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OCTOBER
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Durham, North Carolina, Monday, September 30, 1968
Religious Clubs
Endorse Boycott
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^On the weekend of September
the Director of the United
jipus Christian Ministry took
the various religious clubs on a
Planning Retreat up into the
mountains at Camp Caraway in
Ashboro. Among the activities
which the group engaged
were canoeing, swimming in the
lake, dancing and other forms
of recreation. In their program
plaiuiing, the clubs unanimously
endorsed the present boycott of
the stores of Durham, and
pledged themselves to partici
pate in the boycott as monitors.
In this capacity they will stand
in front of selected stores, pass
out literature, and suggest to
shoppers alternative stores. Oth
er organizations on campus are
now challenged to follow the
religious clubs’ lead.
Among other program featur
ed for this semester the reigious
clubs have decided to sponsor a
float in the Homecoming parade
and to encourage participation
in community affairs by asking
each department to appoint stu
dents, for practical training, in
community situations of need.
The plan is to use the churches
and sooial agencies as a basis for
involving students in commu
nity problems. Several depart
ments have already expressed
their desire to be a part of this
effort.
Other topics to be focused
upon by the clubs this semester
will be “The Third World and
Black Americans,” “White Ra
cism and American Institutions,”
“Power and Racism,” “Sexuali
ty,” “The Christian-Marxist Di
alogue,” “Religious Beliefs and
Personality Processes,” and
“Why are the Poor, Poor?” The
religious clubs will further have
sessions on “The Drafts,” “Tech
nology and Despersonalization,”
“The Black Revolt,” “The New
Student in the Traditional Col
lege” and “The Generation
Gap.”
All meetings of the religious
clubs shall be opened to all
members of the college commu
nity, irrespective of religious
orientation.
FULLER SPEAKS
AT NCC RALLY
In a rally sponsored by the
Black Solidarity Committee for
Community Improvement, NCC’s
B. N. Duke Auditorium became
the scene of this year’s first of
ficial student introduction to the
black boycott in Durham. Called
to order by Student Government
Association President Alfred
Whitesides, the standing room
only audience was informed of
the purpose of the boycott by
Reverend Philip Cousin. Rev
erend Cousin stated that the
need for “efficient administra
tion” in public housing, improve
ment of sub-standard housing
and better employment justi
fies the boycott which will con
tinue indefinitely imless such
grievances are corrected.
Featured at the rally was an
address by Mr. Howard Fuller.
To the music of James Brown’s
(See Fuller Speaks, Page 4)
Urban Meeting Set For October 4-5
CAMPUS LEADERS—Going over plansl for the activities of
the 1968-1969 school year are from left to right—Miss Priscilla
McNeil, vice-presSdent ol the Student Government; Miss Esther
Silver, editor of the Campus Echo; Edgar Grier, editor of the Eagle;
and Alfred Whitesides, president of the Student Government.
Alumni, College Honor Riddick
Coach Herman H. Riddick,
was honored on September 28,
by NCC Alumni as the man who
raised NCC’s grid prowess from
mediocrity into international
prominence. Black athletes are
competing in all kinds of sports
on a basis of complete equally
with other athletes. Such was
not the case when Reddick be
gan his coaching career, ironi
cally as a basketball mentor at
C. F. Pope High School in the
1930’s. However, his genius
was such that he took the kind
of athletes who came to him
through a thorough grounding
in the fundamentals of football
and literally transformed dozens
COACH HERMAN H. RIDDICK
of them into first rate perform
ers by professional standards.
Death came on September
26, virtually the eve of the NCC
Alumni’s long planned obser
vance of “Herman H. Riddick
Day” at O’Kelly Field on Satur
day, September 28.
Riddick was a native of
Gatesville, N. C., attended
schools in his hometown, broke
into athletics as a player at
Elizabeth City State Teachers
College where he’ finished high
school, and went on to become
an all-CIAA end at NCC under
the late coach Leo Townsend.
Riddick played four years under
Townsend and graduated from
NCC in 1933. From 1933 until
1936 Riddick taught science
and coached basketall at what
is now the C. F. High School in
Burgaw, North Carolina.
National recognition cawie to
the quiet, unassuming Riddick
after a nine-year stint as coach
of Durham’s Hillside High
School Hornets. During 1936-
1945 Riddick coached teams
compiled a record of 82 wins,
five losses, and three ties. His
career so paralleled that of an
other grid mentor of the period
that Riddick was dubbed by the
black press as “Sepia Paul
Brown.”
Riddick’s record at NCC in
cluded 118'wins, 12 ties and 46
losses.
The NCC years were Rid-
aiek's greatest. Wu-king under
conditions that would have dis
couraged many coaches, Rid
dick raised money for recruit
ment, often paying boys’ tui
tions out of his own pocket. He
persuaded his many friends and
alumni associates to help field
teams when college funds were
short. In a 19-year period Rid
dick managed what is now
recognized as one of the most
successful football programs in
the predominantly black col
leges of his day.
(See Alumni, College, Page 4)
South African
Lecture Slated
Mr. Gladstone M. Ntalabati, an
exile from South Africa and a
member of the banned African
National Congress of South
Africa, will lecture at NCC on
October 15 and 16. The main
lecture will be in the auditorium
of the Education Building on the
evening of the 15th and he will
speak in combination classes on
October 16.
Ntalabati, a Ph.D. candidate
at Harvard University, has testi
fied before U.S. Government
Congressionaal Hearing on Unit
ed States — South African
Relations, and he has also ap
peared before the UN Special
Committee on apartheid and
conditions in South African jails.
