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THE COMPASS
JANUARY 30, 1969 t
THE COMPASS
For Students and Alumni
Published by
I STATE COLLEGE NEWSPAPER STAFF
Elizabedi City, N. C.
Members: Columbia Scholastic Press Association
SeDITOR-IN-CHIEF CHARLOTTE A. RIDDICK/
^ASSOCIATE EDITOR LILLIAN RIGGSi;
SPHOTOGRAPHERS ROOSEVELT WRIGHT, JR.i?
:i:WILLIAM BRIGGS, DELTON BOYD, JAVON::
SbROTHERS i:
ijiADVISOR MR. LEONARD BALLOUj:
ijiDpinions expressed in articles are not necessarily:-
ij-those of the COMPASS or of the College, •:
Editor Speaks!!
I would like to take this
opportunity to welcome
all members of the Eliz
abeth City State College
family back for the sec
ond semester. It is my
earnest desire to serve
you well as Editor-In-
Chief.
During the 1968-69 Fall
Semester quite a few
changes were made. We
entered our new dining
hall on which incidentally
we received an “A" rat
ing. We also have a new
president who will be in
augurated in April and we
have two new dormitories
coming up along with a
Student Union. All of these
are very significant
changes. As a member of
the college family here
at ECSC,you are a living
witness of these changes
for they directly affect
each and everyone of
you. If these changes in
any way prove to be det
rimental to the college,
you will suffer the conse
quences.
I, for one, feel that
these changes should have
been made long ago. They
are not great milestones,
I grant you, but to us they
represent a great deal.
I wander around the
campus with my ears and
eyes open, seemingly
seeing and hearing noth
ing, I do hear! I do seel
I see your narrow-mind
edness and see how lit
tle you are in so many
ways. The majority of you
are so passive and com
placent, I wonder why you
arc here. You take no
active interest in any
thing, This is your col
lege, and you should at
least have an interest in
what is going on. You
complain about the things
that are wrong here, but
you do nothing about
them. You wait until
someone else decides that
he has had a “belly-
full”, then you react.
Take for Instance, the
all - college assemblies
and other activities, you
don’t have enough inter
est to come and hear
what is going on or what
is being said that might
help shape your future.
How “no-carlng” can you
be? Wake up People: It
is past time that you
should. Take an active in
terest in the happenings
around your campus that
concern you. The Student
Govemmen t Association
is lousy and the college
newspaper is lousy. Why,
because, you, the students
haven’t done a cotton-
pick’n thing to help the
Student Government As
sociation or the college
newspaper. Out of a Stu
dent Body of approxi
mately 1,000 students,
there are two students on
the newspaper staff — the
Editor and Associate Edi
tor. This is ridiculous.
The newspaper doesn’t
belong to two of us, it
belongs to you the student
body. Help us out - okay.
If you continue to walk
around concerned with
only the little things of
life, everything that the
administration, faculty
and anyone else worked so
hard to achieve will be
gone so rapidly and in
such devious ways that
you will wonder where
they have gone. Or will
you? You will be in the
same rut that you were
in before, and won’t even
know what is happening.
Well, now that I have
j given you some eye-open
ing facts, let me once
again welcome you back
There’s A
Place In
The
BY Carol M, McKiver
Each man believes he has
a purpose,
A life and he struggles
to find
His place in the sun. How
can he
Find his place or must he
merely
Exist? Exist for what?
If not to find
His place in the sun.
Some believe their place
is only to
Enjoy the pleasures of
life and they
Become the tasters of a
wine that
Intoxicates and distortes.
This is their
Place and it is called
nowhere. This
Is their place in the sun.
Some believe life is ser
vice. Service
To others. They spend
their lives creating
A world through good en
deavors.
They gain
Their places in the sun
but often
They become lost in the
sunset finding
Their places in the sun.
There are the drifters
who say life will take
Care of itself. “I have
not loved the world nor
The world me” and they
cannot cast away their
master
Plays and live their lives
for they give nothing and
They take less. This is
their place in the sun.
Finally man comes to his
climax
And the curtain is dis
creetly drawn. The
Play is over and the role
has become
A passing scene of a time
gone before
Man has experienced yes
terday, today
And forever which marks
the point of infinity.
Man’s place in the sun.
After the close of the
play and the audience
Applause do they really
see the lines written in
the
Script? Do they under
stand the revelations.
