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Vol.
Buffalo Looks At Philander
m, No. 2
Philander Smith College, Little Rock, Arkansas
January 29, 1968
little Rock. The battle that
The following article was originally printed in the November 1967 issue of
that he was helping to prepare
broke the back of segregated
COLLEAGUE, a publication of the State University of New York at Buffalo.
the now famous case against
public schooling in the South.
In a recent letter to the editor, Patricia W. Memming, editor of the COLthe Little Rock school board as
It's been ten years and nine
LEAGUE, expressed her desire to hear campus reactions to the article.
chairman of the executive comlong, hot Summers since Little
Responses should be submitted to Delores Phillips, Box 558, PSC.
mittee of the local NAACP.
Rock, and there are fresher
The
of the nascars on the national con- nantly Negro" college is a at formerly all-Whijte institu- college while seven per cent tion's '50s, the yearsdepression,"
"academic
science, other placenames on nominally integrated one, in tions, the state universities, for
everyone's lips. But in 1957 it many cases, one educating a example, with far sounder aca- have had less than a year of had been better days for Philander Smith, Dr. Iggers recalls.
formal schooling.
was Little Rock that opened
minority population
the evening news with distort- smaller Miss and her predom- demic programs. When Harvard Philander Smith's students — Newly accredited (the North
replaced Howard as the meas- 85 per cent from Arkansas — Central Association of Colleges
ed, screaming faces and Na- than Ole White sister
colleges,
tional Guard, less familiar inantly Until Little Rockinstitu- use, most of the records asjustly often receive the worst of what and Secondary Schools sancshatthen, and, in the middle, a tions. the principle of "separate proud of their were forcedNe- little this system has to o f f e r . tioned its academic program on
to
handful of school children in tered equal," schools such as gro institutions, marginality ac- Many graduate f r o m high March 30, 1949), the school was
but
their
first-day white socks stark Philander Smith viewed them- admit to to this newly single schools without regional accre- actively recruiting, and getting,
cording
teachers with Ph.D.'s. At that
against black legs.
ditation. Moreover, as
selves primarily as instruments standard. As Philander Smith in the South, they may Negroes time, before Northern teaching
acquire
Life magazine assures us for the higher education of Nein its catalogue,
salaries jumped and before
that ten years later there's no groes — a job they had been confesses recognizes that it"The to mental set hardly conducive equal opportunity employment,
College
has a
As
news from Little Rock, that, doing without any noteworthy not always provided equal edu- the academic achievement. Dr. a third of the Philander Smith
College's president,
this year, Negro students went competition for almost a cen- cation although it has offered Ernest T. Dixon, has written, faculty held terminal degrees.
without incident to Central tury .
equal opportunity." And else- "Apparently, many students Today, only seven per cent of
High's senior prom, held in the
future
Philander Smith's history is where, "The College of Philan- come to Philander Smith Col- the faculty and staff have any
same buildings others once en
no
a variation on a fairly standard der Smith its ability tolonger lege with grossly distorted self- kind of doctorate. Faculty salatered only under armed guard.
depends on
pattern of development for vide equal opportunity for pro- images. A necessary degree of ries, even for those with doctoLife, in its fashion, may be
stuNegro schools. The
rates,
by
a bit optimistic. If Little Rock Americanwas founded in 1877 dents but upon its ability to self-evaluation is experienced Yankeeare frankly appallingprothe
which
is no longer the moral center College
provide genuinely equal educa- by many of to astudents aspira- fessors standards — full year,
leads
as
one of
draw $7,500 a
of America, it's still dead cen- the Walden Seminary, freedmen tion, which is- a key to the often level and a lower feeltion
reduced
first schools
ter Arkansas. Capital of the in the Southwest. for year of achievement of social and eco- ing of self-worth and self- about half the average compenThe
sation a UB
State (Chamber of Commerce
esteem resulting in frustration parableofrank. teacher of comwas desig- nomic equality."
literature claims it's the only its establishment, it educational
that robs the student of his
official
city in America with three nated the of the State Negro Some statistics show just hopes and ambitions."
Before t h e three-way e x institution
capitol buildings), it supports a Conference of the Methodist how unequal education can be.
became
last
When Philander Smith fresh- The problems of Philander change Philander operable had
metropolitan population of a Episcopal Church, a tie that
year,
men were administered the Smith's campus, pressing as taken significant Smith
quarter million people —j ap- binds, sometimes chafes, to this
independent
proximately 50,000 of whom day. Chartered as a four-year standard School and College they are, were a thousand miles steps toward checking tfrjg
Ability Tests and Sequential away from
are Negroes. Urban, Southern, college in 1883, it
downward slide. On taking ofheir to an educational tradi- EfSt baccalaureate awarded its Tests- -of \JM«ea#ibiial Progress Fall of 1965.Buffalo until jlffi fice in January, 1965, President
In November
in
their average mean
tion both inequitable and sub- more than 39 years before1888, recently,were uniformly lower that year, George Iggers of the Dixon decentralized adminisUB scores
standard, the City still faces a handed a sheepskin to a stu- than the national norms for History Department discussed trative authority somewhat, incomplex problem in schooling dent in a liberal arts program. high school seniors (most of with Myles Slatin, then acting creasing faculty representation
its people, particularly in edu- Its enrollees of those days, sons whom were not college-bound). dean of the College of Arts and on standing committees and
cating its non-White one-in- and daughters of men kept illi- The College's seniors fared Sciences, t h e feasibility of introducing student participafive. Constant transfusions of terate by statute, pursued a even worse. In 1964, students some cooperative arrangement tion in administrative decisionFederal money help, In t h e
the
Record between this University and making. Over the Summer of
but practical
case of one small college in strangely mixed — they took taking scored Graduatesixth and one or more predominantly Ne- 1965, it was decided that Philin
the City, an exchange involv- course of study and Latin, and Exam percentilestherespectively gro colleges in the South. A ander Smith could not afford
ing the State University at classical Greek required for the fourth verbal and quantitative phone call to Philander Smith, to go the way of Grambling in
in the
carpentry was
which was in process of estab- spite of some distinguished
Buffalo is helping too.
