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FEBRUARY 25, 1970 ' THE VOICE PAGE 3 Life Is What You Make It Many say that there is no way to determine or alter the future of one’s life, while others believe life is what you make ito There are those who have a goal and work hard at achieving it. Others sit around and wait for everything to be handed to them. The hard work ers usually come out on top. In most cases, the ones sitting around wait ing will always be wait ing. In come cases, the hard workers never reach the top. Someone is always waiting to knock them down a step lower. In America this is the case of most Black people. If BLACKS MUST UNITE It is becoming more and more evident that the black man and his race must get themselves to gether. For many years the life of a black man has been one of unend ing turmoil and strife. In many instances this is brought on by the blacks themselves, although many may not believe this to be true. If, in the very beginning, blacks had re alized that the only way for them to make any pro gress in the “white man’s society” was to learn to believe and to trust each other, they would never have been treated the way they have. Today, there seems to be a much better trend towards blacks uniting. More people are begin ning to realize how im portant it is to join to gether and revolt against the thing which has held them back for so long. In the beginning, blacks tried peacefully to get the whites to change their ways, but the whites only got rid of this '‘peace ful” black man. By do ing this, the white man has proven that the only thing they believe in is violence. Once the blacks start these acts of vio lence, they are called lib erals, Communists and anything else the white man can think of to hide the fact that the black man is only trying to ob tain what is rightfully his. They are the ones who toiled in the hot sun and cold to build this coun try and to make it what it is. Norman Rhone FASCINATING WORDS MAD by Mary Ruffin 1. insane 2. beside oneself 3. stupefied with aston ishment 4. fear or suffering 5. dazed 6. carried away by en thusiasm or desire 7. wildly excited 8. infatuated 9. furious 10. beside oneself with anger 11. rabid 12. extravagant in gaiety one is black, he has to be twice as good, if not even three times better than the next man. Be cause of the low rate of black successes, blacks are classified as the ones who sit around waiting for everything to be hand ed to them. In today’s so ciety, it takes more than determination to succeed; education is the number- one factor. Without edu cation, determination is like having the right key but standing in front of the wrong door. One might argue that there is no need to want to succeed in the white man’s . world, because it will only corrupt the COLLEGE FUND (Continued from 1) ties, professional schools, junior colleges and private secondary schools throughout the country. Last year, Col by College, Maine, made minds of the black peo ple. This person should ask himself, how can he live in a world and not be a part of it? Even if this part is very small, it is needed to make a whole. Black successors are needed to put and keep the black man on top, to make a society of his own and to keep it in peace and harmony. Life can be what you make it. We were all put here for a purpose and it is up to us to find out what that purpose is. If life is determined to des tiny, then everyone should stop and wait for life to take its own course. Rosenda Brandon a gift of $12,200 in mem ory of the Rev. Dr. Mar tin Luther King, Jr., and Princeton University has contributed $3,000 since 1967. The Fund’s pre alumni council raised a total of $129,000. Thoughts of the Month r/v£ beginning OF freedom IS THE WILL T O RES 15 7 THDT WH 1C H BNSLAI/eS I \TH£S^ rne T//^^S TRY SOULS.: (SOULS The Scholastic Aptitude Test Each year well over one million high school seniors labor for three hours and more over the scholastic aptitude tests, the multiple - choice examinations that are supposed to predict and evaluate a candidate’s verbal and mathematical level. Although I will admit they have been extremely helpful to colleges in the past; today, they have been found to favor the con ventional student over the non-conformist or creative minds. They also, according, to expert criticism, are a form of discrimination against those with merely different backgrounds. Some colleges when questioned, indicated that a slum-bred youth, brought up with little benefit of relaxed conversation and reading are strict ly at a disadvantage when measured by the SAT. This test is nothing more than a measurement by customa ry yard sticks of verbal and reading sophistication. Some schools have already taken steps and have dropped the SAT. others. I hope, will follow suit and do likewise. You might ask why speak out against