Activist Student Groups
University Committee Against Racism
Northeastern’s African American students were not the only ones active in addressing racism at the university. Groups like the University Committee Against Racism also played an important role in causing change on campus.
Following the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. a group of white students and faculty decided to discuss the reasons why hatred had led to the murder of a compelling civil rights leader. The group believed that the main ingredient for racial conflict was white racism. They also believed that racism was evident in the socio-economic issues of the Vietnam Conflict and in the westernized curriculums taught in most institutions. The group became the University Committee Against Racism (UCAR).
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LA Faculty Approves UCAR Course
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LA Faculty Approves UCAR Course
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Students Teach Subject LA Faculty Approves UCAR Course BY JOANNE McMAHON •nd NANCY VOGELSON The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts Wednesday voted to grant academic credit to an experimental course in the Analysis of American Racism. The Racism course, begun on an experimental basis last summer, will receive credit be · • g next term, and will be taught by undergraduate students who will receive Work-Study salaries whenever possible. A report presented to the LA faculty by an ad hoc committee appointed five months ago to study the course, states the committee's wholehearted support of the studenttaught course. Members of the committee attended lectures in the course taught jointly last term by Cindy Baltimore (70LA) and Pamela Wakefield (71LA), both members of the University Committee Against Racism. In its report the committee stated, "rHe) feel that the materials and class discussion were productive and interesting. The students were highly motivated and because of diverse opinions expressed in the discussions, they were moved to he more objective in their evaluation of the information presentedn It continued, "Although more critical ap- . praisal of controversial material could have ,been done in the course, our committee un ously feels that the Liberal Arts Fac- VOL. ll - ulty should give it the chance to prove itseH on a credit basis." COURSE SUPERVISION The course will be supervised by five faculty members and five students chosen by the LA Curriculum Committee and LA Student Advisory C-ommittee. The report specifies that two of the students must he members of UCAR, which created the course. A minority of the faculty attending the meeting questioned the concept of a studenttaught course. Prof. Norbert Fullington of the History Deparbnent suggested that a ··qualified person,'' rather than a "qualified student" be commissioned to teach the course. Fullington noted that while a student might be qualified to teach the racism course now, in the future there might he persons outside the university or on the faculty more qualified to teach the material WELLBANK'S MOTION Prof. Joseph Wellbank of the Philosophy Deparbnent opposed UCAR's teaching the course, but on different grounds. In a substitute motion presented to the LA faculty, Wellbank questioned whether students are qualified at all to teach a university course. BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS No. 17 In his statement Wellbank stated that ". . . undergraduates are not competent to handle a course requiring the masterful use of materials drawn from these disciplines ... (psychology, sociology, education ccand other relevant disciplines.") It stated further that u • • • it is a lowering of the academic standards of the teaching profession to give academic credit for courses offered by persons who have not met minimum qualifications. . ." UNQUALIFIED "Granting academic credit for courses taught by unqualified personnel, and done so apart from the supervision normally exercised by an academic department conducting such an ·experiment,' significantly and seriously lowers the academic standards of the College of Liberal Arts," Wellbanles motion continued Wellbank charged further that since UCAR was active in the Northeastern Conspfracy, «whose publicized goal was the disruption of the University," they were partially responsible for the injury and damage done. Dr. Sally Michael of Philosophy was among those who criticized Wellbank's motion. She contended that, 'CAll the positions (Continued on P•ge 3) FEBRUARY 20, 1970 ouncil, News Elect Officers Gerry Heads Council Slate News Liberates Sporty Woman Gerry (71Ed) was elected Student Council President at council's meeting Tuesday. Gerry, former vice president, replaces Robert Weisman (70BA). ' .In his platform statement, Gerry said that While council has made many gains over the last !fu'ee_years, the council's purpose, that of meetIll~ the needs of tJle student community of the uruversity, has not been achieved. "No real serious effort has yet been made to determine what the students believe and want, Gerry said. I refuse to accuse the NU student of apathy. No, Council and the whole university has never made them feel that they belong. I contend the! are disinterested, disenfranchized and truly believe that they have no viable way