Tuesday, Feb. 11, 1986
Black Ink
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liYerman and Wilson; new Kappa Epsilon members
Karen Liverman and Carla Wilson
photo by Tammie Foust
by Nancy Herrington
Staff Writer
Karen Liverman and Carla
Wilson, first-year pharmacy students,
have been initiated into Kappa
Epsilon, the national professional
fraternity for pharmacy students.
Established at UNC in May 1938,
the fraternity’s purpose was to unite
women students in pharmacy, to
cooperate with faculties of colleges
where chapters were established, to
stimulate in its members a desire for
high scholarship, to foster profes
sional consciousness and to provide a
bond of lasting loyalty, interest, and
friendship between, its members,
according to a Kappa Epsilon
document.
“It develops leadership qualities
in the young women,” said Kappa
Epsilon advisor Betty Dennis. Kappa
Epsilon members have been involved
with many service projects,” she said.
Laura Dillard, president of
Kappa Epsilon, said that to become
members, students must participate
in a pledge project. Before the pledge
process is over, the rushees are given
a test on the organization’s members
and history.
Rushees must also be voted on
by the members and receive a major
ity of votes, she said.
Liverman, from Farmville, N.C.,
is secretary-treasurer of the phar
macy school student government and
a member of Student National
American Pharmaceutical Association
and Student American Pharma
ceutical Association, both of which are
associations for pharmacy students.
Liverman is also a minority advisor, a
bound counselor and was a congres
sional intern in Washington D.C. this
summer.
She said that she would like to be
a positive role model for black
freshmen.
“I’d like to influence other black
students in thinking of pharmacy as a
career,” she said. Those who would
like to consider pharmacy as a major
should be prepared to study hard and
discipline themselves.”
Wilson, from Beaufort, N.C., said
at first they (she and Liverman) felt
out of place, although the other girls
were friendly. She said that the pledg
ing process was an experience.
“We knew that we couldn’t be
turned down, especially if we fulfilled
the requirements,” said Wilson.
She has been involved with the
Black Student Movement, SNAPHA
and SAPHA. She was also a tutor for
Upward Bound and a volunteer with
the bloodmobile sponsored by the
pharmacy school.
After receiving a B.A. in phar
macy, Wilson said she hoped to work
in cosmetic manufacturing.
Liverman said she would like to
get a Ph.D. in pharmacy and maybe in
later years own a chain of pharmacies
as an entrepeneur.
Goode
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pragmatic leader of all time. He
worked, planned and organized to
make a better way for people.”
Other Americans can help in
the struggle, he said, if they look to
the upcoming celebration of the
200th anniversary of the Constitu
tion as a chance to reaffirm and
access goals.
Goode explained that we are
facing troubles now, but that
troubles are a part of history. He
said such famous black Americans as
Booker T. Washington, W.B. DuBois
and King have victoriously met the
challenges in front of them.
The battle will not be won,
though, unless all people enjoy the
same freedoms and rights, not just a
select few. “Until every single
Students must have a 2.0 GPA to
get into pharmacy school, although
according to Liverman, the average
GPA of her class was 2.7. Liverman
said that nine of the 175 students in
her class were black.
The UNC Pharmacy School is
currently ranked fifth in the country.
person in this world,” he said,
“enjoys basic freedom, none of us
should be able to rest comfortably at
night.”
We should be drum majors for
justice, peace and rightousness,” he
said.
In a short question and answer
period following the speech, Goode
spoke on the subjects of apathy and
divestment in South Africa. Many
people have become apathetic about
social problems because outwardly,
conditions do not look so desparate,
he said, “We have to remind people
that things are not as good as they
seem.”
On divestment, he pointed out
that Philadelphia recently divested
and lost $11,000,000. He said he
replied to critics of the action,
“Freedom ain’t cheap.” He would not
say whether he thought UNC should
divest all its funds from South
Africa.
Goode, a native of Seaboard,
North Carolina, is the first black
mayor of Philadelphia. He follows a
line of King Memorial speakers that
includes Rev. Martin Luther King,
Sr., Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young,
and the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
resident assistant in Cobb, an upward
BSM begiiuiings
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Then chairperson Byron Horton
said, “that if a person has three unex
cused absences he is automatically
resigned” according to a 1978 issue of
Black Ink. This fulfillment of BSM
guidelines resulted in the loss of 12
central committee members.
Presently, the BSM is under the
leadership of Sibby Anderson, a
junior from Winterville, N.C. Its
policy committees are the central
committee, the cultural committee,
the freshmen class committee and the
academic affairs committee, a newly
formed committee to provide
academic information. Its subgroups
include the Opeyo Dancers, the Ebony
Readers, the BSM Gospel Choir, and
Black Ink.
Mike Rogers, membership chair
man, said that the present member
ship is approximately 400.
In a telephone interview, Tonya
L. Smith, BSM vice president, said
that the primary goals of the BSM are
to provide an outlet for black students
on a predominantly white campus and
to make students aware of themselves
and issues.”
She said that in addition to pro
viding cultural, political, and social
outlets, the BSM is putting greater
emphasis on academics. “Apathy
among students,” she said, “is one of
the biggest problems facing the
BSM.”
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