The impacts, the serious
ness? They too seek their
places in the sun, the sun,,
FOR SALE
1965
Volkswagen
Contact
Mrs.
Marion D. Thorpe
to campus. I sincerely
hope that this semester
will be a truly productive
one and that you will find
your stay here on campus
one that is unforgettable.
Remember what I have
said and govern yourself
accordingly.
I A Negro!
By VELMAR ROUNTREE
Brought here as an in
dentured servant.
To struggle by the sweat
of my brow.
For no praise.
No fame, no hope:
I A Negro!
It was I who was
Exploited and I who
Died many times to cor
rect
The wrong of unjust
Servitude,
I A Negro!
It was I who sat in
The back of Buses be
cause
I was black, and lived
In Ghettos and went
To unpainted, unheated,
and
Unfurnished schools.
1 A Negro!
It was I who sang
For deliverance from
The Sinful persecutors
Who shamed me before
The entire universe.
I A Negro!
It is I who’s striving
To make my heritage
Known to all, to let it be
Known to all, to all gen
erations
The price of black liberty.
I A Negro!
It was the great Martin
L. Kings’
And the potent Malcom
X’s who fought
For a cause, the black
man’s
Cause, unselfishly and
Ever diligently
I A Negro!
I shall overcome
Some day. Yes I shall
Overcome
I A Negro!
Are You
In The
Know?
Want to know what’s
really going on at other
colleges in the nation?
If so come in to Publi
cations at EC SC. Browse
through the many ex
change papers we have
here.
Remember the girl who
graduated from high
school with you and went
to that big college out
west? Do you ever won
der what she’s doing there
in the line of social acti
vities, civic work and ac
ademic activities? Pick
up an exchange paper
from her college. You just
may see her name listed
among the members of the
Pyramids, the Ivy Leaf
Club or the Archonian
Club or some other so
rority at that college. You
say she wrote good poems
in high school. Good,you
might see a nice poem
she wrote for their last
issue.
Or what about your fav
orite instructor at ECSC
who left to go teach at
another well known col
lege, what activities and
programs are he or she
sponsoring there? Is he
invited by other colleges
for lectures, speeches
etc.
The
Black Man’s
Personal War
By DONALD WOODS
Fighting the feeling of
hunger.
Fighting the agony of pain;
Fighting ignorance while
the face of refusal
stares at you constantly.
And innocently born in a
world of adversity.
Supplying the one human
asset that is lacking and
is most important -
Peace and tranquility for
your fellow man, with
equal rights and oppor
tunities for all, is a war
fought each and every day
by each recognized as a
Black Brother in the
United States,
This, my Black Brothers,
is truly our personal war
that must
Be fought unitedly by US
alone!
You say you’d like to
know what the students
are doing at your old
alma mater, your home
town high school? The
staff at Publications can
help you there too. Want
to know who was elected
the new student council
president or who had the
best average during bas
ketball season, pick up
an exchange paper and
find out, I m sure many
of you would enjoy read
ing newspapers from your
local high schools.
All of us have at one
time or other thought a-
bout other people who we
know at other colleges,
junior colleges, high
schools, and technical
schools. By browsing
through our exchange pa
pers you’ll be amazed at
how interesting it will
prove to be.
If your Interest lies
here at ECSC and its
past, we have all back
issues of the COMPASS
dating back to the time
it was called the STATE
NORMAL BANNER and
the STATE TEACHER’S
COLLEGE NEWS LET
TER,
So come on over to
Publications you’ll have
no trouble finding: A and
T’s REGISTER, THE
BENNETT BANNER,
Lincoln University’s THE
LINCOLN CLARION,
Morgan State College’s
SPOKESMAN, Howard
University’s HILLTOP,
Norfolk State’s THE
SPARTAN ECHO, St.Jos-
eph’s College’s COUN
TERPOINT, A and M Col
lege’s PRAIRIE VIEW,
The College of the Al
bemarle’s OLD SALT and
THE VOICE of Fayette
ville State College,These
are only a few but we
have many others both of
high schools and colleges,
many issues which are
quite interesting.
We here at Publica
tions will be glad to have
you come and see more of
what we can offer you in
the line of news. Broad
en your scope about all
kinds of happenings in
other colleges and
schools and be in the
know. Know all you can
about evervthing.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR