North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship NCAT Student Newspapers Digital Collections 9-23-1977 The Register, 1977-09-23 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, 1977-09-23" (1977). NCAT Student Newspapers. 703. https://digital.library.ncat.edu/atregister/703 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 "COMPLETE AWARENESS FOR COMPLETE COMMITMENT" VOLUME XLIX NUMBER 8 NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY GREENSBORO, N. C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, (,1977 # Match Ignites Fire In Curtis By Karen F. Williams hall females stated that, after saying that the doors do not lock 12:00, the doors are locked from from the inside, and the girls are "All I heard was some girl say, the inside as well as outside. able to get out after dorm hours. everybodygetoutof the building," Therefore, if the fire had occurred "There is a need for more aware exclaimed Cindy Swan, a late at night, they would have had and conscientious students who resident of Curtis Hall. This no means of escape. McMillan will take safety rules and hazards statement was one of the many contradicted this statement by more seriously," replied McMillan. responses that were stated concerning the fire that occurred in Curtis hall, Tuesday evening. A&T's Career Day Program "The fire started in the basement between 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. when someone dropped a match on a couch," said Norwood Features Business Agencies McMillan, director of security. The sofa immediately went up in A&T State University's third between Washington, D.C. and flames. McMillan stated that he annual career day program will Houston, Texas. The main received a call concerning the fire be held September 27 and 28 in purpose of the program is to and sent Officer Cynthia Cole to Moore Gymnasium. The program expose students to the check on the matter. Cole, seeing will feature companies from availability of jobs in business, that there was a lot of smoke across the nation. industry and government now involved, requested that the fire Mayor Jim Melvin, A&T's and inthe future with companies department be called. Chancellor Lewis C. Dowdy and such as Ciba-Geigy, Western the A&T National Alumni Electric Co., Johnson Wax, In addition to Cole, there were President and City Councilman Tennessee Eastman, Southern six other officers, three of them Jimmie I. Barber will head the Bell, Rockwell International, off duty who assisted during the panel of dignitaries who will Touche Ross and Go., U.S. Steel, fire. The smoke from the fire extend the official welcome. Carrier Corporation and many accumulated on the second and Two hundred representatives of others. Morris encourages- all third floors making it impossible 70 major industries, businesses students to attend the activities. and government agencies are Free samples from the various to breathe in the dorm. A fireman cleans up after the fire in Curtis HaU. The fire started from expected to attend. companies will be distributed. Cole inhaled too much of a dropped match on a couch. Phuto by Love W. I. Morris, director of the the toxic fumes and was sent Placement Center, said, "The Says UNC-CH President Friday to the hospital for treatment 1977 annual affair will host some along with another student. of the most prestigious Eight other Curtis Hall residents companies ever this year to were sent to the infirmary for attend colleges or universties Lower Standards Not Solution treatment. "There would have been a lot more injured students CHAPEL HILL (AP) - Carolina's position. remedial programs and had it not been for Officer President William C. Friday of The brief puts the Carter evaluation services," he said. Cole," stated McMillan. "She the University of North Carolina administration on record "For every student-Black and really went above and beyond system reserved specific endorsing the concept that white, male and female-the main her call of duty." Whether or not comment Tuesday on the Carter disadvantaged minorities legally thing is to help him find a level the fire was intentional is still administration's position on can be given special at which he can achieve." under investigation by the police minority admissions, but said he consideration in university The administration's briefi department. believes a successful admissions. However, the brief was filed in the case of Allan desegregation solution cannot also says "reasonable goals or "The response from the Paul Bakke, a white man who include lowered standards. targets" rather than rigid quotas successfully argued befor the campus police shows that the Friday said news reports of should be permitted in California Supreme Court that he department is concerned about the 70-page statement, filed by desegration plans. was unconstitutionally denied the students'welfare on campus," the U.S. Justice Department as a Friday said he would have to admission to medical school replied McMillan. "However the "friend of the court" brief in a study the 70-page brief before while less-qualified Black students generally feel that the California desegregation case, forming opinions on how the applicants were accepted under a have both positive and negative police do not care about their administration's statement might minority admissions plan. The W.I. Morris elements in relation to North security." Several of the Curtis affect the five-year plan for brief urges the U.S. Supreme North Carolina. Court to vacate the California Friday and the University ruling and support the medical Board of Governors rejected the school's minority enrollment percentage quotas for minority plan. enrollment outlined by the Justice Department in college desegregation guidelines handed down recently for several southern states. Asked about the concept of special consideration or lowering of admission standards for minority applicants, Friday said in a telephone interview: "I don't believe that lowering standards will be helpful in what ik* we are trying to achieve. "By expanding education opportunities, we want to do everything possible to guarantee the success of that student. That A newspaper can be educational if you read it. photo by Love President William C. Friday Page 2 THE A&T REGISTER Friday, September 23, 1977 English Department Lecture Homecoming Theme Let your words Will Feature Dr. Barksdale soothe others. The 1977-78 English Dr. Barksdale has served as a Department Lecture Series will consultant for the Ford Submit poetry get underway on Tuesday Foundation, the U.S. Office of 66,Coming Home evening, September 27, with a Education, and the National lecture by Dr. Richard Barksdale, Endowment for the Humanities. for a prominent educator and writer He has been to A&T three times from the University of Illinois. in the last two years as The Register's The lecture is entitled "Jazz, consultant for the English Blues, and Langston Hughes," Department's NEH Consultants With A Touch Homecoming and will be presented at 8 p.m. in Grant, advising the department Merrick Hall Auditorium. on improving and expanding the Dr. Barksdale is presently humanities program. The English poetry professor of English and Department Lecture Series, now 95 associate dean of the Graduate in its third year, will also include Of Class supplement. School at the University of lectures this semester b) Illinois. He is the author of many Professors Mabel Dillard and Lee All poems must be in The artticles and books, and with Goebel, and next semester by Register office no later than Keneth Kinnamon, is the author Professors Wallace Peppers, John of Black Writers of America. Crawford, and Ernest Bradford. September 30 at 5p.m. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Bowdoin College, he received Masters Degrees from both Syracuse University and Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is a past president of the College Language Association and is presently a member of several commissions and boards, including the North Central Association Commission on Institutions of Higher Education. Before going to Illinois, he was dean of the Graduate School at Atlanta University, and before that was chairman of the Department of English at Morehouse College. His is currently working on a book on Langston Hughes. Communications Sponsors Lecture Series A new mass communications lecture and teaching series, featuring several outstanding broadcasters, teachers and journalists, will be initiated at A&T State University this month. Sponsored by the university's mass communications program, the series will be opened on Tuesday, September 27, with a talk by Dr. Pam Johnson, a journalism teacher from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Other participants in the series this semester will be Bill Heitz, producer-director of WTTW-TV in Chicago, Illinois; Dr. James Hoyt, professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin; Mai Goode, People have always been one of John Deere's greatest correspondent for the National assets. 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