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WORDS OF WISDOM Mistakes occur when a man is over-worked or over-confident. — William Feather Advertising is like running a furnace you have to keep on shoveling coal. —Wm. Wrigley, Jr. VOLUME 51 NUMBER 38 WORLD WIDE ATTENTION MUNICH: Kenya's Julius Sang (R), unidentified Olym pic officials and medalbearers (L) stand at stiff attention du ring the playing of the Ameri Bond, Lewis Ur Involvement In Georgia State Representa tive Julian Bond and John Lewis, Executive Director of the Voter Education Project (VEP) urged students from campuses of NCCU and Dur ham College to go out and "organize the unorganized and register the unregistered" for a greater involvement in the political processes of our times. Winding up a three day tour of North Carolina, the stud ents were urged to "reject the negative definitions" of polit ics as the art of compromise. Bond also suggested that they adopt the new defini Mayor lee To Open Black Historical Art Exhibit Sunday CHAPEL HILL-Walk into the Ackland Art Center on the University of North Carolina Campus here and you are con fronted with a Slave Ship which parctically blanks one wall of the main gallery. It's awesome moment. Three hundred years of black history pours across the vision in this total gallery-wide multi media college including works by Larry Rivers, a white BL • _ ,m, _ i ....... fc A JL—4 I M M ; I I ! - "SSe THE SLAVE SHIPHs part of the exhibition, "some A merican History, ,v «which opens Sunday, Sept. 17, at the Ack can national anthem at the awards ceremony here 9/7 following the Olympic 400- meter run for men. At center the American first and second tion of politics—"the art of seeing who gets how much of what from whom. We are the who—who haven't got ten much of anything from Roy Wilkins Olympic Attack Sickeaing NEW YORK-Following the September 6th murder of 11 Israeli athletes by Arab ter rorists at the Olympic games in Munich, West Germany, Roy Wilkins, Executive Direc tor of the NAACP, called the guerrilla cation "sickening and enraging." American jazz musician turned artist, and six friends, all black, who interpret visually the black experience on these sho res. The Ackland has invited Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee to officially open the exhibit on Sunday, Sept. 17, at 2.00 p.m. The public is~cordially invited to join the Mayor and the opening reception. The exhibit will remain at land Art Center, UNC-CH. Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee will officially open the show Che Car^aCfotgg placers, Vincent Matthews (hand on hip) and Wayne Cul lett (barefoot, holding shoes) stand at ease and chat. from you-know-who". It was also pointed up that neither Bond nor Lewis were telling people who to vote for. Continue On Page 10A "It is almost an affront to decency itself to feel impelled to make a public condemnation of such an atrocity," he added. The eight Palestinian Arab terrorists were members of a group known as "Black Sep tember." They had scaled the Continue On Page 10A the Ackland Art CEntcr thro ugh October 29. Titled "Some American His tory," the exhibition repre sents a single extraordinary commission by the Men 11 Fou ndation to artist Rivers. He was commissioned to bring up the subject of "Black" and to deal with it. "More than being an ar tist," Rivers states, "I am a Continue On Page 10A at 2.00 p.m. The panoramic multi-media college is a major exhibition of national impor DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1972 "Do Your Own " In Speech Is Academic Trap Bright young white teachers from good schools and fi nancially secure homes often play down the importance of teaching reading and the other basic "tool" skills to the poor black kids in the ghetto. They see the effort as an endorse ment of the establishment. So much of school time ought to be spent playing the bongo drums or rapping, or just listening to masterpieces from the underground press. But young white teachers from good schools and financially secure homes are not the only advocates of this "do your own black thing." Black tea chers and black poets and black editors have joined the crusade to make little black boys and girls happy in their hang-ups with the classroom. There is a professional re cording that is currently ma king the rounds which argues the case for black dialect, fop> example, and this presentation follows the format advanced by the entire school of "do your own black thing." Black dialect should be accepted for what it is, a method of com munication between human beings. Black dialect should not be regarded as an index to intelligence, or lack of in telligence. Black dialect de serves equal time with the other dialects that are spoken and enjoyed in America. However, when the dialect of inner city school children is projected as the "language of their culture" and a de termined effort is made to justify the "teaching" of the basic structure of distorted English in the formative years, this linguistic approach be comes another innovate night mare that could retard the progress of generations of poor black school children. Sloppy pronunciations are Syphillis Exp Attacked As It is appalling lhat the Sy philis experiments started in the 1930's should ever have occurred. They were inhumane Immoral and racist in nature. It is shameful that the Public Health Service should conduct experiments with human be ings who submitted only to nave sufficient funds to exist and lo provide for their fami tance conceived by white ar tist Larry Rivers and six Black artists. supposed to be catchy and incomplete sentences are co lorful because they portray the vivid life styles that are so exciting in the ghetto. So a series of "yeah's"and "you dig's," overlaid with repeated "right's" can be used for hours on end as a fitting substitute for a simple working vocabu lary in standard English. This is an academic trap