VOICE
FAYEHEVILLE STATE COLLEGE
VOL. 22 NO 5
Fayetteville, N. C.
JANUARY 26. 1969
Student Government officers and "Miss FSC,” Annie McCullough, at the Pres
ident’s House. They gathered, following an evening of games and conversation
with President and Mrs. Jones and other SGA officers. President and Vice Pres
ident Hector McEachern and Mercer Anderson flank the beautiful queen at the
left; Calvin Harris and Joseph Lewis are at her right.
STUDY REVEALS
STUDENTS VITAL
ECONOMY FACTOR
A survey by a market
ing class at Fayetteville
State College has reveal
ed that the student’s
spending makes a signifi
cant impact on the econ
omy of the city of Fay
etteville.
Based on the findings,
it was reported that Fay
etteville State College
students pour more than
$130,000 per month into
the local economy. Ac
cording to the study, this
was determined by the av
erage amount of money
received from home
monthly for college ex
penses and spending al
lowances.
The study involved
more than 15-percent of
the student body and it
showed that FSC students
possess comparative
consumer habits of sim
ilar size institutions.
When queried about
their monthly allowance,
the majority of the FSC
students indicated that
they received one. More
than fifty-percent report
ed that they received on
the average of $25.00 per
month.
Of special interest was
the areas in which the stu
dents spend their allow
ances. Thirty-seven per
cent of their allowance
is utilized for recreation,
twelve-percent on pur
chasing new items —
clothes and accessories,
seven percent on toilet
ries , seven-percent on
books, and six - percent
on cosmetics.
Most students through
that $25.00 was an ideal
amount for college stu
dents. However, seve
ral indicated that amounts
as high as $100 would be
more beneficial.
More than 62-percent
visited downtown Fay
etteville once a week,
while 24-percent visited
twice a week. Most stu
dents (82%) use public
conveyances to get down
town, while eight-percent
used personal vehicles.
The remaining group
stated that they used cabs,
friends and hitch-hiked to
get to the shopping area.
It was interesting to
note that 48-percent of
Fayetteville State Col
lege students have part-
time jobs and more than
half of this total is em
ployed on the campus.
Twenty-nine percent in
dicated that they worked ■
off campus and the re
maining group worked in
nearby towns.
Most students indicat
ed that their parents were
non-professionals, and
this included the broad
spectrum of skilled and
non-skilled. Only 14-per
cent of the parents were
listed as professionals.
When it came to rating
Fayetteville’s shopping
area in relationship to
prices, services, avail
ability, and quality of
merchandise, five-per-
cent rated the city excel
lent, seventy five-percent
rated the city moderate,
and seventeen - percent
cited the city as poor.
In comparing Fayette
ville’s prices with prices
in their hometown, forty
one-percent found the
prices higher, thirty
three percent thought
that they were about the
same and thirteen-per
cent thought that they
were lower.
The report indicated
that most of Fayetteville
State College students pay
cash for purchases made.
Palmetto
Students
To File
Damage
Suits
Columbia - Negro stu
dents shot by state troop
ers at Orangeburg Feb. 8,
1968 plan to file damage
suits against South Caro
lina Highway Department
officials and individual
patrolmen.
At a ne'ws confer
ence recently, Columbia
attorney Matthew J.
Perry said that suits,
seeking damages of $100,
000 each will be filed by
the estates of the three
slain students.
Perry, retained by stu
dents at South Carolina
State College, said the
suits brought by 18 or
20 young Negroes who
were wounded in the con
frontation with patrolmen
will total “several thou
sand dollars each.”
“Color of Law”
The court actions, he
said, will be filed under
the civil rights section
of the U. S. Code which
permits a person to re
cover damages for wrong
ful injuries inflicted by
“persons acting under the
color of state law.”
Perry, a Negro, said
suits will be filed in U.
S. District Court in Co
lumbia within the next
few days by the estates
of two of the dead stu
dents, Delano Middleton
of Orangeburg and Henry
Smith of Marion.
He said a third $100,
000 damage suit will be
filed in federal court in
Florida by the estate for
Samuel Hammond, the
third student killed on the
fringe of the State Col
lege campus. Hammond
was a resident of Ft.
Lauderdale.
EDUCATION DEP’T
RELEASES
FINDINGS
A recent report compiled by M. S. Frierson, chair
man of Fayetteville State’s Department of tducation,
provides a basis for conclusions concerning the nature
of the latest graduating class. The subjects of this
report were all persons graduating between Septem
ber 1, 1967 and August 31, 1968 with qualifications
for North Carolina teaching certificates - a total of
128 persons.
Of the 96 persons who have become teachers, some
what less than half of these are occupied in the ele
mentary schools. In this field, there are almost as
many females teaching outside the state as there are
teaching within the state, while the majority of males
remain in the state. Of the 40 elementary school
teachers, only 8 are male.
In the high school area, there are twice as many
in-state males as there are out-of-state, but the num
ber of females in-state quadruples that of those fe
males out-of-state. Of those persons who chose to enter
a non-teaching field, four are continuing formal study-
3 female, 1 male - three have retired to homemaking
(women), and those remaining are otherwise gainfully
employed.
It can be summarized from the figures presented
that, according to percentage, the women were more
prone than the men to remain near home and that
they were also more prone to continue their studies.
College
Observes
^Black Week’
Fayetteville State Col
lege observed a week of
“Black Awareness”
Monday, December 10
through December 13.
Howard Fuller, Dur
ham activist, was the key
note speaker at the ini
tial session Monday even
ing in the Seabrook Audi
torium which began at 8
o’clock and was opened to
the general public.
“The Word is Given
Black Liberation” was
the title of the play pre
sented by the Black Revo
lutionary Theater in Sea
brook Auditorium Tues
day evening, December
19, at 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday’s activities
were highlighted by a pan
el discussion during the
college chapel hour. ‘The
Role of Black Students”
was discussed by Gloria
Stubbs, Fred Hill, Betty
Mickerson, and Larry
McCleary.
The Multi-purpose
room,Rosenthal Building,
was the scene of a Black
Culture program Wed
nesday evening, Decem
ber 11, at 7:30 p.m.
“Black Man and Reli
gion” was the subject of
a panel discussion on
Thursday evening in the
Choir Room, Rosenthal
Building. Featured panel
ists include Rev. Aaron
Johnson, Dr. Grady Da
vis, James Parks and
Raymond Gregor. The
latter two are students.
The week’s activities
culminated with a social
in the Women’s Gymnas
ium beginning at 8;00 p.m.
t
RLLCV Visits FSC - Dr, Ben Romine, Program
Associate, Regional Educational Laboratory of the Vir
ginias and Carolinas (RELCV) left, chats with James
Tyson, sophomore from Farmville, and C.I. Brown,
FSC Director of Institutional Research. (See page two)
FSC is one of eighteen Mid-Atlantic colleges and uni-
versities participating in pilot research projects cover
ing a broad area of educational research.