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FEBRU ARY, 1970 LANGSTON , OKLAHOMA
Founders Day Page 2 C o ecf o f
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‘N o M a t t e r H o w W h i t e s ,*A
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(Reprinted from the New York Times)
To th e Editor: gestures and language,” but through 1-2-3 Easy Method with the white nevertheless E, the sisters at Lessons. Black music is felt, Smith College, were “painfully” coming through. experienced, lived. Watch a We wish to inform you “delighted” to read Mack person and a “hip” W and Albert Goldman that no white person respond to Ethel Albert Goldman’s White can ever sing black. article, “Why do Whites Sing Waters (or did you know she Some people might say it’s used to sing?). A whit: per Black?” It is just one more, a matter of genes: “A II fine example of how asinine son wlfl praise and say, white people are regarding "What depth, what percep anything black. So he thinks darkies can sing and dance!” tion! Man, I really feel what she’s putting down.” A black Janis Joplin, Stevie Winwood Nevertheless, despite centur and Paul Butterfield have ies of gene dilution through man will sit, shake his head (or have had) “black Vocal miscegenation (in the real from side to side, and think of how his grandmother used faces,” despite the fact that sense), you can distinguish to sing to him late at night each one is a “pampered, black music from any type of milk-faced, middle-class kid white. Why, you might ask? or how it reminds him of an experience. You can tell the who has never had a hole Black music is a cultural in his shoe”? (Or did we mis expression. It can not be thoughts are there by just interpret this excellent analy picked up from spending looking at his face. The thing sis of the new white vaude your nights in a “dank base you white people always get ville?) They bring to mind ment apartment listening to mixed up over is that black Al Jolson with bootblack on black records” or taking music can not be dissected into meters and patterns. For his face, imitating “black notes in Smitty’s Corner. every black song there are Black music can not be taught a hundred w'ays a black per son can sing and play it. The Langston Coed ‘Ex-po’ Set music is his soul expressed. We don’t mean whitey’s '‘Career Ex-Po definition of soul, either. To Compete In *70 Conference” will be held When a black man talks of at Langston University on April soul he means self—mental, 9-10, Dr. William Sims, presi spiritual, emotional, physical Fashion Contest dent, announced this week. — not this honkified interpre BY: LEE PAIGE Government and industrial tation that is attached to any An Oakland, Calif., sophomore leaders along with Langston thing funky. has been' chose to represent graduates are being invited to The white man is like a University in Glamour attend the two-day conference child. As soon as he sees s Top Ten College to outline career opportunities a, black man enjoying any thing, despite all he (the Contest. to students. white man) has done to de Linda Chapman, anefementary Roy L. Watson is coordina stroy blacks, he decides h$4s education major, is 6 feet and tor of the planning committee. going to take it away and weighs 125 pounds. She plans to Committee, chairmen include: keep it for himself. This covers model professionally or teach registration and guides, A.D. everything from language following graduation. Right now James, chairman; arrange to dress to music. It can’t be ments, Watson; transportation (PHOTO . Page 3) done, because the white man and housing, Harold Toliver; will be forever on the outside she is concentrating on becoming sqjflal activities (faculty, stafl a naw addition to die world famous looking in. To even suggest and guests), JoAnnClark; social that white people take black “ Ebony Fashion Fair.” activities (students and guests), music and then do a better The Langston coed was chosen Gloria D. Prewitt; program-pub. job is not just stupid -- it’s ft>r her outstanding ability in licity, Gladys Johnson; record ludicrous. He can join the choosing) and wearing on and ers, Mrs. A.p. Parker. crowd of Janis Joplin, Paul (PHOTO BY JAMES E. RAY) off campus apparel, cholbe of Butterfield and countless ■V V makeup,_ hair style and other others and try to the best arefts. , of his ability to imitate. He Coed of the month for the well proportioned 115 poum Judging die LU contest were % can mix up any concoction of month of February is Miss Ber Myrtle Elliott. LaWanna Green, POWER TO THE black music he wants. He nadette Hollier. Her hometown is > Her hobbies are singin and Jean Maiming- can put blues with spirituals Okmulgee, Oklahoma. She is a-.cal music, basketball, IT Miss Chapman is selected STUDENTS! and jazz with wbrk songs, 1969 graduate of Northeast High and choreography In the Top D for 1970, die will but there will always be School in Oklahoma City. She Her ambition is to beco receive national recognition. She something vital missing — is presently a Freshman Busi assistant secretary or cle PAGES—4,5,6 ,7,8 ness Administration major and pi st. will be featured in the August and that something is black. Black Students Alliance, her minor is Vocal Music. issue of Glamour and the nation's Congratulations Miss press, and receive an expense Smith College. This pretty coed is 5 feet Northampton, Mass. you are undoubtedly the paid (rip to New York. 4 inches tall and weighs a verj ary coed of the month! V-
THE LANGSTON UNIVERSITY GAZETTE. FEBRUARY. 1970, PAGE 2
FOUNDERS DAY Sunday, March 8, 1Q70 I. W. Young Auditorium Langston University
SPEAKER Founders Day Convocation
2:30 p.m.
