EVENTS A state-wide conference on Preventing Crime in the Black Community will be held at FSU, November 15 and 16. Registration is open to all North Carolinians. For more information contact Caroline Johnson at (919) 733- 4723 or Lauren Burgess at (919) 486- 1474. There will be a Haiioween Masquerade Ball on Saturday, November 2, 1991 from 8:30 pm to 2:30 am at the Holiday Inn on 1-95. The Ball will be a benefit for the Fayetteville State University Scholarship Fund. For more info, contact Yvonne Robinson at (919) 486- 1166 or call (919) 486-4991. The Arts & Entertainment Calendar for FSU include the following: November 14 - 7 pm to 9 pm. Department of Natural Sciences Annual Open House, Lyons Science Building, FSU. The public is invited to tour science exhibits and demonstrations, the Planetarium, the Greenhouse, and the Observatory. Call (919) 486-1655 for more info. November 4-12, Turkish Modem Art - Ahmet Ataka and Figen Akbulut. Rosenthal Art Gallery, FSU. Call (919) 486-1773 for more info. November 7-29, Art Students Exhibit - Annette L. Eckmeier, Adrian Carver, and Anthony Barnes. Rosenthal Art Gallery, FSU. Call (919) 486-1773 for more info. Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, world renown anthropologist and linguist, will speak at FSU on November 12, 1991 at 7:30 pm in the Shaw Auditorium in the SBE Building. For more info call (919) 483- 5644 or go to Books & Things, U.S. Flea Market Mall, 504 N. McPherson Church Road. The Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences holds monthly seminars. The November seminar is "Women and Society". For more info contact Dr. Aghajanian at 486-1210. CONTESTS The Story College Short Fiction Competition, sponsored by Smith Corona, is open to all students, undergraduate and graduate, currently enrolled in college. The Competition offers $2,500 in prizes, and the opportunity for the publication in Story. Only original, unpublished manuscripts consisting of 15(X) to 5000 typed words will be accepted from each entrant The $12 entry fee includes a one-year subscription to Story. Entries must be postmarked by midnight, Dec. 31, 1991. For more info, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to Story, 1507 Dana Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45207. Superstar producers Jimmy "Jam" Harris and Terry Lewis are offering college students the opportunity to produce a national music video, for their St. Paul based group MINT CONDITION. The contest is open to Art, Film and Communications students throughout the U.S. market. All video tapes will be judged by a panel of well respected music video producers. Judging will be based on creativity, production and editing. For more info on MINT CONDITION and the National College Video Competition, please call Vivian Funn at (201) 843- 2050. Entries must be postmarked by Nov. 15, 1991 and submitted directly to: Orchid Communications, 210 Route 4 East, Paramus, NJ 07652 PCTV, a nationally recognized cable network, is holding an International Film and Video Festival for Black History Month 1992. The theme is Global Africa: Visions - Past, Present, Future. All entries which meet standards will be cablecast on PCTV in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Entry requirements: 3/4", (1/2" VHS possible), NTSC only, exhibition quality video cassette accompanied by an entry form and S20. Late fee SIO. Deadline: Nov. 15, 1991. Direct entries and inquiries to: Peralta Colleges Television Network, GLOBAL AFRICA Festival 1992,900 Fallon St. - 9th Fl„ Oakland, CA 94607 or call (415) 464-3253. Fifty consumers across the nation will win a trip for 2 to Los Angeles for the 6th annual Soul Train Music Awards through the "Sprite Soul Train** Sweepstakes. Winners will receive round-trip airline tickets, attend a private winners’ reception in Hollywood and receive two tickets to the music awards.The sweepstakes begins Oct. 15 and runs through Dec. 31. Prize drawings will be held early next year. No purchase is necessaiy to enter. You may enter as often as you wish. Entry blanks are available at Sprite product displays and in selected magazines, including Ebony, JET, and Black Collegian-, or entrants can hand-print their name, address, state, zip code, phone number and age on a 3"x 5" card and send it in a hand-addressed, stamped envelope to: "Sprite Soul Train" Sweepstakes, P.O. Box 542831, Dallas, TX 75220. Deadline for entries is Jan. 10, 1992. SCHOLARSHIPS Twenty-five scholarships are available for undergraduate students majoring in engineering and science disciplines. Sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE), the scholarships are designated for those students interested in pursuing careers in environmental restoration or waste management (ER/WM). Scholarship applications are being taken through Jan. 31, 1992, and awards will be announced in May 1992. For applications or more info contact Peggy Gibson, Environmental Restoration/W'aste Management Scholarship Program, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Science/Engineering Education Division, P.O. Box 117, Oak Ridge, TN 37831- 0117, or call (615) 576-9278 College juniors, seniors and graduate students are invited to apply to the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund’s 1992 Newspaper Editing Internship Program. The application deadline is Nov. 15, 1991. The program offers a $1000 scholarship to each student selected, paid summer internship at a daily newspaper or news service, and two weeks of pre-internship training on a college campus. Applications are available from journalism schools or departments, campus placement offices or from the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, P.O. Box 300, Princeton, NJ 08543-0300 or call (609)452-2820. If you are a junior or senior studying computer science, engineering, physics, environmental and life sciences, mathematics or physical science, the Science and Engineering Research Semester, SERS, offers you the opportunity to do hands-on research with some of the nations top scientists at one of six national research labs during the academic year. The U.S. Dept, of Energy (DOE) is sponsoring the program. SERS participants will receive a weekly stipend of S200 per week, housing, and travel reimbursement for one round trip to the appointment site. For more info, contact Donna Prokop, SERS Program Manager, Office of Energy Research, U.S. Dept, of Energy, 1000 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20585. The application deadline for the Spring semester is Oct. 20. The 1992 Fall term deadline is March 15, 1992. The Sacramento Bee is offering summer journalism internships to all college students and recent graduates. Those selected will receive $375 per week for the 12-week internship (June through Sept. 1992). Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. For more info contact: Mike Flanagan, Internship Director, The Sacramento Bee, P.O. Box 15779, Sacramento, CA 95852 or call (916)321-1001. For information concerning Ford Foundation Predoctoral/Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities contact the Broncos’ Voice. For information concerning opportunities for teaching overseas contact the Broncos* Voice. NOTICES The Commuter, a flyer designed especially for the FSU commuting MARKET PLACE students is being printed and distributed by the Counseling Center. Look for the yellow flyer around campus or pick one up at the Counseling Center located in the Collins AdminisU'ation Building or call 486-1203. Education Continued from Page 12 Multicultural education seeks to encompass all the factors that influence a work. For example, all children come into contact with information about the writer of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson. Yet, it is the rare person that knows of Jefferson’s slave mistress and the children she bore for him. It is the intellectually lonely person that knows that Jefferson not only grew hemp - marijuana - for cultivation purposes but for intoxication purposes as well. Is this information important for people to know? Sure il isl It is just as important as the cherry tree story and the wooden teeth story everyone is taught about George Washington. These facts permit one to see history on their own terms, to come to their own conclusions as to what is and is not important. History is not to be dictated as some sterile, non feeling event of the past, but taught as information directly responsible for the way things are today. The history of World War II is taught in pretty much the same vein as the story of the making of America. There was the bad guy. Hitler, who wanted to kill the Jews and America came and saved the day. A greater understanding of the atrociousness of Nazi Germany could be taught if the education establishment risked telling the truth instead of being a bastion for instilling American patriotism. Students should be taught not only why the Jews were exterminated, but also why Hitler felt compelled to round up gypsies, homosexuals, communists, and radicals. It is an outrageous irony that the country Hitler tried to develop - one of Aryan (white) male supremacy - is exactly the type of history that is taught in American schools. ’Benign neglect’ in education is surely no less evil that willful extermination of alternative ways of thinking! While Political Science 101 courses are mired in the works of John Locke, little is known of the prolific Continued On Page 18 .

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