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CAMPUS ECHO
FEBRUARY—1952
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The Campus EchOj official student publication at North Carolina College at Dur
ham, is published nine times during the academic year.
PEGGY MORGAN
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ADVISORS
G. T. THORNE, Business Advisor
Editorials and features in the CAMPUS ECHO reflect the opinions of the writers, in no way
represent student or college opinion. Unsigned editorials are expressions of the editor. Letters
to the editor must be signed, are limited to 200 word and can be edited at the discretion of
the staff according to technical limitations.
C. A. RAY, Editorial Advisor
Witk PiTHjer In 'Your Hearts
As we look around dear “Old NCC” we
find that more of our students are leaving
each day to serve their Uncle Sam in one of
the armed forces.
It is hard to realize that the boys with
whom we graduated from high school and
with whom we first came to view this beau
tiful college atmosphere must depart from
us.
The Eagles are leaving one by one. They
have been called to duty. The co-eds stand
around and wave good bye. They shake
their heads and say the college atmosphere
is changing.
We cry to see them go, but in our hearts
we are proud to think that each one who
has gone away to protect our future.
We remember several of our young men
who have left us. There was George
“Hunky” Green, a great basketball player
who is now serving in the far Eastern Com
mand. There was Otis Thompson, a cinder
man who is in the Army, and is preparing
to go overseas. There was Joseph “Wah-ha”
Jones, great baseball player. There was
Winifred Teteway, another great baseball
now in training in the Army. There was Leo
Rogers, basketball star. There was Howard
Campbell, in the Navy in Korea. We re
member Howard because he was one of the
feature writers of the CAMPUS ECHO.
There was Leonard Shadding and William
e^Htgr-rwxi UTTJoach Riddick’s, favorite
gridiron stars. There was William Torrence,
the star of the Thespians for four years, now
serving in the Air Force. There was Roland
“Drummer Boy” Alston, also in the Air
Force. There was Blaine “Calypso King”
Smith who left this month to answer his
call to duty. There was Albert P. Moore, a
very powerful football player. There was
Fred Ponder, Captain elect of the ’52 foot
ball squad, and many, many more “Eagles”
who have replaced their books for a gun to
insure us a safe place in which to study and
to learn to deal with men.
These men of ours, for they are no longer
boys, have exchanged the maroon and gray
for the khaki of the Army, the blue of the
Air Force, the white of the Navy, and the
olive drab of the Marine Corps.
While we will be walking on the sloping
hills of NCC these men will be running up
the hills of Korea. While we will be run
ning to classes with our books, they will be
running across the terrains of Korea with
guns in hands. While we will be warm in
our beds at night, these men of ours will be
sleeping on the cold hard ground. While we
will be sitting under the CAROLINA MOON
our men will be sitting and fighting under
the ASIATIC MOON, thousands of miles
from home. When we cut a finger and cry
out with pain our men will be lying quietly
in the snow waiting for the medic to bring
them some much needed blood plasma; so
that they will live to return to NCC some
day, some how.
The American Red Cross came to NCC to
get our blood to send it to Korea. They
came because they new how patriotic we
were and are. They knew that we re
membered our men who had left our campus
beautiful, and they knew we would do ev
erything possible to make the blood drive a
success.
Students and citizens of NCC we did our
share, but it was such a small share com
pared to the part that our men are playing
in this war every day. We met our quota,
and we patted ourselves on the back. We
felt that we had done all that was necessary,
but we did not. This was only the first blood
drive on the Campus. There will be others,
there may not be others here on our campus,
but there will be others here in Durham, in
our home towns, or places where we are
visiting. Any where that a blood drive is
held it will be our duty to go and donate
our pint of blood.
Those of us who gave o»r blood did not
give it only because of school pride, but be
cause we felt that it was our patriotic duty.
Those of us who gave felt that perhaps our
blood might save one of the lives of our men
who are leaving us every day. That per
haps when they are laying in the snow of
Korea that they might whisper a prayer of
thanks to us for having given our blood.
Men, you are leaving, but then again you
are not. You may leave this campus with
suitcase in hand, you may travel to some
distant place, you may see things that you
will hope to God that we may never see,
but you will always be here at dear old
NCC. You will be here in spirit, because
the spirit of the Eagle will be here, and you
are the spirit of the Eagle. You have changed
the color of your uniform, but you still have
the same symbol, THE GREAT AMERICAN
EAGLE, the symbol of strength, might, and
courage. It is unconquerable, and you are
unconquerable.
