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February 6, 1997 AUGUSTA FOCUS
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reporter. And Augusta Focus’pub
lisher, State Senator Charles W.
Walker.
Someone threw him the obvious
question, but Dr. Bloodworth
didn’t know exactly why Augusta
was chosen to receive a visit from
the president. He did say, how
ever, that he had heard President
Clinton was to visit Georgia, but
that Atlanta was out of the ques
tion.
Inside, more agents waited like
Ferminators in the aisles, scan
ning the growing crowd, missing
nothing. Augusta State’s jazz en
semble practiced the national an
them and “Georgia on My Mind.”
Allison Jones -the young Au
gustan who sang for President
Clinton at his first inauguration -
- tried out her voice while camera
men claimed their spots and posi
tioned their equipment. Specta
tors filed slowly in, first filling the
floor in front of the press box, then
the bleachers.
- Anticipation became a nearly
tangible net binding the crowd
until the trumpets sounded, and
the man each American has seen a
thousand times, but few with their
own eyes, stepped through the
curtaininto aflood of cheers, while
flashbulbs ignited the room.
“It’s good to be in a place where
no one I hear speaking has an
accent,” President Clinton said,
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l BLAacK HISTORY MONTH ‘
Each year during the observance of Black History Month, Augusta State University presents
programs to the community on African American culture and history. Please join the students,
faculty, and staff of ASU as we celebrate the heritage of African Americans.
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WHAT'S UP?
FEBRUARY 6 [EBONICS: WHAT's UP?,
presented by Dr. Evelyn Dandy, professor
of education, Armstrong Atlantic State
University. Butler Lecture Hall, noon, free.
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and told the crowd Mayor Larry
Sconyers had promised him “some
good barbecue.” The crowd
laughed, grateful for a way to work
off their nervousness.
The meat of the president’s
speech warned spectators that
education is the only way the
people of America will make it
successfully in the new millen
nium. He spoke of President
Theodore Roosevelt’s Rural Elec
trification Project that made dras
tic changes in the lives of poor
Georgians, and said that universal
education would have similar
sweeping effects.
“We have to give people another
way to turn the lights on,” he said.
However, he added, this time,
“We can’t just flip a switch.”
The president wants to give col
lege students a $1,500 tax credit,
as well as SIO,OOO tax deduction
for all post-secondary education.
Plus, he said, he plans to recom
mend a ssl billion education bud
get, the largest the nation hasever
had.
Another part of his plan for edu-
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FEBRUARY 11 THE MEETING,
a musical play about a fictional meeting
between Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and
Malcolm X, performed by Pin Points
National Theatre Touring Company.
Grover C. Maxwell Performing Arts
Theatre, 8 p.m., $5, $3.
Two programs which celebrated Black History Month were held during January to kick
off the annual observance at Augusta State University. A joint ceremony with ASU, the
Medical College of Georgia, and Paine College brought the community together at MCG's
auditoria to hear the choirs of ASU and Paine as well as the inspirational words of
President Emeritus Julius S. Scott, Jr.
About 500 students, faculty, staff, and community members attended a play Jan. 21 of
Our Black Men are Dying and Nobody Seems to Care. The presentation stirred the emotions of
the audience to both tears and laughter as their message was delivered with intensity,
poignancy, humor, and realism.
The programs comprise part of the university'’s celebration of African
American history and reflect its commitment to cultural diversity.
cation rests in developing a set of
national standards, which would
involve testing the studentsof each
state to see where the school sys
tems lie along the continuum. He
warned against seeing such tests
assome sort of totem-pole ranking
of states to determine which are
the “good” ones and which are the
“bad” ones. “Thatisnot the point,”
he said, and reminded spectators
that, though some school systems
might not score well at first, a
national standard test would al
low them to see where they needed
work, what their children just
aren’t getting.
He firmly believes, he said, that
children perform according to the
expectations made of them. “How
many of them are capable of doing
it with the brains they’ve got?” he
asked. “Nearly all of them.”
He plans to mobilize a million
strong army of tutors so that, “by
the year 2000, every eight-year
old can pick up a book and say ‘I
can read this all-by-myself.’”
President Clinton then cited re
search that says emotionally
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FEBRUARY 13 THE VOICES OF THE
FRANKLINS: A CELEBRATION OF BLACK HISTORY
WITH POEMS AND SONGS FROM THE ClviL WAR TO
THE PRESENT. Butler Lecture Hall, noon, free.
healthy children tend to have re
ceived about 700,000 positive con
tacts from parents within their
first four years. But many par
ents, he said, provide their chil
dren with as few as 150,000 posi
tiveexperiencesin thattime. Those
parents need to be educated, he
said, so that the children have more
of a chance to become contribut
ing citizens.
“Learning has got to become a
lifetime endeavor,” he said.
The federal government is also
going to become involved in pro
viding school systems with con
struction funds, he said. “The na
tional government’s never done
this before. It wouldn’t be doing it
now,” he added, but too many stu
dents are spending their days in
portable classrooms.
Finally, President Clinton
named the Internet a major
weapon in the struggle for educa
tional opportunity. For one thing,
he said, students will be “more
interested in learning to read and
write if they have access to tech
nology.” But the real benefit, he
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said, will be to give each student -
- no matter what school system
they’re in -the same chance at
“the same knowledge, in the same
way, at the same time.” For the
first time, the playing field will be
leveled for each student, no mat-
Augusta State Reese Library
contributed to presidential visit
By Lillian Wan
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
The day before President Bill
Clinton visited Augusta State Uni
versity (ASU) on February sth, his
advance men requested a book dis
play filling about 100 feet of shelving.
Reese Library fersonnel helped set
up such a display by providing ap
proximately 3,500 books. Library
staff members pulled the books from
various areas of the library, packed
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ter their economic backgrounds. .
The president then scanned the
audience, pausingat first one face, .
then another. “This is a call to
action,” he told them.
“I am committed to doing my
part. But you must do yours.”
ed the boxes into two trucks and
shipped them to the Athletic Com
plex. There, ASU personnel from the
library, Physical Plant and other de
partments unloaded the books and
setthem uponthenewshelvesonthe
ground floor. The job took a full day
to complete.
After the president’s visit, the dis
play will be dismantled. The various
efforts of the ASU staff members in
setting up such a display with 3,500
Reese Library books were much ap
preciated.
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