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For the year 1983,
We can resolve to live with zest,
To bring to every task our best,
-To greet each day with faith and hope,
, To give our lives their fullest scope.
At the beginning of this New Year, we shall all do well
. to resolve to cultivate genuine enthusiasm; then put our
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and soul into any task, not only will we find excitement
:;:every day, but people will believe in us as they believe in
electricity when they see it at work all around them.
Enthusiasm is contagious. If we are enthusiastic, we
will awaken the minds and quicken the spirits of other
. people. However, we must remember that enthusiasm is
? an acquired quality. It is the outcome of deep, honest
thought and hard, persistent work.
One of the great blessings of life lies in our ability to
forget disappointments and difficulties of the past and to
fix our thoughts on the future. By our own actions and
attitudes we can ? to some extent, at least ? control the
:future for ourselves. To make things come our way, we
need to believe in ourselves with a deep conviction. En
thusiasm is the only key to the development of that conviction,
and faith lies at the foundation of our lives.
I Genuine enthusiasm is the dynamics of personality.
- Without it, whatever abilities we have lie inactive. We
may have all kinds of knowledge and skills; but no one
will know about that knowledge and those skills until we
discover how to put the heart into thought and action.
We cannot go wrong in our work or any task when we bru
ing genuine enthusiasm to it, and whether we realize it or
t.r, not, our tasks are done in the spirit of faith.
During this time of widespread frustration, fears and
anxieties roam the atmosphere. If a person is to make life,
meaningful for himself, he has to develop within himself
attitudes which will enable him to face each day with zest
and confidence. Life is neither productive nor satisfying
without worthwhile attitudes.
For 1983, we should try earnestly to cultivate faith ?
faith in ourselves, faith in our fellow men, faith in the
ultimate triumph ot the good and the true over the evil
and the wrong. With a power not wholly our own, we
shall need to find our way, sustained by faith, hope,
couraget confidence,, enthusiasm and friendships we
develop as we travel the highway of life together. Thus
sustained, we shall find our tasks more interesting and
more satisfying.
May all the days of the New Year bring you increasing
happiness, and a constantly growing enthusiasm.
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Delaware State and Maryland's Bowie State had more
"than one-third white students, and Kentucky State's stu?
dent population was 49 percent white.
A number of white faculty at black colleges brought
; lawsuits against their institutions, charging that "patterns
and practices of racial discrimination against white
:. persons" were present. At Alabama State University, for
7; example, a white federal judge ordered $209,000 in backpay
awards to 57 white faculty and staff who claimed
"reverse discrimination." As one bewildered black critic
declared, "This is a strange racial phenomenon, as it was
; only 14 years ago that various white institutions in
Alabama, including the educational cv?t#?matirallv
eluded blacks as buyers, consumers, participants and
employees."
This month, the 1982-83 college enrollment statistics
. have reached my desk ? all confirming the alarming acceleration
of the attack against black higher education. A
- few of these facts include the following:
. . ?Black enrollment at both white public and private institutions
has dropped off sharply in the past 12 months.
At Cornell University, black enrollment is down to 650,
from over 1,000 a decade ago; at the University of
' California-Berkley, the black student population has
dropped from 1,200 down to barely 350 in a decade.
The overall enrollment at the 42 historically black colleges
which belong to the United Negro College Fund has
, dropped 3.7 percent since 1981-82, and freshman enrollment
dropped 12 percent in only one year.
Black enrollment in white professional schools has also
~ declined. At Tennessee public medical schools, for example,
only 12 out of 969 students are black this year.
Institutional racism and Reaganomics have combined |
to attack the very centers of black learning, both inside
traditionally black schools and in white universities.
Unless the black movement addresses the war against
black higher education immediately, there is every indication
that the basis for black learning beyond the public
schools will be irreparably damaged, if not destroyed.
Dr. Manning Marable is director of the Race Relations
Institute, Fisk University. His syndicated column,
"FROM THE GRASSROOTS," appears in 140
newspapers across the United States and in England.
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George Booie.
I want to thank you for the wonderful work you are
doing through the medium of The Chronicle. Obviously,
you are a man who knows the difference between zeal
and fanaticism, and therefore, you not only do a "good
' job," you make a marvelous contribution.
George G. Matthews
Los Angeles
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is important that there are still those who care
about the welfare of others, people who are
willing to lend a helping hand to those who are
less fortunate. In doing so, they give the
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But we must also be aware that the churches
and the charities are only successful in their efforts
because of the magnanimous contributions
of the general public. We are only able to
conclude that most of us do care about one
another, that beneath the masks of desolation
we wear there remains a strong element of
humanity and good.
. In the long view, then, the 1982 holiday
season may be a "hard Christmas" only in
terms of the problems that are being caused by
the nation's current economic state. When we
look about us and see people helping people
during this difficult period, sacrificing their
time and labor to put a smile on the face of a
child, we know that the spirit of the season and
the abounding kindness of the human heart
prevail over the hardness of the times.
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