The Campus Echo
The official student newspaper of North Carolina Central University Friday, Febuary 3, 1984
A week after the Super Bowl
people were still paying for be
ing Washington Redskin fans.
Disc jockey Steve Satterfield
of WDUR radio station in
Durham had to ride down
main street on a tricycle to pay
off a bet he made with co
workers Alvin Stowe and Doc
Holiday.
As he rode the rugged road
of one who went astray, Sat
terfield profeesed that he had
been a Redskin fan for 11
years and had no regrets of
backing his team. On riding
the tricycle, he said, “I don’t
mind. I’m the type of guy who
enjoys making people laugh.”
And laugh they did as
motorists and pedestrians
alike taunted and laughed at
the poor little Redskin fan.
WTVD; Capital Cities
to co-sponsor Diamond
75th anniversary
By Gilbert Faison
WTVD and its parent corporation Capital
Cities Communications, Inc. are the first to
commit their support towards North Carolina
Central University’s 75th Diamond Anniver
sary celebration.
“We have already received a substantial
financial contribution from Capital Cities,”
said Chancellor Leroy T. Walker. “Equally, if
not more important, is WTVD’s pledge of
cooperation and assistance to help make our
celebration worthwhile,” he added.
Walker, NCCU administrators, and WTVD
executives met three months ago to discuss
ways in which WTVD could participate in
NCCU’s 75th Anniversary.
Last month, WTVD aided the university
when it provided two extra promotional ads at
no cost to the university. Originally the univer
sity paid for six ads. The ads were thirty
seconds long and were shown throughout the
Martin Luther King Special which aired on
WTVD Jan. 15-17.
“The purpose of the paid ads,” said Walker
“was to help market the university to the
public.” After the ads ran the Admissions Of
fice received a number of calls from interested
observers inquiring about the university’s
academic programs.
“Currently, WTVD is producing two-half
hour shows which will deal with different
aspects of the university,” said Alex M. Rivera,
director of Public Relations for the University.
The shows are to be aired on WTVD in the up
coming months.
Student leaders
attend forum
with Gov, Hunt
By Kimberly Home
On Jan. 30, Gov. James B. Hunt held a forum and discussion
on the key issues that will determine the future of North
Carolina. Invited to this forum were the student leaders from
college and universities throughout the state. Representing
NCCU were SGA president James Webb and Campus Echo
Editor Mark Adams.
The forum was a chance for the student leaders to discuss the
recently released NC 2000 report which was undertaken by the
Hunt administration to determine what would be the major in
gredients for a succesful future.
Major topics of discussion were education, merit pay for
teachers, unemployment, the economy and the death penalty.
Although both Adams and Webb felt that Hunts’ views on
these issues were interesting, “it would have made a lot more
sense if the forum was held before the report was released,’’said
Webb.
See forum, p. 4
Walker, who chairs the steering committee
for the Diamond Anniversary observance, said
other Durham businesses and citizens would
shortly be asked to assist the celebration.
NCCU will celebrate its 75th year of opera
tion, 1984-85, as a Diamond Anniversary Year,
with the theme of the anniversary being
“Excellence Without Excuse: A Shared
Responsibility.”
“To support the anniversary’s basic program
would take $200,000 or more,” said David H.
Witherspoon,NCCU’s director of the News
Bureau. So far $50,000 has been raised.
The Diamond Anniversary Year will include
both celebrations and a major campaign for
scholarships and endownemt funds. Activities
will include events for alumni and the general
public.
Many of the events will focus on the universi
ty’s future. Among the topics which have been
suggested for the Diamond Anniversary
Chautaqua lecture (which will include four to
six different series) are “Black Americans in the
21st century,” “The Frontiers of Science,”
“Arts in the New Fin de Siecle, and “New
Directions in Education.”
Also, efforts will be make to increase the
number of alumni, faculty, staff members, and
friends of the university who contribute to the
Annual Fund.
The official announcement to herald the Dia
mond Anniversary may come sometime this
month, said Tyrone R. Baines, vice-chancellor
for University Relations.
On Tuesday, Feb.7, memorial services will be held for
Lindsey A. Merritt in B.N. Duke Auditorium at 10:30 a.m..
Services will be open to all students, faculty, and staff
members.
On Sunday, Jan.29, Merritt, director of Career Counseling
and Placement, chainnan of the Athletic Committee and
Voice of the Eagles, died at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, TX.
Merritt suffered a stroke while representing NCCU at the
convention of the National Collegiate Athletic Association on
Tuesday, Jan. 10.