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Black Recruitment Drive Aims
At Out Of State High Schools

For the first time in the University's
Black Recruitment Program, students
have started a drive for an intensive
out-of-state program.

Tom Collier, a student from Memphis,
has received the approval for his proposal
to recruit black students from Memphis
from both Dean Ern and Mr. Fisher,
President of the University Alumni
Scholarship Committee in Memphis.

Now Mr. Collier says he urgently
needs the support of all University
students from Memphis to sign a written appeal
to the Alumni Association in Memphis in order
to get the Association to include Negro high
schools in their recruitment program.

Mr. Collier's proposal would request that the
three predominantly black high schools, rather
Bertrand, Carver, and South Side be included
on the list of invitations to Alumni sponsored
recruitment dinners and interviews for scholarship
awards.

Mr. Collier's request is in the form of a letter
to Mr. Fisher which will be signed by Dean Era,
the Student Council, and hopefully a majority
of the Memphis students now attending the
University.

He has urged these students to go to the
offices of the Student Council, fourth floor of
Newcomb Hall, today during office hours (8-12
and 2-5) to sign this letter.

Presently the thrust of the University's
Black Recruitment program is focused on
in-state schools. With sufficient student support
shown today black recruiting could launch a
new wing of equal opportunity recruiting.