The Campus Echo
Number 2
Friday, Sept. 28, 1984
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson greets NCCU students on his way into B.N.
Duke Auditorium to encourage students to vote. Pictured above
from left to right: Chancellor LeRoy T. Walker; Jackson; Danise
Baynes, Miss NCCU; William Barber, SGA president; and Attorney
H.M. Michaux. (Photo by Robert Corbitt)
Young says: Vote—
Mondale can win
By Gregory Taylor
“Every time you vote it is a referen
dum on your economic future,” Atlan
ta mayor Andrew Young told 350 N.C.
Central University faculty, staff, ad
ministrators and students who jammed
into the Alphonso Elder Student Union
on Tuesday, Sept. 17, to hear the
former U.S. ambassador discuss the
importance of voting.
Young, a graduate of Howard
University, encouraged students to ex
ercise their voting power on Nov. 6,
urging them to become aware of
“practical politics”—the importance
of the division of money among the
masses.
“We are all in politics because we all
pay taxes,” said Young. “As registered
voters, we have a choice as to who will
decide how the money is divided, but
as non-registered voters we have no
choice and no power as to how the
money is divided or who will get a
share of it.”
Young told students that despite
what political analysts and candidates
are saying about the lack of influence
of the black vote, the black vote does
count.
“If 50 percent the voters vote as they
did in 1980, Ronald Reagan will be re-
See ANDREW YOUNG, p. 4
At Black College Day
Speakers: Students
must be leaders now
By Helen Eagleson
“You are the nucleus of leadership
for the decade of the ’80s and ’90s,”
said Durham attorney Kenneth B.
Spaulding to a small but enthusiastic
group at the Annie Day Shepard Bowl
Monday, Sept. 24, as students and
faculty gathered to celebrate Black
College Day at N.C. Central Universi
ty-
“Black colleges have been the
spawning ground for the Youngs,
Jacksons, and McNairs of the day,”
said Spaulding. “In a short period of
time, this nucleus will be responsible
for making sure that the doors of op
portunity will be open for others.”
Spaulding informed students that in
1979 legislation was pending that, had
it passed, would have required five of
the historically black institutions in this
state to merge with the predominately
white institutions in the UNC system.
He reminded students that this
generation must insure the legacy of
black colleges for future generations.
After the campus rally, several hun
dred students gathered at Alfonso
Elder Student Union, boarded buses,
and made their way to Raleigh to at
tend the state rally.
Upon arrival, students began un
folding banners and putting the
finishing touches on signs before the
march.
See BLACK COLLEGE DAY, p. 4
‘We have a need this hour’
Jackson: Arms race,
budget cuts hurt poor
By Gregory Taylor
Recent Democratic presidential candidate Jesse Jackson encouraged the
university community to become more politically active and chided the Reagan
administration for cuting education and social programs in favor of increased
military spending in a Sept. 20 speech at B.N. Duke Auditorium.
Jackson told the standing-room-only audience of 2,000 that this is a critical
year in politics. “We have a need this hour,” he said, for more public interest in
congressional, state and local elections, as well as the presidential race.
He criticized the Republican economic policy, which he called “Reagan’s up
per two-fifths celebration and lower two-fifths despair.”
Jackson charged that Reagan’s friendship with big business made him insen
sitive to the needs of the poor. “Ninety thousand corporations made large pro
fits and paid no taxes, while private citizens who were $2,000 below the poverty
level did pay taxes,” he declared.
Jackson said that despite the media’s efforts to label him as a candidate con
cerned only with the needs of the black community, his philosophy of politics
benefits all people, women, minorites, and the poor.
Of the 35 million destitute people in this nation, 24 million are white, he said.
According to Jackson, Reagan policies fostered poverty in America by paying
for increases in the military budget with cuts in social and educational programs
and in aid to farmers.
Jackson also claimed that Reagan administration priorites are misplaced,
devoting too little attention to education and too much to the arms race. “The
strength of a nation lies in developed minds, and not guided missies,” he said.
Jackson was skeptical about recent polls predicting an easy.Reagan victory:
“Anybody can lose, and if Reagan doesn’t get enough votes he will lose.”
Jackson also entreated the audience to go to the polls in state and local elec
tions, because, he said, “A new North Carolina is possible, but only if you vote
to make the difference.”
After the speech, Jackson supporters staged a voter registration drive at the
auditorium.
Jackson is a graduate from N.C. A&T University.
Who
is this
woman?
She’s
Jenifer
Lewis
and she’s
performing
at NCCU
tonight.