, "
- ;.
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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