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PAGE 2 THE COMPASS 1 FEBRUARY, 1968 THE COMPASS For Students and Alumni Published by STATE COLLEGE NEWSPAPER STAFF Elizabeth City, N. C. Members; Columbia Scholastic Press Association j:|Editor-In-Ghief Charlotte A. Riddick;:|: ^Associate Editor IngridEastv •.••Secretary Jeroline White;:; Treasurer Flora RookSv: iliSports Editor Thaxton Etheridge:|:: ■;ij Exchange Editor Rosa Rid^ckg xFeature Editor Lillian Riggs:;:; •::Reporter Patricia Eckles;:;; Production Selena Baker;:;: Evangelin Turner.;:; ■:;Circulation Shirley Smith;:;: t-iAdvisors Mr. Leonard Ballou:!: Mr. Emanuel Di Pasquale-:; S';Opinions expressed in articles are not necessar-:;:- •:•: ily those of COMPASS or the College. ij; Student Governmentt Thing Of The Past? , (ACP) — Are student governments at universi ties around the country failures as they are now constituted? Are they due to be radically changed— or even abolished? All evidence points to the affirmative, says the SOUTH END of Wayne State University, Detroit. A growing number of students is expressing dissatisfaction with their “representative” gov ernments and their over all lack of power. Many are disappointed with their inability to effect change in the areas of academic reform and basic university restruc turing. At Wayne, frustration is becoming increasingly evident. Two Student-Fa- culty Council members have resigned from the Executive Board and others are contemplating resigning. Many others do not intend to run for re- election. SF-C Chairman Chuck Larson shares the disen chantment. "Student gov ernment can never be rel evant to students at Wayne as long as they allow the administration to develop the guidelines for its op eration,” he said. “The SF-C is consti tuted by means of a charter granted by the Ed Schwartz, presi dent of the National Stu dent Assn., expressed the sentiments of a growing number of students at a national conference on student power: “The lesson is clear— you cannot keep any group in subservience in a so ciety which purports to be free without that group applying the standards and hopes of democracy to its own condition. The labor movement said that in the late 30s; the black people have said it in the 60s; the students will say it in the late 60s and be yond.” President of the Univer sity. He has the power to change it at his dis cretion and has done so in the past.” Larson said he recom mends reorganizing the SF-C “by giving students the opportunity to decide what mechanism they want to represent them. This mechanism would be established and would not negotiate with the admin istration for the right to exist.” “It destroys a student’s self-respect and is de grading, ’ Larson said, to have to go to the administration and ask them for the right to have a voice. It is an in alienable right of all peo ple, including students, to control their own desti nies.” Mark Shapiro, SF-C representative at the Convention of the Michi gan Association of Student Governments, said he found “that the majority of student governments around the state were even in a worse plight than we are. It is apparent that student governments are undemocratically formed not on the basis of one man-one vote.” The University of Michigan’s Student Gov ernment Council, in an attempt to gain control over the activities it un dertakes and allow for greater financial free dom, is incorporating un der university regula tions. Its chairman, Bruce Kahn, expressed dissatis faction with student gov ernment in general, suggesting student un ions instead or possibly no organization at all. “Apathy is rooted into the nature of education at American universities,” Kahn said. “There will be no change in univer sities until the American student becomes radical ized. “Often student leaders themselves are at fault. Many are interested in personal power rather than student power.” Negro History Course (ACP) — A Negro his tory course finally ap proved last semester for the University of Texas, scheduled to begin in Sep tember, is not one of a kind, although it is cer tainly a worthwhile addi tion to the curriculum, says the DAILY TEXAN. An Associated Press article recently contained the news that not only has a Negro history course been offered for two years at Western Mi chigan University in Kal amazoo but that a new course is being initiated in two Kalamazoo high schools. Several so-called “violent incidents” were the immediate push to get the courses. The inci dents involved pushing and fighting in the halls of the schools. Kalama zoo, with Negroes making up 10 per cent of its population of 100,000, is one of those towns with “Racial tension.” Austin, luckily, has hardly had tension. The Negro history course here is the result of many months of hard work, chiefly by the Negro As sociation for Progress. (ACP) — What would you do if you were calm ly