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W.dn.,d'Y.Ooto""B.1915 Letters' to;m'~iheEdi,tor Page 3 Dear Editor: most unprejudiced school in the I consider myself to be an in- are throwing racial slurs because Dear Editor: It seems in very poor taste to country, For example, it would telligent black woman. I don't like of the insecurity of their position, This is JUSt a short note to let you bring the issue of Racism into the seem rather against the odds for to be accused of something that I and lack of defense of proper and .everyone else know that we public eye because of the opinions this body to elect a black president had no part in, I'm referring to the procedures should stop and think are perfectly satisfied with the of a "sizable number of black to the Student Government statement in the last issue that a about what they are doing," dude that takes care of keeping students" concerning the up- Association, but 10 and behold we group of blacks verbally attacked a T don't consider myself to be an third and fourth sections of ANW coming concert. As an have dear 01' Herbie, who by the single reporter. Speaking for insecure person because if that clean. This guy is all the time organization which represents the way I feel is doing a humdinger of a myself as a black indvidual, t knew was so, I wouldn't have been able working and does a good job, views and interests of more than job. nothing about this so-called group. to survive here at Western without complaining. With all the _ "asuable number of blacks" on The odds would also go against Frankly, I don't think there was a Maryland for two years. I hope and talk about the less than this campus we detest this attack this school having a black band for group pray that this tension will cease satisfactory conditions and upkeep by the newspaper. the Homecoming Concert; against and that we will become one happy in various areas of the campus we In surveying the total number of blacks on the campus we con- ~i~~:;a ~~:ikn~n~:~~~e i~:~I haven't thrown any racial slurs ~~~~~~~ _b~:jUad~~ethr:;d ra~;~~ :~r:~~~~ ~i~~t ~e~o~~~;;u~~: cluded that there are two graduate, Thompson, a black student, ap- to any reporters because I know degrading words out of our doing, and with the cleanliness 01 two day students and twenty-two pointed chairman of the S.G.A. how to express myself in other vocabulary. our dorm. fulltime undergraduate making a Social Committee, which handles terms. whether racial or non' Rita Amalia Reid Sincerely, final total of twenty-six black among other things arranging to racial. It was stated in the last Matt Bowers I students on Western Maryland's get bands; and finally the odds issue, "Those on the campus who ~ ~ ~ ~ Rusty Hess campus. During one conversation were against the Senate of the BLT stated that five was "the S.G.A. approving a measure to ***** News briefs ***** sizable number of black students" appropriate three hundred dollars that verbally attacked "a number to the Black Student Union, which of Scrimshaw reporters." sets a precedence for the S.G.A. to CONTRAST Sunday, October 12, from 9:30 A.M. with instruments from throughout In his effort to analyze the fund special interest groups. I'm contr as t-r-vkon'