Salisbury University - Evergreen Yearbook (Salisbury, MD)

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hhmmioh Race...Who Wins? What do I think about the racial situation at SSC? There isn ' t one is there? Dealing with the SGA, we try to compensate for their attitudes and preferences, but you just can ' t deny the dominance of such a huge major¬ ity and most of the programming done here is for the white middle class student. You see black and white walking together everyday, they have classes together., they practically live together. The racists that are here are a very minute part of the student body. Really, coming across the Bay Bridge, it ' s like going back 25 years as far as racial attitudes are con¬ cerned. Last year, when I went to the first Black Student Union meeting, they said the blacks should stick to¬ gether and after that everybody there went their own ways In different cl iques.

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I wouldn ' t be as interested in a large class. People don ' t talk, there ' s not as much input. You would think there would be more, having more minds there working, but people shy away from speaking up. I don ' t think the student body understands how much time we give to these different campus organiza¬ tions. I don ' t even know how to get on the yearbook. Is it a course you sign up for? Do you know who the SGA officers are? I wouldn ' t know them if I tripped over them walking down the the steps. It ' s self satisfying in a way, because you know you didn ' t just sit around and do nothing, you at least got out there and tried. You have to just want to do the work. You just have to want to not cry on somebody ' s shoulder, go in there and do your best and at least if things don ' t go your way you understand why. Most students bitch and they don ' t even understand why things happen. In a top election, out of all the elections we had this year; CCPB, SGA, everything; we has 399 people vote out, of more than 3,00. Do you really want that few people deciding for the whole campus? I came to school for the studies, if I can play sports along with that, fine. But, if it conflicts with my studies HI have to drop it. I think it ' s a shame, the apathy around here. If I conduct a dorm meeting we ' ll be lucky to get 45 people down here and that ' s usually the best turnout of the whole school. Everyone says this is a suitcase college because everyone leaves on the weekends and that ' s because there aren ' t any activities popping up, but nobody wants to put out an effort to help. 7

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I The blacks on the SSC campus for the most part are a tight knit group. In the cafeteria there are at the most two tables of blacks and the rest of the cafeteria is white. It ' s like a grain of pepper in a salt shaker. The only exception being the physical education majors and members of sports teams who sit together because they come from practice. Well, I don ' t see any difference anyway. Peopje are people so what ' s the difference between black and white? I’ve had some really close black friends. Til admit there are some really ignorant black, like in high school when everybody was afraid of them, but the whites that were afraid of them were just as ignorant as they were ' cause why be afraid of somebody who ' s just like you? I have a black roommate and I get along with him fine. He wears my shirts and I wear his shirts. Like he wore a necklace of mine home, I didn ' t care. I use his soap sometimes, but I make sure I wash it off good before I use it. We have vertical integration and horizontal segregation. When every¬ body goes into the lunchroom they stand in the same line and when they get their food and go to the tables everybody separates and that ' s no change from yesteryear. There are a few biased coaches here, biased along the lines of color, but I ' m not at liberty to name them because I don ' t believe that would be fair to them without them here to defend their ideas and their positions on coaching. To balance things out, they actually have to discriminate against the whites. We ' ve got to upgrade the quality of education for the blacks, then make a judgment. But we shouldn ' t break the law and actually hand them, ' Here Leroy, you and your nine brothers go to school, 1 man f . . . that. HEW contributes so much to each school according to the number of blacks they have. Well, here at SSC they wanted the money but they didn ' t necessarily want the blacks. Where I came from black wasn ' t the color to be. . . . but I ' m not saying Pm totally prejudiced because there are a lot of nice black people who go here. There are black niggers and there are white niggers. ... not in this school. There are not that many blacks and you feel that they are a part of the campus. 9