watching TV and two men walked briskly in— one from the Secret Ser vice, the other from the campus police? Or sud denly learn they’ve been following and checking up on your for days? Willard (Skip) Fox III, junior at Bowling Green State University, kept his cool, the B-G NEWS re- |wrts. He asked the men, ‘What brings you a- round?” They produced a letter he had written to Presi dent Johnson a month ago. It said: “I demand im mediate withdrawal from Vietnam. Realizing you won’t get this communi cation for a few days I am giving you until Dec. 24 to withdraw all troops or else.” Also asking the Presi dent to legalize mari juana, the letter contin ued, “If you do not com ply with those wishes, I can only judge you either are totally incompetent or do not wish to comply with wishes (which would be very foolish indeed.)” The letter involed no per sonal threat. Fox said. Reclining on a bed.Fox answered the officials’ questioning. “What do you mean about demand?” they asked. His reply: “As a supposedly free citizen I can demand any thing I want.” Questioning continued for a half hour: “What or ganizations are you in? What is your draft stat us? Have you ever been in a mental institution? (“Not yet.”) And then: “Did you go to Pennsyl- Who...? What...? Laura H. Britt ’67,Ele mentary Education major from Farmville, is teach ing in the Pitt County School System in Green ville. Dempsey Bond’67, Ele mentary Education major from Windsor, is teach ing in the Bertie County School System in Wind sor. Betty Boone ’67, So cial Science major from Hallsboro, is doing So cial Work in New York City. Robert Bowden ’67, Health and Physical Ed ucation major from Goldsboro, is teaching in Sussex County, Waverly, Virginia. Earl Brown ’67, His tory majorfrom William- ston, is teaching at E.J. Hayes High School in Williamston. Lula Campbell ’67, So cial Science major from Wilmington, is teaching in Sussex County, Waver ly, Virginia. Geneva Bryant ’67, Elementary Education major from Warsaw, is teaching in the Baltimore vania over Thanksgiving vacation and eat dogfood as a protest against fa mine? ’ Fox said yes, that he had gone with the inter national director of WHIP. “You should have seen them sit up and demand, ‘What’s WHIP?’ ” He told them it was the World Health Instead of Pover- Too Late In the assembly held on February 8, Miss B. J. Verbal spoke on the topic “Amalgamation.” She said that amalgama tion was the best means of progress for the Negro in America. Webster de fines amalgamation as ‘the process of combin ing or uniting with an already existing whole.” Miss Verbal’s speech was a generation too late, or shall I say a people too late! Never has racial pride been stressed as much as it is today. “Turn baby turn”, she said. But why should I want to turn lighter? My creator gave me a dark rich tan of which I am very proud. Maybe M:'.ss Verbal doesn’t realize that black is “in” or that black is “beautiful.” There was no justifica tion for her to tell a black audience that it Where...? City Schools, Baltimore Maryland. ’ Norine Carter ’67 Business Education ma jor from Williamsburg Virginia, is teaching in Brunswick County, Law rence ville, Virginia. Doris Cherry '67,Bus iness Education major from Hamilton, is teach ing at S. P. Moton High School in Franklin, Vir ginia. Phyllis Ballance ’67, Elementary Education major from Aulander, is teaching in the Bertie County School System in Windsor. Carolyn Bailey ’67, Business Education ma jor from Woodsdale, is teaching in Surry County, Surry, Virginia. Joyce Barclift ’67,Ele- mentary Education major from Elizabeth City , is teaching at Suttersville High School in Centerville Maryland. Earthel Conyers '67, Social Science major from Williamsburg, Vir ginia is teaching in the Surry County School Sys tem, Surry, Virginia. Threaten ty group. “The men were very polite,” he said. “They had a thick folder of pa pers about me. They probably knew more about me than I do.” No action was taken a- gainst Fox, But what did he mean about “Or else I won’t vote for John son,” he said. should become white as soon as possible. Both the black and white man can and must co exist in this country to gether without the aid of amalgamation. A person should not have to change colors before he will b'2 treated as an equal. There are certain institutions in our society that must be destroyed before the black man can fully ex ercise his constitutional rights. If the Negro amalga mates, he is saying that he is ashamed of his skin and his heritage. To as similate ourselves with the other race would prove that our culture is inferior. Race identity is becoming prevalent in all phases of the Negro lif^, consequently amalgama tion is inconsistent with the desires of the Negro community. SAMUEL GILES JR^ The Right To Write But Not To TO THE EDITOR: Amalgamation Is
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