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.. -- - -Il,f--T.fflllirlir r -J rr'p y r-r- T ' " " ' ' V BIRTHDAY MARCH 18 I I GlRISCOUTi Duke University Library Newspaper Department! Durham NC 27706 Words of Wisdom "Difficult indeed it rt for those to emerge from obscurity whose noble qualities are cramped by narrow means at home."' Juvenal VOLUME 58 NUMBER 10 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1980 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE: 39 CENTS a hot f.loro Than 1,200 Local and National Loaders Gather In Richmond ByWekesaO. Madziraoyo I3M RICHMOND, VA. Over 1,200 local and national black leaders gathered in here for a four day conference (February 28-March 2), called to "chart a black agenda for the eighties." Richmond's mayor, Henry March III, welcom ed the conference con venors and delegates stating that "the stirring deeds to be accomplished at this conference will be recorded in history." The black Richmond mayor added, "I never dreamed that all of my heroes would come here." Featured at the con ference were nine major speakers including Ben jamin Hooks, Executive Director of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People; Rev. Jesse Jackson, Executive Direc tor of Operation PUSH, Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, Richard Hatcher, mayor of Gary, Indiana; Congressman Ron Dellums, Rep. Car diss Collins, (D-Ill.), and Dick Gregory. The conference also held workshops on hous ing, income maintenance, U.S.-Africa relations, health, black economic development, inflation and twelve other topics relating to black Americans. These eigh- Labor And Civil Rights Groups To Salute Rustin NEW YORK Bayard Rustin. the veteran civil f riohts Inr1ii will hm. the focal pointot a 8'i Dirtn HaJTcelebratiotJ schedule for Tuesday, March 18 at the Sheraton Center in New York City. Vernon Jordan, ex ecutive director of the Na tional Urban League, and Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL-CIO are ex pected to address the ban quet honoring Rustin on his 70th birthday anniver sary. Jordan and Kirkland are also serving as co chairman of the affair. Rustin, a long time associate of A. Philip Randolph, is best known for his role in organizing the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. Over 250,000 people assembled for the march, making it one of the largest civil rights demonstrations ever held. "Throughout his long career, Rustin has also been involved in many other human rights strug gles including the libera tion movements in. India nd Africa. More recent- brganizlngsupportfor the Indo-Chinese refugees, as well as for the starving people of Cambodia. Currently Rustin serves as chairman of the board of the A. Philip Randolph Institute. He is also chair man of the Recruitment and Training Program (R-T-P) and a member of the Black Leadership Forum. Dinner vice-chairmen include Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the NAACP; Thomas R. Donahue, AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer; Mrs. Coretta Scott King and Miss Dorothy I. Height, president of the National Council of Negro Women. Banquet tickets can be ordered from the A. Philip,Randolph Institute, 260 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010, (212) 533-8000. teen workshops were held on Friday and Saturday. Sunday's feature was to have been a presidential candidates forum with questions from the press and conference par ticipants. However, Senator Ted Kennedy, Governor Jerry Brown and other candidates scheduled to appear, changed their minds and refused to attend. Conference convenor Richard Hatcher respond ed to the candidates' ac tions at a Saturday press conference, saying "No useful purpose would be served by the convenors of this conference to com ment on the individual ac tions of those can didates." "They must do the explaining, we did the inviting," he added. Rev. Jesse Jackson responded by encouraging black Americans to "dramatically underscore the lost opportunities by registering and voting in large numbers." Billed as a conference "to chart an agenda which will move black Americans from dependence to in dependence," the meeting drew dramatically dif ferent responses from con ference participants. Dr. E. Lavonia Allison, Director of the North Carolina Health Man power program, lauded m m ran V f , . qA " Ate '( JiM 'is ' I wriest rt fft a, il i 7 p fit. 1 fc. S r. ,' ! INSIDE THIS WEEK Complete TV Listings Including HBO Entertainment Section 16 Pages Calendar of Events In Triangle Area Entertainment Section Page 2 Civil Rights Update Page 16 J' ' I' 'I ? lT4PASS THL Arrington Keynotes NAACP Regional Conference More For Mental Health Mental Health workers demonstrate in front of the State House in Trenton, N.J., asking for more funds for community mental health centers and for Gov. Byrne to sign Assembly Bill A-264 which would license all boarding homes in the state. UPI Photo the conference as a "tremendous success." "I think the conference and the workshops resulted in very clear goals and objec tives which will help guide black people through the 80's and serve as a measuring rod for identi fying candidates worthy of black support," she said. Dr. William Nelson, chairman of Black Studies at Ohio State University and president of that state's Black Assembly, challenged this view. In his estimation, "At best the conference was speak ing in half-tones because there was a significant portion of the black population which wasn't Matronal " IT-,.' uomerence un Blacks In Higher Education To Convene WASHINGTON -The presidentschancellors of the nation's historically black colleges and univer sities and numerous other prominent educators and scholars will convene at1 the Washington Hilton Hotel, April 11-13, to discuss' issues affecling blacks in higher educa tion. The occasion will be the Fifth National Con ference on Blacks in Higher