THJ^ F7 REGISTER

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship NCAT Student Newspapers Digital Collections 11-2-1973 The Register, 1973-11-02 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, 1973-11-02" (1973). NCAT Student Newspapers. 484. https://digital.library.ncat.edu/atregister/484 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]. THJ^f7 REGISTER "COMPLETE AWARENESS FOR COMPLETE COMMITMENT" - VOLUME XLV, .NUMBER 19 NORTH CAROUNA AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL .STATE UNIVERSITY, GREENSBORO NOVEMBER 2, 1973 Chancellor And SGA President Express Concern Over Tragedy identification cards will be made Deploring the tragic shooting University's investigation will be of persons using the Memorial of Harold Farrington, a released to the entire Aggie Student Union. non-student, on the A&T campus family as soon as the report is Regulations regarding the Tuesday afternoon. Chancellor received. banning of guns and other Lew'is C. Dowdy and In her statement following the weapons on campus will be representatives of the Student meeting, SGA President Marilyn extended to also ban the bringing Government Association Marshall said: of such weapons on the campus announced a series of new safety "The administration and the by off-campus students. All out and security measures for the Student Government Association efforts will be made to enforce campus. are working diligently to restore gun-control measures. After a lengthy series of the faith of the Aggie family by Beginning immediately and meetings with the SGA taking the necessary action to extending until further notice, representatives on Wednesday, implement new plans and to the campus security officers have Dr. Dowdy issued the following increase inforcement of safety been instructed to institute and statement: and security measures." enforce limited access to the "I am shocked and deeply "Brothers and sisters, let us campus beginning at midnight distressed that the tragedy avoid any one wrong step now each night. occurred on our campus Tuesday which could endanger everything afternoon. I express the we have worked and fought for Additional lighting will be University's condolences to the at A&T State University. We installed immediately where family of the deceased and must be together in order to stay needed on the campus. extend sympathy to the Harris together." Part-time student help will be family in this crisis." Dowdy said the following employed to supplement the "We are going to immediately security and safety steps will be present campus security force. widen and tighten security on implemented immediately: The Memorial Union parking the campus for the safety of our All unregistered cars on the lot will be designated exclusively Down The Lonesome Road Of Life We Do Not Know What students. 1 call upon you to be campus will be stopped, and the as parking lot for registered A&T Is Over The Next Hill. Do We? calm and await the outcome of drivers required to show students and employees and for the full investigation which is identification. official guests of_ the University being pressed in this case." Cooper Hall drive will be closed from Laurel Street to the ONLY* "No' Loitering" "We ask you to especially beginning of the Scott Hall regulations will be strictly Legislators Hear Jones disregard any rumors which may parking lot. enforced in regard to this arise, as a full disclosure of the parking lot. Periodic checks for By Betty Holeman Also in his opening remarks, A regularly scheduled meeting Inman said that dorm rap Sliutenl Charged With Murder of the Student Legislature was sessions will materialize to held Wednesday in Room 213 of discuss such ongoing grievances the Memorial Student Union. on campus as the energy crisis, Suspect Arrested On Scene The meeting was presided unlocked dorm doors, the need over by Lloyd Inman, for more water fountains, the By Cassandra Wynn Guilford County ambulance SGA vice-president statecL vice-president of the Student elimination of rumors and what arrived on the scene and took "Anybody could have been Government Association. he termed as other relevant facts. An A&T student was arrested Farrington to Cone Memorial killed. It happened at a time In his opening remarksr, he Inman announced that and charged with murder Hospital. Farrington was when students were going to and impliedthat a lot of amendments Clarence Jones, attorney general Tuesday in connection with a pronounced dead on arrival at leaving classes. Anyone could need to be made. The minutes of the SGA, would clarify and fatal shooting. The shooting 3:52 p.m. The murder weapon catch stray bullets." from the last meeting were explain some aspects of the occurred in the parking lot at