Speaking For Ourselves VOLUME 33, NO. 9 FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FAYETTEVILLE N.C. 28301 APRIL, 1979 Suit Seeks Quick Cut To UNC Aid Washington (AP) - A civil rights attorney has asked the U.S. District Court to require Department of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph A. Califano to appear in court personally to answer contempt charges for not moving faster to cut off funds to the University of North Carolina. Joseph Rauh, attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., filed the action against Califano. Rauh filed other action this week asking that a cutoff of all federal funds to North Carolina’s predominantly white colleges. If Rauh’s motion is suc cessful, it would override HEW’s administrative proceedings against UNC and bring a complete cutoff of funds to the 11 traditionally white campuses within 30 days unless the state comes up with an acceptable desegregation plan. South Africa Rauh told the court Friday that it apparently took a contempt motion he filed against Califano two weeks ago to “finally disgorge the decision to reject the (UNC) plan.” Califano announced Monday that UNC’s latest desegregation had been rejected. UNC has been given 20 days in which to file an appeal of the ruling or lose about $90 million in federal funds. HEW charged in paper filed Thursday that the UNC governing board still runs its 16 campuses in a manner that has “maintained and per petuated the dual system” of racially segregated schools. Hearings before the ad ministrative law judge on the issue could take months, but Califano said a limited cutoff of $10 to $20 million will begin within 30 days unless a statement is reached with UNC. Rauh called the limited- fund cutoff the very minimum Califano could do. Rhoodie Talks Reprinted from Africa News, March 30, 1979, Volume XII, Number 12 (AN) South African Foreign Minister Pik Botha has sent orders to South Business Education Grad Receives Master’s Degree Jasper L. Wilson Mr. Jasper L. Wilson, a graduate of Business Education at Fayetteville State University, class of 1976, was granted the Master’s degree at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, in December, 1978. His major area of study was Business Education with a con centration in Administrative Services. Mr. Wilson has accepted a position as an instructor of Business in the Division of Business at Chadron State College, Chadron, Nebraska. The Division of Business and Economics at FSU joins in congratulating Mr. Wilson on his recent achievements. African embassies and con sulates around the world to find former Information Secretary Eschel Rhoodie and bring him home. Rhoodie has been in hiding while negotiating the sale of his information on South African government corruption to international news organizations, including the three American television networks and the New York Times. According to a Times report on March 22, Rhoodie at first demanded $200,000 for his information, but suddenly withdrew the offer without explanation. Only the Times and CBS flatly refused to pay his fee, the paper said. The intermediary in the negotiations, British free lance journalist David Dimbleby, interviewed Rhoodie for a BBC March 21 broadcast which promised much more than it delivered. Pre-airing released by the BBC said Rhoodie would release a document which the former Information Secretary believed would force the South African government to resign. In fact, the interview covered little ground which has not already featured prominently in South African press ac counts. The essence of Rhoodie’s charges is that, while still in the government, he oversaw expenditures from a secret special fund, designed to improve South Africa’s image and relations abroad. He says over 130 secret projects in cluded payments to politicians in Europe and the U.S., cash payoffs to U.S. labor leaders, the establishment of a right- wing party in Norway, and contributions to Iowa Senator Roger Jepsen who upset South Africa-critic Dick Clark in last November’s election. Rhoodie further alleges that several current cabinet members knew of the scheme. Fayetteville State University was established in 1877 by a legislative act of the North Carolina General Assembly. This bill was in troduced in the Senate by Mr. Thomas Nicholson from Iredell County and was known as the “Act to establish normal schools.” The law did not designate Fayetteville as the place for the school and many cities sought this new “State Colored Normal School.” Since the appropriation was only $2,000 the State officials tri^ to find a school already in operation which they could take over. Upon investigating the Howard School in ROOTS OF FSU Fayetteville which had been in existence since 1867, they decided it had the most to offer. The University has been known by the following names: State Colored Normal School, 1877, State Colored Normal and Industrial School 1916; State Normal School for the Negro Race, 1921; State Normal School, 1926; Fayetteville State Teachers College, 1939; Fayetteville State College, 1968; and Fayetteville State University, 1%9. The scope of the University program has been enlarged to cope with new 