"We really began to feel it last spring during the takeover of University Hall." said Kenneth Bechis, former President of WHRB. "We really wanted a black reporter who could report if blacks seized a building and to give us a black viewpoint. But the one or two black reporters we had said flatly they wouldn't report on Afro."

The CRIMSON tried, offering the Afro society leaders a weekly feature page for presenting their viewpoint but that idea fizzled out. Only a handful of articles appeared.

At the Independent, President Morris Abrams Jr. '70, said blacks have written a few articles this year but the board has not tried to set up a black column or page because of lack of space. At WHRB, any member can voice his views editorially, but Bechis said the blacks had not used this outlet much.

With the present separatist mood of blacks on campus, reflected in the political split with such organizations as SDS as well as the pullback from news outlets, neither whites nor blacks hold out hope for an aggressive recruitment campaign among blacks.

"If they try to do too much, it would become patronizing," Daniels remarked. "You know, the CRIMSON and the others can't come out and make a pitch. 'Callin' all black students, we want you. The blacks know it's here; they're not interested now."