Chancellor Fordham discusses UNC's desegragation
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BLACK INK
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VOLUME 14, NUMBER \
BLACK STUDFNT MOVEMENT OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER University of North Carolina, Chapel FHill
November 12, 1981.
Agreement discussion
examines consequences
REGINA GASKINS
Staff Writer
The Black Student Movement will sponsor
a forum discussing the effects of the deseg
regation plan of the 16-campus UNC system
In the Carolina Union Nov. 19, said Mark
Canady, the BSM chairperson.
Canady said the program will feature
UNC President William Friday, Charles
Day, Dean of the North Carolina Central
University Law School, Curtis Massey, Stu
dent Government, Scott Norberg UNCASG
and UNC Student Body president, and him
self.
Each speaker will give a 5 to 10 minute
presentation on the implications of the con
sent decree, UNC's desegragation plan.
“The speakers,” he said, "will discuss
what the decree means to them, taken from
their perspective."
The June signing of the decree, ending the
11-year-old battle between UNC and the
federal government created some disturb
ance with several student body presidents at
the predominantly black universities.
The decree calls for increased black en
rollment at traditionally white universities,
equal financial support per student for "col
leges with similar missions", and 29 new
bachelor's and master's programs afthe pre
dominantly black universities.
F^owever, some student body presidents
said they believe the settlement leaves many
loose ends.
Massey said in the Sept. 11 issue of the
Daily Tar Heel he and several presidents at
the predominantly black universities were
upset over the vagueness of the decree, and
listed funding as one of the major com
plaints.
"Even though the consent decree men
tions funding;" he said, "it is hard to become
equal when you've been neglected for 10 to
20 years."
The provision to the decree restricting
appointments and tenure for professors at
predominantly black schools without doc
toral degrees or appropriate terminal de
grees has also been met with disapproval at
the predominately black universities.
Norberg, president of the University of
North Carolina Association Student Govern
ments issues which affect the 16 UNC cam
puses, said the decree fails to address reten
tion of students in the system.
The purpose of the recruitment program is
defeated, if no attempt is made to keep
minority students at the predominantly
white or black universities.
"It doesn't say that individual campuses
aren't doing anything, but when you recruit
students it is important to realize that reten
tion is the flip side of the coin," Norberg
said.
"I think the decree relies on the good faith
and effort of the administration. I think it is a
potentially positive agreement, but it is im
portant that North Carolina is responsible for
its educational system."
Friday said, "The test now is to see that the
decree is carried out."
FHe said he saw no problems in accom
plishing that since the decree is supported by
the chancellors of the five black universities.
Canady said the forum's format will also
include open questions from the audience.
"I'm hopeful for a high turnout," he said.
"We really need it."
The forum will be held 7 p.m. in the Stu
dent Union's new auditorium.
Inside the Ink
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page 3 Sister's corner
page 3 Blacks on TV
page 4 Stone seeks promotion
page 5 Fordham favors plan
page 7 Placement service sponsors fair
page 8 Players adjust to college athletics
page 8 UNC basketball schedule
Two unindentified band members look on as North Carolina battles South Carolina Oct.
24. The Tar Heels lost to the Gamecocks, 31-13, defeated Maryland, 17-10, and
succumbed to Clemson, 10-8.
Misquote annoys BSM
CHERYL ANDERSON
Staff Writer
Ambivalence stands idle among some
Black Student Movement members because
of a recent statement by the founder of a
newly formed student organization reported
in a campus publication.
The Oct.9 issue of the Daily Tar Heel re
ported in an article, "Carolina Concern:
Campus Political Party Formed," thatfound-
er Timothy D. Smith, a senior political scien
ce and history major, said the goal of the
new campus political party was to "moni
tor" the Black Student Movement, Campus
Governing Council and Residence Hall
Association.
Members of the BSM reacted with mixed
responses towards the article.
"It sounds like to me they're trying to spy
on us or something," Sheila Butler, a sopho
more English major from Durham, N.C.,
said. "It seems like it's some hidden mean
ing behind that. I don't trust it."
Ann Glover, a sophomore from Raeford,
N.C., said, "It sounds like they can't trust us
or something; like they have to monitor us.
(It's) like we're not able to do what we set out
to do," she said.
But, in a recent inteview. Smith said, "It
was a misquote." The main goal of Carolina
Concern (CO is to "monitor all of the poli
cies and decision^ of all the student orga
nizations on campus," he said. "Monitor"
was used in the DTH interview for lack of
word choice and because that is what is
written in the group's constitution. "I didn't
even write the constitution," Smith said. FHe
contributed his ideas to the content of the
document but "it wasn't even my word," he
said.
"We actually make contacts for the diffe
rent groups," Smith explained. "We ask (
student organizations) if we can sit in on
their meetings." Smith said he had been
asked to give examples, in the DTH inter
view, of groups they planned to interact with
and "I just rattled off a few names," he said.
After a closed meeting with Smith and
BSM Minister of Information, Teresa Blos
som, BSM Vice Chairperson Wende Watson
was unable to attend), BSM Chairperson
Mark Canady said, "I know Tim and I always
believed he was quoted out of context." CC
wants to be able to understand what the
other organizations are doing on campus in
order to "help them with their goals,"
Canady said. Also the group is attempting to
establish an organization that is "more rep
resentative of the student body as a whole,"
he said.
"Monitoring the policies and decisions"
of the groups means that CC wants to make
contact with other groups and inquire if they
can "sit in" on the groups' meetings, and
also invite representatives of the groups to
attend CC meetings. Smith said.
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