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5TONY BROOK VOLUME ONE : NUMBER ONE APRIL 1974 Su ....... _HAT ... IIW!-.. WE'RE il A IilI OUT III... I PURE SOIL -)i:ihli!!i~S i '"'iiiiiii iiii!!i!iiiiii~ ~iiiiiiii ~-----EDITORIAL :,,,ii~i--- !j:::;::::::i!i): iiiii " l:::::' ...... History is being made on columns of others. At all the campus of the State times we will strive to be University of New York at short on rhetoric, of which Stony Brook today. we have had enough, and This edition of the Stony long on information on Brook Blackworld marks which our black brothers the first time that our black and sisters can make the community has moved to many important decisions establish, develop, and which affect our lives here. maintain communications at Stony brook, and in our with all of its segments on individual communities. on an on-going basis. We will welcome all cri- far as space We start modestly, but ticisms, and as allows, we will print your our hopes are high. It is our intention to pro- letters to the editor. duce a black newspaper of We will plead our cause, the highest calibre. Ac- and support all efforts for curacy in our reporting will change here atStony Brook. be our constant guide. If In the words of Frederick you read it in the Black- Douglass written more than world, it is indeed so. At 120 years ago: the same time we aim to be, "It is neither a reflection informative, readable, and on the fidelity, nor the dis- reflective of the interests, paragement of the ability needs, and concerns of e- of our friends, and fellow very black man and woman laborers, to assert what on campus regardless of common sense affirms and status. only folly denies,' that the We will report the news man who has suffered the with a slant on blackness, wrong is the man to demand for this is our newspaper. redress, - that the man We will cover not only the struck is the man to cry University, but also the lo- out - and that he who has cal L.1. Community, the endured the cruel pangs U.S., and the world. Where- is the man to advocate li- ever black people live and berty. It is evident that we work will be our beat. must be our own represen- But while we seek to in- tatives and advocates, not form and educate our black exclusively, but peculiarly brothers and sisters on - not distinct from, but in campus with hard news that connection with our white is factually and truthfully friends." reported, we would be re- We solemnly dedicate the SISTER JANET DISPLAYS THE SOULFUL TOUCH IN HAIRSTYLES. miss in our mission if we Jlackworld to the cause. did nOt present our own With your help and support PHOTO BY BOB YOUNG SW SEEKS MORE BLACKS editorial opinion, and the the Blackworld shall live. - CHERRY HASKINS: SB LILYWHITE DENTAL Ihe Schol of Social SC HOOL OPENS Welfare at Stony Brook announced this week an ex- The Stony Brook school rension of its applicatioh BLACK' HEADS POLITY of Dental Medicine was de- Jeadline in its program for clared opened for business recruitment of -ThirdW orld on Sunday March 10, before students. a crowd of 300 persons in the Lecture Center. Augusta Kappner, the new As usualcthere were no ,Director of Admissions and black students or faculty in St-dent Services, reports this historic event which in overall drop in the.total -marked first dental school numnuer of minority opened in New York State tpplications to all school since .1899. SfSocial Work in New York At the opening, Pres. nd New Jersey area. This John Toll remarkedthatthe kiropthreatbfns ability of the AUGUSTA KAPPHER Dental School "typifies tichool of Social Welfare to Prof. Kappner wishes to the product we can expect." chieve tor next year its encourage applications for purrent enrollment figures the academic year 1974- f 40° Thir_.d M orld stud- 1975 from main campus INDIAN STUDENT AIDS gnts. To counter this, students and others in LONG BEACH BLACKS tProf. Kappner has under- both the Masters and , the Carol Van Norman, a gra- taken a recruitment drive Undergraduate program in luate student in the School ifocussed on colleges in the Social Welfare. The appli- of Social Welfare, has been .Y.C. area from which cations ar6 available in the working with a group of !the School has not previ- Health Sciences Center black tenants in Long ously had large numbers of Bldg C, rm 100. iolity President Cherry Haskins recently called for applicants. Some coll- Beach, Long Island who are eges, and even many stu- black students to become more involved in the political faced with eviction because Black faculty and black arena of student government in order to protect the they refuse to paywhat they dents Pn the Stony Brook ;raduate students have for