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BLACK STUDENT MOVEMENT OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
APRIL 13, 1982
Former mayor criticizes Reagan's policy
Maynard Jackson
Karen Moore
Special Projects Editor
Maynard Jackson criticized President
Reagan for his insensitive urban policy and
it's effects on the poor in his speech on
March 31 in Memorial Hall.
"The poor suffer the most and have the
least cushion to resist the pain,” lackson said
of the bad effects budget cuts were having.
Jackson, the former mayor of Atlanta and
graduate of North Carolina Central's law
school spoke before a crowd of about 17.5
people in Memorial Hall as a part of the
Carolina Symposium.
“It's more cost efficient to have someone
employed," he said. "Unemployment does
not produce it consumes taxes."
- iackson denounced the federal reductions
in the types of programs that would give the
needy opportunities to get the skills and
knowledge needed to obtain jobs.
Intramural Sports
Program needs more blacks
Michelle Thomas
Staff Writer
The UNC-CH Intramural Recreational
Sports Program is seeing more participa
tion from the blac k students to serve as
either athletes or referees according to
publicity director Bert Woodard.
Woodard, publicity director for the In
tramural program has worked with the
program for six years.
"The program operates all year around
both fall and spring semester, both sum
mer sessions and the program has two
levels of competitive sports and re
creational sports, which gives the prog
ram over 100 different athletic activi
ties," Woodard said.
Woodard said that "Intramural Sports
are open to everyone who is either a stu
dent, staff member or faculty member
with a special faculty card."
In the past, the only black students par
ticipating in the Intramural Sports prog
ram were Hinton James groups, the Un
ited Christian Fellowship, the fraternities
Kappa Alpha Psi, and Omega Psi Phi, and
Alpha Phi Alpha. Woodard said he
would like to see more black women in
the program from such groups as blacks
sororities, such as Alpha Kappa Alpha
and Delta Sigma Delta, as well as non-
Greek black women. Woodard also said
more Black individuals, the BSM sub
groups (since the BSM is such a large
group) and other black fraternities.
"We have so many special events
going on like raquetball. Sports Trivia
Bowls, Jogging Day, and a relatively new
program, 'The Century Club,' in which
individuals sign up to do a certain num
ber of sports activities and set a specific
goal to be met by the end ofthe year, and
if you reach your goal vou will win a
"Victory" T-shirt. "There are so man\
activities within the program beside*' bas
ketball and softball that I feel people
would enjoy the hell out of the program,"
Woodard said. Garland Mundy, senior
political science major from C herrvville,
North C.'arolina, however, disagrees with
Woodard's statement.
"With the exception of basketball, I do
not feel that the sports oft’ered here at
UNC are w'hat black students, both male
and temale woujd enjoy. Most blacks
don't participate in sports like w'ater polo;
swimming, and raquetball," he sai'd.
Basketball is one of the few- sports that
blacks have access to and come to enjoy
at an early age. "At least for me," Mundy
continues, "I don't play soccer, and nev
er was given the chance to learn how to
back in high school. Now' how are you
going to be able to play tennis or soccer
right on the spot, w'ithout having been
taught before in your life. Also how many
black people do you know that can afford
a set of $.300 golf clubs' just to play golf
for the heck of it?"
And to show that blacks are more di
verse in the Intramural-Recreational
sports program than |ust basketball and
softball, Daniel Richardson, a senior che
mistry and biology major from Castalia,
Morth Carolina, has participated in foot
ball, bowling, table tennis, in addition to
softball and basketball. But what is im
portant to Woodard is that he would like
to see more blacks in the program be
cause, "I feel that something like this
would not only make the group physical
ly fit, but it would promote a special kind
of pride and group unity."
"I think that it is indefensible to take away
the capacity of students to earn a degree if
they have no other way (than federal assist
ance) to do it," he said.
"People opposed (to federal programs th
aid the poor) have focused on a few abuses
to justify killing the entire program," he said.
"Ninety-five percent of CETA (Comprehen
sive Employment Training Act) money was
well spent."
lackson said that the nation needed a
more comprehensive program for the cities
and that so far none had been issued from the
White House. Accordirtg to lackson, failure
to implement a sound urban policy could
lead to disaster. "If ever there was a time we
needed a visual strong, capable, urban
oriened president it is right now," lackson
said.
lackson said that President Reagan did not
intentionally lie about his economic policy
but really believed he could balance the
budget. He also commended Reagan for his
suave character but said- neither of these
things made the economy better.
"Nice people with bad public policies can
be almost as bid as bad peofjle with bad
public policies," he said, lackson said
Reagan challenged anyone to make a prop
osal that would balance the budget. He said
the Congressional Black Cauc us stepped tor-
ward boldly with an alternative budget of
verified numbers and figures that would ba
lance the budget right now without c utting
as manv programs to help the needy.
"I bet Reagan didn't even look at it, " he
said.
Seven major problems of this country that
lackson cited were:
1.) Munici[)al government and tighter
monev in the cities,
2.) Weakening of local economies and
rising demands,
(Continued on page 8)
New book looks at historian
ChervI Williams
Staff Writer
lohn Hope Franklin, author and expert on
black and Southern history, is working on
another book to add to the collection ot
others-he has written.
Franklin was the featured speaker at the
Chapel Hill Friends of the Library Dinner on
April ().
He has chosen 19th century historian
George Washington Williams as the subject
of the book. Franklin said heexpects to finish
the book some time this vear. He said that his
curiosity about Williams led him to begin to
write the biography. •
"While writing From Slavery to Freedom:
A History of Negro Americans, I learned a
little about Williams and I was curious to
know more about him," Franklin said.
"He w'as a man of great importance, as a
world traveler, clergyman, lawyer, editor,
and newspaper columnist," he said. "I
thought that after all he had done, he de
served a book written on him.”
Franklin said that one interesting thing he
has discovered while researching the book is
that Williams was the first person in Europe,
Africa or the U.S. to call world attention to
John Hope Franklin
King Leopold's policies in the ( ongo.
When Franklin finishes this book, it will
l)e added to his list of accomfilishments.
Other books he has written include The
Emancipation Proclamatioti; The Free Neg
ro in North Carolina, 1 790-1 BbO; A South
ern Odyssey: Travelers in the Antebellum
North and Reconstruction After the Civil
War.
INSIDE THE INK
Page 2 Black educators to organize
Page 2 Reagan picks "qualified black”
Page 3 Sister's Corner
Page 4 Pryor's routine loses appeal
Page 5 Student Body President addresses black presence
Page 6 Journalist encourages need to embrace blackness
Page 7 Black English symbolizes ethnicity