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Part of Newspaper clippings, July 11 and December 18, 1969

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Orientation Scheduled
More than 400 disadvantaged
students will begin a 10-week
student orientation program at
the State University of Buffalo
tomorrow. Conducted by the
Black Students Union the program 1s designed to help students adjust to academic life
before classes begin in September.

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UB Sessions
to Orient
.
Disadvantaged Students
A 10-week orientation program
for the 400 disadvantaged students who will enter the University of Buffalo in September
will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday at
Norton Union.
Theprogram, conducted by
the summer orientation committee of the Black Students Union
will run on a seven-day-a-week

basis and will explore different
areas of concern to the incoming students.
Panel Talks Set
Saturday's program will begin
with a conference entitled "Minority Students and the Community." Student and commun­
ity organizations will hold panel
discussions, and Archie Shepp,
jazz musician and director of
arts and culture at the university, will moderate a panel discussion.
On succeeding Saturdays, daylong sessions will be held on
other topics including the administration of the university,
career guidance, and education.
Smaller seminars, academic
workshops in various skills,
such as English. and tour, of
the university will be held during the week.
Mrs. Carolyn Ball is faculty
adviser and coordinator of the
program, and Roosevelt Rhodes
is the assistant coordinator,

Planningmembers
committee
Include: Albert Baxter Mrs.
Audrey Dennard and Misses
Paulette Grice Hazel Morris
Frances Nicholson and Beverly
Washington

Assemblyman Arthur 0. Eve,
Democrat of Buffalo, said
Wednesday that some police. men use much greater severity
and "muscle" in law enforcement in the black community
than they do when dealing with
whites. He made the comment
at a Black Studies workshop
conducted by the social studies
department at Bishop O'Hern
High School.
As an example, Eve recalled
the recent shooting of a black
youth by a white policeman -not with the officer's service revolver but with a .351 magnum,
an oversized handgun that inflicted a serious wound.
400 at Workshop
About 400 students from diocesan and public high schools
attended the workshop, arranged by Stephen Mann, social
studies chairman at Bishop
O'Hern. Yvonne Breckenridge
and Mary Santa Maria served
as student coordinators.
The list of speakers included
Mrs. Dorothy Hill, job coordinator for the Community Action Organization; Mrs. Vivian

Dixon, orientation andWilsensitivity specialist;
liams, director of the teacher
aide program for the city's
Board of Education: Miss Pat
Hunter, a premedical student at
the University of Buffalo, and
Roosevelt Rhodes, president of
UB's Black Students Union.
BlackInvolvement
They generally agreed that
involvement in interracial affairs offers the best weapon for
overcoming prejudice. Several ,
speakers also maintained that
the black man no longer relies
on the white for help but believes now that only a change in
white attitudes can produce any
meaningful relationship be­
tween the two.
Among topics discussed were
"Exploring the Roots of Prejudice," "Interracial Marriage,"
"Black Accomplishments in
Athletics and the Arts" and
"Black Educational Opportunity."