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Durham, North Carolina, Monday, April 29, 1968
Student Exchange Is Key To Understanding
Exchangee students from the University of Wisconsin chat with
two North Carolina College coeds who were Wisconsin students last
year. Shown on the Durham campus, left to right, are Mary Beth
Kolb, University of Wisconsin; Bertha Avery, NCC; Julie Gmeiner,
Wisconsin; Barbara Avery, NCC; Laverne Johnson, Wisconsin; and
Sharon Haese, Wisconsin.
TUTOR COUNSELORS NEEDED
The University of North Car
olina will again offer this sum
mer an “opportunity school” for
120 economically deprived
Orange and Chatham County
high school students.
Provided by a renewed -fed
eral government grant from the
Office of Economic Opportunity,
the eight-week Upward Bound
program will get underway at
NCC for students in mid-June.
Upward Bound’s basic pur
pose is “to remedy poor academ
ic preparation and personal mo
tivation.” Designed to upgrade
the individual’s self-discipline
and self-direction, the program
also helps him with his adjust
ments necessary to move from
home to school and college train
ing.
According to Upward Bound
Director Bob Bourdeaux of the
UNC School of Education, tutor
counselor positions are open for
any interested North Carolina
College students by calling the
Upward Bound office (933-2279)
or coming by 205 YMCA Build-
' ing, UNC.
Tutor counselors work and
live in dorms with Upward
Bound students during the pro
gram’s duration and provide a
successful model for them. They
work with students on study
habits, practical skills, and try
to interest them in cultural af
fairs and social activities, such
as bridge and sewing.
In addition, the tutor counse
lors actually teach classes in
seminar form. Some examples
are Negro literature, art history,
dramatics, folk singing, psychol
ogy and others.
The “war against talent
waste” was first waged nation
wide two years ago through
Community Action Agencies by
sponsoring units. There were
^then about 220 such programs
in the nation, three of them in
North Carolina—at UNC-CH, at
UNC-G and at Winston-Salem
Teachers College. The same
three schools are involved this
year.
More than half of the stu
dents who will be participating
in this summer’s program have
already been accepted for col
lege enrollment.
PREXY PRAISES
EX UMBRA
By JAMES VAUGHN
President Albert N. Whiting
sent a letter to the staff of Ex
Umbra, the school’s literary
magazine, praising the quality
of the publication and the spirit
of creativity exemplified by the
student organization. Contrary
to the usual scurrying about of
each member, an air of solem
nity blanketed the room as the
wounded “crusaders” seemed to
worship the soothing words of
praise from the highest official
of the college.
Taxed with the task of uncov
ering the hidden feelings, be
liefs and true state of minds of
young black collegians, mem
bers of the staff have continuous
ly brought back reports of be
ing stopped on campus by stu
dents and faculty members and
reprimanded for writing “lies’”,
“trash”, and “vulgarity” in the
magazine. After encountering so
many objectors who refused to
face some of the unplesisant
aspects of truth and reality. The
staff developed a feeling of “all
is striving after the wind.” Be
lieving that “truth is beauty and
reality is truth” gave us reason
to doubt the aesthetic value of
the works since they were sel
dom reviewed as truth.
The favorable opinions of Mrs.
Karl Kaiser, the poetess-in-resi-
dence at U.N.C., and A. B. Spell
man, the writer-in-residence at
Morehouse College, along with
the reading of our president’s
letter, gave the staff renewed
energy to continue to rob the
shadows of the words and lives
of black American youths.
The three-year-old student ex
change program between the
University Center System and
predominantly Negro colleges
in the South isn’t going to end
the nation’s racial misunder
standings, but on an individual
level it can go a long way in
that direction.
“It will be an invaluable ex
perience in seeing first hand
STUDENT TRIP
TO N.Y. SLATED
By EVEL¥N L. WILLIS
Some 30 French, Spanish and
German students of North Caro
lina College will be enroute to
New York City on Wednesday,
April 24 at approximately 6:30
p.m. The trip is being sponsored
by the NCC Romance Language
Department. Three faculty in
structors will accompany them:
Miss Lillie Lewis, French Club
adviser; Mrs. Anne Poore, Ger
man Club adviser, and Mr.
Thomas Pinson, instructor of
FVench. Both the instructors and
the students will stay at the
Tudor Hotel on 42nd Street.
Having arrived in New York
early Thursday morning the stu
dents will go to a French restau
rant Le Copain, located in the
vicinity of the United Nations
to become acquainted with the
many foods which they have
studied. The Collegiate Council
of the United Nations will ar
range three seminars (French,
German and Spanish) and a tour
of the United Nations for them.
They will have lunch in the
Delegates Dining Room of the
United Nations and thereby
gain the opportunity to talk to
delegates from foreign coun
tries.
Friday morning, the students
will attend a meeting of the
General Assembly, and i>erhaps
one seminar. Friday evening
they may attend a performance
by a foreign singer, actor or
orchestra.
