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-BSU Charges Racism Here be~~S~~~u~:il~~di;S~~~:t~o~~~~;:.!~~th~~di!;:i~i~~:~i~!~~~O;JOsS~l~~I~~~~t~~~~~~~~~ U~!~~a;c~~:~i~:~;tdt~~wf~t ;:rth~tethi::~::~~bes~~ehi~~~~ Nancy Menefee and Jeff Robinson racism. The initial charges were emphasized that it was an "In- without foundation, but I do think it that "Given the vacancies we have of a minority professor in the made in a document entitled: House" document, to be used in is a one-sided view. The "Steps" -this year, ~;'1I try to makel~:rh Political Science within the next "Western Maryland College--An preparation for their conference . ~as an attempt ~ tell the other real effort. He fell that a ~ year. The BSU expressed concern Academic Plantation which was with the NAACP. Side of the story. . more could have" been done In over possible tokenism in this case signed by the Black Student Union However, this did not see~ t~ be The two ~~uments deal With r~c~nt ef~Ol ts. th~r~ __:asfa~ by saying, "what do they mean by ~~oc~~:~t~~~ ~~ ~d~a~Ca:~~~~ ITn:e~~~~:~~~~o~!~~~~~~~nd ~~V:S~~ru~1af~~~bl~;;~~~:!siac~~ ~~~~~t eff~~P[OO~~~du~t~, broad ~ ~~~rit:nro;:~~:o~i\~ th:~: of Colored People not receive a copy. Barbara Craig, black proresstcnal people on the search than In past years. . deoartment?" has _As of Wednesday there h~s been Admissions Counselor and Advisor faculty and staff: Currently., there The general campus W been bel Leaves _. a? .J no word from the NAACP. The totheBSU,alsohadnoimowledge ar.e. two full-hme black. ~n erry ro College has also put out a paper, of the document's existance before mm~tr~tors, Barbara ~aIg entitled: "Positive Steps Toward Wednesday. In reference to how Admlssl~ns a~d He.IlTY Miller in After Three Years Mfinnative Action at Western this state of affairs came to be, she the Registrar's ?fflce. However, MarylandCollege. It is a catalogue remarked, "I'm completely. there are no full-time black faculty Doug Bowman year, Mr. Wrubel feels that the of the steps taken in the past puzzled." members. . Jerry Wrubel, the director of this "students should be thinking about decade to help achieve equal op- Dean McCormick said that the RepresentatIves of the BSU we~e school's Counseling and Career leaving when they're arriving." portunity at WMC for minorities. document "was designed to show a~ked. why .they felt that this Services, will be leaving Western The success of the Counseling and This document was distributed to that the institution had attempted situation existed on the WMC Maryland College today to become Career Services is evident in the all department heads. A copy was to do some things that would ad- ca!ll.pus. I~ response, t?e the Director of Career Planning fact that approximately six hun- also gtven to the president of the. dress )he prob~s we have." He P,l':~d~r!~:I~:d ~m~~i;a~~ and Placement for State dred students sought career Showerulg GIrls realm of Dean McCormick ?f IS University College at Geneseo, counseling last year. in career Affa;'." Academic Besides work his . New York. Mr. Wrubel became the which Complain of Peeper ~:;:~~~tsf:~t~~~~y~e school's into a job that 'had in 1974, services, the Mr. wrubet kept putting career counselor been moving out Career monthly virtually ncn-existant before his Newsletter, and he was the coach PhS!v~~~dg\l~s in whttetord and but there have been exceptions to but at the same lime Dean Mc: arrival. The move to Western of the excellent Western Maryland Blanche Ward dorms have this. Cormick can make recom- Maryland was his first association College golf team. "Coaching gave reported seeing a tall, thin man "I wasn't scared, just mad," was mendations to them, so I would say with brown hair peeping into their the way one girl described her it is with his office, and ultimately with private higher education. Mr. me an opportunity to work with the shower stalls, usually in the feelings toward the invasion of her with Dr. John, because he signs the Wrubel received his bachelor's st-udents in a non-professional degree in education from Fredonia capacity," he said. In his three m~~n~~n, described as scraggly ~~v:tcYih~hel~~nt:rn ~ec~o~~la~ co~~a~~~, in an interview held State in New York. He received his years as a coach the team com- master's degree in student per- piled a record of thirty-one wins looking and about 18 years old, was Whiteford claiming that some of earlier this year, admitted that the also reported on campus last year. the doors are never locked even administration was willing to sonnel from State University at and just fifteen defeats. The police have been informed of when they're supposed to be. It is accept some of the responsibility Albany in 1971. When asked about his Mr. Wrubel said that Jerry minority of the most recent in~ident about a believed that the man might be for the lack t!;~en~=it~~·~: here Wrubel found his three replacement, were being accepted applications and both challenging years week ago. One girl has even entering through the basement ~~[eec:r~~!i~~:en rewarding. "People are starting to until October 10. The new coun- :o~~!:dph~he man jn a police ~~~~h~~~ s~::rO~:;~~rls have seriousness of the try for af- realize the necessity of planning selor will probably slart around the ahead," he stated. "Awareness of first of November. ' The man is usually spotted in the Office James Austin, assigned to flnnative action." But he 'also early morning hours and has been the case, was unavailable for qualified that statement by s;aying, career concern has increased The Staff of Scrimshaw and the reported to run if someone opens a comment, but the girls involved "However, we have not been guilty immeasurably." He also feels that students of Western Maryland shower curtain or approaches him have police cards with numbers to of discrimination." He felt that the more students need to consider the would like to wish Mr. Wrubel a in the hall. He. usually peeps in call in case of any further oc- college is presently trying to future. Instead of waiting to pla,:, a pleasant and safe trip and good when girls are alone in the stalls, curances. _ rectify that situation by "gearing career until the Junior or seruor luck in his new position.