next few ranged tests. low nine perPhilander Smith College fills young men. Over the Methodist aptitude from aArea test scores lishing a similar exchange with gridiron performances by aluma dozen of Little Rock's city decades, a White,n
the social sciences to Baldwin-Wallace College, a ni (the Packers' Elijah Pitts is
administration a
blocks, the chunk bounded by gradually gave way d faculty centile in 31 in the humanities. small Methodist school in a Philanderian), and football
a high of
to a NeBerea, Ohio, led to a coopera- was indefinitely suspended be10th and 14th Streets on the
Methodist administration
ginning with the 1965-66
tive program among
North and South, and Bast and gro, a predominantly N e g r o The exam results point to institutions. W h y the three demic year. Faculty were acaand
Philander
West by Gaines and Chester faculty.
severe educational deprivation, Smith? A number of factors couraged to take advantage enof
Streets. Left its love-child
not confined in Arkansas to the converged
the field continuing education
name by a 19th century White The end of racial separation Negro population. According to from 80 to to narrow familiarity ities such as Summer opportuninstitutes
one,
philanthropist, it is one of 80' spelled crisis for schools like the last Federal census, an is as important but any. From on large university campuses.
some predominantly Negro col- Philander Smith. A black brain- eighth-grade education is the 1950 until 1957,asDr. Iggers College funds were m a d e
drain began as the best Negro norm for adults (over 25) in
leges in the South today.
activities
history,
Ger-i
Of course, the semantic nice- teachers and students were the State. Only two per cent taughtthere, atFrench and time! available for these page 4) as
(Continued on
the same
ty fools no one. A "predomi suddenly able to bid for places have completed four years of man
BLACK
The dynamic concept of Black Power is not a
newly recognized phenomenon connected with Black
America as some seem to think. The point is that
Black Power has been rejuvenated by the likes of
Brothers Stokely Carmichael, H. Rap Brown, Floyd
McKissick and Charles Hamilton. This rejuvenation
of the concept has led many people to feel that
apparently it has died before and inevitably will die
again. I doubt very seriously that the cry of "Black
Power" will die unless those individuals that are
espousing it now decide later that their advocation
of it was not as deeply-rooted and stable as they
thought.
What are the Black Power advocates talking
about? What is Black Power? Certainly there has
been a considerable degree of uncertainty about the
concept even among those that promulgate it; but
one basic point of fact remains agreed upon by all
the advocates of Black Power—it is a goal that has
been set that is basically designed to get Blacks out
of the rut they're in. BLACK POWER is a concerted
attempt on this part of all Blacks (particularly AfroAmericans) to relieve themselves of the restraints
and oppression of White society and the consequences
of these restraints and forms of oppression, and
definitely achieve for themselves social, economic,
and political strength, honor, glory, recognition and
respect in accordance with our percentage of the
population through any means necessaryllll
Brother Stokely Carmichael, a most articulate,
intelligent, and wonderfully militant advocate of
POWER
William Watson
Reprinted From The November
Issue of The Colleague
Black Power has said that the primary proposition
of the concept is the awakening of the Black community and the subsequent call on its inhabitants
to hold their Black heads up and stand tall and
proud. Stokely feels (and rightfully so) that before
we will be able to attain our goals we have to regain
our sense of Black identity.
The next thing for Black America to do is to
pool all its mental-and physical resources and quit
sitting around cutting each other down verbally
Saturday afternoon and cutting each other up physically Saturday night.
From whence does power come to Black America? It comes from attainment of an education in
hope of acquiring better job opportunities; it comes
from the vote—political strength, black people in administrative and other strategic positions put there
by the black vote; it comes from the almighty dollar
which almost rules this country anyway, Black business firms, corporations that are patronised by Black
people and which subsequently circulate finance
within the hands of Blacks.
I have not attempted here to present an overall
and conclusive analysis of the conceptual framework
of Black Power and its many and diverse implications. I have, however, tried to describe the basic
framework of the subject, and hopefully, I have provided you with incentive to respond to my position,
and, simultaneously, formulate your personal viewpoints on the subject as well.
�Page 2
Exchange Student Tells of
Experiences In The Minority
THE PANTHERNAUT
From The
Arkansas Establishes
Internal Revenue
Office of Educational
DepartmentArkansas — Stu- Resource Planning
Little Rock,
By Shirley R. Andrews
coming familiar with material dents who worked part-time or
Oft a rainy afternoon, filled assigned to me. I became much during the summer may have a
refund
on
With excitement and great an- more aware of my abilities— Federal coming tax theiru r1967,
income
ret
s
ticipation, Mertha McKinney especially in comparison with Fred W. Johnson, District nDiand X becan the two-day bus the students at this predomi- rector of Internal Revenue for
ride In hazardous snow storms nantly white institution. And
to Luther College as exchange for a short time, it was difficult Arkansas said today.
required to file
students where we would ex- for me to condition myself to a Students are they earned $600
tax return if
perience life in the minority for the unique and highly complex or more. If they earned less
the first time—after a year and methods of teaching—especially than $600 and taxes were witha half at a predominantly Negro in my Calculus course. But the held from wages by their eminstitution.
teachers w e r e understanding
should file a return
Luther College is a predom- and exerted every effort to give ployers, they obtain a refund of
in order to
inantly white, Lutheran institu- assistance.
tion with a student body popu- The environment was so vast- the tax withheld from t h e i r
lation of approximately 2,000 ly different and a totally new wages.