12th Year of African Study Programs Announced Dr. Melvin Drimmer, President of the American Forum for International Study, has announced that Senegal, Nigeria, Kenya, and Egypt will be the sites of the AFRICA 1979 programs of the American Forum. Leaders for the nationally known and recognized study- travel programs will be Professor Margaret Burroughs of the DuSable Museum, Chicago; Professor Harold Rogers of Kennedy- King College, Chicago; Professor Cyril Packwood of Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York; Professor Beverly Lindsay of Pennsylvania State University. Programs begin in July and last for 24 days. Par ticipants will spend three days at Columbia University before leaving for Africa. Their African study program will take participants to the most dynamic countries and culture in Africa and allow them to meet leading artists, statesmen, literary and cultural figures, and educational counterparts. Graduate and un dergraduate credit will again be available from Adelphi University in New York. Costs including air transportation, room and board, internal travel in Africa, and educational components range from $2120 to $2680. Selective scholarships assistance is available. All American Forum programs are interracial and interreligious. National Car Rental Offers Guide For First-Time Car Renters MINNEAPOLIS National Car Rental has just published a guide for first time car renters. It’s called “National’s ‘Read This First’ Guide to Renting a Car,” and it was designed to answer some basic questions about the car rental procedure. For example, the guide explains what qualifications are needed to rent a car from National, how a renter can determine approximately what his or her costs will be and the procedures involved in renting and returning a car. The “Read This First” guide also tells renters about National’s preventive maintenance programs for keeping its cars in good operating condition. “Because National rents to qualified 18-year-olds in many cities, we believe we have a high percentage of first-time renters,” said Ed Rhodes, corporate vice president of marketing for National. “For that reason we wanted to produce a brochure that would help those renters with that important first rental experience.” For a free copy of (Continued on Page 2) Students Attend Media Conference by Lillie Booth Edith Holloway, Valery Frazier, Fidele Essono, Vanessa Williams and Lillie Booth represented Fayet teville State University at the 2nd Annual Mass Media Conference at NCA&T University in Greensboro, on March 24, 1979. The featured speaker for the event was Max Robinson, ABC anchorman. Mr. Robinson presented an informal speech and t the beginning quipped that he represented the network that “...brought you ROOTS and Max Robinson within one year.” He told the standing room only audience that his position (Continued on Page 2) demands. Prior to 1960, the only major offered was Elementary Education. The General Assembly of North Carolina revised the charter of the University in 1959 and authorized the expansion of the curriculum to include Secondary Education m.ajors. Since 1960 several non teaching majors have been added. Chief Administrators of FSU since its inception in 1877 were: Principals: Mr. Robert Harris (1877-1880) and Mrs. Charles W. Chesnutt (1880- 1883). Presidents: Mr. Charles Chesnutt (1880-1883); Dr. Ezekiel Ezra Smith (1883- 1888); Mr. George Williams (1888-1895); Dr. Ezekiel Smith, (1895-1933); Dr. James Ward Seabrook (1933-1956); Dr. Rudolph Jones (1956- 1969); Dr. Charles “A” Lyons, Jr. (1969-1972). Chancellors: Dr. Charles “A” Lyons, Jr., (1972- Present) . University of Dominica To Open New Medical Teaching Facility In April In 1978 the Government of Dominica, an island in the Leeward group, British West Indies; established the University of Dominica, projected to be one of the most modern and progressive in the Caribbean. As a part of the Univer sity’s faculty expansion, a School of Medicine has been accredited and authorized to open in April of 1979. The World Health Organization has informed the University that the School of Medicine will be listed in the sixth (1979) edition of the World Health Directory of Medical Schools. The school program will consist of four years of study leading to the degree of Doctor in Medicine, MD. No internship will be required. The academic year will follow the United States pattern of two semesters of 16 weeks each. All instruction will be in English. The island has a hospital, the Princess Margaret; which together with other local health facilities, will be used by the school for clinical instruction. Additionally, arrangements have been finalized to allow clinical rotation of students to teaching hospitals in the U.S. Applications for ad mittance are invited from students in the United States, the United Kingdom and British Commonwealth, and Third World nations. Students interested in registration for the April and September, 1979 semester should write im mediately to: US Office, University of Dominica, 419 Park Ave. South, Suite 1306, New York, NY 10016 or call (212 ) 686-7590 for more in formation.

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