the was a small caliber hand gun. Clarence Jones, SGA attorney omitted. obsolete constitution, east end of Cooper Hall, only a Even though the day was cold general, said, "We should seal off Inman said that a special recommend amendments, and few yards from a Cooper Hall and cloudy, the incident drew some of the entrances on meeting is in order for next stress the importance of student entrance. many spectators including some campus. It is time for th, Wednesday night. Moreover,he legislators to attend meetings. According to police reports, Administration to said, committees have started to Jones proclaimed that a the shooting resulted from an SGA officials. Lloyd Inman. act accordingly function. (See Jones, Page 2) argument over a girlfriend. The victim, Harold Farrington, 32, of 1802 Sharonbrook Dyvas on the campus when an argument occurred between him and the Seniors Selected For Hfho's iifho List suspect, Chester Harris, 24, of 209-B Woodnell Dr., a student Students, department heads, enrolled at A&T. The argument By Yvonne McDonald academic standing, community Yvonne McDonald and Betty deans and division heads were resulted in a shooting which service, leadership ability and Holeman. given the opportunity to submit wounded Farrington fatally. He The Who's Who Among future potential. 'Others making Who's Who nominations. These nominations suffered from gunshot wounds in Students in American Among those selected are are Erma Smith, Mary Mack, were evaluated by a committee the left side of the nose, two in Universities and Colleges List for Marilyn Marshall, Delores Vivian Edwards, Annette Smith, of students and faculty the right chest, and one in the 1973-74 has been released from Mitchell, Janice Smith, Lloyd Carolyn Wilkes, Clarice Russell, composed of a majority of buttock. the Dean of Student Affairs For Stiles, Sybella Ferguson, Lloyd Floyd Weatherspoon, William students. 'Points were assigned The shooting occurred at 2:55 Organizations and Development Inman, Ruth Allen, Judy Brown, Quentin Brooks, Kathryn by each evaluator. The aggregate p.m., a time when many students Office. Wellington, Cassandra Wynn, Skeens, Nell Burwell, Cheryl number of points for each were changing classes. Millicent Brister, Sharon Bolden, Goines, Tyrone Stevenson, Joan The list is comprised of 35 nominee was established^ ini Greensboro city police arrived at seniors. Selections are made by Bobby Belfield, David Gore, Boykin, Belinda Shaw, Haywood descending ordeij thirty-five 3:10 p.m. and arrested Harris on campus nominating committees Brown. Carol Cherry and Brenda Dorothy Alston, Harold Martin, were designated. the scene. and are based on above average Foster. Page 2 The A&T Register November 2, 1()73 African Students Blast tIJS. Mideast Policies By Ted L. Mangum no account should any part of that land be annexed to any Last week an article dealing other area. Africa, being with American involvement in concerned with the need for the Mideast was posed to several continental unity, does not find Blacks, student and faculty, who it acceptable for Israel to were born in America. This week expand, through war or under some students from the any circumstances, to Africa. No Continentof Africa were presented African who can see 'beyond his with the same question. nose' can afford to see an inch of In response to this question African soil cut off." one student said, "U.S.should The opinion was expressed by play a neutral role because the another student from Africa U.S. is a very powerful country; that the U.S. and Russia were and, as such, it should not both using the Middle East and manipulate the affairs of the other underdeveloped countries less-developed countries. If it as a way of testing weapon does this. it will jeopardize superiority without fighting each the interest in African other. He also stated that, if the countries. My country is in U.S. could succeed in helping strong support of Egypt because Israel to secure Arabic rich oil the spirit of brotherhood calls land, then the U.S. would have This Is The View Of The City You Live In From Battleground Avenue At Wendover Avenue. for material, financial, and moral another foreign oil supply in Beyond The Wachovia And Jefferson Buildings. In The Background Is A&T support against any aggression. friendly hands and thus end its There is no justification for the worry of the inationlaization of two world powers ( US.&Russia ) oil resources. He pointed out to become involved in this war. that the Ivory Coast, one of the Also they threaten the very most moderate, puppetized Coltrane Hall* Devoted To People existence of man because of their African nations, had made nuclear superiority." comments indicating a swing to the Arabic side.

Load more