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Show Militant Blacks On White Campus' cot-Special cot-Special to the Chronicle ishf! NEW YORK, October 16 A ign? trend among Negroes in colleges W to rebel against interracial con-v con-v oj formity and reject white guidance stlj was outlined today in a national isec magazine. iatj; Writing in the current issue of itat Look, Ernest Dunbar, a Look senior 5o5 editor, cited "the birth of 'Afro' or all-black clubs and societies" n as a manifestation of black militancy mili-tancy on campus. Dunbar defined the change in these terms: 'Time was when the occasional Negro accepted at an Ivy League ( school . . worked fanatically to become what he imagined was a proper college gentleman. Today, a new breed of black cat is tearing up white campuses, poking holes in some ivy-covered notions about integration and tracking Watts and Newark into the fastidious halls ..." Focal Point The "Afro" clubs serve as a focal point for black students' views, cultural activities, and efforts to influence in-fluence the college administration. Factors which give rise to these clubs, wrote Dunbar, include the growing number of ghetto-bred and . other Negroes in prestige colleges; a new desire "to invest their energies en-ergies in the black communities"; a recognition of black values, and specifically at strife-torn Berkeley Berke-ley a tendency to "avoid white advisers." Dunbar reported on black socle-ties socle-ties at Columbia, 'Princeton, Harvard Har-vard and Radcliffe, Yale, Dartmouth, Dart-mouth, Wellesley, Berkeley, Merritt College, and San Francisco State. While some schools do not permit per-mit organizations to discriminate on a basis of race, he pointed out, the content of meetings including phrases like "my black brothers" discourages curious whites from joining. Dunbar concluded: "While all the results . . .are hard to foresee, fore-see, it is obvious that students, administrators, ad-ministrators, faculty and parents are in for a kind of education that few expected. |