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The Maroon Tiger
March 19, 1979
Dr Spight Receives Honor
Dr. Carl Spight
Dr. Carl Spight, chairman of
the Morehouse College Physics
Department was honored recently
for distinguished service by the
American Association of Physics
Teachers.
The tribute reads in part, “The
results of Carl Spight’s educational
leadership at Morehouse College
can be seen in the quality of the
physics graduates, who are consist
ently accepted at the best graduate
schools in the country. One cannot
attribute this phenomenon solely
to the abilities of the students, for
they frequently come poorly pre
pared when they arrive at More
house. Rather, it is the training
they receive and the enthusiasm for
science that is instilled in them as
they pursue their program in the
department headed by Carl Spight.
They are the best and most tangible
evidence of Carl Spight’s success in
physics teaching.”
Dr. Spight received his under
graduate degree at Purdue Univer
sity, and the Ph.D. degree in
physics at Princeton University.
He has continued his research
interest in plasma physics while
also becoming extremely active in
the national community of physi
cists to promote programs for
minority students. He has chaired
the American Physical Society’s
Committee on Minorities, was
instrumental in founding the
Society of Black Physicists, and
has worked very effectively to
upgrade the quality, of physics
teaching at predominantly black
colleges.
In efforts to introduce minority
students to professional research in
physics, Dr. Spight has served as
consultant to Bell Laboratories’
Cooperative Research Fellowship
Program, lecturer in the Stanford
Linear Accelerator Summer
Science Program, and director or
participant in numerous work
shops and conferences concerned
with this task. He has also written
extensively on minority participa
tion in physics as well as research
and training opportunities for
minority students.
One Million Jobs for Youth Target
of National OIC Campaign
Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 16-One
million youth job placements and
one million written appeals to
President Carter and the Congress
to target federal dollars for youth
jobs and training are the dual goals
of a nationwide campaign
launched today by OIC of
America.
At a press conference here, Rev.
Leon H. Sullivan, founder and
chairman of OIC, detailed plans
for community “Help Our Youth”
rallies which will be held during the
week of March 25 in 200 cities
where Opportunities Industrializa
tion Centers for the disadvantaged
are located.
OIC’s national clergy committee
will initiate the rallies in local
churches with the involvement of
elected officials; business, industry
and community leaders; organiza
tions; and interested citizens.
At the rallies, and over a 100-day
campaign, unemployed youths will
be matched with specific job
opportunities within firms ranging
from major corporations to small
local businesses and then enlisted
to undertake OIC training to qual
ify them for the pledged employ
ment. Simultaneously, attempts
will be made to obtain one million
signatures appealing for Presiden
tial and Congressional action to
establish a national youth policy
with adequate funding.
The campaign is aimed at reach
ing school drop-outs, juvenile
offenders, welfare family youths
and young veterans under 21 years
of age.
“America has three million
unemployed young people,” Rev.
Sullivan declared, “and up to 60
percent of our minority youths are
unemployed. The danger of a per
manent underclass of Americans
swelling the welfare rolls and over
flowing the unemployment offices
is one we cannot afford to ignore.”
Citing OIC’s 15-year history of
providing job training for some
500,000 individuals, one-third of
whom came off the welfare rolls,
the Black Baptist minister, who is
on the board of General Motors,
said he would personally “knock
on the doors” of major industrial
ists as he did when he solicited the
job pledges which enabled him to
established the first OIC self-help
facility in 1964 in Philadelphia.
“Only this time,” he noted, “I
have the backing of an OIC
national industrial advisory coun
cil representing more than 30 of
America’s top business enterprises.
“The strategy of this program,”
Rev. Sullivan said, “is simple. One
million youths, holding productive
jobs, will add billions and billions
of dollars in new wages and taxes
to the American economy.”
The job pledges and appeal sig
natures generated by the campaign
are to be presented to President
Carter during OIC’s annual convo
cation June 10-14 in Washington
by a committee of 100 clergy lead
ers representing all faiths and
denominations. At the same time,
senators and congressman will be
petitioned and Vice President
Mondale and House Speaker Tip
O’Neill will be asked to receive the
appeals on behalf of their col
leagues in a ceremony on the steps
of the Capitol Building.
Rev. Sullivan told the press that'
it will take OIC five years to reach
the goal of one million youths
placed on jobs “if we get the sup
port we need from the private sec
tor, the prime sponsors, the states
and federal government.” He said
the “Help Our Youth” campaign
will involve all other community-
based organizations of demon
strated effectiveness in job training
and job placement, to the extent
that they wish to participate.
“Their participation will be wel
come,” he said.