Men remember, where ever you go, what
ever you do, that you are with us and we
are with you, with a prayer in our hearts
for your safe and victorious return.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Dear Editor:
North Carolina College has
grown from a small private in
stitution to one of the leading
Negro Colleges. Although we are
taking the lead in academic ag
grandizement, we are far Irom
being successful with our per
sonnel. For instance, our love
ly infirmary, with its new equip
ment and well trained mjrses,
is not systematized to care for
emergency cases. Could it be
that we are new in this gaj^e of
trying to care for our mental
and physical illnesses and have
not as yet arrived at a feasible
method?
It is really pathetic that a stu-
dent in pain an agony has to
wait two or three hours for a
usual white pill or the pietty
physician to arrive and givp^e
pink pill. This waiting has
caused pain, agony and distfess
to a large number of students.
We are proud to have Dr.
Sheps and her experienced staff.
We hope this administrative
group will revise its present
policy with the local doctors of
this commimity.
I suggest that a comixiittee be
appointed by the president of
the college to meet wtih Dr.
Sheps, her staff and student
leaders to work out a servicable
policy for our infirmary: to have
a medical doctor at our service
at all times.
If the above plan, or just a
serviceable one, isn’t taken into
consideration immediately, I
suggest we students assemble
and express our grievance. If
the consequences are negative—
we should return to our abodes
where we spent our youthful
lives.
Yours truly,
WILLIE A. CLAYTOR
IN. C. C. JHFMORIAL gym
venerable and
Board of Trusteees will lend a
tolerant ear to the outpourings
of a young and unaged pursuer
of truth and understanding, I
should like to encroach upon
their hallowed domain and sug
gest a well-meaning proposal.
In light of a two-year old
Board policy of not naming any
new buildings on the NCC cam
pus for an individual who is yet
living, I should like to suggest
that the new gymnasium be
named not for an individual but
for several individuals.
Since there is at present no
building on the NCC campus
dedicated to the gallant students
of NCC who have rendered the
supreme sacrifice in the service as
of their country, and since the
honoring the memory of the war
dead is a noble and admirable
means of expressing apprecia
tion for gallantry in the line of
duty, I feel that NCC can drape
on itself no more befitting laurel
than that of dedicating the new
NCC gymnasium to the memory
of the NCC students who have
died in the military service of
their country.
In my humble and flexible
opinion there can be no more
befiting tribute than naming
this newest and largest edifice
on our ever-expanding campus
the NCC Memorial Gymnasium
and dedicating it to the timeless
memory of the former NCC stu-
dnts who have died dutifully
serving in the armed forces of
the United States of Amrica.
Plaques inscribed with the
names of these fighting men and,
t)laced in noteworthy places in
the new gymnasium will serve
constant reminders of our
sacred duty and obligation to
those who have died that we
may continue to search for free
dom, truth, and understanding
in an atmosphere of boundless
academic opportimity.
Honor Nights Are Good Things
It is good when the college community
honors their students such as when the NCC
community honored its co-eds on Sunday
night, February 17, 1952i
It is good when people are made to realize
that there are outstanding men and women
in our college community, who should be
remembered and honored at least one a
year.
The people who show outstanding ability
in their scholastic work should be mention
ed because these people have shown they
are doing what they ought to do in college.
These students have studied and have
absorbed some of the knowledge that has
been handed down to them from teacher
to student. These students have worked
hard and have overcome handicaps that
others say keep them from making good
grades. Some of these students who were
honored and who have made the honor roll
consistently for the last three years have
come from rural communities where it was
not possible to have the best books, the best
teachers, nor the best school facilities. These
students with high scholarship have gone
above their humble backgrounds and have
succeeded in showing the world that they
are just as able to absorb knowledge as the
students from the large city, and to surpass
some of these students who the so-called
finer and more cultural background.
The high scholarship students are not the
only ones to be honored but those who have
shown outstanding leadership. Once again
it appears that the student with the humble
background becomes the leader when the
other students follow. These students have
shown again that it is not always the man
or woman who has dealt or lived in a urban
community all of his life who has the ability
to lead, but these students who sometimes
had to walk to school or ride the county
bus have just as much ability to lead as the
next person.
It is a good thing when people are not
honored and who come from sections of the
country where they think they are better
than people of other sections who do not
have the same great facilities that there are
others who have more ability than they
either in scholarship or leadership.
