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Part of Minorities' List of Demands Given to Officials at UB, April 27, 1972
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Minorities' List of Demands
Given to-Officials at UB
Minority students and faculty
members at the State University of Buffalo presented
schcol officials a list of five
demands Wednesday and then
abruptly left a meeting in
Capen Hall saying they expected a response with in 24
hours.
Dr. Robert L Ketter, UB
president, and Dr. Albert So·
mit, executive vice president,
were left alone in the room
when the 200 students and
faculty members walked out
of a meeting they had requested Friday.
The demands are:
- Black studies be immediatety made a full -fledged depanment.
- Tenure and review proced ures be revised to give
minority members
judgment
by their peers.
- Immediate dialogue be
established with minority group
students in profesional and
, graduate schools.
- Charles E. Gayle Jr.,
visi ting assistant professor of
music, and Dr. David J.
Banks. assistant professor of
anthropology, be reappointed
as associate professor with
tenure.
Both have been denied further appointment, UB spokesmen said.
-These four demands be immediately adopted and perpetual dialogue be established
between the president, minority
students and faculty.
Edward Gamble, a black
student, said the committee to
be established to deal with the
UB president later would deal
with minority involvement in
all facets of the university.
Before announcing their demands, the students, who said
they represented the Black
Student Union, Third World
Veterans Alliance and other
minority groups on campus,
read a 9-page list of what the y
called "sins of omission and
sins of commission'' by Dr.
Ketter.
Dr. Ketter had no immediate
I resoonse to the demands..
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