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HEW: Increased Black Enrollment Necessary
By Debra McIntyre
and Kim Curry
Staff V/r iters
UNC President William Friday
recently received a letter from
the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare (HEW) in
response to UNC’s desegregation
plan.
The UNC plan does not meet the
criteria established by HEW to
eliminate the racial structure at
the systems 16 institutions.
The chief argument deals with a
demand for a 150 percent increase
inBlacksonUNC’s predominately
white campuses by 1982.
UNC officials say they can
increase Black enrollment from
25 percent to 33 percent by 1982,
but not by the requested 150
percent.
In the 17 pages, HEW says the
UNC plan does not set high
enough goals for recruitment of
Blacks and the plans for im
proving predominately Black
institutions are insufficient.
The HEW proposal demands an
increase of 285 additional Black
students a year to each of UNC’s
traditionally white institutions.
There has been an increase of 165
additional Black students and
Friday calls it “an enormous
recruitment effort.”
According to the Daily Tar
Heel, HEW had the following to
say about the UNC proposal.
—UNC does not include enough
specific new steps to further
enhance the traditionally black
campuses in the system.
—UNC is not making the
required commitment to give
priority consideration to placing
new programs at traditionally
black institutions.
—UNC must mcrease the
enrollment of black freshmen and
transfer students to traditional
white institutions.
—UNC’s goal to increase white
student enrollment at
traditionally black institutions
should be deleted because such
goals are inappropriate and in
sufficient.
—UNC’s plan speaks mainly to
the redistribution of black
students within the state system.
It instead should concentrate on
increasing the proportion of Black
students in traditional white in
stitutions.
Hayden B. Renwick, Special
Assistant to the Chancelor, has
expressed concern that com
pliance with the rules set down by
HEW of 150 percent increase in
Black students would force
closure of the predominately
black institutions.
In other HEW action. Black
leaders from across the state
attended a November Greensboro
conference to discuss the
rejection of HEW’s desegregation
plan by the UNC system and
UNC’s revision of the plan.
The conference was attended by
approximately thirty-five Blacks,
including Black chancellors from
the state’s predominatly Black
universities, Black members of
the Board of Governors of the
UNC system, and prominent
Black leaders. Byron Horton,
chairperson of the Black Student
Movement, was the only student
present.
Major discussions at the con
ference concerned the flaws of the
UNC revision of HEW’s plan.
Conference participants
criticized UNC’s recruitment
policies, refusal of UNC offici.'^!'^
to admit that the system
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BSM to have first ‘honor roU
Francine Moore and Glover Parham: scene from Bubbling Brown
Sugar.
Brown Sugar at Blue Heaven
By VANESSA SIDDLE
News Editor
“If it’s solid entertainment you
want in song and dance, ‘Bubbling
Brown Sugar’ will fill the bill” say
audiences and critics.
It's been called a “vibrant,
vivacious show—almost non-stop
singing and dancing, extravagantly
costumed and stunningly
choreographea."
It's set attendance records all over
the country.
Audiences are singing its praises,
along with critics, everywhere.
And "Bubbling Brown Sugar” is
coming to Carolina.
Winner of the 1977 Grammy Award
and currently maintaining packed
houses on Broadway, “Bubbling
Brown Sugar” will play in Memorial
Hall Saturday. December 3. Per
formances are at 3:00 p.m. and 8:00
p.m.
Tickets may be purchased at the
Carolina Union information desk and
at the door.
By ALLEN JOHNSON
Co-Editor
Black students who have achieved a 3.0
average or above will be recognized in a
special “honor roll” to be printed in Black
Ink next semester.
This “honor roll”, conceived by BSM
Academic Affairs Chairperson Karen
Stevenson, is one of several projects
planned by the committee to increase
academic awareness among Black
students.
“Academics in general need to be
stressed,” said Stevenson,” and BSM is
the place to do it.”
An honor roll would be “good for
peopl«te morale,” she added.
Would, however, an honor roll geared
specifically to Black students and
requiring a 3.0 average (as compared to a
3.2 for the Dean’s List) constitute a
lowering of standards?
“We are not lowering standards,” said
Stevenson. “There will be Black freshmen
who will make Phi Eta Sigma (a freshman
honorary society for academics). What
we’re doing is recognizing a group of
people.
“And doing it so that a great number of
deserving people can be recognized”.
In conjunction with the honor roll
project, the Academic and Graduate
Affairs conunittees are also organizing an
on-campus tutoral program.
“BSM has always tried to get a tutorial
program going,” Stevenson noted, “but
previous efforts have failed.”
Further details of both the tutorial
program and the honor roll will be
published in future issues of Black Ink.
Fewer Minorities
Receive $ $ $
(CPS-HED)--Despite all the furor over special treatment of
minority college applicants, a new study shows that minority
participation in all five Federal student aid programs dropped
from 1974-75 to 1976-77.
The largest decline—nine percent—was in the Supplemental
Grants (SEOGj program, with the minority share down from 47.8
to 39.1 percent in these two years, according to the report by the
American Council on Education’s Higher Education Panel. The
proportion of minority Basic Grants (BEOG) students dropped
five percent from 48.1 to 43 percent, and College Work-Study
(CW-S) minority participation fell three percent, from 32.6 to 29.3
pcrcGnt
The Federal student loan programs, however, registered the
smallest drops in minority participation. Minority Direct Loans
(MDSLi borrowers declined three percent, from 28.9 to 25.7
percent, while minority Guaranteed Student Loans (GSL'
recipients fell only one percent, from 18 to 17 percent, according
to the report.
In contrast, female participation in the five student aid
programs “remained virtually unchanged over the two years,”
the panel said. In both years, the percentage of women student
aid recipients hovered around one-half.