Tennessee State University - Tennessean Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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4' The Mirror Reflects . . .

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J edit: '. P' V .4 '03 ,.- 11 5.34 .., in 1- :,. A,g.-..fr,i' ' Q, . Y J, 1 Fall brings different faces to command registration tables. By ROBERT CHURCHWELL The- state's dwindling num- ber of trained nurses could be 'boosted by a new project in nursing education at Ten- nessee State University that centers on disadvantaged ,stu- dents interested in the pro- fession,as a career. The term disadvantaged does have financial signifi- cance, but the emphasis in this project is on those stu- dents culturally lacking in learning skills, Mrs. Christine Sharpe, project staff director, said. We stil don't have the amount of nurses we need in the state, Mrs. Sharpe said, explaining that the TSU project, like other nursing education programs, is geared toward increasing the number of nurses. TSU's project is 'being sup- ported by a S500,000 grant from the Nursing Division of the U.S. Department of Health, Education a n d Welfare. It, will continue over la' five-year period under the title, Improving Teaching Methods for Disadvantaged Students in Nursing. New grant from the Nursing Division the training of more nurses at TSU. 5 Prevent 'While Ruin' of TSU. Professor Asks A Tennessee State Universi- ty professor, in a paper, has challenged faculty and alumni of the predominantly black school to rally to save it from what he called pending an- nihilation by whites. Specifically, economist Dr. R, Grann Lloyd suggested that faculty and alumni embark on a course of political and social action including: 0 Enlisting the aid of black members of the Tennessee legislature who in coalition might address themselves to TSU's plight. 0 Selecting a blue ribbon panel of TSU facility and alumni to solicit the assistance of important people to save TSU. I Getting 5,000 alumni to ne- l ll dorse a carefully developed statement of principle regard- ing the necessity for justice in higher education in Ten- ncsseef' In the paper, prepared for delivery to a meeting of TSU alumni, Lloyd said of recent expansion of the University of Tennessee -- Nashvillels program and a court's de- mand for increased white presence at TSU: In other words, they wish to take over and-or plunder TSU for their own selfish pur- poses and to use the law to protect the plunder. THIS ATTEMPT to per- vert the law through greed, false philanthropy, and racism, and to destroy TSU in the process must be stop- ped. Blame for the dilemma Lloyd said, is on morally barren and perhaps even cor- rupt white leaders and on blacks who have failed to operate TSU with the highest respect for scholarship. This shortcoming must he c orrected immediately, Lloyd said. The alumni must insist the their alma mater be operated in such manner that they can be proud of it.!! of the U.S. Department of Health, Education. and Welfare will enable a t, , M f t I V : il I 'f fi . ,I . WFT, , . ,I W

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