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PAGE TWO THE NEWS ARGUS NOVEMBER, 1972 Letter To Editor Counselors Give Job Rundown Hook Comer Williams Tells King Story The life task of any man is the fulfill ment of his own needs, the needs of his family, and the needs of his community. The educated man should be especially competent at this task. Some individuals, in our culture and others, must expend the bulk of their energies satisfying physical needs, such as needs for nourishment and shelter. Other more fortunate individuals can turn their attention to intellectual and affective needs. People who have fulfilled their physical needs have a need to know, to under stand, and to invent. They have a need to feel loved and esteemed. However, there are a number of obstacles to the fulfillment of these needs. In our culture at the present time, at a broad, general level, these obstacles include such things as poverty and prejudice. At a more personal level, individuals are faced with problems such as choosing satisfying life styles, friends, mates, careers, and leisure activities. The objective of the Counseling Center is to assist in the full personal develop ment of all individuals. Beginning with a narrow base of technical skills peculiar to individual counseling and psychother apy and to group interaction and en counter, and beginning with a population Have you heard about the peeping Tom around campus? Calling all girls on basement and first floors. Beware of the wandering eyes of Tom! There has been a reported incident of a peeping tom around Pegram Hall. Be sure to close and shut all blinds restricted primarily to WSSU students, it is our ultimate aim to contribute sig nificantly to the understanding of the processes of behavior change and the change in attitude which will enable individuals to effectively fulfill them selves. The counseling staff engages in three kinds of activities pursuant to this ob jective: service, research, and consulta tion. Counseling services designed to facilitate optimal psychological growth and development are offered to indivi duals, couples, and groups. Many of these services take place in residential and academic areas. The research en gaged in is primarily applied research designed to evaluate and improve service and to foster understanding of the popu lations served. A few may remember the survey made in September in an attempt to discover the extent to which students are familiar with the counseling services offered at WSSU. Consultation is a mutual sharing of service, training, research, and methods with others whose interests parallel ours. We recognize the fact that counseling is only one facet of the overall program which comes under student affairs, there fore we are willing to collaborate with others in working for the student’s best interest. and curtains . . . You do not even have to be in your room, for Tom to come around. He makes his visits even when no one is around to rove his eyes on. So please girls, don’t ask for trouble by carelessness and hesitating to report similar incidents. —Dianne Williams THE KING GOD DIDN'T SAVE: Re flections on the Life and Death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. By John A. Wil liams. $5.95. “Like all black people in America, Martin King was a victim. He was thoroughly formally educated, but he was a victim. He was given countless awards, but he remained a victim. He received the Nobel Peace Prize and people spit on him; he still did not see himself as a victim.” This is how John A. Williams sum marized the life of Martin Luther King Jr., the demi-god of the civil rights movement. Williams, author of such novels as “The Man Who Cried I Am,” “This is My Country Too” and “Sons of Dark ness, Sons of Light,” and editor of Ami- stad, put within these 221 pages, the Martin King he saw and knew. From Montgomery As he traces King’s involvement in the evolution of the civil rights move ment — from the Montgomery bus boy cott to the balcony of the Lorraine Motel — Williams provides a perceptive analy sis of how his comfortable, middle-class Atlanta up-bringing and advanced theo logical education at cnce equipped him to lead the Movement's early phases but prevented him from foregoing it into a real force for change. Inside these impassioned, intensely personal, and sometimes angry pages, Williams argues that King was created by the public, the press, and the needs of the moment precisely because he was a safe spokesman whose philosophy of nonviolent protest offered no real threat to the Establishment. The book begins with the words: “This is a study of a man who died ahead of his time. He was a black man and in this nation he was supposed to die before his time. But, I mean, he died even be fore his time.” Early Strife Williams tells of King's early strife, making speeches, leading marches and filling jail cells, in his attempt to throw off segregation and at the same time preach nonviolence. The race issue made news in 1954 and 1955 moving from the back pages of the newspapers to the front. On television, the Montgomery boycott became the biggest show going, and the show's star, Martin King, was a natural for the part. The idea that the boycott was non violence immediately made the blacks the underdogs and sympathy and money began pouring in from all around the world. Nonviolence was a tactic that was then developing in Montgomery and was the only tactical weapon black people had at their command. Private Life In the private life of King, Williams relates some of King’s other problems, for example the July, 1963, news reports of orders by the late Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, for F'BI agents to wiretap Martin King's telephones. Not only was it found that King's tele phones had been tapped, and for several years, but also the phones of Elijah Muhammad, head of the Black Muslims, and- Muhammed Ali, “former'' heavy weight boxing champion. There were also rumors insinuating involvement with other women. In this book, Williams follows King through life, through the many boycotts, sit-ins, speeches and jailings, on through to that day when King stepped out onto a motel balcony in Memphis, Tenn., to be felled by an assassin's bullet. To Williams, King's life and death were proofs that no matter how high a black man may appear to rise above his prefixed station, “he is still a nig ger and shall be cut down when his use fulness is judged to be at an end.” —Ronald Jordan Peeping Tom Peeps In Pegram % EDITOR Marilyn Roseboro MANAGING EDITOR Ronald Jordan NEWS EDITOR Karen McCoy SPORTS EDITOR John Martin BUSINESS MANAGER .. Mona Blackwell CIRCULATION MANAGER Gilbert Cooley PHOTOGRAPHER John Martin SECRETARY Mary Blue Typists Barbara Bradshaw, Sallie Graves, Sheila Kinston, Catherine Pettie, Ruth Smith, Rhonda Stover, Marcia Strickland, Deborah Taylor, Phyllis Totten. THE NEWS ARGUS is a student publication of Winston-Salem State University, the contents of which are the sole responsibility of its students. Marie Denning, Advisor Lyric Quartet To Perform Winston-Salem State continues its Lyceum Series for 1972-73 with a per formance on November 16, by the New York Lyric Quartet, with musical ar rangements and direction by the famed Robert DeCormier. The group is com posed of four young artists. Soprano Cynthia Clarey, the newest member of the group, was born in Smith- field, Virginia. She graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree from Howard University and received a post-graduate diploma from the Juilliard School of Music. She was seen and heard as Pamina in the Juilliard Opera Theater production of “The Magic Flute.” Mezzo-soprano Phyllis Bash, was born in White Plains, N. Y. and studied at both the Julliard School of Music and the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. She has toured the United States, as well as Europe and Australia, in re cital. She also appeared in the New York City production of “The King and Arthur Williams, a tenor, completed his secondary education at the Uni versity of Indiana School of Music in Bloomington and furthered his musical education at the Juilliard School of Music. Williams has appeared in the Bell Telephone Hour with the late Louis Arm strong. He was a member of the Bela- fonte Folk Singers and is featured with that group in concerts and on recordings. Baritone Cortez Franklin, attended Fisk University and the Manhattan Street School of Music. He has toured with Harry Belafonte, The Gregg Smith Sing ers, and Clyde Turner's “Broadway Theatre Extravaganza”. He has also ap peared on NBC’s “The Tonight Show”. The group will present a program which includes operatic excerpts, Broad way hits, madrigals, folk songs, and an excerpt from “Porgy and Bess.” The performance will be held at the Salem Fine Arts Center, beginning at 8:15 p.m. Admission will be charged. —Shelia Kinston
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