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A.B.C., R.H.A., UNION, BAD. UNITE The Arkansas Booster Club,

Resident Hall Association, Arkansas Union, and for the first time Black Americans for Democracy have combined their ef forts to sponsor a super homecoming celebration this weekend. The celebration will be held in the Student Union Ballroom Saturday at 8:00 p.m. The Ballroom will be decorated with the Ra-zorback colors for cheering and dancing with music provided by the Elliptical Phases, a nine piece jazz rock and pop group from Fort Smith. The celebration promises to be spotlighted with hog calling, a balloon shower, group dancing, and possibly an introduction of the football game's outstanding players.

The idea for the joint celebration was first discussed by Carey Owens and Winston Alderson of B. A. D. in an effort to increase the campus

awareness toward the organization. The idea of the joint affair was carried to the Arkansas Union where it received enthusiastic response. RHA's and ABC's ap-proval was obtained during meetings of the representatives. ABC, who was presently seeking new ideas to booster the homecoming game, was delighted with the idea.

The Interfraternal Council was also asked to participate. However, their individual houses had previously planned after homecoming activities for their members.

From this first joint affair, the participating organizations will probably use these initial contacts as further means of communication to coordinate other affairs. The joint homecoming celebration may also increase the respect and

prestige of each organization. John Scott, president of RHA,

said, " I 'm very pleased to see groups on campus initiate these sort of activities. It brings about un-derstanding and better relation-ships."

Carey Owens, president of B. A. D., stated, "The super homecoming celebration is planned with the hope that the students and organizations will acquire a better understanding of the purpose of each or-ganization."

Randy Daniels, president of ABC, commented, " I am glad to see that we have groups working together representing the largest part of the student body for such an event." He also thanked B. A. D. for promoting the celebration.

Winston Alderson expressed, "Communication, understanding, and brotherhood will silhouette the evening of November 18."

Representatives of the organizations cosponsoring the Super Homecoming Celebration are: Randy McNair of the Union; Carey Owens, President of BAD; Randy Daniels, President of ABC; and John Scott President of RHA.

UA Tutors Aid Fay. High Youths The Special Services program of

the University of Arkansas has initiated a program that provides Fayetteville High School students with tutors in difficult high school courses. The tutoring sessions are held on Monday and Wednesday evenings from 7:00 to 9:00 in the basement of Saint James Methodist Church. Students receive help in history, mathematics, English, and reading courses. Students are identified for the program by their parents and high school instructors that are aware of the need for ad-ditional assistance for some students.

According to Jimmy Wilson who tutors and administrates the program, the tutoring sessions are structured to remove the formal barriers of the class room and allow the students to establish easy rapport with their tutors as well as themselves. Wilson stated, "This encourages the students to help each other instead of laughing at each other."

The program was started near the latter part of the summer when Wilson, Dr. Gordon Morgan, Norma Bryant and Harry Budd, Director of the Special Services program at the University, were discussing some of the problems that many high school students face. The idea of providing tutors for students having problems with difficult courses was expanded to also include students marked as "slow learners" by their instructors and who are rarely given the in-centive to stay in school.

" In courses tutored by the program, the students have im-

provement in their grade reports," stated Wilson. He cited an example of one student that had improved from a " D " to a " B " average in courses offered by the program. However, in courses such as Science and Art which are not offered by the program improvement is still lacking. "We would like for anyone with a substantial background in

these areas to come and help us," Wilson said. The staff now consists of Pat Moon and Gail Gant tutoring Math, Carey Owens in English, Norman Bryant as a Physical Hygiene tutor for girls and Jimmy Wilson with History and Reading as well as administering the program. The students classes range from the sixth to the tenth grades.

Jimmie Wilson (standing) answers a question from one of the students participating in the Special Services Tutorial Program.

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Editorial Four More Yearns

It was indeed a victory that President Richard Nixon scored over Senator George McGovern in the general election last Tuesday. No doubt, far more Blacks than Sammy Davis Jr. supported Nixon in his re-election campaign. However, the Editorial Staff of this paper supported Senator McGovern. We feel that the policies of the Nixon administration yearns for too many improvements.

