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“FATHER TO SON”
If While Searching For a Clue
To Why You Where Placed Here,
You Come Upon a Stone Unturned
Remember, Someone JLeft It there;
If Walking Through A Park
Leads You To Greater Things,
Just Remember That Your Gains
Were Preceded By Walks Of Pain;
When In The Battle With Life’s
Unending Tangle Of Knots,
You Find A Way To Triumph
Remember, Someone Else Did Not;
All For One And One For All
Is Not Just The Soldier’s Cry,
For At Tlie End We All Give In
To The Man Above The Sky;
If Freedom You Earn With Courage
Aixi Steadfast Determination,
Remember It Took The All Of Us
To Build A Strong Nation.
“OLD FRIEND”
Go{ A Call From An Old Friend
Must Have Been The Other Day,
He’d Gotten Lost On The Road To
Happiness
Wondered If I Knew The Way.
He Told Of How Delightful
His Journeys Thru Life Had Been,
Faces, Places, Touched All The
Bases
Life Way Truly His Friend.
But With One Morning Came A
Warning
Away From It He Just Could Not
Get,
It Planted In Him A Thought To
Ponder
That Life Was better. Better Even
Yet.
I Asked Him To Tell Of That
Feeling
For It Seemed To Ring a Bell,
And As He Spoke I Trembled
For His Story, I Too, Could Tell.
"I Use To Be Dancing While
Glancing
At The Pages Of Life Flipping By,
And Now That /' ve Stopped To
Listen
I Notice Something’s Missing... But
Why?
“IVoy Not Those Days Of Yesterday
The Makings Of Tomorrow?
And In My Search For Better Life
From What Should I Go To
Borrow?"
Old Friend, I said, of Mine
Your Way Is Hardly Lost;
Perhaps In Watching Your
Yesterdays,
You’ve Failed To Pay today’s cost.
“A Fighting Chance”
When Going Up and Going Down
Becwnes A Seasonal Game;
And In The Parade The Clown
Seems To Bare Your Name;
When You Can Taste The Fire
But Feel The Scorching Flame;
And Your Dearly Loved Desire
Is Left To Take The Blame;
When Money Is Only Falling
Into Someone Else’s Hand;
And Something Keeps On Stalling
Your Best And Only Plan;
When Time Just Keeps On Reeling
Around The Space Called You;
And Things That You Are Feeling
Keep Yielding Nothing New;
Take A Trip Upon a Star—
Stay With It To The End;
Let It Know Just Who You Are—
A Galaxy Yet To Begin!
Overcome The Struggle—
Dance To The Avalanche—
Call A Play In The Huddle,
And Give It A Fighting Chance!
BCC put on hold by
Thomas says
“We’ll give you a development
officer —his name is Don Collins
— and he will help you reach these
goals.” And Don Collins is saying,
“We can’t do any fund-raising
outside the bicentennial campaign.
In the bicentennial campaign, you
have $500,000 for renovation for
the Black Cultural Center and you
do not have an endowed chair.” Of
course we can’t build a building
with $500,000 and there is no
provision for an endowed chair, so
right now we’re at the point where
we can’t even project Until the
university cooperates, we will not
be able to do any effective fund
raising. The development office,
although they are supposed to be
working with us, is not working
with us.
INK: What about the
housekeepers?
THOMAS: Right now, as I
understand it, the Chancellor is
refusing to meet with student leaders
and leaders in the housekeepers
movement, which to me is
ridiculous. The housekeepers are
asking the Chancellor to take some
of his discretionary funds and give
them a pay increase until the
legislation (raising the lowest
salaries of state employees) goes
through the General Assembly. So
they’re not asking him to cut the
bottom two pay grades himself
because he can not do that, but he
does have discretionary funds that
he can give them to help them until
the legislation goes before the
General Assembly. He’s refusing
to even sit down and talk to them
about that. The Chancellor has said
administration,
from page 5
he supports the bill.
INK: How do you feel about the
newDailyTar Heel editorial board?
There have been some edits written
recently in favor of certain phases
of the movement.
THOMAS: What I’ve seen from
the DTH so far since Pete (Wallsten)
has taken over, I have been pleased
with. The coverage we’ve gotten
has been excellent. There have been
one or two articles that I personally
have not been happy with but I
respected because the view of the
students in the movement is not the
only view on campus, and all sides
of the issue were fairly covered. I
respect that and 1 think that Pete’s
doing a good job. So far.
INK: In closing, what kind of
message do you want to send to
students on this campus?
THOMAS: (Pauses) Wake up,
brothers and sisters.
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Kelly GiccnclBlaci Ini
Wynton Marsalis takes a moment to reflect as members of the band perform “The
Death of Jazz.” Marsalis played March 16 to a capacity crowd in Memorial Hall.