Under recent
a
students located in Decorah, situation of living was revealed minimum astandard provision, is
deduction
Iowa, a small Norwegian city. to me. Nevertheless, the social allowed of $200 plus $100 f o r
While attending Luther I life was superb.
lived in Olsen Hall which is a I was an honorary member each exemption. Thus, married
co-educational dormitory.
of Sigma Alpha Phi sisterhood couples filing joint returns are
$400 minimum deducSince the atmosphere there and I participated in a fashion entitled toanother $100 for each
tion plus
was one of friendliness, it seem- show given as part of the activ- additional exemption. An uned that no apparent adjustment ities in honor of Mother's Day. married student may earn $900
was necessary; I had two room- There was always something
without
any
mates in a room built solely for new and exciting to do; and, as in 1967 income tax owing usual
— the
three people; therefore the liv- exchange students we received Federal
$600
plus a
ing conditions were quite con- special invitations to all the $300 personal exemption, deducminimum standard
venient and comfortable. We activities given on campus.
tion. This
sta d rd
felt accepted at first by m y I accepted the invitation to deduction minimum used nor ademay
roommates and then by others become an exchange student be- ductions may bebe
itemized.
from the beginning.
cause it offered a challenge I
Scholastically, the level was dared to venture into. I gained Students are entitled to claim
much steeper than that to which much more from my experience their own personal exemption
I had been accustomed. Luther than I had ever anticipated. I when filing a tax return, Mr.
utilized a 4.0 grading system feel that I have been greatly Johnson said. P a r e n t s who
and in most classes grades were benefitted in such a way that it furnish more than one-half the
calculated by the point method. will continue to be an asset to total cost of support for their
who is a
The unique aspect of the my personal growth—academ- child also claimfull-time student
may
him as an exacademic phase of this school, ically and socially.
emption on their tax return, unwas the honor system. By this
less the child is married and is
system each student was placed
filing a joint return with his or
on his honor not to cheat while Summer Jobs Abroad
her spouse.
being tested. The teacher was
not allowed to remain in the Job oppotunities in Europe Those stud ents who receive
room where the test was being this summer. . . Work this sum- scholarship and f e l l o w s h i p
administered. It seemed that mer in the forests of Germany, grants often have a technical
this system was highly success on construction in Austria, on problem, and if there is a n y
ful.
farms in Germany, Sweden and doubt concerning whether the
are taxable,
While attending Luther I took Denmark, on road construction grantshelp from the they should
nearest Inthree four-hour courses, Re- in Norway, in Industries in seek Revenue Service Office.
ternal
ligion, Psychology, and second France and Germany.
Well there are these jobs Sometimes there is a fine line
semester Calculus.
The facilities for learning available fas well as jobs in Ire- of distinction between non- taxscholarships and fellowwere much more extensive than land, Switzerland, E n g l a n d , able and
ships
the ones here as far,as equip- France, Italy, and Holland a r e for servicestaxable compensation
performed as an inment for labs, etcetera, are con- open by the consent of t h e structor, laboratory assistant, recerned. As a result one could governments of these countries search assistant, or in o t h e r
gain a broader concept of the to Americas univernity students
material to which he was ex- coming to Europe the next sum- similar positions.
mer.
posed.
Students who are required to
In my Calculus course—each For some years students made file Federal income tax returns'
student was assigned a project their way across the Atlantic to a n d are expecting a refund
in computor programming since take part in the actual life of should complete their tax rethere was a computor available the people of these countries. turn as soon as possible before
to us in the Physics lab. I en- The success of this project has April 15, 1968, and mail them
joyed this project very much. caused a great deal of enthusias- to the Director, Internal Revenue Service
South
Although the academic ex- tic support both ' in America Interregional Center, 3651Austin,
Highway,
pectations were far greater than and Europe.
that to which I was accustomed, Every year, the program has Texas 78740.
I feel that I will be forever been expanded to include many
benefitted; for I learned to more students and jobs. Al
search more deeply for under- ready, many students h a v e Jobs Available
standing rather than just be- made application for next sum
mer jobs. American-European
Student Service (on a non-pro In Swiss Ski Resorts
Political Science
fitable
thes
Department Participates jobs to basis) is offeringGermany,e Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
students for
In Survey
England, Austria, — The high season for skiing
Over 80 percent of the stu- Scandinavia, France, Italy, and starts in February in the Alps.
dents at Philander Smith Col- Switzerland, jobs consist of for- Do you want a job at a famous
Spain. The
lege favor general revision of estry work, child care work winter ski resort in Switzerland?
the Arkansas Constitution. Pro- (females only), farm work, ho- The American Student Information Service annouces that there
fessor Rapheal O. Lewis of the
(limited
Political Science Department tel w o r k construction number are still jobs open for the winter
available),
work, season and many more are
conducted a campus-wide sur- and some other more qualified
available for next summer in
vey at the request of the Arkansas Constitutional Revision jobs requiring more specialized Europe. The ASIS has successtraining.
fully placed students in Europe
Study Commission.
purpose
this
Philander Smith students al- is The afford the ofstudentprogram for over a decade. ASIS guarto
an opso overwhelmingly favor lower- portunity to get into real liv- antees a job in Europe for any
ing the voting age to 18, adopwith the
and student applying. Some sales
tion of a cabinet system within ing contact Europe. Inpeople way, jobs pay as high as $400 p e r
this
month. Many jobs are available
the executive branch of state customs of
a
government; granting no furth- to concrete effort can be made with no previous experience or
learn something of the cul- foreign language a b i l i t y reer responsibilities to the Lieu- ture of Europe.