President William E. Sims, Presiding Dr. Frederick D. Moon, a 1929 graduate of Langston, earned the M.A. degree from the University of Chicago and was awarded the ORGAN PRELUDE ...... Edgar L. Henderson L.H.D. degree by the Oklahoma School of Religion. H YM N , "God of our Fathers" ...... Audience Dr. Moon began his teaching career in 1921 and has held princi- palships at Crescent, Wewoka and Oklahoma City—retiring in 1961 MEDITATION ...... Dr. Jno. W. Coleman after serving 21 years as principal of Douglas. His remarkable career Chaplain, Langston University as an educator and churchman has earned him numerous honors anil lasting recognition: National “ Principal of the Year” ; N EA Delegate FOUNDERS DAY STATEMENT ...... Dr. William E. Sims to the World Confederation of Organizations in the Teaching Pro President, Langston University fession, Istanbul, Turkey; F. D. Moon Junior High School named in GREETINGS: his honor; listed in “ Who’s Who in American Education,” “ Who’s Who in the Southwest” and in “Leaders in American Education.” S tu d e n ts ...... V/.>^. . . . Mr. Christopher Williams President, Student Government Association T Dr. Moon is author of “Organization and Administration of High A lu m n i...... Mr. Q. T. Williams School for Negroes in Oklahoma” ; “A Fifth Freedom for the Negro,” President, Langston University Alumni Association published in three journals; “ Teacher Integration in the Border States” ; and “A Comparative Study of Qualifications of White and Parents and Patrons ...... Mr. Delbert Burnett Negro Teachers in Oklahoma.” President, Langston University Parents and Patrons Organization F a c u lt y ...... Dr. Walter L. Jones Dean of Academic Affairs
AN TH EM , "Praise God: (Solemn Vespers) w ...... Mozart Langston University Concert Choir Schedule of Events Mr. Omar Robinson, Director INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKER * •1) ADDRESS ...... Dr. Frederick D. Moon Director of Development, Oklahoma Baptist Sjate Convention Oklahoma City, Oklahoma .'M A R C H 17 'Macbeth"—8 p.m. •a National Shakespeare Company SPIRITUAL, ‘‘Great God A ’Mighty” ...... Hairston
% M ARCH 23 "Pops Concert”—8 p.m. LANGSTON UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION • Langston University Concert Choir Fund-Raising R eport ...... Mr. Laron Clark ’ . ' ' J Director of Development-Public Relations, Langston University MARCH 25 Sixth Grade Day
9 APRIL 11 Career Day STATEMENT A P R IL 30 "GJoria Mass in D ”—8 p.m. A major choral work of Vivaldi presented by the combined For 73 years Langston University has held the torch of hope firm choirs of Langston University and steadfast in its determination to make education meet the needs of the students it serves. Q it M A Y 6 Law Day As a land-grant university, we owe a debt of gratitude to President Abraham Lincoln for signing the Morrill Act, an act which repre M A Y 7 Spring Concert—8 p.m. sented what historians call America’s greatest contribution to the Langston University Concert Band history of education, and to the Territory Legislature of 1897 for estab lishing Langston University.
M A Y 11 “A Night of Enchantment”—8 p.m. However, the Langston torch would have flicker^fhout in the Presentation of choral works representing several periods in music darkness of past decades had there not been strong hands to hold it by the Madrigal Singers and Male Glee Club of Langston high, and brave spirits to shield it from the winds of intolerence, prej University.*7 ’ c udice, and ignorance that sought to extinguish it.
M A Y 13 Leadership Convocation—10 a.m. On this historic occasion, we salute those men and women who brought Langston into being and kept it alive—and it is appropriate f that we do so. But you, who are^a part of Langston—students, faculty M A Y 14-15 "Come Back^ After the Fire"—8 p.m. members, Board of Regents, alunfcni, parents and friends—you can I A Readers Theatre Presentation of a most unusual new play by \ the Black playwright, Ted Shine. The play will be performed pay a continuing tribute to our Founders by what you do here day by h1 i by the Langston University Theatre. day and what you do in the world beyond the campus to keep aglow \ the torch of service to others for which this institution was established.
M A Y 18 Dinner for Retiring Personnel—8 p.m. Langston University, as an “opportunity college,” has provided a chance for higher education to many deserving students and we are undertaking new efforts to respond to the needs of the future. We M A Y 20 Honors Convocation—10 p.m. t know that challenge and change, and perhaps some disappointments, await our efforts. But, with the help of those of you who refuse to take M A Y 24 Commencement Convocation—2:30 p.m. Langston University “for granted” we shall use that challenge as a Speaker: Dr. James Farmer stepping stone for building an academic! environment forever worthy Assistant Secretary for Administration of support, loyalty, and respect. Department of Health, Education and Welfare Washington, D. C. —President William E. Sims
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TV Star Visits Ruby Dee, TV, screen and stage star, perfo rmed recentlyat the Langston University Auditorium. John Smith, music department chairman, was among those who greeted Miss Dee when she arrived on campus. Miss Dee’s appear ance was part of the Afro-American Heritage Week. (LU PHOTO).
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Transplant Needed? “You may need a heart transplant, coach,” Marvin Mack, 6-2 sophomore Langston University guard from Guthrie tells Coach Glenn Gibson. MalW'of the games during the second half of the season, we re decided by three points or less. Mack makes sure Gibson’s heart is “sound” following tne close decisions; Langston tied for 5th place in the confernnce wi th a 9-9 record. CSC edged one point in the final game of the season at Edmond. ^ ^ (LU PHOTO).