Education, spon sored by the Washington based National Associa tion For Equal Opportuni ty in Higher Education (NAFEO). The purpose of this con ference is to provide a forum for nationally ac claimed researchers, scholars, and policy makers, including presidents chance Mors and chief academic of ficers of historically black colleges, to assemble not only to have dialogue on these crucial issues, but more import ant, to pro vide "model approaches" and proposals for attain ing equality for blacks in higher education. This conference will draw upon the talents and resources of a broad cross-section of expert panelists and na tionally renowned speakers who will analyze current educational ef forts and chart the path toward uniqueness, ac cess, choice and parity for blacks in higher educa tion. NAFEO's Filth Na tional Conference will convene panels on student recruitment and retention, financial management, cross-cultural communica tion, graduate and profes sional education and research opportunities, legal issues, testing, ac creditation, federal policies, engineering pro grams, affirmative action, student financial aid, community colleges, crime prevention, health issues and academic reinforce ment strategics for blacks. The newly appointed Secretary of Education, The Honorable Shirley Statewide Tenant Meeting Held In Spite of Weather Despite a gathering snow storm Saturday, seventy-five tenants from as far away as Wilmington and Morganton made it to Durham for a statewide tenant meeting planned for March 1 . Due to worsening road conditions, the session was shortened to half a day. However, in that period, individuals from the different parts of the state met to initiate a net work for further meetings of the North Carolina Te nant Organization. The following counties were represented: Johnston, Wake, Harnett, Alamance, New Hanover, Orange, Durham, War ren, Forsyth, Mecklen burg, Watauga, Burke and Chatham. Ms. Pat Rogers of the Durham Tenant Steering Committee, one of the two Durham organizaitons sponsoring the event, said that morn ing that she had received ten phone calls from groups unable to attend because of the weather. Those assembled voted, to hold the next meeting in Raleigh to be sponsored by the Raleigh Tenant Association. The tenants silso agreed that a larger assembly room was necd- , ed. "If wehave this many attending in a snow storm, we'll need to find a much larger place for a meeting in which the weather holds no one back," said Ms. Mary Dunn of the Raleigh group. Representatives from Charlotte and High Point also volunteered to host future meetings. Before leaving to drive home on slick highways, the conferees used an open mike format to talk about tenant activities in their , respective towns. The Wilmington group had Eighty-Ninth Anniversary ECSU Founders Day Observance Set For March 14 ELIZABETH CITY Founders Day, com memorating the Eighty Ninth Anniversary of Elizabeth City State University, is set for Fri day, March 14. This year's observance includes the Founders Day Convoca tion at 10 a.m., in Moore Hall auditorium, the dedication and naming of two campus facilities; and the Annual Pilgrimage. Highlight of the con vocation will be an ad dress by Dr. Cleon F. Thompson, Jr., vice presi dent for Student Services and Special Programs of the UNC-General Ad ministration. Well familiar with the develop ment of historically black institutions of higher lear ning. Dr. Thompson holds degrees from North Carolina Central Universi ty and Duke University. A native of Raleigh, he has hejd positions at North Carolina' A & T State University, Tuskegee In stitute and Shaw Universi ty. A member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, among others, Dr. Thompson. has done further studies and research at the UNC Chapel Hill Medical School, North Carolina State University, and the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies: In 1955, he was cited for his "Design and Construction of a Lyphalization Ap paratus from Scrapped Equipment for United States Army Medical Corp." . Prior to introducing Dr. Thompson, Chancellor Marion D. Thorpe will in troduce and recognie nine alumni and sup porters of the University for their significant con tributions to society. Chancellor Thorpe will lead the list of University officials arjd special guests when the relatively new $1.9 million physical education complex, and the $598,3 10. maintenance facility are officially nam ed the Robert L. Vaughan Sports Arena, and the Harvey L. Thomas Charles Jenkins Maintenance Building, Continued on Page 8 published an updated handbook on tenant landlord law for use by tenants to know their rights in North Carolina. The Raleigh Tenant Association was working on the issue of rental discrimination against people with children in certain apartment com plexes. Ms. Mildred Pierce of the Chapel Hill Tenant Organization, said that last summer the group had succeeded in getting money from the Town of Chapel Hill and Joint Orange-Chatham Com munity Action for a te nant organizer. Sam Reed, of the Durham Chapter of the National Council for Senior Citizens, said there should be efforts at coor dination between senior 'citizen groups and tenant organizations. The assembly thanked the Durham sponsors, West End Community Ac tion Group and the Durham Tenant Steering Committee, and voted to use, at the next meeting, the agenda set up by these two groups. The agenda had included speakers from the National Tenant Organization who were unable to attend Saturday because of the storm. present." He continued, "there were no black lef tists or progressive organizations or represen tatives at the conference." Although billed as a nonpartisian conference, presidential supporters distributed campaign literature , and, .actively courted the news media. No major speaker or 'workshop focused upon" "support Kennedy" mix ers and the green and white "support