First students paved way
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September M), 1980
BLACK STUDtNT MOVEMtNT Of HCIAL NFWSPAPER University of North Carolina, Chapel Hil
I September 30,1980
Go Heels study: Blacks educational desires higher
CATHY RAY
SUff writer
Blatk lr'shm»*n tend to have higher
educational aspirations than iheir white
counterparts. arcordinR to a report by
UNC's Ollite o( Institutional Research
(OIK)
The report, titled "Co Heels, " found that
when students were pul into a group label
ed educatonally mature, " 78 1 percent of
Hlak students had plans beyond the
bachelor s degree, whereas only 6S 8 per
cent of whites had goals beyond that level
Blacks listed high school counselors (18.6
percent), parents (17.9 percent), and
friends (17.7 percent) as most influential in
Iheir decision to attend Carolina
Carolina was the first choice of 77.8 per
cent of the Black freshmen surveyed, but
was the first choice of universities for 87 4
pt*rcenl of the white freshmen
In a separate report compiled by the OIR,
It was found that the percentage of Black
students with 2 0 to VO grade point
averages was approx imatey the same as
GAC will try again
From Staff Reports
The HSM Graduate Ac lion Committee
will hold another meeting next week to
try to get graduatjj,sludents more involv
ed in BSM activities and to increase in
teraction among filack graduate students
in different University departments
We are iust getting started," GAC
President Carla Kobinson said and more
partif ipation is needed from students.
Only 14 people attended the first meeting
Sept 10, she said
(,A(. may sponsor activities this
semester including forums of interest to
the Black community, she said, discus
sion groups to offer career advice to
Black graduates and recruitment of Black
undergraduates to UNC graduate depart
ments
"Another idea I want to include is a list
of graduate students to talk to undergrads
about their department, Robinson said
This activity would probably be informal
through telephone calls or personal
meetings, but we would like to schedule
some formal things."
Anyone interested can attend the GAC
meeting Oct 8, 7:30 p m in room 205 of
the Carolina Union or call Carla Robin
son at 942-7320
STOP
KLAN-NWI /
Students of N.C. A and T
State University lead the anti-
Klan rally held in Greensboro in
rebruary (top). Communist
Workers Party members
demonstrate silently at funeral
of fellow CWP members who
were allegedly shot by Ku Klux
Klansmen during an anti-Klan
rally held in Greensboro in
November of last year flett).
Ku Klux Klan members
are currently on trial in
Greensboro for the slayings of
five CWP members.
whites, from 1976 to 1979 approximately 50
percent of Black students remained in this
range The percentages were;
1976-Blacks 50.7%; whites 51.1%
1977-Blacks 54.8%; whites 50.3%
1978-Blacks 52.4%; whites 52.5%
1979-Blacks 50.0%, whites 54 0%
The report also concluded that the
percentage of Blacks in the 3.0-4 0 range
did not decline over the years as did the
percentage of whites in this group. Yet the
number of Blacks in the 0.0-1.9 range did
not decline, and a high percentage of Black
students (41.7) remained in this category.
Compilers of the report could not be
reached for comment
Brotherhood
Someone once said "There isn't a year that goes by
that a Black freshman group doesn t
together . Well, here is this year's group. They
call themselves, "Gamma Psi Bucket. " (Staff photo by
Beatrice Taylor)
Air Force has larger group
Lawrence Turner
News Editor
The Air Force ROTC has a larger enroll
ment of Blacks and women on campus par
ticipating in the reserve officer training than
the Navy ROTC, according to statistics
from both ROTCs.
The enrollment of Air Force ROTC is 119
students, excluding freshmen, 40 are
female, and 44 are Black The Air Force
ROTC has more Black females than males.
In the Navy ROTC, which includes the
Marines, of a total of 149 students. 15 are
female and seven are Black UNC does not
have an Army ROTC
We meet the major needs ot the maion-
ty ot students who go here — liberal arts
majors, said Maior Roy White of the Air
Forte ROTC-
White. who IS Black, recruits students for
the Air FcHce ROTC on campus and in high
schools in the state
The Navs has more technical fields than
the Air Force which has more |obs transfer-
rable to civilian life. White said
"I think there are two reasons the Navy
historicalK does not have many Blacks.
Captain Jack D Stevens of the Navy ROTC
said. The Navy is not as traditional among
Blacks as the other branches of the military,
and fathers are not telling their sons to join
it. he said. Also, "the Navy is extremely
hard to gel into, especially the scholarship
requirements," he said.
Most students are on scholarship during
their college years, Stevens said, especially
during junior and senior years. Freshmen
on scholarship have to take a calculus,
physics and two sciences courses to keep
their scholarship, he said. "It scares a lot of
people off," Stevens said, but those hard
courses are required
Freshman Rodernick Hunt, said he joined
the Air Force ROTC because more math
courses were required bv the Navy ROTC.
Also the Air force has a good communica
tions program, ' which, he said, pertains to
his major
'it's a good bunch of guys that's all I can
say, " Hunt said of the UNC Air force
ROTC He had been active with the Army
ROTC all three years in high school.
Hunt also feels that with rising
unemployment the Air Force is a good
career choice
Annette Woods, a lunior, also feels that
way, and she plans to attend law school
with the aid from the Air Force.
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