The Register, 1979-01-19

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VOLUME   XIX   NUMBER  28   NORTH  CAROLINA   AGRICULTURAL  AND  TECHNICAL  STATE   UNIVERSITY  GREENSBORO.   NC   JANUARY   19*"
Dr. Wilson Speaks To A&T
Industry Cluster Meeting
GREENSBORO - Dr. Harrison B. Wilson, president of
predominantly Black Norfolk
State College, spoke Wednesday night in the Student Union
ballroom during the A&T/Industry Cluster's 10th anniversary.
"The University of North
Carolina officials could settle
their differences with federal
officials if they used educators
instead of lawyers at the
bargaining table," he said.
Wilson was one of the principal negotiators who devised
a Virginia desegregation settlement accepted this week by the
Department of Health, Education   and   Welfare.
Admitting that HEW might
drive a harder bargain with the
UNC system, Wilson said he
felt settlement was a possibility. He suggested that
chancellors of North
Carolina's    predominantly
Black universities be used to
explain the details of the
state's desegregation proposals to federal officials as
was done in Virginia.
Congress, Carter
"The key to settling our differences was bringing in the
educators from the colleges involved," Wilson said. "We
tried to approach everything
from the educational standpoint. If we had taken lawyers
in there, we would have
wound up with a legal confrontation."
While the UNC system's 16
campuses are controlled by the
system's Board of Governors,
each of Virginia's public institutions of higher learning is
governed by its own board of
trustees.
The final stumbling block in
Virginia's desegregation con
troversy was the issue of nine
duplicative programs offered
in the Tidewater area by Norfolk State and predominantly
white Old Dominion University.
At issue in the UNC-HEW
controversy are two studies of
duplicated programs submitted by UNC officials in
December. There has been no
official response from HEW
as yet, but Secretary Joseph
Califano has said there could
be a deadline extension, if
necessary.
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Ajaye speaks lo an attentive crowd in Harrison Auditorium Thursday night.
Government Seeks Interns
Students at A&T State
University who are planning to
look for summer jobs may just
be eligible for one of about
125 state government internships being made available this
summer.
To Make King's B-Day Holiday
As Americans marched and
listened to speeches honoring
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, legislation was introduced Monday to make the
date a national holiday.
With President Carter as a
new supporter, sponsors introduced the legislation in
both houses of Congress.
King, who was assassinated in
1968, would have been 50 on
Monday.
Numerous schools and
businesses around the nation
were closed to mark the date,
which is formally observed in
12 states and most major
cities, according to Rep. John
Conyers, Detroit, Michigan
who offered the holiday
legislation in the House.
In Atlanta, where the civil
rights leader was born
January, 15, 1929, thousands
of marchers paraded to the
state Capitol from Ebenezer
Baptist  Church,  where  King
was co-pas torat the time of his
death.
Chanting, "State holiday,
state holiday," the marchers
protested the failure of the
Georgia Legislature to make
the day a state holiday. As
they have done for the last five
years, the lawmakers routinely
passed a resolution praising
King's memory, stood briefly
in silent prayer and then moved on to other business.
The multiracial Atlanta
march was led by United Nations Ambassador Andrew
Young, who told an
ecumenical service:
"On the 50th anniversary of
Martin's birth, we come
together... to let the world
know that the things about
which he dreamed are going to
become reality."
President   Carter   endorsed
1 the idea of a national holiday
honoring King when he spoke
at    the    Ebenezer    Baptist
Church    on    Sunday    after
receiving  the   Martin   Luther
King, Jr.    Nonviolent   Peace
Prize.
Schools were closed Monday in Memphis, where King
was shot and killed from ambush on April 4, 1968. About
400 persons gathered Sunday
(See Dick Page 2)
'A Red Neck Hero'
"Thousands of students
have gained better insight into
the workings of government
through the internship program over the years," said
Frank Eagles of Wilson,
chairperson of the North
Carolina Internship Council
which was created by the
General Assembly in 1977.
The council approves projects
and also screens and selects
students for the Summer Internship Program sponsored
by the Department of Administration's Youth Involvement Office.
About 125 students will be
placed in 13 different state
agencies for 10 weeks, from
June 4 to August 10. To be
eligible, a student must be
either a North Carolina resident who has completed two
years of study in a college or
university or one year of study
in a technical institute or community college, or an out-of-
state student having completed
the same studies in a North
Carolina educational institution.
In addition to a regular
40-hour work week, interns
will participate in seminars to
learn more about state government and how it works. Application deadline is February
28. For applications or information about specific internship openings, contact your
campus placement office. For
additional information contact the Youth Involvement
Office, Suite 115, Howard
Building, 112 West Lane
Street, Raleigh, N.C. 27611 or
call 919/733-5966.
NAACP Lawyer Accusses Friday
Raleigh. - A lawyer for
the NAACP accused the president of the University of
'Northi Carolina system
Wednesday of wanting to
become "a red-neck hero by
refusing to integrate" tne
system.
Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., the attorney, made the remarks
about UNC president William
C. Friday in a taped interview
with a Raleigh radio station.
Friday replied in a later
telephone interview, "Obviously, Mr. Rauh does not
know what has been achieved
in North Carolina."
Rauh's Washington law
firm represents the NAACP
Legal Defense Fund in a
federal lawsuit that asks the
court to order the Department
of Health, Education and
Welfare to cut off funds to the
16-campus system. The
university system will receive
about $89 million from the
federal government this year.
HEW is studying a report
submitted by'UNCon whether
duplication of programs exists
(See HEW Page 2)