Newspapers / North Carolina Central University … / Oct. 3, 1969, edition 1 / Page 6
Part of North Carolina Central University Student Newspaper / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
( Page Six THE CAMPUS ECHO Friday, October 3, 196& Placement Bureau Starts Campaign -Malcolm X U.- Reduction Shown In Draft Call By L. A. MERRITT, Director NCCU Career Counseling and Placement Bureau The NCCU Career Counseling and Placement Bureau launch ed its 1969-70 placements pro gram on October 2, when some twelve Federal Agencies sent representatives to the campus to discuss employment opportu nities, and summer internships with the student body and faculty. The Agency repre sentatives maintained booths, displays, and informational literature, and attempted to answer questions raised by in terested persons. Each year the Federal Gov ernment employs more than 15,000 college graduates for rewarding careers in a wide range of professions and occupa tions in the Federal Service. A number of our NCCU graduates are presently working with various agencies throughout the country. Several of them are currently serving in supervisory capacities. James H. Brooks, Jr., Execu tive Officer of the Interagency Board of U.S. Civil Service Examiners for North Carolina is serving as coordinator for the 1969-70 program and will also coordinate the arrangements to to have the Federal Service En trance Examination administer ed here on campus at a later date. The agencies which took part in Thursday’s program in cluded: Civil Service Commis sion, Veterans Administration Hospital, Internal Revenue Ser- ▼ice. Department of Labor, Na tional Park Service, Food and Drug Administration - Departs ment of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Social Security Administration, Federal Avia tion Agency, Patrick Air Force Base, the Bureau of Public Roads, and the National Air Pollution Control Administra tion, All senior students are en couraged to take the Federal Service Entrance Examination (FSEE.) About half of the posi tions for which the Government recruits college graduates each year are filled through the examination. This program is used to fill entrance-level posi tions in about 200 occupation al — ranging from electronic data processing and personnel management to social security administration and the tax collection — in some 50 Federal Agencies throughout the United States and overseas. As in pre- Johnson Gets Appointment Mr. Harris C. Johnson, one of last year’s black candidates for eity councilman, was recently, appointed community advisor to the Tau Phi Tau Fraternity. Mr. Johnson serves on the Durham Committee on Negro Affairs and the Black Solidarity Com mittee for Community Improve ment; he is also a member of NCCU Alumni Association, the Executive Committee of the Re search Triangle Consultants for Co.mplex, the N. C. State Em ployees Association; and is Acting Chairman of the Human Relations Sub-committee in Community Affairs. The fraternity has various projects planned for the coming year and is asking all con cerned students to help Tau Phi Tau in its endeavors t© close the gap between NCCU students and blacks in the Durham com- mwraty. viou* years, the FSEE will pro vide the opportunity for several thousand graduates to find their careers in Government. Col lege seniors who will complete degree requirements within nine months, as well as all graduates, are eligible to compete in the FSEE, regardless of academic majors. Applicants normally take a general test of verbal abilities and quantitative reasoning. The test will require about 2 % hours. The starting salary for positions filled through the FSEE is usiaally $6,176 a year, but outstanding candidates can be paid a beginning salary of $7,639. Under a program which be gan last year, you can qualify for immediate selection for ap- poiiatment without ta.king the written test if you have an out standing academic record. This year, as i« years pest, Federal agencies also need a large number of college grad uates in physics, chemistry, mathematics, and other physi cal science specialities. Start ing salary for these positions begin at $8,0«0 a year for candi dates holding a bachelor’s de gree, but those who have a superior scholastic record may start at $9,934. WHITE RAGE Copyright Dr. William Grier At 1:30 A.M. on Tuesday last spring, two policemen shot up the Black Panther headquarters in Oakland, California. Within 24 hours they were fired. They had done the thing in the dead of night; they were off duty, in civilian clothes; the building was empty; and no one was in jured—it was a mute, sense less act of frustration prompted by a jury the day before find ing Huey Newton guilty of voluntary manslaughter rather than first degree murder in the killing last year of Oakland policeman John Frey. A fellow officer had been killed and they wanted Huey to die- in the gas chamber. No doubt they felt they wanted “justice.” They dismissed the legal process as a weak in strument of a system which was too easy on radicals and an archists. Such an appeal to “justice” is of more than passing interest since it reflects more than the customary conviction of each man that his cause is just. They seem convinced that “justice” will return events to a prior state when the world was sim pler and more to their liking, when no one challenged the motives of police and when even suspected eop killers got sterm treatment and no sympathy. For blacks, on the other hand, justice is a condition of the future, and can anly be expect ed when complex, far-reaching changes have come about in America. While needed change is blocked largely by bigotry and racism, there is a greater re sistance imposed by a simple social inertia. And when a So cial Reformation is upon the! land spearheaded by blacks, it will be resisted most vigorously not because the philosophy is so abhorrent but because it de mands such sweeping change. Integration, which was fought se desperately only a few years ago, is now longed for, in the wistful way of a departed and unappreciated suitor. It is n®t See White Rage, Page 7 (Continued from page 1) have got to have. If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” C. B. Claiborne, who spoke for the Duke students, said, “If black students cannot partici pate meaningfully in all facets of the African and Afro-Ameri can Studies program, then it has no meaning for us.” He also stated that they were left with three alternatives: “To remain here and complete ly disavow ourselves from this university, destroy the place, withdraw from Duke and re fuse to legitimize an illegiti mate system.” “We have chosen the latter and will continue our education at an institution which will speak to the needs of students, Malcolm X Liberation Universi ty.” Thus, the University was es tablished and dosses are ex pected to begin October 28, 1969 with Howard Fuller as president. The University will offer courses in tailoring, physi cal development, political sci ence, and foreign languages