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Aufust 18, IMO BLACK STUDENT MOVEMENT OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill Volume 13, Number 1
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Bus rides
Freshmen, we're awful
ly glad to have some new
faces on campus. Black
Ink has dedicated two
special pages just to you;
pages 4 & 5.
Included in those pages
is an article about other
places to go around
Chapel Hill besides the
Carolina Union.
Bui ^hiti yuu should
really note is the sentence
that talks about Chapel
Hill's most popular form
of transportation — the
bus.
‘‘U-CAMPUS BELT”
could soon become your
most favorite phrase.
(Photo by James Parker)
Palmer
Chosen
Co’head
Special to the Ink
Colin A. Palmer has been appointed pro
fessor and co-chairman of Afro-American
Studies of the Afro-American and African
studies curriculum.
A specialist in Latin America and the
Black Diaspora (the scattering of blacks
throughout the United States, I>atin
America and the Caribbean), Palmer also
has been appointed
professor of history.
His appointments.
were effective July 1.
He comes to
Chapel Hill from
Oakland University
in Michigan, where
he had been faculty
member since 1970.
He also has been a
visiting professor at
the University of
Michigan and the
University of Detroit.
He has conducted research at the
Jamaica Archives, Public Record^’Office
and British Museum in London, Archivo de
Indias in Seville, Spain, and National Ar
chives in Mexico.
Palmer has taught courses in Latin
American, Mexican and Afro-American
history, slavery and race relations in the
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Colin Palmer
Jordan topsnational news
LAWRENCE TURNER
Newt Editor
The top ranking news stories of the
spring and summer include the Mount
St. Helen eruption, the MacDonald
and McDougall court decisions, the
Richard Pryor accident and interview
and the recession aside from Billy
Carter politics. However, some other
important news events did occur.
In early May, a leader of the
American Nazi Party. Harold Cov
ington received about 43 percent of
the vote in the N.C. Republican
primary race for attorney general He
did not win the primary.
White supremacist J.B. Stoner was
convicted for the 195« bombing of a
Black Baptist church May 14th and
sentenced to 10 years in prison.
The NAACP announced a drive to
register between 2 million and 3
million Black voters in 22 states, in
cluding the Carolinas. The drive was
an angry response to Congress’ effort
to balance the budget and cut the
social programs.
The riot which followed the acquit
tals of four former Miami police of
ficers in the beating death of Arthur
McDuffie resulted in 18 deaths: 10
Blacks. 4 whites. 2 Latins and 2 bodies
that could not be identified.
In late May. the taped conversa
tions between former President
Richard Nixon and advisors during
the Watergate scandal were on
display by the National Archives.
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Stone is tenured
Campus top
news stories for
the summer were
Sonja Stone Sonja Stone
receiving tenure from the UNC board
of governors and the UNC and HEW
going to court.
Stone of the African and Afro-
American studies department was
granted tenure recently by the UNC
board of governors.
Stone has been engaged in appeals
since her tenure denial one and a half
years ago.
She charged the university with
racism, sexism, violation of due pro
cess and equal protection under the
law.
Stone is currently at Ohio State
University under an eight month
fellowship.
Although Stone received tenure, she
was not promoted from assistant to
associate professor.
In court George Watts Hill Jr.,
former chairman of the N.C. Board of
Higher Education, said he suggested
that the Department Of Health,
Education and Welfare try to get the
university system to desegregate.
The government is attempting to cut
off almost $90 million a year in federal
funds because the university failed to
submit a satisfactory desegregation
plan.
Some changes also occurred on
campus.
Efforts were made to change the
South Gallery lounge into the Interna
tional Student Center and AHA Ser
vices Inc.. a company that at the end
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