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The University of North
off efforts to remove disci
rne department of Healtl
given UNC a deadline '
instances HEW says the
HEW has threatened to
if the guidelines are nc
received a letter from th<
10 days to reply. Gov. 1
feel that the Gov. should a
HEW should be firm in it
state's institutions of hig
It is not as though the I
dictates and the express*
nation to be fair and equa
would have us believe. 1
physically substandard. W
the point of cutting off fu
improvement.
The UNC system filed
which was turned back
decided to locate a prop*
predominantly white N.C
black A&T state in Gree
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ii nu one is going io pay
is no more than a sham. H
decisively. Too many bad
regards equal treatment f<
drawn somewhere...we tl
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Food Sta
"Haven I
Government officials ha
for less fortunate citizens,
has called the food stamp
threat to the free enterpr
Mr. Simon's opinions.
Instead of trying to take
we think Mr. Simon shouh
can be shaved. We are cer
in federal spending that w
American public than th<
saying that the food stamf
It certainly does. But so
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few people getting $100
one-sixth of the populatic
however, has nearly 80 f
figures may be old, but
We also suggest that e
Simon's department that c
^number of food stamp re
We see Mr, Simon's i
growing distance between
citizens of this nation. And
showing some concern fo
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Carolina system is still trying to fig!
iminatory practices in its institution:
fi. Education and Welfare (HEW) ha
with whioh to respond to some 4
y have violated.
cut off some $60 million in federal ai
>t met. Gov. James. E. Holshousc
; office of HEW and was given
Holshouser has asked for a delay. W
nswcr the letter immediately and tha
s commitment to equalize all of th
;hcr learning.
INC system was unaware of the HEV
ed commitment of the state and th
1. This issue is not a new one as som
Black institutions have always beei
'e believe it must be rectified, even t
nds to those who stand in the way c
an affirmative action plan last yea
by HEW. In the meanwhile UN<
Dsed school of veterinary science a
. State rather than at predominant!;
nsboro.
any attention to HEW then the offio
EW should deal with UNC firmly an*
precedences have already been set ii
>r black institutions. The line must b*
liink it should be drawn here.
imp Program :
cor Chis/ers?"
ve once again revealed their contemp
Treasury Secretary William E. Simoi
i program a haven for chislers and
ise system. We take opposition witl
;bread.out of poor people's imouths
1 see how much of the defense budge
tain that there is money being waste*
ould have less negative effects on thi
e food stamp program. We are no
> program does not have its welchers
does the tax structure,
damaging to the economy to have i
worth of food illegally than to hav<
>n not paying taxes. That, one-sixth
>er cent of the nation's wealth. Th*
the ooint is still riiirpnf
^ w.a? Vl?%t
nough money is wasted right in Mr
ould create enough jobs to reduce th<
cipients.
emarks'as another example of th<
government and the real needs of th?
I it is past time for our officials to star
r the people who are less fortunate
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Prison experts, criminologists,
penalogists, and others
J with similar expertise would
j under the right circumstances
e agree that prisons in part
t should rehabilitate its inhabitants.
If we beg the questions
here, and assume that this is,
a in fact, the case, then the
E question becomes "are they
doing this?" The answer
j would be a mixed one. For
some prisoners "Yes!" for
others, "No!"
? But, the fact remains that
for the most part the answer is
2 a resounding "NO!" Studies
indicate that 8 out of 10
t persons convicted and sent to
prisons have already been in
prisons at least one time
|? before. This is called the
I recidivism rate. If prisons or
I correctional institutions were
I doing their jobs this recidiI
vism rate would not be 80%.
I If the Women Correctional
I facility, Central Prison, and
I Polk Boys Home all in
Raleigh, are not rehabilitating,
exactly what are they
I doing? And why aren't they
I rehabilitating?
I Answers to these questions
I are not easy. Many of our
I most eloquent blacks have
I been in prisons. M.L. King
said "If you're black you were:
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born in prison." Malcolm X,
Eldridge Cleaver, Cleveland
Sellers, Angela Davis, Ben
Chavis, The Charlotte Three,
Joan Little, and many Black
Panthers have loquaciously
told us of the horrors,
inhumanities, and racism that
exist in America's prisons.
But why and how did our
prisons get this way?
Money and politics are
partial answers. If prisons had
the adequately trained staff
and personnel, they could do a
better job. If wages for prison
guards were adequate, a more
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tional officer could be
recruited. If adequate space
were available for decent
recreation, libraries, and
educational programs,, then
some form of social and
psychological assistance to our
inmates could be rendered.
But all of this takes money,
and if state legislatures like
North Carolina's fail to pass
adequate revenue appropriations
for their prison systems,
things will get worse before
they get better.
So, whenever riots occur
they will grag headlines which
. m
is the purpose desired. But.
shortly afterwards our leaders
of the prison bureacracies all
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point the finger of blame at
someone else. The prisoners1#
blame their immediate directors
and warden who blames
it on inadequate working
conditions because of the lack
of money.
The correctional executives
and experts and administrators
blame the legislatures for
this same lack of money. The
public blames the inmates for
getting in prisons in the first
place. The legislatures blame
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tnat nebulous "society". And
so it goes. This political
football bounces and bounces.
And who do you suppose
suffers? Of course, the
inmates.
How do we stop this vicious
illogic? Who knows? But if you
and 1 got our stuff together
then we can-surely find out.
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uwvausc as* a race oi people we
need all the 4'young, gifted,
and black" brains and minds
we have to work for the
Struggle?Black Survival?pur
perennial Struggle. ? !
This country is lacking in !
moral and humanistic or ]
spiritural direction. As the 5
United Negro College Fund j
says 44A mind is a terrible \
thing to waste."
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