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Speaking For Ourselves
FAYETTEVILLE
STATE
UNIVERSITY
FAYETTEVILLE,
N. C.28301
Vol. 35. No. 4
December 198(1 ' (f\C^
Congratulations
FSU
on your
basketball
standings —
FSU Student Rescues
Wreck Victim
Keep up the good work!
Broncos 9-2 Overall 3-0 Conference
Broncoettes 9-1 Overall 4-1 Conference
By Lillie Booth
L. Craig Johnson, a senior
Englisii and Communications
major at Fayetteville State
University, was credited with
rescuing an unidentified Hol-
sum Bread man from his
overturned van on Saturday,
Nov. 22. The accident occurred
on Murchinson Road across
from the Charles Chesnutt
Library at approximately 10
a.m.
According to reports the
driver hit a man hole lop thai
had been uprooted and left
lying in the road. He then lost
control of the van and hit a
brick abutment before over
turning.
Johnson was one of the first
ones at the scene and
immediately climbed on lop of
I he overturned van in an effort
lo rescue the victim.
"I was only concerned with
savinp ;i man's life." said
Johnson who daringly made the
rescue attempt without any
thought of the van exploding.
The Fayetteville community
recently saw Johnson ill the
role of Dr. Dudley Stanton in
the play "The River Niger,"
However, on this particular
Saturday, the call to save a life
was for real and Johnson
responded instantaneously and
unselfishly. For this he is to be
commended.
Dr. Black
Attends Seminar
Dr. Grace C. Black, Head of
the Division of Business and
Economics, and Dr. C. Jeanne
Lewis, Assistant Professor of
Business F,ducalion, at Fayette
ville State University attended
the three-day Invitational Man
agement Seminar for Vocational
Education Decision-Makers in
the State of North Carolina at
Foxfire Inn in Pinehurst.
The Seminar, which had as
its theme. "Improving the
Management of Vocational
Education: A Need and a
Responsibility," was sponsored
by the Division of Vocational
Education and the State
Department of Public Instruc
tion in cooperation with the
National Academy for Voca
tional Education and the
National Center for Research in
Vocational Education of The
Ohio State University.
Participants represented
State Department of Public
Instruction personnel, princi
pals, local education directors,
regional coordinators, and
teacher educators.
Highlights of the Seminar
included addresses by Bill
Cook, President of Colonial
Management Company of
Montgomery, Ala.: Mr. Bones
McKinney, Customer Service
and Public Relations of
Servomation. Hickory; and Dr.
John Tart, Chairman of the
North Carolina State Board of
Education.
On The Inside
Classified & Profile
Editorials
Page 5 Literary
Page 3 Sports
Page 6
Voice: 486-1357
FSU Alumni Named Director
National Black Independent
Political Party Created
On November 21-23, 2,000
people gave birth to a new level
of political process and
possibility. The National Black
Independent Political Party was
formally created at the Party’s
Founding Convention in Phila
delphia, Pa. Held at the
(Benjamin Franklin) Malcolm X
High School over three days,
the convention brought to
gether representatives from
every major Black Power, Pan
Africanist and progressive
grouping in the United States,
The historic gathering was
set on the 150th anniversary of
I he first Black political conven
tion — a Black Antislavery
meeting held at the Rev.
Richard Allen's A,M,E. Church
in Philadelphia from September
21-25, 1830. Over fbO news
paper reporters and media
representatives covered the
convention. After a spirited
debate, national representa
tives were elected to serve on
the new party’s Organizing
Committee, A Charter Review
Commission was selected to
draft a permanent constitution.
Significantly, many of the
veterans and organizers from
the Black enpowerment move
ment of the 1960s were an
infiuential force in this historic
gathering.
Twenty years ago, 200 Black
youth met in Greensboro, to
discuss strategies and protest
programs to combat Jim Crow.
The results of this meeting
helped to build the modern
Freedom Movement and de
veloped the Student Non
violent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC) into a major Black
Power instrument. This organ
ization of young people helped
to lead the long and often bitter
struggle to transform the
cultural, economic and political
relations between Blacks and
whites in the Deep South.
(Continued on page two)
Henry B. Crews Jr., a native
of Henderson, was recently
named Director of Personnel
Services at Chicago State
University. He was previously
employed as Personnel Director
at the Chicago City College
Dawson Skills Center and
Executive Director of the
Eastern North Carolina Op
portunities Industralization
Center in Greenville.
Crews, a 1972 graduate of
Fayetteville State University,
received his B. A. degree in
Sociology. He has done further
studies at East Carolina
University and is currently
preparing to complete studies
for his Masters degree in
Psychology at the University of
Chicago.
He has served as Chairman
of the Board of North Carolina
Henry B. Crews
Rural Youth and Children
Services, member of the North
Carolina Federation Child
Development. NAACP, and
East Carolina Health System
Agency. He was recently
appointed to a three-year term
as a Commissioner for Chi
cago's Health System Agency
by the Mayor.
Dr. Thompson Joins Science Department
On September 1, Dr. Albert
N. Thompson Jr. from Colum
bia. S. C., joined the
Department of Biological Sci
ence and Medical Technology.
Dr. Thompson received his
B.S. degree and his master's
degree in Chemistry, from
Texas Southern University in
Houston, Tex. He continued his
education at Howard University
in Washington, D. C. and
received his PHD in Inorganic
Chemistry.
He took the position here at
Fayetteville State! University as
an assistant professor of
chemistry. He teaches general
chemistry, and Quantitative
analysis. This spring he will
teach Instrumental Analysis.
Dr. Thompson taught chem
istry and physical science for
one year at Texas Southern
University: he also taught
chemistry for two years at Fisk
University in Nashville, Tenn.
Dr. Thompson is highly
interested in research and was
awarded a Minority Biomedical
Support grant from Fisk
University to study f.
synthesis in kinetics of
Porphyrins which are structures
similar to hemoglobin.
He is one of the few Blacks to
rcceive a doctorate degree in
I he field of chemistry.
Dr. Thompson has also
ser\ed two years in the armed
forccs as a blood bank
technician.
He will ser\c as advisor tor
ihe Chemistry club this year.
Students will get to participate
in field trips, and seminars, in
addition to hearing speakers.
Carolvn M. Simmons