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4 THE CLARION MARCH 17, 1972 Former Harvard dean opposes Com Rush turned Bogus phasing out black colleges; tomorrow night Rv Titn Paffovcnrt . man power, hacking needed Birgingham, Ala. - (I.P.) — Phasing out the black college— an organized institution which can effectively further black in terests — would be idiotic, if not suicidal, declares former Harvard College Dean John Usher Monro. “Seen from inside the black community, our country, for all its creed of equal opportunity, is still, very deeply, a racist and oppressive society,” he stated, “and the blacks have pitifully few organizational ar rangements for confronting it.” Monro, who left his Harvard post of nine years in 1967 to become director of freshman studies at Miles College, a black college in Birmingham, made a strong case against a recent New York Times assertion that there is unchecked “an appar ently spreading conviction — shared by both believers in in tegration and segregationists resigned to a new order — that black colleges have lost their chief reason for being,and all but the strongest should be al lowed to die.” “I would consider it foolish to think of dropping such in stitutions as the black com munity possesses on some the ory that the white power struc ture institutions are going to do the necessary job for Black America. Our history as a so ciety runs to the contrary.” The percentage of blacks at tending black colleges has de creased, Monro said. In 1950, 80 per cent were enrolled in black institutions. In 1967-68, this had decreased to 50 per cent, and in 1970, of 450,000 black students in college, about 35 per cent were in predomi nantly black schools, he stated, “But if you’re concerned not with percentages but with num bers of individual people, you see that we had 90,000 students in black colleges 10 years ago, 150,000 last year, and we face a projected 250,000 by 1978. The fact is, we need many more colleges, black and white, not fewer. “To those who would suggest phasing out the black college they also need manpower. “Something like one - seventh to one - tenth of the professors in our great universities go on sabbatical leave every year. If only a fraction of them could lend their talent for a year or two, it would help us enormous ly and the cost would be man ageable. We must change very rapidly our old patterns of train ing our young people as teach ers and preachers, and prepare J would say them for all professions. We need teachers of sociology, psychology, business, econom ics, and truly Afro-American studies. “We need a special breed of teachers who are as much in terested in teaching students as in teaching a subject. It’s the next five years which will count the most — time for us to get our strongest undergradu ates through graduate study and back. “What’s in it for the white university? A chance for its professors to work directly on problems of enormous conse quences to our society, to live in a black community with black colleagues and students, and find out for themselves what America is really all about.” Glee Club to spend day in Disney World I’m ready to do that when they will also phase out white col leges as an anachronism, and lily - white churches, white cor porations and white communi ties. “Black colleges face an inter nal dilemma over their own priorities. Harshly put, it isi, ‘do we teach our students to fight the surrounding power structure or to participate in it?’ “I think we must do both things,” Monro said. “We must teach our students how to sur vive, how to participate and get ahead in the general society and how to position themselves so that they can manipulate the levers of power on behalf of the black community. As I see it, this is no more than General Motors does every day on be half of its stockholders, or the United Auto Workers for its members. “We now have great universi ty centers teaching labor union ofifcials how to negotiate ef fectively. Why is it we get so uptight about this old-fashion- ed American idea just when the black community starts putting it to work?" Although the black schools need money, like all colleges. Old Barn hosts new talent stage It’s amazng what students can learn in a few hours at Bre vard College. Just this past weekend the difference between a boy pancake and a girl pan cake was taught. After three long weeks of ship Lollipop,” or a whacky 6 o’clock newscast. Suzon Fran- zke, David Aduddel and Al lan Smith provided swaying music for the opening and in termission. Everyone who shar ed this experience yearns for another night of entertainment The Brevard College Glee Club is going on their annual Spring Tour. This year’s tour covers the Southern United States with the main emphasis on Florida. Performances will be held in Vero Bieach, Deland, and Lakeland in Florida, and in Cornelia and Valdosta in Georgia. There will be a little sight-seeing when the group tours all day in Disney World. Under the direction of Mr. Harvey Miller and accompanied by Burton