Blacks and other minorities learned fast that Nixon's interest was not in their favor when he made his first Supreme Court Nominees. Since Nixon took office, not one Civil Rights legislature has passed his desk approved.

The unemployment rate has doubled. Six million persons have been added to Welfare. Yet, Nixon fought the recent Social Security increases.

The war against inflation is rarely mentioned any more, possibly an admittance of its apparent failure by the Nixon administration. Even since the wage-price controls, prices have still gone up. (By the way, college tuition here is expected to increase for next year.)

As for the peace that was supposed to be in sight, we like the way the Editor of the Arkansas Gazette expressed it. "The light at the end of the tunnel is the same ole ignis fatuus our vision has become adjusted to. It continues to flicker and sputter in the same old ghostly fashion as the equally unreal voices of the Nixon administration continues to assure us that the fault is in our eye sight."

Law Students' Complex Formed

Since Black Americans For Democracy News is funded and founded by the campus organization, Black Americans For Democracy (BAD), this media exists especially but not exclusively for service to Black Americans. We intend to be neither racial d iscr iminatory nor radically oriented. However, we do and must address our-selves to often controversial views, since views so labeled are often those of Black and minority interest.

Black Amer icans For D e m o c r a c y News encourages faculty, staff, and especially students to express their opinion on any subject matter in our Letters to the Editor Column. We cannot assure that all writings will be printed due to our mon-thly publications. However, we will make a sincere effort to publish most letters, even if extra space is required.

We must request that all letters

be typed, double-spaced, and submitted in person or by mail to B.A.D. NEWS, Student Union Room 207. To be sure that each letter is given serious con-sideration, one should also have their name and phone number enclosed with their letter. However , one need not, necessarily, submit their name with their article. In such case, the party will be contacted ac-cording to the content or title of their article; and the closing of the letter will read: Name With-held.

The length of any letter is optional. However preference, due to space, will favor letters of about 200 words to very lengthy ones.

We intend to have our paper distributed on the last Thursday of each month by 11 a.m.; and we request that all letters be sub-mitted by the second Thursday of the month to be considered for that month's publication.

The Black Law Student Complex was formed by the twenty-two brothers and sisters in attendance at Waterman Hall, to more fully meet the needs of the Black student in law.

Its aims are to (1) foster and encourage an attitude of professional competence among the Black students; (2) to promote a bond of cohesiveness among the Black members of the legal profession, the Black law student, and the Bar in general; and (3) to develop programs of self-help towards achieving their goals of becoming productive members of the Bar and the Black community.

Towards the accomplishment of these goals, the organization has developed several programs. Foremost is an on-going tutorial system that seeks to utilize faculty members, and second and third year students to ex-plain in detail the law on a weekly basis. Other projects include (1) a lecture series, (2) fund raising e f forts , (3) a summer placement bureau, (4) the development of a research project in conjunction with the law school, and (5) exposure trips to acquaint others with the necessity of Black attorneys.

The paucity of Black lawyers serving the American com-munity has been recognized by observers within and without the legal profession. In this nation of law and order less than one per cent of the nation's lawyers are Black; and in the state of Arkansas there are only thirteen Black practicing attorneys. In America, a nation of justice, it is not surprising that the segment of the population which shares least in its affluence also shares least in its political and judicial decision making. For this and other very overt reasons this segment of the population has the greatest contempt for the system

Correction In the last issue, we did not

acknowledge the addition of Margaret Clark, Foreign language instructor, to the UA faculty.

of law which excludes it. James Massie, who chairs the

organization, states, "It is our aim to become competent and productive attorneys prepared to bridge the gap between the law and the Black community."

The other officers of the Black

Law Student Complex are Pamela Baxter, vice-chairman; Zimmery Crutcher, treasurer; Eugene Pitts, secretary ; and the Execut ive Council c lass representatives, Larry Williams, J immy Wilson, and Vashti Vernardo.

Jackie Robinson In 1946, when he was 27, Jackie Robinson accepted his life's great

job: he would go to a minor league club and there become the first black anywhere in organized baseball. When he came to the Brooklyn Dodgers a year later, all U.S. sport was changed forever. He was 36 and near the end of his career when he bedeviled the Yankees in the 1955 Series (left), dancing off third base, challenging them to stop him from stealing home. They couldn't. And he was 53, much honored, still fierce in fighting for what he believed in, when he died last week of a heart attack.—Life Magazine

Jackie Robinson, "Probably the greatest all around athletic of our time."

