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BLACK INK
September, 1972
BSM Meeting
by Angela Bryant
News Editor
BSM Meeting Thursday, September 14, 7:30 p.m., 111 Murphey.
I. Introduction of officers
II. Mrs. Dabney from Upward Bound asked for tutors on
Saturdays of nor home football games. Contact her in 201
Vance HaU.
III. Committee Reports
A. On campus — Larry Mixon
1. Inefficient distribution of newsletters due to lack
.of addresses of upperclassmen. Please see Larry
and let him know where you are living.
2. Election on Wednesday, Sept. 27 for 3 freshmen
representatives. Nee a petition of 15 names for
nomination due Friday, Sept. 22 by 5:00 p.m.
Only freshmen will vote!
B. Off campus — Larry Williams
1. In process of getting addresses of off campus
students for efficient communication.
2. Work with Y-Tutorial. Sign up in office of director
of YWCA Edith Elliot.
C. BLACK INK - Valerie Batts
1. First issue will be distributed on Friday, Sept. 22.
2. Appreciation especially to freshmen for fine work
and enthusiasm.
D. Social Committee — Milton Gunn
1. Constitution requires planned activities every
weekend. He needs manpower for more creative
work.
2. Plans include Black Talent Show, Black Combo,
Black Tournaments (cards, chess, ^etc) Black
Coffeehouse, invitation to Black Unlimited TV
program. Holiday dances.
3. Meeting Sunday, sept. 17, in James Lounge.
E. Parliamentarian and Constitution Committee — Lonnie
Hall
1. Need to revise constitution as of now we only have
by-laws.
2. Required to meet once a month. Needs members!
F. Elections Committee — Ronald George
1. Needs committee members to help in preparing
ballots for electsions on Sept. 27.
G. Cultural Committee — Willie Wilson
1. Announced officers
2. First acheduled activity. Oct. 13, coronation of
Miss BSM
Deadlines for petitions is Sept. 22. Students
admonished to consider that Miss BSM should
exemplify Black womanhood and involvement not
popularity.
3. Groups for special interest:
Drama — Hubert Williamson, Director. Meeting
7:00 p.m. Sept. 18 in James Lounge.
Dance — Herman Mixon, Director
Choir — Francine Randolph
H. Gilson Tutorial — Mona Simons, Cyntha Crawford,
Gregory Strayhorn, Robert White.
1. Sign up for tutor and tutees. Please list subjects
you need help in.
2. Sign up list posted in Union and lobby of South
campus dorms.
I. Intramural Sports teams — Ronald Richardson
Please see Ronald to sign up for teams. He has to attend
pre-season managers meeting.
IV. Dick Gregory will speak on Sept. 26. Reception for 30 people
will be held.
10 slots alloted to BSM. To compete pick up entry blank
at desk, and write essay “Why I Want to Meet Dick
Gregory.”
V. Treasurer’s Report
1. We have a budget of $7750 based on $800 that must be
collected in dues of $3 per semester per member.
2. Itemized budget was read and balanced.
VI. Association of Black Medical Students — William Murphey
1. 40 Black medical students at UNC.
2. Organization desires communication with BSM and
would like to counsel any student interested in
paramedical professions now during undergraduate
years. Advice concerning counrses to take, how to get
financial help, applications, etc. will be offered gladly.
VII. Guidance and testing center — Bill Lawrence in 019 Peabody.
1. There is now a part-time Black counselor at the
Guidance and testing center.
2. Offers of career counseling, aptitude testing, interest and
temperament evaluation, occupational information and
reading instruction available.
3. Mr. Lawrence’s office hours are 1 to 5 on MWF. Center
is open 8 to 5 daily.
4. Please use facilities so we will have basis to ask for full
time Black counselor.
VIII. Surprise celebration party for Lennox Stewart. Friday, Sept.
15 in Ehringhaus basement. All students asked to contribute
and attend!
IX. Mike Mosely extend appreciation for support received in his
bid for Governor of James. He lost by 30 votes.
X. Next BSM meeting on Thursday, Oct. 12 at 7:30 p.m. in 11 1
Murphey. Please attend so you will be informed. The speaker
will be Edith Elliot, Director of YWCA.
Wanted:
Black
Men
by Angela Bryant
News Editor
The Opeyo Dancers are badly
in need of men for some of the
dance routines. Each woman has
been asked to bring a partner for
the next rehearsal. If you are
skeptical about participating,
just come to rehearsal Thursday
at 6 p.m. or Saturday at 1 p.m.
and watch before forming a
negative opinion.
It is a lot of fun, exercise and
recreation. To join contact one
of the girls in the group or the
director, Herman Mixon at 242
Craige, 933-71 13.
Let us remember that part of
the strength and beauty of the
Black man is his agility, strength
and rhythm of movement!
Calendar of events
by Emma Pullen
Staff Writer
Very few activities on campus are designed specifically for black
students, but each month the Black Ink will present a calendar of
events that should be of interest to the black community.
September 19 BSM Central Committee meeting,
215 Student Union, 7:30
September 22 Deadline for petitions for the
Miss BSM Pageant.
Remember; Each contestant must
have 20 signatures.
September 24 Free Flick; Shaft
Great Hall, 6:30 & 9:00.
