Newspaper Page Text
THI WIST GEORGIAN FRIDAY ARRIi 17. 1979
2
3 speakers highlight awareness week
/Mays:
Bakke ruling slows
black advancement
BY KICKY MEHAFFEY
Because of the California vs.
Bakke case, universities will
move at a slower pace in hiring,
placing and admitting blacks,
Dr. Benjamin Mays told an
audience at the H.P.E. Building
Wednesday night.
Mays, a noted educator and
author, was one of three
prominent speakers featured at
West Georgia during Black
Awareness Week.
He examined the current
Jones Bakke decision in
California, where the Supreme
Court, in a split decision, ruled
that the California at Davis
Medical School discriminated
against Bakke, a white student,
because of its affirmative ac
tion program.
“I had hoped that the
Supreme Court would have
refused to hear the case and
leave college admissions to
schools. This opens up a Pan
dora’s box as suits will come
from all over the place,” said
Mays.
“Even Associate Justice
Thurgood Marshall said that
the Court forgot what the 14th
Amendment was about... to
make up for 340 years of
slavery, segregation and
degradation the black man has
endured.”
Mays, who was president of
Morehouse for 37 years, said
that Harvard Medical has the
best answer to admissions
discrimination in that it seeks to
achieve diversity in enrolling
people from all over the world.
Vivian Jones
Continued from page 1
salary. All my work is volun
teer. One of the reasons is that
none of the job offers that I’ve
had have fit into the five-year
plan that I have right now.”
Jones urged all blacks, male
and female, to get involved in
politics, stating that only about
half of the eligible black voters
in this country are registered to
vote.
“When you can’t get a job,
one of the reasons is that some
politician has made a decision
that that’s not important.”
Among her political ac
tivities, Jones has found that
coalition building is a major
NOTICE
The West Georgian extends its sincere
apologies to Elizabeth Diaz for the poor taste
displayed in a caption below her picture in last
week’s paper, and regrets any inconvenience or
annoyance it may have caused her.
The staff of the paper did not intend for the
caption to personally reflect on Miss Diaz.
“It has eight percent blacks,
seven percent Asian islanders,
and four percent Hisponics.”
He said that one problem with
black doctors is that they do not
want to serve in rural areas.
“They all want to come to
Atlanta. Somebody must serve
the black community in rural
sections of the South. I have a
proposal that the federal
government should take a black
medical school graduate,
provide and equip an office for
him (or her) and tell him to go
to the rural areas of the nation.
The government should
guarantee him $36,000 a year as
long as he spends five years in
rural areas.
“I don’t believe the federal
government would turn this
down; more research would
prove this could be done.”
Mays said that the federal
government is not concerned
with the health of all people.
“If the diseases that plague
black people, such as sickle cell
anemia, hypertension and
arthritis were ravaging the
white people, every politician
and every rich white man in the
country would move quickly to
do something about these
diseases.”
Mays closed by saying that
Bakke was not a brilliant
student who might not do well at
the Davis Medical School.
“Ten medical schools turned
him down. We have evidence he
was a planted case. If he does
well we’ll hear from him, but if
he flunks out he’ll be in sad
shape.”
concern.
“Sometimes it is very im
portant to work together with
other organizations to get a job
done.”
Jones urged black women to
be assertive, to speak out for
what they believed in. She also
discussed the problems that
some black women have when
they are put into positions of
authority ; often not getting the
support they need from friends
and “higher-ups.”
The program concluded with
questions from the audience
and a reception hosted by the
sorority.
Blacks are facing education
challenges, Townsend says
BY SCOTT FREEMAN
Before a sparse but en
thusiastic crowd, celebrating
Black Awareness Week Monday
night, President Maurice
Townsend cited education as
the greatest challenge facing
blacks in today’s society.
“If you walked into my office
with a Master’s degree or
preferably a Phd. looking for a
job, I’d be interested in hiring
you because you'd be intelligent
and speak for a group of in
dividuals who need input.
“If there was discrimination,
it would be in your favor. In the
next 10 years you will be the
most sought after people for
jobs and have the most op
portunities in the country - if
you are educated.”
Townsend told the group that
in 1969, when he was an ad
ministrator at Indiana State, it
meant something different to be
black than it does now.
“Then you had a great need to
be different. Psychologically
you needed the support of other
The Super Student Contest Is Back!
Listen To WLBB/WBTR And Register Today
To Win A New Stereo, Albums, And More!
WLBBuoo M SUPER STUDENT w
+ contest
WBTR FM 92
Fill OUT THIS CARD AND YOU COULD WIN YOUR PART OF 300 l.P.'s. A COMPLETE STEREO * SYSTEM,
AND FIFTY CASES OF MELLOW YELLOW!
LISTEN TO 1100 AM - WLBS or 92 FM-WBTR • FOR COMPLETE DETAILS.
NAME
AGE SCHOOL
ADDRESS
PHONE Home Room/or Class
No. of hours you listen to
Radio per day Havo you triad Mallow Yallow? yas/or no
Do you Hava an (The Worlds Fastest Soft Drink)
AM or FM radio?
WIN THE STEREO FROM
WLBB wU1?192
See the Stereo System at
Denim Depot in the Lake
Carroll Mall. Clip and Mail
this Coupon to Super Student,
P. O. Box 569 Carrollton,
30117. Listen for the Super
Student Contest on 1100 AM
WLBB/WBTR FM 92
blacks.”
He said that he formed a
committee that established an
Afro-American degree program
at the school.
“It was something that
shouldn't have had to be done.
VOLKSWAGEN SERVICE
CENTER
of Carrollton OFFER GOOD THRU APRIL
TUNE-UPS, BRAKE SERVICE, /
ENGINES REBUILT
SCAT A THUNDERBIRD if JIM
HIPERFORMANCE yf
PARTS. ( f/f(SsL Iff&k
10% OFF ALL m 2(( y
PARTS WITH AD
JIMMY HARRIS 218% NEWNAN ROAD
404-834-2561 (Next to Carroll Mattress)
The things that were taught
such as the contributions of
blacks in America, should have
been taught in regular courses
but weren’t.” But he said that
society has gone beyond that
point now.
Continued on page II
I
r