Vol. 9, No. 9 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. ORACLE Enthralls Audience 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
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.
ORACLE Enthralls Audience
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,
no
A A
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.
n n n
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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CHUCK MARTIN BEV FLOWERS KAY STEVENS DAVE SMITH LINDA POWELL
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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9. Egg shaped
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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