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
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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
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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.