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Part of Newspaper clippings, December 13-14, 1969

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BEN 12/13/69 pg. A3

Students Defeat
UBBreakfasts
For Black Children
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Students
at
the
St ate
Un iversity of Buffalo
have
defeated a proposal to allocate
}$28,000 to the Black Student
"Breakfast
for
Child'r en" program by a vote of
1548 to 1003. The issue was put
to a referendum Thursday and
Friday.
The BSU breakfast program
: currentl y· feeds 170 young black
children
in th·e Westminster
Community House, 421 Monroe

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Program . head Charles
Autrey, 19, a fre shman at the
University said "we'll have to
look to the penple of Buffalo, the
community
to help now. The
university has proven that it
wants nothing to do wilh it."
Mr. Autrey, previously said that
the breakfast treasury contained
$3000 of the original $5200
allocated to the program by student 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.

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CEX 12/14/69 pg.9
Lane to Speak

At Workshop
Ambrose Lane, former president
of the Community Action
Organization,
and
Roosevelt
Rhodes, chairman of the University of Buffalo's
Black
Student
will participate , Wednesday morning
in "A Workshop in
Human Relations" for Bishop
O'Hern High School's black
studies class.
The workshop, intended to
promote better black-white relations, will include a panel
discussion by four O'Hern students.
.
Others participating
will include Miss Pat Hunter. a UB
student; Miss Dorothy Hill, CAO
sub coordinator; Mike Tsomondo,
a Niagara University lecturer;
Edward Hampman of the Buffalo Police Dept.: Celeste TisDal,
an educator, and Mrs. Vivian
Dixon, a social worker.

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