Haley A few words of an unkuown
African tongue, a story passed down for generations and an obsession to find out cuhninated in "A Saga of Black History" by Alex Haley.
Haley spoke as part of The Ohio State University Newark Campus Celebrity Speakers Series and Black History Week Thursday evening at the Newark Campus.
His saga began with the story his grandmother used to tell at his boyhood home in Henning, Tenn. It was a story that started with a slave, who was called The African, who arrived at Anna­ polis, Maryland. He was sold to a man who owned a plantation in Virginia.
The African was given an American name of Toby, but he insisted on calling himself "Kinte." He persisted in escaping from the plantation, but was unlucky enough to be caugbt every time.
As punishment after the fourth escape, he was given the option of either being castrated or having one foot cut off. He chose the foot, and this episode proved to be the beginning of a search that would lead Haley · to a remote African village where he would meet a village historian who would tell him his entire ancestry from the beginning of their recorded time.
As a · crippled slave, The African should have been sold at a "Scrap Sale" where all the old, maimed and ill slaves were auctioned off. He convinced ~ master, however, that he could work on the plantation in spite of his lost foot. So he stayed. He had a daughter by Bell, The Big House Cook, and because of his unusual situation, he was able to be around when the child grew up.
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He taught her words from his native African language and told her things about his past. His daughter was a rarity among slaves in that she knew her father, and even more rare in that she knew about his past.
finally reaching the village of his ancestors.
Haley received a standing ovation from the audience and returned after intermission to answer questions.
He is currently working on the completion of "Roots" and has written a sequel to the contro­ versial Black movie "Super Fly." "
Feb. 21, 1973
Notice Due to circumstances beyond
the st1:1dents' control, the auction to raise money for the Bill KirkRatrick Fund has been cancelled.
Regretfully,
Student Senate She was sold at the age of 16 to Tom Lee, a North Carolina plantation owner. A year later, she bore his son and told him the - story of The African. He was a rarity among slaves in that he knew about his grandfather. **********************************
A slave named Matilda bore seven of his children. They were told the story of The African, their great-grandfather. They grew up and had children, one named Tom.
Tom married Irene, half Cherokee and half slave. They had seven children and the youngest, Cynthia, became Haley's maternal grandmother, the one of his boyhood home.
Haley knew more than most Black Americans know about their past, but he wanted to put it all together. In eight years of research, he managed to trace, step by step and ahnost minute by minute, his ancestry.
The details of this saga of Black History are being incorporated into a book by Haley entitled "Roots." It will be published in three volumes and fourteen languages. The movie rights have already been negotiated. David Lee, the man who directed . "Dr. Zhivago" and "Lawrence of Arabia" will do "Roots."
Haley told how he recon­ structed the weather between April and September of 1766. He told of searches through 1,023 records of slave ships. He told of organizing a safari and he told of
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LEADS faces
uncertain future By now you have all undouht­
edly heard that Community Ac.t10n Agencies 1Ike LI<..:ADS are ~mg qmckly and systematically ehmmated throughout the nation under an executive order to reorganize the federal govern­ ment. It is our very strong conviction that the loss or community action agencies and other ''.people progr:ams" signals a social regress10n of such proportions that nearly 20 per cent of the population-specifi­ cally the low income families in our country- will be adversely affected. Here in Licking County over 18,000 economically de: prived persons are faced with the loss of LEADS programs which have served approximately 7 500 of these persons each year ' as well as the loss of other imoortant programs which are in part or totally administered oy other agencies and departments of government.
We fe~l very stro!!gly that the premeditated desert10n of social ideals will be disasterous for Lickim! Countv and for our nation as a whole. If we permit this reversal of past domestic policy we can only expect an increase ui local poverty problems. We will be losmg our ability to deal with the educati°"na!1 health employ­ ment and family problems that prevent so many individuals from . becoming self-sufficient. Low mcome people themselves have begun to feel that their government is callous and unre­ sponsive to their plight.
At this point we are depending upon the people of Licking County to lend their support lo their Community Action Agency - LEADS. Please write to your <::;ongressmen, asking them to flghf for the continuation of Community Action Agencies. Please do not refer to OEO or LEADS inasmuch as LEADS is a composite word made up from our corporation name and is known only to Licking Countians and not so well in Washington D.C. Just refer to Community Action Agencies.
Thank you for your help.
Very sincerely yours,
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Please write to one or more of your representatives in Washing­ ton t_o ask. them to support tfie continuation of Community Action Agencies.
Here are the names and addresses:
The President The White House Washington,D.C.
SENATORS
Robert Taft, Jr. Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20501 or 4300 Drake Road Cincinnatie, Ohio 45243
William B. Saxbe Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20501
REPRESENTATIVES
John M. Ashbrook House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515
Carl D. Perkins House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515
The envelope and inside ad­ dress to the al>ove should read:
The Presideni- as shown above -no name necessary.
Senators and Representatives: The Honorable- followed by the address shown above.
The salutation for The President is either Mr. President of Dear Mr. President.
