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Friday, October 22,1982
Going for the gold mine,
but getting the shaft
The business school is pushing to become accredited this spring. The rush
is on now to iron out the weaknesses that Dean Tyronza Richmond feels
could hinder accreditation. While I hope that the business school achieves
this, I find it disturbing that some students are being pushed aside during this
process.
Business administration students are in a quandary about their academic
future at NCCU. Some students are having to either change their field of con
centration or delay graduating. Either way, the student loses.
By having to delay the student’s graduation, the student’s family faces
another year of financial responsibility. In some cases, financial hardship
may be more accurate.
Currently, the trend is to lay blame. The business school administration
blames the students for not following the suggested course scheldules, and
the students blame their predicament on the incompetence of the faculty ad
visers. A compromise must be met in order to satisfy both parties.
The business school shouldn’t get the gold mine of accreditation while
many students get only the shaft.
Marion McKinney
Black College Day
Hey, media.
Time to change focus
To some people Black College Day ’81 was a day of solidarity among black
college students, a day when legislators were demanded to strengthen and
enhance black universities. But, to the local news media the event was viewed
as a parade of chanting marchers and bands with no purpose or particular
demands.
Instead of focusing their cameras and pens on the serious content of the
many speeches that were given, the media supplied the public with a view of
singing and chanting in the streets. And, of course, since most people rely on
the media to find out what goes on, they were left with a distorted picture of
the purpose of Black College Day and the motives of the students.
It is no wonder that we have such a hard time getting our legislators and
administrators to listen to us when the media takes an momentous event and
portrays it as a day of frivolity and tomfoolery.
What’s even more upsetting is the fact that Black Collge Day activities in
North Carolina don’t receive any national media covera^ge. The national
news networks always seem to focus on the negative issues in'the state instead
of positive incidents. When a distraught man decides to hold members of his
family hostage in Raleigh or someone goes to Greensboro and kills a few peo
ple that’s news and the networks send their best correspondents out to cover
the story. But when black college students from throughout the state “come
together as one’’ and rally for the same principles, that’s considered as just
“another one of those civil rights marches’’ or a local story which has no im
pact on the national scene.
This year’s Black College Day march and rally will not include any bands,
but it will be just as spirited and forceful as last year’s., We must show the
media that, contrary to popular belief, black people do not need music to be
moved.
— LaTanya A. Isley
Letters to the editor
Judge supports DeJarmon letter
(Editor’s note: The following letter is a reply to a letter published in the Oct. 8 issue of the
Echo by Mrs. Elva DeJarmon, widow of former law dean LeMarquE DeJarmon. The letter
corrected a reporting inaccuracy by the Durham Morning Herald and went on to trace the
proud history of Central’s law school.)
General Court of Justice
14th Judicial District
Durhaih County
Durham, N.C.
Dear Mrs. DeJarmon:
Reading your letter brought a good bit of recent history back to my mind, including the
burning of the law school within days after your husband became its dean and the trials and
tribulations that we all went through in the months thereafter successfully prosecuting the ar
sonist.
Having had frequent contact with the school, its faculty and its students over almost 20
years that I’ve practiced here in Durham, I can attest to the accuracy of everything that you
have stated in your letter.
Anthony M. Brannon
Resident Superior Court Judge
My,
how
time
flies
when
you *re
having
fun
Guest Editorial
To combat apathy at assemblies:
Make attendance compulsory
By Elva P. DeJarmon
The poor attendance by students, faculty and staff
at North Carolina Central University’s Convocation
on Oct. 7 was a disgrace and embarrassment to the
university community.
Compulsory attendance for students, as well as
faculty and staff, except those needed to maintain im
portant services, should be in effect for the 74th
Founder’s Day Observance as we celebrate 74 years of
Service and Truth at NCCU for minorities, Indians
and white students.
Teachers and staff must be role models. Why
dismiss classes if students and other personnel of the,
academic community are not going to attend?
Such apparent disregard for the university by both
students or staff can be best overcome by hitting the
“pocketbooks.’’
The majority of students must take up the cudgel of
bringing truth and service to NCCU.
When we need to be serious, let us not be found to
be more interested in parties, fashions, and fun. Let us
not set our sights on mediocrity and low financial
rewards, but instead seek to become one of the high
powered, “big bucks’’ aspirants—taking advantage of
every opportunity to become further enriched, inform
ed and educated.
Elva P. DeJarmon has been and continues to be a pro
minent part of NCCU and Durham (immunity life.
She is the .widow of LeMarquis DeJarmon, former
dean of the NCCU Law School. Among her many ac
tivities, Mrs. DeJarmon is taking Media-Journalism
courses at Central.
Affixing
blame
for
our
economic
problems
Editor-In-Chief
Marion McKinney
if fie Campus‘Tcbo
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Mark Adams
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Entertainment Editor
Veronica Cogdell
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Edwin Horsley
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Paul L. Anderson
LaTanya Isley
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