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TUESD^IlY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1958 THE CAMPUS ECHO PAGE THREE SG Protests Campus Echo editor, Theodore Gilliam, is seen here at work as he prepares the first edition of the prize winning newsjiaper. PRESIDENT EXTENDS WELCOME To our returning students, I am happy to say welcome back home. It is my hope that this will be our best year. And, why not? Every new year means that one more year has been added to our experience, and we should profit by our experiences. To each new student, I wish to extend special greetings. In order that you may know what you will discover in time, I wish to say to you that the people here at North Carolina College are friendly people. The North Carolina College is a friendly institution. If you should be interested in testing the validity of this statement, I would suggest that you try a simple experiment. To carry out this exi)eriment, you have to do only one thing and that is to be friendly yourself. If you do this, you will notice at once how friendly other people are. “The best way to make friends is to be friendly.” The second thing that I wish to say at this time to our new sttudents is that the President of the College, the faculty, and the advanced students sincerely hope that you will enjoy your experi ences as college students. We really mean this. It is our hope that you will enjoy associating with your new friends, that you will enjoy the social life of the campus, and that you, will have a real good time participating in the many extra class activities which are pro vided. Now if there is a question in your mind as to why old and serious people like the President are interested in these weighty affairs, I will give you a learned answer. It is this. We know that people in adult life do most of their work through organizations. If they are in business, they work with other persons in their business organizations; if they are teachers, they are members of a faculty; if they are in industry, they work in labor organizations. In addition, religious as well as political activities are carried on through or ganizations. Modern life is characterized by group activity. This being true, we want each student to develop the skills, the know ledge, and the attitudes which will enable him to participate intelli gently and cooperatively in group affairs. The third thing which I wish to say, which is in no way in conflict with what I have already said, is that learning is, or should be, the most important thing that goes on at North Carolina College, and for that matter at any other.institution of higher education. This principle is implicit in the previous statement that extra class activi ties have great value as learning experiences. Finally, may I say that there is something special about a col lege which distinguishes it from other types of institutions. This special feature is centered in the hope that each student while in college will develop what may be called an intellectual interest - an interest in some special area of learning that is worthy of a life’s devotion. Exploratory courses and subject majors and minors are provided with the hope that each student will find for himself this personal interest which is challenging in the sense that it will con tinuously require his best intellectual effort and which is creative in the sense that there is always more to be learned and discovered. Having such an interest is the mark of a truly educated man. President Alfonso Elder (continued from page 1) DMA).” On Monday the SG represent atives, including faculty mem bers Drs. G. T. Kyle, Rose B. Browne, and C. A. Ray, were given audience by an Advisory Committee of the DMA. The committee expressed the DMA’s wish to alleviate the grievances of the NCC students; however, the committee could not express the official feelings of the DMA executives. Spearhead in bring ing the Merchants and the SG representatives together was Warren Carr, chairman of the Durham Committee on Human Relations. Plans were made to hold further negotiations in or der to reach a solution for the problem. Dudley called an assembly of all students for 6 p.m. of Mon day night. The administration; was not invited; however Dean Kyle and other faculty members sat in on the meeting. Present, too, were various citizens of the community, along with local photographers and newsmen. At the meeting It was reveal ed that, according to the DMA, the welcoming program had, started as part of the Duke ad ministration’s orientation for its freshmen. In order to create fa vorable relations between Duke students and Durham, the DMA had been invited by the Duke administration to participate. Dr. George T. Kyle, NCC dean, when called upon by Dud ley to answer a student’s ques tion of why NCC had not been included in the annual welcome for