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A leap
wrong direction
At the SGA meeting last
Monday, a constitution proposing
a White Student Union was
presented to the Senate for rati
fication. After an half hour of
heated discussion, the constitu
tion was withdrawn. However,
the emotions are still unsettled.
The first impresfions caused
by the proposed White Student
Union, was that feelings of rac
ism and white supremacy moti
vated the organizing students. In
view of the history of the rela
tionship between whites and ra
cial minorities, fear of an overt
movement of racism and white
supremacy is an understandable
reaction.
Editor
Crackers 2 cents--that's
the last straw! When is the
administration and / or the
student government going to
take a good hard look at the
books in Vendorville and come
up with an equitable pricing
policy. It appears that prices
are over and above profit
making outfits such as
McDonalds, Burger King, etc.
It also appears that prices
change from day to day, with
no warning or justification.
Black students on campus
were especially given reasons to
fear the proposed organization,
considering the fact that the
organizers continuously inferred
that the existence of the Black
Student Union was a reason for
needing a White Student Union.
Further anxiety was caused by
the fact that the constitution of
the proposed White Student
Union imitated the constitution
of the Black Student Union,
differing only in replacing the
word Black with the word White.
The constitution of the pro
posed White Student Union out
lined the organization's purposes
as being the promotion of white
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Letter To Editor
Vendorville Prices Questioned
Other college cafeterias have
a far more varied and less
expensive menu, better hours
and service
One gets the feeling, when
going through the line, that
the roly-poly gentleman, "the
enforcer" as he is affection
ately known, is doing the
student community a favor,
instead of keeping in mind
that the students are paying
his salary and that of his staff.
Let's get on the stick and
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get Vendorville in order. It One teed-off college student
would be nice to see
announcements of pricing po
licies in the paper or posted
somewhere
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pride and unity, white heritage
and white cultural events. Un
fortunately, the promotion of
white oriented activities is dom
inant on campus as a result of
Capitol Campus being controlled
by a white majority. Given this
fact, the promotion of minority
activities, and not majority ac
tivities, should be given organ
ized support in order to assure
recognition in our majority or
iented community.
Hopefully, white dominan..e
was not the intention of the
proposed White Student Union.
Sadly, it was an implication.
Yet, the proposal of a White
Student Union does indicate
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feelings of dissatisfaction on the
part of the white students in
volved in relationship to black
students on campus. However,
proposing a White Student
Union, as the means of handling
any dissatisfaction, is jumping to
the extreme.
In this case, a better ap
proach to any perceived difficul
ties is sending an open letter to
the C.C. Reader inviting re
sponse on the issue, and present
ing a letter to the members of the
SGA requesting them to look
into the matter. In this way the
campus community can discuss
and air out any problems in a less
threatening way.
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I. M. Fedup
dedicated advisor dr elizabeth winston
c.c. reader