Friday, March 3, 1989
CAMPUS NEWS
Chancellor campaigns for new budget
Jenkins addresses legislators
The Complete Package...
By Joy Inniss
For the third time in six years,
ECSU Chancellor Dr. Jimmy Jenkins
spoke to the North Carolina State
T^gislatureonbehalf of Elizabeth City
State University.
Jenkins addressed the Legislature
Fel»Tiary 2, to seek continued eco
nomic support for the University, and
to support the University’s 1989-91
biennium budget of $24.1 million,
acccM'ding to Roger McLean, Vice
Chancellor for Business and Finance.
“The members of the legislature
seemed to totally back the Univer
sity,” said McLean, who accompa-
ni^ Jenkins to Raleigh.
Dr. Helen Caldwell, Interim Vice
Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and
Melvin Daniels, Mayor of Elizabeth
City, also accompanied the Chancel
lor to Raleigh for his presentation.
“Those of us from Elizabeth City
State felt about ten feet tall,” said Dr.
Caldwell, “when we heard the Chan
cellor’s presentation. “It was an in-
deplh, graphic representation of the
growth direction t^ing place at ECSU,
which would impact the very serious
need for continued and accelerated
funding of ECSU’s budget requests.
“The Chancellor’s presentation
“The Chancellor’s presentation was
dynamic, and obviously commanded the
concerned attention of the Legislators ”
Dr. Helen Caldwell
was dynamic, and obviously com
manded theconcemed attention of the
Legislators,” Caldwell continued,
“Our hope is that the concerned atten
tion will translate into funding fw the
University.”
The Chancellor’s presentation will
be sent to the General Administration
of the University of North Carolina,
then to the state budget office in
Raleigh, and if it is accepted by the
legislature, it will be made part of the
government plan, McLean said.
If approved, the budget will pro
vide money for the University’s new
50,000 square foot science complex,
along with technical staff and other
support personnel costs to comple
ment the facilities. The budget will
also fund a new 200-bed residence
hall and a new fine arts and mass
communications building.
“ECSU offers an opportunity for
you to assure the continued en
hancement of northeastern Neath
Carolina’s regional University,” Jen
kins told the legislators. “As Chancel-
Iot, I am confident that ECSU...will
continue to change the challenges
facing northeastern North Carolina
into opportunities for creative devel
opment, employment, and for citizens
to capture a piece of the American
Dream.”
Declaring that ECSU is definitely
an “asset to Eastern North Carolina,”
Jenkins added that the University
“cannot be immune to its environ
ment”
The Chancellor then cited exam
ples of the region”s “severe and ex
ceedingly complex social and eco
nomic problems, which include, a high
rate of poverty, adult illiteracy, and
inadequate health care, and limited
employment opportunities.”
Jenidns said ECSU had many ob
stacles to overcome, adding that “these
long standing challenges require long
term solutions.
“We believe that ECSU must as
sume its expected role as the catalyst
fw the economic and industrial growth
in ncHtheastem North Carolina.”
Jenkins told the legislators that
when he became Chancellor, in 1983,
he was “keenly aware that for nearly
100 years ECSU had been perceived
as ‘ ...the little Black Teacher Training
School on the outskirts of Elizabeth
City.’”
“The University has always en
deavored to train ^1—race notwith
standing—who have entered. Even
today, if you count only the single
campus population, we represent the
most integrated University in the
University system, in terms of faculty
and students.
The Chancellor also said the Uni
versity had forged a “new image”
which was attracting more higher
quality students. The average SAT
scores of the Fall, 1989 class reflected
a nearly 200 point increase over the
students entering in 1986, he said.
“The President’s new biennium
budget means that ECSU will be able
to continue the forward momentum in
serving the region and state,” the
Chancellor said.
Photo by Richard Mclntire
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Photo by Richard Mdntire
Julius “Dr. J” Irving emphasized having the complete package at the
eighth annual Albermarle Athletic Aw/ards Banquet February second at
the K.E. White Graduate Center. The ‘complete package’ consists of
not only physical fitness, but also emotional and spiritual health, the
former Philadelphia 76er said. Also on that night ECSU football player
Michael Mabry received the Golden Helmet Award and the Thomas
Caldwell Trophy. Freshman Angela Hager was the first recipient of the
Coca-Cola Most Spirited Cheerleading Award.
Dramatic photo exhibit
portrays Blacks’ history
The internationally acclaimed Rod Rodgers Dance Company came to ECSU on Sunday February 12. The show was held in the Moore
Hall Auditorium and was part of the University’s Lyceum series. The Rodgers Company has traveled extensively and in 1979 conducted
a six-week good-will tour to Kenya, Senegal, Syria, Zambia, Portugal and Nigeria.
By Dwayne Collins
A moving photographic record of
the Black experience in America is
now on display at the Museum of the
Albemarle in Elizabeth City.
The exhibit, entitled “Blacks in
America: A Photograph Record”
consists of 60 photographs drawn from
the collection of the International
Museum of Photography at George
Eastman House, in New York.
“The show is an accurate portrayal
of Blacks and their struggle to acquire
freedom in the United States,” said
Melvin Hall, a freshman at ECSU.
The exhibit takes the viewer to the
America’s morals have run dry Ouch!