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WANTED!!! MORE BLACK PEO WANTED!!! MORE BLACKPEO- PLE!!! Persons Interested In LINDA CHAPMAN /PLE!!! Persons Interested In Working W ith The Gazette Staff, Working With The Gazette Staff, Quit Criticizing And Do Som'fe- Quit Criticizing And Do Some thing About It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thing About It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (STORY ON PAGE ONE) PAGE 4 THE LANGSTON UNIVERSITY GAZETTE, FEBRUARY, 1970 Editorial Rights and Freedoms of Students BY: PAUL Letters out any depth in understanding Self—regulated hours or no cur residence hall, at night. It is S t u d e n t s FORTE*, JR the problem about them, stu few for sophomores, juniors, advisable to stay on frequently dents should be concerned enough seniors and freshmen 21 years traveled streets and to wa lk wi tb to constructively request what is of age .provide more of an other people. BY: ELIZABETH GHAZLO rightfully theirs. Being treated opportunity for self direction on 5. All students, regard as an adult is something no one the part of the students. The less of their classification, may to the Unconcerned Students can take away from the student. “ self-regulated” policy is based, sign out for home. Freshmenare Prom a Concerned Student... Students should act as adults and in part, on the assumption that asked to curtail freqoent off- Langston University should be demand the respect of an adult. coeds are able to grow toward campus trips home and else bn top as for as knowing what However, if a student acts as maturity when they have the op where. s happening in the world today. someone who is unstable and portunity to practice self-reg 6. The parents of fresh needs constant guidance, then ulation. The no-curfew policy men students are asked to file We as students should be con |AND SISTERS H apathy has a home in the brain for upper-class women is not with the Dean of Women, the serned about how our Brothers of this individual. Until students intended to encourage late hours, names and addresses of places ind Sisters are being treated all ss stand their ground and repress but rather to provide the free that are approved for overnight iver the world. I RESPOND sIv fear tactics, and listening to dom of choice necessary for and off-campus trips for their We as students should be aware & individuals that leap at the chance self-regulation. daughter. Ji the racism. A.) Freshmen (under 21): to a selfi8h *al"» a«aln 7. Sophomores, juniors, We as students should be aware apathy has a home. Students 1. Sunday through Thurs seniors and students 21 years if our people being economically As stu dent editor of the Lang- must be the concerned aggres- day .... 12:00 midnight. of age may make off-campus trips ieprived. ston University Gazette and a 80rs 0f today. They should no 2. Friday and Saturday . as stated. It is their respon We as students should be aware me mber of various campus or- longer tolerate just conforming . . . 1:00 a.m. sibility to consult or inform the if the establishment and what ganiz ations, 1 can no longer hold to colloquial thought. They must 3. Students may remain parents, and to sign out as they he establishment is doing to us back the bitterness and concern implement new ideas and follow until the conclusion of any uni leave the residence hall. as a race. I have for students of this college. them through with appropriate versity sponsored activity before My point has been explicitly We as students must think in Bitterness in the sense that stu action. If a student can*t change returning to their assigned re cited thus far. It is up to you terms of being as One. dents must quit crying apathy a standard for the better, then sidence hall. the men and women students of We as students must have Unity , when th ey sit and preach grie-he should (if it is a good stan- 4. In cases of necessity, this institution to act if you ’ in order to be free. vances that everyone is aw are of. dard). support it instead of re specials for late permission may wish. Keep in mind however, Which do you want to be? Preaching must stop and action fute it just for the hell of it. be secured from the Residence constructiveness, unity, aggresi- An Oppressed unconcerned stu must be implemented. Fear must Why tear something good apart, Hall Counselor beginning with the veness and integrity. You don't dent or a Free concerned stu be destroyed and strength must if you can't offer anything better? second semester of the fresh have to wake up, because your dent. become a prevalent instrument In relation .to being Black, I man year. (Freshmen are en eyes are open. JUST BE AN “ WAKE UP STUDENTS BE- in liquidating the problems fac can't see talking about a brother titled to 4 specials per month). ADULT!!!!!!!!! ORE IT’S TOO LATE” ! ing students. Concerned, 1 am, or sister, low- rating them,being o 5. The residence hall because I am a student and be bitter towa rd them, hating them, wi 11 be closed to guests at cur cause of this very fact l*m going etc., because they don't seem to few time. to spill my guts out in this edi be wi th the program. I can see B.) Sophomores, juniors, sen torial on w hat 1 think should be howe ver, presenting suggestions, iors and freshmen women 21 taken into consideration and pre trying to understand the depth of years of age and over: cisely what I think should be done their approach, or even trying to 1. Self-regulated hours— about the disposition of women help one another intelligently in A student with self-regulated students in relation to their resi stead of being a bitter, restrictive hours may enter and leave her dence status. wall of hatred and criticism. residence at her own discretion. First off let us consider the We are in this fight together and She is required, howe ver, to sign rights *and freedoms of students. disrespect, disassociation, sep in and out and supply the re The following is an extract from aratism, etc. from one another, quested information. SHE SH the American Association of will destroy our fight for unity, OULD KEEP IN MIND THE EX University Professors' Bulletin, and liquidation of racism, oppre PECTATIONS OF A COLLEGE Winter, 1965, subject: “Joint ssion, and strengthening our edu WOMAN IN AN ACADEMIC EN statement on rights and free cational disposition, thus adding VIRONMENT AND BUDGET HER doms of students” . It is quoted status to our economics. TIME WISELY. Students who plan to return to the residence as follows: ASSOCIATEb WOME^HBtu- hall after 1:00 a.m. are required “ Academic institutions dents, this 'section is especially to inform the staff member on exist for the transmission of for your consideration along wi th duty. Young women are advised, knowledge, the pursuit of truth, your parents, and the university not to leave their halls after family! the development of students, and 1:00 a.m. Howe ver, if they the general w e 11-being of society. A woman should conduct her self as a . responsible citizen, find it necessary the suit mem Free inquiry and free expression ber should be advised, and the are indispensable to the attain both on campus and in the.com- munity (St large. She should student is required to sign out. ment of these goals. ^As mem assume mil responsibility of her 2. The residence halls bers of the academiC-Community, actions and conduct as they re wi 11 close tg guests- at 1:00 a.m. students should he encouraged late to the regulations of the II. SIGNING IN AND OUT: to develop the capacity for cri University, the Board of Uegents A. All coeds are required to tical judgment and to engage in and the-l&ws of the State of Ok sign out indicating thek. desti a sustained and independent lahoma. It is then, the war man nation as they leave the residence hall, 't q search for truth. Institutional student’s responsibility to be concerned enough,' to know the 1. Students who leave the procedures for achieving these residence hall before 7:00 p.m., purposes may vary from campus expectations of her parents and to fulfill the requirements of but will not return until after to campus Jiut the minimal stan* 7:00 p.m. must sign out before dards ^academic freedom of both, however, standing up fbr her God given right to become their departure. students as follows, are essential 2. Students who leave the to any community of scholars, a woman. 