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Page 4 BLACK INK April 23,1981 Former United Nations Ambassador Donald McHenry said in an April 1 lecture that the United States and the U.N. need to recognize long-term world problems instead of offering short-term solutions. Students speak on Greeks ANNELIZECK Special to the Ink i he (jreek svstem on (cimpiis i*. seen is U\o sefiaidte iMililies one while one KI(K k. in ii recent inloimil surve\ taken on campus, students coninienled on the pel c eivc'd dilleienc es betv\ een Blac k and \\ hite (jicek organizations There is deliniteK a ditfeienrel ' said Black sophonioie, WencK Koss. noni Shelb\, N.(^ Ross, a non-(jreek,-said that one' dillerence is that White (lieeks ha\c houses and l^lac k C]ieeks don t. In addition, she said, I ma\ be wrong, but I see nioie lilac k sei\ ic e tallies set up, !5heila lohnson, a Black Ireshman from Smithtield, N,(who said she is thinkinu about loining a Blac k soroi it\, c oinerseK answ eicci that, I don t think there s niu( h ditlerence," lohnson said even qualit\ point average leciuiii'nients are the same but initi\lic)n rites are clitterent. When confronted with the c|uestion ot ditterences. Black sophopioie I’eiix (iieen from lac ksonv ille, N,(!,, immediateK replied. Socio-economic background Green, a non-(lreek, whose Black roommate recenlK joint'd a \\hite iriteinit\ said c rossing rac iai barriers was cliltic ult, bee ause \ou c ate h a lot ol tiac k and sou won t be ac c epted among peers , " Because of tht> consec|uenc es a Black laces when joining i white Ir.iteinih blac ks tend to think more in depth about then cic'c ision " Cireen said Dc'borah Bradsher, a white sophomore from (!ar\, N ( , and a membei ol /c*la lau M[)ha, an all-while sororitv, said People not in the (',iec‘k s\siem think white sororities are more s0( iaIK oriented." VN'encK Ross, a non-(jreek, thought Blac k (ireek organizations weie moie'ei\k eel oiientecl, but so did Darr\l Hart, a Black so[)homore tiom Asheville \,( .\nd member ol Alpha Phi Al|jha, an all-Blac k tralei nit\ Another dillerence c ileci bv Blac k (,'rc‘t>nsboro so|)homore Craw lord lones, a non- (ireek, was-tliat "Blac k tralernilies and sororities art* small and c loseK knit I he V\ hite traternitv s\stem is so large, lones said llial people don I uet to know eac h other. I would ihink a Black pledge ol.a Black IrateiniU knows nioie about the .u-^\e members and their bac kgrouncis than a white pU'dge ot a white fi,iieinii\,■ added lones, Mian Hill, a white sophomore iion-(ireek liom Kinston. N C , said I don I he.ii muc h about Blac k Iraternities, 1 he whole (Ireek s\ stem seenis to be w hite-oi lented BSM continues to serve Black students at UNC BEVERLY SHEPARD Special to the INK 1 he late I'KiOs, ,\ time- for Alros, tec'-shiits, mini-skiils and jeans, A linie toi soul binlher lilai k Powc'r and right-on," 'let, for a smal group ol blac k students at the p:(‘clominintl\ white UN(^-( hapc‘1 Hill, the late blls was a time for c hange V\ hen th(' J5la( k Student .Movement w as founded on the' ( arolina C anipus'in \nvember I'i(s7 main regarded it as a racial, re\olutionai\ organization And mcleed, the omaniza tion w as otten at the ( eirlcM of some i ontlu t, protest or rlemoiisti.uion I hIIteen \ c-ars latei, the BSM c ontnines to serve as a t enter ot ( ultui.il and sO( lal iclen tili^ation tor the black student, ,but ts overall a|)|)roa( h has ( haimccl Some ot the laclii alism is gone. In the 6l)s, (the BSAU was clitiereni tv|)e of oiganization ll was nuu h nioie volatile mu( h more boisteious, in a sc'iise, more militant said \Uiik ( aiiiulv Bs\1 ( hail person, ( iinaclv, a so()homor(‘ business administration maioi Irom lansing ,Mk, h said, the times nec essilated" protest because the movement was lust bri'aking mound However, tinu's have' c hangc'd as has the nc'ecl loi radic alism, W-f' don t alwavs protest as muc h as vve-used to, ( cinadv s.nd I h.ne bc'en c ritic ized tor that, bLil I bc'lieve in protesting w hen ik'c c'ssarv Allen lohnson, liSM c hair|)t'rson in l'»7»-7'i, said the organization s less radical role- has somc'w hat bc'c onu' a more |)assiv e one, dhi' BSM) s(>rved as an advocate, a nu'ans tor studc'iits to voik' their emotions, lohnson said Right now , (the BSM) is alraicl ot making othc'rs mid-. so w c' don I do a lol ol (ritisizing or bringing up pipvac ative issues." ^ et provac alive issues was what the BSM was all abc)ut in the earlv ()0s. 1 he Rev ( iireton lohnson, BSM chair|)erson in 1970-71, said: lo me (the' BSMl was ii'volutionarv ll V iolc'iK e was ne'c essarv, we cl use it, but it was a constraining tvpe ol violence with no pkiiis 10 kill anvbodv or ri|) abvbodv oil, lohnson ol Raleigh said that the BSM also sc'rv ed in allc'v iating thi' c ultural shoe k that blac ks experienc ed after hav ing to c ontend w ith a predominanllv w hite univi'rsiiv ()ii( e at arolina, the minoritv students were lost in a sea ol w hiteness w hie h c rc'ated problems inside and outside the c lassroom. lohnson said. W helhc'r blac k students wc're speaking of c