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PAGE 2 THE VOICE SEPTEMBER 30. 1976 VOICE Staff Editor-In-Chief Associate Editor Commentator Staff Photographers Staff Members Hope Staff Advisor Publication Manager Sheryl Alexander Jean Jones Colton McKethan Marvin Meekins & Roosevelt Forte Boysie Jackson, Naomi Smith, Gilchrist, Djon Jaunes, Della Simmons John B. Henderson Dr. Barbara Holmes From the Editor^s Desh Paths for the Ernest Student Fellow students, faculty members of the administration, we are now officially into another academic year at Fayetteville State University. I’d first like to take this opportunity to welcome all of our new students, both freshmen and transfer students and to say that the learning experience here will not merely be one of academics, though this is of foremost importance on the agenda. Some of the learning experiences some of us will be apt to face will be adjusting to new surroundings, new faces and learning to do without Mama’s home cooked meals until vacation leave. Of course, I am well aware that many of you are from right here in Fayetteville, but I’ll bet there are still a few things you will be surprised to learn about FSU. Have any of you off campus students had an opportunity to check out the FSU surroundii^s? If you have, I guess that makes you one up on me. I do know that we ^ve additional buildings this year toaccommodatethe rapid increase in student enrollment. While all of my courses for this semester are given over in the Taylor Science Annex Building, I have had a rush tour of the Butler Learning Center (no sooner had I set foot inside than it wastimefor my next class). There’s no doubt about it, though, the Butler Learning Center is an exceptionally beautiful building and has become a vital part of campus activities. The scenery around this learning center is majestic in itself and gives one the feeling of stepping into a paradise. Last year projects were initiated to beautify the campus and they have paid off well. The sidewalks were repaved and the area across from the administration building was paved with sidewalks branching off to all sections of toe campus. Flowers and shrubbery were planted at different locations and the university took on a look of sophistication. Now that we are back, and see all of these changes it is up to us to maintain this healthy environment. Throwing bottles and wrappers all over is no way of expressing appreciation for decent surroundings. I believe that there is no way a person can complain about unsanitary con ditions when that person is an advocate of the situation himself. Last year I had talks with several people about the upgrading of our campus-among them Dean J.C. Jones, Dean of Students at Fayetteville State University. Dean Jones was very concerned with toe appearance of our campus and informed me of a campus beautification project that he wanted to put into effect. During that particular time toe sidewalks were already being repaved and some of our campus “artists” took it upon toemselves to write and draw on the wet cement. I cannot stress enough toe need for people to act in a mature manner. It is toe only way that we will ever be given any type of respect as human beings. Moving on to anotoer important topic-this is an election year and I hope that everyone take advantage of this fact. Being able to vote is a right that should not be taken for granted. Far too many of our ancestors have struggled for this right to become a reality for all of the citizens of this country. If you feel you cannot relate to toings of the past, toat they are far removed from your present day life style remember this: the right to vote (and know toat it has some merit) like freedom of speech is one characteristic of a democracy. In tois age many rights and privileges seem to be rapidly becoming a novelty and toe only way in which they can be assured to remain intact is to exercise toem. Registering to vote should be your first positive step and toe second involves taking serious interest in toe issues at hand and deciding, based upon tois information, who is best qualified to meet most of toe needs, then, for heaven sakes . . . vote! The American people have become very skeptical of politicians due to toe past activities of some, but not all politicians. It will be a test of both strength and honesty to toose who set about restoring toat trust. This year not only marks the two hundredto anniversary of toe birto of tois nation, our bicentennial, it is also significant in toat we can proudly celebrate one hundred years of academic service at Fayetteville State University. This university received its official beginning in the year nineteen hundred and seventy- seven, approximately one hundred years ago. We begin our celebration of toe centennial tois 1976-77 academic year. Since toe beginning of toe establishment of tois institution we have grown to marked heights wito increased: enrollment each year, in toe size of the campus itself, in toe number of courses offered leading to degrees in a variety of fields, and toe university seeks enrollment of not only the black student, but students of every race. Fayetteville State University is unique in that is it one of toe few institutions in this state to celebrate one hundred years of service-and it certainly is a coincidence and an honor as well that tois one hundred year celebration coincides with the two hun dredth anniversary of the birto of our nation. Sheryl Alexander Editor-in-Chief Letter to the Editor Dear Editor: This letter is being written to express my deepest gratitude and thanks to the smooth way registration was handled tois semester. I would like to toank toe individual who finally came up with one of Fayetteville State University’s better ideas. I am presently a junior and have been through some of those registrations where nerves are bent, tempers rose, and causes in general prevailed. But now we can almost say wito pride toat FSU can come up with bigger and better toings. But toere are still things that need change. Perhaps the first thing to come to mind is the Registratiotv~To Hassle Or IMot To Hassle (MAN WHAT A QUESTION) A long line of FSU students stand impatiently to get into the women’s gym, what are they waiting for, what could it all mean; is it an Earth, Wind and Fire (Concert, a personal appearance by Richard Pryor, a fight in the pool; no, it’s registration-- slower than molasses in the wintertime, more exhausting than Coach Robinson’s football training, able to make you mad with a couple of words-“Section 03 is