1 was in Florida recently, at Florida A&M Uni campus for overnight and for an Freedom to teach and freedom extended period of time are re to learn are inseparable facets versity. I brought back with me quired to sign out. of academic freedom. The free a student handbook. While glan 3. When students withdraw dom to learn depends upon appro cing through this handbook, I or leave the campus for holidays priate opportunities and condi couldn't overlook the “Social and at the end of the quarter tions in the classroom, on the Standards For Undergraduate and at the end of the semester campus, and in the larger comm Women Students” . There is they are required to ^ign out. unity. Students should exercise a certain amount of dissent in 4. A student is required their freedom with responsibi some of the young ladies at this to sign in immediately after re institution because they are un lity. turning to the residence from The responsibility to secure happy with the way they are be any destination. and to respect general conditions ing treated in relation to resi III. GENERAL INFORMATION conducive to the freedomto learn dence hall ^ours. Hence, 1 will 1. Members of the oppo is shared by all members of cite verbatum the mentioned soc site sex are^xestricted to the the academic community. Each ial standards, substituting FAMU established public areas of, wo - college and university has a duty wi th LU. men’s residence except when ap to develop policies and proce A Langston University wo man proved by staff. is ejected to show at all times 2. No student may open dures which provide and safe WHITE POWER IS PRESSURING guard this freedom. Such poli a respect fororder, and the rights a residence hall door for Jlho- cies and procedures should be of Others! and to exemplify in ther after the closing hour. ;> developed at each institution ^------r daityH, living _ a high sense of 3. All students are re BRACKS AT LANGSTON UNIVERSITY within the framework of general personal honor and integrity, quired to. enter through the standards and with the broadest PHASE 1: Yront entrance wh en returning to possible participation of the Opening and Closing Hours, the residence hall at night, even though they may have been & members of the academic com- “The women's closing hours The editorials in the Langston University Gazette munity” reflect the University’s intention detained beyond the closing time. to provide for the development are the opinions of thejvr'iters and do not necessarily 4. Simplicity is the key reflect the opinion Of the administration. The Gazette of maturity on the part of the to being a well-dressed Langston Taking that which is cited above coeds as they progress from editorial staff invites students to write editorials on University coed; remembering timely topics, and also invites students to wr ite let and this is the general consensus home through the university com at all times to dress neatly and of thq^AAUP, students should and munity to society-at-large. appropriately for any occasion.! ters to the editor. must exercise their right to par PAUL FORTE, JR. Freshmen closing hours provide Student Editor ticipate as young, intelligent ad guidelines for the beginning coeds NOTE: Women students are ults. Rather than bitch about as they make the transition from urged to take precautions to avoid what is wrong, constantly with- the home to the University. being alone when away from the * ' r t '• • ■ ■ j t ♦ ' 4 A ^ PAGE 5, THE LANGSTON UNIVERSITY GAZETTE, FEBRUARY, 1970 Each race or people have a THE CULTURE OF A BLACK food which is part of their cul PEOPLE... ture. None of them are to be compared to the other. However, A culture provides the raw each can be appreciated and res material of which an individual pected in its own right. makes his life. Just as black Every culture has its classics. people have a uniqueness intheir The Russians have ballet, the history so do blacks have a French have literature and unique culture. The uniqueness Blacks have music. WehaveB.B. "BLACK BOWER” of our culture can be seen in King to epitomize the black story Accomplishments with no damn its forced creativity. For ex by telling why we sing the blues. fe ar ample, in the days of Slavery, We have Aretha Franklin to elo Is Black Power's most worthy whites gave the slaves the gar quently sing the songs from our Peer. bage from their tables such as church and we have Miles Davis Flashy lips of ignorance. De weeds from the garden and the to create and improvise an en prive meaning of Black Power's guts of the pigs. Blacks took tire new sound with his trum stance. these two dishes and made de pet. Then we have a Ray Charles licacies out of them. Today, that ties all aspects of our black Action, action, yes I say, Mean these dishes are classics among life together. He sings the blues, ingful only when oppression de soul food—"greens and chitter plays the jazz; the combination cays. lings” . results in an expression of the Black Power, damn beautiful, Blacks were forced to make a gospel. hellifled term, meal out of these dishes not Black culture has been a diffi Only to the faithful not ’fraid because they had a great love cult concept for blacks to define to learn. for refuse, but rather they had and to become proud of. But a great love for survival. This when a man understands why he Black thought and action, what is the key to black culture— lives the way he lives, the essence ever the cost, creativity for means of survival. of his existence is enhanced. Our Prolonged too long, so damn the One white gentleman said that culture is our es sense and our loss. blacks didn't have a culture, living is our existence. "It’s also demonstrates the difficulties sing, the literature they write a strange freedom to go nameles s Brainwashed selfishness enhanc but we would "achieve one in one has when trying to under and so on. ed with fear, due time” . The man went on up and down the streets of other stand something different from Culture describes not only how people's minds'’. When a people Makes Black Power a useless to say that blacks didn’t have his very own. a people live but why they live sm ear. a classic to play in a symphony discover where they come from First of all, cultures are not a certain way. Blacks eat greens and define where they are, it is orchestra, or an opera star to to be compared. They are to and chitterlings for a specific Dammit yes, ifs easy to tell, sing our songs or an artist to with ease that they determine be appreciated. A culture is reason. Italians eat spaghetti and where they are going. And we The hidden truth Black Power paint our pictures. This man’s merely the manifestation of a meatballs for a specific reason. spells. statement is very typical of white do know. people’s life style, that is, the Poles eat sauerkraut and polish BY: PRESTON JAMES Don’t shun a term so beauti middle-class Americans and it foods they eat, the songs they sausage for a specific , reason. fully put, Unless maximum effort, forward you’ll put.
