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Petition For
Later Curfew
IbW freshmen girls
/ We the Freshmen girls of St. Augustine’s College hereby
move that the curfew now in progress be desolved, and a new
curfew for freshmen girls be established and made active as
joon as possible.
REASONS FOR EXTENDED CURFEW:
A. When the young men come to visit the young ladies,
It is still day-light (even at 8:00 p.m.).
Last Sunday night, the movie was set to begin at
8:30 p. m,, and the students (mainly girls) came in
their dormatorles after 10:00 just the same.
Why can’t Sunday be considered as the weekend also?
Many students have Saturday classes, and most of
these classes begin at 8:00 a.m. — yet we are al
lowed to go out on Friday nights. Sunday should
be no exception. Let the individual be the judge
of the amount of studying he needs. He will have
to slow down at sometime or another. Time will
tell, and he cannot last but so long. St. Aug. has a
way of literally hanging the students by letting them
stay in school with bad grades which show up on their
transcripts and are never erased. Even though these
subjects may be repeated, those grades remain on their
transcripts. If St. Aug. can leave the responsibility
of whether we make good grades or not to the students,
then we think that we should be able to judge the amount
of time that we should allot for studying, social acti
vities, «tc. for ourselves. We would like to be
lieve the slogan "St. Aug. Is our home away from home.”
But even so, most of us do not have to be In at J0:00 p.m.
at home on the week-days whether summer or winter,
nor 11:00 p.m. on the weekends.
GENERAL TIME WE WOULD LIKE CURFEW EXTENDED
We would like our curfew extended to 11:00 p.m. on the
week-days, and 12:00 p.m. on the weekends.
A NOTE TO FEMALE UPPERCLASSMEN LIVING ON CAM
PUS
We cordially invite the female memt)ers of the Sopho
more, Junior, and Senior classes to make this a joint
project for a later curfew. We understand that It would
not be fair to have our curfew extended without taking
Into consideration our fellow female upperclassmen.
ATTACHMENT NOT PERTAINING TO CURFEW
The girls of Goold Hall would like to ask permission
for all girls to wear slacks and any type of pants
during the week. It seems that quite a few girls In all
the dorms have succeeded in wearing pants during the
week, but the girls In Goold Hall are usually the ones
who get scolded for such actions.
Journey
I set out North, into darkness,
Seeking purpose in my life.
I slowed and stopped;
Now aware of the abuse to which, myself, I had put.
An everlasting lesson, the hard way learned.
Heading West, I journeyed on;
Beset by hunger, I had nothing
To appease.
To a berry bush, I came In pain:
Nourishment for body an^ mind
I found 'neath the open sky.
Journeying on, heading South
Closer to an end,
A group I met, traveling the same path as I.
Anger in rainstorms and whirlwinds beset my mind,
Depriving me of unknown hopes and dreams.
Distrust and fear made our journey sour.
Till we learned to trust
Or perish.
At the last road to the East
Each went his way.
I, to deep raging waters;
Then swam to a clearing; then cold high mountains
I scaled.
The top! My relief! A heartfelf sigh!
THE TOP! My relief! A heartfelt sigh!
An old man’s voice pulled me from sleep,
"Your experience has just begun.”
My journey did not end.
I enter this new world.
Georgette McDowell
A Trip To Death God Bless The
PY BETTIE JONES
I was driving in the country
Jine beautiful Sunday afternoon,
eing very cautious because
If the winding road. This road
|as known as “Death Bend”
pcause so many people had
een killed on this highway.
It was was really a mountain
r^d with a deep canyon on each
side. I was sure that I wasn’t
going to end my life on this
road or any other; a nice soft
bed would be nice enough for me.
I decided to pick up a little
•peeii since I was the only
car on the road for miles a-
Poond and I was driving far be
low the speed limit.
[Looking down to turn the radio
to another station, I was un
aware of the high speed at which
I (was going. Suddenly another
Mr appeared, driving on my
side of the road. I hit my
j^akes and tried to swerve but
It was too late. I knew he was
U>ing to hit me.
Then as quick as It had happen
Hi was all over. My car was
tilted toward the deep canyon,
Jny minute it would tumble into
■le canyon but there was nothing
I could do. I was trapped,
■y lungs were bursting for
*ant of air but there was none.
1 tried to scream for help but
I couldn’t utter a sound. This
»as the end for me. I ha'^
fcken my final trip and it had
[ led to death.
My car started moving slow-
falling into the canyon. The
White Man
Ccxt Bless the
white races
The hate-look hawked in white
faces,
who work with zeal in Ameri
ca's war,
but don’t know what a city’s for.
God Bless our great
American dream,
the long hot summer’s
nightmare scream,
blood on the sidewalk,
the broken glass. . .
