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Third of five parts
The racially rooted problems that many of the
nation's universities face today problems such as
recruiting sufficient numbers of blacks and seeing
that they are given the same rights and benefits as
white students are still relatively new to college
adminstrators.
It has been less than three decades, for instance,
since the first black student was admitted to UNC.
But though all is still not racially equal at the
University, an examination of the history of race
relations here reveals that progress has been made in
29 years.
Henry Frye Sr. arrived on campus in the fall of
1956. He was like most other graduate students,
with one exception. He was black.
Frye found, however, that being a black on
campus at Carolina wasn't much of a problem in
1956.
"I was the only one in my law school class and
was treated very well," he said recently. "There
were no real racial problems as such. Had there
been 15 of me instead of one, I don't know if it
would have been different."
' Frye graduated from the UNC School of Law
and went on to serve as a member of the N.C.
House of Representatives. This year he was elected
to the. state Senate.
If Frye had entered the University in 1980 instead
of 1956, he would have been in less of a minority.
Approximately 7.9 percent of the student body is
black, with 1 1 .4 percent of the freshman class
composed of black students.
But not all the progress since Frye entered school
was made swiftly or smoothly. UNC enrolled its
first black" students in 1951, when University
officials voted to allow blacks to enter graduate
school programs if identical programs were not
offered at traditionally black schools. Three years
later, one of the most radical court actions of the
century paved the way for further integration. In
Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme
Court ruled segregation was unconstitutional,
overturning a Southern tradition.
As long as blacks on campus remained few. in
number, little conflict developed among white and
black students. "At first there will be loud cries
from the protagonists and the antagonists who will
advance their positions," Romalus Murphy, one of
the first blacks to enroll, said at the time. "But after
the novelty wears off, everything will work
harmoniously."
Early opposition to black students from students
and administrators came, in fact, not in the form of
riots or protests. After a black was admitted to the
medical school, a student wrote a letter to the editor
of The Daily Tar Heel, claiming that the admission
of a black deprive a w hite student of a place in. the
school and constituted reverse discrimination.
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forget," the student wrote.
As the number of blacks grew at Carolina from
only .4 percent of the student body in 1960 to 2.3
percent a decade later, Murphy's prophecy of
eventual harmony was not fulfilled. Both serious
and minor racial problems appeared, grew and still
exist today.
In 1968, the assassination of Martin Luther King
Jr. set off one of the first major demonstrations by
blacks on campus. Black students boycotted
classes, held vigils and staged marches. Their
despair and anger was aimed not only at the
injustice of the murder but also at the white
population. "I speak to all whites when I say that
you let this happen," Isaac Battle Jr. said in a letter
to the DTH. "My bitterness is not unaccountable
and right now it is damn hard to keep from crying.
It's not only going to be a long, hot summer; it's
going to be hell, and let me tell you that hell has
already started."
The Black Student Movement was formed shortly
after King's death and it soon began working to
uphold rights of both black students and workers at
the University. In 1970, the BSM supported a
cafeteria workers' strike. On "Black Monday,"
more than 1,000 students from across the state
arrived to participate in the strike. Their efforts
were rewarded when the workers across the state
received an increase in wazes.
In 1969, the ESM challenged the administrative
and admission policies of the University and
presented a list of demands to then-Chancc'Icr J.
Carlyle Sitterson. The group demanded that
Scholastic Aptitude Test scores net be used as
criterion for admission, asked for separate funding
from Student Government because it was net
meeting the BSM's needs and petitioned for the
creation of a department of African and Afro
American studies. It also demanded a dean for
black students and increased recruitment of black
athletes.
The BSM had no immediate success. Sitterson
replied to its challenge: "It should be clear that the
University cannot in policy or in practice provide
unique treatment for any single race, color or creed.
To do so would be a step backward, and the
University should set its sights upon a better
future."
Though Sitterson's response was a setback to the
BSM, the tradition of the group's involvement in
University affairs had been established. And
eventually, some of its 1959 demands were met,
along with later requests.
Harold Wallace was approved last week to hold
the newly created position of Nice chancellor for
See PROGRESS on page 3
By KERRY DEROCHI
, Staff Writer
Students paid $130 in health fees this year, which
was the highest in the 16-campus UNC system.
Saunders had said Student Government would
not support another health fee increase because of
past errors in budget projection figures. The
1979-1930 budget had a projected $76,000 deficit,
The proposed student health fee increase in the
1931-1932 budget was voted down Tuesday by the
Student Health Service Administrative Advisory
Board. " ,
In a 6-3 decision the board moved to accept all UJ c'ual deficit was m ;
Ut,4t mA kt, rr t,m Trtr budget had a projected surplus of $92,000 but the
the budget projections made by Dr. James Taylor, . . J ftnrt'- . . .
acting director of the SHS, except the increase in
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health fees. The board also approved a proposal to
recommend to the chancellor that he request the
UNC Board of Trustees start a study on the needs
of the SHS and the options open for financing those
needs.
"I'm very pleased that the board has decided to
hold the line with the Ice and force the issue of
study of the SHS," Student Body President Bob
Saunders said. "It's something that should have
been done last year, and I'm ecstatic that it is being
done this year."
A fee increase had been proposed by Taylor at
the last board meeting to cover a projected deficit
of $70,000 in the 1931-1932 budget figures. Taylor
had proposed a $2 per semester increase which
would have brought in approximately $80,000.
actual surplus was $172,000. Saunders also said the
$130 paid in health fees was' at a prohibitive level
and should not be raised.