A. Reed

8.A.D. NEWS Lewis Cook Editor Jackie Carr Assistant Editor Melvin Brown Associate Editor Morris Sylvester News Editor Jennifer Hopkins Feature Editor Willie Freeman Sports Editor Jack Kearney Assistant Sports Editor Felton Lamb Photographer Christ Hinton, Wallace Caradine Artists Barbara Mcbeth, James Bingham, Edward Baily, Charles Dirden, Betty Sabbs Reporters Alice Clay, Gloria Carr, J. P. Hill Typists

Theater Committee Presents 2 Plays

Despite the falling tem-perature and the misting rain, a crowd packed room 108 of Old Main Saturday, October 14, to watch the first in a series of per f o rmances by the Black Amer icans for D e m o c r a c y Theatre Committee.

Under the direction of Doris Nash, senior drama major from Pine Bluff, and Robert Palmer, senior speech major from Little Rock, the audience was en-tertained by Ben Caldwell's "The Militant Minister" and "Otis Redding—King of Soul." Poetry by various black artists was also presented.

"The Militant Minister" was a satire of how a black minister tried to justify acts of racial discrimination and pol ice brutality against his people while suffering no such experiences himself.

The play begins with a thief, played by Robert Palmer, en-tering and attempting to remove some articles from the minister's apartment when the minister, H.

L. McGill, returns forcing the thief to hide. The minister begins to pray about some of the day's misgiv ings . The thief in disagreement with the minister's false sense of rationalization, begins to answer the minister as he prayed. Being unable to identify the voice, the minister accepts the thief's voice as that of the Lord.

The play ends with the minister in serv i ce encouraging his already alert congregation to revolt!

"Otis Redding—King of Soul" depicted the life of Otis Redding from the time before he was famous until his death.

The play begins with a scene of the early success of Otis Redding (Alvin Matlock) as a spiritual singer as his father (Marshall Gordon), a preacher, and mother (Kay Shelby) are being praised after church services for their direction of Otis' talents.

In another scene , the at-mosphere for an illegal and immora l deal , promising to

Robert Palmer, who played the devil in "Otis Reddin, King Soul" is confronted by Otis' lawyer, H. L. McGill, and Otis Reddin, Alvin Matlock.

make Otis rich and famous proposed by the devil (Robert Palmer), was accented by the Undisputed Truth's tune "Smiling Faces Sometimes."

Otis Redding ' s success is immense! But later, his Jet plane death was confirmed to his girl by the radio. She begins to cry as one of Otis' most touching recordings, "Try a Little Ten-d e r n e s s , " is played in the background.

In an interview, Miss Nash stated that the purpose of the presentation was to give blacks identifiable entertainment. She said that blacks on this campus could not relate to the produc-tions presented by the Univer-sity. The University has presented such works as "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Win-d o w " by Lorain Hansburg, author of "A Raisin in the Sun."

Miss Nash said that the

committee was organized shortly after the first B.A.D. meeting this semester and worked diligently for their first per-formance. She further stated that they are in the process of deciding when and what their next production will be. They are also selecting plays related to blacks that will be done by the University Theatre. She ex-pressed the desire that others would become interested and participate in the theatre.

Editorial Policy

Razorbacks Need More Blacks

B.A.D. Has Perfect Season

Anyone who is interested in college football today should be concerned with the situation of Black players on the Arkansas Razorback's team, though one certainly doesn't have to be in-terested in football to be con-cerned.

Arkansas probably has fewer Black players on their team than any other major university that contends for national recognition and ranking.

It would seem that Arkansas, as much, if not more than anyone else, should recognize what a difference Black players can make in the outcome of a football game. This year alone nearly all of the frustration that the Razorbacks suffered came from the plays of Blacks on the op-posing team.

Starting with the University of Southern California with Black players in all of the scoring positions, except the quar-terback, the Trojans ran almost at will against Arkansas and stopped Arkansas' offense and Joe Ferguson, which had been picked as the nation's best before the season started.

