Freedom
Justice
Unity
POWER!
December, 1971
BLACK INK
BLACK STUDENT MOVEMENT OFFICAL NEWSPAPER
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Volume 3, Number 3
700 attend N.Y. conference
NBSSO fights prejudice in medicine
by Allen Mask
Editor
The Third Annual Conference of the
National Black Science Students
Organization pledged recently to fight the
racism that has existed for years in the
medical profession. Meeting December
2—5 at the -Commodore Hotel in New
York, the NBSSO provided a national
forum for over 700 Black high school and
college students to meet with Black
doctors and scientists.
The conference opened on December
2 at Harlem Hospital with talks by
NBSSO President, James Fleshman, and a
number of prominent Black physicians
from across the nation. Here Black
doctors urged students to dedicate
themselves to the health and welfare of
Black people. They reminded the
participants that medical care for Black
Black Ink editors report on
Cates Memorial and Ayden Situation. See pages 4 and 5.
Carolina talent search
set for Jan. 20
by Deborah Austin
News Editor
Carolina Talent Search, a black
recruiting effort under the auspices of the
Department of Undergraduate
Admissions, will get under way January
20 for the 1972 program. Ninety-five
students have been contacted and around
60 are expected to participate in the
three-day affair.
Talent Search brings to the UNC
campus black students from across North
Carolina who are National Achievement
Recommended Students and
Semi-Finalists. A letter of explanation
and application are sent to each student
inviting him to participate. After
applications are received and approved,
Chairman Burnes Ray and his Talent
Search Committee arrange for sleeping
quarters, meals and work out a schedule
for the students to attend classes. The
participants pay only for transportation
to the campus.
These students will attend a variety of
classes and participate in all aspects of
campus life. Plans are being formulated to
obtain tickets for the students to the
Carolina-Duke game on January 22nd.
“This will be a new experience for the
students,” said Ray. “They will be doing
whatever benefits them — we want no
phoniness.” He went on to say that the
main impression of the university gained
people in the United States is woefully
inadequate and suggested that Black
people seriously consider this when
selecting a profession. Dr. Herbert Cave,
Chief of Staff at Harlem Hospital, and
assistants then conducted a tour of the
facilities of the Black Medical Center.
Workshops were conducted Friday
dealing with such topics as Sickle-Cell
Anemia, a disease suffered primarily by
Black people, African Medicine, Abortion
and Black people, and the history of
Black science. New members were
chartered in the NBSSO Saturday along
with seminars in Nutrition,
Environmental Diseases, and research
science.
A number of young Black doctors
challenged Black students to “forget the
glory of the medical profession” and
dedicate their lives to better health care
See NBSSO, Pg. 8
J.C. Smith exchange
fights bourgeois image
by the students comes through the
conversations that he or she hears from
the host or hostess.
This year the Student Government
appropriated $1720.00 for Talent Search.
Last year, Ray and the Talent Search
committee had fair support from the
black student population and he seeks
greater support this year.
Talent Search, which has been active
for around four years, has been fairly
successful for the present Freshman class
shows a 68% return of last year’s
participants.
Ray also states that he hopes to
expand Talent Search by not having to
rely on National Merit Test Scores, and
working more closely with Mr. H.B.
Renwick in Undergraduate Admissions.
Talent Search Chairman Ray has been
somewhat disturbed because of some
confusion concerning the projection of
Talent Search. According to Ray, Talent
Search is under the auspices of Student
Government, not the Black Student
Movement. Even though Student
Government asks for a B.S.M. nominee
for the chairmanship, the B.S.M. does not
control the Talent Search. The S.G. must
re-appropriate funds to fully run the
program and Talent Search has to work
closely with them. Ray indicated however
he needs total support from the Black
Student Movement.
by Robert Evans
Staff Writer
For the second year, the black
students at UNC have enjoyed an
exchange program with students from
Johnson C. Smith University. The
exchange students took in various aspects
of the campus for three days through
activities at James, a faculty reception at
the N.C. Fellows Lounge, a couple of
dinner parties, and by attending some
classes. Superficially, the visit in the
words of Miss Pam Campbell is designed
to fit the exchange students into the
routine life of each other’s campus. Miss
Campbell said that “the exchange will
hopefully give us a better understanding
of each other and set a regional example
of cooperation between black and white
schools.” We sincerely hope that these
ends have been met and for her part in
coordinating the exchange Miss Campbell
is to be commended.
Black students on this campus as a
whole had one additional goal with regard
to the exchange and it would appear that
they have in some respects achieved their
goal. The goal was to begin to establish
more rapport with the black students of
predominately black Universities.
Whether we like to admit it or not,
relations with our brothers on these
campuses has been rather tacky to say the
least. It has been our goal to attempt to
eradicate the “bourgeois nigger” imaj^.
that we are invariably stamped v
because we choose to attend hts
University. With regard to this exchange"
we can pat ourselves on the back.
In talking with the Smith student it
was very evident that they 'naa
thoroughly enjoyed themselves. One
student said explicitly that the black
students with which he had come inlo
contact had been especially friendly and
more importantly, easy to relate to. I he
comments by some of the other students'
were essentially the same. However, onf
student added additio'nal insight, perhaps
an insight that we should have long a/:',
made note of; he said: “the stu'^'y
Negroes are on the black campuses too -
my guess is that there are more of them.’’
On a whole then, we have done a fairly
good job of showing our exposure to a
white value system has not replaced the
values we hold as blacks. True this cannot
be said of every black on this campus, but
this fact should only be the incentive ihat
the rest of us need to hitch our belts
take up the extra slack. Accept these
congratulations but for the sake of the
cause in general do not lapse into
complacency. Draw strength from t'.ie
fact that some students from Johnsoi. C,
Smith University feel that there is indeed
a common element between us other thar
the fact that we are all black.
Blacks march in route to James Cates Memorial Service held at the Carolina Union
Pit. The ceremonies were conducted in memory of James Cates, a Chapel Hill B^
killed on the UNC campus last year. The march was also in protest of the injustio
Ayden. Black Ink Editors analyze on page 4 and 5.