. The salutat~on for bther offi­ cials may be either Dear Senator or Representative- Dear Sir- or­ Dear Mr.-
The comQ_limentary close for letters to The President may read- Respectfully yours.
Complimentary close for Sen­ ators and Representatives may r~ad--Very truly yours,--or-­ Smcerely yours.
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WAI~ April 7, 1973 is the official date .
for the third annual Licking Alsc;i, Newark Burger Chef IS County March of Dimes Walk-a- donatmg_all the han:iourgers and Thon We would like to get in the Pep~1 Cola Bottling Company contact with the students at OSU is donating the drmkS. to either Walk or volunteer to help out the day of the walk. I would greatly appreciate any coverage you can give us in the Oracle on this mat1er.
.if you have any questions .'.eel free to either contact me or just call the March of Dimes office.
Walk oacs and sponsor sheets are ava11ame crrarrcoumy scnooJS, m all branches of the Park National Bank, and may be obtained by calling the March of Dimes office 366-6214. Walk on birth defects in this years' Walk-A-Thon or volunteer to help at OSU Newark Campus April I. Remember. .. birth defects are forever ... unless you help.
Sincerely yours,
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CAROL BARTTER BARB GOSSMAN DAVE JACKSON
PAM .MCWHORTER DEB ROBERTS
ADVISOR - LINDA CROSSLEY
If you wish to work on the Oracle, please contact Chuck Martin or any of the Oracle staff in the office (room 97).
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11. Indian home
22. Sailor's yes
35. Eat (past tense)
44. Skeletal element
DOWN 20. A worm's bristle 1. Hormone affecting the thyroid
(abb.) 21. Auditory organ
45. Here (Fr.)
48. Film speed rating
3. Shooter's group (abb.) 25. 3rd note of the major 51. Rabbit 45. Cores scale
4. A "put on" 53. Patron of Greek culture
48. Form of "to have" (Fr.)
49. A pronoun
60. Some or in (Fr.)
30. Meristametic tissue 5. Charged atom
31. Polynesian god 6. Female endocrine gland
32. Thus 7. More honorable
34. Play thing 10. Reproductive "rest" period
37. Small insect 12. Process of liquid water loss in
plants 39. Affirmative
54. Compass direction
56. Camping item
57. X pants
58. Malay gibbon
59. Menstrual cycle hormone (abb.)
61. Medieval money 13. Standard 40. See to 63. Article (sp.)
62. Anglo-Saxon money 14. Rice 42. R-C-R
64. Female hormone II
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Chess The Fifth Annual Winter
Quarter Chess Tournament was held on February 10. This tournament was held mainly to decide the two students who will represent the Newark Campus at the Regional Campus Tourna­ ment on March 10 in Colwnbus.
Twelve students, faculty mem­ bers and others took part in the event. Mark Biefeld, a Newark High School junior, upset the t:!ollege players and won the event 4-0. Chuck Martin came in second with a score of 3-1. Other Newark Campus players were Paul Treece, 2112-P/2; Dave Jackson, 2112-1112; Ray Jezerinac, 2-2; Mike Yoder, 2-2; and Mike Hall, 1-3. Chuck Martin and Dave Jackson will represent the Newark Campus at the Regional Campus Tournament and Mike Yoder will be first alternate.
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Regional Tourn.
The Third Annual Inter­ Regional OSU Campus Tourna­ ment will be held in Columbus on Saturday, March 10, which is the weekend before the beginning of final examinations. There will be tournaments in table tennis, pool, and euchre on this campus in the near future to determine who w.ill represent the Newark Campus m Colwnbus.
The tournaments will probably be in the new Drake Union overlooking the Olentangy River.
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Nix On President's Budget OFFICERS
President Nixon's newest bud­ get message to Congress is disturbing. The Dayton DAILY NEWS called it "a grim piece of work." House Speaker Carl Albert described it as "a big business budget that leaves the common man out." And still others have said it would sacrifice "the common man to Big Business and the military­ industrial complex."
Although federal spending will go from $250 billion proposed for this year to an estimated $268. 7 billion in fiscal 1974, we're worried about the manner in which this money will be spent.
In a nationwide radio message explaining his new budget, Mr. Nixon told Americans, ''It is time to get big government off your back and out of vour pocket. I ask your sup!Jort to hold
Government spending down SQ
that we can keep your taxes and your prices from going up." (While the austerity message was being aired, the President was sunning himself at the Nassau home of a rich indus­ trialist friend.)
In the budget, the President plans to cutback spending for housing subsidies for middle class and poor families. He proposed to reduce crop subsidies to farmers. He is proposing a severe cutback in the college student loan program started by President Eisenhower.
Mr. Nixon thinks America should junk the emergeri°cy manpower program to provide public service jobs to hard-core unemployed workers. He wants to end the Johnson Administra­ tion's programs of regional medical research and mental
Travels with Mickey Having arrived at Fireiands
Campus, Carol Payette and I were escorted to a room filled with college students calling out their names. After introductions the winter convention of the Student Association of Ohio Regional Campuses (SAORC) was called to order by President Ken Williams. Old business was first on the agenda. The ratification of the constitution was completed after three role calls, leaving enough time for the delegates to adjourn for a luncheon at the Twine House.