Taylor said, however, the fee increase was
necessary because of the projected deficit the health
service would have to operate under next year.
"I'm very disappointed in the action and I don't
think it was a responsible thing to do. It's a slap in
the face for everything I've stood for nine years,"
Taylor said.
The budget, with recommendations for the
1981-1932 year," will go to Vice Chancellor of
Student Affairs Donald A. Boulton and to Vice
Chancellor for Business and Finance John Temple.
The decision will then be submitted to the
chancellor, the UNC Board of Trustees and the
UNC Board of Governors for approval.
across North
reacted with
anger and
disappointment to the
not-guilty verdict in the
Klan-Nazi murder trial.
Top left, UNC students
Mike Tuck, junior (left),
end sophomore Craig
Crutchfleld protest
egainst the Nazis during a
press conference at the
Nazi headquarters in
Raleigh. Nazi leader
Harold Covington, , top
right, thumbs his note at
tho- students Below,
Duke students gather in a
vigil to protest the
Greensboro jury's
decision.
Photos by Scott Sharps.
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By WILLIAM PESCHEL
and FRANK WELLS
" Staff Writers
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By MELODEE ALVES
and I RANK ZANG
Staff Writers .
The shock and anger over the verdict of the
KbnNai trial in Greensboro continued to be
heard last night at the "Rock Against Racism"
rally in the New Tin Can, Sponsored by the
Students Against Militarism, the National Rock
Against Racism and the North Carolina Yippies,
the rally was held to protest what sponsors called
"the increasing acceptance of racism throughout
the country."
Moris Cauce, wife of slain CWP member Cesar
Cauce, told an audience of approximately 150
people about her disappointment and rage at the.-nof-ful!ty
trial verdict.
"I'm ar ry and I think you know why. The
verdict was like a knife in my stomach. I'll never
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unarmed, with nothing but a stick in his hand,"
she said.
Cause questioned the validity of the selection
of the all-white jury and called the process a
product of a "rotten, capitalist system."
She responded to the question of why CWP
members did not take the witness-stand by telling
the audience to go back to their history books.
"People told the truth before, but they were still
punished," she said.
Zeke Thompson, a member of the
Revolutionary Communist Party, also spoke
about the verdict, saying his party would fight to
further expose the system.
Many people watched a videotape of the Nov.
3 shooting incident in the back of the building
and expressed shock over the violence on the
film.
Nelson Johnson, a CWP member present at
the shootout was scheduled to speak but could
not make it, Chris Kueny, an SAM member, said.
' Although they anticipated no trouble, campus
police assigned extra men to the rally in addition
to the two officers previously assigned to the
event, said Robert Sherman, director of campus
security.
There were rumors that FBI agents were
present at the rally and using the law school as a
command post.
Organizers of the rally were pleased with the
turnout and support of the people, and campus
police.
"I am totally harry." said John Ganga, a
Yip pie. "This thing is going really great. Students
are extremely conscious of what's going on. 1
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"(It's) probably the most surprising news
I've heard in a long, long time," said Hayden
B. Renwick, associate dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences. ,
Renw Lk's reaction to the acquittal Monday
of six Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen was
representative of campus opinion Tuesday.
An all-white jury returned a verdict of not
guilty Monday after seven days of deliberation
following the longest trial in North Carolina
history.
A veil prciestir.3 the outcome cf Lh; tried
drew more than 120 students to the Pit
Tuesday. Gathered in front of Lenoir Hall, the
crowd listened to a brief speech by law student
Alex Charnes.
"The general air in the country is against
blacks more and more and no one is really
showing they arc opposed (to it)," Charnes
said.
The Klansmen and Nazis were not acting in
self-defense, he said. "I've seen the
videotapes, and it is not using reasonable force
.(for self-defense) when you have got a man on
his knees and injured and you hit him in the
head. That is not self-defense."
Renwick said he believed the trial's problem
was in the jury selection process. "The lawy ers
tr.i'1 turcrx tr.ev know are unmans a certain
way,
white
people cgrte with the verdict or the
feelings of the groups, but they are blinded by
the method of selection.
"As it stands, the deck is stacked gain:t
justice," he said.
Many people at the vigil described the
verdict as "disappointing" or "sad." Mclarae
Wilson, an industrial relations major from
Newton, N.C, said (the verdict) "will
promote more racism and segregation in places
like Newton and Maiden. They try to held
blacks there, and take what they dlih cut," she
said. "It also makes (blacks) lock bad. Lie thU
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Local bands, including Movement and
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speakers were Mark Canady, ESM chairperson.
discussed racism. Kueny, spoke on
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Students across the state joined black
and religious leaders Tuesday expressing
concern oscr the acquittal of four Ku
Klansmen and two Nam on
charges in the deaths of five
Ccmmur.ht Worker's Party supporters
in Green t::ro.
"This is indeed a lad day when
murderers are allowed to walk the streets
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North Carolina ALT student who is also
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the incredible decision handed damn by
the all-while jury in the Klen-Naai
murder trial," a student g ovemrr.rnt
statement read. "Again ts Hack people
we find ourselves havirj to f ht eff the
evils of injustice, prejudice and rachm
that continue to per. ail rot cn!y in the
city cf Grcenstcro tat in the nation."
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