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              The Carolinian
October 8. 1974 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina Volumn LIV Number 12
UNC-G birthday proves brilliant fun
Annual fireworks display-bright lights and loud noises abound. Staff photo by Vicky Ingram
BY FRANCIS WATSON
Staff Writer
A jubilant birthday party held
Saturday in the Quad highlighted
UNC-G's 82nd observance of
Founder's Day. Known as Falderal - a
bit of finery, a bit of nonsense - the
celebration spanned four days and
featured concerts, speeches, and a
victorious soccer game.
About 4.000 people frolicked on
the Quad Saturday evening during a
picnic sponsored by ARA Slater and
competed in games and contests
operated by various campus
organizations.
Entertainment was provided by the
Mission Mountain Wood Band with a
little help from a group of APO
brothers lead by Kevin Moore. Dressed
as true greasers from the Fifties, the
brothers converged upon the scene in a
black Chevy and cruised up to the
stage to render "Tell Laura I Love
Her."
Guest speaker for the night,
Georgia legislator and young
Democratic leader Julian Bond, also
appeared at the celebration. He was
introduced by Secretary of Minority
Affairs Rovanda Dulton and Neo-Blaek
Nixon years civil rights setback, Bond says
BY PAM BLACKBURN
Staff Writer
"I am by profession a politician. A
profession not held in high esteem at
this time," commented Representative
Julian Bond of the Georgia state
legislature as he delivered the
Founder's Day Mclver Lecture before
a large crowd in Cone Ballroom.
Bond, introduced by SGA
President Jim McAbee as a man who
has been "•changing the color of
Southern politics." spoke of the
importance ol not letting the events of
the past two years "sweep us away."
Chancellor Fergueson and RaVonda Dalton relax with Founders' Day speaker
Julian Bond. Staff photo by Dave Florance.
Bond said that Nixon and the men in
his administration publicly opposed
crime in the streets while tliey
practiced "crime in the suites."
Speaking of Gov. Lester Maddox's
defeat in the recent Georgia primary.
Bond declared that the voters have
"turned the ax handle lo ashes and
sent the bald-headed bigot back."
According to Bond, the reins of
government were seized in the Nixon
years Dy men wiili an arrogant
contempt foi the people. He believes
that the advances made dining the
Kennedy and Johnson years in the
areas of alleviating poverty and of
protecting and promoting human and
civil rights were set backwards again
by the Nixon Administration.
The New Federalism, in Bond's
opinion, shitted the burden lor
anti-poverty programs and housing
plans away from the national
government, which has the resources,
onto the state and local governments
which do not have the money and
resources to carry out comprehensive
programs.
During the Nixon years. Bond said
the liberals began to believe that
picking up beer cans by the highways
was an acceptable substitute for
gaining jobs tor blacks.
Bond cautioned voters against
accepting a candidate for Congress
who is "right" on one issue, but has a
"wrong" stand on another subject.
"Many people believe that there is
no longer a need for action; nothing
could be further from the truth."
asserted Bond who pointed to
"confusion, dismay, and dispair"
amoung college-based youth today.
Bond blasted the pardon of Nixon
by President Ford, saying that he was
excused from punishment because he
was fortunate enough to have been
elected President.
A coalition of many different types
of Americans is needed to force the
government to move away from the
committment to an earlier era, said
Bond, who led the fight at the 1968
Democratic convention to seat the
reform elements of liberal young
people.
"The government under pressure
will move" is the lesson of the
Kennedy and Johnson years, according
to Bond.
Bond visited the Falderal picnic in
the Quad and was presented a silver
bracelet by Sam Miller, co-ordinator of
the Neo-Black Society of UNC-G and
the date.
Bond met with students and others
after the convocation in the area
between Mclver and Sharpe Lounges
in EH.
Society Coordinator Sam Miller. In
recognition of Bond's attempts to add
"color" to politics, NBS presented him
with a silver bracelet.
Incumban candidate for congress.
L. Richardson Preyer. and candidate
for State House, Lonnie Revels, were
on hand to meet students. A voter
registration was held during the picnic
by the students of the Political Science
Department.
An airplane bearing 1000
numbered ping pong balls circled the
Quad before dropping its cargo on
Peabody Park where diligent
scavengers gathered the balls up in
hopes of winning a bicycle given by
the Alumni Association and the A&S
Cycle Shop. Later a number was
drawn and Celia Goldman of Con
Dorm received the bike.
The dorm decorating contest was
won by Coit Hall. Dorm Coordinator
Maria Maheras accepted the plaque for
her dorm. Second place went to Gray
Hall and Grogan captured third place
honors.
Britt Blaylock, who acted as Master
of Ceremonies for many of the events
in the Quad, was named Falderal One.
Jim Payne, of the soccer team, ate
the most pizza in fifteen minutes in a
contest sponsored by the Circle K. He
won twenty dollars for gobbling the
pizza donated by ARA.
See FIRST, page 5
Carlos Montoys. Staff photo by Malcolm Moore.
Mime troupe entertains in quad.
Staff photo by Malcolm Moore.
Muaion Mountain Wood Band picks and sings in the quad. Staff photo by Susan Bright Kenin Moore leads a roaring '50's revival Staff photo by Malcolm Moore