The Register, 1982-12-07

              itudents expressed fencerns about laboratory equipment qualifications of graduate teaching assistants scholar ships and funding student and over faculty ents in fi.-'"^mave es although we ha jertain adm n the past en able tclw ij to the m forum a committeat members that proposals becausew 1 grant v however crift iaid mgin*ring school number of%ourses with a c or better so we can weed out the see me page 8 eftion technology i was very critical of heavy teaching loads placed on in structors the dean added that the board suggested that the department raise its admis sions standards but according to dr william craft associate dean of the engineering school the rap positions â– * to t he ac a also hat du he dep suresh by audrey l williams recruitment and the need for department cannot raise its ad black phds standards because news editor by nannetta durnell once riding in old baltimore heart-filled head-filled with glee i saw a baltimorean keep looking straight at me / saw the whole of baltimore from may until december of all the things that happened there that's all that i remember all i know is that the peo ple responsible for signing contracts in this sga mattison said that the con tract was not signed because of bureaucratic inefficiencies the band the awareness art ensemble did not per form because it did not have a typical business contract signed with the sga said keith mattison vice president for internal affairs a reggae concert sponsored by ths student senate was scheduled for saturday night in moore gymnasium but was cancelled for reasons yet to be clarified i had to spend all day saturday to reverse what we did it was not bad planning things were set up all that needed to be done was have the contract signed he add ed for the concert he also said that a lot of people were disturbed because the concert was well publicized and there was a lot of support a lot of students were upset that our president was not here there was nothing 1 could do with an unsigned contract he said anyone mattison said that he tried to get in contact with several people who could sign the con tract but he could not locate without the proper signatures on the contract the band would risk being paid told at that time that the con tract needed to be signed before it the band came down he said me students v thank-you ladies and gentleman maya angelou said to crowd that packed the richard b harrison auditorium friday night that poem written by mr countee cullen in the early 30s is often considered a small poem she explained after her introduction a rousing rendition of cullen's incident it is small...in quantity she continued but in quality it is vast for mr cullen used his genius to extract from a situation with which alas we are all familiar the essence of that condition what oice complaints the evening waa one dedicated to reminding of important things to remember such as the fact that black americans need to see how we have approached our poetry and low it's been approached by the larger com-iunity angelou said never taught she used black american poetry to illustrate her message particularly she said because it's so beautiful it's lush rich but also it's so seldom read rarely remembered and almost she said she wanted to speak in particular about what we are able to remember and that cullen's poem is a classic example of how we connect what we remember angelou's lecture was a part of the universi ty's lyceum series do we remember indeed what is salient to our lives indeed she said she said that she admittedly used the word literature as an umbrella word:...written information and the esoteric...handed from one generation to the next but i also include oral literature i include body behavior under my umbrella see maya page 2 it is said she added that poetry is asked to be magical mystical lyrical and musical black american poetry v suggest angelou said can be credited with our entire survival-the literature i felt that a&t should be exposed to reggae music and i thought that students would enjoy it mattison said hopkins and peace both declined comment there was a contract it was turned in tuesday at the student board meeting they members of the board were organization did not those people mattison said are president bobby hjopkins and treasurer manuel peace complete awareness for complete commitment unsigned contract forces concert cancellation # register volume liv number 18 north carolina agricultural & technical state university greensboro nc tuesday december 7 1982 at a&t maya angelou phenomenon lectures by tony moor editor in chief now i was eight and very small and he was no whit bigger and so i smiled but he poked out his tongue and called me nigger " faculty emic five it iversitv mmitt ession dr ward collins instructs engineering studentsp/jofo by roy hicks iv ant wa e st lems an ion merr ychris tma &