Speaking For Ourselves
Vol. 37 No. 4 FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. Fetouary 17,1983
Left to ri(ht are Dra. Cathy Harrison, Marye Jeffries, TiUmon
Jackson, and Mrs. Jackson. (Photo by John Henderson)
Artist’s Works Featured
The Area of Art at Fayetteville State University sponsored an art show which
featured the art works of Dr. Cathy Harrison. Dr. Harrison is a native of
Fayetteville, N.C. She has studied Art at Meredith College, Methodist College, and
Duke University, where she completed the Ed. D. degree in Education, minoring in
Reading and Psychology. She has traveled and studied abroad in France, Turkey,
and Bermuda. Her work has been displayed in the Cumberland Co. Arena, the
Market House, the Fayetteville Little Theatre, the Fort Bragg Playhouse, Duke
University and Methodist College. She is an Assistant Professor in the area of
Special Education in the Division of Education and Human Development at
Fayettevile State University.
Dr. Harrison's reception was held in the Rosenthal Art Gallery January 9. This
reception provided an opportunity to meet and chat with the artist. Art works
included painting and sculpture.
King’s
Birthday '
By Isaiah Reed
On Friday, January 17, at the 9:30
a.m. - 4:00 p.m., a documentary film
entitled “Montgomery To Memphis,”
was shown in the Multi-Purpose Room
of the Rudolph Jones Student Center in
memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Born on January 15, ! 929 in Atlanta,
Georgia, he was named Michael Luther
King, Jr. His father changed both their
names legally to Martin in honor of the
German religious leader Martin Luther.
Dr. King, a Moorehouse College
graduate and civil rights leader, worked
to bring about social, political, and
economical equality for blacks by
nonviolent means during the 1950's and
1960's.
President Lyndon B. Johnson
declared a national day of mourning to
honor him which is the 14th of January
each year.
The President
And The Legal
Services Corp.
No one can fault the Reagan
Administration for lack of creativity in
its drive to destroy the Legal Services
Corporation. Its ploys seem endless.
President Reagan wants the LSC
abolished, believing that the poor are
belter served under a syslenri of noblesse
oblige, whereby well-to-do lawyers
charitably donate their services to the
poor without government involvement.
The Administration has made little
headway, however, in convincing
members of Congress or the American
Bar Association that a return to this
patrician system would truly meet the
needs of the poor. Instead, Congress has
insisted on maintaining LSC funding at
$250 million in the !983 budget and has
held up confirmation of presidential
appointments to the LSC board.
The LSC board, while dedicated to
the belief that the corporation should be
dismantled, is determined to go out in
style. During the first eleven months of
1982, board members collected
$ 186,000 in consulting fees and $80,000
in expenses. This represents a drastic
increase over costs incurred by previous
boards. In addition, board president
Donald Bogard managed to negotiate
an enviable contract which includes a
$57,000 salary, private club
membership, and a f j11 year's severance
pay if his contract is terminated.
(Congress, in its ;ame-duck session, put
a damper on . >me of these perks).
When news of' -candal broke. White
House react- ^as simple—if there
were no LSC e problems would not
exist. Administration antics have
repelled many Republicans in
Congress, leading Rep. M.^Caldwell
Butler (R-VA) to note: “It sounds like
the first thing they did was go and put all
four feet and their snout into the
trough.”
Finally, the board is still trying to cut
back the availability of legal services to
the poor through internal regulations.
The latest is an attempt to circumvent
the will of Congress with proposals to
eliminate class action suits on behalf of
the poor-the only tool for effectively
guaranteeing the rights of a broad-
based group. These proposals have not
yet been finalized.
As Congress reconvenes. President
Reagan is faced with an LSC board
consisting of only two members. The
Senate refused to confirm the
President's appointees, and last
December he withdrew eight of the
names from consideration. Still to be
answered is whether the outcry from
Congress and the public will give the
President any second thoughts about
his never-ending supply of devious
tricks to eliminate legal services for the
poor.