to particiPate in the making of decisions that affect their ti ves." · . As a step towards changing this condition, he ~d, "Council must go to these people, not by ~ets and posters, but with their bodies and lltin.ds." , "The coune~ rather than being behind events, 15 now involved in them," Gerry stated. "The byPrOduct of all this is that the administration, facUlty and students are aware of the council and ~ncerned witli its ideas. The task of the council in to Provide a viable channel for this student terest which will effect the changes they desire." "WIn accordance with this change, Gerry said, e ID.ust realize the level of student awareness. lb e. must ask them what their problems are. H the1.r only worry is about the parking situation, en that's what we'll concern ourselves with." ~0 implement this, Gerry outlined such things lee e establishment of a communication commitfro to handle leafle~ position papers and reports tt ~council members on their talks with students ge. (Continued • .-_ 2} With a male Winter Carnival Queen already to its credit, Northeastern University has struck another blow in the battle of the sexes. In elections held Tuesday afternoon, the NU News chose Donna Doherty (71LA) Sports Editor for the next year. The other elections were basically hum-drum affairs. Joel Pliner (71EE), Editor-in-Chief; Mike Fine (71LA), Managing Editor; Scoop Leahy (72LA), News Editor; Lennie Gamache (73LA), Feature Editor; and Marc Stem (71LA), Copy Editor all ran virtually unopposed. Donna said that she decided to write sports at NU because, "I had written about serious things --lllke ChUDg in high school and thought sports would be a funSOME JOCK!!I - Donn~~ Doherty (71LA) is the first woman sports thing to do. I wanted to find out what a girl sports editor on the Northeastern News. Donna, while on co-op, covered reporter could do. the New Haven Black P•nthers trial for the New Haven Register. "Pm an ardent sports lover~" she added femiHer favorite sport is swimming. ninely, "But I certainly don't want to be considered a 'jock'. My favorite sports are swimming ,.--~-~-------------~---...._..._...,. and football I love to swim, but rm afraid I have •to be a spectator at football games. I just don't have the build to play." · Joel Pliner is the first engineer to be the head With a featured article by plain "Dirty." Highlighted in of the News since 1948. "There seems to be a feelDr. Sally Michael entitled "The the poetry offerings is Allan ing around here that engineers are illiterate " Revolt of the Object," SPEC- Farber. Fiction has a story said the former Managing Editor, "but I TRUM magazine will go on sale about a druggy bunch of "Backgoing to believe it till they proove it. next week in the common con- wards People" written by Bob "Seriously, thou~ it's time more engineers course. Dr. Michael's article Cohn. In the non-fiction realm did get involved with something other than a slide questions the courses open to Peter Lance presents an inrule. The ~bite-socks' image is changing and man and society and concludes depth exploration of the workjournalism provides a great opportunity to com"We are all up against the wall." ings of the CBS News. municate." It is prefaced by a warning: Photography, including a phoLame-duck Editor-in-Chief Mike Dorfsman ''This article scrambles when to essay of "Carnival Faces" by (70LA) had a tear in his eye as he wished the new read by grey people." Bob Matorin, sketches and a staff luck. "The pollution here is terrible and I In addition, SPECTRUM of- poster-sized, Poe-like cover wrap hope you will maintain the high degree of journfers poetry ranging in tiUes up this winter edition of SPECalistic integrity I worked so hard for he said from "Variations on a Theme TRUM. Price of the magazine is with a straight face. He also added that he would by Siegfried Sassoon" to just tirirty.five cents. . Spectnnn Goes on Sale are;'t 7" (Continued on P - 4) �Northeastern NEWS, February 20, 1970 Page 3 Course Gains LA Approval Wellbank Slams UCAR (Continued from Page 1) wellbank took were negated by the criteria he used., She said that since Wellbank did not attend any part of the course, as did those on the committee, he should be considered an incompetent judge. When questioned about Wellbank's proposal, Miss Baltimore said, "his statements are irrational, emotional, incorrect, and slurs on the Committee Against Racism. His insinuations are completely unfounded/' she said. SELF-REJ ECTI NG "The criteria Dr. Wellbank used in his proposal to reject the UCAR course could also be applied to his own proposal and find it self-rejecting," Dr. Michael 11 said. Dr. Paul Wennuth, chairman of the English Department, then suggested that student-teachers be paid on the same scale as university professors. But Cindy Baltimore answered that the students' primary concern was to give the students a meaningful, student-taught course in racism. She said that in the early stages of the program, salaries for teachers would not be paramount. James McDonnell, a member of UCAR, who currently is teaching a course in racism, similar to the one which will be offered in the NU's College of Liberal Arts, at Regis College in Weston. NU Students Arraigned . Five persons, including four Northeastern students, were arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court W edrtesday .on charges stemming from District Attorney Garrett H. Byrne's investigation of the January 29 riot. Byrne sdught · grand jury indictments last week against 10 people in conriection with the riot, but only the names of those arraigned Wednesday have been , made public. Two of the Northeastern students, Malcolm C. Emory, 19, of 163 Hemenway St. and John A. Lavine,. 