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THE CHRONICLE MONDAY, JANUARY 18. 1988 S DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 83, NO. 80 Alumnus speaks Price commends about civil rights King's victories By NANCY OHLENBUSCH By CHRIS SCHMALZER Black students should carry on the ef U.S. Congressman David Price forts of Martin Luther King Jr. "in the spoke to approximately 35 people in same spirit of those who have preceded the Chapel Sunday night in honor of us," according to alumnus Nathaniel Martin Luther King Jr. Day, em White, keynote speaker Sunday night at a phasizing King's dedication to "beloved dinner sponsored by the Black Student community." Alliance (BSA) to honor King and install "We need to be reminded that we new BSA officers. share the responsibility for the com White spoke about the challenges of mon good," Price said. "When any one today's black community compared with of us is denied their basic rights, those when he began his college education denied equal opportunity, mired in ill 25 years ago. He was graduated in 1967 health or miserable poverty, denied a with two other blacks in the University's decent education, it happens to all of first integrated undergraduate class. us. We need to be reminded that we need one another," he said. White participated in the 1963 civil rights march in Washington and heard Price, a first-term Congressman and King's address there. "In that spirit, I a former political science professor at came to Duke, a completely different cli the University, criticized the United mate." He said he realized at that.point States' excessive glorification of the in that civil rights "did not come evenly to all dividual at the expense of responsibil parts of the country" and that "there were ity to the common good. "There is a poi barriers outside my existence." sonous view in our national politics today, that when you address yourself Although people consider themselves to those problems, problems of housing unique, White said, black students must or education or health, you're somehow remember the "work, energy," efforts, PETER AM AN/THE CHRONICLE catering to special interests," Price fand] death" of others. said. White is president of the Duke Univer Monks of dunk sity Black Alumni Coalition (DUBAC) "That, I believe, is a rationalization Danny Ferry won the battle with Maryland freshman Brian Williams, but the for hardheartedness, a rationalization and the Hayti Development Corporation. 1 He said he hopes to increase interaction Terps won the war, 72-69. See SPORTSWMF . for indifference, because precisely the between DUBAC and black students and opposite is true," he said. "When any cited internships available with the Hayti one is deprived, when anyone is shut Corporation in public policy and business out, we're all diminished." programs. Brothers work together to help The Constitution is not a finished White also noted that with the excep document nor is it a sacred text, Price tion of a march to be held Monday, King^s Fosters active in local, national black affairs said. The document "papered over" the birthday is not officially recognized by the issue of slavery which "was only eradi cated by a bloody civil war. The Consti University. He suggested that the admin By CRAIG WHITLOCK istration reconsider the day as an official sically there is no difference in the people. tution has awaited future generations holiday. For Trinity juniors Carl and Chris Fos We took that for granted." to expand and improve," he said. But "That work is not yet done." "We have seen a decline in the black ex ter, brotherhood is much more than a ge "I'm in college now," Chris said, contin perience," White said. He encouraged netic similarity. uing his brother's thoughts. "And it's time "The secret of [King'sl appeal is the black students to use their contributions The siblings from Kansas City, Kan., for me to start doing some things. I'm in moral force he presented," Price said. to diversify the University, as well as the are the driving force behind a recently re BSA because I care about black students He was dedicated to forming "a cooper local community and nation. In doing doubled campus effort to remedy the in America. Honestly. I don't see how I ative and a just community that lifts this, blacks must remember their past, he educational plight of blacks. Chris, the can't be involved." up each of its members, and that vision said. White mentioned that emphasis on newly inaugurated president of the Black It is this concern that has propelled the is directly relevant to our politics and black inventors and businessmen in his Student Alliance (BSA) and Carl, presi Fosters to consider and implement some our lives together." tory could help dispel myths such as dent and co-founder of the fledging Na far-reaching changes in the way