Howard University - Bison Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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Rather than indulge in this fruitless mania, wait a couple of hours for a game of pool; or if you get a bit impatient, try a quiet game of checkers or chess - these tables are always available. We would have suggested ping-pong, but the exertion without shower facilities may prove rather embarrassing to you when you go to your 2:10 class. There are even 12 lanes where you may bowl, sisters, if you can find a ball to fit your fingers. Even if you can not bowl, there are still a few other choices that you can make, other than the Space Invaders game. You can get possessed by any of the other quarter-guzzlers that are abundant throughout the room. For instance, you 90 lb. weaklings can boost your egos by beating the heck out of one of Howard's star football players on the simulated football game. Now don't you have a marvelous choice? We're all very glad that you've decided on a boring game of bumper pool. More directly; we are elated that you've decided NOT to play Space Invaders. This way we can have a few more peaceful games without the added frustration of your impatient breathing down our addicted necks. Thanks for leaving us alone with the rhythmic: Thump, Thump, Thump ... as the beat goes on as usual. 25

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THE TIME IS RIGHT TO RELAX Thump, Thump, Thump . . . No brothers and sisters we're not going out of our minds - at least we hope we're not. Neither are we performing a voodooistic ritual. We're simply highly engrossed in another mesmerizing game of Space Invaders in the sparkling new rec room. Now before you jump to conclusions about why the cream of the mecca of Black Education makes the daily pilgrimage to this technological marvel (between classes of course), try it. Or rather, take our informed advice and DON'T EVEN TRY IT, it is very habit forming. The thumping just keeps on coming ever quicker in a reinforced fashion as you perpetually press those stupid compelling buttons in an attempt to hit these ridiculous figures that are the manifestation of some demented artist's perverted imagination. 24

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OPENING: 1979 CONVOCATION Author and journalist, Carl T. Rowan, was the keynote speaker for the 112th Opening Convocation Services held in Cramton Auditorium on September 21, 1979. The following are excerpts from his address: Propaganda Babes In the Woods. This is a time of both gloom and hope for Black America. Gloom because unyielding racial discrimination keeps Black America in economic distress. And the American political process, along with the mood created by the media, have fostered terms like reverse discrimination, and legal actions exemplified by Bakke and Weber, with the result that the position of the Black family, relative to the white one, has worsened. In fact, the Black family is being destroyed. We need more discipline in Black America. We need more determination in Black Amercia. And, we need more trained intelligence in Black America. With our dedication to these truths, we shall forever be burdened by the problems of grade school violence, high school drugs and dropouts, adults who cannot read and write well MPugh to answer a want ad or get a driver's license. Wj shall A times unlimited see our communities in econonK rfe Mi our children face to face vith human degredat our families rent asunder by self-hatred and hopelessne Sj By God, we shall do better than that. | 26