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Broncos’ Voice
Volume No. 7
THE NEWSPAPER OF FAYEHEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY
TO INFORM AND ENTERTAIN
March 7, 1990
Black History Month Kickoff At FSU
By Pet Gearhart
Tuesday, Feb 6th, the FSU
Seabrook Auditorium was the setting
for the kickoff of the Fayetteville
State University's Black History
Month performance. The audience
was comprised of students, faculty,
staff and some members of the pub
lic. Dr. Adam Simmons, Assistant
Professor, opened the program by
speaking of G. Woodson, "The
Father of Black History." Dr.
Woodson is considered by many as
the driving force and genius behind
Black History Month. The idea of
black history week was initiated in
1926. During the Bicentennial
Celebration of the USA, it turned
into a month long celebration. It has
stayed as a month ever since.
The FSU Concert Choir led by
Dr. Pearson presented two selec
tions. One, a spiritual, highlighted
Decarius Spells, a tenor. This was
followed by a gospel song featuring
Eula Wright.
FSU student, Ms. Michelle Kelly,
read the proclamation presented ear
lier that morning by Fayetteville
Mayor, Harley Dawkins, declaring
February Black History Month in
Fayetteville.
Ms. Marcus S. Esquilin, Director
of the FSU Dance Troupe, intro
duced a dance titled "Four Women".
This dance was originally performed
by the Jubilation Dance Company of
New York. The dance was Ms.
Esquilin's interpretation of that musi
cal number.
Ms. Beverly Hicks, President of
the Student Government Associa
tion, introduced the guest speaker
Dr. Hackley, Chancellor of FSU. In
his kick-off address. Chancellor
Hackley spoke of Carter G.
Woodson and Martin Luther King.
He said, "Carter G. Woodson and
Martin Luther King were concerned
about all of humanity. They knew,
however, that this country would
never access to the best this country
has to offer. Martin Luther King had
a vital interest in education and was
himself an excellent student, not just
in attaining knowledge and skills,
but also in understanding the purpos
es of education. He told Black stu
dents to seek excellence in education
as defined by standards that would
equip us to compete equally in
Mainstream America. His most
famous speech is of course, "I Have
A Dream." But the speech which is
most relevant for students is "Be the
Best." Dr. King knew that integration
was inevitable, as early as the begin
ning of the sixties. So, he wanted us
students to be ready to take their
rightful places throughout this coun
try based on merit, character and
intelligence."
Dr. Hackley expressed the impor
tance of Black history. He said,
"Each year in February, we let the
calender tell us that we should glori
fy the contributions and sacrifices
Blacks have made to the develop
ment of this country. Then in March,
we and the country go back to busi
ness as usual. Why is this? We do
not understand faith and determina
tion are necessary for our people to
make sustained progress. Faith and
hard work, sustained over a lifetime,
if necessary, is our reasonable ser
vice. I cannot come here, make a
speech to you about past deeds of
Black men and I have to have faith
that if we work together, we can save
ourselves and save the children and
save America".
Chancellor Hackley urged stu
dents to strive to be the best in what
ever they do. He concluded with
some personal verses: "I had a good
education in those Black schools. I
was never told that Black students
were not supposed to score well on
standardized tests.
I was told to set high goals for
myself. I was told not to ask people
to excuse me for poor performance
because of my Blackness.
I was told not to complain
because no one in my family had
been to college.
I was told not to cry because I
Uved in the poorest section of town,
or because my mother worked as a
maid and my father as a janitor.
I was told that the big world out
there only wanted to know if I could
read, write and compute, and 1
could."
Finally, he said, "FSU should
have a greater linkage between con
cern for the humanity of individual
students and the competence they
must have than any other institution
serving them. Love is not enough;
love and academic competence are
not mutually exclusive. There must
be both. If we here don't understand
the poor student from Burgaw,
Raeford, Clinton, Dunn and
Fayetteville — both in terms of what
he needs to develop a strong self
concept and what he needs to partici
pate fully in the American society —
and understand him better than
Harvard does, then we have lost our
reason to exist."
Following Dr. Hackley's speech.
Dr. Betty Lovelace, Director of
Picture By Denis McNain
Mayor Dawkins reading the history proclamation. Standing from I to r; Dr. Clark, Ms. M. Kelly, Mayor Dawk
ins, Dr. Simmons, Dr. Schee and Dr. Lovelace.
Student Activities, announced other
events and performances planned for
the month of February.
In closing Mr. Robert Collins,
Assistant Director of Telecommuni
cations, gave the benediction.