Carter Mondale" buttons left some conferees feeling that the conference's focus has been seriously compromised by the speculation about can didates. This low key partisan wave accounted in part for the conference being refer red to as "an exercise in futility,' by Winston Salem's alderman Larry Little. Little supported his charge, saying "too many lea'ders have already com mitted to Carter or Ken nedy." The conference leader ship's commitment to presidential candidates was also blamed for the conference's sidestepping the issue of independent black political action or a black political party. The -conference voted to ap point a task force to study the feasibility of such ac tion. Rev. Doug Moore, :ivil rights activist and former pastor of Asbury Temple Methodist Church in Durham, said "I com pare this conference to the 972 conference in Gary Jnd). At that time, the wlititians decided that hey would play the same game of supporting par ticular candidates. Then, they came back in '76 in Charlotte anck did the same thing. Even more so at this conference, there are more black folk who have lined up with (Spaghetti and macaroni in the political process. The real issue is that black folks' current leadership is not free enough to discuss forming an independent black political party." Richard G. Hatcher, one of the conference con venors, evaded the criticsm of the hastily organized meeting. The decision to hold the con ference was not made until December. Amid criticism that grass roots organizations had not been invited, i dispute with the National Tenants Organization, which says it represents seven million residents of public housing, was resolved by allowing 24 delegates from the organization to attend. Continued on Page 6 CH ARLOTTE-Dr. Richard Arrington, Jr., Mayor of Birmingham. Ala., delivered the keynote address at the public mass meeting of the 28lh Annual Southeast Reuion Conference of the NAACP here last Thurs day evening at Friendship Baptist Church. Regional Conference delegates came from seven stales in the Southeast Region: Alabama, Florida, Georgia. Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Areas of concentration during the conference centered on building bet ter branches, specific areas of education, cmpUy.menlce-mom'H ') f development civil rights, political and legislative ac tivities, including a report on the voting records of congressmen. Among other activities was a dynamic play presented Friday evening bv Stage South, the State Theatre ol S t:h Carolina, entitled '"V. we Bani Is IX-ad'" Hn powerful and cl.i;ticiH play h Aih.il -ir?;ird specified the p!Hi ot a poor worker who lia Kvn "endorsed out" (expelled) from New Brighton by the authorities and niuv assume the ulentit and passport of a dead man if lie is to continue i' qualifv for a tile of hopeless drudgery. Other speakers address ing I lie conference were Benjamin 1 . Hooks. I eeutive Director of the NAACP; Dr. Brodu- N Butler. president of the robert R. Moton Memorial Institute. Inc.. of Washington, D.C.. Dr. Butler is a member thV ' NAACP National Board of Directors.): and Bishop William Milton Smith, Senior Presiding Bishop of the Second Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Continued on Page 6 Join Tho NAACP Today. You'll So Glad You Didl Reception For Author To Celebrate Publication Of Books Publication of two scholarly books by North Carolina Central University Professor James Olney will be celebrated Sunday at a special 7 p.m., reception for the author at the National Humanities Center in the Research Triangle Park. Olney, a member of the NCCU English faculty since 1970, is the author of The Rhizome and the flower: The Perennial Philosophy -Yeats and Jung, being published by the University of California Press. He is also editor of a new Princeton University Press book, Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical, to which he contributed an introduction, an original essay on the "ontology of auto biography," and a translation ot a trench essay. Both books are scheduled for March publication. Olney's earlier works include two other books, Meta phors of Self: The Meaning of Autobiography and TellMe Africa: An Approach to African Literature, published by Princeton University Press in 1972 and 1973, respectively. He has also taught at Drake, Northwestern, and Amherst. Olney was a Fulbright Lecturer and chairman of the department of English at Cuttington College during a two-year stay in Liberia, West Africa. A portion of his research on the psychologist Jung and the Irish poet Yeats was paid for by a Frances G. Wkkes Foundation grant in 1972-73, when he collected materials in Ireland, England, and Switzerland. The reception is being sponsored by the Forum Com mittee and the English Department at NCCU. Invitations have been extended to Olney's students and to his col leagues at NCCU and neighboring campuses. The volume on autobiography has been selected as one of the alternate choices for February for members of the New York-based Readers' Subscription book club. The book dub magazine, The Griffin, in its February issue, comments about the new volume as follows: "This an thology gathers togeAer for the first time the best and most important writings on autobiography, a subject of literary study that has received increasing attention in the last twenty years." The essays which Olney has selected for inclusion are widely varied in their approach to the study ofutobio graphy. He has picked the strongest representatives of each view - literary, linguistic, psychoanalytic, and historic Women s studies, black history, and anthropology are among the topics discussed. The Griffin calls the volume rich and unique anthology, which brilliantly marks the rise of critic atten tion" to its topic. . Prof. Olney and his family live at 1500 Forest Hills Plaza in Durham. , . ; t
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