Friday, February 28, 1969
THE CAMPUS ECHO
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Fellowship Offered in Planning
Frat Established On NCC’s Campus
The Tau Phi Tau Social Fra-
-Report Focuses-
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have experienced large scale
frustration and failure in the
education of the disadvantaged
student largely because of lack
of experience in dealing with
such students. On this basis,
then prospects regarding legal
education for Negroes in the
State of North Carolina are, to
say the least quite dismal, if
this recommendation is imple
mented.
3. The need for additional Ne
gro attorneys is so acute, that
every available accredited fa
cility should focus on the pro
duction of more Negro law grad
uates. Less than 2% of the law
yers of the Nation are Negro
and less than 2% of the stu
dents currently studying law in
the Nation are Negroes.
4. It would be insensitive and
undemocratic to deprive stu
dents, both white and non-
white whose LSAT scores are
below the University’s cutting
point, of a legal education since
the North Carolina College Law
School record clearly indicates
that these students can success
fully pursue such education j>ass
the bar, and serve as wholesome,
useful, contributing members of
the State’s legal community.
5. The record of the North
Carolina College Law School in
preparing its students for serv
ice in the State is more than
satisfactory, despite inadequate
financial support and the peri
odic uncertainties regarding its
continued existence. To have
performed so well under such
conditions Indicates an u n-
matched potential for develop
ment and a laudable seriousness
of purpose.
6. The North Carolina CoUege
Law School has been accredited
by the American Bar Association
since 1950 and is included among
the small group of predominant
ly Negro Law Schools which a
committee of the Association of
American Law Schools recom
mended should be aided and
strengthened. The same recom
mendation was made by thje
American Assembly of Law and
the Changing Society and the
Council on Legal Education Op-
portimity in a memorandum ad
dressed to Deans of Approved
Law Schools.
The second reconrunendation
]|»rop>oses that North Carolina
College be designated a regional
xmiversity by the General As
sembly since its educational
responsibilities are already com
parable to those of regional uni
versities. In reference to this,
the College believes that cir-
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The Department of City and
Regional Planning at the Uni
versity of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill announced that
it has received a grant of
$180,000 from the Ford Founda
tion to provide fellowship aid
for black students and other
minority group students for
graduate study in city and re
gional planning.
Professor John A. Parker,
chairman of the Department of
City and Regional Planning said
that the fellowship program will
be of major assistance in the
Department’s continuing efforts
to recruit Negro and other
minority group students into
graduate training for profession
al careers in city planning and
urban affairs. He stated that
there are many career oportu-
nities in public service and pri
vate enterprise for persons with
training in urban planning, and
that there are nationwide oppor
tunities in urban planning, and
that there are nationwide oppor
tunities in urban renewal, mod
el cities agencies, and city plan
ning agencies among others for
members of minority groups.
The Ford Foundation financed
fellowship program will provide
funds for five additional Negro
students to enter the two year
program each year for the next
four years. The fellowships will
provide for all tuition and fees
of the student plus a stipend to
cover living costs and an al
lowance for dep>endents for two
cumstances related to the evolv
ing structure of higher educa
tion in North Carolina require
concurrence with the Board’s
recommendation. Since the edu
cational program at North Caro
lina College offers instruction in
the liberal arts and sciences
through the master’s degree, as
well as professional programs,
it encompasses the same range
of educational responsibilities
as those institutions presently
known as regional universities.
In addition, to avoid possible
future differentials in financial
support due to ambiguities and
confusion regarding the func
tions of institutions designated
colleges as opposed to universi
ties, it is felt that the status
of our institution must be
changed to that of a regional
university. Also, if the regional
concept has geographic signifi
cance the central portion of the
State where we are located
warrant? such institutional rep
resentation.
years. Additional funds will
be available for sunmier study
and work-study programs for
fellowship holders.
Professor Parker stated that
these funds would be made
available to minority group
students who cannot normally
afford the cost of graduate train
ing and whose academic creden
tials often do not qualify them
for University fellowships.
