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page 6 October 27, 1989 Around Campus ft Black Ink -Tammy Newton Dean Fuse-Hall gives special attention to freshman Randy McMillan Wallace at Duke University. While at Duke, Wallace pushed for the formation of a Black Cultural Center among other things. Unfortunately, a BCC did not take form at Duke Uni versity until much later. On UNC’s campus, when there was much talk about the formation of a BCC, Wallace was quick to state that he highly favored a Black Cultural Center and did all that he could to aid in its devel opment on campus. “I added my two cents worth,” he said while chuckling. When asked to share his views about the BCC, Wal lace innately replied,” I see the BCC retaining its identity, re taining its name, and doing more to cultivate the cultural expres sions on the part of other groups. To me, it serves as a focal point for the expression of various causes.” Wallace says that his pri mary concern is to the univer sity. He feels that the most chal lenging part of his occupation is being an advocate and at the same time being identified by other people as a part of the admini stration. “I can be an agitator, if you will, who advocates for change and pushes for change.” Wallace can certainly be labeled an equal opportunity person. His desire for an increas ing number of opportunities on UNC’s campus for Blacks, Na Ink Widemon’s successor in 1976, Allen Johnson. Under the lead ership of Johnson, the staff was able to publish 13 issues, at that time, the greatest number of is sues published in one year. Johnson also originated the idea of selling ads, selling sub scriptions and having fundrais ing projects to increase the budget. Overall, these ideas generated $2,000. Under Johnson, the Ink main tained its position as an alterna tive press for blacks and a protest paper to chronicle the struggles. Black Ink-Tammy Newlon RA Tina Brown hangs "Awareness" poster in Winston tive Americans, and women is overwhelming. He wants each individual who is a student at UNC to feel involved and needed instead of feeling isolated and dismayed. His total focus is on the betterment of the campus, the advancement of each cultural community, and an overall opti mism about this institution. When asked what he thought about the ignorance of racism on this campus, he placed his pencil behind his ear, folded his hands in an instictive manner and said: “I hate to use this example, but on Star Trek, there was a race of people who constantly con flicted with one another. They were trying to find out what the reasons were because the people looked just alike. They were half black and half white but one person was black on the right side and white on the left side and another person was white on the right side and black on the left side. That was the reason why they hated each other. It is so sad that such small differences cause people to be at each other’s throats. The lesson is that no matter how similar we are, somebody is going to find a difference around which develops a prejudice and some bias which develops into racism. That is very unfortunate.” Johnson set trends that remain with the paper today. Johnson changed the paper’s logo from “Justice, Freedom, Unity, Power!” to “The Essence of Freedom is Understanding,” the current motto. In 1978, with Johnson serv ing as co-editor. Black Ink re ceived its first journalism award—third place for best col lege magazine in the Society of Professional Journalists’ South ern Region.
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