Wednesday, March 29, 1972
Symposium panel
Toting useful for social change
The Daily Tar Heel
by Mary Ellis Gibson
Staff Writer
A panel of six Southern activists
discussed the importance of social change
and the effectiveness of voting as an
instrument of change in Memorial Hall
Tuesday afternoon.
The discussion was one of a series
sponsored by the Carolina Symposium,
"The Mind of the South."
Moderator of the panel Charles
Morgan, head of the Southeastern branch
of the American Civil Liberties Union,
told the audience, "Most of the radicals
who preach violence today don't have the
stamina it takes to produce a revolution."
Like a majority of the panelists.
Morgan believes dedicated action can
bring about social change, and political
participation and activism may be one of
the ways of affecting change.
Panelist Will Campbell, director of the
Committee of Southern Churchmen, took
the opposing point of view, saying he has
"despaired of any political solution to
our social problems."
"I believe politics is run by technique
whether it is in Honoi, Washington or
Havana," Campbell said. He asserted that
as an institution politics has failed.
Unlike the other panelists. Campbell
places little confidence in the power of
the vote to change society.
H.L. Mitchell, a founder of the
Southern Tenant Farmers Union and
former president of the National Farm
Labor Union, shared some of Campbell's
disillusionment with politics.
Nelson Molloy, head of the
Winston-Salem Black Panther Party, also
had little confidence in the political
process although he agreed the vote can
sometimes be used as a weapon for social
change.
"If the Panthers could find a politician
who would work for the best interest of
the people, they might encourage voter
registration," Molloy said.
John Lewis, former director of
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by Ellen Gilliam
Staff Writer
Three outspoken black Southerners - an educator, an
author and a legal activist - delved into their own
interpretations of the Southern black experience in Tuesday's
Carolina Symposium panel discussion on "Black Presence in
the South Over the Last 30 Years."
Examining the scope of black presence were Vernon
Jordan, director of the National Urban League; Benjamin
Mays, former president of Morehouse College in Atlanta,
Georgia; and Albert Murray, author of the recently published
"South to a Very Old Place."
Jordan opened the discussion with a brief tribute to the
South. "As a migrant to the North, 1 had to ask myself,
'What's worse? Black presence in the South or black presence
in the North?' I'm not sure it's not better to be home. At least
you have honest dishonesty in the South as opposed to
dishonest honesty in the North."
He later clarified his statement, saying Southerners used to
clearly display their racial prejudice with signs that read
"White Only" or "Black Only." Northerners say, "We have the
right to serve our customers," he quipped.
Jordan drew several comparisons between civil rights issues
in the 1970's and 1960's. "In the '60's the issue was the right
to sit on buses; in the '70's, where the bus is going," lie saidT """""
"In the '60's, we were concerned with the right to sit at the
Woolworth's lunch counter; in the '70's, hunger and
malnutrition.
"In the '60's, we established the right to vote by will of the
national legislature; in the '70's, we're concerned with whether
Howard Lee has the right to be congressman from this
district," he added.
Referring to Nixon's speech on busing last Thursday, he
said, "The President's speech indicates that we are about to
return to resegregation. It indicates a reneging on a national
committment."
Jordan blamed the traditional liberals in Congress for not
"putting up the fight they once did."
Murray, who described himself as "literary man. schoolboy,
writer and self-styled intellectual," said there is much of the
Southern black experience which can be admired but not
shared by white Southerners.
The Southern white's black "mammy" was more than a
kindly subservient to the Southern white; she was "a source of
mother wit which is the basis of wisdom," he said. "Blues is
more to the black southerner than a negative statement; it is
also the affirmative, the laughing and the sensual," he said.
Mays, a southern black educator with a long list of
credentials, discussed the history of the Southern black
experience.
"The Negro presence was probably the most heavily felt
with the passage of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education
decision striking down separate but equal," he said. "It is my
conviction that the black presence will be needed for a long
time to push along the accomplishments of blacks in the last
30 years."
