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The Black Student Union (BSU) is an organization at Indiana University Northwest that addresses those issues that affect African American students in a university setting. The BSU has been a mainstay at universities since its conception in the sixties student activism. The BSU body of the sixties were intent in empowering themselves socially and politically. The Black Student Unions were responsible for many African, African American, Puerto Rican, Afro-Cuban and Caribbean teachers, professors and subject matter being introduced to people of African descent and those of other lineage at all levels of society. It creates an atmosphere of self respect and also gives perspectives other than the domineering culture. The BSU created the atmosphere for there to be a Minority Studies Department. There is still a need for the BSU to take this position but since the late seventies and early eighties the African American student body has been increasingly complacent and some say sedated. ARE YOU HERE TO BE EDUCATED OR TRAINED? The need for a Black Student Union is no less today. The BSU has been instrumental in stopping action for the university opening more remote sites that would eventually lead to the Gary campus suffering whether economically or curriculum wise. Gary did a lot during the Hatcher administration for the expansion of the university. The university employs a large amount of Gary residents and is the closest institute of higher education for this city. The university's relationship with the city and its relationship as it pertains to the institution itself and the student body thereof, are issues that the students most impacted should address. |
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