something that has become a move in our educational world. The distrust lies In any kind of examination, especially the SAT because it and no other exami nation is supposed to evaluate the student totally. The Sat points a finger at certain high school seniors and says because of your low score, you cannot scholastically get through our curriculum. Apply else where! This pushes him to a trade school and hamp ers his future. All in all, the SAT says let us segre gate the intellects from the smart, the average, and the stupid. Lastly^ any kind of test score does not guarantee the presence of those human qualities and intellectual abilities we value most. With this in mind, it seems only right to ask for the test to be thrown out, re placed, or the emphasis put on it to be lightened. Karl Smith Institutional Research OTHER COMMENTS Charles I, Brown SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS Brown, Charles I., (Book Review) Clarizio, Harvey F., MENTAL HEALTH AND THE EDUCATIVE PRO CESS. Rand McNally Publishing Company, 1969, 476p. in CHOICE, December 1969, p. I45I. , Faculty Compensation at Fayetteville State University and Comparable North Carolina In stitutions, FSU INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH, 5:2, pp, 7-59. and Dorothy J. Moore, et al., A Survey To Determine The Feasibility of Offering A Con temporary Ideas Course at FSU, FSU INSTITU TIONAL RESEARCH, 5:3, pp. 60-62. , Some Professional Affiliations of FSU Personnel, FSU INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH. 5-4 pp, 63-72. Liu, Shia-ling, Vice-President Agnew and Freedom of the Press, CHINA DAILY NEWS, December 21, 1969. , (Book) American Domestic and Foreign Policies in International Relations, TAIPER, De cember 1969. , An Appraisal of Nixon’s New Approach Toward Communist China, CHINA DAILY NEWS, January 15-16, 1970. UNEXAMINED EXAMINATIONS Mention of items akin to the following have been made in this column and elsewhere within the confines of our academic community, but in the view of those interested in the workings of the Admissions Commit tee such notices have made but a small imprint upon those who can assist a positive alteration of the University’s admission policies and/or a speedier a- doption of mainstream higher education practices. INSTITUTIONAL. RBSEARCH - AND OTHER COM MENTS “Forty-eight Schools in South Give Credit for New CEEB Exam”, REGIONAL SPOTLIGHT, April 1969. p. 3. Forty-eight colleges and universities in the 15 southern states are awarding college credit on the basis of scores received on the College-Level Examinations of the College Entrance Examina tion Board. Since the new program began in Octo ber 1967, about 55,000 persons in the South have taken the exams.” The point being made here is that upon faculty re quest the Admissions Committee sent for and re ceived inspection copies of seventy-two different placement and advance placement examinations from ACT examinations were sent back unexamined save by the Mathematics Department and a woefully small scattering of individual faculty members. SOME FURTHER NOTES ON GRADING AND CUR RICULUM REVISION “How and Why Brown Broke the Curriculum Mold” - Brown University has adopted what in many respects is the most flexible and progressive under graduate curriculum to be found. Distribution require ments have been ended and students are expected to cluster their studies in ways which make sense to them. All artificial restraints have been removed from a concentration and major, and students are encouraged to put together concentrations which at tract their various interests. All course work will be graded by an A, B, C system, thus eliminating grades of E and F. For freshmen, there will be about six ty modes-of-thought courses, which are small, in formal, seminar - type classes. The attempt is to bring freshmen into contact with senior profes sors quite early. The pressures for these changes came first and foremost from one bright freshman who attracted around him a group of other students. After a successful drive that brought an end to the requirement that all students take their meals through college facilities, they turned to a study of the cur riculum. This group made itself master of the liter ature of higher education as well as the metho dology at Brown, and finally prepared a massive re port for curriculum reform. It seemed, however, that the report would end as so many reports do, collect ing dust. However, the students again organized and literally forced all faculty members to read and think about the 400 and some odd pages of critique. Fin ally the faculty attempted to implement portions of the report, and after the usual delaying tactics, in cluding criticism of the report on philosophic grounds. Brown adopted its new curriculum.
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