Several Hundred Students Are
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. C. i University
ByTrtEieL. Jeffers
North Cafolina Central
University v r honored
several hundred students
who have a cumulative
erade noint average of Vfl
and above in a special
.awards day program, Fri-
Auditorium J
The students were given '
awards for outstanding '
. - T
subject areas, for outstan
ding service to the univer-
sity and special scholar-j
snips irom various
organizations that have
established funds on the
campus, including the
Chancellor's Scholars,
which honored 29
students.
Forty-two students were
selected for Who's Who
Among Students in
American Colleges and
Universities, and 92
students were chosen for
the Dean's list for the fall ,
semester, 1980-81. !
The -main address for
the occasion was delivered
by Brigadier. ? General
Frank E. Petersen, the on
ly black brigadier general
in - the United States
Marine Corps.
Brigadier General
Petersen told the students
that unlike many other
blacks he would not pre
tend that he had grown up
in an American ghetto.
"But I saw an opportunity i
and I took advantage of it
and I challenge you to do :
the same," he said. "' h
He told the students to
use their history as a plat
form from which to spr
ing, but to be careful not
to use it as an excuse for
failure.
You will be entering a
competitive, hostile world
where losers are forgot
ten," said General
Petersen. J
Referring to the combat i
mission which he flew dur-1
ing the war in Vietnam,
Brigadier General;
Petersen said that they
(the soldiers) had returned ,
UNC-
Tribute
By TrdHe L. Jef fen
Noted black scholars
from across the country,
members of the ad
ministration and English
Department at the Univer
sity of North Carolina-!
Chapel Hill and other in
terested persons, many of
. whom were from out of
town, gathered at the
university April 3-4 for a
conference on Black
Literature, honoring the'
retirement of Dr. Blyden
Jackson, a distinguished
scholar noted for his
research and instruction!
on Afro-American Life
and Culture. The theme of,
the , conference was
"Rescuing the Past. .
.Securing the Future."
The group included
many of Dr. Jackson's
former students who
related the impact he had '
made on their lives,,
Described as a "man who j
commands excellence in!
both himself and others,"
Dr. Jackson was also
: i r l:.
proiscu 1UI IUS
"humanistic qualities, his
intellectual scope and pur-;
suits, and his deep com
mitment to his belief in the r
potentials of people."
"Speaking at a luncheon
in his honor Saturday,
April 4, Dr. Jadcson said,
"I have wanted a decent
world, and I believe that I
have done everything I can ,
to make it so."
He said that it is a bad
world if one expects too.
much.
"People have illusions.
They expect too much. 1 1
Chapel Hill Pays
To Noted Scholar
think that I have more;
than I deserve, but on the j
other hand, I am not;
disturbed about what I ,
owe people. I don't think I
that I owe anyone
anything," said Dr.
Jackson.
Dr. Jackson also said
that he does not feel that
he has a mission to
"civilize anyone."
"I leave them to
heaven, and I can still be
polite to anyone although
I may think that they are
dirt," said Dr. Jackson.
He said that he has
friends that are both black
and white and that he will
be as reliable to one group .
as he would to the other:
group. j
Dr. Jackson, whose
bibliography totals 23 '
typewritten pages, first in-:
tegrated UNC's English
Department in 1968. Since,
that time, he says that he
has been involved in
strategies to add more
black faculty members ta
that department (the UNC
English Department has
four blacks including Dr.
Jackson who also serves as '
associate dean of the,
Some of the noted black ;
scholars who attended the'
retirement conference
were Addison Gayle,
author of The Way of the
New World; Stephen
Henderson, author of
Understanding The New
Black Poetry; Amiri
Baroka, author of Blues
People and Black Fire;
Theodore Hudson, author
to
of From Leroy Jones
Amiri Baroka; Hoyt
Fuller, editor of First
World; Alvin Aubert,
editor of Obsidian; Dar
win T. Turner, co-author
of Images of the Negro in
America; Houston Baker,
author of Singers At
Daybreak, noted critic
George Kent; curator of
the Moorland-Spingarn
Collection at Howard
University, Dorothy
Porter Wesley; 'Dr.
Richard Barksdale, author
of Black Writers in
A merica, Distinguished
Professor Emeritus Ther-i
man O'Daniel and noted
poet, Samuel Allen.
Several papers on all
aspects of Afro-American
literature were presented
on both Friday and Satur
day, and the overall theses !
presented by many of!
those presenting papers;
were that all components
of Afro-American -
Literature should be,
taught, criticized, ;
evaluated and analyzed as i
part of the curriculum in ;
English departments, and
that blacks should play a
major rol4rif 4vloping
.the standards far. what is
considered to be a work of,
art in Afro-American '
literature instead of allow
ing others to do it for
them.
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question of what had hap
pened to America.
' He said that soldiers
had suffered in Vietnam
due to those who had sent
'thent.A"".;v.: t. ' .
, "We- had several
presidents during the Viet
nam War that had felt that
"the war was in the best in
terest of the country, and
many soldiers suffered '
psychological problems in
Vietnam caused by those
who sent them," said the
Brigadier General.
In a question and
answer period, Peterson
said that there was racism
throughout America, but
the U.S. Marine Corps has
"made it very harmful to
practice it" in that branch
of the service.
"Racism exists because
attitudes are difficult to
change. You can mandate
laws, but you can't
legislate against racism,"
Peterson said.
Brigadier General
Petersen has spent 31
years in the armed services
and has been awarded the
Purple Heart.
The NCCU students
gave Brigadier General
Petersen two standing
ovations.
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