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TH E CAMPUS ECHO
Friday, December 4, 1970
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Muhammed Ali Is Still Champ
The first week in November,
at the Municipal Auditorium
in Atlanta, Georgia, our man
Tassius Clay, “Muhammad Ali”
rose again. Time Magazine, Nov.
9,1970, noted him as the “lov
able, loud mouth who was going
to whup the world”. It was a
tremendous comeback after
being stripped of his title for
three and a half years. Ali had
said earlier this year:“I’ll believe
I have a fight when I’m in the
ring and I hear the bell”.
He did hear the bell after
the third bout with Jerry Quar
ry when the referee declared
Ali the winner on a technical
knockout. Ali, with his narcis
sistic but beautiful attitude is
known to back up his boasts.
It was said that during the
fight, Ali tried to look scary.
Thrusting his nose in Quarry’s
face, he said: “You’re in tro
uble, boy”. Quarry remarked,
“Shut up and fight”.
But that’s not all. The fight
was trimmed in stars. Black
stars from all over. Not to
mention, those ooh but super
cool Black hustlers sporting their
finest attire.
Black celebrities including
Hank Aaron, Whitney Young,
Reverend Jesse Jackson, Mrs.
Coretta King, Julian Bond, hail
ed the return of the champion.
was said that Cadillacs rolled
* .*t Aud*
up to the city’s Muiumih.
itorium like chariots arriving" for
a Roman circus. It would have
reminded one of homecoming
here at NCCU. Hustlers in their
matching mink hats and coats
and white knit jump-suits-sou-
ght much attention with women
in glittering gowns and beaded
maxi coats. Diana Ross was
on the scene, believe it or not,
in a see-through blouse and a
porcupine-hairdo she called “the
liberated look”. Sidney Poiter
and Bill Cosby topped the cake
and provided comic relief with
a mock sparring match in the
ring.
The fight was televised via
TV satellite to Europe, South
America, the Far East and the
Soviet Union, as well as more
than 200 cities in the U.S. and
Canada for which Ali will net
approximately $900,000. Ali fi
gures that even richer days are
ahead. However, that decision
lies with the U.S. Supreme
Court, where his five-year prison
sentence for draft evasion is still
under appeal.
New Magazine
Holds Contest
A new magazine designed
especially for the social-action
oriented individual will begin
publication in January, ‘71.
SOL III, as its name implies,
will be a world affairs publi
cation with heavy emphasis on
social problems and their
solutiws.
To encourage reader partici
pation, SOL III is holding a
$1000 magazine contest with
prizes in writing, poetry, art,
photography, and humor.
Entries from university students
and faculty members are espe
cially wanted. Contest rules
may be obtained by writing:
SOL III Contest, 1909 Green
Street, Phila., Penna. 19130.
'Black Journal' Producer Used
'For Whites Only' To Trick ’em
A pioneer in bringing the
black experience to television,
producer Tony Brown, occasion
ally had to disguise his real in
tentions.
Three years ago, he produced
a five-part series on black poli
tics, culture, revolution, art and
history for Detroit’s public tele
vision station WTVS and titled it
“For Whites Only.” •
“I used it as a trick,” he ex
plains. “in oirder to get it on the
ail, I had to go about the busi
ness that it was directed toward
whites. 7i»ere
things on the air that whites
would not understand.”
Even more arcane was the
title for another black-oriented
show - “C.P.T.” (Colored
People’s Time) - which was
broadcast on the same Detroit
station for 20 weeks starting in
September 1968.
Brown, who succeeds William
Greaves as executive producer of
NET’S “Black Journal,” admits
that “today there is less need”
to camouflage programs directed
to black audiences. ‘“Black
Journal’ is a good example of
this greater free expression,” he
says.
“Black Journal,” which re
cently won an Emmy Award and
a 1970 Russwurm Award (given
by the National Newspaper Pub
lishers’ Association, a black press
organization), “has proven to
the industry that a problem for
blacks produced by blacks can
be a definite asset both to the
‘-'•'/•W community and the vriiite
Ulavw* * . .
community because it nano^ra
the gaps of misunderstanding be
tween blacks and whites,”
Brown states.
Brown is not a man to com
promise honesty for expediency.
Following Detroit’s racial dis
orders during the summer of
1%7, Brown served as associate
producer and moderator of a
Letter To The Editor
December 1, 1970
Mr. Otis Jordan
Editor-in-Chief
The Campus Echo
Sir:
During the past few years I have made frequent visits to Durham
and North Carolina Central University, sometimes on business (that
of the alumni association) and occasionally just for pleasure (I still
enjoy simply being on the campus).
Almost invariably the chance to talk to students arises — mostly
impromptu and involving one or two at a time. I find these chats
increasingly interesting and challenging (Because talking to today’s
students anywhere, no less at NCCU, is a challenging experience, for
one is required to call upon his every intellectual resource to partici
pate in and understand the rhetoric of this generation).
On Founder’s Day, November 6,1 had the opportunity to talk to
Jerry Walker, the SGA president, in his office for almost two (2)
hours — well spent, indeed.
Very frankly, I was surprised at and sincerely pleased with some
of Jerry’s revelations. It is refreshing and encouraging to learn that
the Student Government Association at NCCU is not confining its
activities within the narrow limits of the campus, that it is providing
learning and living experiences for others in various community ac
tivities, i.e., a drug information center, child care centers, a “union”
of black students from other institutions in the region. With the
exception of the sit-in demonstrations, a situation far different from
my generation and those even earlier.
It seems to me that through these undertakings some very neces
sary ingredients are being blended into the educational batter at
NCCU, and that these activities are in line with the institution’s
purposes as a “regional university”.
While these constructive activities exist, it is nothing short of
shameful that the SGA cannot rely upon more support from stu
dents, alumni and faculty; that student, alumni and faculty apathy
and engagement in other pursuits deny the SGA needed physical,
moral and financial support; that past difficulties, some recent, be
tween faculty and student elements prejudice people on both sides
and deny a meeting of minds and resources on the issues that con
front all of us, that the schism between the generations has widened
so and deepened so that no bridges are able to span the chasiri.
One cannot help but congratulate Mr. Walker, his staff and volun
teers, however few, on the work they are attempting to do - make
education at NCCU more meaningful. Nor can I help but wohucl
how mute the voices will be, or outstretched the arms, if they suc
ceed - of if they fail.
Yours very sincerely
William P. Evans, ’62
President
N. C. Central University Alumni
five-part television series sched
uled for a commercial station
which explored the cause of
these disorders. It was cancelled
by the station after the second
show and moved to public televi
sion’s WTVS after, according to
♦■VO
Brown, it became critical oi m.
news media in their reporting
disorders. “We reported the
story of TV reporters wdio re
fused to film scenes of what the
police were doing to black
(See 'Black Journal' p age 3)