Suburbs mows its lush green
grass.
God Bless our welfare degrada
tion—
Such strength as this shall save
the natloni
let white men praise our so-
called gain,
and watch it all
go down the drain.
Gcd Bless our paid-up civil
rights dues
and Huntley - Brinkley’s ab
stract news —
now watch the blood.
O see It pour
out of the inner cities core.
• --Gary Waytes.
sudden fall caused me to hit my
head. This was when I realized
that it had all been a dream.
I had fallen out of bed and hit
my head.
The End
Society News
MR. AND MRS. JUI.IAN EDWARD WASHINGTON
REQUEST THE HONOUR OF YOUR PRESENCE
AT THE MARRIAGE OF THEIR DAUGHTER
ELIZABETH ANN
TO
MR. WILLIAM MARSHALL CARSON
ON SATURDAY, THE TWENTY-FIFTH OF MAY
NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SDCTY-EIGHT
AT FOUR O’CLOCK
SAINT AUUWSTDte’S COLLEGE CHAPEL
SAINT AUGUSTINE’S COLLEGE
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
POETIC VIEWS
The Black Teacher
BY LORETTA GILCHRIST
Within your hands reside the
hopes
And destiny of youth;
Your deepest Interest stirs in
them
The fires of love and truth.
You are a parent to their lives—
Your love should have no
bound;
Y our sympathy should touch
* to help
Wherever youth are found.
Appreciation may be scant,
And problems very tough,
But with keen vision you should
see
The diamond In the rough.
Your patience should be lengthened
out
For those who do not know;
You’re sure to reap a rich
reward
As these dear children grow.
You are a guide, point out,
direct
These youthful, drifting feet
Into the path of rectitude
To make their lives complete.
Y ou are our hope; if we
succeed,
Your task must be well done;
We cannot rise up and achieve
Unless your hands have won.
Your burden is a heavy one—
At times your heart may bleed,
But you will reap abundantly
If you will sow good seed.
Remember that our faith in you
Is strengthened day by day;
Our prayers unite for your
success.
As you go on your way.
Impact No. 56
IMPACT N0.56
BY DANNY SCARBOROUGH
Unconsciously-
Black Students Are
the PEN—may. 1968—page .S
MEET THE
sticky and subdued gllmpes of
depressed rel)ellion filters
through a mental block.
Verbal gas-
intensified by the disharmony
of ebony and cream,
regurgitates from concrete matter.
Abstract distortions,
Impregnated by eons of
suppressed passions,
gradually become amalgamated.
Passive fixations,
though engulfed by the
inability to deviate,
unite into a sphere of bigotel ideas.
Racial Pride
BY EDDIE EUBANKS
The price of race
Destroyed by disgrace.
Repeatedly refused,
Maimed and disused,
I suffered because I was Black.
Continually forced to take second place,
Only because of the color of my face.
Nothing could kill the will to be free,
Though discouragement was all that I could see.
I will fight for the right to be called a man,
To take my place in this great land.
No mountain’s too high, no valley’s too low,
For I know which way I am to go.
I will be free, I’ll gain my rights,
I will demand, and may have to fight,
Buth nothing will ever turn me back,
From this great want, from this great need.
Until at last I can say I’ve been freed.
Out There
m CREFT HANNIBAL
Take a jump into the air
your head is stuck in a plastic bag,
Your toes are tied, your mouth is shut,
but still you yell of some wlerd stuff.
You climb a wall, and sink through the clouds,
and hit your head on the galaxies.
Upon a star you see the gods-Jehovah, Allah,
Tris, and Oden; you join them in their merry
ways, and laugh at the stooges left down here to
play. Your neck Is cut and blood seeps out, so
you swim out from that star, look out you see the
world so bright, look down you see the stars and
sky.
Turn left you wind up on your right. And now
the wll is straight again, too the sky is t>ack In
place, as the sky is hlgh-so were you. Maybe we
can go together?
Dis-illu- slonment
BY LILLIAN BURRUS
College life Is but a fake.
It’s no more than it’s runner-mate.
You become a little wiser.
And learn to be a miser.
College life is but an Illusion.
You are forever wrapped up in confusion
Studying is obsolete.
It doesn’t matter it you repeat.
Money, connections and gall are all you need.
These are the three virtues on which you feed.
When the final act is done,
You’re right back where you begun.
Mind Blossoms
The door of my mind was open: thus knowledge
Flowed in; but knowledge without meaning was
Worthless.
Knowledge alone Is a flower dally watered.
But without sunlight.
Once meaning was found, mind blossoms
Burst forth into joyous spring.
Without meaning, my ears heard only the harshness
Of complaint and rebuke.
Grasping It transformed discordance into
Harmonious tunes.
Without meaning, mind door closed.
