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Show Letters 'Turn in vour minority card' m Editor: The question of "Uncle Tom-ism" Tom-ism" has been raised against the University of Utah because of its readiness to act on the demands of SOUL-BSU (all black students). stu-dents). The person that wrote the article arti-cle is ignorant of the term, "Uncle Tom," if she thinks that fulfilling the Black students needs on an academic as well as an environmental environ-mental level is a sell-out for an institution in-stitution of education. The number num-ber of the Black students is small, but they have banned together in order to grow in number and to fulfill their academic careers at this university. The demands of SOUL-BSU are only the needs of the Black students on this campus. These demands do not specify any take All of us need this to go on as human beings. You don't have to be black to be in the SOUL-BSU. All that is necessary is that you think black. It is up to all of us to see that a minorities program is implemented. imple-mented. If this person fails to see the requests as immediate needs, he or she fails to see the needs of their own people. Whoever this person is, take some good advice: Turn in your minority membership member-ship card, because you have all the prerequisites for the Wallace fan-club. fan-club. If you, whoever you are, (Name Witheld), really believed in your article, you would have submitted your name along with your letter to be printed with your beliefs. William E. Bey Tallie L. Cavaness personal argument between in-. dividuals than it did out of racial tension. Rather than furthering racism on Antioch's campus AAS1 has in many ways helped to point out the white student liberal's racism and to confront it. Through this confrontation it has, in large measure mea-sure helped to get rid of white racism, or at least made it so apparent ap-parent that it cannot be ignored. The confrontation was not an easy one, it did lead to moments of tension and anxiety but in the end has helped the Antioch Community Com-munity to find a new definition of race relation. The white liberal there no longer can condescend to help the poor Black become part of the white, middle class culture. We have been forced to realize the cultural differences between white and black and have been forced to realize that the white culture is not necessarily the best one for everyone. over of anything except our own minds and lives. These needs are characteristic of all minorities as well as the majority, Mexicans, Blacks, and Indians, as well as Whites. It is apparent that the person who wrote the letter to the Editor, Edi-tor, in the Summer Chronicle, dated July 22, 1969, whoever he or she may be, knows very little or nothing about the Black or minority movement in this country. coun-try. Here is a little info for you. Whiteyhas been trying to keep Blacks apart and separated for the last 350 years in order to make and keep good niggers. This was done for a need to feel superior. This racial mania is his American way. Now that we want to be apart and separate from him in any kind of way, he labels it un-American un-American or communistic. Call it what you like, this separation is inevitable. There is a need for separation, sep-aration, because we all have something some-thing to offer each other as human beings, even if it is only our .differences of appearance to each other. The only sound statement in the article was that, "The University Univer-sity of Utah is supported principally princi-pally by the taxpayers of Utah." The taxes are paid by the Black taxpayers as well as the White taxpayers. tax-payers. As far as the "Motives" go, who needs a motive to want to learn about himself, his heritage, and to know these bits of information. The real Antioch Editor: As a member of the Antioch College community, I feel I must respond to the letter of July 22 (unfortunately the writer's name was not published so I cannot respond re-spond to her personally). It is true that Antioch has an Afro-American Studies Institute (AASI); it is true that Antioch's program was the first to be investigated inves-tigated by Health, Education, and Welfare as a possible violation of the civil rights law. The writer of the July 22 letter forgot to note that HEW found the AASI not to be in violation of the law. It is true that there was a "shooting incident" in-cident" on our campus involving black and white students. I happened hap-pened to have been personally involved in-volved with the incident as I was chairman of the Student Personnel Person-nel Committee that handles violations viola-tions of community standards. The incident involved two white students as well as the Puerto Rican student that was mentioned. men-tioned. The issues that promted the shooting were much more complicated and personal than one student's non-admittance to the black dorm. In fact, I don't know that any of these students were ever explicitly denied admittance. admit-tance. The details of the incident are confidential, but I can say that the shooting arose more out of a By getting away from the pressures pres-sures to conform to a white educational edu-cational system the students in AASI have been able to formulate active, meaninful programs at Antioch and in Dayton. I could go on at length about the positive results re-sults of AASI and I would tainly be willing to talk to the Miter Mi-ter of July 22 personally about this. , ,. But I would strongly suggest that before he used Antioch's PBV gram again as an example ot w harm Black studies programs do, she get some more information informa-tion from people that have pe sonally experienced the ex, of that program and manyoth similar to it. Pat FroKS Good quote Editor: . We noted June 30th issue of the W Chronicle on the new dean of College of Business h( sincerest form f natte.irnaistic vious approval of our. style. It is very seldom have an article from he Economic and Business Re quoted almost verbatim. |
