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Page Four THE CAMPUS ECHO Friday, December 16, 1966 Goldston Examines Draft Problem Cagers Start Basketball Season Excitement reigns at the December 3 game between NCC and Virginia State College. The NCC Eagles lost to the Virginia State Panthers, 65-66. By Rufus Goldston Today, youngsters all over the United States are speaking up about the draft injustices that our selective service program is now practicing on local levels. They feel that their draft boards are using discriminatory meas ures for supplying men to serve in our armed forces. They also feel that the local boards have entirely too much discretionary power so far as the actual selec tion of individuals is concerned. The injustices practiced by these local boards are felt to be both economic and racial. Those who escape, by and large, are the ones with means to continue their education until they reach a ripe old age, or are too old to be drafted. If the draft district is small, those whose fathers are well-known in the community and have influence with the board are not drafted. Neither are the ones who by hook or crook became physically or morally unfit. Those who do get drafted are' in low income categories, who have never had the opportunity, to attend college or who after graduating from college with a Bachelor’s degree will be forced to seek occupa tions and will -be^drafted in the process. Of course the fellows who are lucky enough to be born into a millionaire’s home I Scarsdale, N. |Y. teacher, under an AFT re^arch grant, the study reviews the* thirteen best selling textbooks used in many of our junior and senior high schools.. It ansvjers the ques tion "Are publishers of Ameri can secondary school texts be ing candid ^when they report that, their .approachps to the American Negro have changed in the past year?” I Said Mr, ^loan. upon publi- ! cation of the- Sttjdy: "For the most part, authors and pub- do not have to worry about be ing drafted; to them the military service is either a good experi ence or an institution for the un fortunate. The injustices have become so obvious lately that our leaders are beginning to inquire about the operations of the system. President Lyndon Johnson him self appointed a special com- mitee to investigate our selec tive service system. This com mittee will look for discrepan cies, and unfair practices, and will make its report in late January 1967; no specific date has yet been determined. Many ideas to decrease these illegal or unjust practices have been kicked around lately. They include a national “opportunity board” to register youths for community service, education and job training, as well as the military service. This could be tried on a voluntary basis first, and later be made compulsory. A national lottery system is a second plan that woxild possibly eliminate the unfair practices of the draft system; it would certainly eliminate deficiencies. A third idea is to make it the obligation of each male and female to serve at least two years of their lives in the mili tary services or some type of domestic or international pro gram such as the Peace Corps. Ushers are making genuine ef forts to explore the! myths of Negro history and show tha Negro’s rightful place in the history of this country. But none of the texts have com pletely succeeded, and several are so far from the target that they invite suspicion.” Copies of the Sloan study are available by sending $1 (or JIO for 25 copies) to the AFT Re search Department, 716, North Rush Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611. NCC’s high flying Eagles opened up their 1966-67 basket ball season this past week with an impressive 87-65 win over Fayetteville State and a heart breaking 66-65 loss to the clan from Virginia State. The Eagle’s starting five have been thus far senior forwards Paris Lennon and James Mc Clain both four-year veterans. The center is 6-8 Lee Davis, the husky 220-pound junior from Raleigh. The starting guards have been Willie Sinclair and Byron Kirkley, two swift and good outside shooters who have shown quite a bit of early season finesse. The scoring from this first five shows quite a bit of balance with Lennon and Davis being the more consistent scorers. Coach Floyd Brown, now in his fourteenth season as head coach of the Eagles, will depend strongly upon his bench to assist the front five, included here are James Pridgen and Ronald Mc- Crimmon, two promising sopho more forwards who should help the Eagles immensely around the boards, Roy Killens is the re turning guard. Killens, now a junior will be trying to pressure Kirkley or Sinclair for a start ing berth. Hermon Ross showed fine leadership and take-charge abili ties in the opening victory over Fayetteville State. The fine rookie shows plenty of promise for the Eagles for years to come. Michael Hayes a local city player showed plenty of spunk in the game as he showed he could handle the ball and shoot it too, Hayes should develop into a fine all-around-the-court type player. The schedule looks pretty tough for our blessed Eagles. 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Not that he was so invaluable to the team but be cause of his leadership, offensive play and court finesse. No one now on the team exemplified these qualities in the first game. The second half play of freshman Rose did bring back to mind the playing days of Ted Manning, “The Coach.” The Eagles’ balance should take them far along into the season,' If the team can hold their miscues to a minimum and capitalize on the mistakes of the opposition successfully, we will have a winning season. The opening games showed that the Eagles “can” play to gether — but it remains to be seen if they can play under pressure. The loss to Virginia State was typical of a pressure filled game where the Eagles failed to hold their early lead. The season can be a long and dull one if the team cannot“jell” together as a united team that can play to win. Good luck, Ea gles! Welcome Students COLLEGE INN ICE CREAM BAR 1306 FAYETTEVILLE STREET DURHAM, N. C. FREE PARKING WMle making or redeeming a loan on anything of value — we pay the parking ticket! Durham’s Largest Pawnbrokers Use our service — your fathers did! Five Points Loan Company, Inc. 339 W. Main St. at Five Points CHICAGO —r Making its debut in the field of curriculum re search, the 126,000 member American Federation of Teachers, APL-CXO has published a new and exciting research study en titled “The Negro in Modern American History Textbooks.’’ Written by Irving Sloan, a
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