20, of 232 Broadway, Cambridge, were arraigned before Wilfred J. Paquet on charges of assault and battery on a police officer with a dangerous weapon. Emory was released on $2500 bail and Lavine, who was also charged with being an idle and disorderly persons, was released on $5000 bail. William A. Martell, 20, of 19 Corcoran Park, Cambridge ,a student at Computer Institute, was arraigned on charges of assault l and battery on a police officer and being an idle and disorderly person and released of $5000 bail. Martell is being charged with squirting a riot control gas at a policeman. These three cases were continued to April 14. William Spina, 18, of Williams Street, Arlington, and David 0. Smith, 22, of East Springfield Street in the South End, both Northeastern students, were ar· raigned on charges of malicious distruction of property resulting from an incident of rock-throwing at Police Sub-station 4 three days after the riot. Spina and Smith we ! released on $2500 bail each with cases continued to March 3. Testimonial Plans There will be a meeting of students who formerly attended the Burlington Campus Tuesday, at noon. The meeting will be held in 200Ri to plan a testimonial for one of the professors at the suburban site. BOSTON HARBOR CRUISE DATING by COMPUTER "They are based on no knowledge at all." Miss Baltimore addressed herself to each of Wellbank's statements. To the objection that student-teachers would lower the teaching standards of the university she said: "This might be true at Northeastern, but it obviously was not true at Harvard, Tufts, BU or Oberlin, all of which have fine student-taught courses." UCAR'S ROLE UCAR was formed shortly after the death of Martin Luther King Jr., when members said they began to feel the major need for education of the racists in this country. A year ago, members began to study the possibility of beginning t h e student- taught course in American racism. The first course was opened to students last summer, and was taught by UCAR members James Kilpatrick and Steve T~orpe. The class consisted of Northeastern as well as non-Northeastem students. Some students from outside the university became so interested in the concept of a student-taught course in racism that they asked UCAR members to begin similar courses in their own schools. Currently James McDonnell (70Ed) is teaching a course at Regis College, Weston/ and Lee Paul (71LA) is teaching a similar course at Newton College of the Sacred Heart. Committee members felt, however, that the non-credit status of the course had an unfavorable effect on the progress of the course. While they said the students taking the course favored strongly the student-teaching concept, the amount of time and work required was too great in addition to a 16-credit load. The faculty also dropped the present two-eredit physical education requirement beginning. in March. -Ron Cardoos Photographic Commentary on N.U. Fac-Sen Pushes Through Black Studies Proposal After lengthy debate, a proposal concerning a :Slack Studies program was passed at yesterday's Faculty Senate meeting. It was one of a number of possible proposals on the subject presented to the Senate by the Agenda Committee. It read that the Faculty Senate "form a Senate Black Studies Committee to gather information on Black Studies programs from across the nation and investigate the academic and other qualifications of agencies and institutes primarily concerned with the evaluation of Black Studies programs." An earlier proposal, that the . Senate form a committee to "evaluate the Institute of the Black World (IBW) as the acceptable evaluating agency for the NU Mro-American Institute program of Black Studies," was dropped in favor of the one passed. During the debate some senators, including Robert Cord, political science, noted that the second proposal would be broader in scope and would also in~ elude the spirit of the first. Cord also felt that " this kind of Committee would have a clear mandate from the Senate." Two other committees which {Continued on Page 4) ~ ( .~ WOULD YOU LIKE TO START YOUR OWN CHURCH? We will fumllh you with a Churcla Charter and you can start your own church. Headquarten of UNlVERSAL LIFE CHURCH will keep records ' of your church and ·file with the hderal gcwl·· •mment and furnish you a tu exempt status -all you have to do is report your activlti• to heaclqHrten foUr times • year. Enclose a free will offering. U IVERSAL UFE CHURCH BOX 6575 HOLLYWOOD, FLORIDA 33021 Fiesta Espanola Tonight. Revel in music , song , beverages. foods • the color and spectacle of old Spain authentically performed by La Tuna de Madrid. spirited young group of six musicians direct from the University of Madrid. 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LA Faculty Approves UCAR Course
LA Faculty Approves UCAR Course
LA Faculty Approves UCAR Course
LA Faculty Approves UCAR Course
1970-02-20
1970-02-20
African American Studies
College Students
Racism
