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i Black Ink ^ Cover Story Page 9 August 24 ng gets rough... here at the university.”said Fuse-Hall Thus, OSC offers many programs that are designed to improve upon the talents of the student and make their transition into the university a success ful one. Fuse-Hall also stresses the importance of students getting in contact with OSC soon into the semes ter and attending the meeting that OSC will hold for all freshmen on Sep tember 4. “This meeting is very impor tant. It should be mandatory”, said Fuse-Hall. Although you will be able to leam all about OSC and what they have to offer at the meeting on Sep tember 4, here is a detailed list of the programs and how they can help you. The Minority Student Advisory Program This program is designed to provide incoming minority freshman with peer counselors who have above a 2.5 grade point average and have been through extensive training. Minority Advisors (MA) meet with freshmen counselees once every two weeks and provide freshmen with sessions are held three nights per week and are conducted by a graduate assistant and several of the MA’s. The program is constructed to provide freshmen with individualized instruc tion. Contact OSC for infomiation about times, dates and places. Academic Skill Enhancing Workshops These workshops are designed to provide all students, not just freshmen, with organizational lessons such as time management, study skills and text book reading. “These workshops are probably the most important programs that we offer. The workshops enhance the skills that you brought with you from high school.”, said Fuse-Hall. Contact OSC for times, dates and places for the workshops. It is also important to add that these programs are open to all students, freshmen and upperclassmen alike. “We offer programs to anyone who wants to improve” saW Fuse-Hall. Fuse-Hall also stresses the necessity of feedback from the students. “If a student has a problem with a minority Fuse-Hall Welcomes Incoming Freshmen Welcome to the “Southern Part of Heaven.” Many dreams begin here; but only hard work, established priorities and a commitment to aca demic excellence will convert those dreams into realities by graduation. This campus will offer many tempting pleasures; you must decide early what is more important; popularity, partying or pumping up your knowledge base. The Office for Student Counseling (OSC) is ready to assist you with your goals for academic excellence. OSC sponsors the Minority Advisory Program. Many of you heard from these individuals during the summer. We offer study skill enhance ment sessions and scholastic advancement sessions. Yet, your success in these programs depends on YOU! You must prioritize! OSC believes that each of you can achieve all your dreams and we would like to assist you. Come see what we have to offer you at our Freshman Meeting on Wednesday, September 5 from 4:00-5:00 p.m. in the Student Union Auditorium. It’s all up to YOU. What will you do to become an academic success at UNC? We’ll be watching! Peace and Power, Rosalind Fuse-Hall, Associate Dean academic counseling and help to keep freshmen informed about OSC and univer sity policies in general. Dean Fuse-Hall said “MA’s provide freshmen with accurate infor- matron on ailes, policies and procedures. They also assist in personal and social ad justment into the university community.” Scholastic Advancement Sessions (SAS) SAS is a program that provides free tutor ing in the Natural Sciences, Math, English, Social Sciences and foreign languages. The advisor or another of our problem, he or she needs to come to the Office of Student Counseling. We want to be helpful to the student”, said Fuse-Hall. For more information on OSC attend the September 4th meeting or stop by the office on the second floa of Steele building. CD A Promised Land? ByClayL,Itonrow Cmtnbuior 1 w“jlked into my room in Kmin dtjrmrtory after a tltesotns day of acadenoia to HwJ a note bn my ie^ read, CrawfoRicaftel iOO I 3iaJed the nufnbw writm on the tueflio, and afler sfjeaking wth her secretary, I Jieard a de%tufel "hello" from the Director of Bladf Q)teal Cetit«r here at UNC. I had interviewed her the day befw, and in o«r cwvcrsatioo she sakJ, ”0n die way hQme.lastrt^iy;, I w;^remindedcf a biblical su»y tbaU-wafaed to share with you. Do you femember tl^ story of Moses and the diSdr^ d Israel?" : she said. “Yes^” I anxiotisfy jespcwtded She contifwed, "Tficir jlhe Isradilt’sl slorv- reminifc me erf thai of Black Amerkm * she said a$ she tbes Isegsto to efabwate, “AsycwrccalJ^^toses «entahea{ilWv^e^^cou^5 into the ?fcw)ised iand to see wh« was fijete and to return with i^ods. When ten retymed^ they alt had sad ; aiKJ repots of tkspair. Bui whai the two relumsaj.ihi^hadgooci news and said tbeyithclsuiel- ; ites) wre capable of caplwlng this land milk and hoo^, Jufl as M(»es was tdd by the ten scouts sorrowful s news, we iis Biack Atnericam have been t£^ Par years and years that we could not cnake it. Bat stttiilarty as the i two soDMts returned good jepwts, th6re are those hl:K-k? thdl have been molivau.