Students File Suit To Integrate Black Society at UNC-G

              I  Greensboro Daily News, Tuesday, May 1, 1973
Students File Suit
! To Integrate Black
Society At UNC-G
BY DAVID S. GREENE
Doily News staff Wrlttr
Five students at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNC-G) filed suit Monday
for a ruling that would force the
integration of the campus Neo-
Black Society or a cut-off of
funds for the society.
The  suit   was   filed   in   U.S.'
Middle District Court at Greens
boro, and it contains a request
that the lawsuit be considered
by the federal court as a class
action, brought on behalf of all
UNC-G students.
Students who filed the suit
were Douglas Stephen Harris,
Billy Stephen Shytle, Jonathon
S. Levkoff, Timothy Connolly
and David Edward Rice. They
said they are registered as full-
time UNC-G students.
I THE SUIT w*as filed against
UNC-G Chancellor James S
Ferguson, the UNC-G Board of
Trustees, Leon Chestnut, coordinator of the Neo-Black Society, and Melina Pennix an
officer of the society.
In essence, the suit asks for
Ian order that would integrate
the society or that any state
funds or student fee aid not be
given the society. At issue presently is $3,440 which has been
allocated to the society for the
'StudentsFile Suit
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court to rule that the societvl
= amend or remove its'Sl
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campus inequality for black 21
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«sue^ injunctions forbidding £■
members from interfering Vth|
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