University Daily Kansan, September 11, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA
Black gains a goal, group leader says
By DENEEN BROWN Staff Reporter
The Black Student Union will follow the path of blacks across the nation who have made political and social contributions to new BSU president last week.
Christine Cressie, the president,
said a black presidential candidate,
black mayors and a black Miss
America had given black students
incentive to become more active at
the University of Kansas.
Cressie recently replaced Rochelle Moore as BSU president when Moore did not return for the fall semester.
BUS kicked off the year with its first general assembly meeting last night in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union, during which members discussed BSU goals and issues and elected additional officers.
gains We, as well, should be motivated to do the same," Cressie said.
"The number of issues discussed gave a clear picture of the insensitivity to minority students on the KU campus and the difficulty of being a black student on a white campus." Cobb said. "Proof of the success of the meeting will lie in the near future."
This is a year when blacks nationwide have made substantial
Leaders of several black campus organizations met with the administration last year to discuss students' concerns about Student Senate elections, in which the count of ballots resulted in different winners at each count, incidents in which some white fraternity and sorority members were killed during Halloween, and the Kansas University Endowment Association's investments in companies that do business in South Africa.
Robert Colb, executive vice chancellor, said the result of the meeting had been positive.
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