Lunch was delicious and we were surprised afterwards by a short concert by the Fire Bells, Fireland's answer to the Dingaling Sisters. We then returned to our meeting a:t the campus where the delegations met in a caucus to select a chairman. Problems of each campus were discussed and some of the suggestions were presented by OSU Newark. There was also a discussion of writing letters to agencies having to do with Ohioan higher education, such as the Ohio Legislature, the Board of Regents, and Governor Gilligan. The session was adjourned until the next day (Saturday) at ten.
Arriving slightly late, due to an interesting party the night before, we reached the second session in time to attend an interesting lecture by Represen­ tative Swanson. He told us about various findings on the Ohio Legislature's financial commit­ tees. The convention was then adjourned until spring quarter. Afterwards we went to the basketball game, where our team lost, I am sad to say. This was followed by supper and the basketball finals where the OSU Newark queen:... Carol Payette, helped the BuSU Firelands' queen pass out the trophies and awards to the teams and players. Jim Russel received the Bill Hawkins Award for all­ tournament team player, while Linda Crossley took pictures of the festivities.
by Mickey Preston
health centers, the "Model Cities" program, and any assis­ tance to urban renewal pro­ grams.
Mr. Nixon wants to end emergency loans to farmers who lose their crops because of a natural disaster such as flooding, tornadoes, etc. He wants to abolish the 26-year old Hill­ B urton program which has helped local communities build thousands and thousands of hospitals to treat the sick.
Yet in the face of this "search for waste .. . into every nook and
· cranny of the bureaucracy," Mr. Nixon is proposing that the military defense budget for 1974 be INCREASED $4. 7 billion ... to a staggering $81.1 billion. Doesn't he know the Vietnam war is over???
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ELECTED
In the last meeting of the Organizational Council, Mickie Preston was elected President Marianne Wilson-Vice President' and Beth Kessler was re-elected Secretary-Treasurer.
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LIFE PLANNING IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN CONSIDERING YOUR FUTURE, CONSIDER A LIFE PLANNING SESSION AT THE NEWARK CAMPUS. ,
All you have to do is sign up at the academic advisement counter, you will be contacted as to whether you can attend the session from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 20, or on Wednesday, March 21, at the Newark Campus.
The life planning sessions are designed to provide introspective techniques so that you can better arrive at your own decisions about the future with information that you can gather yourself. The sessions do NOT provide a setting where you are lectured, analyzed by others, or where decisions are made for you. The introspective techniques acquired can be used again and again at any time in your life.
"Many people think that the future is unknown, vague and unpredictable and that they' have
no control over future events, or that they are 'victims of circumstance' and are pre­ destined to a ·certain future, based on their past upbringing, environment, and external fac­ tors. Often those who do make plans, do so only for certain aspects of their lives, such as their education and career, and neglect to consider the needs for personal fulfillment, latent abil­ ities, and personality character­ istics.
We hope that your experiences in a life planning session will help you find out more about yourself and where you want to go. The things you will do are designed to demonstrate a way of thinking about yourself and your future that will enable you to set up realistic short and long term goals for yourself and to learn how to set up a specific but flexible plan of action to reach your goals. This is a process which can be useful to any person at any age, and can be used as new choice points occur in a person's life which require decisions about the future."
Photo Club? Students and faculty are
invited to attend the premiere meeting of the Campus Camera Club on Tuesday, February 27, at one o'clock. The purpose of the meeting is to determine whether or not there is sufficient interest on campus to establish a photography club. There are many interesting programs available to camera clubs: discussion sessions with com­ mercial and newspaper photog­ raphers, instructional and enter­ taining programs sponsored by Kodak and GAF, presentations by serious amateur photog­ raphers, lectures by members of the Departments of Photography and Journalism of OSU Columbus, and presentations by club members of their favorite slides, movies, or prints. If there
is strong interest in such an organization, there exists the possibility that the administra­ tion might agree to include one or more darkrooms for club mem­ bers in the new building now being planned. Members of a similar organization on the Columbus campus have nego­ tiated substantial discounts with area photography stores and that possibility exists for club mem­ bers here in Newark.
Ms. Linda Crossley and Mr. Paul Treece have agreed to provide the program at the first meeting. The theme of this presentation will be "Photog­ raphic Possibilities in the Nor­ thern Rockies." The location of the meeting will be announced on the Activities Bulletin Boards.
VOLLEYBALL The Ape-Iron team jumped to
the front of the Co-ed Volleyball Tournament by defeating the faculty; they are now in the semi-finals. This is a double­ elimination tournament so the faculty, which is one of the stronger teams, have a chance of bringing home the marbles by
wmmng the remainder of thefr games.
Last Saturday's games pitted the Osmosis against the Volley­ Ballers, the Vikings against the Chorale, and the combined Alpha Pi-Sigma Tau team against Phi Alpha Beta.
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