return for
tenant Governor; limiting the his or her work,In the student quired. Room and board are arnumber of terms for which a will receive his or her room and ranged for with each job. The
Governor may serve; doubling board, plus a wage. However, most requested jobs are resort
the salaries of mayors; secret
keep in mind work, office work, lifeguarding,
ballots; biennial sessions of the students should be working on sales work, shipboard work, facthat they will
legislature; a bicameral rather the European economy a n d tory work, child care and camp
counselling work and f a r m
than a unicameral legislature;
election of judges; deletion of wages will naturally be scaled w o r k . Interesting work not
accordingly. The working con- found in the U.S. is living as a
city property tax ceilings from ditions (hours, safety, regulathe Constitution substituting a tions, legal protection, w o r k guest of welltodo European farequirement of a popular refer- permits) will be strictly control- milies in return for teaching
endum; and election of county led by the labor ministries of their children English. Job applications and detailed job detax assessors rather than a p - the countries involved.
n , can in
pointment.
help the studentsa,allo they wages,
In most cases, the employers scriptions h (ol orc t i photographs,
deriving
The Constitutional Revision have requested especially f o r working the umost from his trip
Study Commission has suggest- American students. Hence, they to Europe.
ed similar surveys by state and are particularly interested in the Please write for further inlocal government professors in student and want to make the formation and application forms
all Arkansas colleges relative to work as interesting as possible. to: American-European Studentrevision of the Arkansas Con- They are all informed of the Service, Box 34733, FL 9490
stitution.
intent of the program, and will Vaduz, Liechtenstein (Europe).
January 29, 1968
Peace Corps Will Assist
Volunteers Seeking
Draft Deferments For
Governor Winthrop Rockefel- Two Years
ler announced the receipt of a
WASHINGTON — The Peace
grant from the Ford Foundation Corps announced today if will
which will enable the State of intervene on behalf of VolunArkansas to establish, as a pilot teers seeking draft deferments
project, an Office of Educational for two years of overseas serResource Planning within t h e vice.
Office of the Governor. T h i s Agency Director Jack Vaughn,
office will assist the Goverby mounting inducnor in the creation, develop- concerned to Voluteers serving
tion calls
ment and coordination of state overseas, said he will take an
and regional planning in the "active role" in seeking future
area of education.
deferment cases before the PreWilliam Osborne, presetly Di- sidential Appeal Board — the
rector of Research, State Col- court of last resort for draft relege of Arkasas, has been named classifications.
Director and will assume his In the past the agency pernew post on January 1, 1968. formed a largely informational
Arrangements are being made
for the office to be located in function — advising Volunteers
Selective
the National Old Line Building. and trainees of procedures Service laws and
Other staff will be announced confirming to local boards and.
the
later.
fact of the Volunteer's service.
In making the announcement, In future appeals,
Governor Rockefeller pointed will write letters to theVaughn
board
out that even though Arkansas describing the circumstances in
has continued to experience eco- each case and urging b o a r d
nomic growth and development, members to grant a deferment
its resources still are limited. until completion of the Volun"Maximum value must, theretour.
fore," he commented, "be real- teer's overseas serious situation,"
"We have a
ized from limited financial re- he said. "The problem of inducsources if the state is to experience more-th an-average impro- tion notices to overseas Volunis
vement in all areas of educa- teers for becoming a amajor concern
us. Pulling Volunteer
tion."
a productive job at
The Governor explained that off unfair to the nation, mid-tour
the host
little contact has existed be- is
country, the Peace Corps and
tween some 70 different autono- the individual."
mous boards and commissions
involved with educational pro- Vaughn s a i d Peace Corps
blems. Educational r e s o u r c e Volunteers have lost about 60
planning will help to establish deferment appeals before the
beter communications between three-man board in the last six
these groups and will provide and one-half years. While adthe leadership and advice neces- verse rulings by the n a t i o n a l
sary to enhance the effectiveness board have involved less than
of decisions which must be made one-half of one per cent of the
estimated 15,000 draft-eligible
in the Governor' Office.
The potential value of such men to have served in the Peace
an office is particularly signifi- Corps, "virtually all of t h e s e
cant in terms of federal pro- have occured in the past year,"
grams. Funds from these pro- he said.
grams have played a vital role Of the approximately 25 Volin the improvement of educa- unteers who have already retional opportunities; however, at turned to the United States for
the same time, the ease with draft induction, two were diswhich funding can be accom- qualified for physical reasons
plished in certain areas, as well and returned to their overseas
as t h e mere availability of assignments.
funds, has resulted in the estab- The vast majority of Peace
lishment of certain programs Corps Volunteers are granted
which pose a financial liability deferments for two years of
if federal support is withdrawn. overseas duty because t h e i r
The office* will be concerned service is deemed by their local
with proposed legislation con- boards to be "in the national
cerning e d u c a t i o n ; logical interest," as recommended by
sources of funding (for example, Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, the
certain programs are underway draft director.
which are funded through fed- However, some local Selective
eral and state matching funds; Service boards refuse deferyet, these same programs could ments even though Peace Corps
be conducted through other fed- service does not relieve Voluneral programs where matching teers of their draft obligations.
funds were hot required); and If the local board is upheld by
means whereby both human and the State Appeal Board, t h e
physical resources can be com- case may reach the Presidential
bined in order to realize great- Appeal Board which makes the
est benefit from expenditures final decision.
and efforts.
