The Broncos’ Voice
of Fayetteville State University
DECEMBER 5,1997
A Coke, A Smile, & $50,000!
photo courtesy of FSU Dept. Of Public Relations
Left to right: Chancellor Willis B. McCleod toasts Adrienne Johnson and John Cline
after receiving a $50,000 grant from the Coca-Cola Foundation to benefit
Fayetteville State s Chancellor s Scholarship Program. The presentation took place
during FSU’s annual University Day activities.
VOLUME VII ISSUE 2
Twenty-one
sisters
representing
Fayetteville
State take
time out for
a photo
upon
arriving in
Philadelphia.
THE MILLION
WOMAN MARCH:
A RESPONSE
by Kimberly Carter
“Women need to stick together!”
That was one of the many positive
affirmations stated at the Million
Woman March. A bus with twenty-one
women left Fayeteville State Univer
sity on October 24, 1997 headed to
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. These
women decided to go and represent the
women that were unable to go, and also
to represent those who felt the march
was not important enough to attend.
photo courtesy of Prof. Gloria Tuprah
These twenty-one worrien also de
cided to make history and to be a part
ofhistory.
There was an estimated two mil
lion-plus women that attended the
March. I, on behalf of all the women
that went on the trip, would like to
thank personally Senior Madria Spivey
for suggesting the trip and making the
arrangements, the Student Govern
ment Association, Chancellor
McLeod, Professor Tupra (Mathemat
ics, she was our chaperone), and ev
eryone else that made our trip to Phila
delphia possible and for allowing us the
chance to make history.
FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN TO WIN PULITZER PRIZE IN MUSIC VISITS FSU
by Roger A. Harris
photo courtesy of Jason Dooney, staff photographer
J> Wc^posei with Brmcos’"Vovik Jis^ru SuerMey.
Dr. George Walker, the first Af
rican-American to win the Pulitzer
Prize in music, visited FSU 3-5 No
vember, 1997 and held a forum at
Shaw Auditorium entitled The Arts
and Our Lives. This worldrenowned
composer’s insight and vison were
shared with a small but intense
group of students, faculty, and com
munity leaders.
One of Walker’s most interesting
comments
was in re
sponse to
his opinion
on Rap
music and
its impact.
He relayed
that while
the genre
was inter
esting, that
musically,
its struc
ture was
very limit
ing. He
went on to
express his
concern
that the
distinc
tions be
tween classical music and other forms
(such as jazz) were being blurred, to
the detriment of the classics.
Like the life he has lived and the
music he has both loved and shared.
Walker is likewise highly accessible,
measured and wise in his responses,
with an ever-present smile and sparkle
in his eyes. In three words, he is “a
class act,” and those who missed the
opportunity to meet this great man also
missed an opportunity to meet a liv
ing legend.
The Department of Fine Arts and
the College of Arts and Sciences and
The Lyceum Series of FSU must be
congradulated and thanked for their
hard work in making this historic event
possible.
A native of Washington, D. C. bom
in 1922, Walker began the study of pi
ano at age five, and has achieved only
successes from then until now. Among
his many acomplishments: graduated
from Oberlin College with highest
honors at the age of eighteen with a
major in piano and a minor in organ;
became the first African-American stu
dent to earn a doctorate degree from
the Easem School of Music; has pub
lished over seventy-five works; com
missioned by the New York Philhar
monic, The Boys Choir of Harlem, the
Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts; taught and retired from Rutgers
University as Professor Emeritus in
1992; awarded the Pulitzer Prize in
Music for his composition “Lilacs” for
Voice and Orchestra in 1996.
Erhos 97:
"Reading is pin; mdeRsranduni
IS fimdacneuTal."
-Socieiy oj: Soul
Inside...
EDITORIALS pg. 2
FSU NEWS pg. 3
COMMUNITY & NATIONAL
NEWS pg.4
BRONCOS’ SONG pg. 7
FEATURE STORIES pg. 8
FASHION & BEAUTY TIPS pg. 9
A&E pg. 11