closed”. Yes, registration has once more hit us, like a cement brick in the head, and boy are we happy (happy that we only register twice a year). So we’re now ready to pursue another interesting year at FSU. Some have remarked that registration was an unorganized process. What a terrible thing to say! What’s unorganized about going from building to building, line to line, dropping this, adding this, having so and so sign this and what you call him sign that. Sounds o.k. to some students, like the ones that run track or enjoy a change of scenery. Everyone knows the first step of registering is to get your packets. This year it was a problem of just getting in. A small line, extending from the door of the women’s gym to the middle of the Taylor Science parking lot held some students back. You may think waiting in line for 45 minutes or more is irritating. Why, that is far from true. We love it, where else can you stand and enjoy the sun, surrounded by so many others. Now let’s not mention the soup lines of the fifties, inventory at state prison, or basic training at Fort Bragg. Besides, we like the sun, most of us need the sun-like we need a suntan. Once in the women’s gym and the packets were picked up, classes must be checked by the advisors. If by any chance you are able to find yours the next step is simple. Getting into the men’s gym. Now, there are several ways to accomplish this. You can wait in line like honest sincere people, or you can skip line like the smarter people. Another option is to sign up for football or basketball and go in when the other players do, in front of everyone else. Now that you are in the men’s gym, the process is the very sign of togetherness. You haven’t seen so many people that close since the ni^t the lights went out in Chicago. One of the biggest torills you can get is to watch the campus cops talking on their walkie talkies, and that’s a big ten-four. Some may wonder what is the purpose of the walkie talkies-how else will they find out when car number 052 is going to lunch. The people at the financial aid table are not enough to serve the amount of students needing their service. Even though the people serving you are few, they make sure their work is top quality. I think that is why they take so long. To make sure toey don’t fall bookstore but even in time I believe it, too, will come through with some type of system to speed up an otherwise dull and trying process. Ellen Kendricks An appreciative, but concerned student POOR HABITS can be broken. (FSU Photo bv Roosevelt Forte) asleep on toe job they keep moving from place to place, drinking their coffee and taking lunch breaks. Why should toey get bored? After hours of socializing, one finally gets through the money lines. If you have waited and gotten through so far, you can understand what patience my man Job had. This year someone came up with the fantastic idea of taking yearbook pictures during registration. I must admit this was an excellent opportunity to catch people in a natural look. After all this time, the afro has shrunk, the make up has smeared, the clothes are wrinkled and dirty, how natural can you look? Natural like waking up in the morning, after sleeping in your clothes, with a hangover, from last week, before final exams. So, now you are ready for your class cards, and everything is everything. There you are, with a copy of your tentative class schedule. You really learn what heart break is when you hear the words, “that class is closed”. It is not really as upsetting as it sounds. I mean, just because you had planned classes from eight to twelve and now you have them from eight to ten with one from six to nine p.m., that’s nothing. Look at all the free time you have. Your classes are finally organized only one more card to get, you’ll take anything no matter what the time, as long as you can hurry up and get out of there. A person can take but so many thrills in a day. So you find out the instructor with one of your class cards has decided to leave a little early. That’s no big deal, you decide to leave also. . . until you find out you cannot get your cards stamped unless you have all your class cards. The cards have been stamped. The last step is to get your I.D. picture taken, better known as the mug shots. I have seen some polite people in my life, that at least give you time to sit in the chair and fill out the cards. The people related to the I.D. picture processing are not on that list. Wow! Finally out toe door and gone. Is it really all over? Hey, you’ve only just begun. Jean Jones Associate Editor Dr.SitholeSpeahs AtFSV by Sheryl Alexander On Thursday, September 2, 1976 at 7:30 p.m. in the multi-purpose room of Fayetteville State Univer sity’s Rudolph Jones Student Center a large audience listened intently and laughed in uproars at a speaker on the platform before them. The speaker for the night was Dr. Elkin M. Sithole, a native of Newcastle, South African who presently resides in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Sithole, a South African of the Zulu tribe began his speech by admitting that Zulus are usually very tall but toat he proved an ex ception to the rule. He got down to business by relaying the history of South Africa and reported that apartoeid, separation of the races, has been a way of life toere since 1652 when the first whites arrived. He stated that apartoeid arose due to fear of blacks by whites. He made it quite clear that at the beginning blacks had no fear of the white man. In his two and a half hour speech Dr. Sithole was in formative as well as he was entertaining. The room would fill with anger and disbelief at one moment and laughter in the next as Dr. Sithole ex plained toe segregational laws which still exist in South Africa, and how South Africa blacks abided by, protested against and mocked at the laws and the white man. He hummed various tunes of both American black music and of South African music and compared the two groups of people, separated by lands and waters but held together by unrelenting roots and ties and a struggle for common goals-number one, equality. As Dr. Sithole explain^ it, in South Africa there are 4 million Europeans, 2.5 million colored, 1 million Asians, and 18 million Africans. White Europeans have first class citizenship, with the blacks ranking fourth class in citizenship. It is these white Europeans who are allowed to vote, because they are first class citizens and they are white-the lower classes, therefore, are not permitted (Continued on Page 7)
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