The News Argus - Page 2
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Jamita Griffin -- Editor
Gloria Martin - Advertising Manager
Dr.Valerie S. Saddler — Advisor
Dr. Brian Blount - Chair., Dept, of Mass Comm.
Editorial
Going to Class
Hold up! Wail a minute! Hey Rams what’s going on
here on the YARD? Many students are not attending class
regularly; many students are hanging out in the union; and
many students are here for the ride because they are on
financial aid. Is there something wrong with this picture?
RAMS, We need to get a grip, buckle down and get
serious about educating ourselves. Many WSSU students
are walking around campus wearing T-shirts, hats, buttons
and other paraphernalia featuring Marlin and Malcolm X’s
images. But do you know why these brothers died? If
Marlin and Malcolm were alive today and visited our
campus, would they be proud about what they would
see? 1 think they both would be a little disturbed about
what they would see. We have been afforded the
opportunity to attend college and some of us don’t even
get up out of bed to go to class.
Hanging out in the game room and the sitting areas in
union is not going to get you that job working for a
Fortune 500 business or help you take Ed Bradley’s place
when he retires from 60 Minutes.
RAMS, what’s the problem? We must realize that
after graduation, we will not be searching for jobs in a
special place just for WSSU students! After graduation
we will be competing against graduates from other schools
such as: Howard University, N.C. A&T State University,
UCLA, The Ohio State University, Jackson State
University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, Spellman College, Wake Forest University, and
Salem College.
Let’s make the change! Buckle down and get serious
about attending classes regularly.
We must remember our university’s motto, “Enter to
Learn, Depart to Serve.”
Staff Writers
Tonya Brewer
De'Andrea Burgess
Eric Glenn
Shelly Goines
Mildred Gumbs
Derrick Jones
Tracie Tiera A. King
Lynn Neal
Monica Prince
Rhonda Reynolds
Margaret Ross
Lisa Sales
Marlene Suit
Kim Terry
Alicia Turman
Janice Williams
Preslyn Young
Contributing Writers
Toshia Gibson
Irvin Payne
Ghiffonda Ruffin
Altonya Washington
It's Time to Wake Up!
Scanning our history from the
1800s to the present, I have noticed
that things have changed; but for the
worst. We were bought into slavery,
we were beaten by the slave masters,
we were hung from trees by the Ku
Klux Klan and now were dying by
the hands of our own brothers.
What’s wrong with this picture.?
We have overcome the
afflictions from the white society,
both socially and economically. It
seems that this would have brought
our race closer together, but yet we
are growing further apart.
In today’s society, our brother’s
are killing each other over shoes,
clothes, money and drugs. No longer
does the KKK have to worry about
killing the-
“niggers” off,
because we’re
doing it ourselves.
What will it take
for our brothers and —
sisters to learn unity and “Black on
Black” Love?
Let us start with the parents
teaching their children to respect their
elders and that education is the way
to prosperity. Next, we need to teach
our young brother’s that drugs are not
the way. Our young sisters need to
be taught that “sex” is not the only
way to express love.
FROM the EDITOR’S DESK
Jamita J. Griffin
After we’ve achieved these
things, I believe that not only will our
race prosper, but our society as a
whole will prosper.
I believe as Spike Lee does, we
all need to WAKE UP!
Carrying The Education Banner
theEarlier this month, Winston-
Salem State University held its 13th
Annual Teacher’s Fair in Anderson
Center. Approximately 160 schools
representing various school systems
COLUMNIST
seeking graduating seniors, junior
education majors should have
attended this fair. The recruiters
offered advice and literature to each
person that stopped to talk with
them.
' Now, don’t
get me wrong, I
realize that the
Monica S. Prince
Anderson Center
is across the
and districts of North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia,
Texas, Indiana, Massachuttes,
Delaware, Louisiana, Wisconsin,
Ohio, Florida and New York were in
attendance.
Future educators, if you did not
attend this once a year opportunity,
then you really missed out.
Although most recruiters were
street away from
the main campus. However, please
don’t forget that Education
Department is housed in Anderson
Center. Education majors, where
were you?
My point is this, most
European Colleges such as James
Madison University, University of
Virginia and many more, make it
Mandatory for their potential
educators to attend these important
fairs, expos or seminars that
emphasize job availabilities and
opportunities. So why not cancel
education classes and make il
mandatory for education majors to
attend the fair?
Since Winston-Salem State
University was once known as a
“teacher’s college” the future
teacher should have been attending
the Teacher’s Fair! Has the name
been forgotten? Shouldn’t we be
just as competitive as we were when
the name Winston-Salem Teacher’s
College was known across the
country? As a perspective educator, I
believe its vital, crucial, and
extremely essential for all students to
attend and participate in a
prospective career opportunity that
only comes once a year to WSSU.
The Right to Read
During the first few months of
every new year, college students
across the country begin putting new
goals on their college agendas. Some
goals are long-term. Some goals are
short-term.
But somehow the goal of
continuing one’s education is lost
amongst the materialistic desires.
February is celebrated as Black
History Month but I believe that
every month should be Black History
Month. We should never stop
learning because there will never be a
time in life that you run out of things
to learn.
When I think of continuing my
education, I am reminded of a
quotation by Frederick Douglass.
He said, “the work of instructing my
dear fellow-slaves was the sweetest
engagement with which I was ever
blessed. Every month they spent in
Sabbath School, they were liable to
be taken up and given thirty-nine
lashes. They came because they
wished to learn. Their minds have
been starved by their cruel masters.
They had been shut up in mental
darkness. I taught them, because it
was a delight of my soul to be doing
something that looked like bettering
the condition of my race.”
WSSU
students are we "
taking our college
education
seriously? Are we
spending enough
time studying? '
Are we putting forth enough effort in
our studies?
As college students, we
sometimes stray away from the idea
of being successful in our college
endeavors! Could it be that we
don’t want to remember the past
when our ancestors were not given
the opportunity to attend any school
or could it be that we still possess the
“I don’t care attitude?”
We are a talented race! As
college students we should begin to
use our talents to help ourselves. It is
a new year and we all have new
hopes and new dreams; but I wish
that we would not forget the
aspiration to be able to READ! Al
COLUMNIST
Gloria Martin
times we can find ourselves being
selfish with tjiis new “me attitude.
In order to be true Black leaders,
we must be able to unite and
overcome the diversities of al*
people, inspite of their hometown,
accent, fashion, texture of hair and
pigmentation of skin. We must
never forget that we are the minonty
striving for the majority.