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September 24.1969 The Carolina Journal,
Student As Nigger
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it. That, more or less, is what’s
happening in higher education.
And the results are staggering.
For one thing, damn little
education takes place in the
schools. How could it? You can’t
educate slaves; you can only train
them. Or, to use an even uglier
word, you can only program
them.
Educational oppression is
trickier to fight than racial
oppression. If you’re a ^ack
rebel, they can’t exile you; they
either have to intimidate you or
kill you. But in high school or
college, they can just bounce you
out of the field. And they do.
Rebel students and renegade
faculty members get smothered or
shot down with devastating
accuracy. In high school, it’s
usually the student who gets it; in
college, it’s more often the
teacher. Others get tired of
fighting and voluntarily leave the
system. This may be a mistake,
though. Cropping out of college,
for a rebel, is a little like going
North, for a Negro. You can’t
really get away from it so you
might as well stay and raise hell.
How do you raise hell? That’s a
whole other article. But just for a
start, why not stay with the
analogy? What have black people
done? They have, first of all,
faced the fact of their slavery.
They’ve stopped kidding
themselves about an eventual
reward in the Great Watermelon
Patch in the Sky. They’ve
organized; they’ve decided to get
freedom now, and they’ve started
taking it.
Students, like black people.
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Governors might be surprised
about a lot of things on campus if
they got close enough to students
to find out what’s really on their
minds.
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have immense power. They could,
theoretically, insist on
participating in their own
education. They could make
academic freedom bilateral. They
could teach their teachers to
thrive on love and admiration,
rather than fear and respect, and
to lay down thdr weapons.
Students could discover
community. And they could learn
to dance on the IBM cards They
could make coloring books out of
the catalogues and they could put
the grading system in a museum.
They could raze one set of walls
after another and let life come
blowing into the classroom. They
could raze another set of walls
and let education come blowing
out and flood the streets. They
could turn the classroom into
where it’s at - a “field of action”
as Peter Marin describes it. And
believe it or not, they could study
eagerly and learn prodigiously for
the best of all possible reasons —
their own reasons
They could. Theoretically.
They have the power. But only in
a very few places, like Berkeley,
have they even begun to think
about using it.
Morlena
Shaw
Board
The Association For Childhood
Education invites all who are
interested in the education of
children to get-acquainted
meeting today at 11:30 in room
D-102. Refreshments will be
served.
Beta lota IMu
Beta Iota Mu, UNC-C Biology
Club, will meet Wednesday Sept.
24, at 11:30 in Room K-107. The
Biology faculty will introduce
themselves and speak briefly on
the Biology department and
activities. Refreshments will be
served.
Fencing dub
Engineers dub
From the Black Viewpoint
By James Cuthbertson
The \^ight-Carry
The Load Together
The Fencing Club will hold its
general meeting today at 11:46
A.M. in Room U-233. All
interested students are invited.
The club provides all fencing
equipment and free instruction.
No Drior experience is required.
BSU
The Baptist Student Union will
meet Friday, September 26, at
11:30 A.M. in rooms U231 and
U232. A short film, “Genesis,”
will be shown. It is an
interpretation of the first book of
the Bible through modem art.
Discussion will follow which will
include plans for future activities.
After the program and the
business, refreshments will be
served. This is an informal
get-together where EVERYONE,
ALL religions is welcome.
Student' Legislature
student Legislature meeting,
Wednesday, September 24, 1969
at 11:30 a.m. in Parquet Room.
Open meeting and everyone is
welcome to attend.
The Engineers Club will hold
its first biannual “Coffee Hour”
today, September 24, in room
348 of the Smith Engineering
Building. Engineering majors
interested in joining the club
and/or meeting fellow engineering
students are invited to attend. The
Fall ’69 membership drive began
Monday and will continue
through the eighth of October.
Union Film
The Unions Arts Committee
will present “Planet of the Apes
today at 2:00 on Union 209-210.
The film, starring Charlton Heston
and Roddy MacDowall,
introduces a new and unusual
theory of human evolution.
Admission will be 25 cents with a
student ID card.
During the summer, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board
submitted a desegregation plan to the courts which was approved with
reservations. A focal point in the plan provided for the closing of
Second Ward High School and the dispersion of its students into the
surrounding high schools. The plan also virtually ended the hopes of
Second Ward students and parents for a new school that has been
promised to them for a long time, and it was a prime example of
one-way integration.
While seeking votes for a bond issue in 1965, the School Board
promised the parents of Rieds Park, Southside, Brookhill, Dixie, and
Third Ward a new school which was to have been built behind York
Road Junior High School (now Kennedy Junior High). When the
desegration issue evolved, the School Board dissolved their plans and
announced that the proposed York Road Senior High School would be
built in the southern part of the county. The rejection of this play was
in our opinion a breach of ethics. That school is now called Olympic,
and it sits in a pasture near the headwaters of Steele Creek in
southwestern Mecklenburg County. The reason that the school was not
built behind York Road is very simple. The School Board did not think
that white students would come to a school in a black neighborhood
with a predominately black student body. Ihey would rather bus black
kids out of their natural environment into a predominately white
situation. In Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, the entire burden of
school integration has been put on the black man. The average white
has not suffered in the least. I see a repeat of the Olympic situation at
Second Ward. The school has now been closed and the students
dispersed. In a few months, unless pressure is applied by the black
community and the courts, the School Board may just decide to build
the new school that was proposed for Second Ward in the supposedly
fast growing southeastern section of the county. Then they will want to
bus black kids out to it to make sure that it is integrated. I can not see
why second Ward could not have been integrated this year.
The word “gerrymandering” brings a loud protest from the general
community. However, they should not be alarmed because the school
districts have been gerrymandered for years. In an effort to keep
Olympic Senior High from becoming predominately black, the kids in a
black neighborhood along West Boulevard are aligned to three
different high schools. This has backfired because of the transition in
the neighborhoods which were once all white, and Olympic may have a
black majority one day. A simple gerrymandering could have easily
integrated Second Ward this year. If Second Ward’s district had been
expanded to the south to include Dilworth, Sedgefield, and the Griffith
Park Area and east to include Hawthorne, Colonial Heights, Edgehill,
Eastover, and Chantilly, and the freedom of choice abolished, there
could have been white students at Second Ward. The School Board,
however, decided upon a plan that placed the entire load on the black
man.
The days on one-way integration will have to come to a rapid finish
because the Black Man is tired of carrying all the weight.
A Bell Tower When?
By Allan Boger
An original grant by the Belk
Foundation of $100,000 long ago
gave UNC-C its chance to join the
family of colleges with bell
towers. As all students know,
construction on the Belk Bell
Tower has foundered.
Date of completion of the Belk
Bell Tower hinges on the date of
delivery of the main body of the
structure, a pre-fabricated
concerete shell which will house
the electric carillon and
IMPORTED CARS, INC.
amplifiers. When finished, the
imposing tower will soar some
140 feet over the campus.
Administration officials
assured the CAROLINA
JOURNAL that once the shell had
been delivered, only a few days
will be needed to complete the
tower. Officials also promise that
concrete sidewalks soon will
replace the quagmire which now
surrounds the base of the tower.
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the Carolinas
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Memories of bell towers past