BLACK SYMPOSIUM HELD
Designated "The Black
Experience at UNC-G," the
iast meeting of the Faculty
Student Fourm met in
Alderman Lounge at 9 p.m.
Tuesday, May 4. The Faculty
Student Forum is a
committee of six students
and six faculty members
created in October to bring
about improvements * in
campus conditions.
Chuck Eddington,
Chairman of Men's Court and
an active member of the Neo
Black Society, got the
meeting underway by
introducing his panel: Charles
Martin, Donald Hurwitz,
Lauren Brown, Larry
Williamson, and Linda White.
Linda opened with - her
evaluation of what being
black at UNC-G is really like.
She said that she would like
to see UNC-G become a real
' 'University not a
semiversity," for a chosen
few.
Topics discussed were:
reasons for coming to
UNC-G, specific changes hi
social conditions, and
curriculum changes to include
black oriented studies as
more than just electives.
Participants in the Black Experience at UNC-G recomended changes
in procedures and attitudes.
Some comments at large
on the black situation were:
"I have become very
disillusioned with college life,
and I never thought it would
happen to me."
"It is not our purpose to
educate naive whites [to our
ideas] . It is your
responsibility. Ours is to
motivate complacent blacks."
One who was on th panel,
Donald Hurwitz, observed,
"The blacks are looking for
an identity, first as
individuals, then as a race.
They are making great gains
as a race, but having some
difficulty finding self
identity.
"They may not want to learn
black history, but we don't
want to study Shakespeare
either," commented one
participant.
Larry Williamson, a
coordinator of the Neo Black
Society, outlined in five
points what the black student
wants to see occur in the near
future at UNC-G.
1. Admission of more
black males by recruiting, up
to 100 more.
2. More grants and
financial aid.
3. Integrated Afro
—American studies in the
curriculum as subjects to fill
requirements, not just
electives.
4. More university
sponsored black or black
oriented speakers on campus.
5. Provide Blacks with a
stronger role in campus media
with more openings for black
opinion.
Many present complained
of an omission of black
historical characters and
bllack authors in the
curriculum.
One non participating
observer stated, "All were
attending for different
reasons, the whites to
improve integrated relations,
the blacks to air their
petitions concerning things
for their benefit, and a feew
administrative people to get
the feeling of student
opinion."
Some of the ideas brought
up were, a black lounge, all
black dormitories, and more
all black functions as plays
and social affairs.
