Rroncos' Voice
March 1995
FSU ata Glance
FSU Congratulates Mr. Francis B. Baird
Fayetteville, NC, February 23, 1995 -- The Faculty and Staff of FSU extend
sincere congratulations to Mr. Francis Baird, Associate Professor in the De
partment of Fine Arts and Flumanities, on his recent exhibition, “Landscape
Paintings,” at the University of Maryland. Recognition of this nature to one of
our own artists further attests to the excellent quality of our FSU faculty.
Mr. Baird’s exhibition was funded in part by grants from the Maryland State
Arts Council and the Princess Anne Chapter of Links, Inc.
Again, congratulations to Mr. Baird and sincere best wishes for his continued
success.
Fayetteville State University Fort Bragg-
Pope Air Force Base Center Holds
Registration for Term IV Evening Classes
Fayetteville, NC, March 3, 1995 — FSU Fort Bragg-Pope Air Force Base Cen
ter is currently registering students for Term IV Evening Classes. Evening
classes begin March 20, 1995 and end May 19, 1995. Classes are open to
military persons, dependents, and civilians.
Final Registration Date: March 25, 1995
For further information, call 497-9111 or visit the Fort Bragg Center, Room
14, Comunity Center (corner of Knox and Randolph Streets at Fort Bragg).
Bryan’s Prose: The Black Extravaganza
By Bryan
Cold and damp was the climate on
the Thursday afternoon 1 entered the
Rudolph Jones Student Center. The
heavens were filled with shifting grays,
and the earth was covered with the liq
uid residue of a nine-month Seattle
morn. Looking behind me through
transparent doors, I viewed a morose
and dismal campus. Two book-toting
apparitions travelled the saturated
grounds but soon vanished into a sepa
rate parallel universe. It appeared ev
eryone had escaped the emptiness of
the FSU grounds. I pondered the still
ness and silence of my esteemed aca
demic playground. My soul became as
void as the lifelessness that I came to
believe this institution of higher study
possessed. My knowledge of campus
activities and student functions was
limited. This university gave me nei
ther the intellectual nor aesthetic
stimulation I so eagerly sought. My
heart became heavy with the dark ooz
ing liquid of despair. I then realized
this was not the place I belonged.
Suddenly, yet unmistakably, I
heard the beautiful, melodic sounds of
a passionate songstress, Ms. Erica
Mulligan, ringing in my head. My de
spairing emotional attributes gave way
to my physical senses. Still looking
through transparent doors, I witnessed
the collagenous skies playing a sullen
sonata upon the earth, but the thunder
ous sound of vibrantly electric poetry
surrounded me from behind, causing
a contradiction of internalized emotion
and externalized senses. Roger Harris
and Lesli Sample transported me to a
higher aesthetic plane. My eardrums
tingled with the wonderful noise of
commotion as the students responded
and clapped in a kind of call-response
reaction to the creativity and extraor
dinary talents performing for us. I then
turned to witness a beautiful array of
human colors, juxtaposed upon stairs,
chairs, and anywhere one could stand.
Everyone was enjoying the creative
beauty of African-American art, song,
dramatic interpretation, and poetry.
This place where 1 found myself
standing embodied the essence
of what I perceived to be “col
lege life.” People of almost ev
ery color and ethnicity had put
differences aside to assemble
and bask in the aesthetic beauty
of black history. My spirit up
lifted as my ills subsided. En
thusiasm was renewed, and I felt
joy in being a part of the excit
ing, kaleidoscopic blend of
people who make up the FSU
student body.
Through this enlightening
experience, I had transcended
the vast emptiness of my once-
perceived vision of Fayetteville
State University into a small, yet
wonderful world of encourag
ing, stimulating, and positive
social interaction. I had ventured
that somber Thursday afternoon
into the bright, colorful pulchri
tude of the “Black Extrava
ganza” in the Student Center.
Riot
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FSU BOARD OF
TRUSTEES HOLD
MEETING
ADDENDUM
The Board of Trustees
of Fayetteville State
University meeting on
Thursday, March 23,
: 1995 has been changed
to 3:00 p.m* in the J. C.
Jones Board Room of
the Charles Chesnull Li-
brary.
Search
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personnel and campus security was on
hand, they could do little else but stand
by until the fighting subsided. It was
estimated that between 15 to 25 stu
dents were injured during the fighting.
However, FSU’s Spalding Infirmary
reported that no students signed in for
treatment during the night in question.
Marshall remained cautiously op
timistic about the incident. “I’ve been
over intramural activities for seven
years and this is the first time anything
of this type has happened.” No doubt
a testament to the many students who
choose to get involved in intramural
activities, get excited, and to even get
angry and upset, but who still know
how to remain cool and when neces
sary, just where to draw the line. Un
fortunately, in the case of this incident.
that level of maturity and self-control
was not evident.
What will be the final outcome of
the riot. Sources say that suspending
the redshirted varsity basketball team
member’s scholarships is being con
sidered. Tighter and more restrictive
guidelines concerning the manage
ment of campus intramural activities
are also among the options that are
being considered. Should the mis
guided actions of a few affect the en
joyment of the many who were not
involved in the riot? As Marshall in
toned, anything is possible. Whether
this riot was an anomaly or a precur
sor of things to come, expect a narrow
interpretation and strict judgement
from what has proven to be a histori
cally conservative administration.
terest in helping to determine who their
next chancellor will be. They should
take every opportunity [by attending
the forums] to assure that their con
cerns, interests, and perspectives are
made known.” His concern is well
founded. At the last two student fo
rums held at FSU, fewer than fifty stu
dents combined attended the sessions.
McEachern advised that “Students
must show a stronger interest in the
selection process by attending the fo
rums.”
Some people have commented that
the search process is actually a farce
and that the next chancellor has already
been selected. Very reliable sources
say that the exact opposite is in fact
the case. “FSU and community will be
given every opportunity to determine
who will be their next chancellor. Be
yond that, McEachern is a man of very
high integrity and moral character. He
would not take part in any “charade,”
nor could he be persuaded to descend
into the mire of politics. He is not that
kind of man.”
The search committee will hold its
next forum, open to all interested par
ties, on March 23,1995 at FSU’s Shaw
Auditorium in the SBE building 6:00-
9:00 P.M. “We want to be very sure
that we give everyone concerned with
the outcome of this search process the
opportunity to offer their input.”