University of Central Florida STARS The Rollins Sandspur Newspapers and Weeklies of Central Florida 11-10-1972 Sandspur, Vol 79 No 06, November 10,1972 Rollins College Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-sandspur University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspapers and Weeklies of Central Florida at STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Rollins Sandspur by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. STARS Citation Rollins College, "Sandspur, Vol 79 No 06, November 10,1972" (1972). The Rollins Sandspur. 1429. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-sandspur/1429 failed in their efforts to recruit Black sy. And if this occurs, I think the "loss" will be a because many do not want to f \ loss of "academic wind." We must not compro­ ace FROM prospects of moving into an environment' mise our academic integrity for our physical impro­ which they will feel socially isolated Bh vement. So, improve your face, young Rollins professionals have declined positions here- THE but do so wisely and keep your head up - or you Rollins for the simple reason that they co' may fall flat on that newly beaufified visage, not find adequate housing. Perhaps Roll BASEMENT and that would be a shame. Let's keep this up, cannot be accused of blatant racism toward it's great, but let's not get wrapped up with the Black professionals, but you can certainly be reflection in the mirror. There is more to us than the Winter Park realtors can. Or haveyoyu, such a common fate. We wouldn't want to have Barnhill or Mr. Von Wormer ever noticed! a novel written about us. difference between the white section ofWinte Park and the Black section. Black profession^ -Jim can not live in the manner which theyhavs become accustomed to (i.e. what their sab will allow) simply because Winter Park realtoe refuse to sell them homes in any other sector than that which has been designated by | "men downtown" for Black Winter Park r«= ^ottk SBeMete dents. And of course, all of the collegefacul houses have all been accounted for. It never ceases to amaze me how the social As I have previously stated Mr. Barnhill a- consciousness of most Rollins students can fall Mr. Von Wormer, you have failed to recogni: so neatly into either one of two categories: the real problems that exist not only here completely uninformed or grossly misinformed. the Rollins community, but in society. \ Before you start throwing darts Mr. Barnhill and problem is not a segregated Black Studs Union, but a segregated society. The probleml There have been many articles, editorials, Mr. Von Wormer, first be sure you have the not unqualified Black students and proft; short stories, and even novels written about right target. The Black student in question, sionals, but an intricate set of social mecl "lost" time, about doing something now, or Talbert Wells, simply insulted your middle class nisms and processes which continue to res about remorse in not having done something omnipresence. From the likes of your com­ the influx of minority groups into whitesocia in the past. I think Rollins College this year is in ments it appears obvious to me that he still the ambivalent position of attempting to carry failed in his cardinal purpose: to open your From the tone of your comments Mr. Barnlij on with its various day-to-day activities while eyelids. However, from my past experiences and Mr. Von Wormer I detect the strong seer, also attempting to make up some "lost" ground with whites I, like Talbert, realize all to well, of racial bigotry. Or perhaps it is just tl through the institution of many changes. that "not all can be saved." have not yet accepted the idea of students and professors being a part of y« I have the impression that Rollins is almost Perhaps if you had concentrated your efforts utopic little colony here at Rollins, out of breath. Regaining what has been "lost" or in producing an intelligent statistically credible suggest you get used to the idea. Because ml never really attained is a rugged undertaking report of the situation here at Rollins you might only are Black people here, but they arehereB during a normal operating year. Many Rollins have discovered that over 80 percent of the stay. As Digley Baltzell states in his book,Thj, people would, I am sure, be very willing to students attending Rollins are recieving some Protestant Establishment: I, stand aside and wait while Rollins catches its type of financial aid. This percentage Mr. breath. But this cannot be done. Barnhill and Mr. Von Wormer include: Black "A crisis in moral authority has developed^ Just think, we would return at some later date and white students that vary in ethnic origin modern America largely because of the to find the pool completed, the capital drive a from WASP to Jews. Anglo-Saxon-Protestant establishment's unwi success, the college center well under way, and Also, the question of academic excellence is ingness, or inability to share and improve everyone rested and happy. But the present debatable Mr. Barnhill and Mr. Von Wormer. upperclass traditions by continuously absorb, treadmill must continue - replete with its Do the best students always receive the best talented and distinguished members of i*fy inherent rhetoric: "the completion of the pool grades or are all the best students committed to ity groups into its privileged ranks.' 0 has been delayed for a time . ."; "we really the pursuit of the "A." Are you both actually This quotation is more than the rhetoricojf7 can't build another parking lot until building X naive enough to believe that the present white intellectual (Dr. Baltzell is a professor^ comes down . ."; "we can't take down building grading system as.it is constructed indicates Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania^ X until we have the necessary funds . ."; and so anything more than a measure of objective is a warning. It is a warning to white aiw0 on. aptitude. that they must abandon their past caste vaty and redirect their efforts to create a "reft The promising aspect in all of this is simply In answer to your accusation that the Black sentative" establishment in this country.| that Rollins is making an effort, she is not Student Union is segregated, I would like to say nority groups are speaking out all overtt^ stagnating - but then, how many similar "you're right, it certainly is." The Black Student t country Mr. Barnhill and Mr. Von Wormer-% institutions of higher learning will admit stag­ Union of Rollins College remains segregated, Black students here at Rollins are only a m nation, self-satisfaction, or the smug attainment not because whites are denied entrance, they the voices that add to the thunder. AsEldr of the status quo? Rollins must improve and simply do not show interest. The Black Student Cleaver so nicely put it: "you are either part ^ change, and now that change is most obviously Union is a chartered organization of Rollins the solution or part of the problem," From)" taking shape, we must be very careful. We are College, as such, it is "open" to all Rollins comments Mr. Barnhill and Mr. Von Won*" heading in the correct direction, I am con­ students. How open are your Greek fraternities can certainly tell "where your heads are. |p vinced, but we must maintain our balance, we and sororities Mr. Barnhill and Mr. Von must not run out of breath again some years Wormer. -ThedaWi from now. The reason that Rollins does not have more Black students and faculty is that Rollins does not meet "their" qualifications. Why would This letter is a response to those commejfl made by Bruce Barnhill and Christiansen^ Black professors and administrators want to Wormer concerning Talbert Wells'article* c| come here when salary offers elsewhere are significantly higher, and the social situation is appeared in the Oct. 25, 1972 issue * Pi much more comfortable. In the past Rollins has SANDSPUR. truck, which lacks wheels at the moment, to our the opportunities to demand the right to use barn. Our barn—a showpiece in its day—has be­ other doors while at the same time insisting come mottled in color through the years (I am those doors are worthless in comparison to the ashamed to admit I simply have not had the ones originally alotted to them. Yes, each group energy of late to paint it), and as I looked at that could have his own door and while away the structure, a modest but, I am convinced, work­ hours of idle time marvelling at an institution able solution to your situation occured to me. that has had the fairness and foresight to provide I gather the gist, from my reading, of your Gentlemen: _ such a thing. Think of it! Oh, I admit certain problems is while attempting to make all differ­ I must, at the very outset, apologize for the problems would arise in the event of the admis­ ences in student groups negligible, each group unsolicited intrusion of the letter that follows sion of a Mongolian student or some other misfit, must, of course, feel his difference is the most e'my short introduction. Some time ago, the but it would be nothing to knock out a wall to negligible. A simple and altogether natural prob­ precise date is hardly an important detail, I began accomodate him.