Word: harbus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
SCHMIDT felt the first real pressure against the HarBus after a Chuck Richards column ran on April 9. Chuck Richards, a pseudonym of one of the old proprietors, had written about a dozen of his humor columns over the past year, poking fun at classes, dorm life, faculty, administration, and the University police. His April 9 column fabricates a Harvard Business School Game with a monopoly-type board. The next to last paragraph of his column states, "Another interesting square is Flunk Out. Anyone landing on this one automatically-loses the game, unless he holds a Minority Group card...
...letters castigating Chuck Richards were printed in the following issue of the HarBus. But members of Afro stole all the April 16 newspapers from their distribution points across the campus. Chuck Richards said Schmidt's apology-appearing in this morning's paper-was not warranted. The apology was part of the agreement Schmidt reached with Afro. Referring to his column, Richards said, "That particular line wasn't meant any more seriously than any other line. To lift that one line out of context and brand it as racist is absurd. Somehow when it hits closer to home, it seems racist...