Don’t close yotr eyes to Black Beauty's truth, Uninformed mind, will unaware cut life aloose! By: Paul ‘Rau Ru’ Forte’, J r.
DEATH OF PREMORDIAL BLISS
I worry alot these days. My memories, and safe keepings Remain to torture, and destroy me. I worry about you these days. Realizing how confused you are, Realizing I could lead you, yet I don't. & Can you worry at all these days? r Do you remember!? Can you remember!? (Was it not I that raped you from the pillards of lonliness, striving that you rem ember not).
Was it not I that brought to you a love. A lo v e fa irer than any love, (wrapped |% louds with golden linings of which only you were worthy.)
WlhOr was it that kissed your lips, and made all infurnals of hell leap for salvation? Who placed your heart on a pedestal of glorified love, making no amends? WhomjMiading? WHO? Sweetneart, my darling sweet heart.' Can you remember? Can you imagine? Can you imagine a hand that touches your flesh, And flings your very soul into TEAMWORK CREATES THE BASIC TOOLS OF PROGRESS. a dynasty of satan’s forbidden blessings. Can you imagine? Can you ima And we on the Caterpillar team create the tools that marketing, economics, journalism and accounting. gine eyes that permeate your literally move mountains. Our aim: the improve Join the Caterpillar team, and you’ll get thorough thoughts, to create a playground on which you can rem inisce. ment of man’s environment. training, an assignment you can sink your teeth We make tractors that tame jungles for farming in into, and all the backing and opportunity offered Can you melt!? Darling can you love!? undernourished areas. We make roadbuilding equip by a company that’s Number One in its field and Can you melt from the love of ment that brings the world to isolated lands. We counts its annual sales in the billions of dollars. a MAN? make engines to power the world’s boats, trucks, Yoiid be in a position to make yourself heard, to (A man that makes you a wo man) Can you love a man that loves generating plants and irrigation pumps. In fact, we use y o ® abilities, to help solve some of the world’s you with a love a woman needs? make over 150 products, each of which is needed to basic problems. Can you be a child .jjind live in solve some problem of human progress. Find out what you can do at Caterpillar. See a woman’s world? Can you love a man? Woman can And we need all the help we can get in our ex your placement office about our recruiting date. you?! panding operation of 25 plants in 10 countries. Or send your resume to College Professional and Specifically, we need graduates with majors in engi Technical Recruitment, Caterpillar Tractor Co., Can you be what your man wants 61602 CittrfMllar. Cat■odtBvaTrMl«niart(SofCat,rpill«r TrKtor Co. you to be? neering, busihesfc administration, liberal arts, finance, Peoria, Illinois . ' Can you feel like your man wants ydu to feel? Can you be like your man wants you to fpel (Aesthetic).