Ntalabati is a leader in the
African National Congress, an
underground organization which
defended the rights of African
people for over 50 years. The
Noble Peace Prize Winner, Chief
Albert Luthuli once headed this
organization of which Mr.
Ntalabati is the American repre
sentative. The NCC lectures
are being sponsored by the Re
ligious Activities Committee.
On October 4, 5, and 6, a
conference titled, “Toward A
New City” will be co-sponsored
by North Carolina College at
Durham and Duke University. It
will deal with the problems and
possibilities of an urban future.
On Friday night, October 4,
a major address will be given
by Reverend Jesse L. Jackson,
the national director of SCLC’s
Operation Breadbasket at 8:15
p.m. in the Duke Student Union.
On Saturday, October 5, 17
34 RECRUITERS
TO VISIT IN OCT.
By L. A. MERRITT, Director
NCC Career Counseling and
Placement Bureau
Some thirty-four different
representatives from twelve
Federal Agencies, twenty-o n e
business and industrial firms,
two Task Force teams from The
Peace Corps and Plans For
Progress, one state agency, three
school systems, and one gradu
ate school are slated to visit
NCC’s campus during the month
of October as the Career Coun
seling and Placement Bureau
launches its 1969 recruitment-
placement campaign.
In an effort to strengthen
placement communications be
tween the placement office, fac-
ulty-staff, counselors, and stu
dents, a monthly release list
ing employers and other agen
cies scheduled to visit North
Carolina College will be distri
buted throughout the school
year. The schedule will depict
dates representatives will be on
campus, types of positions the
employer will be attempting to
fill, and the majors the employ
er will consider for these posi
tions.
October 3 has been designated
as the kick-off date for the 1969
recruitment season, and on that
date the Civil Service Commis
sion and a number of Govern
ment agencies, all members of
the Southeastern Federal Re-
cruting Council, will sponsor a
one-day Federal Employment
Outlook Program. Each year the
Federal Government employs
more than 15,000 college gradu
ates for rewarding careers in a
wide range of professions and
occupations in the Federal Serv
ice.
The Federal agencies repre
sentatives will be available to
talk with all students who are
interested in governmental em
ployment, and will maintain
booths and informational desks
in the main lobby of the A. El
der Student Union beginning at
9:00 o’clock a.m., and extending
through 5:00 p.m. A separate
story on the Federal Employ
ment Outlook program can be
found in other columns of this
edition of the Echo.
During the week October 7
through October 11 a team of
representatives from The Peace
Corps is scheduled to man in
formational desks and distribute
literature and applications forms
to interested students.
(See 34 Recruiters, Page 6)
seminars will be held at both
Duke and NCC. The seminars
will be led by local city offi
cials and businessmen active in
the community. These seminars
will be held Saturday morning
and afternoon.
The seminar topics and lead
ers are “Police and the Urban
Crisis,” Major Julian of the
Durham Police Department, Lt.
Leak, High Point Police De
partment; “The News Media and
the Urban Crisis,” Wallace Car
roll, editor, Winston-Salem, Bob
Brown, editor. North Carolina
Anvil; Lotiis Austin, editor Car
olina Times and Lindsey Mer
ritt, North Carolina College
Placement Bureau; “Administra
tion of Justice under Emergency
Conditions,” H. M. Michaux, Jr.,
and Judge Riley; “Employment
Practices and Union Develop
ment,” Harry Boyt; “Education
and the Urban Crisis, Mrs. Mar-
ley. County School Board, How
ard Lee, and Dr. James Brewer;
“The Welfare System: Problems
and Possibilities,” Mrs. Mary
Jane Burns and Nelson Reed;
“Public Housing,” John Sams
and Charles Tillman; “Low In
come Housing,” Mrs. Mary Se-
mans, Mrs. Gooch, and Ben
Ruffin; “Politics of Urban Gov
ernment” James A. Ward, C. E.
Boulware, Russell Adams; Open
Housing,” CJene Hampton; “The
University and Social Change,”
Dr. C. Jones; “Financing the
City,” Wade Penny, Dr. Black
burn; “Black Community Or
ganizing,” Howard Fuller;
“White Community Organizing,”
Dick Landerman; “The Role of
the Church in the Urban Crisis,”
W. W. Finlater and Philip Cous
in; “Federal Agencies: Their
Role and Effectiveness,” Char-
sie Hedgepeth and Nathan Gar
rett; “Dynamics of Rising Ex
pectations,” Jack Vaughan, Na
tional Director of the Peace
Corps.
On Saturday evening, a panel
consisting of community and
university people will try and
bring together many of the
topics examined in the confer
ence and examine the question,
“Where Do We Go From Here?”
Also featured on the evening
program will be Miss Bernice
Reagan, the folksinger.
Workshops will be held on
Sunday examining specific areas
where university students can
get involved in working for so
cial change.
Events Announced
OCT. 2—Soul Sister Supreme
Miss Carla Thomas
OCT. 4, 5, 6—Conference “To
ward A New City”
OCT. 6-12—Student Union Talk
OCT. 6—Art Exhibit
OCT. 12—Movie — “All the
Young Men”
OCT. 14—ACU-I Regional Con
ference
OCT. 15 and 16—South African
Revolutionist Lecture
OCT. 16—Film and Discussion
—“The FBI”
OCT. 20 - 21—Exhibition of
Dutch Paintings
OCT. 26—Hospitality Hours
(Homecoming Visi
tors)