Leaving no hope of relationship prevailing.
Meaning melted heart ice;
I understood the strangeness of my foes,
And imperfections of my friends.
Georgette McDowell
Organizing Nat’lGroup ppki CTApF
CFRnM THE CHRDNiri colleges have an important roie ■ I ^ | / \ I |
(FROM THE CHRONICLE)
BY JAMES W. BRANN
Negro students are establish
ing a new national organization
to advance the progress of their
race and to seek better treat
ment of Negroes In higher edu
cation.
The students laid the founda
tion for the new organization
during a five-day conference at
Shaw University here. The con
ference attracted 78 delegates
from 37 colleges and universi
ties in 19 states.
Specific programs for the or
ganization, known as the Con
gress for the Unity of Black
Students, are being designed
now by a central com.Tilttee se
lected at the conference.
The congress, whose name is
shortened to the acronym
"CUBS” is Intended to be a
campus successor to the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Com
mittee, which was formed here
eight years ago. The planners
of the conference felt that SNCC
's no longer student-oriented,
and that a new group Is need
ed to push for Negro needs In
higher education.
CUBS will prod colleees and
universities to , establish
courses on the literature, his
tory, culture, art, and music of
Negroes.
ORDERLY OPERATION
STRESSED
A conference resolution
"viewed with alarm and con
cern” the recent turmoil which
temporarily shut down several
Negro colleges. The CUBS
conference called on adminis
trators, trustees, and faculty
members to become aware of
the needs, hopes, and aspira
tions of Negro students, and
sensitive to them.
The students were urged to
seek redress of their griev
ances through means that will
not interfere with the orderly
operation of their colleges or
Jeopardize their academic pur
suits.
CUBS will organize teams of
Negro students to recruit and
to motivate others to come to
college. And CUBS teams will
work with poor people on com
munity organization and de
velopment, voter registration,
and tutorial projects.
It was clear from the tone of
the conference that Negro stu
dents Intend to press for more
Involvement of colleges with
community problems.
HOSTILITY TO WHITES
The reasoned and positive
tone of the conference resolu
tions was in sharp contrast to
several of the major speeches,
and to the atmosphere of hos
tility toward whites that per
vaded the five-day meeting.
A mixture of anger and en
thusiasm greeted any mention
01 rlotmg, revolts, or violence
against the white man. Such
remarks usually brought the
delegates and Shaw students to
their feet, cheering with both
fists upraised In what appeared
to be a stylized battle pose.
The delegates tiarredreport
ers after the opening session
of the conference, but later
amended this ruling to per
mit coverage of major speak
ers. Many delegates ignored
reporters altogether, silently
staring into space when ques
tioned. However, some of the
students were cooperative and
anxious to explain the goals
and strategies on their home
campuses.
‘MORE BLACK PROFESSORS’
One theme recurred in every
conversation with students.
"Black students should have
black professors,” said Harold
Moore, of Washington, D. C.,
a student at Fayetteville State
College, N. C. Asked If a
white expert on African history
and culture would be accept
able to him, Mr. Moore said,
“1 feel that no whites are
qualified, because they don’t
think like we do. They can
give us a white Idea of it, but
they see It through their eyes,
not through our eyes.
This was a widely held view
among the delegates here, and
even among the students at Shaw
University, where 40 of the 80
faculty members are white. Yet
the Shaw students (nearly all
(Negro were enthusiastic In
their praise of the universi
ty’s president, James E. Cheek,
who has brought in most of the
white faculty members over the
past three years,
‘‘The students who scream
the loudest for an all-black fa
culty are also the loudest in
their praise of individual white
professors,” says President
Cheek, the originator of the
CUBS conference. ‘‘I went out
after the best teachers I could
find at what I could afford. I
didn’t ask what color they
were.”
FROM DEFICITTOSOLVENCY
Mr. Cheek took office four
years ago, at 31, when Shaw
was running a $280,000 operat
ing deficit. “We were buying
groceries a week at a time
from the A&P,” he recalls.
“We had trouble buying the
mimeograph paper needed for
exams that January. They de
manded cash on delivery.”
Today, thanks to Mr. Cheek’s
money-raising skill and federal
construction and work -study
programs, the university is fi
nancially healthy and operates
on a budget of $2.4 million a
year.
Mr. Cheek t)elleves Negro
colleges have an important role
to play in preparing today’s
students for life in society.
He says:
“Northern students are pre
sented with options here; their
existence is not as solidified as
that of black students at white
colleges in the North. There,
more than likely, he will have
a white faculty; he will be ex
cluded from social functions;
and he will be displayed as an
example of white good will. He
will be tolerated.
