The^ 7 Register

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship NCAT Student Newspapers Digital Collections 12-14-1967 The Register, 1967-12-14 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, 1967-12-14" (1967). NCAT Student Newspapers. 324. https://digital.library.ncat.edu/atregister/324 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]. THE^7 REGISTER Volume XXXIX, No. 12 North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro December 14, 1967 Brother Fuller Comes Out To Rap By PRINCE LEGREE far from that of a period of wor portrayal." ship. There was something hostUe "We have got to get Black Pow Previously, the period set aside in the air. It was Uke being on the er because we can't get anything for student worship had been at front Une in Vietnam, backed up else. If you can't go with black tended very poorly; but, when by an entire company, and "you're people, you can't go," said FuUer. Alpha Mu Chapter of Delta Sigma just waiting for'em to come rush Theta Sorority, Inc., presented its Fuller stated that he operates on vesper program Sunday, late com ing over the hiUs so that you can the premises that decisions in this ers were faced with the arduous give 'em everything you got." country are made on the basis of task of finding a place to sit. There was also a dash of fear in power, that America is a country the atmosphere where you find run by racism, that America oper The human wave was brought on yourself and three or four others ates on a system of thought, and strong by the Deltas' presentation of your team waiting and waiting that the servant-matter relation of Mr. Howard Fuller of the North for the bombs that will blast your Carolina Fund at Durham, an ex ship is taught by white people. ponent of the Black Power Move foxhole into craters. Some mur There were certainly enough re ment. murs were started when Dr. Mar bukes for everybody. Students, shall was called to the lobby, but who had shown some shameful As Vivian Joyner, president of no violence had been created. tendencies toward their heritage — the Deltas, brought greetings, some Fuller, who was dressed very from birthplaces to hairdos, were The women of New Vanstory continue their pace to be included in yea, yea with mild applauding casually (no tie or coat, Uke aU given a thorough lesson in ap campus activities. The young ladies, shown above with the program were drawn from the audience as other participants) told his .aud preciating their culture. "Any fool chairman, are taking their oaths as dormitory officers. Stand she mentioned the "sacred" Black ience that a change is "gonna" that walks the middle is gonna get ing from left to right are Brenda Smitherman, president; Cheryl Suber, Power. The staunch Fuller had at come. He stated that white people shot by both sides," said FuUer. vice-president; Edith Hoskins, secretary; Jessie Williams, treasurer. tracted advocates from many cor and ex-Negroes had often given Castigating teachers and profes Administering the oath is Program Committee chairman Virginia ners of the Tar Heel State black people nigger rules, but "a sors, he said they are the most Massey. Not pictured is Augusta AUen, assistant secretary. As was stated this was a vesper change is gonna come irrespective conservative. "Those who said edu program, but the atmosphere was of white people and ex-Negroes cation is the answer, got their PhD's and found out that it didn't Glory To God Editor, Staff Threatened For B. P. Stand (CONTINUED ON PAGE 6) Two Black Power advocates the staffers, but they assumed that When the election of the sports In The Highest made a visit to the office of The they might possibly desire to editor came up, one of the young Register last Tuesday and told the join the staff. men rose and nominated the other It is my sincere prayer and editor-in-chief and the rest of the Stanley Johnson, editor-in-chief, for that position. He was asked if "We Are Sure fervent hope that our 1967 staff that they did not appreciate carried out the business accord his nominee was on the staff, and celebration of Jesus' birth the stand that The Register was ing to the agenda. The election of he repUed negatively. Then he was Going To Miss You" will produce miracles in the taking on Black Power and walked the new editor and the sports edi asked if he was a staff member area of human relations pre out murmuring that a change was tor was held that night. Editors of and again he repUed negatively. senting new evidence that GREETINGS! "The light shines in the dark going to be made in the staff just various components of the paper The young men were kindly ad are chosen by the staff and the vised that it was not the poUcy of ness, and the darkness has what was meant by this statement, Mrs. Dowdy and I extend never put it out." (St. John the staff did not know. staff, in its selection, chooses those the newspaper to nominate anyone who have had experience and/or who was totally ignorant of how the our warmest greetings to the 1:5 translated by J. B. Phil The incident occurred at a meet entire student body for the lips) ing of the staff last Tuesday night. have shown considerable dedica newspaper was run. His proposed The two strangers were noticed by tion. nominee's name was then removed coming HoUday Season. We May all of God's children from the Ust of nominees. have a warm spot in our respond sympatheticaUy to hearts for each one of you the spirit of the "heavenly When the time for questions and and wiU miss you greatly host praising God, and say Intruder Escapes Questions answers came, the same young when you leave the campus ing, Glory to God in the man, who was later identified as for the Christmas vacation. highest, and on earth peace, Michael A. Duncan, who is regis Even Elizabeth has said, good will toward men. (St. tered as a freshman, rose to his "Mama," I'm sure going to Luke 2:13-14). Refuses To Discuss Views feet and asked how the editor-in- chief was elected. Johnson ex miss the students when they As the light which still go home." By LARRY WRENN and pad poised. plained to him that because of the shines in the darkness of our qualifications that this position de We wish for you, your par worlds fills our hearts and "I don't want to talk to you. I ents and famiUes a HAPPY At a Register meeting, a guy, got nothing to say," he said rapid manded, no one knew any better your home with the cheer who wasn't on the staff stood up, than the staff who was best quaU- AND JOYOUS HOLIDAY of the Christmas season, I ly. SEASON! Please hurry back cocked his head arrogantly and One last attempt to communi fied. ask you to join me in pray spoke as if he had a lot to say after your vacation. ing that it will iUumine cate, "Have you written a letter It was at this point that he rose and a short time to say it in. His to the editor?" with not so clear a voice and the hearts of our leaders speech was partially unintelliga- Sincerely yours, at all levels to the end "I don't have to write a letter made his threat. The threat was Dr. and Mrs. L. C. Dowdy ble; at its hurried pace, the made because of an editorial that the faith, courage and words often slammed into each to the editor. I got nothing to say." and hope which Jesus gave to all WeU, you can't say I didn't try. (November 30 issue) that com Elizabeth other. The staff vaguely under mented on the boycott of the who received His message stood that he disagreed with the Maybe he reaUy had some good lead us to the restoration of paper's treatment of black power. points to bring out. Maybe he international peace and do didn't. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 5) mestic tranquility. He mentioned the editorial which disfavored the athletes' proposal Reverend Cleo M. McCoy to boycott Olympic games. He Director of ReUgious stressed that the editorial was On Basketball Court Activities wrong in its opinion, as it did not convey the feelings of the majority of Aggies. When his emotionally- charged speech abruptly ended, he hurriedly made his exit, because Student Dies From Knife Wounds Six A&T Nurses he had to attend "another meet ing," leaving before any questions were posed by staff members. I Become 2nd Lts. know that several staff members Following Argument And Scuffle wish to inform him that editorials are paper poUcy, and that the stu In U. S. Army dents' feelings are mirrored in the By LARRY WRENN it had happened. Puff was standing Friends later described him as "a quiet boy, who tended to his letter-to-the-editor column.

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