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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...
...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...
itself from any previous editorial policies of any previous proprietor group (Schmidt's group took over last month and will hold the proprietorship for one year...