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The Voice
January 28,1982
Press The Point...
Commentary By Derrick Eddie
It seems impossible that childish actions are still prevelant on college basketball
floors. But on January 9, 1982, Coach Nathaniel Frazier acted like no coach on
any level of competition should act. Now, let me set the story for my accusation.
Nathaniel Frazier is the head basketball coach at Bowie State College in Bowie,
Maryland. The Bulldogs of Bowie State were scheduled to play the Broncos of
Fayetteville State University in Fayetteville in a Central Intercollegiate Athletic
Association (CIAA) match. The game began like any other CIAA confrontation;
tough and exciting. Suddenly I noticed that Coach Frazier was yelling particularly
and extremely often at one referee. That particular referee ignored him for quite a
while (much longer than 1 would have if I was the referee) until the referee finally
slapped a technical foul on Frazier. The technical foul cooled Mr. Frazier some
but definitly not enough. Then, early in the second half, the referee slapped two
more technical fouls on Frazier in which he definitely deserved. Under CIAA
rules and regulations, a coach assessed with three technical fouls is told to leave
the gymnasium and has five minutes to do so. Frazier would not leave the gym.
The game was called and Fayetteville State won the ball game. But that wasn t
enough for Frazier as he verbally abused the referees until he could say no more.
Personally, I haven’t seen anything of this nature in a collegiate conference in
my entire life. Nat Frazier, second year coach at Bowie State College, acted like a
spoiled brat. I mean, if he had a team to be reconed with and was a contender in
the CIAA, then I might be able to see why he could get a little upset about certain
calls. But Bowie State College won a grand total of one game last year in their
1980-81 campaign. They lost twenty six games. Can you believe a coach whose
team went 1-26 overall and 0-19 in a CIAA last year causing that type of disrup
tion? It’s pathetic and something should be done about it next year at Bowie
State.
Now I’ve been talking negatively about Nat Frazier and rightly so because
everything that he has done at Bowie State College has been negative.
However, Nat Frazier was a heck of a coach at Morgan State University during
his tenure there where he compiled an overall record of 97-36 in four years. His
teams at Morgan State played in numerous Mid-Eastern Atliletic Conference
(MEAC) Championship games,'but never won, losing by a few points every year.
He coached and recruited the great Marvin Webster (now with the New York
Knicks of the NBA) from 1971-74. Frazier was named MEAC Coach of the Year
twice while at Morgan State.
So what happened to Nat Frazier on January 9? I couldn’t tell you. However,
Bob Moorman, Commissioner of the CIAA stated that “it will never happen
again.” I seriously believe that it won’t happen again. Because if it does happen,
it certainly will not be tolerated.
Dreams Took Her Across
The World And To The Top
Chapel Hill Makes
Curriculum Change
Chapel Hill, NC-(I.P) - The Faculty
Council at the University of North
Carolina recently approved the first
major curriculum change since 1969,
ending three years of work. The revised
curriculum will become effective for
freshman students entering UNC in the
fall of 1982.
The new curriculum tries “to strike a
balance between general education and
specialized education,” according to
H. Eugene Lehman, Educational
Policy Committee Chairman. The
curriculum will require students to take
one mathematics and one foreign
language course, replacing the option
to take two courses in mathematics or
at least three courses in a foreign
language.
In 1984 and sometime after 1986, the
undergraduate language requirement
will be raised eventually to foreign
language three with one required cour
se in mathematics. Students also will
have an option to take another course
in their foreign language or another
mathematics course.
Students in the General College will
take nine courses from five “perspec
tive” categories. Degree programs
previously exempted from General
College requirements may petition to
reduce the requirement to six courses.
Also Bachelor of Arts students will
take an additional five perspective
courses in their jjinior or senior year.
This replaces the required five allied
courses and five non-divisional cour-
scs.
“The next step in the process would
be to take a break,” Samuel William
son, Dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences said. “Actually, we’ll begin
searching for the Associate Dean of
General Education,” a position
created by the College - Curriculum
Report.
