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LYONS’ PRESENCE THREAT TO CITY PURSE
THE VOICE® Death march
FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY
VOLUME 24 NUMBER 10 FAYETTEVL
a success
SGA President James Nesby, above left, keeps throng peaceful and clean at Market House as other marchers, right, approach site in
protest against Lyons.
FSU students named
summer interns
Jacqueline Mack, a Junior Biology major at Fayetteville State University has
been selected as a participant In the Summer Student Trainee Program at the
Ames Laboratory of the Atomic Energy Commission on the campus of Iowa
State University.
The Ames Laboratory maintains research programs in the basic sciences,
conducts pioneering-type development work and contributes fundamental know
ledge basic to the release, effects and utilization of atomic energy and the
materials required for atomic energy purposes.
In addition to observing closely the work of the laboratory, Jacqueline wUl
participate directly in its many research activities.
William Alston, a Junior Political Science and History major at Fayetteville
State University has been selected as one of twenty-five (25) undergraduates
and graduate students
throughout North Caro
lina to receive a State
and Local Government
Summer Internship ap
pointment. The North
Carolina State and Local
Government Internship
Program offers an un
usual blend of learning,
working theory, and prac
tice. The program offers
students a chance to learn
while they earn a good
summer wage and to sup
plement their work in the
classroom with exper
ience in the “real world.”
The program offers stu
dents the opportunity to
observe and work close
ly with the government
while contributing to the
work of an agency. It
gives students with vary
ing career plans - pro
spective lawyers, doc
tors, teachers, politi
cians, businessmen, or
state government work
ers - the chance to “see
how it is” in state and
local government.
By JAMES M. WATERS
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Too many parents are
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On March 25, 1971, on
a cold and windy Thurs
day, 800 energetic and
dedicated students,which
is roughly two-thirds of
Fayetteville State Uni
versity’s Student popula
tion, walked courageously
to downtown Fayetteville,
calling this event, "The
Death March". While en
route, they constantly
shouted out, “Lyons has
got to go.” They alsocar-
ried large placards that
read, “Charles A. Lyons
is a dictator”, and “The
next tornado will be Char
les Lyons”. The event
lasted from 3:00 p.m. to
5:00 p.m., at which time,
students marched from
the campus to the Market
House, where the alert
and courageous student
body head, Bro. James
Nesby, delivered a short,
but very meaningful
speech composed and
sanctioned by the student
body of Fayetteville State
University.
It read, “The purpose
of this march is to ex
press our dissatisfaction,
our subservient posi
tion, and our degrading
condition under the dic
tatorial rule of Charles
A. Lyons Jr. We have
taken our appeal to the
Board of Trustees, and
no action has been taken
to correct the problem
which is Charles A. Lyons
Jr.; therefore, we are
appealing to The Fay
etteville Community be
cause, we the students,
will never accept this
man as president of Fay
etteville State University.
The people of the Fay
etteville Community need
to know that the concUtions
at the University have de
teriorated to the point
where, unless the people
of this city become con
cerned about our welfare,
all efforts to obtain a
good and a sound educa
tion will be lost.
Charles “A” Lyons is
not concerned about the
welfare of the Fayette
ville Community. He has
proved this statement to
be true by pressuring in
dividuals who were influ
ential in the Fayetteville
Community. They were
forced to relocate and
seek employment else
where; as a result, the
community lost leaders
and years of develop
ment. The direction that
this institution has taken
is one of disaster under
“His administration”.
Fayetteville State Uni
versity is more than an
educational institution; it
is a corporation spurt
ing millions of dollars in
to the local community;
therefore, it deserves
and needs the support of
the entire Fayetteville
Community.”
When asked about the
effect the march had on
the community, Nesby re
plied, “1 think the com
munity was shocked and
surprised to see that the
students were still dis
satisfied.” He then said,
“Up to this point, stu
dents have taken most of,
if not all of the respon
sibility in dealing with the
problem. Now is the time
for the faculty and the
community to come to
our rescue; however, I
think the march was in
deed a success.”
In closing, Nesby stat
ed, “The future of Fay
etteville State University
rests in the hands of stu
dents, faculty, and com
munity. We, as Black peo
ple, must be more re
sponsive to the educa
tion of our young, which
means, we must learn to
take active stands in
dealing with anything that
impairs the learning pro
cess of our future and
Black citizens.”