Black students discuss Stillman
by STEVE STRASSER
Nebraskan Staff Writer
Two black students last
week discussed their views
on the Stillman Exchange
Program with one of the pro
gram's critics and a Nebraskan
reporter.
On October 14, the Nebraskan
printed an interview with Ron
Whitten, a white NU student,
who criticized the ASUN stu
dent exchange program with
Stillman College, a black school
in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Whitten complained the pro
gram was shoddily set up and
poorly promoted at both ends.
He suggested the program
should function with a black
college more up to Nil's
academic standards.
"A white student going to a
black college has to completely
rid himself of his own culture,"
said Darryl Eure, a black stu
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dent and friend of two Stillman
co-eds who spent a semester at
Nebraska last year.
Eure and fellow black stu
dent Richard McCain were
talking to Whitten and
Nebraskan reporter Steve
Strasser, who interviewed
Whitten for the story.
"White super-liberals cannot
expect to skip into a black col
lege flinging the peace sign and
expect black students to fling a
'right on back at them," Eure
said. "A white's job on a black
campus is to accept everything,
including their way of teaching.
If blacks put on airs to make
you more comfortable, that
would destroy the whole ex
perience." McCain conceded it would be
harder for a white to make it in
a black culture than for blacks
in a white culture. "Blacks are
ready for it," he said. "Every
time they leave the ghetto they
have to adjust to white culture.
"Whites aren't used to changing
cultures."
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"Every black recognizes that
he's black," Eure said. "After
he recognizes that, he's forced
to play two games, his and
yours."
But even though whites may
be unskilled in switching
cultures, that's what they have
to try to do in a black environ
ment, Eure explained.
"Saying that Stillman is run
like a high school is like saying
that the ghetto system isn't
correct," he said.
"A white has to say to
himself, 'I'm in a black en
vironment'," Eure continued.
"Then he has to try to become
totally involved in that en
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McCain agreed, but added,
"It's probably not fair to dump
a white student into a black
environment."
Eure thinks the
exchange
program would be
more el-
fective if a white student went
to Stillman with a black one.
They could live in the same
room at Stillman and the black
could help the white understand
the new environment.
Eure did not envy Whitten his
experience at Stillman. "You
had to break every rule you
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McCain thought the Stillman
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1970
THE NEBRASKAN
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