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"Counter was not taking a whack at anybody--ifhe just said `no' he would be turning his back onthe opportunity to make a statement he thinksneeds to be made," Doyle said. "He is tremendouslydedicated to the students at Medgar Evers and hefeels that Medgar Evers College will never be ableto...
But faculty members and administrators at bothMedgar Evers and CUNY are less than pleased withCounter's handling of the affair. A smallcommunity college named for the slain civil rightsleader, Medgar Evers was founded in 1969 as anexperimental project in higher education.
In March of 1969, Medgar Evers came intoexistence as Staten Island Community College,President William M. Birenbaum's proposal for anew experimental college within CUNY. The schoolwas slated to take up several blocks of theBedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.
Professors are still smarting from the movethat has since put the school on a shoestringbudget. Medgar Evers enrolled more than 5000students last year, most of whom were Black women.The college now awards both two- and four-yeardegrees, but it is funded as a community college.Some veterans of the school blame...
"I think it would be difficult for a president[at Medgar Evers] to function. The president atthe institution needs the support of the system inorder to be effective. I'm not so sure how muchsupport they get," Loney said.