Langston University Digital Commons @ Langston University LU Gazette, 1960-1969 LU Gazette (Student Newspaper) 9-1969 The aG zette September 1969 Langston University Follow this and additional works at: http://dclu.langston.edu/ archives_gazette_newspaper_19601969 Recommended Citation Langston University, "The aG zette September 1969" (1969). LU Gazette, 1960-1969. Book 21. http://dclu.langston.edu/archives_gazette_newspaper_19601969/21 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the LU Gazette (Student Newspaper) at Digital Commons @ Langston University. It has been accepted for inclusion in LU Gazette, 1960-1969 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Langston University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Langston University Gazette w .vav.v.v Langston Plans Homecoming Langston University students are off and running making guest artist will be selected at a later date. plane f0r (he 1969 Homecoming festivities October 18. The Campus clean-up day is on tap for October 17, and a bon­ fire and pep rally sponsored by the Student Government Lion will collide wttti the Soulheastern Slate College Savages Association will be at 7 o'clock that night. at 2 p.m. at Anderson Field. The Lions and Savages kept the fans hanging on the edge Homecoming Day Activities (October 18) include: 8-9 a.m. - Registration of reunion classes-Hargrove Music of their seats last year at Durant. When the final gun sounded, Southeastern was clinging toa nervous26-25 decision. Langston Hall. 8-11:30 - Coffee hour (Parents and Patrons Organization- fans are hoping to reverse the decision this year. Faculty House). The Homecoming theme is "Prelude to the Seventies,” 9 a.m. - Class meetings, Hargrove Music Hall (Tentative). and the week will start with Homecoming Worship Services 10 a.m. - Campus parade. at 10 a.m., October 12, wtlh the Rev. Dr. J. Casttna Jackson, 10:45 a.m. - Band concert. pastor of the Paradise Baptist Church In Tulsa, as guest 2 p.m. - Football game-Langston University vs. South­ eastern State College; halftime activities, presentation of speaker. a' ** The week also will feature an Afro-Art Exhibition (to be queens, float awards. arranged), and sflrits are expected to take a jump at home­ 7:30 p.m. - Homecoming concert, I.W. Young Auditorium, coming assembly on October 15. Eddie Floyd. Another highlight of the week will be the coronation or 9:30 p.m. - Homecoming dance. Gayles Gymnasium. Miss Langston at the Coronation Ball on October 16. The Only students and guests with official I. D. Cards will be ad­ mitted to the dane. Welcome to Langston University Presidents Message Welcome to the freshmen, transfer students, participation of upperclassmen and will assume a new staff and faculty members, and to those personal obligation in their involvement with members of the LU family who are returning matters which make this Institution operate at to continue their education and work. itsobest. To our first-time students, I commend a dili­ It is my sincere hope that the key word in gent program of study and involvement in the the—university’s operation this year will be academic process for, more often than not/the “involvement”. This means stydent, faculty and freshman year is the most crucial and most im­ staff and includes involvement in all of the affairs portant period of thes_stucjgnt’s entire college of the Institution. I hope that students who serve career. During this period one seeks to learn on University Standing Committees will actually hovv^-t©-^. study for college work and develops attend the'meeting^ and will take an active and the proper mind set for development of whole­ vital part in the decision-making procedures of some and meaningful adjustment to college life. the respective committees. Langston University needs the strength, creativity Student representatives come from classes and and personal involvement of each member of the are elected by their Classmates. It is my hope LU family. Welcome to the great and exciting that Freshman students will be inspired by the challenge which lies before us. 7 0 s Witt Bring LU Changes “ The seventies will bring a th or all movement forward. But more programs of an individua­ great change for Langston Uni­ man is an adaptable animal and lized nature designed to meet versity,” president William H. in time comes to accept what the needs of the individual stu­ Hale told faculty members at he must. T^.en he strives to dent will .increase and enjoy a the LU Faculty ^Institute Ban­ make that change to both grow­ wider acceptance. quet on Augus th and forward,” Dr. Hale sad. “ I hope and predict that the The facelty;--ia&Utute started “At Langston we have a great seventies will see more than half JSunday, Aug. 24, and ended with opportunity to put the finest ele­ our graduates moving