The Register, 1974-09-17

              Chancellor
University'
By Benjamin Forbes
According to Dr. Lewis C.
Dowdy, chancellor of A&T, this
University's real property spreads
over 181 acres. Also the farm
covers approximately 600 acres,
both valued from $35 to $40
million.
Dowdy stated the above
figures may soon be changing
because A&T is in the process of
acquiring additional land. The
University is now in the process
of buying land bordering Laurel
Street and Bluford Street
extending to the old Lutheran
Campus.
Property along the new
Market Street will also be
acquired. The Chancellor
emphasized that negotiations
with the owners of the property
are being done with a friendly
attitude.
Discusses
s Property
A&T is buying so much land
because the value of real estate is
climbing at an alarming rate. The
adminsitrator feels it is best for
the University to buy the land
now than to wait and pay higher
prices in the future.
Dowdy staled new tennis
courts will be constructed on
some of the land. Also he said
there are future plans to
construct new buildings.
When asked how the
University ranked in size
compared to other Black colleges
in the state. Dowdy said. "A&T
■is- the largest Black University
in the state. Compared to public-
Black colleges across the
country, A&T ranks as seventh
according lo the 1974 Fact Book
published by the Office for
Advancement of Public Negro
Colleges of the National
Association of State Universities
and Land-Grant Colleges."
Dean Of Engineering
Goes On Year's Leave
Reliable sources have
indicated that Dr. Reginald
Amory, dean of the School of
Engineering, has left the
University on a one-year leave of
absence. He is scheduled to
return to   A&T on July 1, 1975.
Dr. Amory is presently at
Northeastern University in
Boston, Mass., where he was
employed     before    coming    to
A&T. The exact nature of Dr.
Amory's status at Northeastern is
not known to the Register at this
time.
Acting in his capacity, as
Dean of the School of
Engineering     is     Dr.     §Uresh
Chandra, the chairman of the
Mechanical Engineering
Department.
Funeral Rites Held
For Native Dentist
Funeral rites for Dr. Milton
Holley Barnes were conducted at
St. James Presbyterian Church
here Tuesday, September 17.
Dr.    Barnes,    a    native    of
Edgecombe     County,
practiced     dentistry     in
Greensboro for 15 years. He died
Sept. 14 after a long illness.
A son of the late Pufus
Augusta and Mrs. Florence
Holley Barnes, he was a graduate
of A&T State University and the
Meharry Medical College.
He completed his elementary
and secondary school education
in the Edgecombe County and
Rocky Mount City Schools. His
college training was interrupted
when he entered the armed
forces in 1944 and served in
France.
In 1950, he married the
former Miss Shirley McRae of
New York City. To this union
were born a son  and a daughter.
From 1958-1959, Dr. Barnes
served as an intern, at the Jersey
City Medical Center. Jersey City,
New Jersey.
Subsequently, he practiced
dentistry for seven years in
partneiship with his foster
father. Dr. B W. Barnes of
Greensboro. His remaining years
were     spent     in     independent
private practice.
He was a member and elder of '
the St. James Presbyterian
Church of Greensboro. Other
professional and civic affiliations
included membership in the
Guilford Dental Society, North
Carolina Dental Society, Old
North State Dental Society,
American Dental Society,
Greensboro Medical Society,
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity,
Greensboro Men's Club, North
Carolina Guardsmen, and the
finance committee of the United
Community Service.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs.
Shirley Barnes; a daughter. Miss
Deborah Holley Barnes: a son,
Milton William Barnes of the
home; four brothers-James R.
Barnes, Henderson, N.C; Leon
F. Barnes, Washington, D.C;
Elsworth B. Barnes. Rocky
Mount. N.C; and Quincey A.
Barnes, Washington, D.C; a
sister, Miss Jacqueline Barnes.
Buffalo. New York, his
stepmother. Mrs. Nellie Barnes,
Rocky Mount. N.C.; a
stepbrother, Leroy Williford.
Buffalo. N.Y.; and his foster
parents. Dr. and Mrs. B. W.
Barnes. Gieensboro.
