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RTP_19911121.pdf
In November of 1991, the Interfraternity Council (IFC) required each fraternity in their council to vote on the colonization of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first historically black Greek organization. Then IFC President Greg Hicks delayed the original vote…

dumas_exec_comm.jpg
Willard Dumas becomes the first black president of the Executive Committee when former EC president suddenly withdraws from the university. At the time of his inauguration, there had not been bylaws put into place that detailed next steps in the…

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Sanders-Pratt and Penn pose in the dining area of Chavis House.

RTP_19641027.pdf
The language surrounding W&L’s decision to admit negro applicants at first glance appears careful and characteristic of our archive. If one were to rummage around the Trustee’s and President’s papers, aside from the blatant racism of few, the…

WLURG39_RTP_19900208.pdf
History would be derived of truth if every story had but one side. In this Ring-tum Phi article, the leaders on the Student Activities Board (SAB) struggle to come up with a conclusion about how the SAB was “saved.” One opinion article reads, “The…

WLURG39_RTP_19900208.pdf
After the withdrawal of former EC president Hugh Finkelstein, the EC faced a decision they had never prepared for. At the time of Finkelstein’s withdrawal, there was no procedure concerning filling a vacancy for EC president, introducing weeks of…

RTP_19911114.pdf
Alpha Phi Alpha, a historically black Greek letter organization, was established in 1906 at Cornell University. The Alpha chapter of the organization was initially founded as a support organization used to bond men of African descent with one another…

"A Difficult Yet Undeniable History"
“Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.” - Chimamanda Ngozi…

RTP_19870226.pdf
Dana Bolden '89, then a sophomore journalism major, founded a minority recruitment group with fellow sophomore Tom Brickel. Students are working to attract qualified minority students to W&L while also working to invite non-minority students to…

RTP_19851003 copy.pdf
In this particular article, Ring-tum Phi writer, Dana Bolden, writes that the words "black unity" was increasingly perceived as if the blacks in W&L were uniting against someone or something. Additionally, Bolden wrote that groups should not be…
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