, "
- ;.
dmini tr to
corpor te n
riculum
permanent
A ro entric community
declined let t minute invita
tion to tt nd.
Hou ndcred in di -
beli r ho ichigan BUF
could hold a conference of thi
nature on WSU c mpu in
vic of thc ongoin t 0- r
battle i mired b curriculum
a. PCCl!\ cry, irm lar to it'
pre' .ntauon.
House found il c specially
intcre tin th I th c nfcr nee
thcm Iroccntricity, a',
S U ad mi ni ur tion pre
vi u -I rcputiatcd the idea or
su h a curriculum. et allo cd
th con cntu n to ta e place.
'I'.. TEl) no
ro
jor upporter of WSU tu
cIen Study-in in "1989, sup
plyin food d moral backing
bile l demo tration con-
tinued. She bl med Parker's
relation hip ith SU d
mi tration for hi conflict
intere t. .
WSU tudent Lee Smith
prore ted the BUF con
ference ite a former mem
ber of the tudy-in. He termed
it "ironic" th t WSU nd
BUF' Afrocentric con
ference came together. He
eq led it ith "di cu Sing the
prevention of r atrociue
ith Hiller."
.. It' hypocritical but also
indic tive of where WSU_
land ". id Smith. He con-
tinued. "They ill allow con
ference t be held on their
c mp • while bcin in total
oppo ition to hat the con
ference ent its."
II) U tu-
h ve ta en a multiplicity
o appro che: in order to give
dmini urators every oppor
tunity to meet any part of thei r
demand Ior the curriculum.
He s id the department of
African Studie ' that. ponsored
the BUF convention did not
end a much as a note to the
Bl ck tudcnt union i nvi ti ng
students to a ue nd the con
terence. no ing their invol
vement in the struggle.
"We nt Atric n people to
tudy from an African per pee
live, a , all other curriculum
are Eurocemric. hut WSU ad
mini tr tor' arc oppo cd to
thi .," Smith aid.
Smith 'aid administrators
promi sed to make cvery effort
to reinterpret th . pirit of th
contract to incorporate the
Afrocentric curricul urn but
have not been hone t in their
effort .
H WSU
dmini trator ' insincerity i
bl t nt in th t thcy ant the
propo ed curricul urn to be
com another egro-ccntric
curriculum. to b continuou
repetition of inform tion pre
vi u Iy I rned, having noth
in' to do ith Afro cntricity ..
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