"Even after the takeover, I can't say campus life was ever really normal. In the odyssey of our campus experience, we arrive as eighteen-year-old kids and circumstances forced us to grow up very fast and assume levels of responsibility well beyond what our White peers had to handle within their own matriculation. In many ways, the burdens we shouldered never stopped"
-Victor Goode - Weinberg '70
The Black House is not operating like Hillel; African American Student Affairs is just a line account. Someone could say we don't want to do this anymore and you're down to zero.
-Debra Blade - Communications '79
"There is a consistent attempt to delegitimize [Black Students] to suggest they don't really belong. There is a reluctance to acknowledge their pain, their difficulties and to take them seriously...the problems haven't changed, so complacency is our enemy. Haki Madhubuti spoke in The Black House several times and told the students that 'there are people working day and night to stop your future' and I've never forgotten this."
-Jabari Asim - FMO Coordinator '84-'85
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