Rhodes scholar urges peers to vote
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BLACK INK
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The essence of freedom is understanding
'Vofum«13 Numbere BLACK STUDI N I MOVIMI NT Ot f ICIAL Nf WSPAPfR University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill October 24,1960
Some BSM subgroup members don't pay dues
From Staff Reports
The 140 students that comprise the five
Black Student Movement subgroups are not
all dues paying members, the Central Com
mittee recently recognised.
Currently, the BSM has 225 members, yet
less than hall of the persons from the
subgroups pay dues for the BSM Member
ship chairperson Sheila Miller brought the
situation to the CC's attention and the BSM
Chairperson Mark Canady definitely sees it
as a problem
The subgroups are the fbony Readers,
Opeyo Dancers, Gospel Choir, Black Ink
and newly formed BSM Carolina Pep
Team.
"In the past there has not been any sort of
written requirement asking for subgroup
members to be BSM members," Miller said,
"however, from the trend that these
subgroup members are setting I can see the
CC setting up some sort of policy for the
luture "
Canady said, "I think it would be ap
propriate since these groups are constituent
components of the BSM, that the consti
tuent members of the subgroups should also
be members of the BSM."
"The subgroups exist as a direct result of
the BSM and receive their funding through
the BSM. The main barometer used by the
CCC (Campus Governing Council) in
determining BSM money allocation is how
high our membership is, the more members
we have, the more money we are likely to
receive," Canady said.
Some CC members feel the subgroups
are hurting themselves Presently, all robes
for the choir, costumes for the dancers,
literature for the Readers and printing
materials for the Black Ink are coming from
BSM allocations.
"If these people don't become members,
to help the membership effort, we will take
steps against these persons," Miller said.
Canady said that if the people who have
not paid dues, have enough interest to be
active in these subgroups, they should have
enough interest to help support them finan
cially. "We are only talking two dollars for
an entire year," he said.
Mid-Day Magic
Teresa Smallwood
leads the HSM Gospel
Choir during a recent per
formance in the Pit.
The performance was
part of a five-week pro
gram of musical acts call
ed Mid Day Magic.
The Carolina Union
Activities Board sponsors
a program each week.
(Photo by Beatrice
Taylor.)
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New position
sparks views
LaVIE ELLISON
Staff Writer
The faculty Council committee designed
to examine minority affairs at UNC re
quested the creation of a Vice-Chancellor
of University Affairs
last semester, which
has recently attracted
much attention on the
UNC campus.
In their report, the
Council requested a
position within the
university's general
administrative struc-
Harold Wallace ture which would be
responsible for coordinating, monitoring,
advising and advocating the well-being of
the Black and minority faculty and students.
Several persons in administrative and
faculty positions at UNC were asked their
views about the vice-chancellorship
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This summer in Africa
Sophomore faces political, racial crises
JOHN HINTON
S«cond oi a Two-Part S«ti«
During her eight week sta> in Kenya.
Africa this summer,
sophomore Ioanna
Crews had to over-
come many physical
barriers Crews also
had to deal with
many political and
rai lal obstac les
I had an initial
identification crisis
where the people
were trying to figure
out exactly what I
joanna Crews was. Crews said
"The novelty of the white man was very
obvious especially in the villages "
The environmental protection maior
developed a basic reason of this
misconception of most Africans. In the
rural areas, most of the Africans have never
laid eyes on a white man," Crews said.
■ They (Kenyans) were fascinated by their
hair and skin and the wav white people
talked lust the whole idea of anyone dif
ferent from the typical while American was
awesome to them (Kenyans).
Convincing the native Africans of her
American background was hard, she said
When I told them that I was American
also, they quite could not make the associa
tion. ' Oews recalled "They didn t unders
tand why I was so different but obviously
sharing some of the same traits (of while
Americans)."
Crews also had to clear-up another
misunderstanding shared by some Kilungu
villagers. "They thought that I was a Ke
nyan who had come over to America for a
little while and come back to Kenya and
had abandond the ways of Africa," Crews
said
Eventually, they accepted me for who I
was and adopted me as the village
daughter They didn t realize that there
were Black Americans and that we made up
a significant part of the United States'
population
Politically Crews felt somewhat puzzled
on some of the contemporary issues such as
the Iranian crisis
'All Kenyans are extremely politically
aware," the Durham native remarked.
"They know much about international rela
tions, much more than Americans. Even lit
tle kids can hold an intelligent political con
versation."
Crews said that it was crucial for Kenyans
to be politically aware. They must be
pK>litically aware because their everyday
lives are effected by politics," Crews said.
"(■or example there was a corn shortage
in Kenya The United States sent many
thousand pounds of yellow corn maize to
the coi;ntrv," she said.
"However, the Kenyans have been brain
washed by Kenyan propaganda that yellow
corn meal we sent them was given to cows
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