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many of our students come from and the police continues to spiral downward (helped in no small part by the fact that Blacks make up more than a third of the prison population, compared to only 13 percent of the overall population). The attitudes of Black Millenni- als show a significant shift from prior generations. In a recent study, “Being Black in Corporate America,” indicated via interviews and focus groups with Boomers and Gen Xers, that their stories of Top right: Shaun R. Harper, Ph.D. (Delta Xi 1998), Provost and Professor in the Rosier School of Education and Marshall School of Business at USC, the Clifford and Betty Allen Chair in Urban Leadership, and executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center. Right: Western Province Polemarch Timothy Woods and Western Province Chapter Advisor Chairman Zack Stewart meet with Greek Life officials from USC. Below: AFA Recognition Luncheon, seated from left-Zack Stewart, Ryan Tucker, John F. Burrell, Timothy Woods, Evan Jackson, Alvin L. Barrington, Christopher Wilks, Darryl K. McGee, Claude Grimes. Standing from left-Warren Green, Earl Merritt, Bobby Arnold, Eric Pate, Edward Robinson, James Keel, Maurice Miller and Calvin L. Smith, Sr.
Call to Action
Our undergraduates are at a decisive disadvantage and some would say they are under attack at the very institutions they attend. Witness the recent actions at Syracuse University and at Indi- ana University where a professor openly embraces a racist mindset directed at minority students. These types of situations are becoming more frequent in our society and it places our under- graduates at risk. Many of our undergraduate mem- bers are first generation students and many come from single parent homes and are financially chal- lenged. We know the childhood poverty rate for African Americans remains stubbornly close to what it was back in 1960; unemploy- ment for Black Americans runs nearly double that of the national average; and the distrust between impoverished communities where
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