September 28 Voting will be held in the Union
and James from 9-4:00 to choose
the six finalists for the
Miss BSM Pageant.
October 5 Final election of Miss BSM.
Voting will be held in
the same place.
October 12 BSM general meeting
111 Murphy,7:30.
October 13 Miss BSM Pageant
Great Hall, 8:00
featuring the BSM Drama Group
& “The Opeyo Dancers”
If you are planning or have knowledge of any activities that are
relevant to the black community, please contact;
Angela Bryant
243 Ehringhaus
933-3497 or
Emma Pullen
650 Morrison
933-4186
Lest we forget:
Highlights of Black experience
by Larry Mixon
Staff Writer
and
Angela Bryant
News Editor
“Those who cannot Remember
the past are forced to repeat it. ”
Harold Cruse
The past experience of a
people is something which
clearly needs to be contemplated
and remembered by their
descendents. In recognition of
this fact, we of Black Ink Staff
have instituted a “Highlights of
the Black Experience” calendar
to appear in every issue.
We intend to point out and
stress both trivial and significant
events from our Black past.
Some events will not be pleasant
to recall, but nonetheless need
to be remembered. By recalling
these events, we do not desire to
create further bitterness and
estrangement between Blacks
and whites, but rather develop a
perspective. We intend to
develop a perspective that will
not allow us to forget that in the
past we have come as far as we
have because of struggle, hard
work, self-sacrifice, bloodshed,
and tears; and that this will be
true of the future.
Furthermore we intend to
remember that those who now
profess good will toward us, and
seek to continue to guide and
control our destiny, once were
our ardent enemies. We intend
to remember that in the final
analysis, we must depend on
ourselves (our organizations, our
cultural and spiritual essence,
and our deeply inlaid belief in
our Black selves) to carry us
“over.”
Above all we intend to
identify with our long Black
heritage through slavery, Jim
Crow, and the present day crisis
of desegregation. We are a proud
race, one which has survived and
marched forward despite all the
odds of slave ships, auction
blocks, lynching ropes, separate
caste, and outright denial of
human livelihood. So let us now
continue to march on in our
great tradition both cherishing
it, analyzing it, and learning
from it.
August
1955 —Emmett Till, 14,
kidnapped and lynched in
Money, Mississippi. (28)
1956—White mob prevented
enrollment of Black student at
Mansfield High School,
Mansfield, Texas. (30)
1957—Congress passed Civil
Rights Act of 1957—first Civil
Rights legislation since 1875.
(29)
1 9 6 2 —Police closed
municipal parks and libraries in
Albany, Georgia after integrated
groups tried to use facilities.
(11) Shady Grove Baptist
Church burned in Leesburg,
Georgia (15)
1963—250,000 plus march on
Washington. (28)
1 969 —Nixon nominates
southern judicial conservative
Clement Hayns worth, Jr. to
occupy a seat on the Supreme
Court. (18-23)
September
1 88 1 —Tuskegee Institute
opened by Booker T.
Washington in Alabama. (19)
1 956—Tennessee National
Guard disperses mob attempting
to prevent school integration.
(2) National Guard dispersed
mob attempting to prevent
school integration at Sturgis,
Kentucky. (6) Negro students
entered Clay, Kentucky
elementary school under
National Guard protection. (12)
They were barred from school
on 1 7th.
1957—Nashville’s new Hattie
Cotton Elementary School with
enrollment of one Negro and
388 white, virtually destroyed
by dynamite blast. (9) President
Eisenhower ordered federal
troops to Little Rock, Arkansas,
to prevent interference with
school integration at Central
High School. (24)
1958-Martin Luther King
stabbed in chest by crazed Black
woman while in-book store in
Harlem. (20) Two Negro
churches burned near Sasser,
Georgia. (9) Black leaders asked
President to put a stop to
Nazi-like reign of terror in
southwest Georgia. University of
Mississippi students and adults
from Oxford, Mississippi and
other southern communities
rioted on the University
Campus. Two persons killed and
100 or more were wounded.
James H. Meredith enters.
12,000 troops restore order.
(30)
1962^Sonny Liston knocked
out Floyd Patterson to become
heavy weight boxing champion
of the world. (25)
1961—The interstate
Commerce Commission
outlawed segregation in all
trains, buses and terminals
involved in interstate commerce.
(22).
1963—Four Negro girls killed
in bombing of 16th Street
Baptist Church, Birmingham,
Alabama. (15)
October
1492—Columbus, with a
Negro pilot discovered America.
(12)
1859—John Brown’s raid on
Harper’s Ferry, United States
Arsenal. (16)
1898—North Carolina Mutual
Insurance Company organized
by John Merrick and Dr. D.A.
Moore in Durham. (18)
1919 —Senator Edward
Brooke elected to Congress from
Massachusetts in 1967 was born.
(26)
1954—The Defense
Department announced that
integration had been achieved in
the armed forces. (31)
1963-Some 225,000 pupils
were absent from Chicago public
schools in a 1 day boycott
protesting de-facto school
segregation. (22)
1964—Martin Luther King
awarded Nobel Peace
Prize-donated $54,000 to Civil
Rights Movement. (14)
1971-Attica Prison Revolt.