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THi4c7 REGISTER "COMPLETE AWARENESS FOR COMPLETE COMMITMENT" VOLUME XIX NUMBER 5 NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY GREENSBORO', TUESDAY SEPTEMBER H, 1978 HEW-UNC Controversy Could End In December Excerpts for this article were taken from the Greensboro Daily News Sunday, September 10. On May 12,1978, after near These studies deal with Carolina at Greensboro, is at school for women. ducted by the general ad ly 10 years of negotiations and similar programs conducted the heart of the controversy. Even the mention of merg ministration in Chapel Hill, a threatened cut-off of nearly on historically Black and Both schools, founded in ing the Greensboro institu but will involve the leadership $90 million in federal funds, historically white UNC cam 1891, have identifiable images tions raises the hackles of on the various campuses, the University of North puses located in the same and extremely loyal alumni alumni and trustees and Dawson said. Carolina and the U.S. Depart geographic areas. Eliminate followings. A&T, one of the unleashes a flood of letters to A draft report of the study ment of Health, Education, some of these programs, HEW state's two land grant colleges, the chancellors. is expected to be presented to and Welfare agreed on a plan officials suggest, and integra has not only a statewide, but a When,at a September 1977 the Board of Governors' plan to further desegregate the tion could be speeded up by national constituency. meeting of the UNC-G ning committee in November. system's 16 schools. cutting down on the options UNC-G, known originally trustees, former Lt. Gov. H. Dawson, while declining to The accord was, at best, a open .o students interested in as the State Normal and In Pat Taylor of Wadesboro, "second guess" the study tenuous peace which could schools in a specific dustrial College, was largely now a UNC-G trustee, observ before it's finished, said "I erupt into open controversy geographic area. the result of efforts by Dr. ed that "from a layman's don't know of any rampant again when a series of special Gieensboro, home of both Charles Duncan Mclver, an point...in the long run of unnecessary duplication." studies demanded by HEW historically Black A&T State advocate of educating women events" it would appear that Dawson said he hoped and promised by UNC are University and historically in a day when that notion the two institutions should be HEW would feel it could ac completed in December. white University of North wasn't popular, to establish a merged, the idea got a chilly cept UNC's plan. UNC-G reception. Chancellor James Ferguson, Under the terms of the set however, said he anticipated tlement, the UNC general ad "when the studies are com ministration, aided by plete we shall have some more Barnett Directs New Program chancellors of the institutions debate with HEW. I don't involved, will conduct two know whether we'll go to separate studies: court of "not; but,if we do, I We must make sure that need an additional 500 to 1000 The A&T professor said -A separate analysis of the would think some of the ques every working place in occupational safety and health graduates of the new program engineering programs offered tions raised would deal with America is free of health and professionals during the next will be qualified to work as by A&T, UNC-Charlotte, and whether HEW has exceeded its safety hazzards," said Dr. five years. (See A&T Page 5) N.C.State. authority in implementing Isaac Barnett, who will direct a The studies, however, aren't federal legislation." new program in training safety officially underway, a fact "We'd be in a very different professionals at A&T State A&T Husband-Wife Team that has caused apprehension situation if we had not reached University. on the Greensboro campuses. an agreement in May," Barnett is chairman of the Unveils Major Project Dr. Raymond Dawson, senior Dawson explained. "If we university's Department of vice president of the UNC hadn't reached the agreement, Safety and Driver's Education system, explained they have the argument in a sense would His department has just A husband-wife team at Blacks feel alienated, which in been sidetracked because of be over does the law require received a grant of $250,766 A&T has unveiled a major turn creates low motivation and the preparation of the system's us to make the study at all. from the National Institute for research project, designed to aspirations." • budget proposals for 1979-81 Now, if we subsequently have Occupational Safety and measure the impact of racism and of the annual report to a disagreement arising out of Health to develop a bachelor's and oppression on the per The Kirks plan to develop a HEW due in August. the findings of the study, then degree program in occupa sonality development of (See Determinants Page 2) The studies will be con (See Argument Page 2) tional safety and health. It Blacks. will be the first such, The three-year project, to be undergraduate program in the carried out throughout the nation. state and later nationally, will "The major industries in the be conducted by Dr. Wyatt D. Piedmont area have endorsed this program, as has the direc Kirk, chairman of theDepart- 1 tor of the North Carolina In ment of Educational dustrial Commission," said Psychology andGuidance, and Barnett. "The training of ad ditional occupational health Dr. Sarah Virgo Kirk, an and safety specialists will associate professor of social eliminate much human suffer work. ing and will also enable the in dustries to operate more effi The target of the study, ac ciently. cording to Dr. Wyatt Kirk, is Barnett said the new pro the low self esteem which gram at A&T will get under way next January. manifests itself in some "The program is designed Blacks. to train students, especially "This is evident when a per minorities, to enter the oc cupational safety and health son doesn't care anything professions." about himself or herself, and Barnett said a recent report from the North Carolina has a problem relating to News Release Photo Department of Labor stated Dr. Sarah Virgo Kirk and Dr.Wyatt D.Kirk. that industries in the state will others," he said. "Some Page 2 The A&T Register Tuesday, September 12,1978 Argument Over Educational Judgment, Decisions (Continued from Page 1) cooperative arrangements bet moot point since the decision happen," he said. "When a forts toward eliminating the argument would be over ween Norfolk State and Old to place the new school at state like Florida can come up duplication weren't substan the educational judgment and Dominion, both at Norfolk. NCSU was an educational with the plan it has, it's em tial, said, "I couldn't possibly decisions reached by the UNC officials are anxiously judgment by the courts. barrassing to North Carolina to predict; but, if HEW sticks to university and the board of awaiting the fate of this plan. John Silard, a Washington keep on delaying." its guns...and as long as David governors." They feel that, if it passes lawyer representing the While university officials Tatel is Director of Civil Although university of HEW's muster, UNC's NAACP Legal Defense Fund, say the study will be done Rights, then I think we're all ficials won't mention in ad chances will be enhanced. notes that the vet school was thoroughly and well, the right. We may hanve another vance what they consider Placing on a traditionally mentioned briefly in the en chances that the Board of fight like we had last May." reasonable alternatives for Black campus a program so at Governors will implement any Should HEW find fault with cutting down on duplicative forcement proceedings; tractive it would overcome the brought against UNC. "I sweeping and radical changes the UNC board's action in programs, some of the more enrollment patterns developed are slim. regard to the dupication obvious alternatives are: can't believe they've (HEW) during the years of a racial Numerous board members studies, Silard said, it is his -Institutional merger. This yielded on it and I don't duality. went along with the agreement understanding the provisional alternative which has been believe they will," he said. to study duplicative programs acceptance of the university deemed educationally unwise The logical example of this, Silard said it is his feeling only to put the university system's desegregation plan would require the consolida according the UNC-HEW the elimination of duplicative observers, would be the new would be withdrawn and once tion of faculties, programs programs to desegregate in system in a better legal posture again North Carolina's system and administrations. Use of school of,Veterinary Medicijie stitutions in inevitable.