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EXAMINATIONS
MAY 20 - 28
Durham, North Carolina, Thursday, May 15, 1969
Students reject yearbooks by tearing them to shreds.
Atty. Capers Speaks For Law Day
Attorney Jean Capers of
Cleveland, Ohio told an audience
of Law Day observes that the
Warren court may prove to have
been the most influential branch
of government during the 1950’s
and 1960’s.
Mrs. Capers pointed out sev
eral decisions in the areas of
civil rights and civil liberties as
being the most imp)ortant actions
of the Warren court.
Some of the cases cited were
Smith v Allwright, the 1945 de-
ATTORNEY JEAN CAPERS
cision outlawing segregated pri
maries held by political parties;
Missouri v Gaines and Sweat
v Painter, outlawing segregated
colleges; and Baker v Carr, the
reapportiormient decision which
envinciated the “one-man, one-
vote” concept.
She said that on the issues
of civil liberties, the court moved
more slowly because they foimd
legitimate needs on both sides.”
Mrs. Capers named as major
decisions in the area of civil
liberties the decisions that the
Fifth Amendment privilege ex
tends to investigations by Con
gressional committees, coupled
with the decision that Fifth
Amendment rights are preserved
if the witness is granted immu-
See Attorney Capers, Page 3
Henry, Murray, Jordan, Wright Win
YEARBOOK
REJECTED
Some one hundred-fifty North
Carolina College students gath
ered in an open field on the cam
pus to burn issues of the 1969
edition of The Eagle. The year
book drew much criticism from
students who felt that it showed
considerable favoritism to in
dividuals and that it was not
representative of the student
body.
John L. Stewart, Dean of Stu
dents, joined the group of dis
senting students in the lobby of
the student union outside the
Eagle office. “Our feelings do
not differ one bit. I’m just as
disappointed in this mess as you
are” said Stewart, as he led the
group outside to burn to year
books.
Edgar S. Grier, the editor of
the yearbook was not available
for comment although the con-
See Yearbook, Page 3
Alumnus Writes
About Dr. King
Adams Press of Chicago has
accepted for publication a book
on the life of the late Dr. Martin
Liuther King, Jr. by Lenwood G.
Davis. The book is entitled
I Have A Dream: The Life and
Times of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The book covers in detail his life
from birth to his funeral. It will
be released in September 1969.
The manuscript has been imder
preparation for five years and
is perhaps the most comprehen
sive and up to date work ever
written on Dr. King. The book
is approximately 375 pages long,
Mr. Davis graduated from
Queen St. High School in Beau
fort, N. C. in 1957 and in the
same year matriculated at North
See Aloninas Writes, Page 3
NCC students went to the p>olls
on April 25, and elected Philip
Henry as president of Student
Govenment and Percy Murray
as vice-president. Otis Jordan
won the office of editor of the
Campus Echo and Jean Wright
as Miss NCC.
Henry, a rising senior from
Henderson, is a political science
major and a social science minor.
He won the election by a“land-
slide,” piling up 795 votes as
opposed to 414 received by
George Weaver and 395 received
by Evester Bailey.
The president-elect is a mem
ber of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fra
ternity, the Political Science
Club, Ex Umbra and the German
Club.
Majoring in History, Percy
Murray is a rising senior from
Swan Quarter. Murray is presi
dent of the History and Social
Science Club, a member of the
Domitory Council and the Poli
tical Science Club.
In the race for the vice-presi
dent, Murray, with 813 votes de
feated Walter Edmonds and
Thoyd Melton. Murray was Hen
ry’s running mate.
Otis Jordan, a rising senior
from Rocky Mount, won the edi
torship of the Campus Echo. Jor
dan is an accounting major and
has worked with the Campus
Echo as advertising manager.
Jean Wright, the new Miss
NCC is from Richmond, Va.
Jean has broken tradition — she
is a non-Greek. She accumu
lated 973 votes as opposed to
Marguerite Davis, 346, and
Andrea Southall, 202.
This year’s election was the
largest in the history of North
Carolina College.
Attorney Floyd McKissick
McKissick Hits
Racism Semantics
Floyd B. McKissick, foimder
of Soul City was the principal
speaker for the annual Awards
Day program. In his address, he
stated that the people who op
pose Soul City are the ones who
opposed him in North Carolina
when he was fighting “to
achieve what some people call
integration.”
McKissick also said that he
thought it strange that the forces
who opposed integration now
oppose the concept of “a black
city for black people.”
See McKissicik Hits, Page 3
The Delfonics, Honorary Brothers of Tau Phi Tau Frat.
DELFONICS SHOW BROTHERHOOD
Brotherhood is the main char
acteristic of being in a bond of
fellowship. Many fraternities are
based on this idea, but many
fraternities are unable to really
know what a brother can mean.
The Tau Phi Tau Social Fra
ternity recently exemplified this
ideal as they were hosts to their
first honorary brothers, the Del
fonics.
This unmistakable character
istic of living in the bond of
brotherhood highlighted the
electrifying social event that
highlighted a trip to Durham
by the famed “Honorary
“Brothers” of Tau Phi Tau. This
event also touched off many
See Delfonics Show, Page 3
Mrs. Koontz
To Be Speaker
Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan Koontz,
Director of the Women’s Bu
reau in the Departmen of Labor,
will be the speaker for North
Carolina College’s commence
ment services, Sunday, June 1.
Mrs. Koontz was appointed to
the post she now holds by Presi
dent Nixon on February 7. She
is the first Negro to head the
Women’s Bureau and was the
first of her race to serve as presi
dent of the National Education
Association. She is also U.S.
Delegate to the United Nations
Commission on the Status of
Women,
From 1945 until she became-
president of NEA in 1968, Mrs..
Koontz was a special education
teacher at Price High School^
Salisbury, N. C., working with
slow learners and disadvantaged
children. She had taught before
that in Winston-Salem, Landis,
and Dunn, N. C.
Mrs. Koontz is a graduate of
Livingstone College, Salisbury,
and holds a master’s degree in
elementary education from At
lanta University. She has done
other graduate work at Colum
bia University and Indiana Uni
versity and special work in the
field of special education for
slow learners at North Carolina
College.
She is a life member of NEA,
and was president of the associa
tion’s largest department, the
Association of Classroom Teach
ers, in 1965. She is a member of
the NEA’s Council for Excep
tional Children, North Carolina
Council for Retarded Children,
and the National Association for
Retarded Children. From 1965
to 1968 she was a member of the
President’s Advisory Council on
Education of Disadvantaged
Youth.
In 1964, Saturday Review
magazine sent Mrs. Koontz and
15 other Americans to the Soviet
Union. She went to West Berlin
for the NEA in 1962, observing
the effects of the Berlin Wall on
education.
Fellowships
Awarded To Grads
Ten former North Carolina
College students havei been
granted fellowships by the
Southern Fellowships Funds in
a program for faculty improve
ment in predominantly Negro
colleges and universities.
The list of recipents includes
four who received the master’s
degree at NCC, and two faculty
members who are alimuii. Also
a recipient is Dr. Helen G. Ed
monds, dean of the graduate
school, who will do research in
various libraries of history dur
ing the one year period of the
-award.
The NCC alumni are as fol
lows:
Mrs. Willa C. Bryant, educa
tion department faculty mem
ber, who has the A.B. degree
from North Carolina College and
the M.Ed. from Temple Univer
sity. She will do graduate work
in education at Duke University.
Nathan H. Cook, a graduate
student at Oklahoma State Uni
versity, who has the B.S. degree
from NCC and the M.A. from
NCC. He will do graduate work
in zoology at Oklahoma State
See Alumnus Writes, Page 4