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Black Ink
February 28, 1985
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Discovery Seminar On Student Government
Panelists Say Black Student Leaders Should Recruit Freshmen
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by Joy UmiiBan
Stc^ Writer
The key to efifective Hack leadeiship is
sowing the seeds of leacJership in the freshman
classes, William Bartier, diaimian of the N.C.
Association of Hade Suderts and president of the
N.C. Catol UnivCTsity student govoTimert.
Barber along with Danid Webb discussed
“Black Student Leadership-Is It Efifective” - one
of the topics of the Discovoy program Feb.
23. Kaineth Harris, president of the N.C. Hack
Studait Leadership Caucus and a UNC studoit,
mediated the discussion.
Student leaderehip can only be efifective if
leaders can bring younger people into leadership
positions, Baiber said. “We have to do more than
just talk to than - we have to walk widi than.
Black student leaders snobbeiy hinders this
relationship between leader and Ireshmai. Barber
said, “We get so caught up with tfie material pro
portion of being in ofiBce, being in a few pro
grams, havii^ a position in power...we’re too
good to talk to the fieshman class. We’re too
good to stay in a dorm; we have to gp out and get
an apartment. We’re too good to tate a stroll
acHDSs canpus; we’d raflTa" ride.”
“We’ve got to be about the business of the
hunnbleness of leadership,” Barixr said. “We
have to be undastanding in all things. It’s not the
way you sit that makes you great, but its the w^
you act that makes you great.”
fti this pcmt Webb stepped in and descriied
dher proWems. ‘1 fed ftat we as a peqie are
general^ fedng an identity aisis,” Wdi) said.
Leadas w«e too bu^ “throwing on masks and
costumes,” ejqjiained. The sdf-esteon of Blade
fcados has to be genuine.
Hade leadas also have a ladc of visicm,
Wdibsaid. “We have to lode b^ond today and
see tcmxTOw.”
Webb agreed with BartxT’s point of sowing
seeds. “Our duty is to those comirg iq) bdiind
us,” Wd)b said. “They should be part of the vi-
sifxi.”
He said diarisma is not enough, but the
leader has to be prepared for his position. He
wait oi to cite sevoal leaders in Black histray
like Martin Luther King who ^jent a great deal of
time “in obscurity” studying.
The lack of unity amcmg Blacks, Wdi)
said, was a traditicmal and detrimental problan.
“It is net evoy man for himself,” he said.
“We’ve got to crane togidher.”
Baiber sakl as a leado", one must be accep
ting and wdcoming. He said he had seai people
look down on their brothers frran Africa because
tte qxiee dififerortly or didn’t unda^tarel
evoytfiing Americans did. And Hack
Amaicans dkln’t tiy to understand Africans. “If
you are to be a leada- you have to go against the
brand,” Baiber said.
Baiber suggested sonie ways a leader could
waid off student ^Mttry. “Studerts have to see
leaders wcridng on the simfiest pregect,” he said.
“You can’t push them (studerts) away; you have
to be ri^ there in the fixefiort - in the
trendies.”
“You have to go to outside people,” Baiba"
said. He said leaders should create a sound lecture
saies covaing a variety of pej^jectives. “You
have to keep the studaits anotionally driven,” he
said.
“You can’t nm a serious studait govan-
ment ty leaving a f^iarrf^et oi a desk.”
Leadas shoukl also leam about the campus
and find out wheie the potential leadoshp is,
Baiba- said. “You have to go to than and get
them pditically invotved.”
“The fcader can create efifective student
kadashp,” Webb said, “by qjedfically l^ing
out wtot they are to do and then gcm^ over the
^enda with the potertial leadas.”
Baiber added ttiat students shouki get
recognition fty thdr activism.
Shorod Banks, peskknt of the UNC Black
Student Movonent also gave suggestk«s for
finning student ^Mthy.
“Enthusiasm is craitagjous,” Banks sakl.