Approximately 5,000 delegates
and supporters are expected to
attend the June convocation.
“We hope to stir the consciences
and lift the sights of the decision
makers and. our nation’s leaders
beyond ‘meat-ax' percentage cuts
in the federal budget. We want
them to be selective in their anti
inflation targeting and not sacrifice
our youth on the altar of anti
inflation policies and balanced
budgets,” Rev. Sullivan said.
ICBO Director Speaks
On Site Interviews
Made Easy
Eastern Airlines, Inc. has deve
loped a service to aid students tra
veling on corporate interviews.
This service is called the Student
TRIP Service.
TRIP, short for Travel Reserva
tions Interview Program, is the ser
vice Eastern uses to issue airline
tickets to students traveling for on
site interviews.
Here is how TRIP works: Once
you are notified that you are
invited for an on-site interview,
simply call Eastern’s Reservation
Office and ask for the Student
TRIP Desk. (Be patient and per
sistent, this is not a well publicized
service).
Tell the reservations agent the
name of the company that invited
you, the company’s address, the
name and telephone number of the
person that invited you. The reser- 1
vations agent will call the company
to confirm this information and
issue you a non-redeemable airline
ticket. The company will pay East
ern for your ticket. If the company
does not offer you a ticket and if
you do not have ready cash to pay
for your ticket, this service will
help you greatly.
SGA Works For You
by D. J. McDowell
Despite inner problems, the
Morehouse College Student
Government Association is well at
work serving its student body. This
semester, students can look for
ward to seeing a very active SGA
which has an unusually large
budget, about six thousand dol
lars, this semester. This year, the
SGA has the largest second semes
ter budget of any SGA in More
house history since it did not
produce the expensive annual
homecoming concert. SGA Presi
dent Gregory Griffin said that the
student body can look out for these
and many other tentative activities
and services during this semester:
1) color TV in the Fredrick Dou
glass Commons; 2) campus
laundry room; 3) three day reading
period before final exams; 4)
spring picnic; 5) music festival.
by Lorenzo Taylor
Dr. Malcom L. Corrin, Execu-.
tive Director of the Interracial
Council for Business Opportunity,
(ICBO) delivered the keynote
address at Morehouse’s 112th
Founder’s Day Banquet, held on
Friday, February 17, 1978. ICBO
is a national bi racial economic
development corporation organ
ized to assist blacks and other
minorities to enter the mainstream
of American business. Dr. Corrin
has been Executive Director of
ICBO since 1974. Dr. Corrin is also
an alumnus of the class of ‘50 and a
member of Omega Psi Phi Frater
nity, Inc.
Dr. Corrin addressed a packed
house of parents, students and
administrators in Walter R. Oliv
ers Dining Hall. His speech
covered the areas of the black fam
ily, the black college and econom
ics. Dr. Corrin stated “... young
people today have an obligation to
keep the Black family together. I
am quite concerned about where
the young Black people of today
are going.” Turning his remarks to
the Black college, Dr. Corrin
pointed out that “I am what More
house made me. If Harvard had
given me a full scholarship, I would
have turned it down and payed my
way to Morehouse College.” It is
Dr. Corrin’s position that a student
should go through two stages
before he is ready to cope with the
responsibilities of the real world.
The first is to realize and perpetu
ate the building block of Black
unity, the responsibilities of family
ties. The second is the Black col
lege, which educates the student on
the basis of unity and achievement
for the Black race, and the better
ment of all mankind.
Dr. Corrin realized the adverse
conditions of today’s society
weighed against the factors for suc
cess. He added, “You can over
come all kinds of obstacles if you
have it inside. Morehouse gave me
this needed something through the
faculty, staff, student body, friends
and others in the college family.”
Dr. Corrin stated that there is a
need to reaccess the economic
impact of intergration on Blacks.
Since politics and economics have
always been interwoven, blacks
should exercise leverage whenever
possible, through their economic
and political clout.
Black Women Understand
Hair Better Than Others
New York, February 22-Black
women understand their hair bet
ter than most other women accord
ing to New York hair stylist
Christiaan, who cautioned in an
interview released today that Black
hair should never be cut when it’s
dry.
“Black hair can be deceiving
when it is dry,” Christiaan
explained in the current issue of
Redbook’s Be Beautiful, a bian
nual beauty magazine. “Once wet,
you can judge its true texture.”
“For most Black women, the
Afro is passe,” the stylist com
mented. “The shaped, full hairdo is
in; so are corn-rows and rolls.” He
said Black women understand hair
better because they have had to
overcome real problems of curl
and texture.”