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BLACK STUUfNf MOVlMfNTOHICIAL NlWSPAPtR University of North Carolina, Chapel Hil
'March 17,1981
BSM members elect Canady, other officers
Mark Canady
Photo by Beatrice Taylor
TERESA BLOSSOM
Staff Writer
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second
article in a three-part series about the
Black Student Movement.
In his re-election campaign literature,
chairperson Mark ( anady stated that
(he Black Student Movement is nov^- in
a better position both -financially and
stru( turally than it has been in the past
Do we really need a change in
leadership^ ' he asked
Apparently, 113 BSM members agreed
that a change was not needed in the
organization and c;anady was elected to
a second term by more than a 00 percent
margin Opponent Bernard Bell received
64 votes in the election
With the win, Canady becomes the
first to hold the office for two terms.
Because the BSM is presently operating
on ideas which were implemented dur
ing his administration, Canady should
be able to provide the organization with
an essential ingredient it has lacked for a
number of years; consistency.
These following persons who ran
unopposed are the elected BSM officers:
Wende Watson, Vice Chairperson;
(velyn (aison, Secret^iry; L'Tanya
Mathis, Treasurer; Williams, Parliamen
tarian; Teresa Blossom, Minister of In
formation; Dundee Holt, Cultural Coor
dinator, Pauline McNeil, On-Campus
C.oordinator; and Larry Green, Off-
Campus Coordinator.
Usually, the tendency is for a new ad
ministration to "sweep clean" when
moving into the BSM office in Suite B of
the (Carolina Union. Consequently,
much time is spent just organizing
Allen lohnson, BSM chairperson
78-79, said that the transition period bet
ween administrations has kept the BSM
from being structuraly sound.
t ach administration comes in with
new ideas and wants to wipe the slate
clean,' lohnson said. The officers are
always organizing instead of building."
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Thornton will speak at conference
(.reensboro NC — lee Ihornton. a CBS White House Correspondent vmII speak at the
^^l I State Universit\ I ourth Annual Mass Media (Careers ( onference. Marc h 27-2H
Ihornton holds a Ph D m mass communication from Northwestern Uni\ersit\ She has
covered maior assignments such as the release of the American hostages several ot Prt“si-
(lent ( arter s trips, and the murder of Dr Martin Luther King, |r
During the tvso dav esent. media executives will discuss opportunities in both [)rint and
broadc ast media
.Minorit\ Iraining, ttiring Retention, and Promotion in the .Media ( hallenges tor the
!'•«) s the ( onterenc e s theme will attrac t high sc hool. college students as well as pro
fessional lournalists
Persons interc-stc'd in partic ipating in th*- conterenc e should contact lo\ce lones in Room
20lDudle\ Building at AA T State Universits
Af-Am and Black Ink Sponsor Contest
I he Mru an and Atro-Americ an studies lurru ulum and Black Ink are sponsoring a poetr\
) ontest
Ihe (ontest Words. Rh\-Thm and Rhsme. is open to all graduate and undergraduate
students in North ( arolina Students ma\ submit up to as many as tive unpublished poems
to 4t>2 Alumni Building, the BSM oftice or 420 Hinton lames Dormitory Rules tor the con
test are posted in these plac es also
Ihe deadline to enter the contest is March 2J Prizes will be avsarded and th«* top five
|HX*ms vs ill be perlormeci b> the I bon\ Readers during the A\ana open house in April and
published in an April issue ol the HI
Ensemble and Home' come to UNC
The ( arolina Union will present the Arthur Hall Atro-American Dance fnsemble and the
omedv pla% Home ’ during March in .Vlemorial Hall
The Phildcfelphid based fnsemble will perform Mar 1H at t) p m
i.ombining the African dance with American insight, the fnemble embodies the
modern spirit ot Hlac k culture
Ik kets are tor students. S> lor the general public and available through the ( arolina
Union Bo* Ottice
Ihe internationalK acclaimed Negro Lnsemble ([ompanv will present Home S»ar 23-
2S at H p m eac h evening
Samm Art Williams Home is the storv ot ( ephus .Sliles. a black farmer and spinner ot
fall tales in North ( arolina who. in a series of events loses his childhocxl sweetheart, goes
to tail lor draft resistance loses his farm while in jail, and goes North to pursue the good
life onlv to realize that lor him. happiness and home are in the land
Ik kets are S4 lor students it> lor the general public and available at the t arolina Union
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students need unity
Tim Gaylord DTH photo
CATHY RAY
News Editor
Black student groups should |oin to form
a UNC chapter of the Black United Front
said a spokesman recently for a committee
promoting Black student unity.
Tim Gaylord, a UNC graduate student
said the Black's United front was founded
on the same principle as Malcolm X's
Organization of African Unity (OAU)
which sought to unite all Black groups
' The Black United Front would stop divi
sion and conflict among Black students."
Cavlord said. Class and status con
sciousness would be diminished by the
presence of the front, he said
One goal of the front would be to
develop a concept of Blackness and an
identification with Africa among Black
students. Gaylord said Black student atten
ding predominantely white universities
such as UNC needed to develop a healthy
set of values compatible w ith the Black ex
perience," he said.
He said the Front could perform many of
the functions now done by the Black Stu
dent Movement. The BSM should not be
required to carry on all the cultural,
political, and economic functions of the
Blacli student community. It weakens the
organizations when it has to carry out that
many functions." Gaylord said
Another asset of the Black United front
was that it has state and national connec
tions, unlike the BSM. Gaylord said. "The
Black United Front is a national organiza
tion We have the state, local, and com
munity contacts," he said.
The BSM did not have the resouces to
work with the different organizations on
campus that are important to Blacks,
Gaylord said The organization could also
serve as a central organization for all Black
groups on campus, including the BSM, he
said.
Membership in the Black United Front
would be beneficial to all Black groups on
campus because it would eliminate
duplication of programs and wasted
energy, Gaylord said
The front would work hard to train Black
leaders, Gaylord said Black students at
universities like UNC were not trained to
help the black community, he said "The
present system has not been geared to
develop Black leadership. Black students
are not developing values that they can take
back to the Black community. Black minds
are being exploited and we re being
chumped off at UNC,” Gaylord said.
On Mar. 26, 12 00-1 00 - in the Pitt, the
committee for black student unity will hold
a rally to protest the killing of and disap
pearance of 21 black children in Atlanta
UNC Graduate Student Tim Gaylord said
his group wanted to use the rallv to develop
Black unity on campus