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BLACK INK
The essence of freedom is understanding
Friday, September 22. 1978 BlJ\CK STUDENT MOVEMENT OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
Volume 11, Number 4
-Miss Black North Carolina to appear in Dating game
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Dehaeva Drake: Miss Black North Carolina 1978-79,
will be a contestant in Thursday’s BSM Dating Game.
I)a\ id K. Squires
F.ditor-in-Chicf
Dehiieva Drake, Miss Black
North Carolina 1978-79, will appear
as a contestant in Thrusday night’s
HvSM-sponsored Dating Game,
according to BSM Chairperson
Allen Johnson.
The 22-year old music graduate
of F’embroke State University will
be amoDg a handful of on-campus
and ofl-campus celebrities who w ill
fxirtici}xUe in this third annual
affair.
“We’re doing our best to make
the latest version of “The Dating
Came” something special,” said
Johnson, who is coordinating the
event.
‘The prizes and surprise
celebrity guests, we hope, will
make people want to be con-
teslant^. If they don't do the trick,
I’tn sure there are some people out
there somewhere who’d like to
meet Mr. or Ms. Right and get a
tree night on the town to bool.”
The game will consist of four
segp^Ls paJterned basically after
“1 he Dating Came” television
series. The last two segments will
feature “The Dream Date” and
“The Battle of the Sororities.”
“The Battle of the Sororities”
will pit sorors from Alpha Kappa
Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta and Zeta
Phi Beta against one another for
the attentions of an eligible
celebrity guest. “The Dream
Date” will offer the most lavish
prizes—including tickets to the
Broadway production “'I'he Wiz’—
and will feature a battle among
three bachelors, for the hand of Miss
Black North Carolina.
“We want to stress that anyone
can at least get a shot at being a
contestant,” Johnson said.
“Those people who are not lucky
enough to be chosen for Mhe Dating
Came’ itself, will at least have the
opportunity to watch the festivities
and enjoy the disco which follows.”
Ir.terested parties can leave their
names and other pertinent in
formation at ticket booths which
will be set up soon in the Union.
An added treat for the audience
and contestants alike will be the
presentation of the candidates for
Miss BSM 1978-79 during in
termission.
INCBSC conference attempts to unite Black students
I K \N( ISSHA A
Staff Writer
“In unit> they overcame.” This is
the motto of the North Caroliiw Black
Student (’(Kilition. The NC'BSC held a
conference recently at Kougemont,
\,C.
The fHupose of this meeting, as is
the overall jnirpo-se of the NCBSC.
was to promote the unity of Black
students in the state.
The coiilition. founded in 1977.
consists of fourteen schools, including
Duke, North ('aroliiw A & T, North
('arolina ('entral University, and
UN(’(’li
Kach school organiziition works on
Its own camfHis through conferences
and meetings, and collectively with
the other schtK)ls to reach the goals of
the coiilition
The most prominent of these goals
IS "to heighten the awareness of
Black Students with respect to their
rights ■'
The conference dealt with four fKal
issues One issue was the
strengthening of the organiziition
itst'lf 1’ri‘sently, the NCBSC has
IB.tMM) memlMTs It is preparing to
jHil)lish a statewide newspajXT, on
Sepi of which "Black Ink” editor
David S(|uires is to bt* editor.
The second issue which the con
ference addressetl was the establish
ment of Black Studies programs on
many N.C. campuses,
UN(”s representative to the
.NCBSC. Byron Morton, emphasizes,
"If we forget the past, we are con
demned to relive it.” Through Black
Studies Programs, many students
ignorant of their heritage could be
enlightened about past struggles in
connection with present ones.
A struggle that the NCBSC is
currently involved in is the Bostic vs.
Byrd case This case, a spinoff from
the liakke case, threatens the future
of .Affirmative Action. Thus, the
N('BSC in conjunction with the
Minority Black Student I>awyer’s
(’PS) Five years ago. ‘going out
for rush' was often tantamount to
admitting meml)ership in the Young
Hejxiblicans or HOTC But pledging is
again bt'coming socially acceptable
on .American campu.ses. .After and all-
time low in the early seventies,
memberships in fraternities and
sororities are reaching rates of ten
>ears ago, and at some schools,
reaching new records
"There now 2.7 million fraternity
members in the U.S. and Canada,”
bubbles Jack .Anson, executive
director of the National Inter-
Association filed a motion of in
tervention and it was accepted on
Sept. 11, 1978. The outcome of this
lawsuit is yet to be known.
Another point which the conference
discussed was the NCBSC com
petency test proposal. This proposal
allows for the tutoring of Black high
school students in order for them to
piiss a ‘relatively biased competency
test.’
The .NCBSC’ conference was one in
which many worthy goals were set,
and in the attainment of these goals
lies unity for all Black students in
.North Carolina.
F'raternity Conference. "That’s a
total of 47(H) chapters on 625 cam
puses. Back ten years ago, the
average number of initiating mem-
liers in a chapter was 49 In 1971-2, it
dropped to 34. Now we’re back up to
4(i ’■ F'or the years to come, Anson
exiH'cts "a far steeper increase.”
At northern universities, an
average of over 10 percent of the
student body will pledge this year.
There's a much enlarged pool of
mshes. like 1977-78's record-l)reaking
.=>() percent jump at the University of
Minnesota. In some southern
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Byron Horton III
universities, where membership
barely dipped in the early seventies
slump, as much as half the student
body will pledge. At Duke University,
for instance. .51 percent of the fresh
men and over 40 percent of the women
pledged in 1977-78. Overcrowding was
so bad that 79 Duke women were
turned away after signing bid cards.
Many attribute the increased Greek
popularity not as much to changes
within the Greek system, but changes
in the students themselves. “The type
of student attending college now is
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It^s a boom year for fraternities, sororities