The Department of City and
Regional Planning at the Uni-
vrsity of North Carolina offers
a masters degree for persons
preparing for professional ca
reers in planning, and a Ph.D.
degree program for persons pre
paring for careers in teaching
and research. Ninety-five grad
uate students are currently en
rolled in the Department. Op
portunities for specialized study
are provided in social policy
planning, environmental plan
ning, and urban systems analy
sis.
News In Brief
Charles E. Daye a native of
Durham and an honor graduate
of North Carolina College, has
been employed as a law clerk
by the Honorable Harry Phil
lips, United States Court of Ap
peals, Sixth Circuit.
Daye will graduate from the
Columbia University Law
School in June, and will begin
his clerkship duties in Septem
ber. Judge Phillips, whose cir
cuit includes Tennessee, Ken
tucky, Ohio, and Michigan,
maintains offices in Nashville,
Tennessee.
Russell L. Adams, chairman
of the NCC Department of Poli
tical Science said of the ap
pointment, “After the U. S. Su
preme Court, circuit court
clerkships are the highest rank
ing clerical appointments a new
law graduate can aspire to.”
Ernest S. James, a North
Carolina College junior political
science major, has been named
as one of the ten college stu
dents throughout the state
who will participate in the
1969 North Carolina Legislative
Internship Program.
James, a native of Winston-
Salem, has a cumulative aver
age at NCC of 3.2. He will
work as an intern with mem
bers of the General Assembly
and will also take three courses
at North Carolina State Uni
versity in Raleigh.
ternity Inc., a black oriented
fraternity, was founded at North
Carolina College on November
14, 1968. The brothers of the
Tau Phi Tau feel that there is
a need for a change from the
traditional fraternal ideas, pur-
IK)ses and objectives, because of
the black situation in today’s
society. They feel that the black
student should view his oppres
sive past with dignity and pride,
thus creating in him fervor to
become aware of the fact that
he is a vital part of today’s
world and that his culture and
heritage cannot be suppressed.
By culminating many of the
principles of the culture of
blacks, and expounding them,
not only in the college commu
nity but in the deprived com
munity of more unfortunate
black people, the members of
Tau Phi Tau Fraternity feel that
they will all feel a deep sense
of pride in our embittered past.
The Tau Phi Tau Fraternity
has geared its main objective
toward socialization—socializa
tion that affects the lives of col
lege students as well as the in
trinsic nature of socialization
that appeals to more unfortu
nate black people of the .com
munity. By sponsoring programs
and civic events that deal with
the nature of black people’s
culture and their means of so
cialization, the Tau Phi Tau
Fraternity hope to close the
gap that divides the college
student and his intermediate
community. For many years,
black students have graduated
from college, not realizing their
inherent past. They tend to for
get the poverty, the sickness,
and the devastating realities of
their environment. By en
hancing and making the col
lege student realize his true
identity and not the sophitica-
tion of the bourgeois attitude
which is prevalent in many
college graduates, they also feel
that the poverty and other
traits attributed to poor black
people can be eliminated by
closing that so-called domineer
ing gap.
Although the fraternity is
new, the members, fraternal
men have exerted some of the
qualities which profoundly in
fluence awareness of contempo
rary affairs. The fraternity has
participated in the black boy
cott of Durham, by conducting
surveys and also by monitoring.
Additionally, the fraternity has
attended certain programs per
taining to black culture and
tradition.
The members have been
limited for time due to internal
organization matters. The fra
ternity was incorporated in the
state on January 14 and has con
ducted its first smoker. The
fraternity has interest groups
on such college campuses as
Duke, Shaw, Wake Forest,
UCLA, and A&T.
The officers of the fraternity
are Effenus Henderson, presi
dent; Don Jackson, vice-presi
dent; Willie Harrison, assistant
secretary; Cleo Mxirphy, secre
tary; Richard Jones, treasurer;
Elton Stanley, parliamentarian;
and Gary Palmer. The Board
of Directors is comprised of Vin-
ston Burton, William Harris, and
Robert Heard.
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