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Zero funds for
Black council
Black Graduate Student Council Director Art Barfield is upset
over the zero-fund recommendation of the ex-ASUO Executive,
condemning the action as a “bitter hypocrisy.”
Barfield said that the survival of the council was in “critical
condition.” He also charged, “One reason it’s difficult to survive is
that we have no financial resources. If the ASUO approved the
creation of the Black Student Union (BSU) and did not supply them
with any resources, and then said‘because you haven’t done your
share — you have to go,’ I think that’s hypocritical.”
Barfield said he understood that newly-created organizations,
funded by the ASUO, must prove themselves before asking for money.
But he felt new organizations needed a base “so they can pursue the
programs and can demonstrate performances that would warrant a
budget on a yearly basis.” Under former director Caral Cross, the
BGSC received only $500 annually from the ASUO, enough to cover
office expenses.
According to Barfield, the council’s objectives include:
— “Developing a viable organization to better serve the aims we
as Black graduate students have established.” A bi-quarterly
schedule of meetings and a “confab” on program developments each
term are proposed. The council will also rejuvenate the Black
graduate newspaper, Blackness Is.
— “To develop and provide for consultation service that will in
clude undergraduates.” Specific programs will be developed in the
light of finalized reorganization of minority student services.
— “To develop and sponsor various programs in regard to the
perspective of Black people, for the enrichment of Black graduates as
well as the University community at large.” Barfield specifically
mentioned Angela Davis Day Commemoration, a conference on Black
priorities, 1973, and programs dealing with Black graduates and their
professional futures. In addition, several speakers and panels are also
scheduled.
— “To establish workable and usable resource and reference
materials to be available for Black graduate student interests.” This
includes a “resource and reference center,” a job information service
and an advanced degree information center with “serious con
sideration” for a project aimed at obtaining information about ad
vanced degrees at the University for Black candidates from all over
the nation — with emphasis on Blacks from the West Coast.
Farmworkers leader
to speak on boycott
Phillip Veracruz, vice persident of the United Farmworkers
Union, will discuss the “political evolution of the farm worker since
the victory in the vineyards was achieved in 1970,” when he talks at
the University Tuesday, according to Jose Romero, a leader in the
lettuce boycott and a political science graduate student.
Veracruz will speak at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Dad’s Room,
EMU.
Romero said Verzcruz will also talk about the “recent iceberg
(head) lettuce controversy which has become a national issue by
pitting the forces of the growers, Farm Bureau, Teamsters and
agribusiness interests against the United Farm Workers (UFW), the
AFL-CIO and sympathetic consumers throughout the nation.”
Veracruz is one of the original 1965 Delano grape strikers and
boycotters. Being a farmworker himself, he has worked closely with
Cesar Chavez on behalf of the farmworkers and their cause.
Veracruz has also served ad the UFW representative to a con
ference of the world Council of Churches in Sweden,
v Later he served as an official UFW representative for the boycott
in London. At present, he is serving as director of Agbayani the
Filipino retirement village, in Delano, California.
Veracruz’s speech is sponsored by the Migrant Labor Project,
MECHa, the political science department and the Chicano and Native
American Affairs Center on campus.
Information sessions for
mature students planned
Information sessions for
mature persons interested in
enrolling in the University of
Oregon will be held in several
Eugene-Springfield area schools
this month.
The informal sessions are
being arranged for those who
have been away from either high
school or college for a few years
and wish to renew their
educations or take some special
interest courses.
Questions concerning ad
missions, registration, academic
fields, and services at the
University will be answered by
staff members from the U of 0
Student Personnel Services
Division and the Academic
Advising Office. Printed material
concerning various areas of the
University will also be available.
along with admission application
forms, summer session catalogs,
etc.
No formal programs or
speeches are planned. Persons
with questions about enrollment
are encouraged to attend. If any
person has been away from
school and is thinking about even
one course - or more- the
University wants to help.
The schedule of information
sessions is as follows: Tuesday,
May 22, at Laurel Hill Elemen
tary School, 7 - 9 p.m.; Tuesday,
May 29, Shasta Junior High
Extension Library, 7 - 9 p.m.;
Wednesday, May 30, at
Whiteaker Elementary School
from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m., and at
Lincoln Elementary School from
7-9 p.m.; and Thursday, May 31,
Springfield Junior High School, 7
- 9 p.m.