that are p>ertinent to black people, such as French, Spanish and Swahili. Tbe courses will be taught from a historical point of view, beginning with pre-coloniaj African civilization, slavery, colonialism, neo - colonialism, and independent African na tions. Two terms will constitute completion of the Umiversity. The first term will last ten months, from October 1969 to August 1970. The second teirn will terminate after eight months. After the first term all students and teachers will go to Africa, visiting approximate ly 10 cosntries. Money for the trip is included in the tuition; the university will pay the rest. Tuition is $300 at a minimum or depending on the amount that the student can afford. Instructors will receive a salary. Most have vowed, how ever, not to live above their means and to return money in support of the institution. There have been several donations offered to the institu tion from white sources. It is not known however, whether they have been accepted. It is said, that the majority of the income will come from black sources. The school strongly supports the. idea of Pan-Africanism, that is, blacks are decendents of Africa. Therefore, as a black institution, the institution will speak for universal black com munities, and the black strug gle against oppression. The program’s main objec tive is nation building. The aim of the institution is to build a frame of reference in which black people can relate. At this time there is no per manent program that will be followed each year. As one of the instructors, Charles Scott, puts it, “The program will be taught on the basis of the pre sent particular needs of black people. That is to say, what we need this year doesn't neces sarily apply to next year.” By RICK FITCH WASHINGTON — (CPS) — President Nixon will announce soon a “meaningful” reduction in monthly draft calls. According to a White House source, who refused to give exact figures, the lowered calls will be in effect over a “period of time,” paralleling the “de creasing level of U.S. troop commitment in Vietnam.” The October draft call of 29,000 men will not be affected. The source, who is an adviser PATROmZE OUR ADVERTISERS BAD DAYS FOR TOM’ Copyright Dr. William Grier One would think that in this rapidy shifting racial conflict, Uncle Toms might long since have lost their bearings and run screaming into the wings. They have been vilified as “the white middle class” and ' their allegiances are no sooner made than broken. They are discredited and rejected by the very whites to whom they bind themselves and whatever re wards they get are dwarfed by the very heavy funding of more militant types. ' I Blacks tolerate them and generally see them as irrele vant hangers-on, certainly not leaders. Conservative whites remem ber them when they need an ex ample of a “responsible Negro,” —tierer when the goodies are passed out. White liberals are apoplectic and denunciatory in their hatred of them. (Most blacks are in trigued at this tendency of whitei to prove their liberality at the expense of a confused black man.) "niings have gotten so bad that it may soon become fash ionable to be kind to Uncle Tom. If so we’d like to begin by blasting the myth that in slavery and shortly after, “Tomming” was the only way blacks could exist. That’s just not so. During slavery there were 202 recorded rebellions and nobody knows how many unrecorded. ’ Since the Civil War blacks have been squabbling and fight ing and kicking and gouging so vigorously for rights, many white folks have gotten sick of the sound of the word. We have in fact always had militants as well as Uncle Toms. And in spite of the ac cusations of militants, Toms have rarely filled their pockets at our expense. They have neither been trait ors for money nor traitors for a cause. They have rather been scared out of their wits, and acting out of terror have given up their only thing of value— the safety of their brothers. The psychology of Uncle Tom is rather simple. White people have tried to control blacks by terror and Tom has been the most vulnerable. In the racial battle he is a casualty. His cour age and vigor and independence and manhood are gcwe as sure ly as if they w«re shot away. He is an object of pity for most of us and may ultimately be the greatest challenge to the black movement. For however self-destructive and dangerous he may be, he is, one of us—a damaged one of u*. Amd the black brotherhood will be close ly watched for the imderstand- ing and compassion it brings to this wounded and unlikely biiother. to Nixon on the draft, said there was “no truth” to reports that the administration is planning for the near future a total sus pension of all calls. White House press secretary Ronald Ziegler said in a news conference here recently that the possibility of suspending the calls had come under dis cussion in Nixon’s inner circles, but a decision has since been made against that proposal, the source said. “If you’re going to suspend the draft, what would it accom plish? All you’ve done is to raise false hopes, since the calls would have to be reinstated at another time,” he said, “As long as there lias to be a draft, it’s senseless to suspend it then start it up again.” The New York Times this month quoted an anonjrmous critic of the ackninistration as saying that Nixon would soon sign an executive order in structing draft boards to take 19-year-olds first and would order Army to send to Vietnam only draftees who volunteered for duty there. But the White House official said although these are reforms included in the long-range goals of the administration, he “doubts” they will be part oi Nixon’s announcement con cerning the lowered draft calls. He said Nixon has two options rearding a change in draft laws; * He could enact by executive order a ‘‘conveyor belt” system in which all young men would be subject, to the draft only diir- ing the 19th year. The oldest 19-year-olds would be taken first, and those not taken be fore their 20th birthdays would be free from consideration. * By the same means, Nixon could put into effect a plan whereby all turning 20 during a particular year would be vulnerable to conscription in chronological order of their birthdays, along with thoee whose deferments had expired. A person with a Jan. 1 birthday would stand a greater chance of being drafted than one with a Dec. 1 birthday. The spokesman said a third proposal, the lottery, requires congressional approval, and these two, which do not, are still in the discussion stage. HOUSE OF KLEEN • Cleaner • Brighter CLEANING . Softer 1H0UR DRY FAST LANDRY SERVICE • IViothproofed • Sanitized Shirts on Hangers no Extra Cost See our Mr. Howard Harris for all your tailoring ani alterations needs FAST SERVICE House Of Kleen 3028 FAYETTEVILLE ST, College Plaza Cenler 682-3828 DURHAM
North Carolina Central University Student Newspaper
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Oct. 3, 1969, edition 1
6
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75