Thursday, March 31, 1960
THE CAMPUS ECHO
Page Seven
Streeter Makes
Northern Tour
Lacy Streeter, president of
the College Chapter of the Na
tional Association for the Ad^
vancement of Colored People,
flew to New York City March,
15 for a conference with leaders
of the organization and to make
a tour of N'orthern cities, ex^
plaining the sit-down proteslj
and soliciting support for the
movement.
Streeter conferred \^th Roy
Wilkins, executive secretary of
the NAACP, and Glouster Cur
rent, director of branches and,
chapters, at the home office on
West 40th Street. The afternoon
of March 16, Streeter spoke to a
group of students in Syracuse,
N. Y. Mr. Ralph Abernathy,
president of the Montgomery!
Improvement Association, was
the guest speaker for the occa
sion.
Streeter departed Wednesday,
March 16, for Columbus, Ohio,
where he stayed at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Durham.
Mr. Durham is president of the
Columbus branch of NAACP.
He spent the following day in
press conferences. Also, that day
he visited Capitol University^
and held informal discussions in
classes there.
Friday morning he left for
Detaoit, Michigan. There he at
tended several press conferences
and appeared at a mass rally at
8:00 p.m. in one of the local
churches. That night Streeter
and Mr. Marion Wright, vice
president of Southern Reproval
Council, a liberal organization,!
spoke before about 2,400 people
in Ford Auditorium.
After the rally Streeter was
invited to the home of promi
nent leaders who were members
of the Pioneer Club in order to
discuss the sit-down protest. The
discussion lasted until 2:30 a.m.,
March 19. The Pioneer Club
commended the action of stu
dents in the protest and urged
greater efforts. Streeter flew
back to NCC that Saturday
afternoon.
The trip was sponsored by the
NAACP. Streeter concluded: “I
had a most interesting and suc
cessful trip.”
Serve Pepsi
in the new
sociable
Newman Club Es
For the first time on NCC’s
campus the Newman Club, an
organization of Catholic stu
dents, was established, upon the
request of Bishop U. S. Waters,
Bishop of North Carolina. The
first n;ieeting was held on
February 28. Advisor to the
organization is Mr. Rubin Wes
ton, professor of social science,
and the chaplain is Father
-CLA Meet Here-
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program at 3:30, Thursday after
noon, April 7, are Professors
Lewis H. Fenderson, Howard
University, “C| ontempora-
ry Trends Reflecting the Ne
gro’s Social Progress in Ameri
can Journalism”; John Lash,
Texas Southern University*
“The Negro’s Ideological and
Social Values as Reflected in His
Fiction”; M. Jourdan Atkin'son,
Texas Southern University, “Thei
Negro’s Ideological and Social
Values as Reflected in His Plas
tic and Visual Creations”; and
Edward N. Wilson, North Caro
lina College, “The Negro’s
Ideological and Social Values a3
Reflected in His Music.”
The drama of French play
wright, Paul Claudel, and the
American Tennessee William^
will come under scrutiny at an
evening session.
Dr. Ruth Horry of NCC will
read a paper on French play
wright Claudel, and Dr. EsteiJ
Jackson of Tuskegee Institute
will discuss Tennessee Williams
on Thursday night April 7, at
8:00 p.m.
CLA President Charles A.
Ray of NCC will preside at the
general session at 10:00 a.m. on
April 8. Dr. Lionel Stevenson of
Duke University and Dr. E.
Strugis Leavitt of UNC, two in
ternationally famed scholars,
will speak to members of the
CLA on this day. Dr. Raleigh
Morgan, Associate Director ofi
the Linguistics Institute, Wash
ington, D. C., will speak at the
luncheon session.
Dr. Turner will also be in
charge of the session on “Basic
lish” at 2:15. Participants in the
Issue in the Teaching of Eng-
Basic Issues discussion are Pro
fessor Daisy F. Balsey, Winston-
Salem Teachers College,
“Literature and the Prospective!
Teacher,” Dr. Margaret Jackson,
A&T College, “Background Ma
terial for the Student of Litera
ture,” and Benjamin Boyce,
Duke University, “Approachesi
to the Teaching of Literature.”
A session is scheduled' on
Linguistics and Semantics at
4:00 p.m. The participants and
their topics are: Johnnie Marie
McCleary, Texas Southern Uni^
versity, “Descriptive and Struc
tural Linguistics”; Professor
Herman C. Hudson, North Caro
lina College, “Pattern Practice:
Teaching English as a Foreign
Language,” and Helen Clifford
Johnson, Virginia State College,
“Semantics as a Methodology.”
Other special features of the
conference will be an address by
Dr. Lionel Stevenson of Duke
University, at the 7 p.m. ban
quet in the College Cafeteria^
and a speech by Dr. Joseph Mer-
sand, former president of the
National Council of Teachers of
English at the 9 a.m. general as
sembly.