FSU Involved In SAT Campaign
Proportion Of Blacks Living In The South Grows
The propwtion of Blacks living in
the South increased from 1980 to
1988, the first such rise in this centu
ry, according to a report on the Black
population released today by the
Commerce Department's Census
Bureau.
Fifty-six percent of all Blacks
resided in the South in 1988, com-
j)ared with 52 percent in 1980. The
proportion had declined since the
beginning of the century when it was
90 percent. Census Bureau experts
say the growing concentration is
likely to continue well into the next
century.
The Northeast is the only region
in the 1980s to show a significant
decline in its proportion of Blacks,
dropping from 19 percent to 17 per
cent. The proportion for the Midwest
(19 percent) and West (8 percent) did
not change significantly.
The number of Blacks living in
the South totaled 16.4 million in
1988, an increase of 2.8 million
since 1980. However, for the rest of
the nation, there was no significant
change in the number for Blacks at
12.9 million in 1988.
Nationwide the Black jwpulation
numbered 29.3 million in March
1988, an increase of 14 percent since
1980; the White population grew by
10 percent to 203.9 million. The
Black propwtion of the total popula
tion rose from 11.7 percent in 1980
to 12.2 percent in 1988, the report
says.
Here are additional highlights
from the repeat:
REGIONAL
Four out of five Blacks in the
South aged 25 to 34 had completed
high school in 1988, a proportion not
significandy different from those in
the North and West; historically.
Blacks in the North and West have
had higher educational attainment
levels. For Whites, however, the pro
portion in the North and West com
pleting high school was higher than
in the South.
The 1987 median income of
Black families living in the South at
$17,300 was 10 percent lower than
in the North and West where it was
$19,120. The median income of
White families in the South at
$30,730 was 8 percent lower than in
the North and West at $33,130.
The ratio of Black-to-White fami
ly median income in the North and
West at 58 percent in 1987 was not
significantly different from the South
at 56 percent.
Black families in the South in
1987 had a higher poverty rate (31
percent) than those in the North and
West (28 percent).
Black married-couple families in
the South comprised 53 percent of
all Black families in 1988 compared
with 49 percent in the North and
West. The proportion of Black
female householder families with no
husband present was 41 percent in
the South and 45 percent in the
North and West
Seventy-five percent of Blacks in
the North and West lived in central
cities compared with 43 percent in
the South.
NATIONAL
The median earnings of Black
women who worked year round and
full time increased by 7.8 percent
($14,840 to $16,0(X)) from 1979 to
1987. The earnings of comparable
Black men at $19,010 in 1987 were
not significantly different from their
earnings in 1979. As a result, the
median earnings ratio of Black
women to Black men increased from
0.74 in 1979 to 0.84 in 1987.
The unemployment rate for
Blacks in 1988 was 11.7 percent
compared with 4.7 percent for
Whites. Unemployment among
Black teenagers was 32.4 percent
compared with 13.1 percent for
White teenagers.
In 1987, 45 percent of all Black
children under age 18 in families and
34 percent of all Black persons aged
65 and over were poor. The compa
rable proportions for Whites were 51
percent and 10 percent
Black females outnumbered
Black males by 1.9 million in 1988;
there were 100 Black females for
every 88 Black males. Among
Whites, there were 100 females for
every 96 males.
The median age of Blacks in
March 1988 was 27.3 years, up from
24.8 years in 1980. The median was
25.8 years for Black males and 28.6
years for Black females.
The Census Bureau plans to con
tinue publishing reports in the P-20
population characteristics series on
the social and economic status of
Blacks in America.
(CPS) — Students and officials
from predominantly black East
Coast colleges met Jan. 18-19 to
plan a peaceful return next
September to Virginia Beach, Va.,
where the biggest annual gathering
of black collegians in the country
last fall broke into a violent clash
with police.
In the wake of the clash, in which
the National Guard was brought in to
oust an estimated 100,000 students,
43 people were injured, 220 were
arrested and millions of dollars of
property was damaged, Virginia
Beach officials asked students not to
return for the annual "Greekfest"
next fall.
But some students, charging prej
udice, promised to return, and
prompted area colleges to call the
mid-January meeting to make the
return peaceful.
"Most of the students still intend
to go back, whether they are wanted
or not," said Victor Collins of the
office of minority student affairs at
Virginia Commonwealth University.
"We have to plan more widely how
to deal with it."
Organized by nearby Norfolk
State University, delegates to the
"Labor Day National Leadership
Summit" met at the Virginia Beach
Resort Hotel to propose holding a
series of events to keep next fall's
revelers busy.
