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Page A12 Wlsistm^km armkk Thursday, April 14,1988 Schools' black students report harassment ATLANTA (AP)- Harassment by white college students and cold shoulders from white professors are among the problems reported by black students who attend pre dominantly while schools. "They just don’t want us there," Michelle Dye said of her while peers at Abraham Baldwin Agri cultural College. She was among those attending a seminar on issues facing black students at white schools. 'Tve been fighting since my first quarter," she said, recalling how she was shot in the leg with a BB gun while walking by a men's dorm on the south Georgia cam pus. "It's pathetic to go through that kind of stuff while you're try ing to get an education." At Louisiana State University of New Orleans, a white fraternity displayed a rebel flag last year during the Marlin Luther King Jr. Day parade on campus, according to student Frederick Barrow. from 14 states who participated in the Georgia State University seminar. The seminar ended Satur day. Statistics from the Southern Regional Education Board show that more than 66 percent of the nations 1.08 million black college students now attend predominant ly white institutions. • More than a dozen traditionally black colleges have closed in the last two decades, and still others are being merged with white institutions. At the seminar, some black stu dents complained that white fac ulty members didn't devote enough lime to them. In an era when many blacks attend predominantly white insti tutions, such racial incidents are not unusual, according to more than 300 students and faculty "It's sad when you see the pro fessor has time to talk with white students after class, but when a black approaches that same pro fessor, then all of a sudden he has to rush off to his office. Thaf real ly hurts," said Kevin Brown, a senior at Georgia Southwestern College in Americus. Almost all students agreed that what they needed most was more black faculty members. Even at schools where there are black faculty, students say there are too few. At the University of North Car olina at Greensboro, said student Madeline Shaw, "there are only 10 black faculty members out of 500, and out of the 10, only two are tenured." Some black faculty at white institutions say black students need advice on how to cope with racial stress. "I try to gel across to them that there is racism, and it’s not going to go away, not in their lifetime," said black staff member Dr. Cleon Arrington, associate vice presi dent of research at GSU. "But what they can do to cope with it is to suive for excellence, not medi ocrity. Only by being better than their white counterparts will they have an equal share of the rewards." Some whiles feel that advances in race relations are gradually coming about. "For the most part, my genera tion is less bigoted than genera tions past," said Doug Tudor, stu dent president at Old Dominion, "but it's hard for some white stu dents to overcome racist attitudes if they were raised in a bigoted manner." Ms. Shaw said negative racial attitudes can not be corrected by students alone. "One of the first steps to eliminating racism on campuses is for the administration to lake an official stand against racist behavior of any kind." Although integration has been urged by the NAACP, some black students fear they are losing part of their heritage. "SPRING” INTO SAWB t-shirts 2 for $20, $12.88 ea. "It's just another way whites are trying to lake away some of our black culture," said Todd Dunn, a senior at Georgia Southwestern. Dunn and some fellow black students at Georgia Southwestern recently organized the Concerned Students Association after a white professor was accused by a black female student of calling her a "black bitch." In the days after the incident, 100 members of the association occupied the campus administra tion building. Last Wednesday, the students protested at a weekly assembly meeting because Towery was sus pended with pay rather than fired. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIItlIttllHIIItmilHItlllHIHIIIIIIIIIHIHIII Long pledges support From Page A1 In response to some skeptics who perceive his run for County Commission as a stepping stone, he said that he was not interested in going to Washington and that he had no immediate intention of run ning for another position, "certain ly not within the next four years." Although Long would not rule out possibly "going to Raleigh at some future point," he stressed that his real concern was the need for progress in Forsyth County. "No matter how difficult, I will become involved," he said. "One hundred percent of my effort will be as a commissioner, if I am elected." Long clarified a recent contro versy over his alleged alliance with Mazie Woodruff, an Afro-Ameri can candidate for the County Com mission who formerly held a com mission seat. Reports that he and Woodruff were a team spawned rumors that Woodruff was offering Afro-American votes to white can didates, as she had been accused of doing in a previous election. He said that after several meetings in December with mem bers of the local Democratic Party, he agreed to commit himself to the party and enter the commissioners' race. He then talked with about 75 people, he said, including Wxxlruff, about his intentions. He said when she informed him that she might be running, he told her he would support the Democratic Party ticket "to the hilt," including her candidacy if she won the May 3 primary election. Long said that his commit ment to Woodruff was a commit ment he also made to another Afro-American candidate for the County Commission, Ann Sim mons. He said that his intention was to deliver the Democrat ticket in November and to support each individual candidate on the ticket by campaigning and fund-raising. Long also expressed concern over the conditions at the county jail. "The jail situation has gone on for too long without anyone seri ously addressing it," he said. He said it seemed that no one was "taking into consideration the decent treaunent of humanity" and that the situation should be reme died immediately. He said that as County Com missioner he would "do everything possible to assure we have dramati cally improved jail conditions." "Particularly, I would call for the construction of a new jail facili ty," he said. "I believe we should determine what logical new loca tions arc available to assure appro priate spacing, and determine an architectural plan that is acceptable to the commission, the court system and anyone else involved. "We should proceed with a sub stantial sense of urgency," he said, noting that all funding opportunities should be explored. Harold Hardison HARDISOli —For Lt. Govern 1 He is a Family Man, A Combat Veteran, A Mason, And Successful Businessman. He served 21 years on his sclio board and is in his 18th year ii the legislature. He wants to throw the book at n drug dealers and has a plan for an education lottery to help our children. H||^;^nning for Lieutenant Governi because he cares about North Carolina HERMAN L. ALDRIDGE Chairman Of The Committee b Elect Harold Hardison Paid for by The Committee To Elect Harold Hardison Lt. Governor of N.C. EARLINE PAR*''’- Vice ,31 Chairman
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