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Page 3« April 8,1994 NCCU Hosts Annual College Language Convention By Regina Smith Staff Writer North Carolina Central Uni versity will host the Fifty-fourth Annual Convention and Fifty- seventh Anniversary of the College Language Association (CLA) April 13-16,1994. The College Language As sociation was founded in 1937. The association consists of col lege teachers of English and Foreign Languages. The mem bers provide a forum for re search and discussion of litera ture and language and teaching strategies. Among the early members of the CLA are distinguished former faculty members of NCCU: W. Edward Farrison, RuthN. Horry, Charles A. Ray and Richard K. Baiksdale, who was the president. Farrison served as the chairperson of the English de partment during 1938-60; Ray served as the chairperson of the English department dur ing 1960-1979. Arlene Clift- PeUow, the present chairper son of the English department, is a member of the English Curriculum Committee of the CLA. In 1957, the CLA founded their official quarterly publi cation—^the College Language Journal—at the Seventeenth Annual Convention of the Association which met on April 4,5, and 6, on the cam pus of Arkansas A.M. and N. College in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Thejoumal’smainobjectives are to publish scholarly articles of merit on a wide variety of authors and literary subjects in America, England and the other nations of the world; and to open its pages, without restrictions, to members and non-members alike who submit acceptable essays for publication. The CLA Convention wUl be held at the Omni Durham Hotel and Convention Center. CLA’s 1994 theme is “Language and Literature for the Twenty-first Century: Redefining Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy.” The convention will consist of participants who wiU present essays from colleges and uni- General Walls Speaks To Students By Clay K. Culver, Capt, USAF Contributing Writer ATTENTION! STAND STRAIGHT AND LISTEN UP ... Yessir! The general is speaking to NCCU af ter spring break. General George H. Walls Jr., executive assistant to Chancellor Chambers and a retired U.S. Marine Corps general, will speak to NCCU’s entire student body on Thursday, April 17, from 12:40 to 2:00 p.m. at the Walker Complex Au ditorium, He will ad dress Air Force ROTC Detachment 585 ca dets and all other inter ested NCCU students and faculty. Walls brings a wealth of leadership experience, commu nity involvement and a sense of duty to NCCU’s campus for all to emulate. Team work, hard work and extremely high stan dards characterizedhis 28 years in the Marine Corps. Just a year before he retired in 1993, he commanded the joint task force which pro vided humanitarian relief to Haitian im migrants in Cuba. Walls will speak to some of the leader ship challenges in volved with the Hai tian Humanitarian Relief effort ' at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Afterward, he will open a dialogue with the au dience and answer questions concerning the Haitian effort, lead ership, minorities in the military and other top ics. This spring, AFROTC cadets are surveying the entire campus for handicap accessibility to all buildings, insuring they all have adequate ramps, doors, signsandparking to aid handdicapped students and visitors to NCCU. Even if you are not AFROTC, don’t miss Walls’speech. THAT’S AN ORDER! versifies all over the country including our own NCCU. Among the NCCU profes sors presenting papers at the CLA convention are Henri Armand, Eric Gant, Barbara Fulks, Francis Nelson, Minnie Sangster, and John Sekora. Graduates of NCCU who will present papers include Sybil Le Blanc, with a M. A. in English; Donald Ray Jenkins, Debra Walker King, and Linda McNeely-Strong, with B.A.s in English; and CaroU Yoimg, with a B.A. in Spanish. In addition, Jenkins, Strong, and Young have since recieved Ph.D.s. Students are welcome to attend any of the sessions held during the convention free of charge; however, the banquet costs $20.00 per student. En glish majorsAninors and For eign Language majors/minors who are willing to offer their assistance during the conven tion will he given complimen tary tickets to the banquet. Students are encouraged to join the College Language As sociation. The membership fee of $18.00 includes a subscrip tion to the official quarterly CLA journal. Faculty, staff, and students with questions are encouraged to contact Dr. Arthrell Sanders, CLA host committee chairper son, located in the English de partment, room 305, or called at 560-5359 or 560-6221. Honesty, continued from page 2 interest in mind; yet her comment organization and the Black com- about them not having much say obviously shows that Burnette does not respect the students’ wishes. In the same article, Burnette again shows a lack of concern when asked what she would do ifa majority of students voted in favor of her resigning. Burnette said she “probably would just laugh.” If Burnette truly has the best interest of the students of the school district in mind then it would seem that she would pay -more attention to what the stu dents have to say. I stand in favor of an immediate resignation by LaVondaBumette from the Board of Education. My position may be viewed unfavorably in the Black community. Burnette, who serves as the vice-president for the local chapter of the NAACP, has the support of that prestigious munity in general. Burnette’s sup porters have suggested that the issue of whether she should re main on the school board is racial rather than ethical. I challenge this assumption. I remind those supporters that two other African- American board members have never met opposition during then- service. 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