The Carolinian [February 28, 1969]

              The Carolinian Volume XXXXVIII University of North Carolina at Creenaboro, .\. C- Friday, February 28. iy0:.
Number '.]:',
Matthews Explains Reasons Bloodmobile Visit
Behind A&T Student Unrest RescheduledMarch 4
Calvin Matthews, student
body president at A ft T State
University, held a presa
conference Tuesday to explain
the student unrest on campus.
He expressed his belief that
students there will not have to
resort to disruptive tactics again
because of increased
communication between
students, faculty and
administration.
The following is the statement
that Matthews read:
There has been recent student
unrest on this campus and other
campuses across the state,
indeed, this nation. The unrest
•t A & T State University
campus is caused by a generally
unreceptive faculty and
administration, which is
unwilling to show initiative in
the areas of social and academic
reform.
Students at A & T have long
been working in an archaic and
dilapidated system which was
established several decades ago.
The guardians of this dilapidated
system have shown various
inabilities to modernize and
respond positively to needs of
student* at A & T.
A&T has too many resistive
people among its faculty and
administration who see as their
main function the need to resist
any form of change or
modernization which is
presented to them by the
student body. These resistive
people to this day only begin to
make token settlements as
students begin to raise satan at A
4T
It is acknowledged that there
are regularly established
channels by winch students'
grievances are listened to. These
channels have proven to be of
little worth. They an' like a
maze of tracks, meaning (that)
no matter which path is taken in
these channels the end
accomplishment is nil.
Somewhere in these channels
legitimate grievances and
demands are somehow put into
committee and they are never
heard of again or they are still
Calvin Matthews, AfcT student body president, said that due to
increased communication between student, faculty and
administration further disruptive tactics will not be needed.
being considered. Somewhere in
these channels legitimate
grievances are suppressed. When
these established channels are
used to suppress legitimate
grievances, when these
established channels are us?d as
an entrapment to stifle
legitimate grievances, when then
these established channels show
repeatedly that no significant
accomplishments can be made,
then what are students at A & T
supposed to do? Lay back and
be satisfied? Lay dead? No.
We have been forced to lake
actions which reflect the
complacency among the faculty
and administration and reflect
their willingness to really hear
us.
A & T is basically a black
university. It has an
Afro-American culture center
and one course In Negro history.
It is a sin and a shame that black
students at a black university
must resort to disruptive tactics
to get a black studies
department What type of
university allows faculty
members to fail 70, HO, 90, or
100% of their students semester
after semester without
investigation?
Students at A & T are tired of
faculty members who choose to
fail whole classes on whims and
principles.
It frightens administrators
when students ask for dismissal
of some faculty members. It
frightens them because students
are beginning to do the job they
should do. Students are moving
toward a better university. The
students at A & T are perfectly
willing and ready to unite with
the factulty and administration
to move this university forward.
There have been initial .steps
taken to increase the degree of
student. faculty and
administrative dialogue Then'
will be continued efforts toward
this goal
Uur problem of today must
be reckoned with today so lh.it
all students entering A & T in
the future may receive
excellence in education.
The Red Cross Bloodmobile,
originally scheduled to be on the
UNCO campus in
mid-November and was
cancelled at the request of the
college physician due to the flu
epidemic on the campus at lhal
time, has been re scheduled for
Elliott Hall Cone Ballroom.
Tuesday. March I, 10:30 a.m. lo
1:00 p.m.
Sarah Anice Kahlua, chairman
of the Service League, is
Co-ordinating the visit to the
campus with the assistance of
representatives of all the dorms
and the Town Students
Association. The blood donated
at the UNC-G visit will assist in
covering the blood needs of
patients in Creensboro hospitals
during the month of March and
is available to anyone who needs
It without charge for the blood
itself. As a special service to the
studenls who participate in the
blood drive on campus, the
Creensboro chapter of the
National Red Cross will cover
any blood needs of lhal student
and his immediate fumily should
the need arise
The requirements are as
follows:
Anyone in good health over
110 lbs, (for girls), 115 lbs (for
boys), age 18 thru 60 can give
blood. Al the lime of each
donation written parental
consent is required for I hose
under 21 years.
For donor and recipient
protection, each donor is naked
about his medical history, such
as past illnesses Blook pressure,
temperature, pulse, weight .mil
hemoglobin estimation are
determined by registered nurses
under the supervision of a
physician, who is in constant
attendance.
