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SECOND SEMESTER
JANUARY 27-28
Durham, North Carolina, December 20, 1968
35 Students Named To Who’s Who
Thirty-five seniors and jun
iors have been selected for this
year’s Who’s Who Among Stu
dents in American Colleges and
Universities.
These students are Roy An
derson, senior; Barbara Avery,
senior; Bertha Avery, senior;
Melvin Bailey, senior; Lubert
Barnes, senior; Melvin Batten,
senior;; Harold Beafty, senior
Mary Bentley, senior; Daniel
Blue, Junior; Elsie Cheatem,
junior; Bessie Beckwith, senior;
Norma Brown, senior; Elwood
Callahan, senior; Janice Camp
bell senior; Charles Council,
senior; Judith Enoch, senior;
Hilda Gilliard, senior; Joyce
Grant, senior; Linda Hargrove,
junior; Frances Hairston, senior;
Brenda Jenkins, senior; Irene
Lay, senior; Norma Leak, sen
ior; Milicent Litaker, senior;
Mary Lowe, senior; Priscilla
McNeil, senior; Patricia Medd
ling; senior, Burma Paige, sen
ior; Rosa Peebles, senior; Kate
Scales, senior; Esther Silver,
senior; Beverly Washington,
junior; Carol Watson, junior;
Alfred Whiteside, senior; and
Francis Majette, senior.
These students were selected
on the basis of scholarship, par
ticipation and leadership in
academic and ^xtra-curricular
activities, citizenship and serv
ice to the school and promise of
future usefulness. The students
recognized by this organization
each year are nominated from
approximately 750 colleges and
universities.
The organization awards each
member a certificate of recog
nition, presented on the campus
either at graduation or earlier
in the year. Also, it provides a
placement or reference service
to assist members seeking em
ployment.
Although the selections have
not beerl released publicly by
the publication itself, the sen
iors and juniors have received
their letters, notifying them that
they have been selected.
NCC BSUers To Attend Seminar
The Baptist Student Union of
North Carolina will hold its
Social Action Seminar in Wash
ington, D. C., December 27-31.
Delegates from the North Caro
lina College Chapter will at
tend.
Along with covering night
spots and theaters and sight
seeing in Washington, the group
will participate in various dis-
Speech Classes
Telecast News
On Wednesday, December 4,
the NCC-CCTV began telecast
ing a campus news program
sponsored by the English 210
(Fundamentals of Speech)
classes. The program is tele
casted each Wednesday at 1:00
P.M. in rooms 07 and 205 of the
Science Building and room 215
of the Education Building.
To send in announcements or
news articles type them double
spaced on eight and a half by
eleven inches and put them in
the TV Box either at the Secre
tarial pool or in the English De
partment office by 10:00 A.M.
each Wednesday. In case addi
tional information is needed,
please indicate the name of the
reporter, the department or or
ganization, and the extension
number in the lower righthand
corner.
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African Emphasis-Peace Corps trainees in the Liberian training project
at NCC are shown at an exhibit of Nigerian art in the college library.
NCC CHOSEN TRAINING CENTER
cussion groups: “A Sociological
View of the City,” to be led by
Geno Baroni; and “The Role
of the Christian in a Socially
Changing Community,” to be
led by Paul Gillespie.
The delegates will be guests
at sevejaJ embassies and have
scheduled a discussion with
Fred Rhodes of the Senate Re
publican Policy Planning Com
mittee.
Draft Counsel
Center Opened
A number of recent changes
in Selective Service regulations
have further confused an al
ready foggy area of the law
and raised questions of vital
concern to many NCC male
undergraduates regarding their
new rights and obligations. In
order to answer such questions
as may arise and provide in
formation about the new laws,
a draft counseling center opened
on December 1 on NCC’s cam
pus.
The center is located in room
308 of the Commerce Building,
and for the remainder of the
fall term will be opened from
2-3 p.m. on Wednesdays and
Fridays. New hours will be
given in the Echo at the begin
ning of the spring semester.
(See Center Opened Page 3)
North Carolina College, in
cooperation with The Peace
Corps, has been instrumental
in the success of the Peace
Corps training programs. The
programs which involves 79
trainees is the first of its kind
held at a black college. Headed
by Project Director Dr. Charles
W. Orr and Assistant Project
Director Mr. Harold W. Alex
ander, the project is to produce
volunteers “whose services to
Liberia can be realized through
contributions as teachers as
well as in other phases of the
Liberian community.”
North Carolina College was
chosen as a training center for
this project because it is in
the center of an environment
in which constant efforts are
being made to uplift black and
underprivileged people. NCC
wes chosen also because of its
numerous staff members who
are competent in aiding in the
progress of this project. NCC
will receive from the Feder
al Goverument approximately
$120,000 as a result of the pro
gram.
The trainees, all of whom
hold bachelor’s degrees, are
from every section of the United
States. They live in, homes
throughout Durham and receive
small allowances. As volunteers
in Liberia, the trainees will
spend two years in service.
