Kditw-ln-chief M. Valerie Beatty meets with her Internship-Location Supervisor. Kev. Ben Chavis chats with members of the audience after his speech.
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Working Students:
Studying and Working
By Victor Watts
Staff Writer
Working students and why they work is a
very important question among students,
teachers and parents. Some students have
to work in order to help themselves receive
a college education, and to help take part of
the load off of their parents pocketbooks.
Some students have to work because
there’s only one parent in the household and
there is more than one child in the
household which make a job for the student
helpful for both themselves financially.
A lot of students work to help buy their
personal needs and relieve the pressure of
depending on money from their parents that
doesn’t come often enough. But for many
students, work study or refund checks
become a big help in taking care of their
money problems.
Some work to get an edge on how it is in
the working world once college is over and
they have received their college degree.
Some students work for monetary gain,
because living on a college campus without
a job can become very upsetting. Because a
lot of students enjoy going on dates, or to
parties and the issue of money play a very
important role in trying to take the opposite
sex on a enjoyable evening.
For those students who do work it can also
be a problem, because they have to work
their job’s schedule around their school
schedule.
Working students who have families also
have to juggle their work schedule, school
schedule and family obligations in a 24-hour
day. Weekends are also a problem that
working students have and most of them
would rather be enjoying themselves at a
ball game or party instead of working.
Waking Up To Sprin'g
PVA/Youth for Vietnam Veterans Accepting
Applications For Scholarship Fund
Applications now are being accepted for
the PVA/Youlh for Vietnam Veterans
Scholarship Fund, announced R. Jack
Powell, executive director of the Paralyzed
Veterans of America (PVA).
Powell said, “Applicants must be the
natural or legally-adopted son or daughter
of an Honorably Discharged veteran who
served on active military duly in the Viet
nam theater of war from August 4, 1964 to
May 8, 1975. who was: Killed in action; died
‘in country;' listed as missing in action; a
prisoner of war; disabled with 100%
service-connected rating; or rated as 100%
disabled for Veterans Administration pen
sion purposes, as the result of a spinal cord
injury or disease (such as multiple
sclerosis)."
Each scholarship grant will be $1,500 and
applicants must be enrolled in, or accepted
by, an accredited four-year institution of
higher learning. The student’s academic
performance, community and extracur
ricular activities, as well as financial need
will be considered in the award criteria.
Powell added that completed applications
and required submissions must be
jwstmarked no later than May 31, 1988.
For an application or more information,
contact: Scholarship Committee; c/o
Paralyzed Veterans of America; 801 18th
Street, N.W.; Washington, D.C. 20006; or,
consult your telephone book for the PVA
Service Office or Chapter nearest you.
The PVA/Youth for Vietnam Veterans
Scholarship Fund was initiated by a group
of students at the University of Kansas in
Lawrence, KS. It is funded by the proceeds
of a Veterans Day benefit concert which
featured musicians David Crosby, Stephen
Stills, John Fogerty, and George Thorogood
and the Delaware Destroyers. Peter Fonda
served as emcee.
The Paralyzed Veterans of America, a
veterans service organization chartered by
the U.S. Congress, has for more than four
decades served the needs of its
members—all of whom have catastrophic
paralysis caused by spinal cord injury or
disease. PVA is funded through private
donations and neither seeks nor receives
government funds.
Chavis Speaks To WSSU Students
By Carter Cue
Staff Writer
The Rev. Ben Chavis look over that night
where Presidential candidate Jesse
Jackson left off just hours earlier as he ad
dressed about 90 people in the K.R.
Williams Auditorium Green Room as a part
of WSSU’s Black History month celebra
tion.
Chavis. Deputy Director for the United
Church of Christ Commission for Racial
Justice dedicated his remarks to Tawanna
Brawley, the 16-year-old African-American
girl who was raped by five white men posing
as policemen in Poughkeepsi, New York.
A native of Oxford N.C., Chavis said he
was glad to be back in the area to celebrate
Blacli History because Black History was
every month of the year. He told students
thafthe bfesT^sy forfthfem- K’celebrfete
Black History was to make history.
Back in 1976 Chavis made history as a part
of the Wilmington 10. These 10 African-
Americans were given a total of 282 years in
prison for the alleged firebombing of a
while owned grocery store in Wilmington,,
N.C. Chavis wasn’t released until after be-
i»)g pardoned.
Commenting on the psychological
enslavement of African-Americans he call
ed attention to entertainer Michael
Jackson’s wanting to assimilate into the
dominate culture because of his plastic
surgery operations.
“I think Michael Jackson needs our
prayers.” “1 don’t think he is bad, I think he
is sad.”
The second half of Chavis’s lecture dealt
with the economic future of African-
Americans by the year 2000.
Quoting statistics that said the 290 billion
dollars spent by Blacks last year was
enough to make them the 9lh richest nation
on the face of the earth; he also noted.
‘‘Blacks in Atlanta, Georgia wasted $10
million on french fries as well.”
According to Chavis economics is one of
the reasons the NAACP will not delete
colored” from its name. Because the ma
jority of her support does not come from the
Black community.
As an national organizer for the national
Jesse Jackson campaign Chavis reminded
everyone that they should turn out on Tues
day in long lines.
WSSU SPEECH CONTEST
Thursday, March 24, 1988
at 2 p.m.
in
228 Hall-Patterson
Theme:
American Politics-1988
Come Out and Be A Part
Of The Audience!