that I could
win over 50 percent of the vote even
with eleven people running.”
Williams’ campaign workers
tee page 7
Marcus Wllllanns
(photo by Russel Davis)
Memorial held
for Dr. Brewer
Mae Israel
News Editor
. . My ojjice is like the lobby
oj a hotel at a convention. A lot oj
kids come to talk to me. It’s kind oj
a catharsis Jor them."
— Dr. James H. Brewer
Dr. James H. Brewer was the
sort of man who really cared about
Students from universities throughout the Boston area make up the Kuumba Sing^ They wlH perform
in IMemorial Hall on Saturday, April 6, as part of the Black Arts Cultural Festival.
what happened to Black people.
He dedicated his life to the Black
struggle.
He always urged Black students
to be aware of their heritage, to
appreciate it. “Come to grips,” he
would say.
He was involved in Black
campus activities — the Black
Student Movement and the Black
Faculty Caucus. He wanted the
administration to change, to
recognize the needs of Black
students and offer more relevant
courses.
But Dr. Brewer died before he
could achieve his goal. He started
the wheels rolling, as the old cliche
goes. Now, someone else will have
to do some pushing.
The first Black professor in
UNC's curriculum of African and
Afro-American Studies died of an
apparent heart attack at his home
in Durham on March 9. He was
director of the program along with
Dr. Gordon Cleveland.
Dr. Brewer was a former boxer,
football player and track runner in
college. He explained once, “1 had
the choice of being a Black lawyer,
a Black doctor, a Black preacher, a
Black mortician or a Black
professor. Those were the existing
realities. 1 didn't like medicine or
law. 1 didn’t want to fool with dead
bodies. And 1 wasn’t particular
about preaching.”
He was particular, though,
about Blackness.
With a pipe in his mouth or in his
hand and lots of eloquent gestures,
Dr. Brewer would talk about being
Black in a white society. He was
inspiration for many of the
students on this campus.
During a Memorial Service held
see page 8