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Integration In N.C.?_
v" Higher Education
; . will be .seeking the location of the state's proposed school of
vertinary medicine on the A&T campus. On the face of it. this
announcement looks routine. But it is not.
ine suing of tne proposed School of Veterinary Medicine is
looked upon by many as. an open lest of how integration is
working in the area of higher education ih the state universities
and colleges.
Many blacks and a large number of whites believe that the
new school will be rightly located in a black college campus.
Black universities and colleges here in the State of N.C. have
always been integrated faculty wise and segregated student
wise.
Today, the faculty is still integrated and the student body has,
been integrated to sonic extent. It has been proven that
, integration works better if all parties find a mutual benefit in the
system.
The siting of the new school in a black campus has a potential
of furthering the principle of integration which the consolidation
of higher education here in the state is all about and will also
demoostrate to those that nuiy bc stUl doubting thc motive
behind the consolidation of higher education in the state thnt
integration is not just a lip service thing.
A&T seems to meet all requirements for a Vet. School. To
? . deny that University the school will have the effect of raising
again in the minds of many the doubts about the integration
aims of higher education in the state.
The board of Governors is made of honorable men and like
honorable men they will sec the wisdom of siting the Vet. School
at A&T instead of locating the school in Raleigh.
Foreman No Match
For Muhammed Ali
George Foreman recently asked boxing officials to look into
possible wrong doing by Muhammed Ali's trainers. Foreman
believes that Ali's men had something to do with adjusting the
ropes, making the ring floor softer and accused the referee of
quickly counting to ten.
What Foreman should do now for while is what he did when
reporters tried to interview him in Zaire before the fight: KEEP
HIS MOUTH SHUT.
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Whatever AH's handlers may have done outside of the ring
can not detract from what Ali did in it. He literally pshychcd
Foreman out of the fight and as 1 see it, that is all a part of the
game. It's like having a good baseball team but loosing the
World Series because you conimitt an error. You can't call it
back...it's a part of the game.
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~ .. ui uiuuyn inai foreman and AM arc trying to milk the
world for all it's worth? Could they be trying to make another
cool five or maybe ten million dollars? Whatever happens my
interest in the fight game has been seriously injured, right
along with Foreman's two-cent pride.
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Keeping his promise to
maintain an open Presidency,
Gerald Ford recently hosted a
White House meeting of
several representatives of
national black organizations.
Like similar meetings he's
had with us in the past, the
President seemed interested
in our views and inclined to
encourage frank discussion.
The acid test will come ashe
puts his stamp on the new
Administration ? we will then
see if our concerns will be met
by action.
The President took criticism
over his intrusion into the
Boston busing controvery, and
met with strong criticism of
domestic anti-inflation policies.
Invited by the White
House to prepare a position
paper for the meeting, I
brought along a twenty-one
page set of recommendations
by the National Urban League
for federal action, and the
response to that paper may
well indicate future Administration
policies toward
black citizens.
The paper dealt with many
of the issues familiar to
readers of this column,
suggesting a range of federal
actions from immediate creation
of a million public service
jobs to important new
initiatives in housing, crime,
welfare, education and other
important areas.
But at the head of the list
was an appeal to the President
to personally give the moral
leadership that will assure
black Americans of their full
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by Vernon ?. Jordan, Jr,
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partnership in this nation, and
will help to guide white
citizens along a path of
cooperation in our multi-racial
society.
Alienation and bitterness
are growing these days, bitter
weeds that can be traced to
past neglect and present
economic and social conditions.
Where people had great
hopes only a few years ago,
they now are pessimistic and
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me very puuucai lnsiiiuuons
of the country are in danger of
losing their legitimacy.
When Lyndon Johnson
stook in the well of the
Congress and proclaimed
"We Shall Overcome," black
people and their white allies
were able to feel that their
concerns afnd those of the
nation's leadership were one.
But when the official policy
of the Nixon Administration
became "benign neglect"
characterized by overt hostile
acts against blacks people as s
group, the hopes and
aspirations of black people
were severely damaged.
Now President Ford can
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ivdiu&w muse iiupcsa nc can,
at the earliest opportunity,
make a civil rights, affirming
his personal commitment to
expanding opportunities for
minorities.
He can use the power of the
Presidency to tell the nation
the facts - that the long, noble
struggle for equal rights and
equal opportunities has not
yet been won. and he can
pledge to make his Administration
a vehicle for winning4
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that struggle. I
Part of assuming this role of I
moral leadership would be for I
. him to talk sense to the people
about issues like crime,
welfare, jobs, and other areas.
The public mind today is
fogged by vicious stereotypes
that have no relationship to
reality. q
A President can use his
unique national platform to
talk about the way previously
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problems faced by all people I
and that blacks have not been I
dealt with fairly by the nation. I
He can talk about the welfare I
system's failures and mention
that the majority of people on
welfare are white. He can I
explode myths about crime B
and race. I
He can also help to bring R
black people back into the H
government in high, policy- H
making positions from which I
they've been barred in the B
past few years. He can take B
steps to include blacks,
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instead 01 excluding thent
from participation in our I
national life. I
Many of the concrete jl
recommendations we made for [1
policy changes will undoub- U
tedly run into the stone wall of I
ideological opposition or
budgetary doubts or Con- I
gressional indifference, l|gt I
the moral leadership question I
that is an inseparable part of
the nation's race problems I
depends on the President
along, and I am hopeful he will
accept the challenge to fulfill fl
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