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For more information, please contact [email protected]. m TH14C7 REGISTER "COMPLETE AWARENESS FOR COMPLETE COMMITMENT" NORTH VOLUME LII NUMBER 33 CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL & TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY, GREENSBORO, NC Tuesday, March 3,1981 See MEAC Sports; Pages 8-12., A&T guard. James (10) Anderson exhibits that Aggie touch. Anderson is currently leading candidate for MEAC Player-Of- The-Year j (Photo by Tyson, Page 2 The A&T Register Tuesday March 3,1981 'Tribute To Alma Mater' Highlights Convocation By Michael Fairiey Using "The Power of Alma Mater," presented by President of Yale Legislature, and on July 1, The final formal observance Imagination" as the theme of A&T speech stud directed According to the 1967, the General Assembly of A&T's 90th birthday his speech, Robinson said the by Dr. Lois Kinny, convocation program notes, voted to elevate the college to concluded Sunday with the nation faces critical shortages professorof speech. The A&T A&T was established as the A. the status of Regional Founder's Week Convocation in the areas of Black physicans University Choir sang "The and M. College for the University. Since October, held in Corbett Sports Center. and Black Ph.D.s. According Sacred March of A&T Souls," "Colored Race" by an act of 1971, A&T has been a Guest speaker for the event to Robinson only three percent sung to the tune of "The the N.C. General Assembly constituent member of the was Dr. Willie C. Robinson, of the nation's Ph.D. Battle Hymn of the ratified March 9, 1891. For University of North Carolina. president of Florida Memorial recipients are Black. He also Republic." the next three years, the Collegeand a 1956 graduate of said 80 percent of the Black "A Tribute to Alma Mater" college was housed as an A&T. population still reside in and "The Sacred March of annex to Shaw University, a Robinson said this was his ghetto situations and it is A&T Souls" were written by private Black college in first visit to A&T since 1956 difficult to find medical care Dr. Albert W. Spruill, dean of Raleigh, N.C. and that he was heartwarmed for them the Graduate School. The State Law of 1891 by its growth. He also said, Quoting Albert Einstein, provided that the college "There is a need for the A&Ts Robinson pointed out that Jimmie Barber, retired city would be located in a city or and Florida imagination is more important Memorial councilman and a formerA&T town which would make to its Going to Church," Colleges of the world to live, than knowledge and he listed instructor, received an award Board of Trustees a "suitable by William H. Johnson, and I for one will do whatever Duke Ellington, Charles Drew from the A&T Trustee Board •s one of many fine % proposition" that would serve works of promote art shown in I can to that and Grandma Moses as a few for his 25 years of loyal service as an inducement for the the McDonald's BLACK commitment. people who used their to the university. location HISTORY THROUGHART: " A Robinson reflected upon his imagination to make the world A native of Dunn, N.C, Greensboro had a group of Recorded Account OfLift In America curriculum kit undergraduate years at A&T better. Robinson holds degrees from civic-minded citizens who and pointed out that Robinson said that we all the University of Bridgeport donated 14 acres of land and instructors here were have responsibilities that go and Columbia University. $11,000, and this gift was concerned about what beyond family and people we According to the introduction supplemented by an students learned. know and challenged members given by Acting Chancellor appropriation of $2,500 from He also said, "There's a of the audience to use their Cleon Thompson, Robinson the N.C. General Assembly. special kind of teaching that education to help others. was the first Black member of Thus began A. and T. College goes on in these institutions The convocation was the Yale University admissions in both the state and that policy makers should highlighted by an oral history staff and he also served as Greensboro and the first keep in mind." of A&T entitled "A Tribute to special assistant to the multi-purpose building was completed in 1893. An ounce of prevention In 1915 the name of the is worth a pound of cure institution was changed to the is one "old wives' tale" that is absolutely true! Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina by UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH an Act of the State GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS WHAT'S NEXT? It's a tough world out there -even with that degree you've worked hard for. An MBA isn't magic - but it does open doors. Talk to us - your MBA is the best next step you can take. Write or call Susan Richardson at (412) 624-6400 Detach and mail for application. ame Address ( ) Telephone Number Mail to: Graduate School of Business, Admissions Office University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 C5 Tuesday March 3,1981 The A&T Register Page 3 Journal Entry By Tony Moore :«!^«!5!«^»5*«»rJ!< All ot Ross concerts and television specials contain a tribute to the Supremes, the world ffi renown female vocal trio that she sang lead with for 0 y fifteen years. The "Diana" (II) tribute ?: ("Reflections") transformed the coy 60's soundina L* offerings into an 80's sound. Aided by the Joffrey Ballet, Supremes' classics "Baby Love," "Stop! In f% The Name Of Love," and "Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart" were uptempoed, synthesized, discoed and funked to simulate "The Sound of Young $fc< America" today. H J«5 To garner another segment of the television H •»Jt»; viewing populace, special guest star Larry Hagman M :]{; joined Ross on the Stylistics' "You Are Everything" m ffi despite the fact that he can't sing. Near the song's m :«H«! end, Hagman threw back his head, laughed and H jK< shouted: "Marvin Gaye, eat your heart out!" (in H marked reference to the short-lived duo of Ross and Gaye). Ross has kept in her many shows, the "Reach Out >}{! And Touch" segment. She likes to go into the audience and let them solo. In last night's H jjjj audience, not only were the guests seated in the jjj'. audience, but (what also appeared surprising to H ner) was tne presence of ex-boxing champ H Ali, Diana Ross jyj Munammed who admitted to the world (in the Back in 1970 (71, somewhere around that time), jj jj key of "off"), "Ah caint sang." ABC television aired "Diana!" which starred Diana i i She performed also the "Wiz" finale, "Home" and her Ross. The Ross world of glamour, pomp and bright 0 closing medley the "Theme From Mahogany (Do lights was introduced. A few years jwj You Know Where You're Going To?)" and "Ain't No ago, NBC gave $5 television viewers "An Evening With Diana Ross," Mountain High Enough!" And the evening was over the spectacular one-woman show that broke house jjKj: (how sad). But it was an excellent example of what records across the country and netted Ross a special unsurpassed-in-talent institutions can accomplish in Tony Award. Last night, all were given the j|K»: sixty minutes (accounting for commercials, opportunity to spend the evening with "Diana" and 18 jjltjj probably fifty minutes). Some viewers were maybe a few of her friends ,i.e. Michael Jackson, Quincy N disappointed by the guest billing of Quincy Jones Jones, the Joffrey Ballet and Larry (J.R.) Hagman. H that was nothing more than a cameo appearance (if Billed as "slick and sophisticated variety" by TV M that). Guide, "Diana" wjs a series of concert segments m 2«5 Nevertheless it was vintage Ross. Audiences and staged sequences that showcased the Ross H have come to expect the dazzle, the splendor. They talent. H know that she will always sing "Reach Out And Adorned in a Ross original, Revlon cosmetics, a M Touch." They know she'll come into the audience and be crown of jet-black proteined texture and a seeming H with them and let them sing. Only Ross can 10 pounds of dear bought white fur, Ross warned m jjjg do the same thing totally different, not allowing for her 20,000-member audience that she was "Comin' jjjlf g)£ a vapid and insipid performance. Diana Ross await Out" tonight and invited all to "come out" with her. •ir-a£..A..A..A..;t..iat„ ....';«5 followers her next masterpiece She graciously thanked her followers for loving her so much for so long. Humbling herself, she thanked her audience again and again explaining: "You're my 'Boss.' " "I can't cover up my feelings in the name of love...and,if livin' for myself is what I'm guilty of, go on and sentence me..." cried (Ross) the rejected lover.