[Letter from Grimsley Hobbs to Robert Frazier]

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GUILFORD     COLLEGE
CHARTERED    1834 FOUNDED    1837
GREENSBORO, NORTH   CAROLINA
27410
Office of the President
Dear Robert:
This is to inform all Trustees of two situations which happened
with the black students at Guilford College.  On Friday afternoon,
March 13, a sizeable delegation of black students came to the Administration Building and asked to speak with several of our administrators,
including myself, and several of Guilford's teaching personnel.
During the meeting the black students told us of their feeling
that they were under special pressures as a minority group at Guilford
and that they felt Guilford College had done too little to improve
their situation at the college since they came.  (They had earlier
requested that Guilford make great effort to hire more black professors.)
They asked that we redouble our efforts to get black professors.
They also asked for a place where the black students could meet
and be together. They said that they felt real hostility almost every
place where they met on campus, including being denied the privilege
of remaining in the dining room after meals.  In response, we have
found a.place for them in two unneeded rooms of Cox Hall, for we felt
that this was a legitimate request, particularly since B.A.S.I.B. is
a regularly chartered student organisation.
In that few of the black students owned cars, and since the
atmosphere around the town of Guilford College was not conducive to
their "hitch-hiking11 as other students do, they asked to be able to
use college cars when they were available.  In that Guilford has a
policy which allows the use of college cars to regularly organized
campus organizations (at their own expense), we found no difficulty
in^granting this request.
There were several other minor requests, but the one which the
college found itself unable to accept was their request to be guaranteed
a minimum grade of nC8? on their college work this semester.  Their
reasoning behind this request was that they had contributed greatly to
plans for improving the atmosphere at Guilford so as to make it conducive
for black students to come here; that they had served as resource persons
in various courses in which information concerning black people was ,
needed; and that they had spent a great deal of time conferring among
themselves as to how to be a really positive influence en campus. For
these reasons, and because it was more difficult for a black to simply