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Part of Minorities Blast UB Concert Plan, October 29, 1976

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Minorities
Blast UB
Concert Plan
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group at the Buffalo Theater
next Sunday night has struck a
sour note in the minds of
members of UB's minority
groups a: whom the
performance is aimed.
Spokesman for the Black and
Puerto Rican Student Unions
and the International Student
Organization say
they
will
picket the theater before
the
show begins at 6:30 p.m.
The principal objection to the
according
to
performance,
Edward Guity, coordinator of
minority affairs fo r the State
Student Assn. , is that minority
not involved
in
students were
the planning.
Racial Objection
Another objection,Guity said
is that of the three principal
performers, only one is black,
although the show is aimed at a
largely black audience.
The black peformer, he said,
is Norman Conners, a "soul
music" singer. Other
performers on the bill are
Vicky Sue Robinson also a
singer, and David Sanborn a nd
his band.
Jeff Lessoff,d irector of the
University Union .Activities
which
is
UUAB
Board
sponsoring the concert,claimed
that although Sanborn is white,
members of his band are black.
He said Miss Robinson is a
mulatto.
"It's ridiculous to think that
this is not a minority concert,"
he said. " .All these groups have
hit records on the rhythm and
blues charts."
Lessoff said that generally
buyers of records in that chart
are black.
Few Blacks on Panel
He said the music committee
which, picked the groups is
open to all students, but that
few blacks became involved.
Lessoff said the decision to
schedule the concert in the
downtown Buffalo Theater
rather than on the campusw as
because $1,800 damage was
done to Clark Gymnasium when
was
a concert for minorities
held there last year.

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