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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-
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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.”