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VOL. 7, NO. 3
N.C. SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1974
PHONE: 784-0085
Blacks
Score
Policy
By SONNY LINDER
Essay Staff Reporter
The Black Students won student
council support last month for a list of
grievances against administration policy
and practices in student housing, faculty
and resident assistant hiring procedures
and financial aid.
In response to a fifth grievance dealing
with council-sponsoredsocial events, the
council appointed four members of the
black group to its Student Activities
Committee.
In a noon session on Feb. 13 lasting an
hour and firty-five minutes, almost twice
the normal length for such a meeting,
blacks complained that:
• There are not enough black faculty
members in either the academic or the
artistic departments here.
• There are no clear guidelines on the
granting of financial aid. The black
group demanded a precise handbook or
list of scholarships, one especially
available to blacks.
• There is discrimination in room
assignments. The blacks alleged that
some students friendly with the Director
of Housing, Karen Shortridge, are
assigned single rooms before blacks with
seniority.
• There are no black college resident
assistants (RA’s).
• There are no social events planned
with any thought as to whether blacks
would enjoy them.
The self-appointed group of 11 students
from both high school and college has
been organized about two weeks, ac
cording to Bernard Turner, the group
spokesman.
Turner read the demands from ink-
stained paper before a full room of
council members. The meeting was
called to order repeatedly by President
Susan Summers.
See BLACKS, Pg. 8, CoL 1
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Studerits Ask For Aid Change
By ROBIN DREYER
Essay Staff Reporter
WASHINGTON-One thousand college
students from 44 states met here last
week to ask Congress to make major
changes in financial aid programs to
students.
The students participating in the
National Student Lobby Convention
asked congresspersons and senators for
legislation to allow student loans for
families whose adjusted income is up to
$20,000 instead of the present $14,000.
They asked that work-study money be
increased from $270 million a year to $420
million and for costs to be kept down at
public colleges and scholarships be in
crease for private colleges.
The convention was held Feb. 23-27 at
the Ramada Inn in downtown
Washington. This reporter represented
NCSA at the proceedings.
National Student Lobby (NSL) is an
organization of students from colleges
and universities from every state in the
nation that lobbies on issues of im
portance to students.
The convention is the largest event of
the year with three days of education and
two of actual lobbying.
Guest Speakers
Guest speakers included Rep. Paul
McClosky (R-Cal.), Bob Woodward,
Washington Post reporter, Dan Rather,
CBS White House correspondant, Sen.
Hubert Humphrey (DrMinn.), Rep.
Yvonne Burke (D-Cal.), and Sen. George
McGovern (D-S.D.).
See _NSL, Pg. 8, CoL 1
Local Art Critics
Tell How They Do It
By PRUDENCE MASON
Essay Staff Reporter
Only one of the three Winston-Salem
Journal and Sentinel arts reporters had
substantial experience in reviewing
before being hired for his present job.
Genie Carr: hired as a general
assignment reporter covering the police
and “poverty” (model cities program,
etc.) beats. She had no prior reviewing
experience.
Jim Shertzer: hired part-time on the
Joi^al staff in 1967 as a general
assignment reporter and occasional film
critic while teaching English at NCSA
Md trying to finish a master’s thesis in
English at Wake Forest. He had prior
reviewing experience only on the Old
Gold and Black, the Wake Forest student
newspaper.
Pat Taggart: hired to edit the Sen
tinel s Saturday entertainment sup
plement but switched to his present job
shortly after coming to the paper. His
prior reviewing experience was on the
Waco (Tex.) News Tribune where his
father is publisher and on his college
newspaper at Baylor University.
This and the fact that the three have
received little on the job training came
out in wid^ranging interviews conducted
last month. The interviews revealed the
three to be intelligent young journalists
who are as different in their personal
demeanor as their professional
assignments are similar.
Shertzer was studied and careful in
answering questions as he puffed on his
ever present pipe and sipped coffee in the
Journal-Sentinel photographic room, but
became boyishly excited when talking
about seeing Bobby Lindgren in the New
York City Ballet and Don Hotton in a tour
of the “Andersonville Trials” as a
starstruck teenage autograph hound.
Taggart is talkative, has a knack for
making catch phrases, and uses a
spattering of four letter words for em
phasis in conversation. He speaks en
thusiastically of his experiences last
summer at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre
Center in Connecticut where he studied
film and theatre criticism and met one of
his favorite critics, Judith Crist (his
favorite is Pauline Kael).
See CRITICS, Pg. 3, CoL 3
Essay Photo
bv Marshall Thomas
Essay Photo
by Marshall Thomas
GENIE CARR
JIM SHERTZER