African American Studies
College Students
Racism
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LA Faculty Approves UCAR Course
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Students Teach Subject LA Faculty Approves UCAR Course BY JOANNE McMAHON •nd NANCY VOGELSON The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts Wednesday voted to grant academic credit to an experimental course in the Analysis of American Racism. The Racism course, begun on an experimental basis last summer, will receive credit be · • g next term, and will be taught by undergraduate students who will receive Work-Study salaries whenever possible. A report presented to the LA faculty by an ad hoc committee appointed five months ago to study the course, states the committee's wholehearted support of the studenttaught course. Members of the committee attended lectures in the course taught jointly last term by Cindy Baltimore (70LA) and Pamela Wakefield (71LA), both members of the University Committee Against Racism. In its report the committee stated, "rHe) feel that the materials and class discussion were productive and interesting. The students were highly motivated and because of diverse opinions expressed in the discussions, they were moved to he more objective in their evaluation of the information presentedn It continued, "Although more critical ap- . praisal of controversial material could have ,been done in the course, our committee un ously feels that the Liberal Arts Fac- VOL. ll - ulty should give it the chance to prove itseH on a credit basis." COURSE SUPERVISION The course will be supervised by five faculty members and five students chosen by the LA Curriculum Committee and LA Student Advisory C-ommittee. The report specifies that two of the students must he members of UCAR, which created the course. A minority of the faculty attending the meeting questioned the concept of a studenttaught course. Prof. Norbert Fullington of the History Deparbnent suggested that a ··qualified person,'' rather than a "qualified student" be commissioned to teach the course. Fullington noted that while a student might be qualified to teach the racism course now, in the future there might he persons outside the university or on the faculty more qualified to teach the material WELLBANK'S MOTION Prof. Joseph Wellbank of the Philosophy Deparbnent opposed UCAR's teaching the course, but on different grounds. In a substitute motion presented to the LA faculty, Wellbank questioned whether students are qualified at all to teach a university course. BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS No. 17 In his statement Wellbank stated that ". . . undergraduates are not competent to handle a course requiring the masterful use of materials drawn from these disciplines ... (psychology, sociology, education ccand other relevant disciplines.") It stated further that u • • • it is a lowering of the academic standards of the teaching profession to give academic credit for courses offered by persons who have not met minimum qualifications. . ." UNQUALIFIED "Granting academic credit for courses taught by unqualified personnel, and done so apart from the supervision normally exercised by an academic department conducting such an ·experiment,' significantly and seriously lowers the academic standards of the College of Liberal Arts," Wellbanles motion continued Wellbank charged further that since UCAR was active in the Northeastern Conspfracy, «whose publicized goal was the disruption of the University," they were partially responsible for the injury and damage done. Dr. Sally Michael of Philosophy was among those who criticized Wellbank's motion. She contended that, 'CAll the positions (Continued on P•ge 3) FEBRUARY 20, 1970 ouncil, News Elect Officers Gerry Heads Council Slate News Liberates Sporty Woman Gerry (71Ed) was elected Student Council President at council's meeting Tuesday. Gerry, former vice president, replaces Robert Weisman (70BA). ' .In his platform statement, Gerry said that While council has made many gains over the last !fu'ee_years, the council's purpose, that of meetIll~ the needs of tJle student community of the uruversity, has not been achieved. "No real serious effort has yet been made to determine what the students believe and want, Gerry said. I refuse to accuse the NU student of apathy. No, Council and the whole university has never made them feel that they belong. I contend the! are disinterested, disenfranchized and truly believe that they have no viable way to particiPate in the making of decisions that affect their ti ves." · . As a step towards changing this condition, he ~d, "Council must go to these people, not by ~ets and posters, but with their bodies and lltin.ds." , "The coune~ rather than being behind events, 15 now involved in them," Gerry stated. "The byPrOduct of all this is that the administration, facUlty and students are aware of the council and ~ncerned witli its ideas. The task of the council in to Provide a viable channel for this student terest which will effect the changes they desire." "WIn accordance with this change, Gerry said, e ID.ust realize the level of student awareness. lb e. must ask them what their problems are. H the1.r only worry is about the parking situation, en that's what we'll concern ourselves with." ~0 implement this, Gerry outlined such things lee e establishment of a communication commitfro to handle leafle~ position papers and reports tt ~council members on their talks with students ge. (Continued • .