University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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We had some high school kids up one weekend to see the school and hear the bit about come to Carolina. They were given the red carpet treatment and even housed in a university dorm. How liberal can you get? One of the things the kids did while they were here was to listen to a talk by a real big muoktey muck super black leader. This cat was for real-he hated whites so much the sight of one nearly sent him into a rage, On campus he stayed nearly in a rage a lot. Foam around the mouth, the whole scene. Anyway this cat got up and delivered one hell of a speech. He talked about the revolution. He urged the kids to stick together. He said a white man was dirty. He was less than dirt. He was shit. The cat raved on for an hour. His blackness was down on him. None of the high school kids. not a one, dug his speech, They all came from integrated schools. Most of them were from rural counties. These kids knew whites and disliked much of what they knew, but they disliked this super-blaok even more. Behind his back they laughed at him. To his face they praised his speech. but back in their rooms they laughed. With his blackness down on him they thought he was a fool. During this period a lot of our black leaders were being laughed at. The bluff they had come down with the year before had run out. Our leaders were all talk. No action just talk. They were caught up so in their own speeches that . . . . Well, their blackness was down on em. Blackness came down on a lot of cats that term. It was like a plague. It crept into every nook and crany of campus. It pulled oats out of their classes. broke up couples, Chained people to their beds. Nobody did anythingeall the cats just talked on and on. it was impossible to argue or reason with a eat when black- ness was down on him-he knew it all. Kelly Alexander, Jr.

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. improvements in the Student Standard of Liv- ing were amply com- pensated for. -4 3'4: A O i E: t r ' ' S l i i , -000- 000103;; a I A w, 939;: , zezoam MM .,. f. i u, v. .. v 0 0 0 . Ag. 33W f :39; ,1, 3'0 5 ctr ,, . O .3. .' :.O .0' g- tM . W. a 0.0. i A'. '0 0 0'. v . :gza' - - .3: .::::. ::.:::: .::.::; 5:0 X .5303: 12.20:.- '0;70:0: 005:0:0: 0: :W t A o :9 0.: 3? '9? '- 639$ .r .t. r v v- 05.0 ,0. :. 0;- y W .. t 0? 0. 0- 20:0 0 '30:. :I I I: 0 0 0 0 o , a: 1-920! 0' .23?! E91 On the face of it all, the students life bore the semblance of a happy one. The pass-fail system had been amended in his favor. Visitation kinks had been ironed out, and sophomore women were given the privilege of seif-Iimiting hours. Refrigerators were legalized in dorm rooms. Peti- tions seemed to catch the ear of the phone com- pany, even when the telephone would not. Hours for bus operations were extended into the almost wee hours of the night. Consumer Discount Cards were offered for the price of seven comic books. The Student Union moved to lessen the burden by installing an additional cash register to handle ttpeak-hour lines. A dorm was singled out for complete integration of the sexes, and the possi- bility of a fratority was in the offing. WUNC even opted for a rock music program to supplement its ofttimes dry entertainment. Regretabiy, such improvements in the Student Standard of Living were amply compensated for. Minor things, both irksome and costly, were never out of vogue. Library fines jumped 500013, and woe betide him who misplaced a reserve book. Chapel Hill cabs at long last called off their price war with New York taxis and added 150: and five minutes waiting time to their service. Milk began to chal- lenge the remaining portions of the cow for bodily worth, Climbing towards a quarter a half-pint. Cigarettes were 40$ instead of the over-the-coun- ter 2503 of a few years back. O