A&T Urban Affairs
Convo TTiis Week
The department of Sociology
and Social Service of North Carolina A. & T. State University
will conduct an Urban Affairs
Conference on March 18-20,
1970.
Plans have been made to gather
a representative number of
people from the community, the
establishment, and the university; solutions to the major problems confronting, our cities will
be sought. The Greensboro
Chamber of Commerce, the U-
nited Community Services, and
the North Carolina A. & T. Industrial Cluster are co-sponsoring this conference.
Panelists of locally and nationally acquired esteem will discuss such issues as employment, housing, police and community relations, student protest
movements and the city, the
courts, the role of the university in the urban revolution, and
additional problems faced by our
urban center. Mr. Kenneth Kes-
sin, assistant professor of sociology at Rutgers University will
discuss alienation and loneliness
in the city.
Police and community relations will be headed by Mr.
Ralph Speas from the department
of sociology at Bennett College.
Political Problems and problems
of the city government will be
approached by Mr. Jimmie Barber, Greensboro City Councilman, Mr. Jack Elam, mayor of
Greensboro, and Mr. Lawrence
McSwain, President of the State
Student Legislature, and a host
of others.
The conference will feature as
general speakers Mr. Robert
Blackwell, Mayor of Highland
Park, Michigan, Dr. Albert Fein,
Director of Urban Affairs, Long
Island University, and Dr. George
Nash, Director of the Bureau of
Applied Research Columbia University, and Mr. Harry Golden,
author of "Only in America."
James I. Isler, chairman
of the conference summed up
the intentions of this conference
in a very serious - minded manner, "The greatest emphasis of
this conference is to have the
full participation of poor people
in all of its sessions, not just
as observers and to be observed,
but to express their views as
panelists and by any other forum
that is available during and after
this conference. However, this
is not an exclusive poor people
conference, nor is it an academic affair, but a face to face
meeting of persons who wish
a broader view of urban problems.
The department of Sociology
and Social Service is promoting
this conference in hopes that
greater insight into urban problems will be gained. If there is
not immediate solutions to the
problems, at least there will be
an informed public about some
of the causes and effects of
urban living. We urge all interested persons to attend and participate freely in the panel discussions.
Persons wishing to learn more
about the conference may do so
by contacting: Mr. James Isler,
Chairman of the Urban Affairs
Conference, Department of
Sociology and Social Service.
Tuesday, March 17, is St.
Patrick's Day. It will also be
"Shamrock for Dystrophy" day.
Contributions to Muscular Dystrophy can be made in exchange for a Shamrock in the
cafeteria during lunch and dinner.
St. Patrick performed many
miraculous cures in Ireland
and now you have a chance to
• help. Bestow upon the victim
of muscular dystrophy the
precious gift of hope and perhaps, life itself. You can be
active, many of them can't.