"Mays listed several "tangible results of the black man's
presence in America, beginning with their fight for the right to
vote. Other results were black students and teachers can learn
and work alongside white students and teachers, and black
curriculums have been added to colleges and universities
around the country.
Atlanta's Community" Orpnization
Project and current executive director of
Voter Education Project. Inc.. expressed
great confidence in the power of the vote
for social change.
Lewis described the Civil Rights
movement as causing a drastic change in
Southern politics in the past 15 ears.
Lewis looked to political activism as
the best weapon for social change.
"If there's one lesson to be learned
from the Civil Rights movement, it is that
we cannot gain any power without a
struggle." Lewis warned.
Sister Anne Catherine, a Dominican
nun who directs the Southern Mutual
Help Association to aid the poor in the
sugar belt, called for a new com
prehensive approach to the problems of
poverty and racism.
"Voter education could be part of a
broad approach to the causes as well as
the symptoms of poverty," she said.
Jim Pierce, executive director of the
National Sharecroppers Fund, expressed
faith in the electoral process.
Calling the U.S. Constitution a
"radical document," he said to people
today the Constitution doesn't count and
the Declaration of Independence doesn't
count.
Stressing the importance of action.
Pierce said, "I submit to you that if you
want a better America, then you might
have to join those of us who are called
radicals."
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Parents Without Partners will meet at 8 p.m.
at the Community Church in Chapel Hill. A
panel will discuss visitation rights and
responsibilities. Prospective members are
invited.
Open reception for Robert Coles at the Chi
Psi Lodge at 6:30 p.m.
Shirley Anne Grau will be a guest at the Tri
Sigma House, 307 East Franklin Street. All are
cordially invited to a coffee hour at 6:30 p.m.
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the Union. If you are interested in working but
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People for Sanford: Anyone interested in
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organizational meeting Wednesday at 7 p.m. in
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Ever wondered about Christianity and
evolution? Dr. Ernest Lucas, a research
associate in biochemistry at UNC, may have
some of the answers. He'll speak at a dinner
meeting at 6 p.m., Chase Cafeteria. Thursday.
Everyone is welcome. Sponsored by Carolina
Christian Fellowship, the campus chapter of
I nter-Varsity Christian Fellowship.
Dance workshop continues this Saturday 10
a.m. - 12 noon. Room 202-204 Student Union.
Robin Wakeland, Instructor.
There will be a meeting of the newly elected
members of the Men's Honor Court , 2 p.m.
Thursday.
Open reception for Jesse Jackson at approx.
3:30 p.m. in 202, Student Union, Thursday
immediately after his speech in Memorial Hall
at 2 p.m.
Meeting of the Undergrad Romance Club
Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Grad Lounge, 312
Dey Hall. All undergrad romance language
majors are urged to attend.
"The Animals Are Crying" a color film
depicting the problem of surplus cats and dogs
in the human environment. Tuesday, 8 p.m..
Student Union Bldg. 213-215.
Items of interest
Goldoni's "Arlecchino: The Servant of Two
Masters." Tickets for the Carolina Playmakers
production are now available. Reserved seat
tickets are $2.50 for performances in the
Playmakers Theatre today through Sunday. For
information call 933-1121.
Laboratory Theatre workshopplayroom 06
Graham Memorial each Wednesday night
7:30-10 p.m. Open to all. Come with ideas and
interests.
The Morehead Planetarium's all-time favorite
program, "The Easter Story," is now showing
nightly at 8 p.m. through April 10.
The Carolina Readers will present j.D.
Salinger's "Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut" in
103 Bingham Hall at 8 p.m. Thursday and
Friday.
Human Sexuality
Counseling Service: 11
Monday-Friday. Call 933-5505.
Information and
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Draft Problems? Chapel Hill Draft
Counseling, Mon.-Fri. 3-5 p.m.; Mon-Thurs. 7-9
p.m. Phone 933-5550. or come to Room 258-B
in the Student Union.
Applications for the International Student
Center Foreign Exchange programs are available
at the Carolina Union desk1 and ISC lobby.