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A&T State University, Greensboro    SEPTEMBER 17,    1974
Community Worker and And Former A&T Student
Nelson Johnson States Beliefs
Nelson Johnson, former A&T
political science major and
present Director of the
Greensboro Association of Poor
People (GAPP). expresses his
ideas concerning the Penal
System, State Power, and the
current National Political
situation.
When asked if he thought
there were people imprisoned in
this country because of their
political beliefs, Johnson said,
"There are two senses in which 1
think there are such people. One,
there are people who are clear in
their convictions and see invasion
of their property by those who
represent the state.
"Because of this, these people
have declared their opposition.
Based on this opposition, these
people have been organized
against), by the state;' because of
this, these people have declared
their   opposition.
"Now there is second group,
which I think represents the
great majority, the person who is
not as conscious of the economic
and state apparatus as such-but
who is a victim of it
Johnson explained this latter
point by citing the example of
poorer American citizens who
steal because they have lessjdue
to the set-up of this state. These
citizens who steal did not do
so because of a greater tendency
to steal, but rather because this
was their means of attaining
more.
"In   this   inflationary   period
there are people who just don't
have enough money to make it.
And their means of attaining it
make them a victim of this
political system.
"Although these people may
sometimes conceive themselves
as criminals, they are sometimes
the result of the criminal rule of
society."
Johnson went further to point
out there are people who are in
prison    because     they     are     a
menace to society.
"What has happened is people
have taken the absurd position
that every single person in prison
is a political prisoner. Therefore,
I think it is important to point
out there are political prisoners
and there  are criminals."
Concerning President Ford's
pardon of Richard Nixon,
Johnson     considered     this
intervention into the Judicial
system as political compromise
in which Ford attempted to
satisfy the contradicting interests
of varying political powers.
During the rebellion on A&T's
campus in 1969, Johnson was
arrested for allegedly disturbing
the peace while giving a speech at
Dudley High School.
When asked what differences
he saw between the attitudes of
the students then as compared to
the present students, Johnson
stated that, in 1969, there was
lesser effort by the state to
confuse its citizens. But now,
students are being so confused
by the state such that they do
not actually realize they are
living amidst confusion. And those
who recognize the state of their
situation, feel as if they are
unable to change the troubling
situation.
Nelson Johnson
Alumni Exhibition Now Showing
North Carolina A&T's
Lyceum opens the 1974-75
Taylor Gallery Program with an
exhibition featuring its alumni,
reaching back to Theodore E.
Wells, 1943; Francis Baird.1965.
Ronnie Broome. 1969.* Kay
Francis Campbell. 1971. Oscar
Farrar, 1971; Thomas Holmes.
1972,- Charles Ferguson, 1974.
and Floyd Newkirk. 1974.
For the past twenty-five
years. Wells has been the art
instructor at Bancroft Junior
High School in Wilmington.
Delaware. He received his
Bachelor of Science Degree in
Art at North Carolina A&T and
his Master of Arts Degree from
Temple University. A World
Warll Veteran. Wells participated
in the D Day Invasion of France.
His work has been widely
exhibited in Wilmington and at
Charlotte, North Carolina. The
Stella Elkins Tyler School of
Fine Arts of Temple University,
Philadelphia^ Cheyney State
College, Pa* Delaware State
College, DoverJ and the
University of Delaware. He is
represented in numerous private
collections.
The exhibition opened
Wednesday. SeptemberlOth, and
will run till September ..0th.
From October 1 to the 31,
the Gallery will show an Alaskan
Exhibition I o aned by the
EXXON Company featuring
works by Eskimos and others
from   the Salon of Alaskan  Art.
Part of last fall'sNorth Carolina
Artist's traveling exhibition from
the Museum in Raleigh will be
exhibited in November
The January .
February . 1975 exhibition
will      feature "Five
Afro-    American Artists,
whose works are strongly
influencing the Arts of Africa.
In March the Taylor Gallery will
present an exhibition of
paintings and poetry entitled:
"Quiet Emphasis" work done by
art students at the Institute of
American Indian Art^ loaned by
the United States Department of
Interior. New Mexico. "The
Plains Indians will be presented
in April. Definite dates will be
announced .