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■ ' , , THE LANGSTON UNIVERSITY GAZETTE, FEBRUARY, 1970, PAGE 6 POWER TO THE STUDENT
I LIVE IN A MORAL UNIVERSE these rules because they are my Maybe many of you have not WHAT CAN I DO SEARCH FOR STATUS I live in a moral universe forefathers living, still. 1 should heard about our new Music Hall The most serious consequence BY: MICKEY OLIVER controlled by definite laws. To not and will not insult my mother; Director. Believe us when we of Black frustration and non-in live in harmony with these laws because she might force me to tell you he is “with it!” He's volvement in politics is the pos Like happiness, status has ma is to achieve the good life; to do things I might not like to do. changed much of the nonsense sibly poisonous effect on the live in conflict with them is to I would be considered delinquent ny meanings. The Blackman rules that we were being held Black’s own evaluation of him considers his psychic income reap disappointment. and disdained by^my associates, to. Last year we couldn't even self. The Black who sees pol I live in a civilized society if not in my presence--most cer- when he takes a postal clerk’s wear a turtleneck with a coat itics as a conspiracy against him job on the lowest level of Ci which has ethics and norms which tainly in my absence. I would when we performed on Seminar. may or may not have a love are expected to be adhered to rather sit and try to convince vil Service in preference to better This year we can wear almost political self-image. The Black paying work such as greasing by all in my society. To act my mother where our opinions anything we want, because Mr. who traces his political insig differently is shocking and ab differ. So is it with laws. A John Smith knows that man chan nificance to his own shortcomings trunks, changing the oil and pum normal. Because my society is ping gas. The importance in law should not be broken will ges in all ways, and he wants has the idea of “ They don’t civilized, it has written laws by fully in an attempt t ,to enforce volves the fact that the gas sta his students to be with the time. care because 1 am worthless” . which each person is supposed a better law. Two wrongs will tion attendant wears a uniform. He has done other miracles, and Having this in mind will plant to observe or reap the penalty never be equalled to one right, The person of the post office still thinking of many more. a psychologically adverse effect for violating these laws. desk wears a uniform like ever that equation is illogical. Thanks Mr. Smith, from not only on the individual. I value my person very highly, ybody else. The blackman whose the Music Department, but from The fact that Blacks have ex and to live up to the expecta the University! soul cries out for the feeling perienced severe frustration in like other men with the shed tions and laws of my society Without laws a civilized com Also, new are Mr. Omar Rob political life is hard to dispute. ding of a uniform can be more comes naturally for me. Be munity is impossible. Whenlhere inson, who conducts the choirs In the South, city hall and es meaningful than money. cause of the cultural customs of is disrespect for the law, all and has all voice students and pecially the couqty courthouse Status, to the black man is my society and because of the kinds of evil consequences are Miss Mary Harris, who has the have proven impenetrable fortre also a diamond ring that glitters sub-cultural setting of my imme sure to follow. A wise man will task of teaching Sight Singing, sses to the brave few Blacks who on the small right hand finger, diate family, a sense of value only be useful, and will not sub Survey of Music, and first year have proven in many instances, a S200.00 or 300.00 gold watch, and respect for these laws have mit to clay. Harmony. These two new in that they will risk their lives been instilled in me at a very Martin Luther King, J r. wrote structors have alsogreatly chan in trying to register their pol $200 or $300 suit, t, and $75.00 young age. in his letter signed by a number ged the Music Department for the itical preferences. As a coun to $100.00 shoes. White society keeps him out of the best neigh I believe that the Laws of the of the clergymen from Alabama: belter and also University Cha try increasingly absorbed in our borhoods, bars him from resorts, Land protect my society, and thus “ We strongly urge that our own pel . own urbanization and in problems and still does not admit him to enable me to live happily with community withdraw from these The choir just had a small of Blacks in large cities, we any substantial numbers to the the knowledge that 1 have the demonstrations, and unite in wor revolt. A student (known as the tend to overlook how many nations prestige jobs. But the privilege to take a rightful stand king peacefully to form a better White Phantom) began at the Blacks still live on farms in establishment cannot prevent him as an individual in my society. Alabama. When rights are con Beginning of the year pointing out the South or South of Northern from buying what he pleases. 1 can own personal properties sistently denied, a cause should that the University had no right cities and how their political which would not be threatened be pressed in the courts, and in to force the choir to sing every The joy of showing a hostile thought and activity (or lack of world that he, a BLACK MAN to become public properties, un negotiations among local leaders, other Sunday for the Sunday Ser it) contribute to the Black pol has made it is sometimes worth less 1 so desire. I can walk and not in the streets. Observe vice, if you would like to call itical scene nationally. In the the cost of the Cadillac. the streets with no fear of being the principles of law and order it that. It was brought out that North, the frustration experien Status is a feeling of belong killed and forgotten with no aven and common sense” . our Bill of Bights assure us of ced by Blacks is much a func ing, of emerging out of a his ge taken. Observing these laws, 1 will freedoni of jreligion, and the tion of social and economic dis 1 respect and therefore observe live with the possibilities of hap forcing of the'choir to sing op tory, traditional or cultural of advantage. The experience of fering a proud group identity. these laws for the freedom which piness, and after I am dead, even Sunday was against this American political frustration is one of the they offer me. I respect these though one might not hear at my law. It was then brought out psychological mechanisms that In emerging the black man can only look back on the history of laws because they have made me grave side, many times during the year. account for low involvement of what I am; had there been no ‘‘Not a drum was heard, Finally the choir decided to do his slavery. White supremacy Blacks in politics. has further advised that he has laws 1 would have been like a not a funeral note something and was ready to re Why has there not been so primitive of past ages; suppress A s her corpse to the ram fuse to sing on Sunday. Mr. nothing to boast about in his spectacular a rise in Black