University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Envoys, blacks air opinion Duke of Alba. Jesus Aguirre, a writer for a Madrid newspaper, exudes warmth at a reception in his honor. c SPEAKERS Lectures and discussions hosted on the! University campus in the fall of I960 all focused on a common concern: keeping relations harmonious on planet Earth. Interracial relations were the meat ofj a week-long symposium entitled Blacks and Political Machinery. The Texas Union Afro-American Culture Commit- tee sponsored the October event. Thd University experienced a drop in black ' enrollment in 1 980-8 1 , down to a level oft 1,000 students. Psychology major Veon McReynolds said this drop was the resulti of blacks questioning the value of a col-j lege education. He said the average) starting salary of black college graduates! was $18,000, the same that a white higW school graduate could expect to earn. University student Eric Frank said rac-| ism on campus was insidious, charging: that UT professors had an inbred bias) against black students which wasl reflected in the grades given to the stu- ' dents. Likewise, Emma Chambers, a jun ior radio-television-film major, said thai although civil rights advancements of tha 1960s abolished the outward signs of rac-l ism, negative racial attitudes continuec to exist. When you have a black famil move in to a white neighborhood, yoi see the rest of the neighborhood begir to move, she said. Frank Blair, a senior, called for a] greater involvement of the black church! in the political arena. You cannot sepa| rate the church from black unity, ha said. There should be an increased amount of involvement in the church aj related to political issues, he said. Later in the month, speakers drew stu dents attention away from domestic problems and into the sphere of interna tional relations. Dr. Peter Herms, Ger man ambassador to the United States spoke at the Lyndon B. Johnson School oj Public Affairs on Oct. 29. He told stuj dents that the close relations of Germar and American universities was one of the reasons for the strong ties between th two nations, but cited the deplorable ' Dr. Peter Herms answers questions following his lecture at the L.B.J. School of Public Affairs. r . 84 Speakers

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Kki ijmj I, -:,: ' Ward : Hill Elementary students present Secretary of Education Shirley Hufstedlerwith artwork during her visit to the Humanities Research Center ' s Michener Galler Carol Burnett speaks out against profanity on stage during an informal appearance at the drama building.

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icline in the study of foreign language the U.S. as a problem. The ambassador posed a German-American scholar- ip program, similar to the Rhodes ;holarships sponsored by the U.S. and reat Britain, to foster academic xchanges and language study. Jesus Aguirre, the Duke of Alba, from pain, gave a series of lectures the week f Nov. 10-14 in which he discussed the When you have a black family move into a white neighborhood, you see the rest of the neighborhood begin to move. ifficult political climate on university mpuses in Spain. Aguirre, also a writer r the Madrid newspaper ABC, said Spanish campuses have been trans- irmed into battlegrounds. Politics has reatly invaded Spanish life, deteriorat- ig campus activities, he said. In con- ast, he saw more order and less vio- nce in the U.S. American democracy lias had many years of existence and panish democracy is just now being rn, he explained. Steve Hamlett in T OUT OF SOUTH AFRICA U.T. MUST DIVEST SALAC member Lucky Bridgewater sings The Redemption Song to open the West Mall rally in October. I Izielen Agbon protests the treatment of blacks in South Africa at a rally sponsored by the South African Liberation Action Committee. Speakers 85