The delegates resolv^ to hold a
"religious ceremony" led^ they
hoped, by Jesse Jackson, to sponsor
boat rides and open concerts, and, to
keep police at bay. to invite Gov.
Douglas Wilder to join them.
In the clash's aftermath, many stu-
Copies of The Black Population
in the United States: March 1988,
Series P-20, No. 442, are available
prepaid from the Superintendent of
Documents, U.S. Government
Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
20402.
dents claimed they had been unfairly
targeted because they are black, and
that local residents had canceled
many of the weekend's traditional
activities. As a result, the record
sized crowds had little to do, and
were left to mill around the streets.
There was a "deliberate effort to
not have anything for these students
to do," maintained Collins.
The wholesale cancellation of
events, special hotel rules forbidding
students to visit each other and the
looming presence of the National
Guard gave students "the definite
feeling that they were not wanted,"
Collins added.
The proposals made at the sum
mit will be forwarded to the Virginia
Beach Labor Day Review
Committee, which plans to release a
report and recommendations in
February for future Labor Day
events.
Virginia Beach police officer Jim
Howard said the summit had given
him "a new awareness and new per
spective on what this event could
turn out to be."
At the same time people met at
Virginia Beach, Pennsylvania's
Human Relations Commission
released a report claiming Penn State
University officials' "insensitivity"
has led to a drop in the number of
minority students enrolled at the
school.
A rash of racial incidents at Penn
State, including assaults on black
students by whites and flyers con
taining racial epithets, prompted the
Education Committee to begin an
investigation uito campus racism.
Fayetteville State University, as a
constituent institution of the univer
sity of North Carolina, is pleased to
announce their involvement with the
Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)
Campaign. This campaip will
involve each campus working with
high school students and their par
ents in a historic attempt to improve
the SAT scores of students in our
state.
Although the minimum admis
sions requirements may raise the
level of knowledge for many stu
dents taking the SAT, students need
more than knowledge to score well.
They must be able to demonstrate
their knowledge. The General
Assembly, in its last session, took a
step that will help on this front: it
appropriated funds that will enable
every student who has completed
Algebra I to take the PSAT.
By Patricia Ramos
In conjunction with the
Cumberland County School System,
Fayetteville State University pre
sented its 4th annual Educational
Forum on February 16th and 17th.
The Educational FcMiim is a coopera
tive effort which includes support
from F.S.U., the public schools, and
the Fayetteville - Cumberland
County community.
The Educational Forum has
established a reputation for being an
enjoyable and informative inquiry
into current educational issues. This
year's focus was "Reaching for
Success: Strategies for Educating
Students At Risk." A student consid
ered "at risk" is one who is in danger
of dropping out of school, under
achieving while in school, or leaving
school without the necessary skills
required to survive in today's techno
logical world. "At risk" is a term that
applies to many if not all students at
some point during their primary and
secondary school experience. The
factors considered in determining
which students are "at risk" cross all
racial, intellectual and socio-eco-
nomic barriers. No group is immune.
The SAT Campaign began in
January 1990 and will run through
July 1991. Each constituent institu
tion has been assigned a specific
region in the state and has named a
coordinator. Fayetteville State
University's coordinator is Mrs.
Helen Owens, Director of Academic
Services. FSU has been assigned the
counties of Cumberland, HameU,
Hoke, Moore and Sampson.
Through a voluntary effort sup
ported by faculty, staff and students,
each campus will focus on improv
ing test-t^ng skills of high school
students, training teachers and coun
selors to conduct test-taking ses
sions, and informing parents about
the art of test-taking. These free test-
taking workshops will be given at
the high school upon their request, or
on the campuses by invitations sent
to high schools, students or parents.
Keynote speaker for the Friday
evening dinner and opening session
was the honorable Daniel T. Blue,
Jr., member of the North Carolina
House of Representatives.
Representative Blue spoke of the
legislature's role in our system of
education in North Carolina. He
explained some trends in policy
making, including a discussion of
the controversial, revolutionary
Senate Bill 2. This bill allows for
greater flexibility and accountability
of local schools in terms of their
budgets.
Representative Blue made some
shocking statements on North
Carolina's standing in the nation in
educational achievement in its public
schools. We currently rank 50th in
the nation in CalifcHiiia Achievement
Test scores. The policy changes
which were discuss^ and suggested
by Representative Blue are part of a
legislative effort to improve North
Carolina’s standing and help p-ovide
a more successful educational sys
tem in the state.
Following the general session,
several concurrent sessions were
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Students Return
To Virginia Beach
Kadelpians Participate
In Educational Forum