There are no longer any
limit;itions mi what or when a
donor may cat. It is suggested
thai a donor eat Drank fas) on the
date of donation.
(living Mood will have ahoul
the same effect as an afternoon
of exercise Most people go right
back to their job your body
goes to work immediately to
replace what you have lost.
If a donor has ever had
malaria, yellow itiandtee. or
hepatitis, he is a permanent
rejection due to changes in rule
by the National Institute of
Health. No deferment is made
for seasonal allergies unless
active on the dale of donation
However, ir you are on
medication for any allergies, you
will be referred to physician in
charge for evaluation and he will
rule if you are eligible lo donate
If you have had any teeth pulled
within 72 hours, you will be
deferred until the next visit
Friday Predicts
Tuition Increase
In a recent interview with the
Stall' Technician, Consolidated
University President William ('.
Friday said that student tuition
charges at all four campuses will
have lo be revised
"I talked to Slate Director of
Administration William I,
Turner and he indicated I hat
HEW Associate Secretary
Farmer To Speak At Guilford
James Farmer, the new
Associate Secretary of the
Health, Education, and Welfare
Department, will speak in Dana
Auditorium at Guilford College
Thursday, March 6, at 8:15.
Farmer's new position is the
highest one yet accepted by a
Negro in the Nixon
Administration.
A native of Texas, Farmer
graduated from Wiley College
and Howard University's School
of Religion. After graduation
from Howard, he served as race
relations secretary of the
Fellowship of Reconciliations
from 1941 to 1945. In the early
fifties he was student secretary
of the League for Industrial
Democracy, and later as program
director for the NAACP.
Fanner was also active in
organizing the southern drive of
the Upholsterer's International
Union from 1946-48. He was
employed as International
Representative of the State,
County, and Municipal
Employees Union and as a
commentator on radio and TV
programs sponsored by the
United Auto Workers in Detroit.
He has written a book,
"Freedom-When?" which was
published earlier this year.
One of the founders of the
Congress of Racial Equality
(CORE), Farmer served as its
National Director from 1961 to
1966. He led the first freedom
ride and spent 40 days in a
Mississippi jail as a result. He was
also arrested, along with 300
other CORE members, on the
opening day of toe New York
World's Fair after a protest
against the segregation and
discrimination practices of many
stales exhibiting there.
After his resignation as
National Director of CORE, he
headed a national literacy
program for the Center for
Community Action Education.
Later he taught social welfare at
Lincoln University in
Pennsylvania and courses in Civil
Rights Revolution and the New
Left in relation to the Black
Revolution at New York
University.
In 1968 Farmer, a registered
Liberal, ran for Congress on the
Republican ticket in New York's
12th Congressional District in
Brooklyn. During the election he
supported Humphrey, but since
has been increasingly impressed
by Nixon. He was quoted in
"Time" magazine as saying, "He
means lo bring the nation
together."
In his new post with HEW he
will be a key advisor to
Secretary Robert Finch on
urban affairs. He will also try to
establish cooperation between
the Administration and young
blacks who distrust government
and particularly a Republican
Administration. On taking the
job with HEW, Farmer said in
"Time", "A man has to decide
one of two things. Either he is
going to be a revolutionary and
try to destroy the system, or he
is going lo make it work. I reject
the notion that the way to
progress is lo make things as bad
as possible."
because of the recommended 'H
Budget (new and expanded
programs) the Consolidated
University campuses will
probably have to increase
receipts. It means the I 'nivcrsily
will probably have lo increase
tuition on all lour campuses '
Friday said.
(iovernor Scott, in his budget
message lo the Ceneral
Assembly. recommended an
increase in faculty salary each
year for the next two years.
Scott suggested all eight percent
increase while the advisory
Budget Commission hud onlv
recommended a five percent
increase for each of the next two
years. Although Friday slated
that the possibility of a use in
tuition was not directly related
lo the recommended salary
increases, he did say that it was a
factor.
Friday was particularly
concerned with Ihe "C" Budget
funds alloted for Capital
Improvements. "There wen- no
classrooms, laboratories. or
library facilities in the "C"
budget for any of the four
campuses," slated Friday. "We
have projected a 9,000 student
increase in the next four years
for the branches of the
Consolidated University. If no
funds are approved for this
biennium, it will be 1971 before
any projects could be authorized
and probably 1973 before any
could be completed.
"This would mean we would
have lo lake another look at
enrollment at the Consolidated
University."