The Campus Echo
Number 8
The official student newspaper of North Carolina Central University Friday, March 23, 1984
Award-winning reporter Bella English (left) and record-setting pilot Brooke
Knapp prepare for their trip hy commercial jet around the world via the North
and South Poles last November. In the background is their plane, the American
Dream II. English, an investigative-undercover reporter for New York’s Daily
News, will be speaking at NCCU on April 3. The journalist and her work are
featured in a special section of this Echo.
Citing racist remarks by chairman
AFL-CIO seeks support
in boycott of Coors beer
Taken from The Rocky Mountian News
The American Federation of
Labor and Congress of In
dustrial Organizations
(AFL-CIO) is currently
enlisting the support of all
unions, councils, students and
private citizens to join and
support their boycott of Coors
Beer.
David Siclker, National
AFL-CIO Coors Boycott
Coordinator says that the
statement that “Blacks should
be thankful that their
ancestors were brought here in
chains!” is outrageous and in
credible and that “other
equally racist remarks were
made by William K. Coors.
The controversy and
boycott are results of remarks
that Coors, Chairman of the
Adolph Coors Brewery, made
when speaking to a group of
minority business owners in
Denver. Commenting on the
economic situation in black-
goverened countries in Africa,
Coors said that blacks “lack
of intellectual capacity,” is the
cause of economic problems in
Zimbabwe.
In Rodesia, the economy
was booming under White
management,” Coors said.
Now, in Zimbabwe, under
black management if is a
disaster. It’s not that the
dedication among blacks is
less; in fact it’s greater. They
lack the intellectual capacity to
succeed and it’s taking them
down the tubes.”
Russ Simpson, a black
employee at Martin Marietta
Corp. Who attended Coors
speech, said he was insulted.
“I felt he was saying, if you
blacks disagree with what I’m
saying, go back to Africa,”
said Simpson.
As a result of Coors
remarks protests came from
the NAACP, the National Ur
ban League, black legislators,
city officials and scenes of
Colorodo residents. Many
leaders voiced the need of
following the lead of the
African Methodist Church in
organizing an NAACP
Boycott of Coors products.
“Some of our distributers
have received calls from
retailers saying. Come get
your racist beer off our
shelves,” said Coors
spokesman Whit Sibley.
Hiawatha Davis and
William Roberts, The two
black members of the Denver
City Council, said Coors
remarks galvanized their nor
theast Denver constituents to a
level of outrage rarely seen in
Denver. They said the black
community is not placated by
Coors explaination that his
comments were directed of
poorly educated African
leaders.
“I believe that it’s in-
dicadive of his (Coors) view of
all 800 million blacks on this
planet,” Davis said.
Roberts met with about a
dozen black Democrat and
Republican leaders who “were
See Coors, p. 10
Walker
a n nounces
formation of
Boardof Visitors
Chancellor LeRoy T. Walker announced the formation of a
Board of Visitors for NCCU Tuesday.
The board is comprised of 15 members, including former
Secretary of the Treasury William Simon. The Board held its
first meeting yesterday and will continue today.
Simon, treasury secretary from 1974 to 1977, is now president
of the United States Olympic Committee and chairman of
Wesray Corp. and Gibson Greeting Cards.
Other members of the board are Walter E. Douglas, a
graduate of NCCU who is president of New Detroit; Richard
Cecil, president of Cecil and Associates in Atlanta ; Eugene
Jackson, president of Unity Broadcasting Co. in New York Ci
ty; William J. Kennedy III, president of N.C. Mutal Life Jn-
aurance Co., and Mrs. Julia W.Taylor, president of Mechanics
and Farmers Bank in Durham.
Also on the Board are Roger S. Anthony, corporate vice presi
dent of Burlington Industries; Lee Archer, vice president for ur
ban affairs of General Foods; Marshall Bass, corporate vice
president of R.J. Reynolds Industries; Grady W. Lewis, senior
vice president of Converse; Don E. Mott vice president of Lig
gett & Myers Tobacco Co.; Thomas B. Shropshire, vice presi
dent of Philip Morris and senior vice president of Miller Brewing
Co., and James Bud Ward, vice president of organization
development for Marriott Hotds.
Other members are C.Carson Conrad, executive director or
President’s Council on Physical fitness and Sports, and Charles
Harris, director of athletics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Freshman high jump sensation Obie Martin displays
NCCU and CIAA record breaking form in clearing 7’2”.
Martin placed first in the CIAA indoor championship track
meet and just missed setting a state record by one inch.
Story on page 11.