http://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/upimage/VF_I18B_020.pdf

Text: BEN

12/13/69 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· iss ue was put
to a referendum Thursday and
Friday.
The BSU ..breakfast
program
currently 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
has proven that it
1 university
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
Spectrum.
UB's
student
newspaper.