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VOLUME 38 -NUMBER 4 MAY 1979
Tonight in B.]\. Duke Auditprium
TONY BROWN TO DISCUSS MEDIA IMPACT
TONY BROWN
Tony Brown, syndicated col
umnist and producer of “Tony
Brown’s Journal,” will speak on
“Minorities and the Media,”
Monday, April 30, at 8 p.m. in
B.N. Duke Auditorium on the
campus of North Carolina
Central University. Admission
is free.
Brown’s appearance is pre
sented by the Media-Journalism
Committee of the Department
of English in association with
the NCCU Foundation, Inc. and
the NCCU Forum Committee.
Monday night will mark the
long awaited arrival of Brown at
NCCU. An earlier date, Feb. 21,
which featured Brown as part of
the Media-Journalism Sympos
ium, had to be postponed due to
inclement weather.
“We are aU very excited about
Tony Brov/n’s visit,” said Dr. A.
M. Secrest, head of the Media-
JournaUsm Committee. “He
generates broad audience appeal
with his controversial style. He’s
an evocative and provocative
speaker.”
Bakke Decision. Inflation
BOND: HARD FOR BLACKS TO BELIEVE IN 70’s
BYT. BYRON SMTH
A nationally known civil
rights leader was the guest
speaker recently at B. N. Duke
Auditorium at North Carolina
Central University.
Julian Bond, Georgia legis
lator, speaking before an esti
mated audience of 500 people,
discussed the “New PoUtics:
What’s Next?”
Bond at 19 was pubhc in
formation officer for the Stu
dent Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC) and at age
26 won his right to the seat
in the Georgia legislature after
being challenged in the courts.
Bond calls himself a politi
cian and told the audience
that his profession should be
respected more.
“It is a very important
profession,” stated Bond, “it is
people who do what I do who
decides whether or not you can
do what you do.”
The civil rights leader said,
“The parade of paper promises
to Blacks in the 60’s and early
70’s are effective and impres
sive on paper only.”
Bond told the audience that
1978 marked the turning of the
racial tide; however, stated
Bond, “no single act in 1978
caused this change.”
He stated that past legis
lation had not gained equal
opportunity but civil rights is
proceeding at a slow pace.
“Time is running out onr
the dream of our forebearers,”
Bond said. “Unfortunately the
emotion, excitement, and drama
of the 1960’s have made it
impossible for most Americans
to beUeve in the 1970’s. Ameri
can Black people still sit at the
bottom of a long, long ladder.
Blacks have moved from the
back of the bus to the front
of imemployment Hne. They are
last hired and first fired.”
According to Bond, there are
twice as many jobless Blacks
today as there were ten years
ago.
Referring to President Carter,
Bond told the audience despite
the origin of the President, he
raised the hopes of the American
underclass and they had flocked
the polls in 1976 in record
numbers to ensure the election
of a “Champion” who was
going to give them their slice
of the American pie.
“Now two years later,”stated
Bond, “we realize that we voted
for a man who knew the words
to our hymns, but not the num
bers on our paychecks.”
“Candidate Carter told us
the fight for jobs would always
take precedence over the fight
against inflation. Now President
Carter tells us that those with
no jobs must wait imtil the
dollar becomes a dollar again.”
Brown’s television show,
“Tony Brown’s Journal,” has
been widely applauded by critics
and viewers for its timely focus
on issues such as affirmative
action, black images from tele
vision and the movies, the
ROOTS phenomenon, and black
history.
The show has attracted a large
following of both whites and
blacks. One newspaper called
Brown “the straightest shooter
on television.” Says Brown,
“I’ve neither been intimated by
blacks nor whites, but by the
truth. Blacks sometimes cannot
understand me for not always
taking their side, whereas whites
are often startled that my mind
is not in a blind black lock-step
of prejudice.”
After receiving his undergrad
uate and master’s degrees in pys-
chology and psychiatric social
work from Wayne State Univers
ity in Detroit, Brown became
the city editor of THE
DETROIT COURIER. From
Referring to the increase in
the military budget. Bond said
that it was “guns against butter.
As usual, the guns eventually
win.”
Bond said that Allan Bakke’s
successful reverse discrimination
suit turned the constitution
around.
“This noble document slam
med the school house door shut
in our faces until 1954 when it
discovered that segregated
schooling was contrary to the
American way,” stated Bond.
“In the Bakke case, the con-
stituition became protector of a
quota system, guaranteeing that
only the male and the pale
will enjoy a monoply on good
jobs, on seats at colleges and
universities, on power and pres
tige in government and all the
benefits and rewards the United
States of America promises the
many and delivers to a few.”
Bond stated that he could
not believe that the 13 percent
of the population that is Black
could force the 87 percent of
the population that is white to
live in the worst conditions and
attend the worst schools causing
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there he moved into television
production.
His first show, “Black
Journal,” aired on PBS while
Brown served as the first and
founding dean of Howard
University’s School of Commu
nications. He remained there
until 1974.
Backed by Pepsi-Cola spon
sorship, “Black Journal”
changed to “Tony Brown’s
Journal” and debuted on
commercial television in Jan
uary, 1978. The program can
be seen locally on WTVD,
Channel 11, Sunday mornings.
NEW SIGNS
ADD STYLE
By LARRY D. REVEUE
NEWS EDITOR
“Get off Central!” was the
remark made by hundreds of
students after returning to North
Carolina Central University after
the spring liiat us.
They were referring to the new
identifying signs in front of the
various campus buildings.
University officials and students
have been expressing a strong
desire to see signs on campus for
several years now. Only last year
did plans get underway to
actually order the signs.
According to William
McDonald, director of NCCU’s
physical plant, 48 signs were or
dered at a cost of $17,000. Uni
versity officials said that the
money was taken from a special
fund and not from students’ tui
tion and fees. As new buildings
continue to go up at Central,
new signs will be placed in front
of them also.
The attractive maroon and
grey signs were purchased from
the Andco Company of Greens
boro who also installed the signs.
Each sign is approximately
four feet high and has North
Carolina Central University’s
official symbol on it. All letters
are light-grey on a maroon back
ground. Two grey aluminum
posts are attached to each sign.
George T. Thorne, vice-chan
cellor for financial affairs at
NCCU received an award for his
unselfish time and effort in
having the signs ordered and
installed.
University officials have
expressed dismay at the early de-
(See “signs” on page 12.)