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North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship NCAT Student Newspapers Digital Collections 11-1-1974 The Register, 1974-11-01 North Carolina Agricutural and Technical State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.library.ncat.edu/atregister Recommended Citation North Carolina Agricutural and Technical State University, "The Register, 1974-11-01" (1974). NCAT Student Newspapers. 545. https://digital.library.ncat.edu/atregister/545 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Digital Collections at Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in NCAT Student Newspapers by an authorized administrator of Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THt^^ REGISTER "COMPLETE AWARENESS FOR COMPLETE COMMITMENT" .VOLUME XLVI NUMBER 19 . NORTH C AROLDMA AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY. GREENSBORO NOVEMBER 1, 1974 Humanitarian Shares Views Dick Gregory Speaks Before a capacity-filled Moore United States, the American Gymnasium audience, Dick people will be looking at the Gregory opened Convocation by country's next President. sharing his views on the responsibilites young people Gregory found President must undertake to perserve the Ford's threatening the Arabs democratic system of this over their own oil, as comical, country. especially when the President has not said anything to the Citing America's bicentennial American oil companies about anniversary, Gregory said this their profits which resulted from country may not be a free the recent oil shortage. democracy in 1976 unless the Further on Gregory compared young people turn this entire the President's decision to give nation around and save it with, amnesty, under conditions to 'moral power' from the corrupt' American draft dodgers, to the activities which threaten America's future. blanket pardon which was given to former President Richard To explain one of the Nixon. Dick Gregory addresses students and faculty during the opening day of homecoming week. contradictory elements of our The humanitiarian said it was photo by Lance advanced nation, the about time the American people humanitarian noted, "The most realize that, if "Old men make sophisticated country in this war, dammit old men should world ain't got no food." fight the war." University Foundation Receives Moving on to more sensitive Gregory told the audience, if queries, Gregory said John F. a Black institution gave up "X" Kennedy, Lyndon B.Johnson, J. number of meals per week to $92,000 Of Financial Support Edgar Hoover and other national dramatize the world's food problem, the institution may The A&T University industrial technology; and $2,000 each from Carolina Steel figures perhaps were victims of political and intelligence become the first college to win a Foundation has received grants Burlington Industries Foundation, Burlington Nobel Prize. totaling more than $92,000 in Foundation awarded $3,470 for Industries amd Celanese planning. •r Continuing, he said Black support of the university's scholarships. Foundation. In the humanitarian's view, sororities and fraternities should scholarship and development The . grants also included Other gifts came from President Gerald Ford "ain't be an "ethnic Black blood stream program. $3,000 from Commercial Credit Western Electric, nothing but a stand-in". Gregory that runs through the Black The new funds were Corporation, $2,400 from Colgate-Palmolive Company, saidj when Nelson Rockefeller is announced Tuesday by Marshall Burroughs Corporation, and Ciba-Geigy and Allied Chemicals. sworn in as vice president of the (See 'Gregory' page 2) Colston, executive director of the Foundation, Miss A&T Remarks Colston called the grants "a real manifestation of encouragement to A&T at the height of its bid for general Students Made Coronation Possible excellence in all of its programs." He said the latest grants By Mary Cropps attendant^ and Delores McRae, increased to nearly $600,000 . senior attendant. the amount paid or pledged to Michelle Burney was formally For her attire, Michelle chose the Foundation in its current crowned Miss A&T Thursday long-range campaign. a knee-length dress of gold lame night in the presence of a with matching cape and turban. The grants included $15,000 capacity crowd in Moore from the Xerox Corporation for In her remarks to the audience Gymnasium. "Once in a the University's cooperation for she said that, without •• the Lifetime: The Good Times" was assistance to the cooperative! support and concern of the the theme of this year's work-study program and $5,000 students^ her coronation would coronation. The setting was a from Alcoa Foundation for not have been possible. night club typical of the 1920's, engineering. The queen expressed her love 30's and 40's. United States Steel awarded and gratitude for every student The gymnasium was $5,000 for the