The
Osborne, as director, will be monthsappeal process often takes
to be resolved
the
responsible directly to the Gov- Peace Corps frequentlyandsends
ernor. He will maintain close Volunteers to t h e i r overseas
contact with other offices in order to insure an integration of sites while appeals for defer
educational activities with oth ment are pending. Peace Corps,
Vaughn said the
er state functions.
having provided upwards of 400
His background includes six h o u r s of intensive language
years of college teaching ex- training during the 12 to 14
perience at the University of weeks of preparation, o f t e n
Texas and the State College of sends Volunteers overseas to beArkanas. He is the author of six gin service "rather than risk the
Journal articles; is a consultant loss of their newly-earned langto the United States Office of uage fluency during the l o n g
Education and has served as waits for final approval or disconsultant in various federal approval of deferment requests.**
programs in Texas, New Mexi Vaughn said, "So long as the
co, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Mary chances for deferment are good
land, Florida, Louisiana and Ar- this system makes sense, but as
kansas. He has directed t w o more and more Volunteers lose
major federal projects at State their appeals we may have to
College, the National Teacher reconsider the process and keep
Corps and Disadvantaged Youth them, a wasting asset, in t h e
Institute, and h a s served as United States until their cases
chairman of two U.S. Office of are resolved."
Education regional meetings.
He also said induction calls for
Volunteers overseas "disrupts
etc.) are available in the latest the continuity of c a r e f u l l y
ASIS booklet which interested planned projects by host counstudents may obtain by sending try governments who also have
$2 (for the job application, over- invested a large amount of time
seas handling and an air mail and money in the program."
reply) to Dept. IV, American Vaughn also noted that in a
Student Information Service, 22 number of cases, host country
Ave. de la Liberie, Luxembourg governments have been tenable
City, Grand Duchy of Luxem- to replace drafted Volunteer
teachers.
bourg.
�January 29, 1968
The Dirty War
How much longer will it be, Phyllis wondered as she dropped Will's
letter in the mailbox. A routine habit she had developed since the first
letter she had gotten from him when he was in training. Next stop was
the news stand, another daily routine. She stopped and talked to Max,
the guy that ran the news stand. How's Will? When had she heard from
him? How Soon would he be home? The same questions every morning
and she wished to God she knew the answers.
A sniper attack, killing several Americans and inflicting innumerable
injuries was the front page story that morning. She should have been
used to those reports by now, but each time she read or heard reports
about the war she'd stop dead still, almost afraid to breathe, praying
that Will was all right.
The usual good mornings and Phyllis was at her desk ready for
another long, lonely day. Two-hundred and fourteen days now since
Will had been gone and she wondered how many more days would come
and go before she could again know the security of his arms.
Somehow she just couldn't get her mind off Will that day. The
harder she worked the more she thought of him. She wondered if the
war would have some intangible affect on Will, but quickly abandoned
those thoughts. Will was an awfully stable man and it would take more
than a war to shake him.
Her skin flushed as she felt herself blushing with intimate thoughts
of Will. She remembered the plans they had made when he was home.
In another semester he would be out of school, but they had decided
to get married as soon as he was discharged. After all, she had a good
job and an awfully nice apartment and Will would have no problem
getting a job once he finished college. Somehow she didn't care how
hard things might be, just she and Will together was all that mattered.
Everything seemed so blurred and fictitious, as Will looked around
himself. "Where was he and what day was it?" He wondered. He
tried to move but the pain rushed through him so sharply he shook.
Then it all began to come back; he remembered the sniper attack, the
bullet he had taken, trying to get to safety and then he could remember
no more. He assumed that he had passed out and wondered how long it
had been.
Two soldiers lay beside him, they were both asleep or dead, Will
thought. When the medic came by Will asked him how long he had
been there. Three .days—Will imagined it must be Monday or Tuesday,
he wasn't really sure.
Later that day Will was told that he would be sent back to the
states, probably to one of the large military hospitals in San Diego. San
Diego . . . how close he would be to Phyllis.
Leaving that foreign burial ground at last, he had no regrets.
Suddenly he thought about his wound. He wondered if he would be
paralyzed or just what was wrong. They never sent wounded soldiers
state-side unless the injuries were pretty serious, and he couldn't even
move his legs.
The medic was frank when Will asked him why he was being sent
home. The bullet Will had taken lodged in the lower part of his stomach;
this was the reason he couldn't move his legs, the medic explained.
He was being sent home because the bullet had to be taken out and the
facilities there were inadequate for such a serious operation. Will
pumped the medic with every question he could thigfc of and he was
still uneasy. There was a possibility of partial paralysis and for the first
time Will was scared — not like the scares he got when he first saw real
action, his buddies getting torn to bits by the sffipers. No, this was a
different scare and suddenly Will feared home sM even worse—PhJKf
What a chicken son-of-a-bitch I am, everjlhing's okay. Will Hampton paralyzed . . . how ridiculous could he he.
In no time Will was aboard the big jet headed home. It wouldn't
be long, he thought, once they dug that damn slug out of his belly, it
was he and Phyllis and to hell with those damn VCSra
Already Phyllis had made plans to go to San Mego as soon as Will
had been admitted in the hospital. She didn't deny to herself that she
was scared for him, but Will would never know it. Whatever happened,
she would stick by him and she didn't have to convince herself.
After the news of his injury, she had been pretty worried. It had
come so unexpectedly and Will had treated it so casually. That was her
Will, Phyllis thought, with a quick, proud smile. Her Will, and what a
man he was. She felt guilty for her sudden desire, knowing Will was
somewhere hurt, but after all it had been a long time — too long, and
Phyllis had little or no control where Will was concerned.
Intimately and warmly she let herself be wrapped, for the moment,
in the passionate heat of love, as she had done so often since Will had
been away. Now that his homecoming was near she thrived on his
presence, his warmth, his kind and understanding manner — all the
qualities that made him so much man.
