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INI OH,�.'l4 TIUN IS P()�·.'ER
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lIked out of a Black Aware­
ness Month Planning Com­
mittee meeting last Thursday,
threatening a boycott of
February's BAM events if
change were not made.
Monica White, Associa­
tion of Black Students (ABS)
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By Derric C. Lewi
SlIIll Reporter
Diua ti fied wi th pur­
ported hite control of Black
A areness Month (BAM),
more tb n a dozen Black
o and Universi ty tudents
delegate to the committee,
read three anonymous letters
. hich criticized the presence
of whites on the committee,
tbe sbiftin of the months
focus to m Iticulturalism,
and demanded the resigna­
tion of tudent co-chair Joe
Thruman, w bo i Black, and
tbe Director of Campus
Program Paul Franklin, who
is white, from the committee.
After pre enting the letter,
student Involved gave the
other cornmi tree members
five minute to comply with
their demands. After a five
minute deadloc the group
I e,d out. Ion it tu-
at Oa
Ian
u
dent co-ch . r Adrian McCall.
The group, 'calling it elf
tbe "other" Black tudents of
Oakland Universi ty, affirmed
that they were not in total
compliance wi tb the three let­
ters, but were in ympathy
with the content .
presenting BAM a multicul­
tural was front.
A letter excerpt said, "As
Black students, we are
thoroughly in ulted and di -
gu ted at not only the
presence of non-Blac s on
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THE G OUP a erted
tbat Black voting rights on
the committee were diluted,
tbe current structure of the
committee put autho ri ty
under one per on, that wbite
hould not direct BAM a no
non-Jewi h per on would be
allo ed to control Jewi h
holi y activitie , and that
'Black poverty
3 time whites
The poverty rate among
Blacks remained three times
higher than the rate for
whites in 1989, hile the gap
bet een ealthy and other
American hit its highe t
point in more than 40 years,
according to an analy is of
recent Cen u data by the
Center OD Budget and Policy
Priorille .
au nern Africa face
conomlc 'struggle
III urDal�.
rth Id fight
So ay Simba Makoni,
chief executive of the
Southern Africa Develop­
ment Coordination Con­
ference (SADCC), the
economic organization of the
10 Blac -ruled countries in
outhern Africa, founded in
1980 to les en their depend­
ency on South Africa. I
Since then, a free South
Africa loom clo er.
amibia, the group's ne e t
member, i no longer South
yG
ASHINOTO el on
andela's relea e i not an
end. It' the beginning of a
e chapter in the struggle to
free not onl y South Africa,
but the entire region.
Africa's COlony. The U.S. -
Soviet cold war is over. The
two Germany' united and a
United State of Europe' i
imminent.
M oni, during a recent
interview, opined th t the
.world's new realitie pre ent
pecial challenge to
SADCC.
THIS GROUP of fragile
but 'potentially rich tate -
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The Ce nte r ' aDaly is
found that although 1989
marked the eventh year of
economic recovery, the
poverty rate fa�led to register
any significant hange I t
year and remained higher
than in any year of the
1970' , including the deepe t
rece sion years' of that
decade.
In 1989, ome 12.8 percent
of all America - 31.S mil­
lion people - fell below the
poverty line. Among Blacks,
lO.7 percent - or �.l million
people were poor .
.
POVERTY RATES
remained particularly high
among Black children, the
Center aid, with 4l.7 per­
cent being poor in 1989.
Among Black children under
age six poverty rates' were
even higher. One of every
two - 50.1 percent - were
poor Ja t year. .
. "The lack of progre s in
reducing poverty i cau e fOT
seuou concern," said Center
Dtrector Robert Green tein.
"Normally poverty rate
fall d uri ng economic
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