departments of at A&T and also to those who decorated with silver, and gold mathematics, physics and. made the coronation possible. streamers and flashing lights and kaliedoscopes of color. Ruthie Williams paid tribute The queens and their escorts to Michelle with a poem, and made their entrances on a Eddie Bines sang "For Once In runway. Dressed in the styles of My Life" in honor of Michelle. the era of the 20's, 30's and 40's, Also Niyana K. Rasayon recited the ladies wore knee length skirts a poem for Miss A&T. and dresses with slits and layers. The administration presented On their feet were platform Michelle with one hundred shoes and sandals. The gentlemen dollars and on behalf of the wore derbys, wide-brim hats and student body, Linwood Pollard, suits right out of the 20's, 30's vice president of the SGA, and 40's. Some of the escorts presented Michelle with a gold carried canes and walking sticks. necklacewith the emblem of A&T Miss A&T's court consisted of on it. Carol Morgan, the freshman The music for the event was attendant; Dorothy Hurdle, Marshall Colston provided by the A&T Jazz sophomore; Trilby Ball, junior Michelle Burney is crowned Miss A&T at coronation __„ _ Ensemble. photo by Lance Page 2 The A&T Register November 1, 1974 Dr. Arthur Lewis Renowned Economist Lectures By Jimmie Winston brought out the point that even receive the economical spill over though economic development is from these industries. Also these Dr. W. Arthur Lewis, one of going on in less developed enclave industries bring with the world's most distinguished countries, there are still millions them new techniques of professors in the area of of people in these less-developed production: they hire some of Economic Development^ was countries that economic the people of the less developed guess lecturer at A&T last Friday development hasn't touched. Dr. countries in which they are afternoon. Lewis feels that more people located, and they pay for new Dr. Lewis was born in St. should be concerned about this infrastructure. Lucia, West Indies, in 1915 and fact. Enclave industries hamper the received his Ph.D. degree from Dr. Lewis also lectured on process of economic the University of London in how enclave industries have development because they may 1940. Currently, he is professor helped and hampered the efforts under sell the other industries in Economics and International of economic development. that are already established in Affairs at Princeton University. These industries aid in the the less -developed countries. The topic of Dr. Lewis's process of economic They also destroy the traditional lecture was "Distribution and development in less developed economy by paying higher wage Economic Growth", in which he countries because the people levels than the industries already there, this in turn bring about excessive migration of the working force in these less- developed countries. Gamma Sigma Delta Receives Dr. Lewis feels that economic development should be viewed §111 fill » Forty Members From A&T from a long run perspective Gregory speaks to capacity crowd at convocation. because the results will be seen in photo by Lance the children of the adults in the Forty faculty members, of persons in teaching, extension, less developed countries rather students, and alumni of A&T and research related to the field than the adults themselves. Dick Gregory Tells Audience State University were inducted' of agriculture. Other than being a great Tuesday night as charter The new faculty members lecturer, Dr. Lewis is also a great members of a new chapter of the included Dr. Rudolph Artis, Dr. author and writer. In addition to "Moral Power" Is Needed international Gamma Sigma W. Archie Blount, Talmage forty articles, he has written Delta, honor society of Brewer, Dr. Basil Coley, William "Principles of Economic (Continued from page 1) save America. agriculture. C. Cooper, C.E. Dean, Dr. Planning, "Economic Survey communities." Also Gregory The A&T chapter became the Samuel J. Dunn, Dr. Willie T. 1918-1939," "Overhead Costs", stated Black schools could be Before leaving, Gregory asked first to be installed on a Ellis, Ms. Thelma J. Feaster, and "The Theory of Economic relatively financially independent the audience to take the "good predominately Black campus in Growth". if Blacks would send five dollars feeling", which was felt Thomas W. Flowers, Dr. Ben W. I I the nation, and only the second Harris, Ms. Bessie B. Jeffries, Ms. VA*WW AMV\»VWWWWVM» to the United Negro College throughout Moore gymnasuim in Nor.th Carolina. Cynthia Johnson, R.E. Jones, Dr. Fund. He said all contributions from the audience, on the Included among the inductees Harold E. Mazyck^Jr., Sheilda to this Fund are tax write-offs. outside. Gregory said let were Dr. Lewis C. Dowdy, McDowell, Donald H. McAfee , Welcome Alumni The humanitarian told the Homecoming "blossom into chancellor of A&T; and Dr.