Williamson said the perspective
requirements “make possible more and
different types of courses that can
cross discipline boundaries.”
“I wanted to travel, to meet people
and to live in different places, but I
didn’t want to have to start all over
again each time I went to some new
place. I wanted continuity, so that I
could keep on practicing the things I
was learning. So I joined the Army!”
says Brig. Gen. Hazel W. Johnson.
Ever since she’d been 12 years old,
back in Malvern, Pennsylvania, she’d
dreamed of being a nurse—but she’d
never imagined becoming Chief of the
Army Nurse Corp and the first Black
woman Army General in the history of
the United States!
“That I did not anticipate,” General
Johnson says. “What I did anticipate
was doing my job the best I could.”
Which she did. During her
distinguished career. General Johnson
has been awarded the Legion of merit.
Meritorious Service Award, and the
Army Commendation Medal with Oak
Leaf Cluster. Twice she has earned the
Army Nurse of the Year Award,
during tours of duty that took her to
posts across the United States, to
Korea and Japan.
She has been cited as an outstanding
officer whose professional nursing
talents are matched by her abilities for
administration, and has been
distinguished for her pioneering efforts
in research and development of field
sanitation equipment for use of mobile
field units.
“We look at nursing and the people
who do it in a little different way than
in the past,” General Johnson says.
She points out that men make up
more than one fourth of today’s Army
Nurse Corps. General Johnson con
trasts this to an average of less than
three percent at civilian facilities.
A strong advocate of continuing
studies. General Johnson received
basic nursing education at Harlem
Hospital, New York City; and was
awarded her Bachelor’s degree from
Villanova University, her Master’s
degree from Columbia University, and
her Doctorate in Nursing Ad
ministration from Catholic University
of America, Washington, D.C.
“I tell my students, being Black is an
incident of birth,” she says, “the work
you do is your way of building a life, of
meeting challenges openly and
honestly.
Brig. Gen. Hazel W. Johnson
“The Army probably offers the best
challenge for nurses,” she says,
stressing “education opportunities,
chances to get ahead, to learn nursing
and to practice a number of medical
specialities.”
The first requirement for an Army
nurse. General Johnson points out, is a
Bachelor of Nursing degree, and then,
“a desire to grow, to develop and
progress—and to get out and get the
feel of your country and the world!”
Dr. Bell
Honored
Dr. William M. Bell recently
received the Ohio State University/Of
fice of Minority Affairs Distinguished
Aluminus Award.
The Eleventh Annual Graduate and
Professional Schools Visitation Days
at OSU was the occassion on which Dr.
Bell and other past OSU scholars who
have distinguished themselves by rising
to top level positions were recognized
for their excellence in higher
education.
AIR FORCE ALWAYS
NEEDS MORE LEADERS.
We’re looking for pilots . . .navigators ... missile
men ... engineers ... math majors.. .people manag
ers. . .doctors. . .scientists. . .journalists. . .and more.
And the Air Force ROTC program is a great way to get into a
job like one of these which can help you improve your leader
ship ability and your professional competence.
As a commissioned officer in the Air Force, you can be proud
of the role you play in your community and the contribution
you make to your country's security. You can know that
you’re doing a job of importance, a job with responsibility.
The Air Force ROTC program offers a way to help you
achieve these goals. As an AFROTC cadet, you’ll leam about
leadership, management, and more. You’ll leam about bene
fits of being an officer later on, like an excellent salary, medi
cal and dental care, housing and food allowances, and 30
days of paid vacation each year. You’ll discover a whole new
world open to you in the Air Force. And you can get there
through AFROTC.
Look into it right away. You’ll be glad you did.
ROTC
Goteway to o great way of life.
For more information contact:
Lt Colonel Charlie J. Coleman, Jr.
Fayetteville State University
Phone: 486-1464/1465