Honor Nights are good for the people who
are not honored as well as those who are
honored, for these persons will have an in
centive to make a more constructive gift to
the world. These people who are not hon
ored will be able to stop and realize that
perhaps they are not giving as much of
themselves as they should. These people
Student Gov. ,
Ferris Wheel
By YVONNE SCRUGGS
The Student Congress of the
Student Government org:
zation is having qTSIfe a bil
trouble getting a quorum at "he
at the Saturday meeting. The
problem has gotten so much out
of hand that plans have been
made to introduce a bill which
will establish some form of
check on the delinquent and
tardy members.
Vice-president George Jones
told the Congress members who
ruary 9, that the irregular at-
were present on Saturday, Feb-
tendance at the last two meet
ings has caused a delay in the
discussion of the student gov
ernment business and asked for
the immediate co-operation from
the members.
Calvin Norman, SG Prexy,
gave an informal address to the
members of the Student Con
gress on February 9. The pur
pose of Norman’s visit was to
discuss and explain some of the
recent business of the Student
Government organization.
Norman asked for Student
Congress support in the blood-
dri ve of February 14 and 15 and
explained the necessity for suc
cess of the project. However, he
indicated his belief that most of
the student body would give its
support to the blood-drive, with
the encouragement from the
faculty and other students.
The problems of the NCC
yearbook was major item
number two on the Prexyli
agenda. Norman explained
that the difference between
the $5,800.00, appropriated bj
the school and the $8,500.Qd
estimate for the desired book,
was not sufficiently made uy
in advertisements as was ex
pected by the yearbook staff.
He further stated that he plans
to present the problem of the
deficit to the student body in
the very near future. The
yearbook is supposed to b«
available for student circula
tion by May 15.
Item number three concerned
the Athletic Commission in
vestigation which has caused
much discussion recently. Nor
man stated that the report
on the investigation suggested
that the present athletic system
should be altered because of the
following discrepancies; (1).
The athletes are not working
while they are participating in
athletic activities, (2). The ad
vantages offered here are not
offered in white schools. The
Commission also recommended
that the scholarship system be
revised. Norman assured the
congress that “There is no
contemplated in th»
scholarship system at this time.”
According to Norman, it has
been rumored that Dr. Elder,
Dr. Elder, NCC president, has
discussed cutting athletics
down to the barest minimum,
because of an over-interest ex
hibited by the student body! Nor
man said that action has been
taken by the NCC Athletic As
sociation to prove that the stu
dents are not spending an ex
cessive amount of time in
athletic activities and that any
reduction in the present athletic
program would harm the stu
dent body as a whole.
Norman also reported other
action taken by the Athletic As
sociation concerning the policies
which are to go into immediate
practice. These policies are ap
parently direct results of the
Miami Affair.
(1). In contracting games,
three - quarters of the
members of varisity team
will be asked to vote on
the issue.
(2). The band, cheering
squad, etc. will be con
sidered for making the
trip.
(3). Arrangements of all
games will be left in the
hands of the Athletic
Association.
In closing, Norman advised
the congress that when they se
lect a presidential candidate for
the next election, the primary
factor which should be con
sidered the willingness that per
sons to go forward in behalf of
the student body. Norman made
direct reference to his accom
plishments with the Athletic As"-
sociation in obtaining a vote for
student body through the stu
dent government president for
the first time.
Several articles have been
found in the James £. Shepard
Memorial Library. The owners
may have them by identifying
them at the lost and found
desk.
The Morgan Manner -
The Communist And The Blood Drive,
In the first campus blood
drive the North Carolina Col
lege student body had the last
laugh on the Communist Party
of North Carolina. The Com
munist thought they would be
able to tell the students of NCC
that they were still living in
NEGRO AMERICA when the
students here know that we are
living in America, period.
Our argument for this reas
oning is that though we are liv
ing under state segregation
laws and though we are discrim
inated against when we seek
jobs, we are no longer seeking
jobs heretofore offered for Ne
groes and Negroes only.
Our businesses are no longer
only interested in the; Negro
patrons but they are interested
in patrons regardless of their
color. Our schools no longer hire
Negro teachers alone but they
hire the teacher who is best
qualified to teach in our inst-
tutions of higher learning. The
men of the Armed Forces no
longer are fighting to come come
back to their little old shack
in the back woods of Mississippi
but they are fighting to return
to the America which is fast be
coming a citadel of Democracy.
