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Pembroke State University = = = = OP to* ?l?l??0?II *,OP DO* TO CABOLIR A Pembroke State Universty's million Title III ttroiect moving forward U W "I am very pleased by what I see and bear as ot the development of plans to yet this major project underway. His very important to us." These were the comments of recently of the progress of Pembroke State University's Title 111 Program, for which PSU is receiving $1.7 million from the U.S. Department of Education over a five-year period TMs is the largest grant ever received by PSU The goals of the grant are I to enhance the oral and written communicationskillsofPSU students in today's information-based high tech economy by providing funds for rnuructionaJ programs and computer cqiupment. 2. to increase the retention of students by providing a campus wide networking system, enabling faculty to access student academic records for better advisement purposes, thereby making for a more effective orientation and advisement Cog ram. and 3. improving the frastructure of the PSU Grants Office, thereby increasing externa) fund-raising support for instruction, faculty research, and public service. "We are off and running on the project, which formally began Oct I.' said Oxeodine, adding. "An enterprise of this magnitude takes a while to get going fully." The coordinator of the Title III Program has been appointed in the person of Jacqueline I Jackie I Clark, wno will nave a two-omce complex in the D.J. Lowry Center plus her former office there. "The coordinator is in place." said Oxendine "Space has been provided for her office area, and furniture is being ordered ' The chancellor said a 10-member advisory council has also been appointed for the program. "The council is chaired by Dr Thomas Leach, chair of the PSU Department of Communicative Arts. Other members of the committee are: Dr Prudence Precourt. vice chancellor for development and university relations, Neil Hawk, vice chancellor for business affairs, Dr Diane Jones, assistant vice chancellor far student affatn.Dr Sylvester Woolen, director of continuing education and summer session; Jo Aim Pearson, director of university computing mid information services. Dr Jose D Arruda, chair of the Physical Science Department. Dr Bob Schneider, chair or the Political Science Department; Dr BobBritton. professor of communicative arts, and Temnce Brewton, a PSU student from Pembroke Of these Leach. Pearson. D'Arruda and Schneider were members of the team that prepared PSU's Title III grant proposal An ex officio member of the council is Dr. Bill Gash, assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs ' 'This council will help to provide guidance, policy and feedback as to how things are going and how they ought toe volve.'' saidOxendine. who also pointed out the council members "are not persons involved in the administration of the project". The chancellor said the secretary lo-tbe-coordinator's position has been established and has been advertised "Computer equipment has been purchased for the project management." he added It was noted that Clark and Dr Bill G$tk. assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs who is Clark's supervisor, recently attended a Title III conference in Washington. D C., "to gain information about how other people do it." noted Oxendine In discussing the enhancing of oral and written communication across the PSU curriculum. Oxendine said virtually every PSU academic department will get a new computer purchasetfby Title III funds to be used to support this Title III Program He also noted thai the position description for the writing lab director of the program has been submitted to the Personnel Office for approval. "The coordinators of University onentation and academic advising have been establidied, and procedwes to fill those positions are underway,'' said chancellor ' 'Tracking and retention software is being ordered and coordinated with the Registrar's Office and the Computer Center." said Oxendine. "An installation team has been developed to coordinate the action track system. The team will include such persons as the director of institutional research (Dr. Warren Baker I. the director of counseling and testing (Dr. Gwen Simmons), the Title III coordinator (Jackie Clark), etc." Speaking of the Grants Office, Oxendine said.' 'The Office of Grants is complete, and computer equipment and necessary texts have been ordered and received for that office. A secretarial position has been established and is in the process of being filled." Early in January, the chancellor said faculty computers will arrive, faculty training will be available, faculty personnel will be brought on board, computer workshops will be availabie.additional baseline data wiff be collected, and several other things going on. Oxendine said that base-line data is being collected concerning the faculty's attitude toward PSU student oral and wrinen communication skills. '' All faculty are being surveyed as to their opinions about the quality of our students' oral and written communication skills. We are going tobaseourTitle 111 program on that as we seek to enhance the quality of the communication skillsofour students." A NEW BEGINNING On New Year's Eve I went with Jeff and Wanda Kay to the Watch NMm aarvtoaat Brandt Sheet Church, in Lumberton Parlor John Prine talked to us about making thin New Year a real NEW BEGINNING in our relationship lo Jesus Christ (our reason for celebrating Christmas! and with (-ol. our heavenly Father I "THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT" Sometimes we And it convenient to Mame ail our mistakes on the devil AMmtah I seldom heard any mention of the "Devil" or even much about "Sir" when I was growing up. there doss seem to be an evil force in our midst subtly turning us toward the wrong road whenever such an opportunity comes up. Several years ago. at the Madison County (Montana) fair. I bought a little plaque dooe in calligraphy by Mother's artist friend. Phyllis Peterson, who has suffered all her life with a tup joint problem I keep the plaque up for a reminder it says " be ven days without prayer makes one WEAK". As guest speaker Tony Lee put it. during the New Year's Eve service. '' When we go a week w ithout reading the Bible." Satan will get to us. He went on to ask. "Am I going to continue to let Satan destroy me ' On the other hand, we sometimes sing the chorus. "Read you BiMe and pray every day and you'll grow. grow, grow!" I know this to be true, even though I am not in the habit of putting this into practice as much as I NEED to do. on a DAILY basis Am error In the 1993 Robeson County YeUow Page Directory I Rued Dr. Mary B. Camming*, as a Prosthodontist. Dr. Mary B. I Camming* would like to Inform the general public that she is a I General Dentist-Dr. MaryB. Camming*. DDS, 521-0991,102S. I Main Si, Pembroke, NC. tThle Cr?n#i/\ VwU^iV For Rent NfltlVfi ffltCHiyCnCC* A column by Jack D. Forbes Native American Studies University of California, Davis THE REAL INDIANS ARE i HERE' A Saa Francisco newspaper ran an I advertisement with big letters. "Wild i Indian discovered in downtown San I Francisco." I felt like calling up the < New Delhi restaurant to complain I about the ad's stereotype But then it < occurred to me that these were "real Indians" from India poking fun at "Indians" 1 In I980thetewere36l.544Indians t from India in the United States By * 1990 their numbers had mushroomed ' to SIS.447, an increase of 126%. And < these numbers do not include i Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, both of I whom are also Indians by virtue of < being derived from pre-1948 India. If I this trend continues, the number of i "Real Indians" will catch up with the i Bureau of the Census' figures for US i derived "American Indians" sometime between 2000 and 2010. J (By 1980 Asian Indians already owtoumbered Native Americans in the northeastern U.S.) Large numbers of > "Real Indians" ate also migrating to Canada and have been present in i Trinidad. Guyana and other pans of the Caribbean for years. Many of these Caribbean" Indians" are also moving < north to the U.S. and Canada In any case, the "wild Indian" of i the San Francisco ad wascenainly not a Lakota. not a Delaware! Who are the' 'real'' Indians then'' < Ironically, the immigrat km of a million or so Asian Indians to North America i comes at the precise time when some J indigenous people are trying to deny ; "Indian" status to persons who are not recognized as such by a federally- i recognized tribal or band gov ernment i or who lack some document which identifies them as being ''Indian'' But are any of ust who are of indigenous American descent) really Indians anyway? Should we fight over a name which is claimed by the more i than 700.000.000 people of India, by I their government, and by millions of i Indians living overseas from South i Africa to Fiji to Britain'' The name "Indian" is derived from "India" which in turn comes from "Indoc". an ancient Greek and Roman name for the area now known is Pakistan and India "Indos" comes from "Indus, "the name of the mighty of river of western India ( now Pakistan) When Columbus sailed westward from Spam in 1492 it was his intention to reach India and especially that :astern pari of India which he called " indian extrqa gangem " or India east of the Ganges River This vast region included Southeast Asia, the East Indies, China and Japan. So when Columbus reached the Bahamas he Oegan to call our relatives "lndios" in Spanish and "lndos" in Latin. This name became "Indiani" in Italian and "Indian" in English But the Spaniards for several centuries believed that "India" or "the Indies" included the entire area from the mid-Atlantic westward to old India and the Arabian Sea. Thus Filipinos. Hawaiians. Polynesians. Chinese and Japanese were all "lndios" to the Spaniards and to the Portuguese as well. The Inuit peoples of the north were every bit as much '' Indians'' as were any other peoples of Nova Indian (New India) or West India, alternative names for America Many Europeans writers simply called our ancestors "Americans'' as well as indigenas (indigenous people). naturales (natural people) and autoctonos (autochthonous people), as well as using obnoxious names such as savages, tawnies. redskins, etc. More recently white writers have tried to baptize us with names such as "American Indians" and with such concoctions as "Amerindians" and "Amerinds". "Amerindian" is popular with British writers who deal with the eastern Caribbean and Guyana, because of the large numbers of Asian Indians living there "Amerind" to my mind is an especially ugly acronym Following this precedent we sboukLotfiOursc, refer to Eurams I European-Americans), Spanams (Spanish-Americans). Angcans (Anglo-Canadians), etc. The problem with all of the combinations of "American" and "Indian" is that an increasing proportion of the "East Indians living in the Americas are now born v here and are. therefore, also entitled to use some combination of the two names The "Real Indians" 4 community in the U.S. seems to be using "Indian," "Indo-American" and Indian American", the latter in the tradition of Italian American, German American, and so on. Indigenous Americans have been ; trying to come up with better names for themselves for a long time, as when the peyote way people,t incorporated as the Native American ? Church early in this century. More recently terms such as "aboriginal," indigenous" and "native" are being increasingly used, along with new and somewhat cumbersome names ,j such as "First Nations People" and - "Sovereign American Nations People". Also common now are "First Americans". "Early Americans" and, of course. Native Americans. Many South American native people are also using Abya Yala. a Cuna name for America. Thus Abya Yala People can also be beard at indigenous gatherings Faced with the continuing immigration from Asia, and faced with the need to become masters of their own identity by overthrow ing the nomenclature of colonialism, the original peoples of the Americas will ultimately find an answer to this problem. (Professor Jack D. Forbes. Powhatan-Delaware, is the author of Columbus and Other Cannibals. Africans and Native Americans and . other books ) CaroHaa ladlaa Voice is published every Thursday by First American Pviblicadom 304 Normal St. - College Plaza Post Office Box 1075 Pembroke. North Carolina 28372 Phone (919) 521-2826 Fax (919) 521-1975 Connee Brayboy, Editor Helen Loddear. Office Manager ...... ^vtoitfMBnr i One year In NIC $20.00 Out of state. $25.00 Second Class Postage Paid at PemKrrJre Kl/"* rimDrOKS, iNL 1/ - ROWLAND MANOR APARTMENTS $02 E. McCormick St. Rowland, NC 283S3 New 1 Bedroom Apartments Designed For Senior Citizens Featuring: Energy efficient heatpumps WalMo-wal carpet A mini Winds AH I level Bulk in range A refrigerators Rental amounts baaed on household income Beginning September 21 and 22 applications being taken at Ron-land Tonit Hall, 9 am. unti 4pm. each Tuesday and Wednesday thereafter until further notice Rental Assistance and Handicapped Units Available a equal housing <*fOHTXJNfTY United Management PO Box 42936 Fayette ville. NC 28309 I Phone: 919-323-4266 | Robert Scott Brown, a Kindergarten student at Parkton Elementary School, was honored when his an entry was chosen to grace the cover of the superintendent of the public school of Robeson County s official Christmas card for the 1993 | 94 school year Forty two principals in the county as well as other employees of the . school system received the cards Robert sentry was chosen from entries -? from all over the county from students ? in grades kindergarten through six I and was submitted by his art teacher. Mrs Deborah Richmann A Third Statewide High School? Is the North Carolina High School of Social Studies a vision whose time lias come .' Looking for opportunities to improve public education in North Carolina, the founders of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics followed the trail of the North Carolina School of the Arts Their young graduates test well, w in awards, and build excellent records leading to career success Could a high school for social studies and international languages sen ea similar constructive purpose'1 Might some of North Carolina's future bankers and business people be graduates of a proposed N C High School of Social Studies' Could a high-tech school of social studies and international languages graduate future leaders in civic affairs, education, public health, law. national security, protection of the environment, and other public policy topics'' Or will the proposed school fail to matenali ze because of concerns about elitism, diversion of funds, and "brain drain" from high schools around the state'.' The North Carolina High School ofSoctal Studies Foundation sponsors full and fur public discussion of the issues Questions of eouity and excellence need to he debated and resolved In the next few years, many citiaene will be invited to meet and confer and decide about this school f Directors for I were elected at the annual meeting ai (he Bunnell School in Hillsborough. The Foundation's new president is David K. Stanley of Haywood County, a social studies teacher at Tuscota High School, where he is department chairman The newlv-elected vice president is J. Alfred ("A") Baldwin ofCarrboro. a social studies teacher at Chapel Hill High School He is a specialist in 20th century American history In 1441. Baldw in chaired a study group to begin planning curriculum for the proposed statew ide ; school. Members of the leadership team ;? who were elected by the Foundation's directors include Ken Badgett of Dobson in Surrey County. Willis J Nichols of Hallsboro in Columbus ? County. Dr. AllineRiddickofSunburv ? inCatesCounty. Dr John Rimbetgof ? Lumherton in Robeson County, and > Dr Eula Spaulding of Clarkton in J Bladen C ounty Badgett is a graduate ; student of local history at Appalachian ? State University Nichols teaches ? social studies at East Bladen High ? School Dr Riddick is assistant ^ supenntendent of public schools. Dr. ^ Spaulding is director of guidance at a ? Bladen County high School The Foundation meets Saturday. I January 8. at 10 a m . in the BurweN J School. 304 North Churton St. > Hillibofoii^h. This is opinio' the public For information, call Job* Rwthery at (4I0> 73MOOQ A 1 hI I I I I rfi 1 A I |] I I I Lf r? a 1 ? I I | | I j a f * i | T 1 I I L V i 1 V I ? I ^"j I l w | | |A There's good reason for many in Robeson County to consider Dr. Prank Woriax as an old friend After all he is a native son. Bore and raised here and educated at Pembroke State University. His medical education took him to Duke University for a period of time, but after oompkHmg his internship and residency there, Dr. Wuriax came back home Since 1979, he has been in private practice. And since March, he has focused his skills I here at Doctor's Urgent Care Centre. I Here, he sable to care for friends, family and neighbors when they need him most, whether if s day or night. s*KMH|liMM*MMkCn ? Mart MM ? i-npatut ? *?** ? tm mut nmm (Mb 2407N. HM St MWII.W-7W
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