Shaw University - Bear Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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Presiclentis Message During this yvar throughout the nation at large. it has not lx-cn an easy your The turlmulvnce that surrounds tlit- lXiiiericaii college- campus and dislocation which lun L' taken place uithin it liavc not product-d a st-nsc ol unity and conununity he-tum-ii administration, taculty and stu- dcnts liut rathe-r has lurtlicr widened tht- gap crm-ating tht- sn-nsc ol panic, frustration, livstcria .uid suspiuion XX tx he-rt' at Sliaw, haw- lit-un vxtrcimily scnsitixe to tht- crises ol tht- Arncrican coll:-gc which tht- .ictixitics ol this it-ar has drainatizvd, Our sensitivity has not lwcn the st-iisitivity ol fear liut ratlwroiit- ol couccrn Shan liiiu-rsity nas toundcd during tht! turhulcnt period ot our nations history lfiglitcvii sixty-l'ix'v nas hardly an auspicious tune- lor tht- Shan ide-it This idea vnxisioncd tht- creation ol a trut' llIllNl'fHllN in tht- southlaiid uliose' svriiccw and lvcm1l'its uould lu- availallmlc to all with- out rc-gard to race: ure-ccl, color or prmious condition of st-rxitudu It siit-Q-emit-tl in lwcoining, a true- unix x-rsity, hut it did not siiccvvcl in prox iding its lit-nvfits and sc-rvicvs to all Tlu- culturt- in mlm-ti it plants-d its se-vd was hostilc towards tht' idea that all citizens of all ravi-s would t-oniprisv tht' Sliau coniniunitx. Bt-caiisv this was tliv idea, the culturx- was also hostilv towards tlit- cxistviicc' ol an institution within its inidst whose- philosophy cxposvd and xx host- cliartvr coinps-Ili-d thc' hasnt' .Xiiivrit-aii principle 6

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Senior O1CHCers