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Page 8, The Carolina Journal, Dec. 18, 1968 SCAR Aids Negroes at Tufts University Was Stokely Paid With State Funds (ih>m nii:ciiARi.()ni;.\i:\\’s) MEDFORD, Mass. - (I.P.) - Twenty black students who might not have had the opportunity to attend college under normal admissions standards were enrolled in the freshman class at Tufts University this term through a student-run agency called SCAR. Recruited by Students Concerned About Racism, the 20 are guaranteed total financial aid, housing, and tutoring; the average was $3,000 per year. (Tufts’ tuition is $2,300.) The group includes 13 in Liberal Arts and Engineering and seven in Jackson College for Women. “Some of these young men and women never would have been able to attend college,” says Ass’t. Deant of Adm issions Roy M. Moore. “A few who are exceptionally bright applied only to what their counselors regard as the elite handful of American colleges. Their rejection left a surprisingly large pool of able candidates from which SCAR drew. “The SCAR program has enabled us to establish admissions contacts in many schools and Negro agencies. Thus in the future we should be even more successful in our acceptance record.” Tbe recruiting drive, which was carried out by 150 under^aduates, began last April 12 after a brief and peaceful confrontation between Dean of Admissions John C. Palmer and 300 students demanding additional male and female black students be admitted this year. More than 200 candidates were reached; approximately 75 submitted the Tiecessary credentials. Financing the extra students is a burden that has been accepted by students, faculty, staff, and trustees alike. More than 600 students have agreed to give up one meal a week this year, turning over the resultant proceeds to SCAR. Some have offered an additional one per cent of their $2,300 tuition cost. About one half of the faculty on this campus volunteered one per cent of their salaries. Other faculty and staff made cash contributions. One professor contributed four per cent of his salary. The trustees voted to provide up to $50,000 in tuition scholarships for the black students. One of the SCAR students is the son of a railroad fireman in Tuscaloosa, Ala., who ranked second in his class of 250, demonstrates outstanding creative writing promise. Another, from Pittsburgli, ranked 226 in a class of 265, was described by counselors as a "verbal cripple,” but Tufts found in him other very acceptable qualities. Dean Palmer reported the 29 additional black students (14 men, 15 women) were enrolled under regular admissions procedures, bringing the total to 49 blacks in a freshman class of 842. Three new courses - Negro History, Racism in American Literature, and a sociology course concerned with minority groups have been approved by the faculty. RALEIGH Gov. Dan Moore has asked officials at two stale universities to determine whether state funds were paid to black militant Stokely Carmiciiael for speeches he made on their campuses this past year. Carmichael spoke at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and at A&T Slate University in Greensboro, where he said that every black must get guns to protect himself and his family. His speeches brought quick reaction from members of the 1969 General Assembly. State Sen. elect Hargrove Bowles of Greensboro said he plamted to introduce legislation next year aimed at “extremists like Carmichael." State Sen. Geraldine Nielson of Winston-Salem asked Gov. Moore to probe whether state money was involved in any way with Carmichaers visits. D. W. Colvard chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, said today that no funds were involved in the black militant’s visit to the Charlotte campus. BOWLES’ REMARKS trigered C. ('ivil Liberties llnion. the Kci W. \\. Finlalor of Raleigh. v|u said that while the innammaion language of militants may bo i( concern. "We are more concerneii over the remedy he (Br)wlosi proposes." “Speech in om Ameriojii tradition of democracy is novo, Iree it it is protected only wlioiiii is mild, agreeable juj conciliatory," Finlalor .said. •% must sustain and protect it a|s„ when it is angry and scathing anj violent." Birwles said riuirsday 1,;, propo.sed legislation didn't inoaii another "Speaker Ban" la» restricting visiting speakers at il,, campuses of slale-suppoiicj institutions, but a law covoriii; "inllammatory speeches anywhoro in North (’arolina." Gov. Moore asked for reports from William C. Friday, presidciii of the Con.solidated University of North Carolina at which ilio Charlotte inslilulion is a part, and from Dr. William (’. Dowdoy, president of A&T. Following Carmichaers visit to A&T, the student governmciii president called for a boycott of classes and attendance fell olT a reaction from the chairman of sharply Wednesday and Thursday the legislative committee of the N. but was back to normal yesterday. ^ You can say anything you want about the world. You carfsay ifs beyond help. That man is more evil than good. That you never asked for the iwrid you got. And you could be right. You can say anything you want about the Peace Corps. That ifs just do-gooders. That it doesn’t help peace. That it hasn’t made any dif ference. The Peace Corps isn’t disagreeing. That’s not what ifs about. The Peace Corps doesn’t shout, “Come make peace. ” Peace doesn’t come that easily. It’s more of a separate peace. Maybe yours. No banners. No bands. No medals. The Peace Corps might be for you if you could enjoy feeding children. Or repairing a tractor. Or teach ing birth control. Or building a schoolhouse. Even if no one ends up using it. (Don’t think it hasn’t happened.) The Peace Corps has no delusions of ^andeur. Ask any one who’s been in it. But there are enough people who come out of the Peace Corps with things they’ve learned they can’t forget. Good things. There are more ways than you can find to help the ivorld. The Peace Corps is just one way. It’sfor someonewho would rather do something. Anything. Instead of nothing. It could be your way. Write The Peace Corps, Washington, D.C. 20323. '0 Escape I While there's still time •f STAFF BOX .... ....................j the CAROLINA JOURNAL S t^EDITOR . R.T. SMITH S ::.Assocmm Editor . . F. N. Stewart ? :.;.PhotoE(h or Chuck Howard?: Sf AFF _ Donna Raley, Phil Wilson, Wah Sll^^d" ? Lafferty, Barbara Jean Smith, Rodney L. A X^ite, Marlene Whitley, Kay Watson, Mike Combs. Wayne Pearson, A Trexler, Gayle Watts, Jimmy Lockman, Louise Napolitano rsEileen Auerbach, Ron Caldwell, and W I T CO ' pV'SOR :.. ..Dr.ll.Leon Gatlin | :;THE CAROLINA JOURNAL is a student publication of the gUmversity of North Carolina at Charlotte, published weekly at :>Mullen Publications, Inc, in Charlotte and under the sponsership of S :;the UNC-C Student Publications Board. THE JOURNAL welcomes ¥: ;;contnbirtions from students, faculty, administrators, and members :.A •:or the Charlotte community. iv THE CAROLINA JOURNAL UNC-C Box 12665 Charlotte, North Carolina (; qil cri th VC tri Dr of an ini ab Ar Wi an tin tin in Wi ret wi nia du Bri agi prr im Pal thi • De dec the per
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