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Duke University Library ..Newspaper Department Durham NC 27706 September Is f y United Negro College Fund Month GIVE GIVE GIVE " J " (USPSMW80) 2 Words Of Wisdom A friend b a fellow who walks la when all the rest of the world walks oat. Self-control is a rirtsc that most individuals recommend to their friends. VOLUME 58 - NUMBER 3 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1980 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE: 30 CENTS Dedication C eremomes For NCCU School Of Law Nearly 400 persons witnessed the dedication ceremonies of the new $4.25 million Albert Louis Turner Law Building, Fri day morning, September 19. Dr. Turner was the first black dean at . the NCCU Law School and served from 1942 until his retirement in 1965. University officials, representatives from state government, legal circles and higher education par ticipated in the dedication services. - ; The Honorable Potter Stewart, United States Supreme Court Justice, and one of the last four re maining justices during the tenure of the late Chief Justice Earl Warren, was the principal speaker. Justice Stewart was in troduced by Court of Ap peals Judge Richard C. Erwin. The NCCU Moot , Court Room has been named in honor of the late Chief Justice Warren. Governor Jim Hunt em phasized that the pro blems mentioned by some of the prior speakers at the occasion were not of the jaw school's making. The problems that have come ! from the whole educa tional system in North Carolina and at. present i ."fcjfjt.;' "..- " IK I I SPEAKER FOR THE Ceremonies was u s. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, one of the four re maining justices of the Earl' Warren Court. The moot court room in the NCCU Law! School is named in honor of the late Justice Warren. North Carolina is address- ing them within its educa tional system bv emphasis on quality education for ; all people. Hunt also em phasized budgetary in creases for - expanding library facilities and addi tional faculty for the law school. Governor Hunt , made special note of the contributions for former Attorney General Robert Morgan and former Dean LeMarquis DeJarmon in securing funds and ar chitectural planning for the new facility. Dean Harry Groves, now in his fourth year at the helm of the Law School, reiterated the mis sion of the NCCU School ;of Law, which has been to educate minority and disadvantaged students, black white or Indians. Groves was also critical of the media for the manner in which they played up earlier bar pass-failure statistics. James P. White, consul tant for legal education training from the American Association of Law Schools, called atten tion to the fact that the NCCU School of Law has been fully accredited since 1950. White is also a law school dean. Attorney Frank; Ballance, an alumnus and trustee of NCCU Law . School, presented a gift of $5,000 plus from Law School alumni. the1 Durham Chapter of the National Barristers' Wives made a contribution to the Student Loan Fund of the Law School. Dr. Jean Goins, daughter of the late Albert L. Turner, her son andl daughter of Minneapolis, Minnesota, were in atten dance at the dedication ceremonies. A tour of the new facili ty followed the ceremonies. During the luncheon held at Governor's Inn, Judge Naomi Morris and Chief Justice of North Carolina Supreme Court, , along with Presidents' William Fridav, delivered'1 w remarks. A series of lectures on the theme "Contributions" of the Warren Court to Equal Protection" were held Friday afternoon and Saturday, September 20, in the Earl Warren Moot Court Room. Participants included Deans Otis King, Texas Southern Thurgood Marshall Law School; Wiley Branton, Howard University Law vScrjooU annd, Kenneth" " Toilet, former dean and resear cher. Ms. Acie Ward, Assistant Attorney General in the Consumer Protection Division of North Carolina, presided over the sessions. Ms. Ward in an alumna of NCCU School of Law. - tcrrtrfc& -Jw v. S ,w III M..r 1 AMONG THE MORE THAN 300 PEOPLE who attended the dedication ceremonies of the NCCU Law School were Frank Ballance, a member of the NCCU board of trustees, James P. White, representative of the American Bar Association, John Jordan, chair-; man of the N.C. Board of Governors, Albert N. Whiting, chancellor of NCCU, former governor Dan K. Moore. National Black Political Party Idea Draws Support Of Political Forum . V-ILAJIGH The idea of an ' independent na tional black political party a strnnolv Bimnortd hv 100 persons at a panel discussion held by the , ; North Carolina Black Political Forum. The Forum is chaired by kcv. Leon wime ana ms. Jennifer Henderson. : ?'