The Register, 1984-04-27

              may be the egotistical self-servant that he accuses fraternity and sorority members of being perhaps if gregory were able to unite with an organization of this sort he would not need as much courage to stand on un popular issues because his issues might not be as un popular ronald spruill gregory spoke on a variety of issues confronting college students including ad justments to college and fraternities and sororities he attempted to explain that ad justments must be made not only in the classroom but socially by seeking to unders tand lifestyles that may differ from that to which one is ac customed gregory opposes the idea of fraternities and sororities for blacks and sees them as merely a means to fur ther emulate white society and he sees the members as seeking to advance their own self interests he sees the humilia tion that pledgees receive as unnecessary i agree with his theory of the need for understanding other people's views in adjusting to college life but i disagree with his feelings regarding fraternities and sororities gregory takes a cynical ap proach to many of the issues surrounding him his style is very bold and often insulting and it is this controversial style that has catapulted him into the public eye his humor ranges from intellectually pro vocative to x-rated and offen sive never let it be said that a dick gregory audience leaves bored cooperative education opportunities are available for graduate and undergraduate students for information contact the cooperative education representative in your placement office f if you are interested in a stimulating high technology environment send resume including ssn and transcript or course/grade listing gpa to naval surface weapons center college recruitment office code p60 s dahlgren virginia 22448 or silver spring maryland 20910 in my opinion and accor ding to theory fraternities and sororities are organizations with ideals such as manhood perseverance leadership scholarship motherhood and sisterhood which are univer sal in their scope and are worth emulation in any culture humiliation is present in all stages of life to allow us to remember that there are other people who have greater talents and lesser talents and our full potential is only recognized when we work together admittedly in prac tice excesses exist but this is because of the nature of the members of these groups human beings to speak out negatively against the theory behind these organizations reflects on the importance of families and riday april 27 1984 the a&t register page dick gregory stands alone editor of the register interested in a challenging career your creative ideas can be applied to productive research development test and evaluation projects at the naval surface weapons center civilian job opportunities for physicists computer scientists electronics engineers mathematicians recently the faculty students and friends of n c a&t state university had the opportunity to listen to civil rights activist comedian and common sense philosopher dick gregory gregory is noted for his caustic political humor and off-the-cuff remarks regarding current events gregory explained that his rise to fame has been one of self motivation and courage to stand alone on issues winners of the recent annual oratorical contest were left to right shaunne thomas first place bernard grant second place and gina davis third place the speech choir performed also the program is directed by dr lois kinney photo by derrick mcrae organizations in our society gregory appears to have made his way quite successfully and by necessity on his own and because of this perhaps he bears some resentment toward these sorts of affilia tions however the indepen dent success that dick gregory has attained indicates that he