Dear God, how long it had been, she thought — now that the days
Solution To The
Drop-Out Problem
By
Herbert L. Benjamin III
All over the United States,
parents, students and faculty
members are alarmed by t h e
high percentage of freshmen
students who are unable to return to their colleges due to
poor scholarship. And oftent i m e s concerned individuals
wonder where to place t h e
blame when the students' high
School records seemed,to justify
that they were both capable and
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THE PANTHERNAUT
curious enough to do college
work.
Many people have ventured
into this problem and tried to
formulate basic alternatives to
aid and adjust freshmen to college work, and very few have
worked. Thus, out of concern I
shall attempt to present my
thoughts on the matter which
may prove to be worthy of
consideration.
To answer the question why
students have done, and will
continue to do so poorly in
their freshmen year is not easy,
there are no easy solutions. But
By Lynda Byrd
Second and Final Installment
were so few when again they would be together. Phyllis lived by this
realization alone. Will was coming home — finally coming back to
begin where things had so abruptly ended.
Soon she would be Mrs. Will Hampton, and how long she had waited
for that title. There was no doubt of Will's love. He had shown it in
every possible way, and in each of his letters his sole conversation was
centered around his homecoming. At last they would be together, but
even this didn't quite make Phyllis completely happy. She didn't want
to expect the best when there was a possibility of Will's wound leaving
some after effect, but she didn't want to think of Will in any other way
than the way she had come to know and love him.
All of the servicemen got the best attention, and Will was so glad
to be in San Diego that his injury and forthcoming suffiery were
secondary. The operation had been scheduled for the following Tuesday
and as soon as Will found out that he had almost a week to wait he
called Phyllis and asked her to come as soon as possible.
Phyllis was in San Diego in less than four hours and seeing Will,
well and still the handsome man she loved, she tried vainly, running
to him, to keep back the tears. Will was home, holding her the way
she had remembered and missed so much; between the tears she thanked
God for bringing him back to her.
Every available minute was spent together before the operation.
They discussed the partial paralysis and Phyllis assured him over and
over that nothing mattered as long as they were together. They remembered precious things, and wrapped themselves in the warmth of joy.
The operation was early that Tuesday morning. Phyllis sat quiet
and motionless during the two hour surgery that seemed a lifetime.
When Will came down, he asked for her and she was there — there by
his side where she hoped to spend her life.
Will's recovery was rapid — he only had to remain a few days for
tests. Phyllis went back to Oakland a few days early to make the
necessary preparations for his arrival. There had been a guarantee of
no paralysis, although Will was still in a wheel chair. This news
allayed Phyllis' apprehension.
Everything was working out so perfectly, and for the first time in
months Phyllis was a happy woman. Will made everything complete
and now that they would be . together nothing could stop them.
Sitting on the sun deck, of the seventh floor, Will thought" ofTfiow
wonderfully things had turned out for him and Phyllis. It seemed absurd
to appreciate a bullet wound, but somehow Will felt that bullet was a
gift from God. After all, he hadn't wanted to abandon his education
to play boy scout and now after seven months in that hole, he was
state-side, and state-side he would stay.
One final consultation with Dr. Grayson, who had performed the
surgery that made Will a man again, and good-bye San Diego. Everyday since the operatim Will had to undergo tests. "Just routine procedure," Will's nurse, Mrs. Norten, had said, and Will didn't mind as
long as he would be on his way to Phyllis. And in a matter of hours
he would be just that.
After a hardy lunch, Will steered his wheel chair swiftly through
the corridors to Dr. Grayson's plush little office at the end of the ninth
floor.
Dr. Grayson sat erect behind his large desk, with the usual emergency expression plastering his aged, rugged face. Will entered rapidly,
hoping that the consultation would be as rapid.
Some hours later, Will rolled out of Dr. Grayson's office with a
petrified expression. Returning to his room, he sat staring out into the
busy main street, emotionally blind to the busy, rushed San Diego
traffic.
Will thought for the first time since the conference with Dr. Grayson about Phyllis. Dear God what could half a man do with a woman
like her? He loved her with all he had to give, but how could he tie
her to him now? "Why the hell couldn't paralysis have been the problem?" he stammered. Time didn't mean a thing now. The plane that
was to take him to Phyllis had probably reached Oakland hours ago.
Still sitting before the window, Will looked out into the now black
streets of San Diego. Somehow it was as dark as the stinking hole in
which he had caught the bullet that had left him now so shallow and
so less a man. Emptiness oozed through his body — emptiness that
surpassed anything he had felt before, and as the night crept into early
morning, Will knew what he must do.
It didn't take long to write to Phyllis, and as much as he tried, he
couldn't fight the tears. He wept so hard he grew weak — weak as a
man, weak because he loved Phyllis so much but could never have her.
As the early dawn christened a new day, Will knew he had done
the only thing he could do and respect himself for It; he loved her, only
God knew how much, but he wasn't a selfish man.
my teaching experiences a n d ninth and tenth graders; t h e n consideration — gear each stuobservations have directed me upon completion of high school dent's academic activities to fit
to locate the symptoms of the and towards college, they are average college standards, rather
problems around these v i e w required to take Biology In the than gearing it to meet their
points.
freshman year. This seems to high school's own graduation
First, I really think that the me a grave mistake. As we all requirements; for we no longer
high school curriculum needs to know, forgetting is a natural obtain comfortable paying jobs
be revised in part and geared to process. Therefore a course like by achieving a high school dimeet college standards. It is my Biology should be taught In the ploma, it is the amount of colone has acfirm belief that m o s t high eleventh and twelfth grades, so lege preparation those who are
quired.
schools have not kept pace with that the student would be in unable Of course It in college
to make
the changing times, and t h e stride when he enters college would stand a chance In the
scheduling of courses seems to and the one or two year lapse of many vocational schools.
be the decisive factor. To be this course would not be experi- The second p o i n t , in my
specific. Let us take a course enced. This could be one area opinion, to answer the question
like Biology; this course I have the authorities in the P u b l i c
so many
observed is being offered to School System should take into why (Continued students fail in
on page 4)
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Highlights
t
THE PANTHERNAUT
January 29, 1968
Of 1967
Robert Boyers, literary critic,
I' social and cultural commentator, and teacher at the Baruch
School of the City University
of New York, lecturing on
'Literature and Politics.' Mr.
