The Register, 1966-02-25

              Radio Station WANT Goes Into Operation
A&T RADIO STATION GOES ON AIR
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Dr. Lewis C. Dowdy, president of A&T College, sits at the controls
A&T's Radio Station WANT, which went on the air waves last week.
At rear are Carol Ogle, general manager of Greensboro's Radio
Station WEAL, who gave the college a radio console which boosted plans
for opening the station, and Melvin C. Alexander, chairman of the Department of Electronics, who serves as technical director.
By STANLEY JOHNSON
A new communications facility
has been established at A&T College. Radio station WANT is going
into its third week of operation.
Installations were completed on
February 9 and coincided with the
mid-year meeting of the A&T College Board of Trustees. The station
carried as part of its first day's
program, comments by each member of the board and also by our
president, Dr. Lewis C. Dowdy.
For the first few weeks, the station will operate for five hours a
day Monday through Friday, from
5 P.M. to 10:00 P.M. Plans for
weekend broadcasting will foe
made in the spring.
Students are able to use the regular A-M. receiver tuned to 620 KC
to receive the station. The Federal
Communications Commission has
designed this station for use by the
college because such stations must
hot be in competition with commercial stations. Therefore, they
are restricted to the boundaries of
the campus.
Signals leave the studio, located
in Julian Price Hall, foy cable and
are transmitted by a low-power
transmitter located in strategic
buildings on the campus. Because
of a temporary shortage, transmitters are not located in all buildings. After this shortage is overcome, transmitters will be placed in
more buildings to ensure a better
pick-up of the station.
The station is to be operated primarily by students with Mr. Melvin
T. Alexander, Mrs. Lois Kinney,
and other faculty members as advisers.
The initial proposal for a closed
circuit A.M. radio station was
made at a meeting by the president of the college, October 19,
1964. After the meeting Mr. Alexander was appointed to gather information and data that would be
needed for the preparation and
final operation of the station.
On August 9, 1965 he attended a
workshop in Radio and Television
Broadcasting at New York State
University at Genesee, New York,
which is a pioneer in closed circuit
radio and television broadcasting.
In the workshop Mr. Alexander
had complete use of the facUities
of one A.M. Radio Station, one
F.M. Radio Station and one Television station. At the workshop,
first hand information, from technical aspects, and operation and programming were discussed and
demonstrated.
Plans for the station readily advanced last year when the college
was given a radio console by the
Greensboro Radio Station WEAL.
The equipment was reconditioned-
The responsibUity of setting up
administration, organization, promotion, and program development
was delegated to a committee consisting of both students and faculty. The committee was appointed
in the latter part of last year. Students named to the committee were
Nicholas S. Bright, WUUam Goode,
Leroy Kirkland, Virginia Massey,
Samuel Tate, James Thome,
Robert Wagoner, and WiUie N.
Watts.
Faculty members included Dr.
Ralph L. Wooden, chairman; Mr.
Melvin Alexander, Dr. Walter
Daniel, Mr. Hubert Gaskin, Mrs.
Lois Kinney, Mrs. Loreno Marrow,
Dr. John MarshaU Stevenson, and
Dr. Jesse E. Marshall, ex-officio.
Special recognition is given to the
foUowing students who have worker diUgently for over a year on
the construction and technical setup of the new station — Nicholas
Bright, Thomas Langston, George
Saunders, WUUe Woolfork, Dennis
WaddeU, David Jones and others.
Students who are presently engaged as announcers at the station
are Samuel Tate, George Saunders,
Thomas Langston, and CheryU
Suber.
Mr. M T. Alexander is the general manager and Mrs. Lois Kinney is program director.
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VOLUME XXXVII, No. 20   GREENSBORO, N. C.   FEBRUARY, 25, 1966
TF/ie Cream of CoUege News*
Natl Social Science Groups Set Confab
By LEE HOUSE, JR.
The Association of Social Science
Teachers and the National Convention of Sigma Rho Sigma Honorary
Social Science Fraternity wUl meet
at A&T College for their thirty-
first annual convention on AprU
28, 29, and 30, 1966. This year's
convention wiU be centered around
the theme: "The Great Society:
ChaUenges for Increased Involvement by Social Scientists."
Executive officers of the ASST
are as follows: George T. Dowdy,
Tuskegee Institute, president; Jesse Gloster, Texas Southern, president elect; John Blue, U. S. Department of Education, first vice
president; Tilman Oothran, Atlanta University, second vice president; Serena Staggers, Vorhees
College, secretary; and WUUam
Mcintosh, Grambling CoUege,
treasurer. The founder of the
organization was  the  late  T.   E.
McKinney, Sr., who was dean at
Johnson C. Smith University and a
former A&T faculty memberi
The Association of Social Science
Teachers is a professional organization which comprises a relatively large cross-section of coUeges,
universities, and secondary schools
of the nation. The organization,
whose continuous history covers a
period of almost thirty-one years,
has several key objectives; a. to
encourage and promote scholarly
research and teaching of the social
sciences, b. to open up new vistas
of knowledge of comprehension and
teaching of social phenomena, c. to
stimulate informed and responsible
citizenship by critical evaluation
of social problems.
This year's meeting promises to
be an exciting session. Much interest wUl be placed upon current social affairs, especiaUy political affairs. There wiU be discussion on
CIAA Tournament This Weekend
Norfolk State Favored To Win
The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association is holding its 21st
Annual BasketbaU Tournament,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
February 24, 25, and 26 in the
Greensboro CoUseum.