ultural shoe k or piote'st, thi' cic'gree ol action and the e ause foj' dissatisfae tion w ere both inter|)retecl as revolutionai v bv tiu' v\ hite' stu dent bodv and dclministration In 1‘I67, the lilac k Student .Movement s objectives w erc' a lull-( rc'dil blae k studies c ourse, student legislative funding, official recognition bv the' Universilv find the' re'c ruitme'iil ol more black students and black tacultv. Within a vear, the' group ene ounteTed its tirst e on- ilie t w ilh the administration as a result ot its |)lac ing demands on the' universitv Ilie- BSM firesented 2.5 demands to Chancellor I, Carlvie Sitterson on l)e-e 12, I'XiH, In .uldition to its objectives, the BSM demanded admission ot blae k stude'iils based on thc'ir high sc hool av erages rather than their SAl sc ore's —■ whit h the grou|) e hargt'd w ere bast'd on middle-c lass white standards" — and financ ial aid to blae k students, firelerablv in the lorm ot grants and sc holarships rather than loans, Blae ks numberc'd about 100 ol Carolina s IS,000 student |)opulation in l‘Ki8, It was these 100,wim.\pi)kfc'-Out.u.heii3Jttei;sQn rt^ceived the "demands" and cone ludeel that thev were outside his iurisdiction as e hanc ellor. In a statement to the Chapel Hill Weekly on Ian, 2(i, 1‘)0i, Sitterson ^.lKl, thf L nivt'isiiv intends to be responsive to the' needs ol all the i)t'ople, including all rae.'s, colors and creeds the Universitv e annot prov ide unie|ue treatme'nt loi anv single'rae e Iheunivei- sitv must be guided bv reason and know ledge', ■ Hawkins later addressed an audience ol about I >0 students m (,e‘ii.iiel Hall \ lallv took plac e at noon hiclav in Memorial Hall I he revolutionaiv image'ol the BsM was losieit'd and |)unc tuated within a tvvo-clav s|)an. But, one e the BSM t'arned its ac tiv ist lables, its at liv ism int least'd. 1 he B'>M bt't ame ih volved in the aftairs ol black non-students on the timpus. In and igain in l'>~0 blae k c aleteria v\orke'rs w ent on strike', 1 he 1 t'lioii I lall timing iot)iii i lt)sed on ,\lir( h -t 1‘»69 onlv to be re-opened on March b unde'r the' supervisit)n t)l iiot-t'tjuippi'd state tioopt'rs, W e thouglit it w as riclie ulous that , , our brothe'i s and sistei s w t'l e slav inu anti w t)i kinu loi sub-minimum wages, Cureton lohnson said, Ihe prott'st was a itjtal ptiinl loi dissatisfae lion. At the time, it was the mood oi the' ()0s - King had been kille-d, the Pan Ihers were being exierniinated bv the polie e. All ingredients t ame logethcT, As a protest during the I46( strike a group ol about _’() siudt'iils laitli'el the taielt'iia, turning over tables, bteaking t ases and destroving lood, Itihiison said, ,M)oul ill stueleiits took possession of Manning Hall and established it as headtjuarlt'rs 1 remember standing tat c'-to-tae e with 12 highvvav patrolmen, Itihiison said Ihe 111inister, who desc iibed himselt as an intiovc'lI in high st hool, said I was tlciing thinus and others were doing things I had never dreamed ol doing, I was turned oil bv Ihe svstem - Irom the government down lo the UNC svstem — whit h was unresponsivt' Latei that veai, the BSAl once more' rc'ac tc'd to tht' iinre'sponsivt'iit'ss t>l the' uove'in- iiient. It piotested the accjuittal of three white motoreve It' gang mt'mbers irtjm Durham Itir Ihe murder ot a black Chapel Hillian in tronl ol the Carolina Student Unitjn builtling in 1‘)70, On Nov. 2.5, Mayor Howard Lee and Carrboro Alderman R.U, Smith led about (C) blat ks in a memorial march down f raklin Street, On campus, Nov, 21 was dee lared lame's ( alt's Memorial Day, Black-W'hite tensions continued to rise, Vc't, the BSM was not all protest and demonstralions. lor t'xamplc', the' organization reacted to the assassination ol Martin Luther King |r. on April (>, 1‘)68. Students and lac ullv bovcotted classes on the dav of funeral, April 9, Chancellor Sitterson annount ed hall-dav recesses and many downtown businesses closed for the dav In 1968. a newspaper grew out of the organization, Onlv three issues were printed that vear. But Cureton lohnso.i, the paper s first editor, said he originated the name'. Black Ink because most papers were printed in blatk ink. This paper, lohnson atlded was solelv lor the expression of black ideals. Conflicts arose between the BSM and Central Governing Committee in l')7i-74 and again in 1976 when the CGC threatened to freeze the BSM budget because' ol alleged ' tie^a.suiv lav\' violations. Arguments that followed among the C.(j(. mt'iiilit'rs c ont t'rning iht' disputes reslted in the resignation of several (XX.' members. In lanuarv 197.5, tensons mounted around what became known as iht' David Duke Al- faii, Duke, national information direc tor and Grand Dragon in Louisiana lor the' Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. was scheduled to speak al Memorial Hall. I was a part of the demonstration." Allen lohnson said. He was being paid to tome' and rectuit for the Klan and black students clicin t it'C'l their Ic't's should go tor sc)mething (Continued on page 9)
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