-_ 2} With a male Winter Carnival Queen already to its credit, Northeastern University has struck another blow in the battle of the sexes. In elections held Tuesday afternoon, the NU News chose Donna Doherty (71LA) Sports Editor for the next year. The other elections were basically hum-drum affairs. Joel Pliner (71EE), Editor-in-Chief; Mike Fine (71LA), Managing Editor; Scoop Leahy (72LA), News Editor; Lennie Gamache (73LA), Feature Editor; and Marc Stem (71LA), Copy Editor all ran virtually unopposed. Donna said that she decided to write sports at NU because, "I had written about serious things --lllke ChUDg in high school and thought sports would be a funSOME JOCK!!I - Donn~~ Doherty (71LA) is the first woman sports thing to do. I wanted to find out what a girl sports editor on the Northeastern News. Donna, while on co-op, covered reporter could do. the New Haven Black P•nthers trial for the New Haven Register. "Pm an ardent sports lover~" she added femiHer favorite sport is swimming. ninely, "But I certainly don't want to be considered a 'jock'. My favorite sports are swimming ,.--~-~-------------~---...._..._...,. and football I love to swim, but rm afraid I have •to be a spectator at football games. I just don't have the build to play." · Joel Pliner is the first engineer to be the head With a featured article by plain "Dirty." Highlighted in of the News since 1948. "There seems to be a feelDr. Sally Michael entitled "The the poetry offerings is Allan ing around here that engineers are illiterate " Revolt of the Object," SPEC- Farber. Fiction has a story said the former Managing Editor, "but I TRUM magazine will go on sale about a druggy bunch of "Backgoing to believe it till they proove it. next week in the common con- wards People" written by Bob "Seriously, thou~ it's time more engineers course. Dr. Michael's article Cohn. In the non-fiction realm did get involved with something other than a slide questions the courses open to Peter Lance presents an inrule. The ~bite-socks' image is changing and man and society and concludes depth exploration of the workjournalism provides a great opportunity to com"We are all up against the wall." ings of the CBS News. municate." It is prefaced by a warning: Photography, including a phoLame-duck Editor-in-Chief Mike Dorfsman ''This article scrambles when to essay of "Carnival Faces" by (70LA) had a tear in his eye as he wished the new read by grey people." Bob Matorin, sketches and a staff luck. "The pollution here is terrible and I In addition, SPECTRUM of- poster-sized, Poe-like cover wrap hope you will maintain the high degree of journfers poetry ranging in tiUes up this winter edition of SPECalistic integrity I worked so hard for he said from "Variations on a Theme TRUM. Price of the magazine is with a straight face. He also added that he would by Siegfried Sassoon" to just tirirty.five cents. . Spectnnn Goes on Sale are;'t 7" (Continued on P - 4) �Northeastern NEWS, February 20, 1970 Page 3 Course Gains LA Approval Wellbank Slams UCAR (Continued from Page 1) wellbank took were negated by the criteria he used., She said that since Wellbank did not attend any part of the course, as did those on the committee, he should be considered an incompetent judge. When questioned about Wellbank's proposal, Miss Baltimore said, "his statements are irrational, emotional, incorrect, and slurs on the Committee Against Racism. His insinuations are completely unfounded/' she said. SELF-REJ ECTI NG "The criteria Dr. Wellbank used in his proposal to reject the UCAR course could also be applied to his own proposal and find it self-rejecting," Dr. Michael 11 said. Dr. Paul Wennuth, chairman of the English Department, then suggested that student-teachers be paid on the same scale as university professors. But Cindy Baltimore answered that the students' primary concern was to give the students a meaningful, student-taught course in racism. She said that in the early stages of the program, salaries for teachers would not be paramount. James McDonnell, a member of UCAR, who currently is teaching a course in racism, similar to the one which will be offered in the NU's College of Liberal Arts, at Regis College in Weston. NU Students Arraigned . Five persons, including four Northeastern students, were arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court W edrtesday .on charges stemming from District Attorney Garrett H. Byrne's investigation of the January 29 riot. Byrne sdught · grand jury indictments last week against 10 people in conriection with the riot, but only the names of those arraigned Wednesday have been , made public. Two of the Northeastern students, Malcolm C. Emory, 19, of 163 Hemenway St. and John A. Lavine,. 