.Whiti ntH the nfwlv ' jjfolrmed coalition of com-' munity groups and con cerhed persons are deman ding politicians recognize black needs for quality education, reform of the criminal justice system, adequate housing and employment. It is only when blacks develop an independent posture and thrust that whites will begin to take them seriously, White added. The conference was held September 19 and 20. Councilman "Larry Lit tle of Winston-Salem and former N.C. coordinator for the Black Panther Par ty,, said there is no essen tial difference between the Democratic and Republican parties. Ap plause, greeted him when he said blacks must divorce these parties and the "niggertics? that cause black people to sup port white candidates who have put them in their pre sent economic condition. He said blacks must correct inc niaancss mai caused former Am bassador Andrew Young to tell a Winston-Salem . audience that there was no reason for people to be hungry because they can pick up the phone and order food stamps. Raleigh Atty. Barbara Arnwine also spoke on the panel and was interrupted several times with ap plause after pledging her , support to an independent ' black party. The only way , fpr blacks to be powerful, : she said, is to gather 'strength in numbers. She Isaid "power never con j cedes to anything but power"., in this system of checks and balances. "If lyou have nothing to kheck, then you are out of "balance," she added. She said an independent party will be a hard thing ' to pull off because blacks ! . have been taught to ; .distrust eacTi 'other. She T,.-. ' 4 " . .-. a. a commonalty m oeing oppressed and need a new focus. The competency test was an issue conferees strongly opposed. Despite Durham Atty. Howard Clement's endorsement of the test, many blacks in the question-answer ses sion said the tests were designed to weed out blacks. . The panel also included, John Winters of the N.C J Utility Commission, Rev. Floyd McKissick, founder and developer of Soul City Corporation, and Wake County , Commissioner Elizabeth Cofield. Saturday afternoon a workshop and film were presented on voter educa tion. At the evening banquet , SOpowernft ecf by the singing bf the Walker Sisters and Ms. Jessie McCombs. Ms. McCombs an nounced a rally for? her son, John, who is sewing a life sentence in tti.C. Central Prison for fatally shooting a policeman in 1976. McCombs was a North Carolina Central . University student when a policeman broke into his apartment unannounced . and without a uniform. The major speakers for the evening were dentist Reginald Hawkins, a well known religious and civil rights leader of Charlotte, and Dr. Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Con ference (SCLC). Dr. Hawkins was North . Carolina's first black Second Black Female Becomes Army Aviator . gubernatorial candidate n . 1968 and 1972. -Aft NAACP life member, Hawkins once litigated successfully against Charlotte, .challenging its zoning laws, but since that jtirhtg, he said, everything ; has changed, but nothing is different." Once an in tegrationist because he "knew what the system was doing under the , i separte but equal doc trine," Hawkins said, , black kids are worse off . today than they were then, in part because they have been placed in powerless disciplines. He said North Carolina is fighting to keep blacks in their place rather than upgrading black institu , tions. He said he helped a female dental school graduate initiate a law suit against the state's dental (Continued on Page 3) ' i INSIDE THIS WEEK National Scene Women Old Ideas Die Slowly Page 16 A New Building At Last Count Basie, Lena Home To Receive Award Page 10 Poinsett Progress An Illusion For Grassroots Blacks Hunt Urges Support For Erwin Nomination RALEIGH Gover nor James B. Hunt, Jr. this week reiterated his support for Judge Richard C. Erwin as federal district court judge. Erwin has been, nominated by Sen. Robert Morgan, arid is waiting to be confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Hunt had challenged a group of over 300 sup porters at a reception at St. Augustine's College in Raleigh last Thursday to return home and work hard for Erwin's confir mation. In recommending Judge Erwin, Hunt said he could "personally attest to his extremely high character and his outstanding reputation for integrity and legal ability. His work on the Court of Appeals has been extremely high caliber and reflects his judicial temperament, his basic sense of fairness and due process and his capacity for hard work." Sen. Robert Morgan recently read a statement from Governor Hunt to the Senate Judiciary Com mittee hearing on Judge Erwin's nomination. In (Continued on Page 2) By Felicia M. In a speech at Duke University, September 22, Alex Poinsett, senior editor of Ebony Magazine, discussed' "the economic and political condition of blacks and stressed the importance of education. Poinsett recently visited Birmingham, Alabama and noted vast social changes, but said