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Candidates, amendments endorsed Page 1 VOLUME 14 NUMBER 23 Paine College: Methodists’ ‘Holy Audacity’ by Luther P. Jackson Jr. Back in Augusta, Ga., as president of his alma mater after fifteen years at Indiana university, William H. Harris bounded across the Paine College campus with the confidence of a man who has been around the world and discovered there is no place like home. As I huffed and puffed alongside his six-foot, four-inch frame, I asked, “Can Black colleges be saved?” “The question is, should they be saved?“ Harris responded. And my answer to that is an emphatic and non-apologetic “yes.” With the 101-year-old college between its summer and fall terms, Harris pierced the serenity of the tree-lined campus with these wor ds; “Black colleges absolutely must be saved if we’re going to help Black people who have not ben picked up by the mvement toward the integration of white in stitutions. Dr. William H. Harris “The mission of Paine and the other Black colleges must be to make sure that these young folk many of whom are extraordinarily intelligent are not lost to our communities and to our country.” It had not been too long since Harris himself had sat with Wanda Fillmore, his wife-to-be, out on the 200-yard campus green known by Paineites as the “central plain.” Aside from a left-angled row of dormitories, campus life swings between a dozen or so buildings anchored by the red-bricked Haygood-Holsey administration building at the east and the steepled Gilbert-Lambuth Memorial Chapel at the west end of the green. As a symbol of Paine’s creation by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, each of the two buildings bears the name of a Black and white founder. Former Congresswomen nominated to head FAMU Former Congresswoman Bar 'bara Jordan and Shirley Chisholm are among five women on the growing list of nominees for the Florida A&M University president’s job, a selection com mittee member said. Jordan, a Democrat from Texas has already declined the nomination. Chisholm, a New York Democrat, has not. Still, she has not sent in an application for the position soon to be vacated by She Augusta New T ‘ u When Harris enrolled in 1962, Paine gave him a fuller slice of college life than he probably could have gotten anywhere, including the larger Black Georgia colleges. His election as president of the freshman class launched him into a whirlwind of activities tnat in cluded running the student gover nment, captaining the basketball team for three years, testing his in tellect in bull sessions and par ticipating in the college’s annual post-Thanksgiving interracial con ferences. He cited the latter as an example of how Paine “for much of the 20th century was one of the few places in Georgia where men and women of the Black and white races could come together in fellowship on terms of total equality.” As an avowed “country boy” from Fitzgerald, Ga., Harris found many people like himself in a student body that was more than 80 percent Georgian. An American history major, Harris emerged as a scholar and a gen tleman athlete because Paine had no other kind. When he suited up as a freshman for football, the team had not won a game in ten years. Paine stum bled to a victory in Harris’ first game only to go winless for the rest of the season. Holding fast to its policy of no athletic scholarships, Paine dropped the sport. No Paine athlete ever turned professional, but many wound up with outstanding academic and professional careers. From one of Harris’ basketball squards, for example, two out of three coaches went on to win PhDs while Harris and four of his squad mates earned PhDs or degrees in medicine or dentistry with one, William Burge, taking a PhD from Duke Univer sity and a medical degree from the University of Maine. Graduating magna cum laude in 1966, Harris went from a college of 800 to Indiana, a Big Ten university of 40,000 for his master’s degree, and after a year as a history instructor at Paine, he returned to Indiana for his PhD. Harris would have stayed at Paine, but Social Sciences Chairman George King sent him back to In diana with the advice that he had the “right stuff” for the terminal degree. “The people at some other college might not have had such high expectations of me,” Harris said. Accepting an Indiana teaching position, Harris rapidly ascended the academic heights to a full professorship. Two books, Keeping the Faith (1977), a history Dr. Walter L. Smith, according to University Presidential Search Ad visory Committee chairperson Lynette Padmore. FAMU has never had a woman president, but that will have no bearing on the recommendation the search committee will make to the Board of Regents in December, Padmore said. “We’re just looking for the best person” she said. “At this point, everyone has a chance. It’s an Barbara Jordan, Shirley Chisholm slated for FAMU Page 1 of the Black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and The Harder We Run: Black Workers Since the Civil War (1982) were partly shaped by a boyhood memory of the railroad town of Fitzgerald. “I remembered that my father, who knew as much about fixing locomotives as anyone in town, always remained a machinist’s helper while younger whites, who learned their work from him, became machinists,” Harris wrote in the preface of The Harder We Run. He found Indiana an academic equal