The final papers will concern
“Negritude,” by Dr. Ivan E.
Taylor, Howard University; Dr.
M. Jourdan Atkinson, Texas
Southern University; and Dr.
Benedict Njoku, Wiley College.
The yClosing Luncheon address
will be made by Dr. Sturgis E.
Leavitt, Kenan Professor of
Spanish, University of North)
Carolina.
sblished Here
Thomas McAvoy. The officers
are: Augustus Davis, president;
Wilbur Hankins, vice-president;
Angela Keys, secretary; Edith
Greene, treasurer; and Gloria
Haynes, reporter. The organiza
tion which is educational, religi
ous, and social, anticipates such
activities as communion break
fasts, religious films, and out-,
standing speakers. Occasionally
there will be joint meetings with,
the Newman Clubs of Duk0
University and the University of
North Carolina. The meetings
are held bi-monthly after Ves
pers.
Father Parker, assistant priest
of Immaculate Roman Catholic
Church, was the speaker at the;
last meeting, which was held
March 20.
-Coed Weekend-
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theme of the symposium held on
Saturday, March 5, in B. N.
Duke Auditorium. Speakers for
the occasion were: Miss Frankie
Adams, Mrs. Mary E. Carnegie,
associate editor of The Nursing'
Outlook; Mrs. Martin Lutherj
King, wife of the leader of the
Montgomery boycott; and Mrs,
Hannibal. After the symposium
the speakers moved to secti,ons(
of the Education Building to dis
cuss individual problems.
At 2 p.m. in B. N. Duke, Mrs.
William Harper, a distinguished
model from Atlanta, Georgia,,
thrilled a full house at the
fashion show. Mrs. Harper dis
played a wide range of original
fashions. Her grouping consisted
of the various looks; the town,
the after-five, and the evening^
Mr. Harper, who designed and
created the dresses, was unable
to attend. Mrs. Harper and her>
husband work as a team.
Mrs. J. H. Hannibal, from
Kinston, North Carolina, was
given a special citation by the
women students for her outstan
ding work and progress, and for
becoming the first Negro City
Councilwoman in North Caro
lina. The presentation was made
at a reception in her honor be
ginning at 7 p.m. in the New
Women’s Dormitory. This was
followed by open house in the
new dormitory with approxi
mately 500 guests attending.
The crowning event of the
week end, the Co-ed Supper,
was held Sunday night at 7 p.m.
in the Men’s Gymnasium. The
guest soloist was Margaret
Tynes, operatic soprano frorn
New York City. Miss Tynes re-^
ceived an encore after her emo
tional rendition of selections
from Porgy and Bess, “Summer
Time” and “It Ain’t Necessarily
So.”
Dean Latham then passed out
the traditional carnations to out^
standing students, who have dis-i
tinguished themselves academi
cally or through their good
citizenship. First cited were
students voted by their fellow
residents to be the most out
standing students in the resi
dence halls in Service, Leader
ship, Cooperation and Group
Living. The citation of Women
Student Government officersi
followed. Students on the “B”
honor roll received carnations,
followed by citation of Students
on Dean’s List and students who
recently made Who’s Who(
Among Students In American
Universities and Colleges.
The ranking students in de
partment were then cited. They
were Pauline K. Wynn, Com
merce; Cynthia McDonald, Eng
lish; Clarice Parker, Home Eco-^
nomics; Brenda Bethel, Music;
Carolyn Gatling, Mathematics;
Delores Artis, Physical Educa
tion, and Cynthia McDonald,
-Seven Attend-
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The NCC delegation register
ed at the Capitol for the three-
day meet, and immediately pro
ceeded to the Senate and House
chambers, DeShields and Wig
gins going to the Senate and the
others going to the House.
Charles Johnson, president of
the Interim Council of the As
sembly, welcomed the students.
Following his opening remarks,
the almost 200 legislators from
22 colleges heard an address by
Dr. John T. Caldwell, Chancel
lor of North Carolina State Col
lege.
Dr. Caldwell said that at first
he thought to remind the stu
dents not to be over zealous, but
he then decided that the other
94 per cent of the population
would make up for their en
thusiasm. He called upon the
Students to be rational and do
those things which they must do.
That afternoon the Senate and
House elected the necessary offi
cers. Catherine Wiggins was
elected secretary in the Senate
and served throughout all ses
sions. Delegates from N. C. State
College were speaker in the)
House and president of thei
Senate. Consideration of pend
ing bills was the order of the
afternoon.
The bill from North Carolina
College was presented in the
Senate by DeShields and in the
House of Representatives by
McNeil. With only one amend
ment and only half an hour of
debate, the bill was passed by
large majorities in both Houses
of the Legislature. The action
part of the bill read; “That the
provisions of Article IX, Sec
tion 7 of the Constitution of the
State of North Carolina be
amended to delete the term
“University” and substitute
therefore; “All State-supported
Schools of Higher Learning.”
