Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When students occupied University Hall in the spring of 1969, one of their demands was the creation of an Afro-American center on campus, designed as a meeting place and social center for Black students. Two other institutions sprung from demands of those days of heated confrontation have endured--the Afro-American Studies Department and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute...
...Afro-American Center, originally student-run and financially independent, has not. The center could not generate enough funds or solicit enough contributions to keep itself afloat. The University did not actively pursue funding sources when the center began to founder. Moreover, students found they couldn't maintain a program of the center's magnitude without full-time staff, whose salaries further depleted available resources...
Aside from the Afro-American center, Yale has a center for Puerto Rican students, while Asian-Americans and Chicanos share one. They all receive operating funds from the budget of the dean of student affairs, and programming funds from membership fees. It costs an undergraduate $26 per year to join the Afro-American center. Romney is responsible to the dean, and a board composed of faculty, administrators and students governs the center...
Kathy Guy, a junior at Yale active in governance of the Afro-Am center, calls the center "necessary. "It's important at a predominately white school to establish an identity--it's not that we necessarily want to form a separate group, but we have unique clesires and needs that the university cannot provide for," Guy says...
...that the facility would prove an "option" for nonminority students as well. Jackson says, "We don't view the proposal as our own little island. A Third World center would be neutral ground for the entire University community." But Romney says whites at Yale have not fully accepted the Afro-Am center. "There's a lot of resentment--essentially, the issue is a primitive one. White students resent "Black students on campus...