which should be challenged by the parents of the children in volved and discouraged by dedicated classroom teachers everywhere. The advocates of "do your own black thing" may really want to help disadvantaged boys and girls develop t. posi tive self-image and race pride, but this thrust for black dia lect actually seems another way of saying that since black children cannot be educated to become literate Americans, a substitute method must be found and accepted—a me thod, incidentally, which takes black and white teachers off the hook for inferior pupil performance in reading and oral and written communica tion. There isn't anything poetic about being poor, and there just isn't anything exciting or thrilling about the so-called "culture of poverty" to those p. ; pie who are poo' and tarp ped in the bleakness of their poverty. And they cannot change their status by pre tending that it is exotic and breath-taking to be poor and ignorant and powerless. Per petuating black dialect is not the answer. Learning to speak and read the mother tongue might be. And I regard the English language as the mo ther tongue since all of the little boys and girls that I used to teach around Lenox Avenue and 135 th Street were lies. In 1932 U. S.Public Hea lth Service venereal disease sec tion started a study on syphi lis. 625 Black men from the county surroundirg Tuskegee, Alabama were involved. They were poor and in most in stances uneducated. Tow hun dred fo the men did not have syphilis and 425 of them had latent (and therefore noricom municable) syphilis. There was little if any treatment for them. As a reward for participat ing in the study, they ★ere offered free treatment for Imy other illnesses, fret; hot lun ches and lice burial after au topsies were performed. At the time the test began there was no certain cure for syphilis. Peitciillin's effective ness against syphilis be cam* kno.vn, il was not prescribed for use on those who were tile subjects of the test. This was a demonstration of utter brutality and non compassion. Many of the sub jects of the Lest died because of complications caused by sy philis. Thus the charge of gen ocide. The Congressional Black Caucus has culled for repara tions for the victims and their Continue On Page 10A English speaking. The situation is simply this: The black kids who are in school now will have to com pete for jobs with people who have been educated in the accepted culture that prevails in this country. And it is a cruel hoax for teachers or poets or editors or "leaders' to make children feel that a romantic excursion in distort ed grammar will help them with this overwhelming task. Law Student Interns Aid Court System This summer, fifteen third year law students from NCCU, Duke, Wake Forest and UNC law schools participated in the Solicitor/Defender Internship Program. The Program was started in 1971 and involved twelve third year law students. This program, as originally con ceived, ran for twelve weeks during the summer. The suc cess of the program has made it possible to expand and in crease the number of partici pants; six of whom will con tinue at their present locations on a basis throughout the coming school year. The objectives of the Solici tor/Defender Program are: 1. Providing immediate man power assistance, through the work of law students to Solici tor/Defenders. in North CAro Continue On Page 10A wm M - '' M\ ■ NCCU NAVAL ROTC UNIT hpik j -• m M y : *i | ■' FAMOUS CUSTOMER - Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. (right), pastor of Atlanta's Eben&er Baptist Church, is served an ice cream cone by GOOD READING IN THIS ISSUE YOUR MIND % Wmtai Thorp# CHEYENNE SCOUT CORNER By E. L. Kearny DURHAM SOCIAL NOTES By Mrs. Sj ■■«' WRITERS PORUM By George B. ROM I PREGNANCY PLANNING 4b HEALTH By G. Ricpbe* NEW APPOINTEE! Dr. E. Lavonia Allison, chairman of the Durham County Democratic Executive Committee aas been appointed to the new Democratic Party DR. E. LAVONIA ALLISON Naval ROTC Unit Installed At North Carolina Central NCCU new Naval Reserve | Officer Training Corps for- j mally swore in 12 freshman holders of NROTC Scholar- j ships on Thursday, September 7 at 2:00 p.m. The 12 became members | of the Naval Reserve, holding ■ the rank of Midshipman Four- j th Class, USNR. Commander Raymond A. Lambert, com- j manding officer of the NCCU | unit, performed the swearing in ceremonies. Attending the ceremony were 21 non-scholarship mem- j bers of the unit. These "con- j tract will not offici- j Edward Turner, 9, as his J father, George, keeps a close eye on his son's technique. George Turner, a successful ; Atlanta business executive, | PRICE: 20 CENTS Commission on Delegate Se lection. She served as an official delegate to National Democratic Convention. Democratic National Com mittee Chairman Jean West wood announced the new appointment. The new Commission is the successor to the former Mc- Govern-Fraser Commission. Its purpose will be to review the guidelines for delegate selection and propose methods for increasing participation in 1976. ' Dr. Allison currently serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Edu cation and Recreation, North Carolina Central University. She is the wife of F.V. Allison, Jr., and they are the parents of two children. ally join the Navy until they begin their junior year. The new midshipmen in clude Clifton E. Bryant, Kan sas City, Kan.; Donny T. Davenport, Clinton, S.C.; Ro xey 0. Ellis, St. Louis, Mo.; Richard S. Faurot, Council 1 Bluffs, Iowa; Paul C. Fields, Duquesne, Pa.; William J. Har kins, Akron, Ohio; Cornell L. Johnson, McKeesport, Pa.; Worthy, Boston, Mass; and Reginai Rice, Macon, Ga. The contract students in clude Floyd Donald Alston, Continue On Page 10A recently opened a Dipper Dm Ice Cream Shoppe in Atlanta, becoming the first black to own one of the Swift ft Com pany ice cream fancbiaae.
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