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THE CAMPUS ECHO
Friday, October 3, 1969
NCCU HAS NEW PROGRAMS
Some of the changes at North
Carolina Central University this
year are the creation of an all
new black studies program, the
expansion of the nursing pro
gram, a new chemistry build
ing, and progress on the reno
vation of the science building.
The new Black Studies major
is to be adniinistered by the De
partment of History and Social
Science; this program will con
centrate on black history. Also
included in this Black Studies
major will be one course of
Black Studies in Political Sci
ence, Sociology, and Geography.
Nine hours of Black Studies
work will be taken in other
areas.
Not only in Black Studies has
the University seen the need
for a change in its curriculum;
the University is beginning in
tensive review of its core cur
riculum for the purpose of pro
viding an overhaul of that
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political science, sociology, and
geography.
Other departments now offer
ing courses in Black Studies are
the art department, ‘‘Afro-
American Art,” the music de
partment, “Afro-American Mu
sic: Origins and Development,”
and the philosophy department,
“The Black Power Argument:
A Study in Applied Logic.”
A Black Studies minor is
also offered, requiring 20 hours
in Black Studies and at least
10 in history.
Dr. Earl E. Thorpe, chairman
of the Department of History
and Social Science and one of
the architects of the program,
described the new major as
similar to a major in the social
sciences.
“One question asked was,
‘What can you do with this
major?’ Well, what can you do
with any major, besides teach?
Industry, government, the pro
fessional schools — they all re
quire that you have a bachelor’s
degree, but they train you for
your work themselves.”
Dr. Thorpe said that black
Americans have “been educated
away” from their countrj'. an
cestral culture and origins. He
said the Black Studies major
is intended to “provide an area
of concentration for persons
who want knowledge in depth
about the geography, culturs,
history, thought, experiences,
achievement, problems of Africa
and persons recognized as
descendants of black Africans.”
curriculum. This review will
involve both student and faculty
participation.
Some 70 high school gradu
ates who plan to major in nurs
ing became the first nursing
students to be admitted to the
college who had not already
qualified as nurses. Before this
year North Carolina Central
University had admitted only
registered nurses to its program
which leads to the Bachelor of.
Science Degree.
Wake Memorial Hospital, the
Veterans Administration Hospi
tal, Duke Hospital, and John
Umstead Hospital are to be used
in the nurse training programs.
Other cooperation will be re
ceived from the health depart
ments in Wake, Durham and
Nash counties.
Juniors and seniors in the
nurs'iing program will be inj-*
volved with the bulk of the
program. During the first two
years, freshmen and sophomores
will be enrolled in the core cur
riculum.
Although the new chemistry
building is only partically com
pleted, classes are now being
conducted in the buiding. Com
pletion of the building will
proceed pending a supplemen
tary appropriation to be re
ceived from the state legisla
ture. The Mathematics Depart
ment offices will be moved to
tem^jorary quarters until reno
vation of the science building
is completed. The Physics De
partment will remain in the
science building.
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gether all the activities of the
various groups and to call na
tional conventions.
SUBSEQUENT MEETINGS
AND PLANS FOR SOBU: The
area spokesmen and the nation
al convener have periodically
met or communicated by mail
or phone along with other in
terested Blacks in an attempt
to map out more specifically
the future directions of SOBU.
A conference is planned for
October 22-26, 1969, in Durham,
North Carolina. This conference
time will coordinate with the
opening of Malcolm X Libera
tion University. Representatives
from colleges and Black groups
around the country are expected
to attend. In order to get SOBU
established, financial and time
investrnents are inevitable. Get
your group together as soon as
possible and make a decision as
to how you are going to relate
to SOBU.
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Market Expansion
In Jobs Shown
By LINDSEY A. MERRITT
Director, Career Counseling and
Placement, North Carolina
Central University
Traditionally, most minorities
were denied job opportunities in
business and industry, and most
Negro colleges have traditional
ly prepared their graduates
for what educators term the
“sacred four” — teaching,
preaching, law and medicine.
However, today, things have
changed, and Title VII of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964 con
tinues to advance change.- Our
job market has expanded, in
deed, and many of our Negro
college graduates across the
country are being attracted to
big business and industry with
offers of employment consisting
of salaries ranging from $6,000
to $15,000 per year.
At North Carolina Central
University, we have witnessed
a marked increase in the num-
ebr of job-offers being made of
our prospective graduates. Many
of our 1969 graduates had as
many as six all-expense paid
trips to firms located in the
North, East, South and West in
attempts by the employing in-
stituitons to attract them to
their firms.
More than 500 representatives
from business, industry, educa
tional institutions state and na
tional government — including
banks, insurance companies,
drug manufacturers, airlines,
rail-lines, bus lines, chemical
firms, research agencies, . . .
and coming from as far away
as San Francisco, California,
Pinesland County Florida, De
troit, Michigan, and Seattle,
Washington, have made job
offers to some of our graduates.
Needless to say, economic fac
tors, higher paying entry level
salaries, continued training
opportunities all helped tre
mendously to “lure” many of
the NCCU trained, and North
Carolina natives to other com
munities outside our state.
It is revealing also, to note a
marked decrease in the percent
age of the graduating classes
over the past five to seven years
enrolled in the student-teach
ing prograin. Thirty-five percent
of the graduates in the class of
1969 completed the directed
teaching phase of education,
decrease of fifteen percent in a
five-year span.