A. Bumgardner and Miss Pat Smart, the group will sing works by Brahms, Britton, Cousins, Dello Jio, and Miller, along witTi several American work, Mrs. Miller’s Theater Arts Workshop bowed to a live- as enjoyable aslast^w^krpCT^^ ly audience attending the 1972 formances. Many thanks to Jill Musical Review With the vari- Wright, Demming Smith, Andy ous talents of the cast, the aud- Brightwell, Doug White, Judy Houser, Lee Stoffel, Lanny Cole, PATRONIZE David Arledge and Jimmy (Ja- bo) Jacobs, Jim Bombach, Su- san Guthrie, and especially ADVFRTTQiive Mrs. Miller and Mr. Kimple. ADVERTISERS ience was captured in the nos talgia of riddles and songs on both serious and humorous lev els. Very few could leave with out satisfaction from the di versity presented through the removal of “deana ferreeasv” a luring invitation to “the good By Jim Patterson Sometime early last August Andy Brightwell met Alan Smith. The result of this first meeting was the formation of Cornside Rush, Brevard Col lege’s only rock band. In the last eight months this band has undergone many changes in cluding the changing of its name to Bogus. In the beginning the band was plagued with many troubles such as the lack of talent and pri marily the lack of good equip ment. Today Bogus is together like they have never been be fore. They now have much better equipment and four original members. Cornside Rush played first at the Freshman Class benefit dance and later at the Christ mas Dance and the winter Del phian party. Their next appear ance at Brevard will be this Saturday night at Dunham. Bogus has an interesting as sortment of musicians. Andy Brightwell is one of the origi nal members. He is a freshman and plans to major in music. He plays organ and sings. He has also written a few songs for the group. John Finn is also an original member. He is a sophomore and plays he guitar, bass, harmonica and sings. Marcia Cansdale is probably the most unusual asset to the group. Besides being he only female member she plays the flute and also sings. Marcia’s extraordinary flute playing adds versitility which is rare for a semi - professional group such as Bogus. Marcia is a sopho more and a music major. She is also one of the original four. Alan Smith is the drummer and lead vocalist. Alan has played with professional bands before, the most famous of which is Persy Sledge, a prom inent soul band. He is also an original member and is a sopho more music major. David Adud- dell is the newest addition to the group. He is a freshman and is majoring in music. He plays the guitar and percussion and has also written a song for the group. The quietest member of the group is John Marke. He lives in Brevard and is not at the col lege. He is twenty three years old, married and has two little girls. John is the lead guitar- est for the band. These five musicians plus the two equipment managers, Tony Thomas and Charlie Fletcher, comprise a close - knit group. Bogus does not suffer from personality conflicts that so often destroys good bands. They all work well together. Bogus performs a great va riety of songs. Besides doing much of their own music they also do songs from groups such as Santana, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, James Gang, Emer son Lake and Palmer, Doors Beatles and Jethro Tull. ’ Bogiis will perform free of charge at Dunham Auditorium on Staurday night, March 18. Programming studied The management of the lo- cal Du Pont plant is making it possible for 15 science and math students at Brevard Col lege to study computer pro gramming as a part of their engineering graphics and de scriptive geometry course. Clyde Biene, supervisor of the data processing department at the Du Pont plant has been teaching programming language and the steps used to place in formation on a computer. Mr; Biene is working with Ed Bennett, the engineering graph ics and descriptive geometry teacher. Later in the semester the stu dents will visit the computer center at Du Pont and then run their programs. The data proc essing department uses both IBM computer and General Electric teletype terminals. This is the second year that Du Pont has allowed the Brevard College students to tour and use their computer facilities. Recycling successful The Recycling Program which took place on Saturday, March 11, was a successful college ef fort. Several studenits turned out to help with the program. The townspeople of Brevard contributed glass, as well as papers from the Transylvania County Library. Many thanks go out to all those who helped with or contributed anything to the program. AYERS STORE 53 WEST MAIN STREET 883-9331 Paint Your Clothes Decorate Your Room Make Gifts USING «ARTEX»» ROLL ON PAINT This Paint Comes In a Tube & Works Like A Pen Excellent means of summer emplojrment in your home town. For Free Instruction And Information Call: BONNIE LANKARD 877-3523 PARSON'S for JEWELRY & GIFTS MAIN STREET BREVARD SSICtmote DAIRY BAR HENDERSONVILLE HIGHWAY BREVARD. N. C.
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