Eight of the nation's best teams
in small coUege basketbaU wUl
compete. Such stars as Earl Monroe, Richard (Pops) Pitts, Robert
Saunders, Ken Horton, Richard
Todd and others will compete.
The tournament champion wUl
compete in the NCAA SmaU College Regionals March 4 and 5 in
Durham at the MacDougald Gymnasium of North Carolina CoUege.
The winner of the regional wUl
play in the NCAA CoUege Division
nationals the next weekend in
EvansviUe, Indiana.
Norfolk State's unbelievable
Spartans wiU be favored to win the
tournament for the second year in
a row. Their top rivals wiU be the
smooth Winston-Salem State Rams.
Both teams are scoring more than
100 points a game.
Top players with Norfolk State
include Richard (Pops) Pitts, the
6-5, 240 pound muscleman under
the boards. He is among the top
10 in the CIAA both in scoring and
in rebounds. Another is sophomore
Jim Grant, who features an uncanny hook shot and great floor play.
Other starters are the hard driving Clarence Burney, the great outside shooting Essex Thompson and
the steady inside man, 5-6 Lewis
Graham. Norfolk State also boasts
a host of reserves.
Winston-Salem is led by the fabulous Earl Monroe, leading scorer
in the CIAA and a great ball handler. Howard (Sonny) RidgiU, the
only hometown player on the team,
is averaging better than 20 points
a game. Coach C. E. (Bighouse)
Gaines alternates his other starters
from Joe Cunningham, 6-6 team
captain; Willis (Spider) Bennett,
Johnny Watkins, Eugene SmUey
and WUUam EngUsh, 6-5 freshman
star.
The Delaware State Hornets, the
A&T Aggies and the EUzabeth City
Vikings are expected to provide the
biggest chaUenge to the leaders.
legislative apportionment and districting in North Carolina, Congress, and State AssembUes. Two
North Carolina congressmen wUl
be discussion leaders.
The program for the convention,
although tentative at present, includes registration, a pubUc meeting, sectional meetings, executive
committee 'meeting, /and recjep-
tions. Dispersing general hospitality for the coUege and city wUl be
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Phi Beta Lambda
Convenes April
In  Durham
For the first time, the A&T
Chapter of Phi Beta Lambda wiU
attend the state convention which
will be held in Durham on AprU
1 and 2. Members of the Theta Pi
Chapter of Phi Beta Lambda have
been asked to volunteer for participation in the activities of the convention.
Events which are open to the
chapter members are as foUows:
Mr. and Miss Business Executive,
a vocabulary relay, talent show,
state officers. Information about
and/or qualification for these and
other events may be obtained from
the club's adviser, Mrs. Katie
Dorsett.
Highlighting the February 16
meeting of Phi Beta Lambda was
a fashion show planned by the program committee. Members who
served as models exhibited improper and proper wear for the
industriaUst, the executive, the
■ coUege president and their secretaries.
Mary Harris, Nancy Kearney,
Yvette Holmes, and Shirley Jacobs
served as models. The male sex
was represented by Marion Horton,
Ronald PhUips, Jesse Lanier, and
Charles Butler.
Lula Harris and Lynne Robinson
gave a summary on office conduct
and make-up.
Members who plan to attend
and/or participate in the state convention are urged to foe present at
the next meeting of Phi Beta
Lambda.
Clark College President Speaks
At Regular Spring Convocation
An audience at A&T CoUege was
last week told that no progress was
made in race relations for sixty
years following Reconstruction.
The speaker was Dr. Vivian
Henderson, an author in the field
of economics, now president of
Clark CoUege, Atlanta, Georgia.
He spoke at regular spring convocation held on Tuesday morning
in the Charles Moore Gymnasium,
a program also a part of the A&T
observance of Negro History Week.
He said there were no race rela-
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DR. VIVIAN HENDERSON
tions prior to Reconstruction, except on a "master to slave basis,"
and the developments in race relations for the ensuing sixty years
were controlled by Jim Crow laws.
During the period immediately
following Reconstruction, during
the 1880's, "and until 1940, there
was no progress in bringing equality of opportunity to the American
Negro; and for almost sixty years,
there was stagnation, and even retrogression," said Dr. Henderson.
Real progress has been made
only during the past two decades.
Continuing, he told the group, "Reconstruction marked the first time
that Negroes tried to gain equality, and since that time there has
been only a zig-zag course towards
accompUshment.
Referring to the progress accomplished during the recent civU
rights struggle, the speaker warned, "It is not enough to talk afoouiJ
equal opportunity — that opens th<
gates; it takes other changes t
walk through these gates."
"Despijte gains, the economic
gap between Negroes and whites
continues to widen." "The way it
is now going," he said, "we would
end up with a lot of civU right* but
empty stomachs."
He said that there is developing
a Negro middle class, but there
has been no progress for the Uttle
man at aU.
The audience was reminded of
the now famed sit-in demonstrations begun on the A&T campus hi
I960, w. Leonard Evans, Jr., publisher and editor of Tuesday Publications, Inc., of Chicago, producers of a Sunday magazine, presented to the coUege a painting
used in one of the recent issues
The painting is a conception of the
first sit-in demonstration, executed
by Robert Christiansen. It was accepted by Dr. Lewis C. Dowdy
president of the coUege.
Dr. Dowdy, who introduced the
speaker, also read a citation in
commendation to Dr. WUla Player
president of Bennett CoUege, who
recently resigned to accept a post
in Washington. Dr. Player could
not attend the program because of
other engagements.