Forum Coverage Faulty
A News Analysis parent that very few of the hun-
By dreds of persons attending have
Rowena Morrison any connection with UNC-G.
Perhaps the Black Power They come in buses from as far
Forum which was held here on «"»? as 'Durham, and they are
November 1-3 should be alowed **&£? Black Powf %® rally-,
to become a dead issue. For a , ^ government, the war ef-
few days, at least, it ranked ™J*» "&<»,. marriage and
coverage by and comment from ottor conventional institutions
several sources of the news "^ "J8***^4 v. , „.
media, even if this coverage ten- <*** *!£? ^V8 a llenS%
ded to censure the University quote by Chancellor Ferguson,
for "irresponsibility." ,Lewls dld no* attempt to
And yet, to those who attended answer mterpreKvely the
even one session of the Forum, rhetorical queston he had posed
it must be faintly disturbing to "» ™ *»t paragraph And in a
read such statements as .the later article, published on Sun-
"Letter to the Editor" printed in day, November 5 he implied
the November 9 issue of the tttat estimates of the Dumber of
Greensboro Daily News. An ex- UNC-G students attending the
ceprt follows: Forum had been "educated
"It would appear that the guesses.1"
University of North Carolina at Educated
Greensboro should feel more M & l|Seto t0 speculate on
responsibility to the community j^ * Educated" ^TwiT'
JZtf^MOn^™^nin Journalistic ^tuitions are. For
elude that the invited Black Tnesdav MwaTihpr 7 The
SS^SJL^JS^ S^dE^Ltedontoe
£? ff wiS^wT Greensboro »aily new releases
ELJL„ 7S? f- ^ and w™**an €ditorial entMed
^!h«^» q € learn" 'fLa^ ta Greensboro." The
^ffnS-n. .„ . editorial stated that "there is a
The preceding comment difference between a
ri^fr?\a "fr un\v^ ^Ltin?Som of
S, t T g^Z^1 its students and permitting iteeK
ET J* i?t J^TT*] to »* used." Mucn to its credit,
press, as it is a statement of however the Observer ran aii
PS Ca°rntS°nwhihreVieW- SVlSYyco*
3Lt?hJ^f^-7^ WC-e oectinS «* UNOG forum with
SS^MJSSi; Rational Black Power move-
S/^er^Sir^-^ ^ are other examples;
Black Power series with however, those given^houldsufl
7^7L ;„ r«i„f. /v, n -a fice to provoke thought on the
A case m point: On Friday, competency and objectivity of
hTSn*!3^ "XS ^ the commercial ™ST\on-
ttzxrs. jsssz sr ^*•Biack Power
fcSh^gT^er:nrpnV,™-n. M ^ 0Ile ^^ StUdellt P"1 it:
JTy Jl •„ Predo™nan% "The association made by the
3& SSK, S'm'^v, newspapers in this case wi not
school, the University of North so m jcj7 deroeatorv as it was
^•t^tS. Pputti^ d^ntteH Kot ymucl
J? " 7 y ° P°Wer 0l" ^t of values which Black
Ze audience has been f^r^ assailing, hut our set of
predominantly male. It is ap- wWch the newspapers missed