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History, Social Sciences and
Mediterranean Area Studies.
(They are not available to stu
dents enrolled in the I.A.U.
Summer Program or the I.A.U.
One Semester Program.)
In addition to the above
awards, 25 tuitions grants and
a French Government scholar
ship of over $1,000 reserved for
French majors, are awarded
each year.
Aix-en-Provenee is located
17 miles north of Marseille
within easy reach of the French
Riviera, ski resorts i*i the
French Alps, tke Roman cities
of Arles, Nimes and Orange
arid is #nly a few h»urs from
Spain, Italy and Swirt:zerland.
iBformation abovri: the Insti
tute for Americaa Universities
is available in college libraries,
study offices or French Depart-
naente.
Law School Student Wins Praise
Mr. Eugene Tyler, a law stu
dent at this university, while
working with Omondaga Neigh
borhood Legal Service, Inc.,
in Syracuse, N. Y., received
much praise when he helped
free an innocent teen-ager from
an unjust charge.
Mr. Tyler learned that a
EUGENE TYLER
young man had pleaded guilty
and had been sentenced to a
year ijj jail. The assigned counsel
had been inadequate and hostile
to the defendant and had per
suaded him to agree to a “’bar-
gain plea” because he had no
chance with a lawyer who
would not fight for him.
Working on his own initiative,
Mr. Tyler went to work on the
case. He found and interviewed
witnesses who provided alibi
evidence, brought them in to
give statements, developed
these statements and reopened
the case. As a result of his work,
the plea was withdrawn and the
defendant was released from
jail.
It is not often that a lawyer
has the chance to correct an un
just act of law. It takes guts
and dedication to follow through
when odds seem pretty hope
less. Yet, Mr. Tyler did. We
should be proud that NCCU is
developing the minds and
characters of people like Mr.
Tyler who aren’t afraid to see
that justice is done.
Notes To A Revolutionary Son
By JOHN BREWER
From the beginning, my son,
I must caution you that the
contents of these notes cannot
be consumed in a single bite.
Hopefully this letter can serve
as a basis for you and your
generation to re-create and re
enact a vision of society. This
particular bag derives its im
petus frorn strong logic and
centers in man’s mental, emo
tional, and social maturing.
Finally, our comprehension of
the numerous terms and phrases
is dependent upon further study
on your part as well as analy
tical thinking, because the
Black Philosophical Thinking
of our time is not clear and
wholesome. It does not encour
age a full maturing of the
millions of young blacks who
absorb it and take it for granted
although it is philosophically
out of joint. But I will deal with
this later on.
I know that these times have
directed our eyes to the so-
called issues of great weight
and moment, such as law and
order, j-ustice and racism, the
communication and generation
gaps, poverty, institutional
change, war, .... and especial
ly Black Power.
All of this is symptomatic of
a society in disarray, unheaval,
and anguish. Nevertheless we
all are iiaescapably involved as
those interacting forces pene
trate our common consciousness.
However, if we truly under
stand the forces that have cre
ated our p«edicameHts, they
afford the clue t® our pos
sible advances out of chaos and
crisis.
The Chinese definition of
crisis is represented by two
characters. One represents dan
ger and the other “opportunity.”
I choose the latter. The term
©pportunity, it would seem, is
what black people must now
aecept if we are to move for
ward out of the confusic-Bs and
despairs of our day.
You and I can begin, then, to
pot meankig into the naatarity
comcept ®f Black Power, so that
Applications should be made
by airmail directly to:
The Director
Institute for American
Universities
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you become stronger and rich
er intellectually because your
attitudes are such as to encour
age growth rather than to
smother it. Any life that draws
its strength from neurotic or
psychotic linkages is one that
has more chains with the past
than the future and has plunged
into an environment whereby
responses are to fantasies,
illusions, and dangers that are
projections of one’s fears, that
are projections of one‘s own
self-doubts to engage in scholar
ly pursuit. Thus, they are as
weak in their power of execu
tion as they are in their power
of understanding. Therefore,
they minister to their own
immediate desires, and acts of
power are aimed solely at self
gratification. In short, their acts
of power would be acts of ruth
lessness, no code, no convic
tions. All action is triggered by
infantile motives with the
anger of a frustrated infant and
he is dangerous to have around.
With this as background, let
us candidly explore the rhetoric
expounded by some of those
who express great wisdom and
clarity of insight, although it
reeks of arrested development
and fixation. They pretend to
knowledge they do not possess;
all they project is “a new dis
guise over old material.” It
goes like this from conception
with numerous insertions, dele
tions, and glib wrinkles.
Your task is to clarify,
illuminate, and interpret forces
continually at work in shaping
the thrust of the movement.
You must remember as HaroW
Cruise says, “Black Movement
at this moment is not a revolu
tionary government because it
has no present means or pro-
gran* to alter, overturn or re
vamp the stuctural forms of
American institutions.” Yes, he
said it is not a revolutionary
movement. This reform move
ment represe*ts an indirect
challenge to the capitaUstiG
status quo, not besause it is pro
grammatically anti-capitalrstic
but because full integration of
the N^ro in ail levels of Ameri-
san society is n»t possible with
in the fraMiew®rk ®f tii^s sys
tem!
In conclusion, n»y revolution-
ary son, put all of these con
flicting ideals into focus and
remember, “Our Age of Free
dom wil come through e*i-
li^tenmeot.”