Page 3 The Greek life: not just jams Staff photo by Sam F'ulwood Aside from such visible ceremonies as the mourning for deceased sorors by Alpha Kappa Alpha, there are many, behind-the-scenes projects conducted by campus Greeks. Theresa Williams Staff Writer While some people feel totally content with their lifestyles, be it exciting or not, there are those who appreciate and prefer the sisterhood and brotherhood of Greek life. Each semester, sorority rushes and fraternity smokers are held to ac quaint interested individuals with the different aspects of the social organizations. Sheri Parks, basileus of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, defines a so rority as a “sisterhood of women with common interests and goals that come together to form a mu tual support system within the Uni versity and community. Rush is a time when sorors and interested women come together and get to know each other to see if they could develop working relation ships.” The AKA Fall Rush was attend ed by 40 interested £md curious young ladies who wanted to find out what AKA is all about. Carol Willis, president of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, feels! that rush is a “time for exposing the High school students benefit from programs Nora Parker Staff Writer National Achievement and Pro ject Uplift are two programs at the University that are geared toward helping minority high school jun iors and seniors, respectively, who lack information about college. These students come to Carolina for a weekend to hear about finan cial aid, admissions procedures, and college life. This year, more than ever, stu dents who were involved in one or both of these programs * have en tered Carolina in this year’s fresh man class. Does this mean that the high school students’ visit to Caro lina influenced their decision of coming here? This seems to be the opinion of most freshmen who par ticipated in the program. Cynthia Seagroves, from Apex, N.C. felt that her coming to Caroli na as a part of Project Uplift influ enced her decision. As she put it, “My main objective of coming up here was to see how the Black peo ple got along with each other and by coming it gave me a chance to see that there weren’t so many of us here, so it allowed for a sense of unity.” Another Project Uplift partici pant, Mike Sheffield from Goldsbo- N.C., said that his first visit to ro purposes, ideas, and goals of a soro rity to the public.” The Kappa Omicron chapter has as its theme this year, “An Agenda for Change”. Willis anticipates that many old ideas will be thrown out this year, and new ones brought in. One change that has already taken place is the required QPA of 2.5 for pledgees, which used to be 2.3. Brotherhood and life-long friend ships are two factors which link the brothers of our three fraternities. Otis Speight of Omega Psi Phi sees a fraternity as a “group of individuals who are , collectively united by a common source, who share similar ideas, and who obli gate themselves to the cause for which the fraternity stands.” George Newby of Alpha Phi Alpha sees a fraternity as brother hood and love. “Brothers have to learn how to deal with each other and to be willing to sacrifice for another brother’s needs.” Spurgeon Fields of A‘l>A feels that “a frater nity means knowing that there is al ways someone who knows how you feel, and that means not going through rough times by yourself.” Fields said the purpose of an Al- Cont. on p. 4 NEH/S staff UNC showed him that the Blacks here were concerned. Furthermore, he liked the program and what it emphasized to him. Mike com mented, “It’s a nice solid program because it was very well organized. It seemed that Carolina was looking for good Blacks and it showed me that they wanted qualified Blacks and not just me because I’m Black.” Two National Achievement pjirti- cipants from Raleigh, Cynthia Smith and Denise Dempsey, both agreed that coming to the campus in their senior year helped them to make their final decision about what college to attend. Cynthia added, “It helped me make up my mind because it gave me a better view of how it was on campus; a lot better than I could read about.” Denise said, “I met a lot of the students and I talked to some of them. I met a lot of people in the dorrh. So, I decided that I’d like to come here.” Monica Wilson from Jacksonville, N.C. participated in both programs. She said, “I came here and I liked everybody and I knew this was where I wanted to go. I liked the friendUness of the Black people here because everybody speaks to you. ’ ‘‘Ebony Images” s needs more help on second edition Allen Johnson Co-Editor Ebony Images needs help — it needs help right away. Ebony Images, or the ‘Mini-Year- book’ as it is popularly called, is a soft-cover journal of text and pho tos of the year’s events in the Black campus community. Despite Ihe fact that the Black populace seemed impressed by the publication, which premiered last spring, interest this year seems to be dwindling, according to Editor- in-Chief Carolyn Harrison. “I thought that after people saw what we did last year, there’d be more interest,” said Harrison in an interview following a recent (emd sparsely attended) Ebony Images meeting. “I think that basically people forgot and need to be made aware that the ‘Mini-Yearbook’ exists.” Projected expansion for the 1977-78 edition of Ebony Images includes wider coverage of the Black community and at least fifty p£^es (as compared to last year’s 36) noted Harrison. “I want to get people really in volved, especially the graduate students,” said Harrison. “We’d also like to giet more shots and cov erage of faculty members.” As for the idea of color photo graphy, she said, Ebony Images pro bably won’t take that step this year. “I don’t think we’ll do color this year,” she said. “We’ll try to get better quality black and white pho tos.” The staff plans once again to fi nancially support Ebony Images through a number of fund-raisers, including parties and bake sales. No matter how much money is raised, however. Ebony Images won’t exist without a staff. “I think Black people should consider becoming involved with the ‘Mini-Yearbook’,” said Busi ness and Subscription Manager Claudia Williamson. “It’s something we’re trying to do for all of us.” Presentation will portray the “ Souls of Black Folk Allen Johnson Co-Editor “I think there’s a tremendous amount of talent among Blacks on campus that hasn’t been tapped and that the normal University outlets are not sufficient to display the depth of talent among Black stu dents, ’ says Assistant Professor of English Lee Greene. To pool that Black talent, Greene and a group of Black stu dents at UNC propose to create a multi-faceted presentation of mu sic, drama, poetry, and dance “in spired by, and based to a lai^e ex tent” on, Jean Toomer’s literary work. Cane. Greene, in fact, has already writ ten two songs for the production and is actively seeking students who would like to participate in the project. The production, which will be held later this semester, wUl pro gress (in the tradition of most Black literature) from the African past to the Southern past to the Northern ^etto. “There will probably be a very smaU admission price charged,” says Greene, “but we do not aim to make a profit. Money obtained from the admission charge will be used to pay for equipment and props.” Greene adds that among the equipment will hopefully be a.video tape camera and recorder to chroni cle the production on the screen. “All interested people, especially dancers, singers, readers, actors, ac tresses, whether as groups or indivi duals, are asked to leave their names on a sign-up sheet provided in the BSM office,” says Greene. He describes the essence of the yet unnamed project as a “produc tion that incorporates the various arts that express the souls of Black folk.”

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