The Museum of Modern Art
and Cloisters wil be visited Fri
day afternoon and Saturday
morning. Later Saturday after
noon a tour of New York City
will be conducted for the stu
dents by the Gray Line Sight
seeing Incorporation. Sights of
interest will include the Statue
of Liberty, Empire State Build
ing, St. John’s Cathedral and
Lincoln Center.
Sunday morning, April 28,
around 9:30 a.m. the students
are scheduled to return to the
campus.
Miss Lillie Lewis, who
worked at Virginia State Col
lege in Petersburg, Virginia,
prior to coming to North Caro
lina College, and who teaches
French 110 and 120 and serves as
adviser to the French Club, pro
posed the idea for the trip to
NLC. She stated that prior to
the trip several seminars have
been planned featuring political
science instructors who will
speak on the various topics that
will be discussed at the United
Nations.
what the real problems are and
what is being done on perhaps
the most important issue facing
our country: race relations,”
wrote a Racine Center student,
Lawrence Little, in his applica
tion for the program.
Little, a political science ma
jor, is one of eight Center Sys
tem students spending the cur
rent semester in the South.
Only one student from a
Southern school is attending a
Center this' semester, but there
will be more next fall. The nor
mal arrangement has UW stu
dents in the South during the
spring semester and Southern
students at a UW campus in the
fall.
This Is Our Student
James Pridgen, a sophomore
from Snow Hill, N. C., is the
single Southern exchange. A
business major with athletic in
clinations, he’s already made
the Manitowoc County Center
basketball team.
Besides Little, three other
students from the Racine Center
and four from the Green Bay
Center are involved. Pat Spring,
an English major with experi
ence as a teacher’s assistant in
Racine’s core area; Tammy
Stark, a political science-educa-
tion major active in student
government; and Forrest (Tim)
Collins, a chemistry student
with an active interest in local
government and politics are the
three from the Racine Center.
Carol Salzsieder, a library
science student; Julie Lindley,
an English major; Barbara Roy,
who hopes to be a guidance
counseler; and Richard Navarre,
a dramatics major, represent the
Green Bay Center.
None of the Green Bay stu
dents has been farther from
home than Michigan and two
admit to never having left Wis
consin. The lack of experience
with Negroes and with other
parts of the country each felt
was the main reason for their
enrolling in Jhe exchange.
“It’s intended to be an inter
racial and intercultural experi
ence,” agrees Marshall Colston,
Madison-based director of the
UW end of the exchange. “We
don’t send people who might be
interested in demonstrations and
protesting. That’s the sort of
thing we don’t need to import
or export.”
The first exchange involved
the enter System—the Marinette
County Center — but now the
program includes other UW
campuses as well. All together
15 university students are study
ing in the South this semester at
three different schools. North
Carolina Agricultural and Tech
nical State University, Texas
Southern University and North
Carolina College.
Since the program began in
1965 there have been about 20
exchangees in the Center Sys
tem, including both Wisconsin
and Southern students.
Life for the students at their
temporary homes naturally re
quires some adjustments — that
after all, is what the program
is all about. But the differences
tend to be more social than
academic. (“A history class is a
history class, you know,” Col
ston points out.)
The University does every
thing it can to ease the “culture
shock” that goes with being
dropped suddenly into a new
environment. A preliminary
briefing was h“ld in Madison
during January for all the UW
students going South to study.
Southern Negro, students study
ing in Madison were invited and
the University young people
were given tips on clothing, so
cial life, who to contact for as
sistance on their new campus
and other useful information.
“The social life is different,”
says Colston, “but it is an en
riching difference. We haven’t
had any problems. Generally the
students adjust very well as
soon as they get a grasp on the
new situation.”
In spite oi.the University’s ef
forts to ease the transition, stu
dents’ initial contact with the
new enrivonment seems to be
slightly traumatic.
“I was so scared in the new
situation I thought I was going
to faint,” said one Center stu
dent about her arrival at North
Carolina College, (NCC) in Dur
ham.
The trauma works both ways.
“I was glad to be coming,” said
a recent exchangee from NCC.
“But as I got ready to leave the
whole thing hit me. I wondered
how people here were going to
receive me.”
Just the same, Center and
Southern students who have
been exchanged are enthusiastic
about the program.
“It was worth every second,”
said a Marinette County Center
student who studied at NCC
several semesters ago. “It was
just great.”
The program is partly backed
by federal funds, but students
are responsible for expenses
they would normally have at
their home school, that is, tui
tion, books and incidentals.
Travel and room and board are
covered by the program. UW
students live in dormitories at
their Southern schools, and
Southern students live with lo
cal families while at a Center.
Credits earned are accepted
by all the schools involved-.
The exchangees agree that
they have personally benefited
from their experiences, that their
horizons and attitudes have
been broadened. That’s one of
the main goals of the program.
Another goal is for the personal
experiences of a few to have a
carry-over effect on a larger
segment of society. 'There ig
indication tha this is happening,
but only time can be the real
test.