Boyers visited classes and
served as artist-ini-residence
Robbie Bush and Lottie Williams are shown here in the November 6-10. His visit was
The First Annual All Greek the at Philander Smith.
Drama Department's presentation of The Glass Managerie by sponsored by the Lyceum Com- Leonard Johnson was in charge of Ball music. The ball was
Tennessee Williams.
mittee.
held in the cafeteria.
University personnel were out- of a model school at Philander Solution To The
Dates For NTE
lined in this initial request for Smith. This is a natural for
financial support: a series of teacher training — a pre-school Drop-Out Problem
Announced
faculty visits to
example, would (Continued from page 3)
(Continued from page 1) Rock and Buffaloboth the Lttle center, asfor learning lab for
College seniors preparing to
a serve
a
well as for each faculty mem cultural exchange campuses,a m much-n e e d e d personnel in their freshman year, is the in- teach school may take the Naprogr
terest of students themselves. tional Teacher Examinations on
ber to attend at least one pro (specifically, a
series
fessional meeting in his disci- of lectures and Lyceum to be young childhood education and, We have often heard the foolish any of the three different test
recitals
at the same time, provide Litd e n dates announced
pline each year.
held at Philander Smith), grad- tle Rock with a kind of "Head statement: "If the s t u didn'tt Testing Service, by Educational
a non-profit,
doesn't learn the teacher
Basic improvements were al uate study, including Summer Start" facility. Interestingly,
educational organization
so directed toward the school's study, at the University for the Philander Smith, like many teach." But it seems to meathat prepares and administers which
this
650 students. During 1965-66, College's faculty, teaching-re- other Negro institutions in the students need motivation; n d
program.
library hours were extended search internships at Philander South, encompassed primary student motivation can only be testing dates for the testing of
achieved by
motivating New
from 54 to 69 hours a week and Smith for UniveMty grad stu grades until 1924 and a high themselves students themselves. prospective teachers are: Febamong
dents and development of a school as recently as 1936. The By this' I mean, studying to- ruary 3, April 6, and July 6,
stacks and carrels were opened
to the student body. A central remediation program for un model school proposal, based gether in groups, competing 1968. The tests will be given at
guidance office with a three der-prepared students at Phil- quite soundly on the snowball against each
in
classthroughout
quarter time director was ander Smith. The go-ahead was principle that better teachers room, strivingotherwritethe better nearly 500 locations ETS said.
to
the United States,
created. Also instituted was an received for all of these except will produce better-qualified paper than the other a
student,
be a cenoffice of spiritual guidance, re the Lyceum series, which was incoming freshmen, has not yet and in general competition to Philander Smith willand July 6
ter for the April 6
to have been integrated into a been implemented.
fleeting the school's strong
academic honor
Methodist orientation. A week- PR campaign to improve the In addition to 16 short visits hold the highestachieved. Stated administrations.
be
long intensive orientation pro College's image in the eyes of to Buffalo by College person- that might this means coopera- Results of the National Teachdifferently,
gram for freshmen was initi the Little Rock community. nel, four Philander Smith fac- tion among themselves outside er Examinations are used by
ated, employing such tech One year) and $65,000 in Fed ulty members studied on cam- the classroom, and competition many large school districts as
one of several factors in the
niques as a film on campus eral fund? later, Philander pus this
n g themselves
life, small group sessions, and Smith is a slightly different modern Summer. The school's a m o competitive spiritinside.u lIf selection of new teachers and
languages chairman, this
co d
"Big Brothers and Sisters." place.
is full-time
among stu- by several states for" certificaof teachers.
Faculty advisers were assigned For example, during the 1966- Hubert Papailler, herea this year. only be achieveddrop-out rate tion or licensing requires all
graduate student
dents
to each new student to counsel 67 academic year, 20 of our per- A Haitian-born novelist, poet would then theimmensely. Be- Philander Smith to teach to
decline
seniors
him throughout his first col- sonnel visited Philander Smith and linguist, he also teaches a cause each student will be com- take the preparing
examinations.
lege year.
as consultants on curriculum beginning French course in peting honestly and with inLeaflets indicating s c h o o l
In 1965, students also pub- and program development and MFC.
tegrity.
systems and state departments
lished the first issue of a cam- financial operations. Budget Faculty exchange (two Uni
|gE|mmendations were made, versity graduate students in Competition in the class room of education which use the expus newspaper, The Pantherexist
following form;
naut, and got their first recrea- professional advice on the Col- math and English are teaching mayus sayin the Bill is majoring amination results are distribthat
tional center, 600 square feet lege's new science building was at Philander Smith during '66 let Business Administration — uted to colleges by ETS. testing,
On each
given, but the big accomplishin the basement of the men's ment was the establishment of '67, following, the pattern set in should not allow any aver- prospective full day of take
teachers may
in recent years by the Wood- he
dorm gussied up with chairs,
make the C o m m o n Examinations,
sofas, vending machines, and a full-fledged remediation cen- row Wilson teaching internship age student in Sociology toin Ac- which measures the professional
ter, which
of
ping-pong and billiard tables. mendations grew out Dr. recom- program) sometimes results in a higher grade than him
general culturThis
made
These changes were not, clear- Besag, Dr. RichardbySalzer,Frank mild cultural shock. Over-bur- counting.attitude is competition preparation andof teachers, and
and
among the stu- al background
and
ly, revolutionary. Students at Dr. Don A. Brown of Educa- dened Philander Smith faculty dentsthis
Examthemselves will
v e one of
are
surprised to learn
Philander Smith do not sit-in tional Studies and Dr. Taher that often everyone teaches 15 beneficial if this could p r oput inations13 Teaching Areamastery
which measure
be
not
outside the President's office A. Razijc, director of the AV hours a week. And Eastern into operation.
of the subject they expect to
Sunday chapel is still required Communication Center.
salaries are always a blow.
