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Pafie 6 THE VOICE Septembe r 30» 1972 Designed to Meet Needs of Many People FSU Initiates Weekend College The ■ new degree granting Weekend College program re cently initiated here at Fay etteville State University is designed to meet the needs of many individuals in the Fayetteville - Cumberland area and southeastern North Carolina, according to Chan cellor Charles "A” Lyons, Jr. DAVIS ELECTED NASS PRESIDEHSTT Charles Davis, FSU aca demic counselor, has been elected as the first president ^ ROTC (Continued from page 1) Taylor, both business ma jors, Frank Douglass, Jr.and Johnny Jones, sociology, and Bobby H. Washington, a his tory major. Davis explained that the Air Force ROTC program is in cluded in the newly formed Department of Aerospace Stu dies. He further said that the seven students who participat ed in the summer encampment will be in the FSU advanced Air Force ROTC program in the 1972-73 academic year. College students may en roll in the program during regular registration. “Two commissioning programs are available to them,” said Da vis. “Entering freshmen may enroll In the four year pro gram and students with at least two years of undergraduate work remaining may apply for the two-year program.” Davis further noted that the primary purpose of the summer pro gram is to acquaint the stu dent to a working Air Force environment. It is here that they learn and make use of junior officer training and leadership techniques in close contact with cadets of other colleges and universities in the United States. The Air Force ROTC field training programs include ca det orientation, survival training, junior officer train ing, aircraft and air crew orientation, physical training and a study of the organiza tion and function of an Air Force base. FSU’s program of instruc tion for the Air Force offi cer program will consist of a two - year general military course, field training, and professional officers sub jects. Satisfactory completion of the advance courses quali fies a student for commis sioning as a second lieuten ant in the Air Force Re serve upon graduation from the university. Davis also emphasized that women cadets are needed in the program. Since 1970, wo men have been able to earn Air Force commissions through AFROTC. Except for a few variations, all facets of Air Force ROTC are open to women cadets. In the area of college schol arships, Davis pointed out that financial aid is available to qualified cadets who are pur suing the four-year or two- year AFROTC program. Each scholarship provides full tui tion, laboratory expenses, in cidental fees and a $75 annual allowance for textbooks. In ad dition, scholarship cadets, he said, also receive a monthly non-taxablp subsistence al lowance. of the National Association for Services to Students (NA SS). Davis’ election came at the end of a session of the Insti tute for Services to Educa tion Counselors'summer con ference which was held on the campus of Newton College of the Sacred Heart in New ton, Mass. A need for a national or ganization of black counselors and student personnel work ers fostered the birth of the NASS. The organization is concerned about “the prob lems of the black student... as he relates to the higher education community and so ciety.” The purpose of the National Association for Services to Students, Davis said, is to cre ate a viable professional structure which concerns It self with constructive educa tional changes; to Investigate and assist counselors and agencies who work with cul turally different students; and to provide avenues for pro fessional growth in the areas of career opportunities, edu cational advancement, and in creasing the number of black publications. Membership is open to all Individuals who work in the area of student services said Davis. Formation of the or ganization was widely accept ed and hailed as a landmark decision on the part of con cerned professionals from 40 predominately black colleges and universities. Henderson Appointed Among the new faces a- round campus is that of a re cent appointee, John B. “Scoops” Henderson. He will serve as director of public relations and publications. A native of Lexington,Hen- derson worked at Livingstone and Catawba Colleges in the joint department of sociology. At Livingstone, Henderson served as sports information assistant and did newswriting and photography. At Fayetteville State Uni versity, Henderson will co ordinate all the University’s public relations and publica tions, serve as the school’s sports information director and will be in charge of the university’s news service. Henderson is a 1963 grad uate of North Carolina Cen tral University and received a masters degree in 1971 from the Atlanta University School of Social Work. He will also serve as advisor to the University’s newspaper, THE VOICE. These include persons who would like to return and se cure their college degree.Ser- vicemen and servicewomen, heads of households, parents, industrial employes, career persons, businessmen and many others are expected to take advantage of FSU’s Week end College. The program will permit individuals to attend classes on Friday evenings, all day Saturday and Sunday after noons. Chancellor Lyons em phasized that Weekend College credit in several academic fields will be offered to indi viduals at FSU through the College Level Examination Program (CLEP). This program gives indivi duals a chance to show that they have the equivalent of some college education that may have been obtained through on-the-job training, independent study or by other means. CLEP exams are offered in two categories — general examinations and subject mat ter examinations which in clude — history of American education; American Govern ment; biology; statistics; in troductory to business law, money and banking; geology; educational psychology; col lege algebra; American lit erature; English composition; and computer and data pro cessing. The general examinations are designed to provide a com prehensive measure of under graduate achievement in five basic areas of liberal arts - literature, philosophy, lan guages, history, science — while subject examinations are designed to measure a- chievement in specified un dergraduate subjects. Hopefully, these examina tions will enable the students to complete their college work in a shorter period of time, said the Chancellor. The Weekend College, he continued, would enable per sons to earn an undergrad uate or graduate degree in the field of their choice at a rea sonable cost. The majors of fered are business admini stration; business education; biology; chemistry; commun icative arts; English; French; history; health and physical education; mathematics; mu sic education; political sci ence; sociology; early child hood education; elementary education and recreation (mi nor). On the other hand, the Week end College will offer a num ber of courses among which are newspaper make-up, news photography, music apprecia tion, black theater, Afro - A- merican history, costume and design, secretarial practice, business math, voice and dic tation, statistics, English lit erature, kinesieology and A- merican history. However, these courses will only be offered if a sufficient number of persons are enroll ed in the classes. RANDOLPH DICKKNS EUGENE SMITH PROFESSORS NAMED TO FSU POSITIONS Two new faculty appoint ments at Fayetteville State University have been announ ced by FSU Chancellor Dr. Charles Lyons. Eugene Smith has been nam ed as assistant professor of mathematics at the school. Randolph C. Dickens has been named to the faculty of the FSU—N. C. State - Ft. Bragg Branch and continuing education program. Smith is a retired Army officer of more than 30 years FACULTY CONFERENCE — Fayetteville State University recently began its 1972-73 academic year with the school’s annual Fall Faculty Conference, Partlclpaing in the program were, from left to right, James Norman of Goldsboro, Vice President of the General Alumni Association; Dr, Herman Smith, Director of the Association of the Advancement of Public Negro Colleges; Nehemiah Parker, President of the General Alumni Association; Dr. J. W. Seabrook, President Emeritus; FSU Chancellor Dr. Charles “A” Lyons, Jr.; and Dr. H. M. Eldridge, Associate Dean of the University. service, with bachelor and master degrees from the Uni versity of New Hampshire. Dickens has a bachelor’s degree from West Point and a master’s degree from Duke University. He is currently studying for his doctorate at N, C, State University. Dickens will join two other recent appointees. Dr, Defield T, Holmes and Dr, Jerry D. Paschal, at Ft. Bragg. Holmes assumed the duties as vice chancellor at the Ft. Bragg campus while Paschal serves in the position of associate vice chancellor there. NEWS BRIEFS GREATER RATE Vietnam era veterans are making greater use of their educational benefits under the GI bill than did the veterans of World War n and the Ko rean conflict, the Veterans Admirtstration reported re cently. The VA, comparing parti cipation rates in the three GI bill programs at their six-year points, found that 36.9 per cent of Vietnam era veterans are going to school, as against S4.1 per cent for Korean conflict veterans and 32.7 per cent for World War n Gi’s.
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