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THE VOICE
JANUARY, 1977
Letter From Editor
STI}DE1%T APATHY
HI!
My name is Geraldine P.
Morris (Geri). I am your new
editor of The Voice.
Well, I guess I should tell
you a little more about myself.
I am originally from Southern
Pines, North Carolina. Ft.
Devens, Massachusetts is now
my home. Ft. Devens,
Massachusetts is where I
graduated from high school.
Upon graduating from
high school, I returned to
North Carolina to attend
Sandhills Community College
in Southern Pines. I graduated
from this institution in May of
1976, receiving an Associates
of Arts degree.
After graduating from
Sandhills Community College,
I transferred here to Fayet
teville State University in
September of this year. Here
at FSU I am a Junior and my
major is English.
Since I have given you a
little background information
about myself, I would now like
to tell you how happy and
pleased I am to be the ^itor of
The Voice. I am very
delighted to hold this position
and I will be even more
delighted in hearing from you.
So please feel free to help
support your school’s
newspaper.
Dr. DeField Holmes
Appointed
The North Carolina
Council on Economic
Education, at its Board
Meeting on November 9, 1976,
appointed Dr. DeField T.
Holmes, Provost and Vice
Chancellor for Academic
Affairs, to the Board of
Trustees for a three-year
term.
The North Carolina
Council on Economic
Education is a non-profit non-
partisan independent
organization whose purpose is
to facilitate the teaching of
economics in North Carolina
schools. The council is
composed of representatives
of business, agriculture,
labor, government and
education. It is affiliated
nationally with the Joint
Council of Economic
Education, and is part of a
t.utionwide network of similar
groups.
Dr. Holmes stated that a
major thrust of the Council is
to promote economic un
derstanding through
organized systems that will
drastically reduce the
economic illiteracy of young
people and adults.
Dr. Holmes further in
dicated that Fayetteville State
DR. DEFIELD T. HOLMES
University will become one of
the state-wide affiliated
centers for Economic
Education, and will work
closely with the cooperating
schools and the Department of
Public Instruction. The Center
will be responsible for
research in economic
education, for distributing
economic education materials
in this area, and for providing
other services that will
enhance curricula with
economic perspectives.
TAKE CHARGE
by Naomi Smith
W.E.B. DuBois has said
that once you control a man’s
thinking you do not have to
worry about his actions.
Therefore, what do your
actions reveal? Are you
moving according to your own
mind or is there someone who
dictates your every motion?
Can you make your own
decision or must you depend
on another? When you make a
choice is it necessary to im
mediately receive approval?
Sure, you need others, but
NOT to make up YOUR mind.
I guess you say that Ishould let
you alone and let you think.
But, if I can help you to start
thinking. . .if I can make you
angry enough. . .if I can keep
you from resting your
thoughts. . .just maybe you’ll
WANT to do your OWN
thinking.
If I can make you jump
when I say “jump”. . .if I tell
you to never do this and never
by Earl W. Moore, Jr.
It has often been said, that
there is Student Apathy
toward the Student Govern
ment Association here on
campus. When something
goes wrong, who do we point
our fingers at, your SGA
President, of course! My
questions to you are very
simple. Why is there apathy
toward the SGA on this
campus? Whose fault is it?
Did you, the students of this
campus, take on this attitude
because you feel that the SGA
is not sponsoring enough
activities to fulfill your social
life on campus? If this is the
reason, I would like to review
our records with you.
When we pay our tuition
we are also paying several
activitiy fees. These fees are
Lyceum, Athletic, Yearbook,
Voice, Student Government,
etc. Each of these depart
ments are supposed to receive
an X sum of money each year.
On last Spring of 1976, this
money was not divided among
the six departments, but it
was divided between two of
these departments. This
created a deficiency in the
SGA budget. This deficiency
was of twenty thousand
dollars (20,000).
In October of 1976, the
state auditors visited our
institution. They found this
deficiency in our budget and
said that the money must be
made up by June of 1978. This
meant or this means that we
will have to sacrifice, if we are
to break even by June of 1978.
If we sacrifice now, the next
SGA staff will not have to
worry about “penny pin
ching” or the reading of fic
titious articles in the
Fayetteville Times and The
Observer.
It has been said that our
account would not be cleared
Friends Forever
It’s been such a long time and
since then I’ve heard of your
previous condition
I’m sorry it took so long, but
you know me...
I guess you think I really don’t
care - you’re wrong.
You asked me how my life is
now;
I can’t complain, things could
be worse.
I saw your best friend the
other day - seemingly on the
top of the world...
But, the outward appearance
can be so deceiving.
Today I went by your favorite
resting spot.
And yes, it’s still beautiful;
I’m sure you’ll visit it when
you come...
By the way, how’s Mom?
Naomi Smith
for two years, but without
careful, limited, and excellent
budgeting, the SGA account
should be cleared by June of
1977.
I feel that we all have
been very patient and
cooperative with the SGA staff
in scheduling activities. I feel
that we have all done very
well activity wise, so far. Let
us all be thankful for the
activities that we did enjoy,
because the situation could
have been worse. Let us all
begin to take advantage of
what we do have and use it to
its fullest. “I complained that
I had no shoes, until I met a
man that had no feet.” So
again, let us all be thankful for
what we do have.
We all are adults and we
are now able to socialize in
more ways that one. We
should all begin to take pride
in what we do and our purpose
in being here. We should
consider the future of the
underclassmen, we do not
want them to suffer as we
have.
Thank you for your kind
ness and patience; it is my
growing concern that we will
work more closely together
next semester. I hope with the
help and cooperation of other
organizations, you will be
satisfied. But remember,
nothing “KICKS-OFF”
without your cooperation and
support. Let’s stop sitting at
home or in our dormitories
criticizing about what’s not
being done; come on and help
us do a better job! Love and
unity will get a long way up
the ladder of success.
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