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April-May, 1976
BLACK STUDENT MOVEMENT OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Volunne 0^ Number^
Black Student Movement
New leadership
faces new tasks
Tonya Widemon
Former Editor
Newly elected and appointed BSM
officers received immediate leadership
orientation during the Campus
Governing Council (CGC) budget
appropriation activities this month, a
critical period for any student
government funded organization.
Elected chairperson, Jacqueline Lucas,
a Rocky Mount RTVMP major and vice-
chairman Luther Falls, from Greensboro,
painfully witnessed the CGC Finance
Committee slice the BSM budget request
of $26,550 by more than two-thirds
before it was submitted as a
recommendation of $8,750 (plus a
$10,000 loan) to CGC for approval.
CGC, however, increased the
recommended amount by $100 for the
Choir category and $1,500 for a new
category, the Black Arts Festival, The
Finance Committee was also requested
by CGC to consider allowing the Black Ink
to retain unspent funds of 1975-76 for
the coming year's budget. (Treasury laws
previously required that any surplus
funds be returned to the Student
Activities Funds balance and lost by the
organization.)
Treasury laws will necessarily be
watched more closely by the organization
than ever before in BSM history. The
major responsibility will rest with Gene
Manning, newly elected treasurer.
Manning, a native of Raleigh, is a
business administration major.
Manning s performance as financial
records keeper for the organization will
no doubt be scrutinized by CGC after a
year of treasury probation. Probation
enforced by CGC during Fall 1975
followed two fund freezes this past year,
required that all treasury transactions by
the BSM be approved by the student body
treasurer.
As BSM treasurer, Manning s
responsibilities will also require that he
prop>erly educate BSM group leaders
about treasury laws and procedures in
order to prevent another year of fund
freezes for the organization.
Despite both fund freezes, this year,
that halted all organizational spending for
weeks during the first semester, plans for
major annual cultural activities did
continue for the Fall Festival and Miss
BSM Coronation and Ball. Planning for
cultural programs and events next year
will be coordinated by the Cultural
Committee, to be headed by recently
elected Terry Sherrill, from Huntersville.
Sherrill will be faced with planning and
coordinating, carefully, activities that
provide the major sources of revenue for
the BSM.
Allen Johnson, an English major, and
newly appointed Black Ink editor will also
be responsible for a major revenue
raising project never before undertaken
by the newspaper staff in previous years.
Although the Finance Committee will be
considering allowing use of surplus funds
by the staff, Johnson proposes to
supplement the $4,200 approved
allocation with revenue from advertising
and nonstudent subscriptions.
The "Weekly Ink," a supplementary
newsletter to the monthly publication will
also have a major task. The impact of
frozen funds evidenced the need for
greater communications channels within
the more than 800-member organization.
Joretta Durant, a business administra
tion major, has assumed the elected
position as Minister of Information to
collect announcements and reports for
the "Weekly Ink."
Internal communications proved to be a
challenge during the past year which
were maximized by limited funds,
supplies and inadequate office
equipment. The organization also
suffered from a less than perfect system
of distributing newsletters, newspapers
and memos Responsibility for
strengthening the system will rest with
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Showtime
From a solo performance by varsity ch^rieader l^achw Hauw
performances by fraternities and sororities in the Pit, the art of dance gee
beyond Upendo parties.
Women sound off
on love, abortion, sex
Chiquetta Shackelford
Staff Writer
Getting down, making love, getting
off—all common synonyms for the most
common natural activity—sex. The
liberation drives of the 60s, Black
liberation, women's liberation, gay
liberation, brought with them the
liberation of premarital sex. In fact, by
1969 30 per cent of all American women
between the ages of 15 and 19 had
experienced premarital sex.
In the Black population, the wave ot
sexual liberation caused a dramatic
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Carney: strength remains in BSM
Lonza Hardy, Jr.
Staff Writer
The Black Student Movement (BSM) is
presently recuperating from Fall '75—a
semester in which it experienced an
ordeal never before encountered by any
other student organization on this
campus.
Last semester the BSM's funds were
frozen three times for the alleged
violation of treasury laws. There were
bitter arguments between the BSM and
the Campus Governing Council (CGC)
artd within CGC itself. Some CGC
members resigned. The chairman of the
BSM resigr>ed
How has the BSM fared since that
eventful semester?
Gloria Carney, the outgoing
chairperson of the BSM responded,
"Underlying strength still prevails within
our organization despite the
controversies of last semester. Our
organization is now stronger in that we
have learned from some not so good
experiences."
It was Carney"s opinion that the BSM-
CGC confrontation was. on the one hand,
a direct attack at the BSM, while at the
sarrw time an attack against three
controversial organizations—the BSM,
the Association of Women Students
(AWS). arKl the Carolina Gay Association
(CGA). She felt that a certain group of
CGC members, under the influence of the
former student body treasurer Mike
0"Neal, controlled CGC.
" They (CGC) define the BSM, AWS and
CGA as interest groups and thus falsely
advocated that each appeals only to
select groups of people. "
Carney said the BSM has definitely
changed as a result of last semester. She
said the period of tribulation has made
the members realize the extreme need
and importance of the organization. In
addition, she felt the need to
institutionalize the BSM struggle—to be
more systematic in their operations, has
now been realized.
increase in the rate of illegitimate births.
Whether out of love, moral objections to
abortion or unwillingness to give for
adoption a child nurtured and carried for
nine months, most Black women opt to
keep their children born out of wedlock.
This trend, however, causes more unwed
mothers on welfare, more Black women
as single heads of households, and an
increase in poor families among the Black
population.
Just to get an overall view of the state
of illegitimacy among the Black
population, the 1970 U. S. Census Report
gives the following statistics; 25 per cent
of all Black babies born are illegitimate;
one of four Black families is headed by
women (this statistic includes divorced
women); when compared to the overall
population Black women are seven times
less likely to have an abortion and nine
times less likely to give up a baby for
adoption.
Some bias is probably inherent in these
statistics, so to get a Black woman's view
on love, sex, illegitimacy, birth control
and abortion, I interviewed several Black
women on UNC's campus. Their names
have t)een withheld by request.
Twelve of fifteen vwmen all agree that
premarital sex is beautiful between
consenting partners. One sophomore
adds, however, "I don't mean that you
should just get down with anyone. For
me. there has to be some element of love
involved. Sex just for the sate of getting
down seems kind of immoral."
"Your point o view is straight from the
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