CEED
By Dr. Henry
Fayetteville State University's Coun
seling Center is happy to announce the
opening of its first CEED (Center for
the Enhancement of Educational De
velopment). Through the CEED stu
dents will have access to academic rein
forcement materials that will aid in im
proving their academic performance.
The CEED will also focus on helping
students improve their self-esteem and
level of motivation for academic and
personal success. In addition to trained,
competent CEED assistants, to provide
tutorial services, the CEED's pro
fessional staff is also available to
facilitate groups in the areas of
motivation, self-esteem, goal setting,
values clarification and study skills. The
CEED will be open from 4 to !0 p.m.
Monday thru Thursday in Harris Hall
(Jst floor) beginning Wednesday,
February 2, !983.
Operator
By Cheryl E. Griffin
Are you familiar with these lines? “No
one ever answered the phone,” “I was on
hold too long,” and “I just couldn't get
through.”
The campus operators are confronted
with these remarks all the time. The
Student body and general public may be
unaware of the difficulties campus
operators are faced with.
In the Seabrook Auditorium, the
switchboard consists of 36 lines. There
are over 300 extensions on this
switchboard to FSU. With only one
operator working at any given time,
trying to^answer all incoming lines is
virtually impossible.
At 5:00 p.m. the system is shut off and
transfered over to the Administration
Building. Here, there is one ten-key
phone with 7 lines to be used, which is
overloaded; like the operating system in
the Auditorium.
The operating system now being used
is outdated and possibly a new system
would be of help to alleviate the
problem. FSU is a growing institution;
therefore, the operating system should
be better equipped.
If there are any suggestions to better
the operating system, changes you
would like to see made, please send
them to the Newspaper room
(“VOICE”) located in the Student
Union. Remember, any complaints
about getting an answer on the phone is
not the operators fault, but the
switchboard system.
NCABSG
The North Carolina Association of
Black Student Government (NCABSG)
held a meeting in the Conference room
of the Rudolph Jones Student Center
on January 22.
Invitations were sent to many Black
Universities and Colleges, but because
of unfavorable weather conditions, it
was a small turnout. St. Augustine
College, the only school to show up, was
represented by Jerold Spencer Lewis,
President of the SGA, Alice Hardy,
Carlton Taylor, and Raymond Tillery.
The subject was concerning
Operation PUSH, a Boycott on
Anheuser Busch; the main item that was
discussed was: What was being done for
Black History Month, Education of
Students on the NCABSG and
Workshop on Parlimentary
Procedures.
The meeting was cancelled and the
make-up date has not been announced.
Increased Drinking
Age Recommended
By Marion Crowe
Recently Governor Jim Hunt
accepted a proposal from the
Governor's Task Force on Drunken
Drivers to raise the legal drinking age
from ! 8 to 21 in order to get youthful
drivers off the road. One reason for the
proposal, argue the Governor's Task
Force, is to crack down on drunken
drivers. However, there are 18, 19, and
cont. on page 5
Senator East
Moves To Armed
Services Committee
WASHINGTON—Sen. John East, R-
N.C., has announced he has been
assigned to the Senate Committee on
Armed Services for the 98th Congress
when it convenes in January, !983.
“This assignment is especially
significant for North Carolina because
of the many military installations in the
state, and because no other member of
Congress from North Carolina
currently serves on the armed services
committee of either house,” East said.
East will give up his current seals on
the Labor and Human Resources
Committee and the Energy and Natural
Resources Committee in return for the
armed services assignment. East is also
a member of the Judiciary Committee
and is chairman of its Separation of
Powers Subcommittee where he will
continue to serve in the new Congress.
“The Armed Services Committee has
been one of my major interests for a
long time now. I am very concerned
about America's defense posture, given
the massive Soviet military build-up of
the last decade, and I'm looking
forward to working to improve our
position,” said East.