Texas Tech University - La Ventana Yearbook (Lubbock, TX)

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V ERSI i Y SPEAKER! 5 $ In order to be free, but responsible, the press needs to strive for a greater level of accuracy. Tom Wicker The outcome of the Watergate affair is evidence the government will only continue to work if you keep alive and awake. Sam Dash I get my ideas from what ' s happening in the news. I don ' t have to make it up; it reads like humor to begin with. Art Buchwald 30 Life

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Black Week A debate between Stanford Univer- sity ' s controversial Dr. William B. Shockley and Richard A. Goldsby of the University of Maryland and a speech by Georgia State Senator Julian Bond highlighted the fifth annual Black Week at Tech. April 1-6 was proclaimed Black Week in the city by Mayor Roy Bass. The theme of the week of activities, sponsored by the Student Organization for Black Unity (SOBU), was Free at Last. The topic of the debate was Shock- ley ' s charge of black genetic inferiority. Shockley, co-holder of the 1956 Nobel prize for his work in the development of the transistor, had been shouted down from the podium on many cam- puses. His appearance at Tech, how- ever, met with little audience reaction as he and Goldsby, a professor of chemistry and microbiology, mildy dis- cussed racial genetics. Bond, the only black man ever nomi- nated for the United States vice presi- dency, spoke on The Role of Blacks in Politics to culminate the week ' s activi- ties. A film, Come Back, America, was also presented during the week. A local high school drama group presented Black Bicentennial, a history of the black man in America. Black poetry was recited by several Texan groups, and a concert by The Royal Temps and Cold Fire was held. For fans of gospel music, a gospel show was presented by the SOBU choir and the Lubbock Fed- eration of Choirs. 32 Life