in African heritage, but grass huts ing, destroying, and struggling to parts were hurried Smith, came to our side and volvement and success in pol survive. If laws were not en Not a soldier discharged talked to the President, and Dean were the extend of his achieve itical life? Political accomplish ments in the jungles. forced, only the strong would his farewell shot Coleman. They agreed to have ments by Blacks is not generally survive; survival of the fittest O’er the grave where our the choir sing only onc6 a month followed by white admiration and would mean even my beloved heroine was buried” . approval but to the Black athl family would be killed for others J.U. is still a little frustrated, ete there is white acclaim and JUSTICE, THE CHICAGO SEVEN to survive, if needs were. But 1 shall be satisfied to be but being the good Christian he often increased social and eco WAY, BY: William Minner 1 respect these .laws, not only buried, knowing that 1 have led is, he will overcome this. nomic well being. As a result for the protection«they give me a successful, respectable and The Concert Choir is in pre he becomes a hero (The Black but also for the debt 1 owe to useful life, and had contributed paration for their annual tour, Athlete) in the Black m asses. I am disturbed over the trial the past. These laws were made worthily to my society. '(’his year the choir will travel To the Black politician he is of the Chicago seven. Judge by the governed, and my fore Not only the laws of the land to Kansas, Arkansas,, Illinois, one of overshadowness. The Bl Julius J. Hoffman has made a govern me but also the laws of fathers made them. Had it not Michigan, Ohio, Tenn., Pennsyl ack masses idolize their sports mockery of justice, and the court been for my forefathers I would nature; I would not put my fingefc vania, New Jersey, Washington, idols and seldom if ever, speak room trial. This five-month 1 in a fire; because 1 know the not be here today. can not B.C., New York, Kentucky, and of their politicians. For Ne old dilemma has done more to utterly defy these laws; because consequences. I must believe ip Virginia. All plans have not groes who jump at the chance 1 depend on the works ol' my God; because as cold is the oxe been final, but we hope to be to improve their images in the un-do the administrations so- forefathers to build my works on treme of heat, so must Heaven sending many of you a post card “eyes of others” , political ac called law a nd order policy, than to make a better society for my be the extreme of Hell. As from your home town. Next tivity is not clear cut to them. the nomination of Harold Cars- stated- previously 1 think very year you’ll know to join the To the educators the rugged well to the Supreme Court. highly of myself pud want the Concert Choir, won’t you? job is to demonstrate linore cl Judge Hoffman, fike Carswell children in years to come. best always. And if there is a I do not always believe that ------A v early the importance of,politics is a goat dressed in sheeps Heaven and if there is a Hell, HAPPY BIB THY HUEY!!!!!!!!: as a means to reach the Black clothing, a ghost underneath a all of these laws are applicable I certainly want to go to Heaven. necessities. wh ite sheet. As the extremes Last to West,. This wa s the type of program to the generation of today; be BY: oMICKEY OLIVER Judge Hoffman blames incre- “ N&rth to South, and Up to Dotyu, which was presented to the stu cause times have changed, and ased crime in this country on so must ther be a Good to Bad. dents on February 17, 1970. The to keep up with things muste lawyers, but “here comes the I do not understand how these program was to make all the A NOTE TO MY BROTHERS change with the changing times. Judge Hoffman” is wrong. The things Ocome to be therefore I black students of Langston Uni AND SISTERS, BY: Zolllfe Pete real blame for many increased But if I must defy these laws, must accept the logical reason for Apathetic banality and the lack I must do so with respect and versity aware of the greatness crimes can be traced to the' them all. The laws of nature of Huey P. Newton, as a Black of unawa reness of blackness are attitudes of Hoffman, Carswell, observance until such time as 1 penalize me When 1 violate them. prevalent syndromes on campus. can convince the right apthori- Panther and how the Black Pan-;. Gov. John J. McKeith, George 1 now know that for every action thl*r Party got parted. Also Animals of lower form are more Wallace, Gov. Albert Brewer, and ties, that these laws are hoards there is a reaction. Laws govern, some of the programs which have concerned a(x)ut their we lfare rather than what they w ere/ori- an(j when broken, the violater Gov. Lester Maddox. These taken place with the Black Pan than many of us. We should DeoDle are the true navigators ginally meant to be. • . 1/ntMst reaps, disappointment and regret, ther Party were emphasized, ^ make corrections to the ideo declare a decent respect to the,! iiV-the case of the illegitimate of Racism. Remember, Y OU such things as the murders of logies which are obsolete in our CAN DRESS UP A “ RAT” BUT opinions of mankind and declare child the disappointment is per- the Panther Party member by the modern society. YOU CAN’T HIDE HIS TAIL. the causes that impell me to penally there, and the most un- ‘Police ( PAGE 7 THE LANGSTON UNIVERSITY GAZETTE, FEBRUARY, 1970 Miss Wilma Chappel, Langston University graduate recruits Dr. William Hayes, Black psychologist from Meharry College students for possible employment in California schools. in Nashville, Tennessee, tells students the need for Blacks in Left to right are Larry Montgomery, senior, Pittsburgh, Pa., psychology today. Black Participation Urged By Speaker campus surroundings. This may sound a" bit incoherent but it is human nature. The tidiness of “ If you are adjusted to a mal the campus then is also bound adjusted society, you are mal to let visitors know how high we adjusted yourself,” Dr. Nathan place cleanliness in our highest Hare told 1,200 students Wed scale of preference. Besides, nesday at Laugston University an unhygeinic situation is defi University Afro-American Her nitely a menace to our very itage Week. health. Health is wealth and The former educator told the in order to transform this from students die fight for freedom theory to practice we actually “ will be a long fight and we have to seize the bull by its need to study the concept of horns in taking the incentive to power to win.” make the campaign meaningful. A native Of Slick, Oklahoma, No time (an be more timely and and 1954 graduate of Langston no moment more momentuous University he received his doc than now. Therefore, fellow col torate in sociology at the Uni leagues with wholesale enthu versity of Chicago. He has taught siasm coupled up with an im pregnable determination let us at Virginia State College, and help sincerely in making this San Francisco State University. campaign as successful as it can He entered die publishing busi be. * ness late last year. The speaker pointed out that “ we must oppose white racism PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION by anything possible.” He