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GREENSBORO February 6, 1976 ***• Co-op Program Helps Students Get Experience By Mary E. Cropps industrial technology, chemistry The Cooperative Education and mathematics. They may Program at A&T provides work at such places as the Air students with practical work experience in their respective Force Logistic Command in i fields. Dayton, Ohio, or Union Carbide According to Harold Lanier, in Tennessee. the program's director, the work Lanier also revealed that A&T experiences are designed to has become the leading enrich the student's knowledge institution in a project with the of the world he will work in and Naval Material Command. broaden his career horizons. This project is in the same Lanier, who has been the concept of the co-op program. program director since 1969, Lanier said the Navy uses the six feels that minority students participating universities cannot compete favorably for (Howard, A&T, Prairie View positions because of their lack of A&M, Southern, Tennessee related work experience. The State, and Tuskegee) to assist co-op program helps provide them in recruiting students with high ability in engineering, students with this experience. mmm mathematics and physical Harold Lanier and his Co-op staff. (Left)Brenda Dowdy, (Right) Emme M. Broadnax. In addition to experience, photo by Sims sciences. co-op students are paid a salary and their tuition, fees and books By 1981, Lanier said, the are paid for by the cooperative Navy hopes to meet its goal of agency either on a four-year or having 1000 minority engineers one-year plan. and 500 minority A&T Professor Presents Exhibit Approximately 174 students mathematicians and physical have entered A&T through the By Lynelle Stevenson the art world wide open and pre-co-op program. These scientists integrated into its work Greensboro to obtain his Masters at TJ.N.C.-G. would have potential; but, students worked in their force. The Uhuru Bookstore on 412 proposed fields before entering The project is currently because of my dedication to East Market Street presented an While Baird considers himself college. Lanier emphasized that expanding to include southwest A&f yI didn't pursue it." art exhibit last night with the as an exhibition artist, he has no many of these students obtain and west coast colleges in order The exhibit was', centered. works of Bernard Baird, special gallery which handles his and maintain honor status. to set greater input from all professor of art here at A&T. around the sit-ins of the 1960's minorities, Lanier stated. work. The co-op program is open to Baird graduated^ from A&T as and the Greensboro community both men and women. Usually The students who enter the an art education,, major and in general with vivid colors of the co-op students major in Navy project must be recruited went to Hillsborough f to teach t When asked why he didn't universal people. engineering, economics, business from high schools and usually for awhile. He then taught in pursue a career in art, Baird "All the pictures come from administration, accounting, must have a "B" average. Charlotte before coming back to replied, "I thought I would knock some event in life," stated Baird, "the measure of a man's work tells where he's going and where he's been." English Instructor ToGiveLecturd Despite the crowded working conditions and lack of equipment, the A&T Art Department produces many By Debra Daniels of a series of lectures that began The lecture on Sojourner students whose artistic abilities during this Bicentennial year to Truth, Miss Porter explained, is are very good and go on to Miss Marguerite E. Porter, celebrate the nation's two in connection: with Black become accomplished artist. assistant professor of English, History month and the Although this is the first such will present a lecture Sunday at hundredth birthday. A lecture show that Baird has given at the • 3:00p.m. "in the Student will be presented each month Bicentennial. Normally, Negro Uhuru Bookstore, he expressed Memorial Union Ballroom. The throughout the spring semester. History week began on the week these thoughts about future title of the lecture is "A Portrait of Frederick Douglassbirthday in of Sojourner Truth." /shows: "I think it's a good thing February; but, this year, in to have shows. I hope it doesn't Miss Porter explained that she honor of the Bicentennial, the stop here. There are so many selected this renowned historic other Black artists that need the figure as the theme of her whole month of February has lecture because Sojourner was exposure and support of the been designated as Black History Bernard Baird such a dynamic person. "She was Month. Black community." totally illiterate, but everywhere she went she had people spellbound," said Miss Porter. Miss Porter marvels that a woman evolving from slavery UNC Encounters No Problems could take such a stand. She was a woman of courage. In this "Portrait of Sojourner Truth" CHAPEL HILL AP-Umversity UNC vice president for student interview the purpose of the Miss Porter will give a verbal of North Carolina officials services and special programs, meeting in Washington was to portrait of her in the three areas encountered "no big problems" ,and other UNC officials met discuss a draft on UNC's of religion, civil rights and at a meeting with federal civil Monday with Martin Gerry, six-month progress report on its women's rights. rights officials on the school's acting director of the U.S. Office efforts to fulfill the This lecture, sponsored by the desegregation efforts, a UNC of Civil Rights, and members of .commitments in its 1974 English Department is only one Miss Marguerite Porter official said Tuesday. his staff. •desegregation plan. The report Dr. Cleon Thompson, acting Thompson said in a telephone (See Vet, Page 2) Pate 2 The A&T Register February 6, 1976 African Heritage House Exposes PeopleTo Africa By Debra Daniels of the nation and of the world." It serves the campus and The African Heritage House community by being a resource . serves the community as well as. center for students, teachers, the campus in exposing people to researchers from the nursery, African culture. Mrs. Mattie E. primary, secondary education Reed, both director and curator, and institutions of higher depicts the house as "a museum education in the Piedmont ofgrowingcollections which has Area., Mrs. Reed said that now re?ched over nine hundred a Bicentennial Program was collections from some twenty. recorded at the Heritage House African countries and from the and is scheduled for television on United States." Channel 8 in February. An Upon entering the museum, African Fashion show from the one first notices the rich gold African Heritage House was and yellow carpeting. Elegant exhibited and pictures were costumes, carvings, masks, tools taken to be printed in Ebony's pictures, jewelry, ivory, weapons, next issue. crafts, musical instruments and are "It is anticipated", she said, many other items on display "that the center will be a point The Mattie Reed Heritage House is filled with a wonderous assortment of African handicraft, literature, in the different rooms. of focus for cooperative activity and paintings. photo by Sims "Throughout the year the with several departments of the center has on display its university and neighboring permanent collection as well as a institutions of higher education number of special exhibitions of on ethnic heritage study sculpture, paintings and programs, including a series of graphics," she explained. This educational television programs, Food Poisoning May Cause Death year the special exhibition is and preparations of slides and composed of masks, icons, film strips for use in the school organism Clostridium Botulium, games, musical instruments and of North Carolina." By Michael R. Davis Upsets and infections of the gastrointestinal tract, usually a which is noted as a powerful carvings,, one of which is a carved The only problem is the Food is often considered a doe. They reflect the art in the half hour to sometimes two days, financial state of the center Mrs. common subject: however, there's poison. The effect of this regional and cultural traditions is a sign of food poisoning. Reed stated that the only means nothing common or insignificant organism is death, within a few of the people who produced of finance are people's about food poisoning. Food regurgitation, nausea, fever, them. There are over eighty contributions because there poisioning may occur sometimes prostration, and diarrhea are all minutes. This is the essence of items from countries such as doesn't seem to be enough because of ignorance of the symptomsof food poisoning. this article. It is essential to be Algeria, Congo, and Eqypt. money in the school's budget for disease and its immediate causes. One of the most fatal forms of aware of food poison and its All of these collections are of grants to beallottedthe museum.