“In a black college, that same
student doesn’t confront toler
ance. He is a full member
of the academic community. He
doesn’t try out for a Negro part
in a play. He tries out for a
part In a play. He is on an
athletic team t>ecause he’s good,
not because he is a better than
the best. A black student in a
black college lives more as a
human being is supposed to
live.”
President Cheek wants to see
the Negro colleges built up into
first-class Institutions. He ex
presses bitterness about the re
luctance of white America to
pour money into the United
Negro college fund, and about
the Inadequate appropriations
given public Negro colleges by
state legislatures.
DISTURBED BY ANTI
WHITE TALK
He is disturbed by some of
the anti-white talk among mili
tant college students, especially
those from northern white uni
versities.
“Something terrible is hap
pening to some of these students
in white colleges In the North,"
Mr. Cheek says. Four Shaw
students are at Harvard this
year In an exchange program,
and Shaw officials have been as
tonished at the virulence of the
letters they have written.
“Their letters are seething
with hatred,” Mr. Cheek says.
He feels that associating with
militant organizations at Har
vard has changed the students,
' Mr. Cheek said he Is encount
ering this attitude more and
more. He is disturtied because
“these are the students who will
go back and leaders of their
neighborhoods and communi
ties, and they will transmit
these attitudes to their chil
dren.”
“If this Is what the leader
ship of the black community is
going to be, then God help us,”
Mr. Cheek says.
He described the trend as
"reverse racism.”
“One of the things America
has been blessed with is that
the prejudice has been until
now - one way,” he explains.
Unless the reverse - racism
movement is halted by white
recognition of the Negro’s prob
lems and by massive efforts to
improve his lot (and his col
leges), American will “pro
duce a generation of embittered
but misguiaeo racists,” Presi
dent Cheek predicts.
Most of the speakers at the
conference held an even dimmer
view. The conference, in plan
ning for a year, Included a
wider spectrum of Negro opin
ion, and presented some of the
biggest names In the black pow
er movement.
Negro poet Le Roi Jones was
scornful of Negro colleges in his
address to delegates and Shaw
students. The kindest thing
that he said about them was
that they prepare black stu
dents to take their place in
white society. He praised the
use of violence against white
society.
Georgia Legislator H. Julian
Bond brought his audience
cheering to Its feet by asking;
‘ 'Is not the status quo as vio
lent as any Watts or Newark
or Detroit? Is it not vio
lent to condemn to death twice
the proportion of black babies
as white babies In their first
year? Is It not violent to
send twice the proportion of
black men as white men to
Vietnam every year?”
Mr. Bond called for changes
in “the Jobs system, the police
system, the housing system,
the education system, and the
health system.”
"These systems need to be
controlled by those affected by
them,” he said. He warned
that If white America does not
hasten to solve race problems,
then "America will really be
gin to realize Langston Hughes
prophecy - that dreams de
ferred much longer.
LOS ANGELES LEADER
HITS RIOTS
One of the most positive
speeches was given by Ron Ka-
renga, founder and leader of a
Los Angeles militant black or
ganization. Mr. Karenga and
his followers have shaved lieads
and wear African robes. He
and his organization were given
much 01 the credit lor the lack
of violence in Los Angeles dur
ing last month’s nationwide ri
oting.
Mr, Karenga urged the dele
gates to build a black culture
and value system based on their
African heritage. He told them
to use their education to help
their fellow Negroes. “To
many black men get an educa
tion, then cut out,” he said.
He spoke against rioting,
calling It “pseudo-actlvlsm,”
and urged the students not to get
caught up In It. He called for
actions that are creative rather
than destructive.
He said Negroes should or-
ROOSEVELT MOSELEY
Feature Editor
Cartoonist
PAM BRITO
Literary Editor
HILTON SMITH
Sports Editor
DOROTHY YATES
News Editor
WILLUM CARSON
Photographer
CREFT HANNIBAL
Poet
DANNY SCARBOROUGH
Editor-In-Chief
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OF THE PEN
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Corresponding Editor
ganlze economically. At times,
his message was almost reli
gious, although anti-Christian.
“Develop yourself into some
thing that is worth rememl>er-
Ing,” he said, "so that when
you die, somebody will say -
now, my father, my brother, he
was something.
"You must make the world
that you want your children to
grow up In. Black people have
got to realize that the only
thing that Is going to see them
through is unity,”
Hippies
Nightmare
BY CREFT HANNIBAL
liOst in a bathroom
drowned In tooth-paste
Tortured with razors
spied on by mirrors
Shampoo on his toe nails
deodorant by his ears
Showerd by the toilet
choked with towels
beaten by bars of soap
medicine In wine
pep-pllls for aspirin
tissues chase him,
poi.soned by cologne.
Bad Now
Good
BY CHARLES CHAPMAN
Black is beautiful
Black now white
I was right
Whl e now black