black See PRICE on page 5 • "blacks are bred to be better at sports." tional Association of Black Students for students are organized, not only at Duke, Educational Pursuits (NABSEP), both but across the country. "History has been cleansed of [blacks'] devote countless hours of service to black contributions," White said. "You have to Last fall NABSEP was formed to com organizations locally and nationally. But bine the efforts of newly established black dig for them." Few people realize that what is of equal importance to them is Roebuck of Sears & Roebuck was black, student groups at Duke and approximate their devotion to each other and their ly 20 other highly competitive schools he said. family. The present is a crucial historical point, such as Brown, Harvard, Princeton, Stan according to White. "What King believed The Fosters trace their interest in black ford and the University of North Carolina in is up for grabs . Maybe 25 years from student activities from their boyhood in at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). now you can speak of the progress we've the Kansas City area. Able to play ice While Carl serves as president of the all made." hockey, "a president-of-a-bank's-son's organization, Chris was also heavily in sport," and yet just as comfortable In his speech, outgoing BSA President volved in its formation. The two have "playing basketball in the projects," the Maurice Green challenged fellow students worked together so closely, in fact, there pair was "very fortunate to have an ex to "take the reins" from him. He asked to is considerable debate over who first con posure to a spectrum of things," Carl ex be remembered not for what he "did or ceived the idea of NABSEP. "I definitely plained. didn't do," for BSA, but "as someone who said it first," Chris said, staking his claim. loves the BSA. Remember me as the one "We know what it's like to associate "It was our idea," countered Carl, pointing who challenges you to do the same," he with wealthy and very influential people a finger at his brother. "We thought of it and to also associate with economically probably at the same time, like within said See BSA on page 5 • disadvantaged people," he added. "But ba- half a millisecond, or something." Communication is the key to making NABSEP work, Carl explained. If all goes well, NABSEP will be able to link the Weather ideas and resources of local black student Inside groups from across the nation, assisting universities with minority recruitment DiSCUSSiOfl Of the day: Colum Off to a flying start: start the programs and helping students find jobs nist Stephen Buckley gauges local week off in typical Monday fashion. after college with top corporations. reaction to the celebration of Martin Mostly cloudy today with a chance of Luther King Jr. day. Read all about it showers, high in the mid 50s. Rain "There are a lot of brilliant minds at the LAURA ALLEN/THE CHRONICLE helms of these BSA ships around the on page 7. likely Tuesday. Congressman David Price See FOSTERS on page 4 ty THE CHRONICLE MONDAY, JANUARY 18,1988 World & National Newsfile Reagan to push for more contra aid N.Y. Times News Service By ELAINE SCIOLINO Sandinista concessions lackluster: The N.Y. Times News Service Nicaragua conflict mediator, Cardinal Miguel WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration will Kbando y Bravo, said that political concessions made press ahead with plans to ask Congress for new military by the Sandinista government this weekend were en aid for the Nicaraguan rebels despite a pledge Saturday couraging but insufficient. by the Nicaraguan president, Daniel Ortega, to hold direct talks with rebel leaders and suspend a state of Japanese leader discusses economics: emergency in Nicaragua, senior White House and State Japan's economy is undergoing changes that were Department officials said Sunday. discussed by the country's new Prime Minister, Administration officials played down the importance Noboru Takeshita, during his visit to Washington. of Ortega's concessions, which came as a last-minute American officials reacted warmly to the economic surprise at a Central American summit meeting in changes he described. Costa Rica. But leading congressional opponents of new military aid hailed the concessions, which they said Taiwanese independence still stifled: Ad would help defeat the vote on aid to the rebels scheduled vocating independence of Taiwan from China is not in the House of Representatives on Feb. 3. tolerated, either in Beijing or on the island. The "Our basic strategy doesn't change," a senior State recent conviction on charges of sedition of two men Department official said. "It is to persuade Congress who called for Taiwan's independence has focused that Ortega cannot be trusted and that there is a need to fresh attention on the issue.