employment, equal access application.” Anyone can nominate an in dividual for the position, or an in dividual can nominate himself or herself, according to Padmore. In order to be reviewed by the selec tion committee for eventual con sideration by the Board of Regen ts, a person interested in the president’s job must submit an ap plication. Os the 57 nominees, only three We endorse President Vice President 22nd Senate District State Representative, 86th District 90th District Solicitor State Courl Board of Education District 3 Post 1 District 4 Post 1 District 4 Post 2 We urge you to vote “No” on the proposed local amendment to reduce the size of the school board. We also oppose the proposed amendment that would decalre vacant the office of any state, county or mun cicpal elected official seeking another state, county, or municipal office or qualifying for the House of Representatives or the U.S. Senate if the term of new office would begin more than 30 days prior to the ex piration of the officials present term. We urge that you vote “Yes” on the following proposed constitutional admendments: 1. to suspend a judge from office upon being indic ted for a felony and to remove a judge from office if convicted by the state of the United States. 2. that certain public officials be removed for same reasons as a judge as stated above. 5. to prohibit the payment of retirement benefits based on involuntary separation from employment to any past, present or future Governor of the State of Georgia as a result of ceasing to hold office as Governor for any reason, except for medical disability. 8. to authorize general obligation debt to be incurred to provide public library facilities for county and in dependent school systems or for counties, municipalities or boards of trustees of public libraries or public library systems. Black women ambassadors are honored Page 1 NOVEMBER 3,1984 “paradise” with its grants and fellowships, including. his Fulbright and Guest Professorship at the University of Hamburg, but when he got a chance to return to Paine as president, he seized it. Whv Harris returned to Paine could be understood by anyone seeing him stride down the central plain as though he owned it. Joshingly, he told me that he would never forgive one of his predecessors for erecting a dor- See ‘Holy Audacity’ Page Walter Mondale Geraldine Ferraro Thomas Allgood Mike Padgett Travis Barnes Michael C. Eubanks Jerry Brigham Julia J. Glover Elmer Singley have applied for the job. None of the nine current applicants are women. The onlv names which can be found on both lists are: Dr. Claude Anderson, executive director of Miami Capital Development, Inc.,; Dr. Arthur Jones, a senior program analyst with the National Science Foundation in Washington D.c.; and De Ulyssess V. Soiva, a dean and professor at Old Less than 75 percent Advertising J * r 7 Another Ali strides into the public eye She likes Michael Jackson and Prince. Her hobbies include roller skating and aerobics. And she’s not wild about seventh grade. Just another 12-year-old? Not quite. Miya Ali, one of retired boxer Muhammad Ali’s eight children, is embarking on a modeling career with the prestigious Eileen Ford agency. “She’s got a very cute, natural look,” says Lacey Ford, an agency vice president who met Miya through a friend. “She im mediately makes a contact with you when you meet her.” Miya (pronounced Me-ya) will make contact with a lot of people in the next few months as prospec ts are explored with Seventeen magazine, Bloomingdale’s and others. “It seems like a lot of fun,” says Miya, who lives in Teaneck, N.J., with her mother, Patricia Harvell, a computer processor. Ali and Harvell never married, but the boxer openly acknowledges Ex-A ugustan to author column Editor’s note: In this issue, Dr. Cynthia Omololu, a clinical psychologist, begins a series of ar ticles on African influences on Black thought. I have lived in West Africa (Lagos, Nigeria) for six years. They have been productive and fruitful. In part, I can say that the experiences that I lived through during those years have led me to a profound understanding of myself and Black people. Most of my experiences were positive. However, I learned as much from the negative as the positive. For example I was sur prised when I did not hear children praised ! The results of a survey on why children were not praised brought out the following an swers:!. If you praise children, See Praise Page 4 Ali’s daughter embarks on modeling career Page 1 Miya Ali that Miya is his daughter. And although the agency plans to* capitalize on the Ali connection, Miya says it’s not something sne discusses with just' anybody. “Somepeople think I brag.” she says, “but other people I don’t tell, because I want to see who my real friends are. And there are only a few of those.” Miya says her father doesn’t ob ject to her modeling pursuits, but “he said just watch out ... nobody does any strange photos. Like Brooke Shields. When she was young, some people took advan tage of her”. (Brooke has turned up in some bath tub photos). Ali said from his home in Los Angeles, “It’s up to her. She’s old enough to have an idea about what she wants. Whatever makes her happy is all right with me.” And the 5-foot-3, hazel-eyed Miya insists, “1 just want to be in dependent and make my own money for college even though we have enough.” From USA TODAY Dr. Cynthia Omololu 30C