Rev. Knight tells ECSU family
By Becky Overton
“There is a drought in our land
today,” Rev. Carolyn Knight told the
ECSU family at the Black History
Assembly on Febniary 21, “a drought
of spiritual conditioning; our morals
have run dry.”
The government has increased
milit^ spending while cutting pro
grams for the needy, the Rev. Knight
continued.
“A half million children world
wide will die of hunger and 50,000
vets will be unemployed and home
less in 1989, yet the government
chooses to increase military spend
ing,” she said.
Rev. Knight said that although
the Health Care Services say that this
generation has a life expectancy of
100 years, 5,000 teen-teenagers will
I successfully take their lives in 1989.
“The condition in the United States
is very ironic.”
Rev. Knight advised ECSU stu
dents not to give up the race for equal
ity, and not to wait for someone to
offer them a ride. “The absence of a
welcome mat should not prevent you
from running and beating the chariot
there.”
Rev. Knight also asked ECSU
students to remember that everybody
is a somebody.
“Show me a George Washington
and I’ll show you a Crispus Attucks;
show me a John F. Kennedy and 111
show you a Martin Luther King; show
me a George Bush and I’ll show you
a Rev. Jessie Jackson. Anything they
‘The absence of a
welcome mat should
not prevent you from
running and beating
the chariot there"
Rev. Carolyn Knight
can do, you can do and better.”
Rev. Knight ended her passionate
speech with: “The past is yours- learn
from it, the present is yours- fulfill it,
the future is yours- preserve it, the
Bible is yours- know it. Heaven is
yours- meet me there!”
Rev. Knight received a standing
ovation for the second time in a year.
She was the speaker for the same
event last year.
Rev. Knight is the Pastor of the
Philadelphia Baptist Church in New
York. She received her Master of
Divinity in May 1980. She also
received the Benjaman E. Mays Fel
lowship and the United Negro Col
lege Fund Scholarship award, among
many others.
In August 1973 she preached her
first sermon, and in January 1978 she
was ordained into the ministry. Rev.
Knight’s sermon “Survival if the
Unfit” was published in Those
Preaching Women in May 1985.
She also attended the Martin Lu
ther King Memorial seminar in Cuba
and took an active part in Jessie
Jackson’s campaigns.
The Black History Month as
sembly was presided by Dr. Willie
Sullivan. Rev. John E. Trotman,
University Minister, gave the invo
cation, Cadet Major Jamette Smith
gave tiie welcome, after which John
Sawyer, student body president, pro
vided a brief history of the African-
Americans’ arrival in America. Cadet
Major James Corington introduced
the speaker.
The University held several other
activities in celebration of Black His-
tOTy Month. They included: an art
exhibit in the Gallery of Johnson Hall
Feb. 23-28; a Telecommunications
Program in Johnson Hall on Feb. 1
(The theme was “Beyond the Dream:
A Celebration of Black History); a
Sacred Choral Music workshop in
Moore Hall Auditorium Feb. 3-4; a
Gospel Extravaganza Concert held in
Moore Hall Auditorium Feb. 5; and
the Choral Music Festival, held in the
KermitE. White Graduate Center Feb.
12.
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Photo by Richard Mclnllre
As if the whole process were going to take his very life, Scottie Jackson
succumbed to the needle when the American Red Cross Bloodmobile
visited the ECSU campus recently.
streets of Harlem in the 1940’s and
1950’s, and recreates the horror and
the triumph of the Civil Rights Move
ment. Among the show’s many poign
ant images are scenes of the King
March on Washington, and an AP.
photo of Coretta Scott King and the
Rev. Ralph Abernathy taken a few
months after King’s death.
The exhibit is divided into sec
tions, such as “Slavery to Emanci
pation,” which features old pho
tographs of slave children (a brother
and sister dressed in ragged, ton cloth
ing). Successful Blacks are depicted
in such portraits as Booker T. Wash
ington, Duke Ellington and Marian
Anderson.
The personal portraits of Langston
Hughes and Paul Robeson are sensi
tively wrought. Others, like the scene
of the tenements in Washington D.C.
and the prisoners on a chain gang, are
more searing.
Excerpts from Black writing en
hance the show’s powerful visual
images. Writers quoted include Alice
Walker, James Baldwin, Gospel
SingerMahalia Jackson, William E.B.
Dubois, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The exhibit conjours up a strong
sense of pride for my people,"say s Joy
Scott, an ECSU junior, "I had always
known that Federick Douglass was a
great writer but to read and experi
ence some of his writings was incred
ible."
Black patriotism is represented in
photographs of Blacks serving in the
nation’s armed services. One scene of
a wounded Black sailor being low
ered from a ship by white sailors during
the Second World War, is especially
memorable.
The portrait of the Rev. Jesse
Jackson campaigning for President
brings the exhibition full circle, from
aportrait of an anonymous minister to
a foremost famous minister reaching
toward the country’s highest honOT.
“Since the photographs in this
exhibition have been drawn solely
from the collection of the Interna
tional Museum of photography at
George Eastman House, this pho
tographic record is not complete,”
according to Robert Mayer, Director
of the International Museum of Flio-
tography at George Eastman House,
in Rochester, New York.
“Nevertheless, it provides us with
a sense of the moving story of apart of
the experience of Blacks in America,
and we are pleased to present it to the
public.”
“Blacks in America: A Photo
graphic Record” will be on display
until May 14 at the Museum of the
Albemarle in Elizabeth City.
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