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North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship NCAT Student Newspapers Digital Collections 12-4-1981 The Register, 1981-12-04 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, 1981-12-04" (1981). NCAT Student Newspapers. 923. https://digital.library.ncat.edu/atregister/923 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]. THJ4-5 REGISTER H "COMPLETE AWARENESS FOR COMPLETE COMMITMENT" VOLUME LIII NUMBER 21 NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL Sc TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY, GREENSBORO, NC Friday, December 4, 1981 A&T Library Task Force To Consider Three Options By ALICE HESTER "The library was second The special library task priority, but it will become lop force will consider three major priority for 1983-85 planning options in improving F.D. cycle," explained Dr. Dorothy Bluford Library, according to Alston, special assistant to the Chancellor Edward B. Fort. chancellor for title nine. options library These for the Built in 1955, Bluford include Library was originally Submitting proposal a designed to hold 592 readers. calling• for a library annex But the American College which would cost at $7 least Research Library million and would include Standardization Association between twenty and thirty- requires that libraries be able thousand square feet in stack to seat 25 percent of the total space student body. Pursuing the possibility of a brand• new library, which According to these would be centrally located on statistics, Bluford Library campus and would cost no less should hold 1,367 readers and $10 require At a time when things didn'tlook too good for the Aggies, Ihe diehard Aggie fan, Pernell Bryant, than million dollars. it will 12,415 more Attempt to space to shows (hat he still has faith.(Photo by Tyson) • rebuild the square feet in stack library from the inside which accomplish this. would cost at least $5 million In 1979 a special task force did a study of the library which revealed such problems as lack of space and L.R. Byrd Inflating 'Black Dollar Day' inadequate lighting. The task force appointed by Chancellor Fort will include coming back." 379 middle management jobs 36th largest Black consumer administrators and faculty A 1971 A&T graduate is for Blacks within nine months, market and Byrd estimated As part of the BEE Plan, from academic affairs, student helping local businesses Byrd said that Blacks spend $200,000 Black Dollar Day encourages affairs, the physical plant, the promote "Black Dollar Day" Greensboro is the nation's annually in local businesses the use of selective buying library, the office of to show the in Greensboro campaigns at businesses that Development and University importance of Black buying employ Blacks at all levels, Relations as well as students. power and to help bring more including middle and upper Students interested in joining money back into the BlacK management, that contract for the task force should contact communnv services at Black companies the Student Government L.R. Byrd, a publishing and that contribute to Black Association executive and business colleges and educational The force will be consultant in Greenville, S.C., institutions. task to project the told student leaders about an designed library's needs for the next 20 organized buying campaign in The goal is to support the years, plan a proposal and which Blacks would spend $2 businesses that meet the make recommendations on bills and Susan B. Anthony criteria and to encourage possible changes. The task silver dollar at a specific time change in those that don't. will meet the either before Christmas, or force before Christmas or during Black History Month. break "Black Dollar Day isn't a immediately afterwards boycott and is not meant to be The coins and bills are a confrontation," he said. "I intend to do everything I rarely used, according to "It's meant to open the lines can to make the library a big Byrd, and an influx of them in of communications between funding project Tor the next local stores would show the Black and white business planning cycle. I will seek all impact of local Black spending representatives." the help I can get from the power student body," Fort said. "You'll find that where you Aler.e Young, acting up a significant Byrd is traveling to major make director F.D. Bluford percentage of the population, of cities to promote his Black Library, said, "We're very you make up a significant Economic Education Plan happy to know that he's percentage of the profits- (BEE), which he believes will (Chancellor Fort) spoken out that's the catch, he said. help Blacks gain and maintain for the library's needs." economic power. "Black dollars are like Black votes~we don't have enough Most students welcome the numbers to change anything, opportunity library uiacKs are being for but we can determine the economically shortchanged improvements. losers and the winners." Ross, a theatre arts because white-owned Sharon "The businesses with large Black major, said, library lacks Day beauty some important literature by patronage aren't hiring ( Last year, Black Dollar This little is seven-year-old Angelique Vincent Black writers I'm sure that working with Blacks, he said in Greenville, S.C, the Photographed al Ihe game Tuesday, she did her part lo help spu everyone new "Money is going out our nation's 46th largest Black the Aggies on lo victory.(Photo by Tyson) would welcome materials community, but it's not consumer market, resulted in and books." Page 2 The A&T Register Friday December 4, 1981 ft! Howard Essay Entries Due By Midnight Jan. 4 WASHINGTON-Here's a Along with your entry, unique opportunity to prove include a cover letter stating the might of the pen over the your name, address and sword by submitting an educational institution orginal essa on th{ Prizes will awarded subiect:"The Future of Sund February 21, 1982 Communications: A Battle for during a special multimedia the Human Mind awards session school for mow■ inrormation, communications at Howard Contac t Jill Jasper (202) University invites you to enter 636-7491 it's annual essay contest for college/university students. Entries must by typewritten, Foundation Coach Corbett confers double-space and should be two of his guards, 750-1000 words in length. Provides Thomas (I.) and Essays should be error-free Fellowships Stinchcomb {\\).(Phot with margins of one to one Joe Daniels) and one half inches on all The Robert Wood Johnson sides, and typed on one side of Foundation of Princeton, New the paper only. Jersey, has awarded National A separate cover page Medical Fellowships, Inc. should be attached with your $300,000 to provide name, address, phone nationwide need-based number, student I.D. number, financial assistance to and your school location. The minority medical students. manuscript (which will not be National Medical returned) should be identified Fellowships, a private only by title. nonprofit organization, has The first place winner will provided vital leadership receive an expense paid trip (if toward the goal of increasing out of state) to the Howard the numbers of practicing University School of minority physicians for more Communications Eleventh than three decades. Annual Communications While the emphasis of Conference, February 18-21, NMF's program has 1982, including round trip periodically changed, the transportation, lodging for organization has consistently four nights at the Howard Inn, given financial assistance to registration and admisssion to minorities entering the medical all conference events. profession The second place winner Founded in 1946 by receives lodging for four Franklin C. McLean, a nights at the Howard Inn, Chicago pharmacologist and registration and admission to surgeon, NMF has granted all conference events, and nearly 15,000 awards totaling finally, the third place winner $19 million. will be awarded registration Since 1970 NMF and admission to all scholarships have been conference events awarded on the basis of All entries should be financial need to Black, postmarked by January 4,1982 Mexican American, mainland and submitted to: Puerto Rican and American Continuing Education and Indian medical students. Community Service Programs Most NMF awards are P.O. Box 1205, granted to first and second Administration Building year minority medical Howard University students, and a number of Washington, D.C. 20059 special merit awards are given the crowd! Students with an interest in annually to third and fourth 1 Campus action coordinates audiovisual techniques should year students. I keep you in shape with participate in the upcoming During the 1980-81 1 i? this acrylic and cotton year's multimedia contest. academic year, contributions fleece short sleeve may be **rJ% Entries submitted in from private sources enabled La| knit in navy/kelly the form of 16mm or super-8 NMF to provide awards '<W§ or red/gray. film, video cassettes, color or totaling $1,198,000 to 869 * S-M-L-XL. black and white still minority medical students in 24.00 photography, audio cassette 114 medical schools across the or synchronized slide and Matching pants. nation 21.00 sound presentations, using no The Robert Wood Johnson more than two projectors and Foundation is an independent Four Seasons Mall 160 slides. philanthropy which Broadcast entries must be concentrates its resources on limited to 30 minutes or less. improving health care in the Each entry will be judged on United States.