into the orie ntation of new faculty mem­ ments of our creative minds to area of graduate and professional bers on Aug. 27. work to demonstrate that we know study. Theme for the faculty insti- the business of an institution of “I predict that significiantly tue ‘ was “ Prelude to the higher education is not the trans­ more federal and state funds Seventies. ’ formation of students into foun­ will go directly to students, as “ We are' about to write a new tains of information merely. Its scholarships or loans. Check Schedule chapter to the chronicle of a business-our business-is “ I hope but do not predict,that great human experiment,” Dr. the very different task of help­ sciences will be as great as for Langston University President William H. Hale and Gail Scott, Hale said. “For nearly 72 and ing students learn how facts are the natural sciences. new LU faculty member, check the fall schedule at the annual a half years this institution has converted into truth,” the LU “ And finally, I hope and pre­ faculty institute which ended Wednesday. Enrolment is scheduled attempted to fulfill its mission president said. d ic t that real and meaningful Thursday, Friday and Saturday and the fall semester starts of providing for its society a Dr. Hale outlined to the uni­ faculty and student participation September 2nd. Mrs. Scott will teach social science. She taught versity faculty his 15-point blue­ measure of hope through equip­ in major aspects of campus last year at Cooke County Junior College at Gainesville, Texas. print for Langston University ping its members with that in­ governance will increase,” Dr. She is a graduate of Texas Christian University. during the next ten yeaj$. tellectual nurturing so absolutely Hale said. “My first prediction is that necessary not only for the The Langston University presi­ we here at Langston will, through "■ our car and see the beauty of society’s advancement but for its dent continued: cated youngster from the back­ constant study and dedication to the human diamonds encrusted sheer survival. “ You recognize that the ques- waters of the country, are but an ideal, effect significant break­ there. “ The American people have tions I have raised as well as reflections of the places from throughs in understanding the hu­ “ Without imagination, we will experienced such great changes my predictions are challenges, whence they have come. man learning process which will not be able to view in all shin­ during that period of almost three challenges that will tax allour “ With imagination we can help lead to major improvements in ing splendor the beautiful cathe­ decades of a century that one who powers of intelligence and dedi­ them shed those useless our instructional methods. drals we are helping erect. With­ “ made the scene” just 25 years cation an^even our physical garments and enter into the “I predict that our curriculum out imagination we will be un­ ago would marvel at what has strength. It will tax our creativity society of self-respecting, con­ will undergo major revisions able to see that loud, aggressive, happened. This is not to say that and certainly our imagination. fident, capable and contributing along multidisciplinary lines. I ill-mannered, mispl|Ofd values these changes have always suit­ “ Without imagination we will young men and women. hope and predict that our already boy or girl from the1,Jungles of ed the tastes of everyone, neither not be able to penetrate beyond “ I believe that the game is established policy and practice the city or that shy, '•backward, is it true that all change is grow­ the rough exteriors of the raw worth the candle,” Dr. Hale con­ of permitting and encouraging human materials entrusted to chip-on-the-shoulder, poorly edu­ cluded. « o PAGE a—THE LANGSTON UNIVERSITY GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER, IMS i J FRESHMAN S t u d e n t C o r n e r RECEPTION NEW LU COEDS. Roy Watson, director of career development center at Langaton University, explains a testlw Explains program to freahmen (left to right) Steve Maker, Guthrie, John House, Coyle, and Lee Cravens Gulhrie. * Program 0 /■***•- STUDENT PRESIDENT GREETS RECEPTffiN LINE. FACULTY. c UNIVERSITY MARCHING BAND •CONCERT ANJD /UNIVERSITY CHOIRS To Langston Myrtle Elliott, Dean of Women at Langston University, wel­ NOW IN FULL SESSION comes freshmen Gwendolyn Cassell and Kathleen ^Coleman to LU. The coeds are the first women to attend (he university from Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa. Gwendolyn is majoring in CAMPUS STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS OF sociology and Gwendolyn in business administration. Their PERFECTION principal* Emmanuel Johnson, a Langston graduate, recommended J i t LU to the coedfe. SEVERAL VACANCIES STILL EXIST OPENED.TO ALL STUDENTS CONCERTS