20, of 232 Broadway, Cambridge, were arraigned before Wilfred J. Paquet on charges of assault and battery on a police officer with a dangerous weapon. Emory was released on $2500 bail and Lavine, who was also charged with being an idle and disorderly persons, was released on $5000 bail. William A. Martell, 20, of 19 Corcoran Park, Cambridge ,a student at Computer Institute, was arraigned on charges of assault l and battery on a police officer and being an idle and disorderly person and released of $5000 bail. Martell is being charged with squirting a riot control gas at a policeman. These three cases were continued to April 14. William Spina, 18, of Williams Street, Arlington, and David 0. Smith, 22, of East Springfield Street in the South End, both Northeastern students, were ar· raigned on charges of malicious distruction of property resulting from an incident of rock-throwing at Police Sub-station 4 three days after the riot. Spina and Smith we ! released on $2500 bail each with cases continued to March 3. Testimonial Plans There will be a meeting of students who formerly attended the Burlington Campus Tuesday, at noon. The meeting will be held in 200Ri to plan a testimonial for one of the professors at the suburban site. BOSTON HARBOR CRUISE DATING by COMPUTER "They are based on no knowledge at all." Miss Baltimore addressed herself to each of Wellbank's statements. To the objection that student-teachers would lower the teaching standards of the university she said: "This might be true at Northeastern, but it obviously was not true at Harvard, Tufts, BU or Oberlin, all of which have fine student-taught courses." UCAR'S ROLE UCAR was formed shortly after the death of Martin Luther King Jr., when members said they began to feel the major need for education of the racists in this country. A year ago, members began to study the possibility of beginning t h e student- taught course in American racism. The first course was opened to students last summer, and was taught by UCAR members James Kilpatrick and Steve T~orpe. The class consisted of Northeastern as well as non-Northeastem students. Some students from outside the university became so interested in the concept of a student-taught course in racism that they asked UCAR members to begin similar courses in their own schools. Currently James McDonnell (70Ed) is teaching a course at Regis College, Weston/ and Lee Paul (71LA) is teaching a similar course at Newton College of the Sacred Heart. Committee members felt, however, that the non-credit status of the course had an unfavorable effect on the progress of the course. While they said the students taking the course favored strongly the student-teaching concept, the amount of time and work required was too great in addition to a 16-credit load. The faculty also dropped the present two-eredit physical education requirement beginning. in March. -Ron Cardoos Photographic Commentary on N.U. Fac-Sen Pushes Through Black Studies Proposal After lengthy debate, a proposal concerning a :Slack Studies program was passed at yesterday's Faculty Senate meeting. It was one of a number of possible proposals on the subject presented to the Senate by the Agenda Committee. It read that the Faculty Senate "form a Senate Black Studies Committee to gather information on Black Studies programs from across the nation and investigate the academic and other qualifications of agencies and institutes primarily concerned with the evaluation of Black Studies programs." An earlier proposal, that the . Senate form a committee to "evaluate the Institute of the Black World (IBW) as the acceptable evaluating agency for the NU Mro-American Institute program of Black Studies," was dropped in favor of the one passed. During the debate some senators, including Robert Cord, political science, noted that the second proposal would be broader in scope and would also in~ elude the spirit of the first. Cord also felt that " this kind of Committee would have a clear mandate from the Senate." Two other committees which {Continued on Page 4) ~ ( .~ WOULD YOU LIKE TO START YOUR OWN CHURCH? We will fumllh you with a Churcla Charter and you can start your own church. Headquarten of UNlVERSAL LIFE CHURCH will keep records ' of your church and ·file with the hderal gcwl·· •mment and furnish you a tu exempt status -all you have to do is report your activlti• to heaclqHrten foUr times • year. Enclose a free will offering. U IVERSAL UFE CHURCH BOX 6575 HOLLYWOOD, FLORIDA 33021 Fiesta Espanola Tonight. Revel in music , song , beverages. foods • the color and spectacle of old Spain authentically performed by La Tuna de Madrid. spirited young group of six musicians direct from the University of Madrid. 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One of UCAR’s goals was to help African American students who were attempting to effect change at Northeastern. UCAR members felt it was not their place to define or direct the struggle of African American students. Instead, the organization pledged to support the efforts of African American organizations. UCAR backed the submission of the 13 demands and set up a booth to encourage open discussion on racism and to educate those who were unaware of the transformations needed in society. UCAR also investigated the hiring policies of co-op employers to determine if they were racially discriminatory.
In 1970, UCAR also formed a course, Analysis of American Racism, which was granted academic credit by the College of Liberal Arts. The course was supervised by five faculty members and five students who were chosen by the College of Liberal Art’s Curriculum Committee and the Student Advisory Committee. Two of the student spots were reserved for UCAR members. The course was taught by undergraduate students who received work-study compensation.