college students, stated that “the administration at Duke handles much of the work done by the Student Government of this institution...” Neither the Student Government of NCC nor the administration had invited the DMA, ks the Duke adminis tration had, to welcome their students to Durham. Mr. Dudley then put before the student body the question of what form the protest should take. He announced to the as sembly that the student leaders had contemplated the idea of a: boycott. The SG president asked for opinions. The feeling of the more than 500 freshmen and up perclassmen were strongly in favor of a boycott. Dudley said the SG hqd prepared placards, signs and equipment for a full scale picket. The decision, he emphasized, as to what action should be taken lay in the hands of the student body. The speakers from the floor were strongly in favor of a boy cott. A lone petitioner, Thomas Lee Cameron, a Durham fresh man, who spoke against a boy cott as beinfe ineffective and radical drew boos and cries of “Sit down!” from the assembly. Senior Willie West, one of the student leaders, voiced the opin ion that a boycott should be ruled out as imfavorable until results of negotiation deemed it necessary. He received the ap plause of the freshman dominat- The two students above are part of the Student Government delegation which met with the DMA in the first meeting to discuss the welcoming of NCC students to Durham. Here they are on the stage in B. N. Duke auditorium as the student body was told of the meeting. They are Samuel Russell, Gastonia, law student, and Ben S. Page. ed assembly. SG president Jerome Dudley, in charge of the assembly, pA the issue to a vote, saying “AU in favor of negotiation and while negotiation is going on patroni zing member stores of the Dur ham Merchants Association, stand.” The majority of the stu dents stood. The tide was turned when Robert Kornegay, vice president of the SG, asked, “Is it necessary to write for an invitation to a party, or to be welcomed?” Again came a wave of protest from the audience. On subse quent votes, which were recast because of nebulous wording, it was decided that a committee would continue negotiations with the DMA and while negoti ations were in session students of NCC would boycott. Tuesday, the student president said that students w'ei^e being “left pretty much on their own about patronizing local stores.” A joint faculty-student com mittee was formed Tuesday to meet with the DMA. The com mittee, headed by George T. Kyle, Dean of the Undergraduate School, includes NCC president, Dr. A. Elder; faculty members. Rose B. Browne, J. S. Morrow, C. A. Ray, and E. W. Phillips; and Student Government repre sentatives, Jerome Dudley, Robert Kornegay, Benjamin S. Page, Clarence McPhail, Willie West, Earle Chavis, and Peggy Moore. The protest received the sup port of the Durham Business and Professional Chain, who gave an official welcome Wednesday, September 17, and the One O’clock Luncheon Club, com- iwsed of 50 prominent business men, who passed the following resolution: “The One O’clock Luncheon Club wishes to join the students of North Carolina College in their expression of resentment of the treatment ac corded them by the Merchants Association of Durham in the failure of that group to include North Carolina College students DurhamTailorShop REPAIRS - REWEAVim FOR Welcome Students, Faculty Service Prinfina Comnanv MEN AISD WOMEN (Printers of the ECHQ) ALTERATIONS BY EXPERT TAILORS LETTERPRESS - OFFSET - ENGRAVING Littie Thompson^ Manager Let Us Handle Your Printing Needs We Ship Printing Anywhere TELEPHONE 2-2713 PHONE 9-2039 103 ^ W. Parrish St. Durham, N. C. 504 E. Pettigrew St. Durham, N. C. in their regular welcoming ac tivities. The One O’clock Lunch eon Club offers full endorsement of and wholehearted support to) the efforts of North Carolina College students to gain their due recognition.” The resolution was signed by the club’s presi dent, E. C. Turner. The faculty-student committee met with the Advisory Commit tee of the DMA again on Tues day. Another meeting of the stu dent body was called for 6 p.m. Tuesday. Many of the upper classmen had arrived for regis tration. Because of long queues for dinner and slow service in the dining hall, many students were delayed in attending the meeting. At the meeting the students were urged by Dudley to call off the boycott until further de velopments from the negotia tions which appeared to offer some promise of future success. The appeal to the students’ emotions, however, for boycot ting or mass parading was kept warm through innuendo. The woman called to the standi was handsome but no longer young. The judge gallantly in structed, “Let the witness state her age, after which she may be sworn in.” (THE READER’S DIGEST) Welcomei Refreshes without filling
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