Vol.97,No. 3 TRENTON STATE COLLEGE TUESDAY NOVHU'BFR 21 19-2 Brush With Death Mars P.O.W. Tree Ceremony by M . L. Richie A malfunctioned main chute chute.Aj>proximatelv one-third of feel. Pennington Road Ambulance and a fouled reserve chute re­ the way down, Bancroft deployed took the sargea nt to Mercet Hos­ sulted in near death for 1st the reserve chute,which became pital, where ii was reported that Sargeant John Bancroft of the tangled in the lines of the main he had suffered three broken lithe Special Forces Reserve chute. The other four men made vertebrae. However.he still lias Group last Saturday morning here safe landings in the soccer and feeling and use of all his limbs. a Tenton State. Bancroft, of football fields. Bancroft, Doctors say that he should be up Wrightstown, Pa., was one of five however, dropping much faster and around in about six months, Green Berets from the unit who than the others and lacking the n talking with him at the bos made a 1000 foot drop onto the required amount of wind in the pital, he said that if it were not alheletic field as a part of the chute to steer it properly, came for his exjierience and jump POW Concern Day ceremonies. down on the roadway next to the knowledge .he would not have sui vived the hard impact iqion land • As the jump progressed, it he- first student parking lot, missing ing on the asphalt road. Sargeaut came evident that the second low shrubs and a lawn by a few man out had problems with his tCon't. on |iage three) Ex-Singer Turns To Mohammed bv Frederick Heyer Whal makes a man give up a "Where are the black leaders? successful music career? To Joe They are gone or dead." he said, Tex, soul singer and writer, it "and Mohammed is still alive was the discovery of the because you can't kill a Honorable Elijah Mohammed messenger of God." and his teachings: along with a "There are people." he stated, growing disgust at his past life elaborating on black leadership, style, and a growing realization "who are trying to teach hate. If as to where the black man stands someone has to teach you to hate in this country. after being beaten, castrated, Joe Tex — now known as hung, tarred and feathered, then Joseph Hazziez - spoke at the you're in bad shape. The George Jackson Memorial Honorable Elijah Mohammed Center last Thursday before a has no time to teach hate crowd that topped 75. He was tCon't. on page three) invited by Assistant Dean of * Students Bernard Barnes. Joseph Hazziez mM "I realized." he said, "that I was being used, and all Igot was nickels and dimes. I can't sing and dance when a sister is on the street, selling her body for nickels and dimes. I couldn't Lack Of Funds Major Problem make jokes anymore when a brother is being beaten somewhere " For Minority Organizations "I was given the name Joseph On Wednesday Nov 8 the by Mark L. Richie in it. is designed to help black Hazziez because the slaveowners Board of Trustees held an students become more aware of did not own anyone with the informal meeting with leaders of Under the guidance of Bernard themselves and their relations name Hazziez or Ali. As long as the various black oriented Barnes. Assistant Dean of with others. With Mrs. Watson Students, the Board heard from you wear the name Smith. Jones. activities and groups here at were two members of the class Mrs. Evon Watson of the Brown or O'Brien, you still Trenton State. In an effort to who gave their opinions of the Learning Center. Mrs. Watson belong to that slaveowner " better understand the problems course. Linda Perry, a sopho­ discussed one of the Introduction Hazziez w ent into a variety of and concerns of students of the more. described the course by to Counseling courses which is subjects, including the role, past college, the board requested that saying that it "does help to cope oriented toward the problems and present, of black men and several of these informal with problems that a white stu­ black students have to face. The women in America, and the meetings be held throughout the dent doesn't have.' The other section, which has eleven women future supremacy of the Islamic year. (Con't. on page two) religion Committee Recommends Stronger Minority Recruiting set up recruitment procedures applicants. by Frederick Heyer On November 8, the Ad Hoc- The press was barred from and policies with other According to the complaint, Committee of Faculty at attending this interchange. universities and colleges, the cause for an abi ormally low- recommended solution is to Trenton State College presented In opening, the report cited professional organizations and minority student fopulation is release a faculty member from their recommendations "concern over the lack of civic groups. due to "the systematic failure