“The leada- must be of the mind-set that if thae
is a problem of apathy on his campus, it is his
6uk.” ‘To be a leader you have to gjve youreelf
that kind of hdl.”
Discovery personnel
sign in participants.
(Photo by Ralph Ward)
Black People Get No Breaks In Journalism
by Rhonda Hubbard
Managing Editor
“Despite what studies tell us...we
(Blacks) are still a minority in newsrooms
across the country,” according to Miriam
Thomas, a WTVD (Channel 11) television
news anchorwoman.
She said of the 35 people in the
newsroom at WTVD, only seven were
Black.
Thomas and Allen Johnson, executive
editor of the Winston-Salem Chronicle,
hosted a seminar on Blacks in the Media
during the Discovery program on Feb. 23.
Both professional Black journalists sakl
Black people got no breaks in journalism.
“This is a fimny business,” Thcanas said,
“Pecple in front of the camera are there at die
whim of the directors. But it is also up to the
viewers.
“If they don’t like what they see, they let
the station know.”
Thranas sakl the public rarely, wanted to
see more than one Black anchor on a news
team. However, she was unable to explain why
her news team-which caters to a markel with a
large Black audience-had so few Black anchors.
The competition is even worse for women,
she said. “The Christine Craft case is an exam
ple that these things do happen.”
There are far more women in broadcast
journalism than men-probably because women
have become media conscious, she said.
However, Blacks are not taken seriously by
the media, she said. “We need to bring Black
people out of the shadows,” Thomas sakl.
“There is a real need for a Black presence in the
media so that it (news) will be real for us.
“Not white-‘cause we aren’t white.”
Johnson echoed that sentiment by saying
that Black journalists should also look to Black
newspapers for careers. Johnson, a grEduate of
the University’s journalism schod and past
Black Ink editor, said; “There is a belief that if it
is Black, it can’t be as good as white; but in ‘84,
we (the WinstonSaJem Chronicle) were the best
weekly newspaper in the state.”
“At this year competitbn of the North
Carolina Scholastic Press Association, we wot
13 awards and first place overall. This has never
been done by a daily or weekly newspaper in
the state before.”
Johnson also said that the Chronicle was
chosen last year as the best Black newspaper in
the country by the National Newspaper
Publishers Association.
Black newspapers allow Black people to be
a part of management, Johnson pointed out.
Most Black people on white daily newspaper
staffs are reporters, copy editors and
photographers. “It is a white business,” he sakl.
“There are Black pecple running Black
newspapers-not whites,” Johnson said. “There
needs to be a Black perspective raised in (dealing
with Black issues) instead of the perspectives that
are fore«l on (Blacks) by white reporters.”
Black newspmpers also have their
drawbacks, he said. “They are too concerned
with getting ads and making money,” he said.
“They don’t see that you don’t have to build
around advertising.
“Black people were much more outspoken
when they had everything to lose-^^amely their
lives. But we have lost that outspokeness.”
Blacks Win Big At Grammys
Once again, Black pop and Rhythm and
Blues stars dominated the Grammys.
Here is a partial list;
* What’s Love Got To Do With It - Tina Turner
- Record Of The Year
*Can’t Slow Down - Lionel Richie - Album
Of TTie Year
*What’s Love Got To Do With h - Graham
Lyle, Teny Britter, Songwriters - Best Song
Of The Year
*What's Love Got To Do With- Tina Turner -
Best Pbp Fonale VocalKt
*Ghostbusters - Ray Parker, Jr. - Instrumen
tal Pop
*Better Be Good To Me - Tina Turner - Best
Rock Fonale Vocalist
*Purple Rain - Prince and The Revolution -
Best Rock Group
*1 Feel For You - Chaka Khan - Best R&B
Female Vocalist
^Caribbean Queen - BiLly Ocean - Best R&B
IVI^ Vocalist
*1 Feel For You - Prince, song writer - Best
R&B Sof^
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