blacks still don't sit on any policymaking boards, unemployment still devastates blacks and the "real and ideal are still very far apart." He said the national media reports on signifi cant black advances seen in the "first black this and the first black that but more black individual achievers are not as im portant as what has hap pened to grassroots blacks." For them, he said, "progress has been an illusion." Poinsett said black families earn $57 for every Lt. Christine B. Knighton, a 1979 home economics graduate of Tuskegee Insitute is the se ' cond black female in any branch of service to become an aviator in the 38 year old history of Ar , my Aviation. The 22-year-old from Cuthbert, Georgia, receiv ed her wings August 8 after completing the nine ' . month rotary wing flight ; program at Fort Rucker. ! An honor graduate of , Tuskegee : Institute, and ; the school's first female pilot, Knighton says the 1 'flight program at Fort ! Rucker was on one hand "very difficult," but otherwise not the awesome task some might envision. "Flying is not something that is impossi- i ble," she said. "People ; want to make it harder ; than it is." Yet she found ; the course difficult because "so much was I congested into a nine- ! month period." 1 It was fate and timing that v prevented Lt. j Knighton from becoming ' the first black female' aviator,, but she takes all : that with a shrug. "I L wanted to dp the best I-f could with this opportuni ty, even if I was first or se cond," she said. Lt. Marcella A. Hayes, a University of Wisconsin graduate, became the Ar my's first black female aviator when she graduated from the rotary wing program in November 1979. Because Lt. Knighton completed studies at Tuskegee Institute with the aid of an ROTC scholarship, and was com missioned a second Lieutenant in the Army she has a six-year military obligation four years active duty and two years in the reserves. During a time when the question of women in 'Combat is on the minds of many, the Georgia native says she will be content wim any position snci receives. I don't want to go into combat zones," she stated emphatically. "I am pleased with, my new assigment at Fort i Eustis in Virginia. There I : will be training in aviation J maintenance and test piloting. In February, I will be assigned to a unit in Germany," stated Lt. Knighton. (Continued on Page 2) I If? v An'i r k'i v I , I Women Hall of Famers NEW YORK The Induction of the first nine athletes into the newly-creited Women's Sports Had of Fame taktsiiUci at la awards dinner recently. Getting together at a reception earlier In the day are three of the six women immedaitely electad-wtsnta whose major ach evements occured prior to 1960 (l-r) Ms. Eleanor Holm Whalen, Ms. Patty Berg and Ms. AJthea Gibson. Ta other three in that group aree Ms. Babe Didrickson Zaharias, Ms. Amelia Earhart and Mi. Gertrude Ederle. UPI Phota Cassels $100 earned by white families, control less than three per cent of all Jajsinesses and employ less ffTan one per cent of the labor force. He said economists estimate white youth unemployment will be 13.5 per cent in five years, while minority youth unemployment will i rise to forty per cent. Poinsett said the black situation is further ag gravated by the major global redistribution of wealth which is currently underway. "OPEC pressure, the Middle East crisis and mounting demands for radical change in world finance will exert downward pressure on U.S. spen ding," he added. Paradoxically, he said, defensive measures taken here will only intensify the recession because the economy cannot generate output unless the society is willing to buy it. "The American dream is disintegrating oeiore our very eyes," he con cluded, and identified "genuine collective self determination, economic viability, full employ ment, affirmative action, a national health system, decent housing and ade quate education" as key items on the black 80s agenda. He quoted poet Langston Hughes who said, "What happens to a dream deferred, does it dry up. . . .or does it ex plode?" In a questionanswer session and an earlier classroom discussion, Poinsett expressed more of his political views. He was asked a range of ques tions from the ad Ivisability of a move to Africa to the feasibility of an independent national black political party. ; He said by moving to Africa, black people would not be leaving the problem because the pro blem is global. He told a 'journalism student that the role of the black press should be one of protest. He noted that while more white papers are hiring black journalists, many - still can't rise to the er-1 ecutive suite. He endorsed the up coming ' march - on' , Washington on behalf of ; black . colleges, - but generally advisej students . (Continued on tage 2)
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