For the first three games Arkansas saw but one white player in offensive or defensive scoring positions. And in those three games, the Razorbacks had more difficulty than in any other game except Texas. The Hogs have found repeatedly that Black players hurt them in running, pass reception, and in preventing their offensive from scoring.

Even Texas, usually Arkansas' partner in the major power with few or no Blacks, has had a face lifting of Black players that ran Arkansas all over Texas ' stadium, then out of Austin.

On Arkansas' team is Jon Richardson, Marsh White, Ivan Jordon, and Rollen Smith.

Jon Richardson, a senior from Little Rock, has played tailback for the Razorback varsity team since 1970, but this season has seen him sit out long periods, then switched to fullback position to play. When Jon was a sophomore with obvious ability, Bill Burnett was played before him with the contention that since Burnett had seniority, he had the right to play. Now Jon's seniority had him a place on the bench until he was switched to fullback.

Marsh White, Playboy's pick as sophomore fullback of the year, came out and played a little against U. S. C. and got a slight injury. Since then his name was seldom mentioned until he was " tes ted a g a i n " against North Texas State. Most of the players agree that Marsh is the best fullback that Arkansas has had in a long time.

Ivan Jordon, a freshman from Fort Smith, stepped right on to the varsity team and into play against Southern California and seemed to play very well, but after that, Ivan was held off the field for a long time, coming back to play in the last games.

Rollen Smith, a defensive hal fback , our Ai l -American choice from Kansas, who runs a speedy 9.5 hundred yard dash (the fastest on the team), has yet to take the field in actual play as a varsity player at Arkansas.

Rollen was sought and recruited by Arkansas after receiv ing many other o f f e rs ( including one f rom second ranked Nebraska). To anyone watching practice before the

Jack Kearney season started, Rollen's talent was obvious. Many players have started in Rollen's defensive position including a freshman from McGehee , Arkansas. Players have also been con-verted from other positions to play defensive halfback while Rollen is evidently going to sit the season out.

It is readily apparent that the whole football staff and its head coach are still subscribing to well out-dated ideology and practices. Of course there are other areas beside the Black player situation. Anyone who saw the Arkansas -Texas game on television could see that faulty coaching, not player ability, was the largest factor in the loss of the game.

Orville Henry, who has cast himself in the role of Razorback public relations counci l , has repeatedly and continually commented and observed the Black player frustrating the Razorbacks. Knowing the close relationship between Arkansas' coach Frank Broyles and Gazette sports editor Orville Henry, it would seem doubtful that Henry is criticizing Arkansas' lack of Black players in an attempt to hurt Broyle's public image.

The B.A.D. Intramural football team ended their regular season schedule with a 7-0 record. B.A.D. entered the Louisiana Conference and met such op-ponents as AFROTC and History.

However , the team was eliminated from the finals when they played the Trojans in the beginning of their bid for the i n t r a m u r a l c h a m p i o n s h i p . Reasons for the loss were at-tributed to poor field conditions, a sudden cold shift in the weather

and injury to some key players including Gene McKiss ic , quarterback ; William Cook, defensive lineman; and Leroy Brown, the defensive back that was voted "player of the week" for his numerous interceptions and defensive plays. The loss caused an excessive amount of frustration on the team mem-bers, but as one player stated, "The grass (astro turf) will look even greener next year."

For their undefeated record this season, a plaque was presented to Willie Freeman, on behalf of the team members, by President Carey Owens during the MISS BAD Pageant. Owens stated that the team did not lose the play off due to poor athletic capabilities on the part of the Brothers on the football team but they lost on account of bias decisions and calls by the representatives of the Intra-mural department.

The undefeated BAD Intramural Football Team include: (Top) J. Massie, E. McKeel, L. Brown, W. Alderson, G. McKissic, D. Hatchett, W. Freeman, Z. Crutcher, (Bottom) B. Peterson, A. Jupper, W. Cook, R. Whitmore, D. Taylor, O. Whitmore, and D. Meridith.

