I must do what I must
I must say what I think
I must be what I am
I must live what I feel
For I am a man
Charles Bowman
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To sin by silence
when they should
protest makes
cowards out of men
Durham, North Carolina, Thursday, October 1, 1970
DBC To Grant Budget Requests Made
New Degrees jq pooled Accreditation
NCCU students assist in the prepartory
Child Center at Malcolm X University.
“clean-up for the
Child Center To Be Opened
Community Children’s Day
Care Center will be opened in
the Malcolm X Liberation Build
ing on Pettigrew Street. The
center will begin operating
when the necessary supplies are
received from donors, organiza
tions, churches, and individuals
in the community.
U. 0. C. I. members are
soliciting materials and equip
ment for the center. Filing
and janitorial supplies, first aid
and health items, children’s
books, painting materials, and
furniture are needed.
The Day Care Center is con
cerned with child development.
Because U. 0. C. I. has a limit
ed budget, they are asking N.C.
C.U. students to contribute meal
Screening
To Defect
Drug Use
Special efforts are being taken
this year to combat drug abuse
at N.C.C.U. Due to the tremen
dous increase in illegal drug
traffic and drug abuse nation
wide, N.C.C.U. has instituted a
policy by which each freshman
and new student is screened to
determine the use of illicit drugs.
The screening is administered
during routine physical examina
tion by medical personnel at the
time of student orientation. The
results of the examination are
strictly confidential with the ex
ception that the parents of those
students identified as “users” are
notified immediately by the Di
rector of Medical Service.
Other efforts are geared to
ward increasing the student’s
knowledge concerning the dan-
books to the center.
Miss Fay Edwards, director
of the Children’s Day Care Cen
ter, hopes to provide these child
ren with breakfast, lunch, and
a snack in the afternoon. Miss
Edwards requests responsible
N.C.C.U. students to volunteer
to assist the teachers with the
children. She emphasizes the
necessity for the students to
be responsible because the child
ren have difficulties in adjusting
to_a new person each day.
• Miss Edwards expects an en
rollment of 45 children. The
children will arrive at the Day
Care Center at 8:30 am and
will be dismissed at 5:00 pm.
Miss Edwards is looking for
N.C.C.U. students to come to
the center during these hours
to serve as volunteers.
Durham Business College has
been licensed by the North Caro
lina Board of Higher Education
to award the Associate in Ap
plied Science Degree to students
completing two-year programs in
the area of Executive Secretarial
Science, Management and Com
puter Programming, Medical
Secretarial Science, Automation
Secretarial, Accounting, Legal
Secretarial Science, Business Ad
ministration, Computer Program
ming, and Pollution Control
Administration. Durham Business
College will continue to offer
12-month diploma programs in
General Business, IBM Machine
Accounting, Secretarial Science,
and Commercial Art. The col
lege will continue its 9-month
certification programs in com
puter programming and office
data processing.
Durham Business College has
operated in Durham for more
than 20 years, first as a private
school of Business, then incorpo
rating and becoming a non-profit
co-educational two-year college
of Business. During its span of
operation, Durham Business Col
lege has enabled students who
did not wish to attend four-year
institutions an opportunity to re
ceive specialized training and
become productive members of
the job market.
Durham Business College be
gan its first year of operation
under the Associate in Applied
Science Degree program on
September 9.
Brutality Charges Filed Against
Durham Police Department
Two Durham Business College
students, who were arrested in
Durham September 15, filed suits
in U.S. District Court in Greens
boro charging the three arresting
officers and Police Chief W. W.
Pleasants with assault.
The action was brought by
George F. Haskins, 25, and Stan
ley Jones, 23, both of Norfolk,
Va., against Pleasants and patrol
man John E. Hunter, Napoleon
Lawrence, and Marshall Thomp
son, individually and as police
officers in the Police Department
of the city of Durham.
The students, represented by
gers of drugs by making this
information available. Pamphlets
and brochures on the effects'' of
drug abuse are available at the
office of the Dean of Students
and at the CoiTnseling Center.
the Durham Legal Aid Clinic,
seek $5,000 actual damage and
$10,000 punitive damages, con
tending that they were assulted
and their constitutional rights
were violated;
The suit alleges that on the
night of September 15, Jones
was walking with two young
women on the A&P parking lot
on Fayetteville Street, when of
ficers Hunter and Lawrence,
wearing their uniforms, ap
proached Jones and demanded
identification.
After he presented identifica
tion, the policemen, “without
legal justification”, began to
search Jones. When he told the
officers that he had done noth
ing nor had anything on him,
officer Hunter hit and knocked
Jones to the ground.
See Brutality Charges, page 4
DtjRHAM, N.C.-NCCU’s ‘B’
budget requests, forwarded re
cently ,to the state’s Advisory
Budget Commission, may tech
nically reflect “program enrich
ment” proposals, as the law
provides.
But President Albert N.
Whiting’s cover letter to the
Commission makes it clear that
in his opinion “enrichment” is
very nearly the same thing as
“survival.”
NCCU Reopens
Green House
The Biology Department of
North Carolina Central Univer
sity has reopened its greenhouse
which had been closed for nearly
ten years.
The greenhouse, located just
beyond the Maintenance Depart
ment, has been provided with 50
or more specimens of plants to
be used in biologicajrand geneti-
cal studies.
Until 1968, there was no bot
anist to care for the greenhouse.
In that year Dr. Shabeg Sandhu,
now professor of Biology, revived
it. With $6,000 worth of repairs,
the lighting, ventilation and
sprinkler systems were restored.
Among the 50 species, there
are flowering and non-flowering
plants—annual and perennial—
and plants from deserts and ac-
quatic habitats. Most of these
plants were acquired from Duke
University, the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
and Purdue University.
The activities at the green
house are incomplete. There are
plans to enlarge the area and to
start growing plants outside
Students may visit the green
house daily from 9 A.M. until
5 P.M. .,
The request, for $2,269,847,
includes a request for one million
dollars as a reserve to provide a
ten per cent salary increase , to
faculty members in both years
of the 1971-73 biennium;
(The university’s “A” budget,
for maintaining its already exist
ing programs, is $11,887,521 for
the biennium.)
President Whiting sees this
request as essential to the contin
ued operation of the university
as it is today.
“Although the tightness of
the faculty market has been
somewhat relaxed, this is not
true with regard to the Negro
faculty market from which a
large percentage of our teachers
are recruited, because of recent
demands for the introduction of
Black Studies and the integration
of faculties at predominantly
white institutions.
“Consequently, our faculties
are being constantly raided and
in all instances the inducement
is a dramatically higher salary.
“Therefore it is imperative
See Budget Requests, page. 3
“Pseudo Pepper” — one of the
many varieties of plants grown
in the Green House.
Mayor Richard Hatcher
Mayor Hatcher
Speaks Here
Upon the conclusion of the
North Carolina Voter Education
Project’s Fourth Annual Leader
ship Training Conference for the
black people of Durham, Chapel
Hill, Rocky Mount, and other
surrounding towns and cities on
September 19, Mayor Richard.
Hatcher of 9ary, Indiana was
presented as guest speaker to the
audience of North Carolina Cen
tral University, faculty, staff
members, students and guests in
B. N. Duke Auditorium. ,
The Honorable Richard
Hatcher was elected mayor of
See Mayor Hatcher, page 6