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Student Op-Ed piece on the Black Power movement and its impacts on whites.

The student Whig Society invited Karl Allen, a Wallace campaigner, to tell students the campaign’s position on segregation. Allen defined what a racist is and what a “true racist” believes.

GMC’s second reported Slave Day. Notably, the organizers for this year’s Slave Day said, “Slave Day will become a yearly thing, like George Mason Day.”

A student laments the passing of MLK Jr. and the state of America. The author claims America is still enslaved as long as white apathy persists.

A civil rights organization formed on Mason’s campus with the goal of researching the issues surrounding the civil rights movement, conducting physical work in the movement, and open debate. Students set out to investigate the number of black…

The black studies program celebrates its second year of existence. Only eight students are enrolled in the course, all of whom are white.

Andrew Evans was hired to recruit minority students for GMU. Evans is described as “not just meeting a quota” and wanting to sincerely determine why GMU lacks minority students without lowering the standards of the university admissions requirements.…

Reporting on Louis Lowe’s goals to expand faculty diversity and provide suggestions to departments to increase their women and minority student engagement. Lowe describes Mason as a “predominantly white institution”.

Andrew Evans discusses proposed programs to support minority and female students who would attend GMU and states that in order to initiate effective Affirmative Action, the university culture needs to recognize its attitude of discrimination and…

Both Evans and Lowe make way to hire minorities and women, noting that they believe more work is to be done hiring minorities than women. There are no minority professors at GMU. The staff is composed of approximately 30% of women.