Thirdly — to answer w h y teach. Bulletin of Information
and the "Panther Retreat
A.
would probably fit neatly into There have been instances The Buffalo end of the ex- freshmen students fail, would containing a list
centers,
Norton's card room, but even at Philander Smith when stu- change is administered by an seem to me, in students' values and information of test the exabout
dents
purchase
these first, tentative steps books failed tofaculty didtext- autonomous faculty committee, — a great majority of them aminations, as well as a Regis—
not "the Committee for Coopera- have no values, no goals, no
t o w a r d student autonomy urge them anddo
may be
to
because
moved the College closer to it was understood so — the kids tion with Predominantly Negro time able, they are not aware of tration Form,R. Porter, obtained
Director
that
Colleges," with about 30 active themselves. It seems to me from Mrs. F.
coming of age.
members, including, in addition that a student should have some of Testing.
Academic improvements were couldn't read them.
also made. A "block system" After spending a day in Lit- to l a those mentioned earlier, values, or goals and a calendar
A n
for the school's many student tle Rock, meeting with Presi- Axelrod, Andreasen, Seymour marked as to when he is going on achieving a good education
Eddins,
dent Dixon,
teachers was devised, which al- tion Allen L. Dean of Instruc- ry Green,Berkley Johnson, Lar- to achieve them. A freshman when they begin college t h e
Erwin
JaWard, and others,
lows them to avoid class con- Drs. Besag and Salzer drew up cob Marinsky, Edgar Mayer, student should be aware that failure rate will be lessened.
flicts while completing the pro- plans for an Educational De- John Milligan, Charles Pail- college takes the maximum of In conclusion, if we would like
gram of off-campus directed velopment Center which t h i s thorp, and Stanley Wass. Mick- five years going full time to to heal the wound of the failure
teaching required for certifica- year was funded under Title ie Pailthorp, a Reed College complete, and he should set his rate — the high school system
graduation
time.
tion to teach in Arkansas pub- III.
gear
graduate (and faculty wife), has his goalfor that aware If he shouldcollege their curriculum to
and is
of it,
lic schools.
standards. Secondwas recently appointed part- he should make a desperate ef- meet
For the first time, a con- The Center, described in the time coordinator of the project.
ly, students need a greater comfort to reach it. Perhaps many petitive relationship a m o n g
scious effort was made to give current Philander Smith catafaculty members course assign- logue as a freshman division At regular Tuesday noon students values are set on earn- themselves. T h i r d l y , students
ments as far as possible within concentrating upon basic learn- wrangles in Norton, over bag ing while learning; this I do not need to place their values in
their field of competence, a ing skills, provides a curricu- lunches and the sound of ap- welcome, unless in extreme and the idea of learning, rather than
real problem at Philander lum comparable to the pre- ples being crunched, the Com- uavoidable situations. If stu- earning. Then, when we get
Smith where the teacher short freshman year program devel- mittee makes policy. Recently, dents could place their values t h e s e freshmen students, it
age spreads everyone a little oped at Shaw University in it was decided to expand the
would be our responsibilities as
thin.
Raleigh, North Carolina, a pre- group's interest to other pre- works w h e n thousands in instructors to teach the strucA learning lab, incorporating dominantly Negro institution dominantly Negro schools, pos- Northern ghetto schools suffer ture of our discipline, that lift
electronic equipment for lan- with similar problems. This sibly beginning with the con- what a Boston teacher has re- emphasising it in such a way
guage instruction (the best in year, 80 students are enrolled sortium of five Negro colleges cently termed death at an early that seeks to give the student
as quickly as possible a sense of
the State, according to the in the Center's remedial read- in Louisiana and Arkansas in age.
chairman of the school's mod- ing program, as many in its which Philander Smith partici- Reservations it has, but the the fundamental ideas of o u r
ern language department), was remedial English course (a pates. The decision to grow Committee continues to work discipline. For if we teach the
installed, as was an audio- speech therapist is also on the suggests that the Committee very hard for a non-radical, structure of the discipline we
staff). Under the direction of rates itself as at least a partial partial solution to the problem give understanding, we encourvisual center.
This was the climate at Mrs. Robbie L. Lyle, the Cen- success. Doubts remain. Off of unequal education. Some- age retention, and we promote
Philander Smith when Bald- ter has established invaluable the record, individual members times, members must feel like transfer and learning. Therewin-Wallace and the Univers- contacts with Little Rock Up- admit that Philander Smith the sparrow of that fable who fore, if we can put these original
ity stepped in. As educators ward Bound, hopes to improve may never become first rate, spent centuries pecking away ideas into operation, parents,
are wont, the three-college its own program through the that the University's role in the at a hillside. This is a laborious students and faculty members
exchange occasionally smacks way to level a mountain. In will have a better peace of mind
committee applied almost im- use of teaching machines.
mediately for Title III funds. The Buffalo profs have also of paternalism. You don't have just two years, though, they've after their sons and daughters
Six projects directly involving recommended the development to go South to do your good made a small dent in Little complete their freshman year.
Buffalo Looks
At Philander
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