interests of black people on campus. term "outrageous rent in- main campus are unaware the most part been exclu- "I think we are going to have to realize collectively creases", that the. School of Social ded from the grant recei- that our involvement in the political affairs of student Carol, a Cheyenne River Welfare, was accredited by ving activities, which are government is necessary if we are to stay on this cam- Sioux from South Dakota, ,the Council on Social Work so much a part of Uni- pus and receive equal benefits from our student activi- is attached to the commu- Education in 1973 giving versity life and operations. ties fee." nity Legal Assistance Cor- it equal footing with other Blackworld will give a metropolitan area school more detailed report on - Cherry, who was honorably mentioned this year in poration, based in Hemp- '.who's Who in American Colleges," emphasized the stead, a non-profit organi- In its. training of proesirS-- this situation in its next (C)NTINUED ON PAGE 7) (CONTINUED ON PAGE 7) nail socal wcrke_ts. edition. Watch for it. PAGE 2 THE BLACKWORWD APRIL 1974 __ am News Capsules DEAN WELLS - A TRUE MOVER Reginald Charles Chri- stopher Howard Wells is known to everyone on campus as Reggie, but only a RED FOXX HAS 'NERVOUS DISORDER' few- we believe, have such an imposing string of Redd Fox, star of "Sanford and Son," was recently names. reported to have been hospitalized in Los Angeles Reggie is a graduate of : suffering from exhaustion and a nervous disorder. Temple University, Phila- 'News reports indicate that Redd's "nervous disorder" delphia, Pa. Prior to join- centers around not being paid enough for playing Fred ing the staff of the School Sanford on the popular TV show. of Social Welfare in 1971, he was an official of OSTI, MRS. ALLENDE ADDRESSES UN the Organization for Social and Technical Innovation. Mrs. Salvador Allende Gossens, widow of the "mur- Elected Associate Dean Chilean president, addressed the Human Rights dered" of the School in 1972, Reg- :: . Commision of the U.N. recently. Mrs. Allende appealed gie has played a leading to the Commission to condemn the "genocidal repression" role in securing the lar- by the military junta which overthrew her husband last gest grant ever given to a year. The Commission, she stated, can "intimidate the predominantly white, school guilty and save from imprisonment or death the many by the Minority Center of Chileans who are not being persecuted with a cruelty the National Institute of only comparable to that exercised byHitler's Nazis." Mental Health. The grant of$.1 500,000 for five years WON'T OPEN ROSENBERG FILES was made to the SSS at Stony Brook for the de- i The FBI has refused to release any of its voluminous velopment and support of files in the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg who were programs for minorities executed 20 years ago on charges of teason. The who would be returning to :. Attorney General had ordered some months ago that the their communities to prac- files be released to researchers. This "is a special' tice their skills as profes- case," said an agent. There are many who believed sional social workers.4: that the Rosenbergs were "framed"'' and "railroaded" to their deaths in the anti-Communist hysteria of the Besides carrying a full : McCarthy era of the 1950's. More recently, the sons teaching and administrative of the Rosenbergs, Robert and Michael, now 26 and load, Reggie is Chairman ii''i8 31 years old respectively, have started a campaign of the HSC, EEOC, a mem- which they hope will end in the clearing of the names of ber of the HSC cabinet, of . their parents. the President's EOC, the <ii Executive Ctte.: of the Fa- :::iii culty Senate,cul y arid an alter- DR. KENNETH CLARKE HONOREE nate member of the Presi- PHOTO E tt;iult JACKSOUN dent's Cabinet. John Murray, black vice president of WOR-TV, and DEAN REGINALD WELLS president of the New York Urban League, recently announced the winners of this year's Frederick Douglass Award, the League's highest. The recipients this year Blacks Demand End To SB Racism are Dr. Kenneth Clark, President of the Metro Applied Research Corp., Professor of Psychiatry, and the only black member of the New York State Board of Regents; STONYBROOK,March 25- was Dr. Anna Hedgeman, head of the National Council of The Black Students Assi- given two weeks to re- its document says that Black Women and long-time pioneer in civil rights and stance Fund, a campus wide spond. "Stony Brook campus re- fair employment; and Andrew Heiskell, Board Chairman organization of students, The Fund, represented by presents .

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