They must be turned in to 308 Carr Building by
Thursday, April 6 so that interviews may be
arranged for Saturday, April 8. One year
scholarships for study in universities in West
Germany, Puerto Rico, and either Ghana or
Colombia (depending on success of
arrangements with Ghana) will be awarded to
full time UNC students who intend to return
afterward to UNC to complete their studies.
International Students.- If you would like to
correspond with relatives and friends on tape,
the Red Cross has free tapes available. Sign up
for taping Carr or Mclver lobbies or can
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Scholarships are now available for one year
at these universities: Goettingen. West
Germany; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Bogota,
Colombia and Accra. Ghana. Applications may
be obtained at the Union Information desk or
at the ISC office in Carr. For further
information, call Horst Hoffman. 966-2364.
Any faculty and statf members desiring to
play on the Sigma Phi Epsilon Faculty Gcid
Tournament April 3. 4 and 6 should call
968-9114 or 968-9368 if they have not already
been contacted about the tourney.
The Human Sexuality Committee is trying
to find interested blacks who will undergo
counselor training to be part ol a community
project to help counsel teenage blacks in
contraception, abortion, interpersonal relations,
sex education and sexuality related problems. H
you are interested in becoming a member of
this project, please call the Human Sexuality
Counseling Service at 933-5505.
Anthropology 99 (Women in Contemporary
Society) needs a copy of copies ot April issue
of Cosmopofitan lor scholarly vpUrposes.
Please briny to Anthropology office in Alumni
Buildinq.
The Student Services Commission has
available for rent ten reirmerators. These units
are available to persons throuqti number thirty
on the waitinq list that was established at the
lirst ol the semester. Persons interested should
come by 2b4-C ol the Carolina Union
Wednesday and Thutsday between 1:30 and 5
p.m. Rent will be S7 plus a $5 refundaM
damage deposit for the remainder of
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Poetry, short stories, graphics, photos by
and about Women wanted for anthology.
Female Liberation, Box 954, Chapel Hill.
Include stamped, self-addressed envelope.
Women's Health and Pregnancy Counselling
Service. Call 929-7177 (Switchboard) for free,
confidential counselling By trained women
counsellors on abortion and the alternatives,
birth control, V.D.
All pictures to be entered in the Amateur
Photography Contest sponsored by The
Carolina Union and the Alumni Association
must be turned in by Friday, 3 p.m. in the
Union South Gallery. Entries will be judged for
the possible $180 prize money when they are
hung for the one-month f &iowing.
Photographers are reminded to have ail pictures
mounted for hanging. All photographs must be
accompanied by a contest entry form, available
at the Union Information Desk. Turn the
photographs and the entry forms in, either
Thursday from 12 to 3 p.m. or Friday 12 to 3
p.m.
Legal residents of Pennsylvania who
graduated from high school prior to 1972 arxl
who are not current year state scholarship
recipients may pick up an application for a
state scholarship from the Student Aid Office,
300 Vance Hall. The application deadline for
1972-73 is May 31. 1972.
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to the 1972 Yack will be $7.50. Students are
urged to subscribe now at the S6 level.
Juniors in the School of Education at
UNC-CH who plan to student teach during the
fall and spring semester, 1972-73, will complete
student teaching application forms today
through Friday. Forms will be available m the
lobby of Peabody Hall from 8:30 a.m. through
4:30 p.m. on these days. Any student who
plans to student teach next year must complete
these forms.
Kundalini yoga brings out the best in you.
Exercises, meditation and joyous chanting.
Classes: Monday and Wednesday, 5-6:30 p.m.
Presbyterian Student Center on Henderson St.
Bring blanket and fruit to share.
"SHE," The Female Figure, exhibit is now in
the Union Music Library. All prints are for sale
at very reasonable prices. Prints by Picasso,
Eggers, Matisse. Rabl and others.
All Union-Alumni Photography Contest
entries must be in by Friday. Rules and entry
forms are at the Union information Desk.
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paperbacks. Please call 966-4793 or 966-3136
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