page 2 THE VOICE MAY. 1979
FAREWELL FSV
by Elson Floyd, SGA
President
If Fayetteville State
University is to reach its goal
of becoming an excellent full
service university, the
university family must get
behind its leaders in every
department on every level of
employment and-or ap
pointment from Chancellor to
Sanitation Engineer, and
make these coordinators
aware of the areas that need
attention. ^
Dr. Lyons is one of the
most influential and respected
black leaders of our time. His
leadership, character and
ability are evident from his
position as President of the
National Association for
Equal Opportunity (NAFEO)
of which many Chancellors
of other black colleges and
universities are members.
Dry Lyons’ never-ending
battle for advancement and
preservation of minorities in
higher education keeps him
busy. Unfortunately, this
burden of serving
simultaneously as the
“Chancellor of Chancellors”
and as Chancellor of a small,
historically black university
in the southeastern part of
North Carolina in 1979 is
perhaps too much for one man
to handle effectively, since
under these conditions,
communication has become a
major problem in Fayetteville
State University’s struggle for
advancement through action
and awareness.
The new radio station
has made numerous con
tributions in attempting to
resolve this lack of com
munication. WFSS-FM has
aided in bridging some gaps in
communication that are
caused by a lack of con
frontation and a chronic lack
of supplies.
The Student Government
was successful this year in
initiating and strengthening
organizations on campus.
These organizations have
played an excellent role in
increasing communication.
Among them are the
Psychology Club, Criminal
Justice Club and the Social
Science Club which en
compasses political science,
sociology and history majors.
Hopefully, these and other
organizations will grow and
ultimately become strong
voices on campus.
There arc- a lot of
students who really want to
become active in campus
functions, but there is little
motivation to keep them going
when others with similar
duties neglect their respon-
sibihties. This is one area
where faculty and ad
ministrators could really
assist student government.
We need more faculty-
administration input into our
campus organizations. Such
input would not onJy help with
motivation but the ideas,
suggestions and recom
mendations of these veterans
would be invaluable.
Black people today, of
course, are not into in
stitutional slavery but are
very much still into
psychological slavery. This
psychological slavery is
evident when we hamper each
other’s progress by negative
actions and-or statements.
Psychological slavery is a
defense mechanism that was
conditioned within us at an
earlier age. This defense was
essential to survival in that
particular environment. We
must understand that the
survival game of life is
“paramount” in order to be
more successful in our en
deavors. As there are with
every game, comes a set of
rules by which the game is
governed. If these rules are
not respected, there is a
penalty. Today. Blacks
constitute only a fraction of
the American population but
they constitute seventy
percent or more of the people
in prison. This statistic can be
traced, I believe,
psychological slavery and to
what Dr. Martin Luther King
phrased, “drinking from the
cup of bitterness and hatred.”
Mass and diversified
communication is what we
need to remind us when we
forget that man is born weak
to grow strong and that it
takes only true desire to
become whatever we are
willing to work hard enough to
become. Medicine, law,
denistry, and a many other
professions may seem to exist
only for the very exceptional
person but that is, of course,
not so. They are there for the
taking-if we have the desire
and if we are prepared to work
toward our goals.
A noted physiologist-
psychologist stated that he
could put an infant into an
environment and make a
genius out of it. This merely
serves as further proof that
man is born weak to grow
strong regardless of his race,
creed or national origin and
that anything that the mind
and heart can conceive can be
achieved.
We live in a capitalistic
society wherein individuals
can go into business for profit.
But young capitalists must
learn to read in order to know
what the old capitalist has
discovered. If the young
capitalists do not learn to
read, they will only strengthen
the platform upon which the
old capitalist exist, and where
will they be when the old ones
are gone?
I would like Fayetteville
State University to remember
that “knowledge is power only
when applied,” “to do is to
be,” and “if you know what
the problem is, it is fifty
percent solved already.” See
you in the news.
Jftiss Student Center
Shirley Long
(Photo by Spicer)
One~Parent Foundation
Fund For Children In
The Fayetteville-
Cumberland County Area
Financial Aid
by Beverly Edge
This Foundation is to
assist those one-parent
children of the Fayetteville-
Cumberland County Area.