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Janis Robinson Wins Pageant

The Queen and her court. (L. to R.) Margaret Turner, Finalist; Faye Henderson, Joyce Taylor, Finalist; and Erserline Blanks, Miss Congeniality. First Runner Up; Janice Robinson, Miss BAD 1973; Linda Hinton, Miss BAD 1972;

The 2nd Annual Miss BAD Pageant was held on October 28 in the Arkansas Student Union. Janis Robinson, a freshman from El Dorado, Ark. won the title for Miss BAD 1972-73 in a close decision by the pageant judges. Faye Henderson won first runner up honors in the pageant and Erserline Blanks was selected as Miss Congenialtiy.

The pageant actually began with a tea hosted by Black Americans for Democracy president, Carey Owens. The purpose of the tea was to acquaint the judges with the contestants. However, the contestants were observed during the tea for poise, responsiveness and their social interactions.

The preliminaries for the pageant began Saturday af-ternoon at 2:30 p.m. During the preliminaries contestants per-formed three minute talent presentations of special in-terests, modeled casual attire, and answered questions on topic of specific interest to each contestant.

The judges selected the four finalists: Janis Robinson, Faye Henderson, Margaret Turner, and Joyce Taylor. They were announced at the beginning of the finals which started at 7:30 p.m. The finalists modeled formal apparel and answered questions of current interest on a local and national basis.

At the end of the pageant a vote was taken among the contestants to select the girl that they felt was most cooperative, best spirited, and who generated the most warmth among the women during the pageant. Erserline Blanks responded with a quick kiss for the pageant's Master of ceremonies, Darryl Taylor, as he presented her with a bouquet of flowers.

Tension increased as the four finalists were called back up on stage for the announcement of the winner of the pageant. Faye Henderson was announced as First runner-up and later Janis Robinson looked stunned as her name was called as the New Miss Black American for Democracy for 1972-73. Linda Hinton

crowned her successor as the audience gave a standing ovation. The other contestants, and friends hurried to congratulate Janis.

This was the third year that a Miss BAD has been selected. The idea for a coed to represent Black Americans for Democracy started in 1970 and Gloria Carr was selected by the members of B.A.D. to reign as Sweetheart. Last year was the first time a formal pageant was held. Linda Hinton was selected by a panel of judges to reign as Miss BAD 1971-72. Both Linda Hinton and Gloria

Carr worked closely with the pageant this year.

The criterion for Miss BAD are mental awareness, vibrant personality, talent, beauty, poise and dress. She must also exempl i fy racial pride and identity.

Miss BAD is expected to represent the organization in all of its campus functions, and be sensitive to the role nationally. She will be a representative of BAD in the Miss Black Collegiate of Arkansas pageant to be held this spring.

Janis: "I Wanted To Cry" "Oh! I was so surprised! When

they called the winner, I was wondering if my name was Janice. I was completely numb. Then the girls started shaking and kissing me. I felt great! I wanted to cry."

Janice Robinson, a freshman pre-med major from El Dorado, Arkansas, was describing her reactions to winning the Miss B.A.D. title. " I thought I might have a chance at Miss Congeniality", Janice said. " I was surprised to be a finalist, and I didn't think I would go any further."

Janice contributes a lot of her success to her alertness to the spontaneous questions that each contestant had to answer. " I must have had some divine inspiration in helping me answer that question because I had never thought about it before," said Janice.

Miss Robinson expressed her

thanks to all the contestants. She stated that all the girls had gotten along well and had agreed that regardless of the winner, their would be no hard feelings. Each of the contestants had agreed to help each other in this pageant as well as in other ac-tivities sponsored by the organization for Miss B.A.D. Janice expressed special thanks to Linda Hinton for her en-couragement.

As an expression of her ap-preciation, Janice said that she would work hard to make other pageants as interesting and competitive as possible. Janice is expected to compete in other pageants during her reign. She hopes to enter the Miss Black Collegiate of Arkansas Pageant, the Miss Black Arkansas Pageant, and possibly the Miss Black America Pageant to be held next year.

Faye Henderson, Junior from No. Little Rock was first Runner-up in the Miss BAD Pagent.

Miss Robinson posed for a series of pictures after she won the Miss B. A. D. title.

Linda Hinton crowned her successor, Janice Robinson, Miss BAD 1973.