The name of the first pamph
let distributed by the Commu
nist party of North Carolina,
Junius Scales, Chairman, was
“Operation Blood-Letting”. The
Communist practically begged
students of NCC not to partici
pate in the blood drive, because
they said we were only being
“used.” The Communist also
made the error of telling the
students that the quoto for NCC
was four times greater then that
Of Duke University where a
blood drive was held recently.
The Red Cross however on ask
ing the student body to sponsor
the blood drive here told us
that no matter where the blood
mobile goes that there quoto is
the same. That they must reach
this quoto in order the drive be
successful, regardless of the
number of people in the com
munity where the blood drive
will take place.
The second phamphlet was
named “Operation Smoke
screen,” which^-to the average
student at NCC had no meaning
what so ever. It was the same
propaganda that we have been
BY PEGGY MORGAN
hearing for the last two years.
Make the United States come
out of Korea and tell them to
mind their own business. No
one will profit from the Korean
Crisis but the big American
Business Man. In the opinion of
this writer the Communist
slightly reprimanded the NCC
students for not going ahead and
boycotting the Red Cross drive,
as they asked them to do in the
first leaflet.
But the students began to
think and to look around and
to investigate what is now hap
pening in their daily lives.
Although the Communist
party’s phamphlets had no
meaning and did not affect our
student body on the whole somei
of the students lelt that in a wa^
the Communist were talking q
lot of sense. The students
figured it out this way: That
although most of us are 100 per
cent Americans, that when
White America feels that we as
Negroes are inferior to them
that the Communist do have a
weapon, and this is a very strong
weapon. That the Communist
will always have an argument as
long as there is segregation and
discrimination. The communist
say that there is a world wide
movement going on throughout
the world to equalize all of man
kind, and that they will not
stop fighting for the American
Negro cause as long as he is
segregated and discriminated
against by “White America.”
The students of NCC feel as
long as White America will con
tinue to “use” them and to dis
criminate against them that
there is little hope for Amer-
ca to really and honestly to be
come a “Citadel of Democracy.”
It is true that the New Ne
gro feels that he is an American,
bnd^lives in America, but it is
also true that White Americans
feel that we are still living in
Negro America.
When a Negro like Frank
Yerby writes a book, “Foxes of
Harrow” and many other best
sellers, he does not write as a
Negro, but he writes as an
American with the American
point of view. When he wrote
the book few people said that
a Negro has written a great
book,, but that Mr. Yerby wrote
a great book. This is not only
happening in the literary field,
but also in other fields. There
are Ethel Waters, Dorothy May-
nor, and many others who have
allowed the Negro to step out
of his customary fields in the
theaters. There are now a num
ber of Negro professors teach
ing in some of the great uni
versities of the North, but there
are still those who are not given
the chance to show that they
are capable of using their know
ledge to promote democracy.
We are proud of our heritage.
We are proud that we are Ne
groes, but we are also particu
larly proud of the fact that we
are Americans. We at one time
were the lost race of America,
but today we haveJ|ecome one
race, one nationalit^^^e are no
longer the children from distant
shores, because very few of us
have ever seen th shores of
Africa. We are no longer the
children who were just released
from bondage, but we are the
children of America. We are
a mixture of several races and
nationalities. We are just as
much French, Spanish, Dutch,
English, and the other Caucasian
races as we are Negroes.
When White America eraces
from its books such laws as the
prohibition of interracial mar-
riges, and such laws as segre
gation on public conveyences,
and in public education, it will
be then that they will have the
last laugh on the Communists.
We the students of North Car
olina College have proved that
we are 100 per cent Americans
and believe in Democracy, but
it is now up to the whites of
America to prove to us that
they are 100 per cent Ameri
cans.
We are not poor excuses for
Americans, but many whites are.
When white Ameirca learns to
be humble to be gracious and
to learn many of the ways of
the Negro, when white America
learns to use its education to
benefit the whole of mankind,
regardless of race, creed, or
color, it will be then and only
then that they will be able to
conquer this enemy of democ
racy, but ,until that time thev
will only be wading in dee^Ter'*'***’
waters (blood).
College Roundup . . .
Orono, Me—(I. P.)—Follow
ing a national trend, the inter
fraternity council at thee Uni
versity of Maine recently adopt
ed a plan whereby fraternity
pledges would devote one day
of Hell Week to civic improve
ments in Banger, Old Town, and
Orono. Under the program,
fraternity members and pledges
alike would be assigned to va
rious places to aid in the clean
up campaign. .
The program was designed for
a two-fold purpose; (1) to aid
the communities in brightening
up their appearance, and (2)
at the same time to combat some
of the ill feeling that has been
expressed lately towards frater
nities.
