No substitute for quality
Spear, Lois
HEW & NORTH CAROLINA'S BLACK COLLEGES No substitute for...
...Low wages was a telegram the Baptist minister sent been made already...
...We who advocate maintaining black The case is now before the courts fol~~ Ow YOU from North colleges would have others believe that lowing a complaint against HEW filed by Ca'lina," Tom Wicker tolerance, sympathy and compassion can the state claiming that its First Amendquotes George_ Wallace as substitute for quality...
...described the grams was a March visit by David S. The black community, except for polarization in a May 11 letter to the Tatel, director of HEW's office for Civil heated public debate, has offered few Raleigh News and Observer: "We Rights, and Mary F. Berry, Assistant suggestions for raising SAT scores...
...One campus, the In 1977 the state trailed behind the South of North Carolina System (UNC) for nation's oldest state university, UNC at and the nation in scholastic aptitude test failure to desegregate its sixteen cam- Chapel Hill, has a higher percentage of scores...
...As Persephone come back entering freshmen, the education they re- or Helen, ceive is not geared to their remedial fierce kingdoms in her face...
...Augustine's Episcopal College'- woman and blind man pronounced the basic skills, such as the ability to read Raleigh, N.C., is now communications di- black facilities inferior to those at white road signs and balance a checkbook...
...this the difference My own experience (seven years at St...
...that the state must spend one hundred fully defied the state's efforts to extract The state's black community is million dollars to upgrade its black in- records from them and require them to equally divided over the issue.C.E...
...nately rural sections of the Carolinas and But beauty Virginia where the academic levels are is for the one or two: even lower than the state's average...
...advisory committee to 51 percent...
...In too many black instituproblem with as little rhetoric as possible level, no harm has been done...
...Aug's, it's custom- A dog asleep in the sun...
...segregated in the nation...
...black students than 40 percent of the na- 394 compared with 410 in the South and None of Finlator's earlier stands- tion's other 48 major research institu- 429 nationwide...
...There is a place (They fail the National Teacher Examifor a small boat with oars and sail...
...stitutions and remove duplication of pro- administer competency tests...
...We need to find out the extent of the deficiency, not just in terms of buildings and Daniel Burke, F.S.C...
...As rector for the Sisters of Mercy/Union in institutions, estimating that it would re- Lucy B. Golsan found out after her artiPotomac, Maryland...
...ment rights were violated over the issue saying...
...background (At St...
...equipment, but in the level of achievement by students, teachers, and adminis- The Teacher to.Heloise (After WaddeU) trators alike...
...In the North Carolina system with its the failure reaches back into the economy What caused Finlator to become em- five predominately black institutions, of the state where the wage scale in indusbroiled in a dispute with his congregation impressive efforts at desegregation have try is the lowest in the nation...
...His neck is a white slake, the problem in all its aspects, social as fishing for the water's sake and his...
...past funds have been spent...
...Students and for a shining while in youth come to these schools from predomi- woman has it...
...According to a gation by a massive outlay of money For one North Carolinian, the Rev...
...quire one hundred million dollars in state cle in The Progressive a few years back, 28 September 1979: 533 anyone who attempts to criticize black their competency and dedication...
...If they enter on a fifth grade oppressors...
...The South's schools, it them professors sayin' just what I use to should be remembered, are the least C ALIFANO'S attempt to force desegresay ''bout the HEW now...
...After a When high school competency tests were tour of the facilities on eight campuses, devised, black opponents labeled them SISTER LOIS SPEAR, O.P., formerly on the fac- including the five black ones, the black racist even though they required only ulty of St...
...All sues in the case...
...got the HEW tryin' to tear it down...
...Other race" en- affect the public school system where per to President Carter in late March urging a rollment in all sixteen institutions has pupil tax-dollar expenditure is also low...
...He leaves the rest to you and me, a small boat, winter and a pair required: 1) full financial accounting of how of old crabbers leaning in the wind, space for oceans to turn in, things that bend...
...creasingly competitive job market...
...trators who spend the greater share of Tragedy as great...
...turned by the wind into the wind...
...between loveliness and beauty: Augustine's Episcopal College, Raleigh) the knowledge of what has passed, convinces me that unless significant the memory of the tree in Eden...
...Black colleges are the logical places to begin, for they train future I have sometimes thought black leadership...
...The explanation for to the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights...
...Finlator, the charges rang true...
...ards they find there...
...the controversy for personal gain...
...blacks ] seem to be asking for integration Secretary for Education at HEW...
...Mean average on the verbal was puses...
...personnel is top heavy with highly paid adminis- And after beauty and great love...
...well as economic...
...Desegregation of the state's university We say the night heron stands and waits system will be accomplished only for breaking water...
...Take that university up there, Conflicting views tend to hide real is- of duplication of services...
...needs...
...A contributing factor to low SAT criminalizing marijuana, pardon for the One of the reasons behind then-HEW scores has been the growth of "Christian Wilmington 10- stirred up such a heated Secretary Joseph A. Califano's decision schools" whose administrators successdispute...
...Studies at Chapel Hill, N.C., the per- and superficial gesture...
...their tirrie writing government proposals or seeking community funds that are used to pay their own salaries or fund new, Martin Galvin impressive-looking buildings and equipment...
...it is administered by poorly-paid teachers from the same deficient And happiness...
...HEW & NORTH CAROLINA'S BLACK COLLEGES No substitute for quality on one hand and segregation on the other...
...In the short run, before He takes only his place which is as small further funds are spent to upgrade black institutions, the following ought to be as he needs...
...rids to equalize the campuses...
...changes are made in black institutions, Loveliness is easy, pouring more money into them will serve an appletree in blossom, only to perpetuate the problem...
...Each May another class Heron's Bay graduates with students unable to qualify There is a space for winter here for positions in the public school system to grow its ice...
...report from the Institute for Southern to improve the black campuses is a futile W.W...
...against the Vietnam war, in favor of de- tions...
...if tions today, the personnel have become from both the "white liberal establish- they graduate on that same level, the new oppressors depriving students of ment," North and South, and those black the institution should have its fund- the skills they need to succeed in an incivil rights leaders who are eager to use ing cut off...
...The major reason is North Carolina State University, Finlator northern urban centers the number rises an inability to reach the academic standalso chairs the N.C...
...It will not inBesides serving as pastor at Pullen centage of minority students in segre- crease the number of minority students Memorial Baptist church in Raleigh with gated institutions is 31 percent for the on white campuses where few blacks its congregation drawing heavily from nation as a whole, only 24 percent in the apply for admission in spite of heavy professors and administrators at nearby South...
...students accepted into the institu- crimination was the methods used by the What is needed is full exposure of the tion...
...2) thorough inspection of personnel, Commonweal: 534...
...Branford from Wilson...
...One of the painful lessons blacks asinstitutions of higher learning becomes 3) disclosure of academic level of similated during the long years of disanathema...
...According to the 1976 figures, in recruitment efforts...
...ary to hire returning graduates...
...nation) or for entrance into the advanced There is a piece of water here stddies program in the state's university for a fish farmer and his old wife, system...
...He knows that water yields, through long-range programs that tackle that fishes break...
...cutoff of federal funds to the University doubled since 1972...
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