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Speaking For Ourselves
FAYETTEVILLE
STATE
UNIVERSITY
FAYETTEVILLE,
N. C.28301
VoL 35, No. 3
December 1,1980
By Lillie Booth
FSU students boycotted
classes, marched and chanted
"We’re Cornin' Out,” and
finally stormed the Administra
tion Building on October 27,
1980 in effort to relate to
Chancellor Lyons and FSU
family members their dis
pleasure concerning the newly
adopted Homecoming Theme
“A Prideful Past; A Progres
sive Fuiure.” Students alleg
ed that they had submitted the
theme “We’re Cornin’ Out” as
their choice and that it had
been adopted only to have it
changed because someone in
the administration said that the
theme was too vague.
No one appeared to know
how the mix-up occurred.
Chancellor Lyons stated that he
was unaware that any changes
had been made.
Sources in the Office of
Development said that students
had been referred to Home
coming Theme Committee if
ihey wished to express
displeasure with the theme.
However, when Dr. John
Wolfe, the head of the
committee, was contacted he
stated that no student re
presentative had consulted him
in reference to the theme. Too.
FSU Students Boycott Classes
To Protest Homecoming Theme
Chancellor Lyons, students and other officials talk over problems.
he stated that the theme
‘‘We're Coinin' Out had not
been officially adopted, but i!
had only been submitted as an
idea.
Johnathan Fant, the student
representative on the commit
tee and responsible for the
students input, had failed to
complete the proper chain of
communication necessary to
make the complaint known,
according to Mr. Irving Veazie,
the Advisor for the Student
Government Association.
Many students felt that the
change had been deliberately
made and in art effort to let the
administration know that they
"would not be dictated to like
children.” protested to have
(heir choice used and also
demanded that cars be allowed
in the parade. If cars could not
be used many, organizations
would be excluded from the
parade because of the lack of
(Photo: Ronald Spicer)
funds to purchase a float.
A two day consultation with
the Chancellor, students and
other university officials ended
with the students getting the
theme "We’re Comin’ Out.”
Two cars were allowed in the
parade.
Tenth Annual Graduate
And Professional Schools
Visitation Days At Ohio State
Due to their knowledge and
persistance as undergraduates,
the following students were
able to participate in the Tenth
Annual Graduate and Profes
sional Schools Visitation Days
at Ohio State November 2-4,
1980:
Mary Owens, Math, Com
puter Science; Linda Nelson,
English, English; Melody Mad
dox, History, History/Political
Science; Billy Hopkins, Elm
Ed., Educational Administra
tion; Wanda Coston, Sociolgy,
Social Work.
The Ohio State University,
over the past ten years has
awarded almost five million
dollars in fellowship grants to
nearly eight hundred minority
group students with a desire to
pursue graduate degrees. Last
year four of our own fellow
Broncos were accepted at Ohio
State, three of whom where
recipients of fellowships.
The former graduate Gerald
Johnson in Educational Ad
ministration are now students
at Ohio State. A graduate of
Fayetteville State University
and 1979 graduate of Ohio State
University is Kathy McLaurin
Terry with a Master’s in
Education.
During the past eight years,
15 Fayetteville State University
students have received fellow
ships for graduate study.
-:Mavis Colvin
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Left to right: Dr. Leo Williams, Dr. Guthrie Turner, Dr. Charles “A” Lyons, Jr. and Dr. George Deb-
The Shaw University of
Raleigh, honored four of its
distinguished graduatesr by
conferring a Honorary Doctor of
Divinity Degree on Dr. Leo
Williams, Jr. and Doctor of
Humane Letters on Drs.
Charles "A" Lyons, Jr.,
Guthrie L. Turner, Jr.. and
George C. Debnam. Dr. Lvf
was presented by The Shaw
University Trustee and Pastor
of Moore Street First Baptist
Church in ille. Dr.
Chancey R. F ■'