quoted BY: MICHAEL JACKSON Frederick Douglass, "He who Before one can even consider is to be free must strike die establishing his own philosophy cf first blow,” and added, "We education, a clear-cut definition 0 of the word "education” most certainly must be reached and are just now getting around to agreed upon. "W ebster’s Third raising our fist. It will be a New International Dictionary*’ long fight and we need to study states that education is the act die concept of power. or process of developing a person Dr. Nathan Hare doing his thing. He added that he realized he by fostering to varying degrees the grow th or expansion of know was “beating a dead horse at blacks. The establishment wants San Franciso State so I entered HELP KEEP LU CLEAN BY: ice ourselves and possibly others ledge, wisdom, desirable quali to behead the black movement CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS,, Stu by just doing the right thing to. ties of mind or character, phy another arena. I won’t go back through exile of black leaders help make the great campaign sical health, or general compe to teaching. I am going to de dent Government Association and dissmination of the mili President a successful venture. Let us tence especially by a course vote fullV time to the revolu tant groups. There is no doubt that we the also strive to prohibit the un of formal study or instruction. tion.’ Dr. Hare said he had read students of Langston University necessary destruction of school’s With this definition in mind, I Many students and faculty were about the proposed studies to would not like to see our campus property, and sublimate our su shall proceed. dressed in Afro-American style close Langston University,"be look clean and beautiful indeed, perfluous vitality to help keep JACKSON’S PHILOSOPHY (Edu ing our campus clean. cation; cause they think you niggers our prayers have been answered in observance of the week. We all at least ought to be Education is everything! Like might start raising hell here. with the provision of new dor “You’ve taken a giant step acquainted with the fact that a science, it is a branch, of If Langston is closed they won’t mitories, renovated classrooms at Langston,” he said, you’re Langston is our second home, systematic knowl edge thav is o r let you in other schools. You and decent-looking equipment to in African dress. It’s a good work with. In essence, as far particularly for those of us who can be made a specific object don’t hear diem talking about of study. Like an electron, it thing you are becoming aware as physical development goes, we live on campus-since we spend closing Northeastern.” more time throughout the year is continually on the move, somq-. of "your background^ hope next have much in Langston to be Dr-.- Hare conducted a sem being in school than at home. times causing changes and some year you’ll be Afro-America „ proud of so far. inar Wednesday afternoon with What is then our responsibili This, therefore, means that we times not. Like sports, it can very day instead of just one develop a person’s most simple 600 students attending. Mrs*. Hare ty then should be to preserve have to, care much for the place week a year,” attributes or more specifically accompanied her husband to LU these new edifices by keeping in which we live in. We are Dr. Hare stated that history to be conscious of the fact that like a touchdown where, once at and also was in charge of a group them clean as well as making books need to be rewritten. "P at these buildings have been put up tained, all joy spring forth. discussion. the vicinity in which they stand rick Henry said, "Give me lib to last for years to serve our Like the spaceship Apollo 12, The speaker was sponsored by look neat and tidy.- This is not erty or give me death,” but if children and possibly our grand it rockets up into the heavenly the Social Science Club. a difficult task to undertake, for and vast unknown- searching for a Negro makes that statement with the determination and co it know^s not what, yet spending operation of us all .... it can children, so that there is nothing 0 ; to be gained by destroying them millions and millions of dollars WANTED!!! MORE BLACKPEO- be done within the soliloquy of because it knows that something thfc moment. Here are some or keeping them in an unhealthy they want to give him death.” PLE!!! Persons Interested In condition. must be there. Like a mother, "You hear alot about the Working With The Gazette Staff, suggested ways in which it can it distinguishes right from wr ong, be done. Let us make sure The cleanliness of the campus white backlash,” he said. "We Quit Criticizing And Do Some reflects our value values, for protects the we ak against hostile thing Al^out It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we put all trashes in the trash actions of the strong and shows need to blacklash the whitelash. receptacles provided in and ar- when a visitor is on the campus,, The hour is getting late for us nunrt the campus.. We Can pol he is apif to judge us from our (Continued, col. 1, p. 8) THE LANGSTON UNIVERSITY GAZETTE, FEBRUARY, 1970, PAGE 8 PAUL FORTE, JR., Gazette editor, receiv es some professional advice from Henry Hawkins, sports writer for The Daily Oklahoman, and Willard Pitts, sports publicity director at Central State College. HAROLD TOLIVER and his Cub Scouts. # , £ Practice Session _ Max Green, Guthrie, music instructor at Langston University, t' J " ' goes thrqugh a practice session frith Edgar l. Henderson, L- Jr^ senior music major frtim Houston, Texas. Henderson is among three scholarship winners in music department DISCUSSING PLANS for Career Ex-Po ‘70 Conference are (left to right) Roy L. at ^ LU . The other students are Dennis Grant, sophomore Watson, chairman, Jean Manning, chairman of arrangements , and Olivia trombone major, Little Rock, Ark., and Sharron Bluitt, sop Salisbury, student member of a conference committee. homore voice major from Lubbock , Texas. (LU PHOTO) (JACKSON) the path for proper and distinc tive growt h.' Like power, it gives one the ability to compel obedience, to control and sometime even dic tate authority over things valued in this white versus everything else society. Like opinions, it is an element that everyone needs and should have. Like life it self, it is a sequence of physical and mental experiences that make up the existence of an individual, with the strive for it bringing both joy and sadness; changing everyday; causing some to love, some to hate, forcing others to just remain neutral; yet so vital to our existence that nobody wo uld dare try to ^stpp its numerous processes. '(Like a true black wo man, education provides a man wi th f warm and beautiful feeling only known to those who have experienced cuddling. Lastly, to show its exclusive akinship to me, education is like a black man who knowingly exists, is still not accepted by all those people that make up the term ‘'all” , (honky Whites, pepper- belly Mexicans, tight-fisted Jews, slant eyed Japs, you name it, maybe oeven true Niggers). Yes, indeed education is every LEON BIBBS AND RUBY DEE ar^ surrounded by students during Afro-American thin^! Heritage Week.