While at NCC, the trainees at
tend seminars, learning more
about how to serve through
community involvement.
Members of the North Caro
lina College staff who are aid
ing in the program are Dr.
Charles Orr and Mr. Harold
Alexander, directors; Mrs. La-
vonia Allison, community in
volvement coordinator; Dr. Ila
Blue, Mrs. Lizzie Crews and
Mrs. Raymond Watkins, subject
matter specialists; Dr. T. J.
Mayberry, Jr. and Dr. Paul
Smith, consultants; Dr. Edward
Nelson, field assessment offi
cers; and Dr. R. P. Randolph,
physician. These are aided by
other persons throughout Dur
ham who are not members of
the NCC staff.
On December 23, the trainees
will leave NCC for brief visits
at home before they leave the
United States for Liberia.
United Durham Coop To Open In Feb,
student Senate makes laws for the student body; Miss Priscilla McNeil,
Vice-president of SGA, presides.
More than 2,000 low-income
persons in Durham have signed
up to buy five dollar shares in
the United Durham Cooperative,
Inc., a supermarket that will
combine social and economic
benefits with good business.
The supermarket plans to
open for business February 1,
1969. It will be attractive and
reasonably priced. The UDC
will be locally controlled and
will be run not solely on the
idea of making money — al
though the supermarket will be
a profit-making business—but
also with the idea of providing
services for p>eople.
The 2,000 persons who have
pledged to buy five-dollar in
terests in the store are holders
of Class “A” stock. Ownership
of Class “A” stock gives the
owner three rights: (1) He re
ceives a discount on purchases
as may be determined by UDC
Board, at the UDC; (2) He can
participate when the holders of
Class A stock meet to elect their
represientatives on the store’s
board of directors; (3) He may
get dividends, if the board so
decides. Only low-income per
sons are entitled to buy Class
“A” shares.
Ownership of Class “B” stock
entitles the holder to help elect
the other one-third of the board.
Holders of Class “B” stock will
be given first consideration on
any dividends that are declared.
Asa T. Spaulding is chairman
of a drive to raise $40,000 of
Class “B” stock before Decem
ber 31. The timetable calls for
raising $22,000 by October 21,
and the balance by the end of
the year.
The store’s policy and pro
cedures will be determined by
the board of directors. Since
two-thirds of the board will be
from the neighborhoods, the
store will accurately reflect the
wishes of the people.
The United Durham Coopera
tive will provide good food at
low prices. It will offer thei
neighborhood people a chance
to have a voice in an enterprise
that is theirs, UDC will be both
a proof and a symbol that social
and economic progress can be
achieved in Durham.
Athletes View
Olympic Boycott
On September 3, 1967 during
the World Student Games in
Tokyo, a Japanese reporter
asked, “In the United States, are
the Negroes now equal to the
whites in the way they are
treated?” Tommie Smith, an
swered “No.” The reporter
asked, “What about the possibili
ty of Negroes boycotting the
1968 Olympics?” Dick Gregory
asked the same question after
Muhammad Ali was stripped of
the world’s heavyweight boxing
title. The general speculation
was “any boycott would primar
ily come as a result of discus
sions among Negro athletes
themselves.” The fact of the
Olympic matter was first sought
and founded by the American
press, who demanded Smith and
Evans were members of the
executive committee for the
United Black Student for Ac
tion, (UBSA) at San Jose State.
This organization sought equal
ity in housing, membership in
social groups, etc. Many press
men the world over pictvired
Smith as a nailitant black leader
or as an athletic stooge for ex
tremist black groups. In return,
the American press scorned the
merits of a boycott by black
athletes. However, Smith’s posi
tion remained firm, as he con
tended to concern about prob
lems facing his people. In ad
dition, black athletes might use
the boycott of the Olympics as
an effective tool in the battle for
social equality.
Black athletes Davis and
Evans expressed attitudes to
questions asked by Duke Drake
to be recorded on tape recorder.
On November 23, the Black
Youth Conference, in Los Ange
les, asked black athletes to ex
press views of the boycott.
Just dig Bob Richards and
white athletes on t.v. (Why
not Bob Hayes, Henry Carr ad
vertising for Wheaties?) We
must strive to be proved, re
sponsible black men first, and
athletes second Smith stated:
You might ask what motivated
their unrest action role. Both
answered “Thinking,” also they
replied, “We would give up
athletics in a minute to die for
our people.” Why boycott only
the Olypmics? Why single them
out while continuing to' compete
for a school?
A—The school is just part of this
country — by boycotting the
Olympics we would hit at
the top.
Q—Why did the U.S. vote to al
low South Africa to compete
in the Olympics?
A—A black man can’t compete
in South Africa against Paul
Nash but he can run in
America. Jim Ryan, a white,
can run in South Africa.
—Negro athletes are now in
college because of scholar
ships; hence must honor con
tract.
Q—When did you s«ise a change
in your opinion?
A—It began when I started
walking and thinking, I am
a Negro.
It began when I started read
ing and it started me to think
(See Boycott Page 3)