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NEWS
Delta’s celebrate 67 years
of public service
CHERYL ANDERSON
SUff Writer
The Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
celebrated Founder’s Week on
January 13-18 in commemoration of
its 67th year as a public service
organization. The sorority, according
to member Rochelle Riley, em
phasizes "public service, scholastic
achievement, and sisterhood” and
has a “rich history of working for
human concerns . . .
Kappa Omicron, the UNC Chapter,
also contributed to the organization’s
"history of service.’’ 1-ast semester
the chapter stressed fund raising. The
sorority’s projects for fund raising in
cluded bake sales, a doughnut sale,
and two discos, one in conjunction
with the brothers of Omega Psi Phi
Fraternity, Inc. Proceeds from the
projects were dispersed towards
scholarship funds.
According to Riley, the Kappa
Omicron Chapter also held many
public service activities. The ac
tivities included volunteer work with
the Durham Election Board, trick or
treating for UNICEF' with the Kappa
Alpha Psi Fraternity brothers, work
with the Mental Health Center, raffle
tickets for an Earth, Wind and Fire
concert (money from this project
helped purchase an air conditioner for
the Golden Age Happy Circle, a com
munity center for senior citizens),
and donations for Delta Upsilon’s
drive for the United Negro College
Fund and the American Cancer Socie
ty.
Cassandra Yongue, a Delta Sigma
Theta alumni from Durham who at
tended the Rededication Service and
the Black Awareness Cultural Pro
gram said, “I enjoyed both events and
I think that the Founder’s Week
observance is a good way to renew
and affirm black awareness plus set
new goals for ourselves.”
Finally, Delta Sigma Theta Presi
dent, Vanessa Washington, cheerfully
added, "I have had a good time! For
us this is the biggest thing . . . we’ve
tried to pull off. I’m pretty satisfied.”
Activities during Founder’s Week
included an open house and rededica
tion service, a Black Awareness
cultural program, a film entitled, “Is
There Life After Undergrad?”, a
bake sale, a cancer information booth
and a party. All proceeds went to the
American Cancer Society.
Blacks and whites
discuss stereotyping,
communications
Students to attend
conference at Howard
ROCHELLE RILEY
Minority students representing the School of Journalism, Minorities in
Mass Media and the department of Radio, Television and Motion Pictures at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will attend the 9th Annual
Communications Conference February 15-18 at Howard University in
Washington, D.C.
The conference was started by Tony Brown whose BLACK JOURNAL was
a popular PBS television shows. Its purpose is to provide panel discussions,
forums, luncheons and career exposure tor participating students.
Prospective employers will attend the conference to meet and interview
the minority students throughout the three-day conference. The employers
are providing summer jobs and internships for juniors and full-time employ
ment for seniors.
PPHS to host reception
PORCEASTA DORSETTE
Staff Writer
A major goal of the Pre
professional Health Society (PPHS)
is to bring more freshmen into the
organization. “We need to start get
ting more freshmen out to the
meetings, because many freshmen
are interested in the health field,”
said Barbi Welch, president of the
organization.
The Pre-professional Health Socie
ty is open to all minorities who are in
terested in the field of health,” Welch
said. “We want to be able to tell them
‘hey, you’re not in this alone’ and go
from there.”
The preamble of PPHS says its
goals are uniting, alerting and en
couraging minority students pursuing
health careers. “We are all about
learning, growing and sharing,”
Welch said.
This year the PPHS is sponsoring a
reception for all minority students
with an average of 3.0 or better. “This
reception is to honor our minority
students and to show that we’re proud
of them,” Welch said. She added that
minority students are competing
equally with white students at UNC.
Topics to be discussed at upcoming
PPHS meetings include summer in
ternships, the need for blacks in
health fields, and speech pathology.
For further information concerning
the Pre-professional Health Society,
contact the PPHS office in 303
Venable, Barbi Welch (841 Morrison)
or Janet Johnson (441 Morrison).
LINDA BROWN
Features Editor
The Human Relations Committee of
the Carolina Union chose 12 persons
(six blacks and six whites) to par
ticipate in a six-week black-white
discussion groups to be held every
other Tuesday evening from Jan. 22
through Feb. 26.
Committee Chairperson Jennifer
Weiss said the committee selected
people with diverse backgrounds and
ideas and desire to meet with people
at an interpersonal level. The com
mittee wants the participants to have
a commitment to the discussion
groups.
The discussion group was formed to
promote personal growth through
focusing on such topics as individual
similarities and differences, com
munication skills and stereotyping.
Weiss stated “It will be up to the
group to determine what they want to
discuss.”
The group will be talking on a per
sonal level. “We want to have a bond
of trust among the 12 people," she
said. The committee wants the discus-'
sion groups to raise the consciousness
of the people in the group, and to get
rid of misconceptions some people
may have about others. “Those
misconceptions just don’t go away,
you have to confront yourself,” Weiss
said.
Denise Barnes, from the Student
Mental Health Center, will act as
facilitator for the group.
“I think it’s a good to allow people
the opportunity to sit down with
somebody and talk and grow,” Weiss
said.
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(CPS) — More than half the Basic
Educational Opportunity Grants (BEOGS)
given out in 1978-79 were awarded in the
wrong amounts to students. A U.S. Dept, of
Health. Education, and Welfare (HEW)
report has found that 55 percent of the
awards were either overpaid or underpaid,
and that the major reason was that the
BEOG application forms were so com
plicated.
Among the two million students who par
ticipated in the BECXJ program, about
720.000 got an average of $397 more finan
cial aid than they were entitled to. About
380.000 students were underpaid by an
average $255 each.
Most of the errors could be traced to
“problems encountered by students and
institutions in filling out and handling a
complicated application form.” Most of
the errors, moreover, concerned estimates
of families’ financial status.
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