The Alliance shall exist to allow the participation of all people in the promotion of Black cultural, intellectual, and social interest at Rensselaer and in the surrounding community. Above all, the Alliance shall serve to (1) uplift the conscious awareness of the Black Student, politically, culturally, and intellectually, (2) to champion, in order to insure, for the rights of Black students and our community, and (3) to be a guiding and uniting force for the Black Student on campus and the surrounding community. This can and shall be met by providing for cultural, political, and intellectual weapons, in the form of programs and events for the Black student at Rensselaer and the surrounding community. This shall be the basic set of rules or principles by which the Alliance shall govern itself.