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Tbe essense of Freedom is understanding.
Vol. 11 No. 8
Letters
DAVID R. SQUIRES
Editor in Chief
VANESSA SIDDLE
Managing Editor
THERESA WILLIAMS
News Editor
Do you have friends, walking the
streets, bacit home who try to con
vince you that a college degree is not
worth anything anymore.
And haven’t you heard that excuse
used by people who quit or flunk out of
college?
“College students don’t have an
advantage on the job market
anymore, they will tell you.
Well it just isn’t so.
Herbert Bienstock, who directs the
U.S. Division of Labor Statistics’
Middle Atlantic Region staff, told a
City University of New York con
ference that doom-sayers, who swear
college degrees don’t imporve a
student’s chances of getting a job, are
simply wrong.
Bienstock released statistics that
showed college graduates have an
unemployment rate of 3.3 percent,
compared with the 8.8 unemployment
rate for all American workers in
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Associate Editor
Vanessa Slddle
Managing Editor
Carol Lewis
Featnrea Editor
Ricky Brysoa
BoBlness Manager
DavkI R. Squkm
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James Alexander
Sports Editor
James Parker
Photography Editor
Sheri Turner
Fellowslilp Editor
Pam TtaompMO
Pnblidty Editor
Pam Smith
Subscrlbtlon Manager
Theresa Williams
News Editor
Teresa Dlxoa
Advertlalng Manager
Love Mills
Arts Editor
Black Ink is published weekly l>y the Black Student Movement, Suite B
Frank Porter Graham Student Union. The Univenlty of North Carolina.
■ HijC,.X7S14.
Frat leader defends organization
Blacks, chancellor may meet
We still push the mops
The government recently set up a business bureau in Washington,
D.C. for Black businesses. It’s called ... the Small Business Bureau.
That’s a fact.
Of the top 100 Black owned businesses in the United States, their
combined capital was similar to the 226th business of the top white 500
companies in the United States.
In the 650 seats on the American Stock Exchange, only one is held by
a Black firm.
Only statistics, but behind these finding can be found one of the
causes of the Black people’s state. What is our state, one may ask?
For an example, non-white men and women make up 33 and 44
percent respectively of the service, private household and laborer
occupations in the United States as of 1971, compared to the white male
and white female making up 14 percent and 20 percent of the janitorial
work force.
Even though the janitorial position is an honest job-these jobs as well
as others acquired under white firms and industries are only serving to
deter Black people’s progress in acquiring decision-making positions.
This may be an enormous generalization, but as long as whites control
the job market, the hiring and firing, they control us.
A college degree does count
March, 1977.
Male college graduates had a
jobless rate of 2.8 percent, or about a
third of the rate of all males. Female
graduates had a 4.2 percent rate,
versus 9.2 percent for all females.
“'nie much-heralded cautions about
college attendance,” Bienstock
warned, “should themselves be
viewed with considerable caution. It
seems clear that, while the college
graduate has in recent years ex
perienced some difficulties in the
labor market, we can expect to see
the pressures ease as we move into
the 1980’s.”
So when you happen to see that
“doom saying” friend of yours, tell
him to stop kidding himself.
Tell him that the advice from the
old television commercial still holds
true. “To get a good job, you need a
good educaton.”
And today . . . college is the jam.
The essence of freedom Is understanding.
Vol. 11 No. 8
To the editor.
In reference to your half page ar
ticle on fraternity hazing, I have a
simple question; why? Why did you
feel it necessary to print the niost
negative aspects of fraternity life?
Why do you feel justified in relating to
the populus of UNC an event that
occured some 17 months ago, i.e.
Roberty Bazile’s death? Why would
you choose to print an article
“highlighting” Omega Psi Phi
Fraternity in a negative aspect?
Mr. Squires, from my un
derstanding of journalism, your ^b is
to educate and inform the public in an
unbiased manner. I respect and
admire your contribution to the black
culture on this campus, but can’t you
see how you have created a twisted
perception of Omega Psi Phi and
black Greeks in general? The general
masses have go^ reason to associate
this article directly to the Greek
lifestyle on this campus, especially
since you decided to get the “tide
rolling” by printing hazing by another
chapter of Omega Psi Phi. I fail to see
. the relevancy of this article. My
’ reproach would be less severe if
something of this nature had recently
happened or ever happened on this
campus, but it has not. Would not
have an article describing the service
aspects of black Greeks served a
more meaningful purpose?
Your obvious lack of knowledge of
what fraternity life is all about shows;
and your choice of publishii^ this
article is explicit evidence of it. The
generalities of this article are quite
disturbing. Many Greeks do not
think “hazing is an essential part of
fraternity life.” Why print an article
concluding that hazing will likdy
continue? As an outsider looking in,
you have chosen to publish a vary
hazy picture.
I cannot speak for everyone, nor
will I attempt to speak for anyone but
the Psi Delta Chapter of Omega Psi
Phi. But if it is necessary to fl(^ a
pledge in order to coerce him into
learning the history and ideals of
Omega Psi Phi, then he is not worthy
of the brotherhood of our fraternity.
We are a very closely knit service
fraternity, Mr. Squires. We do “un-
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There will be two more issues of Black
Ink this semester. There will be a
homecoming issue on Nov. 17 and a
Christmas-ACC Basketball issue on Dec. 1.
Despite limited funds, these final two
issues will push to 10, the number of Ink’s
printed in one semester. We also hope to
publish 10 issues next semester.
The record for the most Black Ink’s
published in one academic year is 14,
courtesy of Allen Johnson and Lonza
Hardy last year.
This year our goal is 20.
newsworthy” projects such as
collecting can goods and distributing
them to less fortunate people who
thank us with tears in their eyes and a
desperate request from their hearts
for us to return during Thanksgiving
and Christmas and serving as
surrogate big brothers for infortunate
kids. Omega Psi Phi seeks to uplift
the commuiity, not for recognition,
but as an expression of our values.
We are not a close-minded
organization; we can accept con
structive criticism. However, we did
not deserve the negative allegations
of this article that you chose to print. I
apologize for the length of my letter,
but you attacked something that I
love and I saw a need to defend it. As
your theme says, “The essence of
freedom is understanding.” Before
you establish your freedom, perhaps
you should examine your un
derstanding.
Jesse L. Grissom, Jr.
Basileus
Psi Delta Chapter
Omega Psi Phi Frat. Inc.
BLACK FACULTY
STAFF TO INVESTIGATE
To the editor:
The Black Faculty-Staff Caucus at
the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill has followed the con
troversy concerning the admission of
undergraduate blat^ students and the
actions of officials in the Office of
Undergraduate Admissions. The
Black Faculty-Staff Caucus has
recently communicated its concern to
Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor and
requested a meeting to discuss the
issues which has been raised
regarding the admissions process.
The members of the BFSC want to be
assured that fiar standards are being
applied equally to all applicants.
BF%C Steering Committee
Harold G. Wallace, Secretary-
Treasurer
If blackness
can be converted
into words
and pictures ...
\Vc intend lo do it
Smlc K. C'arnlin.i I'nion
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