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...associate dean, Thomas Graves, said there was nothing at all unusual about his telephoning HarBus editor Jeff Chokel and asking him about the BAP story. Graves said, "I wanted to be sure that a story at this time couldn't complicate a proposal" to the Ford Foundation for hundreds of thousands of dollars. "Interfering with a newspaper is the last thing I want to do," Graves said. Chokel disagreed with Graves's analysis. Chokel said it was the only time Graves had called him at home and "the only time Graves called up to check on the nature...
That night, just before Chokel went to the printers with the BAP story, five black students visited him in his room and insisted that he not run the article. One of the blacks was Wilbur Stevens, general manager of the HarBus, whose veto of the BAP editorial had been overridden. Chokel said, "I think now I would have refused to speak to Wil unless they left. Wil was bringing in outside forces who shouldn't have been here." A white proprietor said that the five black students "weren't going there to get 'no' for an answer...
When the BAP story and editorial finally appeared in the old proprietorship's final edition, on March 12, Chokel had left the new HarBus editor, Terry Schmidt, with a very hot potato. The BAP editorial was entitled "Our Very Own Chappaquiddick" and began, "This year the Business Assistance Program ran off a bridge...
...HarBus has been eager to print dissenting columns from members of Afro. Both Chokel and Schmidt have made concerted efforts to attract black reporters to the HarBus and Schmidt finally succeeded, with a story in the April 16 issue which Afro still branded as racist...
...have discussed this with the HarBus and we have an understanding with them." It is uncertain whether this understanding will lead to Afro's looking over every story dealing with blacks. With its show of force, Afro has knocked out the baby teeth of the HarBus which grew while Chokel was editor. Schmidt will now have to decide between a toothless paper or a stronger set of permanent teeth which will have a lot more bite...