to his or her scholastic duties full concerning racial descrimina- substantial progress with The committee recommends concentrate recruiting in. areas time so that someone would be tion at this college to the minority problems at Trenton that the college be "flexible in with significant minority free to work in conjunction with Faculty Senate. State College", and outlined its degree requirements for the population." Quite simply, the the the Director of the Minority The rules of the Faculty three probable solutions to those hiring and promotion of minority Committee's report Executive Council The faculty- Senate were suspended briefly in problems. group applicants." To be recommended, stronger member would become, in order to allow Dr. James One of the areas that has been specific, the Committee is recruiting in minority areas, effect, a recruiter, whose job Forcina, Executive Vice cited for "probable cause" is the asking that the college not with special emphasis given to would be to search for qualified President, to answer any number of minority professional require a doctorate of the the Trenton area applicants. Such a person would questions that the senators had staff The Ad Hoc Committee's TUESDAY NOVEMBER 21.1972 TRENTON STATE COLLEGE PAGE TWO service need in their local Trustees community which was not the case with the already Brower Tours Germany established social Greeks Listen To Kevin Broughton and Chico bv Michelle Vagnozzi Chambers representedil»i't> ,«J'# Progress Omega Psi Phi was formed at Howard University in 1911. an d Trenton State College was of Frankfurt University who (Con't. from page one) without its President for three visited TSC la st year; and Alex the TSC chapter was formed weeks while Dr. Clayton Brower Hoffmann, a former exchange student found that the class Nov. 8. 1970 and has 20 members and his wife toured Germany on student at TSC Dr. Brower could help to "learn 'hings about (Just as a p oint of interest, (his a combination business-pleasure remarked that he "hopes the yourself that you never thought meeting was held on the sec ond trip. The Browers spent the first group, the "Friends of Trenton." existed before." Both felt that anniversary of the chapters five days of their vacation in will be the nucleus for an more such courses should be formation) Mr. Chambers Frankfurt where they met with a organization which will oversee offered. It is eplained by Mrs outlined the groups tutorial and former German exchange the faculty-student exchange Watson to the board that a ma le drug education programs along section would be offered in the professor. Dr. Walter Shefler. program with Frankfurt in the *in: A*S with the various interest groups From there they floated down future." spring. When asked by a Board the fraternity runs. the Rhine on an excursion from Among his many stops. Dr member if a heterosexual class Lenny Sample spoke to the Maintz to St Goar for a social Brower visited Frankfurt might be under consideration Board about the Alliance of engagement with 27 "Friends of University, where he met with Mrs. Watson replied that Black Faculty. Students and Trenton." Included in this group officials and discussed a "things hang out better when Administrators, describing it as bluebird on each. were: former TSC soccer coach proposal for expanding the it's not co-ed." "a political organization on Dr. Brower summed up his Mel Schmidt, presently on present exchange program to the The newly formed Minority campus which we use to tr y and experience bv commenting that exchange to Germany: TSC graduate level. Programming Committee of the get things we need." The "this opportunity to combine exchange student Karen As a final gesture of College Union Board was Primary purposes of the ABFSA some business with pleasure Edwards; seven former German friendship. Brower presented represented by Art Bing. Bing are to unify black people, made this the most wonderful exchange professors of the both Wooster and Frankfurt with explained that the MPC was the increase the numbers of black trip of our lives." Physical Education Department Lenox plates with a Boehm result of complaints by minority faculty and increase the students that the existing enrollment of black students. programs did not reach the The progress of the minority entire campus. Art emphasized newspaper. Utime Umana La that the MPC is only funded Vos Aculta. (Rebirth The through this semester and that Hidden Voicei. was also funds must be found if the reported on by Mr Sample, who NOW PIZZA IS JUST programs are to be continued for is Editor-in-Chief of the paper the rest of the year "This is not Lenny said the paper was ACROSS THE STREET a makeshift establishment to "formed for Black and Puerto pacify us.