‘d and driven lo conlmuc, and spread the news d good cheer to others that ‘We CAN make it' We need to iislen to tiiose t’^'o that relumed wkh good news, instead of those ten that returned w4h news of un-proratse,*' Frran that tsrief conveisMion on the phone, I was able g to finally find the focus this articlej Ae reasons behind;? collegiate failuresaiKl^iKrcesses amongst the black men s and women of today Itiere is a major fwoblem re- occuningoo campuses alt across the nattan^the proWcmsi of decreasing numbeis of black graduates exiting college * and moving oa into die profcssiooa} world. Statistics prov ided by Margo Cra:v^b«} cai a. study conducted between 1976 and 5^, that showed: a 32 percent dcciine amcsigM blacks in coltegf> rm:ivtng masters degress; only five percent of those blacks that enter college go oft to receive dodorae degrees; ofihe blade ? mks that go on to receive doctorate degrees, there has been 3 27 ;xj(.crt decrease, and in the oxnpuier sck-'nccs, oiw nit erf 355 is bla^k. Why such a drastic decline: in the ntimber of ^»Juates; tn a ten vcar pi-riod? Margo Txawford said the i-conomic gap IS greater ncrw tlun it once was Itetwren 1973 and 19«6, the avt-rage real annual earnings of a black male 20 lo 2i >-ears of age fell 50 pcrccnl. There arc new devaaai- tng effects of poverty in our black communities Many resort to dnjgs as 3 ray of escape, and even violence. fXher iradiltonaJ goals, such as an eduatton, a career, a hou^o, and family, arc being dcpictcd. Wc need to j4art asking, what does a 20-24 year 6kl black male considers to be success? >feny raay feel that a college educatjon is ?he best to take on ihe road to success. But a i$ not easy far black parenfe to conviocs; their children of the traditajnal fbrmula (hard wc^k ojltege educaliw " a promising career and success) when they haye seoi so irany take that route, Uit are st^ working in ihc faawies and on the assemWy tines of America. is there hqpe for black America to graduate and continue on in the professional fields? The Associ^ Dean of Students, Rosalind Fuse-Hall said that 50 percerftofall Mudents eraering graduate in four years^ tor ittt- oo-fties, only 513 perce« of those entering graduate in dial tjme, proving UNC to be one of the most »jtstJarf)ng univerMties in the nation in its gratkmtion rates d st«dcnts ofcdor. Where do we need to start in ader to reach our goals of success? Accordmg to Dr, latry Young, CO-ChainJW o the jNational Association of Black Cultural Ce«ers 3Sd DireaorJSf the Bl^k Cultursl Center at the Pennsylvania State University, rmsivation is the key and is dependent upctfi the circumstances one fe in. To build one's modva- tional drive, he said, *You need to stt a reward ar benefit, whether it is tangible or nol We alsot)eed both internal and extmal stimuli. Cuhural center^ as tods«* external stinaili crested hy social interaetkSEtt with duoseof one'^ culture. The adequate eri- viornnseflt is^o necessary to adjuM kvds rf motfvattoa'' Dr. Young feels there is too mudi pressure on the ^dents. "Ifscxne of the responsibility is (^acedon the faculty, we would deRnSely see a difference in the numbers of blacks graduating, f students arc having a difficult time mak ing the grades, we need to find out why, and who Is (S' is not beit^ an effective mstntctor. The purpose of a university is lo learn, and ail that enler come ift^th the willsngness to leam. If they faaHithe way arid lose imerest, they w€je failed to be inspired by a prcrfes- sor, and had na been failed by themselves ^ . Dean Fus^Hall remarked, “Tenacity- and raotivatitxi are the most impcfftant ekmaits necessary fctf a studerrt to succeed Students need to make acadcmits their first prkirily Thev netd lo lake advarrtage of the services offered t(' them through the Office of .Minority- Affairs, Students shfHjId also sujiport programs offered about issues of oona-rns of people rf coltM- in order to know d who IS alrendy out there and suppfjrt them, lo understand who we are, where we ha\-e licen, and where we are to .. And whi're are wi- to If we keep our minds on unity and uplifting iw another, if we (.-onimue to dream, if we remain focused on our dcsiias and be not afraid to sweat to reach our g»als, wc will n>ake a to our Promised land d succcss and prrjvide a prixnising future for generauonstocomc. ^ Clay L Barrow is a sophomore Political Sclcnce major from Windsor, NC
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