As projected originally, the
program included much work
to be done on the Old Town
City Hall, as well as the paint
ing of city’s parking meters.
The idea of a constructive Hell
Week was inaugarated on this
campus last Spring by Sigma Phi
Epsilon. Eight pledges of the
fraternity cleaned and painted
the interior of the Orono Town
Hall.
Baltimore, Md.—(I. P.)—Ab
olition of the tralitional four-
year program for under gradu
ates in favor of an alvance-as
you-learn plan will be one of
the future goals of Johns Hop
kins University. Under this plan
there would be virtually no re
strictions on students as to time
scope or specific study.
The University has begun a
campaign to raise 75 to 100 mil
lion dollars to finance the trans
ition and to increase the endow
ment. The cost of the immediate
change has been tentatively set
at 6 million dollars.
will be able in time to become leaders in
the world with the incentatives given by
the campus leaders.
Those people who were honored are too
big to let their honors go to their heads.
These people are above petty pride and
egotism. These honors bestowed on our stu
dents are incentives for them to become
still greater and better persons. These hon
ors are not bestowed upon them because
they are so great, but because they have
started on the up road to success. These
students are well-rounded enough to know
that they still have a long and tedious road
ahead, and that the little honor bestowed
upon them here is only a small part of
vi^hat may await them in the future if they
are big enough and great enough within
•themselves to strive even further.
The goal of the program,,
which will take about six years
to install, is to elimate the di
stinction between graduate and
undergraduate students, accord
ing to Dr. Detlev W. Brosk, pres
ident.
No student will be forced to
accelerate his studies, but those
who wish to advance as rapidly
as they can will be able to do
so. The more intelligent stu
dents will be able to obtain a
master’s degree in about four
years, which is normally the
time needed for a bachelor’s de
gree, one university official
estimated.
Because the university has, as
a policy been decreasing the
number of its students, about
75 per cent of those who enter
the undergraduate fields remain
at the school to complete their
graduate work.
Pullman, Wash. — (I. P.) —
New regulations governing ad
ministration of the Student
Health Service at Washington
State College were reported re
cently by Arthur R. McCartan^,
acting dean of students. Under
the new plan now in effect stu
dents receive 14 days hospitali-
tion and regular nursing care
(including services of college
physician) in any college year
without extra charge.
Students also receive out
patient clinic service; three-
fourths of the cost of x-ray and
laboratory services as prescribed
by clinic physicians; one-half of
the price of any drug prescribed
by student health service phy
sician; and cost of x-rays and
laboratory tests required by all
new students at registration
time.
The present student health fee
of $12 per semester can be main
tained without being raised, de
spite many increasing medical
costs, through the additional in
come obtained by the changed
schedule of benefits, college
authorities here said.
The administration also an
nounced that the college library
will be open weekends in re
sponse to student interest and
demand. The college recently
completed the problem of
special allotment, which, with
use of time slip labor and by
opening is solving the problem
a slightly later week morning
so that the W. S. C. library can
now serve students Saturdays
and Sundays. Weekend library
hours, run: Saturday 8:30 a. m.
—noon. Sunday 2-6 p. m.
Amherst, Mass. — (I. P.) —
College records reveal many in
stances in which students who
receive below-average or medi
ocre grades become outstanding
leaders later on in business and
the professions, according to Dr.
Charles W. Coles, president of
Amherst College. Some persons,
reach their peak performance in
secondary school, others in col
lege and graduate school and
still others after school, he ad
ded.
In addition to the “late-
bloomer,” there are other types
that present even more difficult
problems. Dr. Cole emphasized.
“One is the ‘under-achiever’: He
is the able lad who drifts
through college, passes his
courses and enjoys the life
around him, but never acquires
any of the training, skills, disci
pline, insights or interest that
education should give.
“Then there is the ‘half
achiever’: He, with great gifts,
makes only a respectable record
of development and is like a six-
cylinder engine sputtering a-
long because the ignition sys-
;tem is not functioning in two
of the cylinders.”
Among the other questions
raised by this phenomenon. Dr.
Cole said, were : Does the col
lege admission system favor
those who mature early? Does
it put a premium on precocity?
How can a college detect the
candidate who has still within
him the potentiality for further
growth? How can the colleges
distinguish him from the appli
cant who has alrealy developed
as far as he ever will?
Perhaps by studying the back
grounds of applicants for ad
mission to college and by test
ing their “motivation” it might
be possible to help the “late-
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