The bill provided for equal
distribution of escheat funds.
The assembly adjourned at, 12:15
a.m. Friday, March 18, and re
convened at 9:00.
The main bill in the Hoxise
was one for the desegregation of
eating facilities. The A&T-spon-
sored bill was breezed through
the House, mostly through the
motion made by a Duke Univer
sity delegate to limit debate to
45 minutes. The delegates,
reasoning that the bill as pre
sented had many legal gaps, pro
pounded it with more than nine
amendments. Originally the bill
would have called for the de
segregation of only eating fa
cilities, mainly lunch counters.
As amended, the bill read; That
all state and municipal licensed
establishments providing ma
terials, goods or services to the
general public be hereafter and
forever forbidden to refuse
equal and inseparable service to
anyone on a basis of creed,
color, or ethnic origin. Any state
laws to the contrary, notwith
standing.
The vote was 51-17 in favor of
the amended bill, with five ab
stentions. Fifteen of the 17
negative votes were said to be
due to legal complications. The
Senate passed the bill Saturday
morning.
The House also passed a reso
lution, sponsored by Johnson C.
Smith University,, providing for
committees to promote better
understanding between the
races. It was passed after being
amended so as to set up com
mittees of which half the mem
bers would be Negroes.
A bill to lower the voting age
Social Science.
Finally, alumni who have re
cently earned the Ph.D. degree
were cited. They were Miss Ila
Blue, class of ’35; Miss Bettye
Bell, class of ’48; Miss Katherine
Caldwell, class of ’54.
to 18 was killed in botl^
branches of the legislature, thq
House defeating it, 37-35. A bill
for the abolishment of capital
punishment, sponsored by Duke
and Shaw Universities, was
passed after being amended to
read that all crimes now punish
able by death be punishable byl
life imprisonment, and that
the sentence not be pardon
able until at least 20 years have
been served. A bill providing fori
tenure after three years of
teaching was passed.
The second session closed by
vote at 6:45 p.m. Thereafter, the
group went to the N. C. State
College cafeteria for a banquet.
The guest speaker was Mr.
Lindsay Whichard, associate
professor of English at N. C.
State and editorial consultant td
the Board of Conservation and
Development of North Carolina.
The professor cited customs in
ancient Rome, and declared that
there is nothing new under the
sun. He spoke of the pre-
Hemingway style, and continued
throughout by way of a humor
ous play on words.
On Saturday morning at 9:00,,
the students convened for thel
last time. Closing the meet,
Harry Golden, editor of the!
Carolina Israelite in Charlotte,
addressed the joint assembly. He
expressed his appreciation foH
his appearance and lauded the
student assembly. He stated that)
Eisenhower’s decision to call fort
bi-racial conferences is about
“six years late.” Golden said that
Eisenhower told a news confer
ence that he did not believe that
the courts could change the
hearts and minds of the people.
Golden contended that the issuei
was not of prejudices or whether)
anyone’s feelings would change,
but one of statutory laws. He
declared that segregation would
not hurt the Negro nearly so
badly if it were not on the
books. He added that the la.w
can, however, “allow Americans
equal participation on every
educational, political and eco
nomical level as free cjtizens.”
The author of Only In America
and For Two Cents Plain added
that the white man limits him
self by limiting the Negro. He
has to spend too much time
watching him, concluded the
editor.
Golden also stated that inter-
gration did not really lower a
school’s standards, as it created
competition. He said that the
white man says that “the Negro
is pushing him, forcing him, but
he is not—he’s escaping.” This
drew a round of applause from
the students.
Following Mr. Golden’s ad
dress, the North Carolina State
Student Legislative Assembly
elected officers for the next
year. Steve Braswell of Duke
University, the winner of the
award for best speaker in the
House, carried his delegation
and that of NCC to win the
presidency of the Interim Coun
cil, the body which plans the
program of the assembly. He
succeeded Charles R. Johnson of
High Point in the office.
Charles Thomas McNeil was
chosen vice-president on the
second ballot. On the first vote
between McNeil and Robert
Cooke of N. C. State College, the
count was 50-49, but the presi
dent ruled that the counting was
inaccurate and therefore a re
count would be made. The win
ner was not declared, and a re
vote was taken. On the second
ballot, McNeil carried the Duke
delegation of 19, the largest pre
sent, to win, 60-43.
Cath'erine Wiggins was de
feated in the race for the office
of secretary on the second vote
44-34.
The Constitution, as revision
ed by the Rules Committee, was
the order of the afternoon. With
minor amendments from the
floor the sections were passed by
subsidiary motions.