The availability depends upon
a number of situations. The
committee will be screening,
surveying and observing the
family conditions. The income
must not exceed $4000 an
nually. Expenditures,
exemptions, and the
willingness to accept the
necessary assistance from the
foundation will all be taken
into consideration. The
purpose of this foundation is to
fill in the Community-
University Gap, and produce
Community-University in
volvement. For some reason
the Community and the
University has lost what is
considered to be com
munication. It is quite im
portant to hav good standing
relations with the community.
The Fayetteville State
University One-Parent
Foundation Fund will help
facilitate, feed and clothe
those who are eligible. The
committee members will also
be concerned with educating
the family as to how their
child can attend college. The
funds are provided by a trust
fund appropriated by
Fayetteville State Univer
sity’s Attorney General: Tony
Baldwin, Assistant Attorney
by Beverly Edge
Students fill out the ACT
Packet, turn in their SER.
They say “I have applied for
FINANCIAL AID”. But what
is financial aid? To students
financial aid is any grant or
scholarship and sometimes to
students paid employment is
included. The amounts and
types of financial aid that a
student receives are deter
mined by federal, state and
institutional guidelines and
Tuition Costs
Rising
Private colleges are
anticipating raising their
tuitions an average of 8
percent next school year,
according to a random sur
vey. Public colleges will not
be far behind, with increases
of 6 to 6% percent.
According to the College
Entrance Examination
Board, increases this school
>ear over last school year
were 6.9 percent for private
schools and 4.8 percent for
public schools.
The average annual
tuition level at four year
public universities is $651, and
$2,647.
Information
offered to students in com
binations or packages which
are designated to fit the ap
plicant’s financial need. In
actuallity financial aid is any
grant, scholarship, loan or
paid employment offered for
the express purpose of helping
a student meet educationally
related expenses.
Grants and scholarships
are regarded as a gift and
need not be repaid. Loans are
offered at a low interest rate,
and are repaid over an ex
tended peric^ of time AFTER
the student has left the in
stitution. Work aid and work
study students are paid an
hourly rate only for work
actually performed.
Now that you know what
financial aid is there is no
excuse for not applying for
aid. In order to receive full
benefits from monies avail
able you are encouraged to
complete the necessary forms
immediately. Assistance can
be obtained from the office of
financial aid Monday through
Friday between the hours of
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
REMEMBER: “People who
start late seldom catch up.”
South African promoters
have recently stepped up their
efforts to induce Afro-
American entertainers to tour
in the white-ruled nation,
notorious for its racial policy
of apartheid. And many of the
black artists approached have
found themselves under in
tense pressure to reject the
South African bids on political
grounds, despite the huge
sums of money to be made
there.
In one recent case, a
coalition of political groups
persuaded the Jacksons
(formerly the Jackson Five)
to cancel a planned March
tour in South Africa that
would have grossed the group
and its management nearly a
half million dollars. The
Organization of African Unity,
AJASS (the African Jazz
Societies and Studio), and one
of South Africa’s exiled
liberation movements, the
PAC, were all three active in
dissuading the Jacksons from
traveling to the white-ruled
state, arguing that the tour
was a means of pacifying
South Africa’s black com
munity.
Other black American
Artists, however, have
resisted potlical pressure and
gone through with South
African tours, among them
George McGrae, Johnny
Mathis, and Issac Hayes.
On a recent broadcast of
“Soul Train” television
program, Hayes was
questioned about his reasons
for making the trip and said
that his initial hesitations
were removed after a talk
with the promoter. Hayes
added that the people he
encountered, espeically the
blacks, were really starved
for entertainment and
bragged that even the South
Africans recognized him as
“Black Moses,” the image he
cultivated on one of his earlier
albums.
In response to this
comment, AJASS
representative Kwame
Braithwaite quipped that
Hayes was “neither black nor
Moses.”
Concern over the prospect
of growing Afro-American
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General: John Sherrod and
Vice Provost: Dr. William
Green.
BobHope
says:
“Red Cross
can teach you
first aid.
And first aid
(^nbea
life saver.”
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