Salisbury University - Evergreen Yearbook (Salisbury, MD)

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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

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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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9MBM1 SSC . . Why Here? 11 I like the atmosphere here as far as it being a small school. I needed a place to go that was not too expensive, one that would give me a scholarship. You don ' t feel like a number, you feel like somebody. What about the scholastic as¬ pect? There ' s a scholastic aspect? This is a suitcase college unless you play a sport. The reason I came to school was to wrestle. In fact, the academic aspect is secondary to me, I don ' t need it because I know I already have a position when I graduate from school ... a job. It ' s known that President Craw¬ ford emphasizes sports. l Io, I wouldn ' t know a basket¬ ball from a football. We ' ve revamped the curriculum considerably to make it pointed more towards lifetime sports skills. Any college you go to is what you make it, if you make it boring then it ' s going to be boring . . . but I don ' t think the school is boring . . . they have activities going on . . . I ' m talking about the attitudes of some of the people on the campus. I came here because my friends came here. I was offered the aid I would need to come to school. It ' s really hard for me here, I really have to study and I have to apply myself. If I don ' t I won ' t make it. I ' m not satisfied with being an old retired man sitting around home. I want to be able to do something, I want to make things happen. In the cafeteria you could have all you wanted if by chance you were insane enough to want a second helping. It ' s not easy cooking on such a large scale. Everybody goes back 2 or 3 times for everything, as many times as they want for seconds and thirds, and they still complain about the food. One of the biggest farces in the school this year was the CCPB elec¬ tion, it was the largest waste of paper I ' ve ever seen. I don ' t know why they even bothered with it, they only had one person running per office. He told us he didn ' t care if we passed the course or not because he was getting paid regardless. Right now the people I know have more charm than intelligence . . . you have the feeling they ' re people, that sad bunch of people through whose heads an interesting thought will never pass.