http://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/upimage/VF_I18B_011.pdf

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BEN

2/13/69 pg. A3

Students Defeat
UB Breakfasts
For Black Children
Students
at
the
State
University of
Buffalo have
defeated a proposal to allocate
$28,000 to the Black Student
Union's
"Breakfast for
Children"
program by a vote of
1548 to 1003. The issue was put
to a referendum Thursday and
Friday.
The BSU ..breakfast
program
currenrly· feeds 170 young black
children
in the Westminster
Community House, 121 Monroe
St..
:
Program . head Charles
Autrey, 19, a freshman at the
University
said "we'll have to
look to the people of Buffalo the
community
to help now. The
university has proven that it
wants nothing to do with it."
Mr. Autrey, previously said that
the breakfast treasury contained
$3000 of the original $5200
allocated to the program by stu- .
dent association
funds.
Mr. Autrey also said that
because of the program's rapid
expansion, food expenses
are
currently
$750 a week.
The allocation proposal was
endorsed editorially
by the
UB's
student
:Spectrum.
newspaper.