December 6-12, 1987, Michigan Citizen
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New famine of horror
appears likely in
Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA,
ETHIOPIA -- We tern relief
organizations are once again
predicting that Ethiopia is
headed for another major
famine which could re ult in
th u ands of deaths.
The faimine predicti n •.
ba ed on the continued la k of
rain in the m . t dr ught ridden
part l f the ca t Afri an nation.
However, the problem are
being c mpounded by a war for
uccession in the country.
Reb I groups in both the Tigray
and Eritre regions of the
ountry want to form their own
.parate n tion .
me of tho c gr up. have
even t rted to attack the truck
onvoy which re trying to
bring f od to tarving people in
their regions.
Denver woman
crowned iss Black
America
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nver's ile M Bride was
cr nc 11. 81 America
during th ' national comp titi n
held in est Palm Beach
Florida la t wee end. Th fir;
runn roup wa or rna Thomas
f Houston while the e ond
runn roup w Cle eland'
Debr .havic r.
Howard U prof tackles crisis facing Black acad me
By Henry Duvall
WA HI GTON DC -
laiming to have "touched a
nerv ," Profe sor Ronald Wai­
ters of Howard Univer it i
g nizing a ati nal r.v,re f
Black Faculty in Ii rht 1 what he
c ntend i a mounting eri is
facing Blacks in academe today.
"W c' e g t a lot of people in
th b nd cks catching hell!" he
dclcare . "You read the letters
c ming in. Painful."
The p litical science profcs­
. or j referring to a number of
fell w A rican American faculty
members in higher education
who have rcspor.ccd to hi call
to develop ai: or ga nization
aimed at repi c -inting th �;. 10-
tcrc ts. "We have been swamped
with people calling and writing,"
he says in an interview.
"While there arc sorne a' Ie
Black scholarly organization ,
there i. not one cross-cutting or­
ganization that ttr�cts mem­
bcr hip from all Black faculty,"
Walters cxpha size . 'There's no
organization dedicated to
profes ional con' .rns of Black
faculty."
'0, why is uch an rganiza­
tion nc tied n \ ?
!.Q A ITY P SII � 'E'
Say' Walters in a position
paper, ,. 0\ that the pre sure
for afl'irmat ive action has
generally ub: idcd there ha:
b 'en a concomitant dccrca: c in
the aggres. i encss \ ith \ hich
many (predominantly white)
univer itie and call gc have
at t c m pt c d to recruit and
pr irnotc junior Black f .cult ...
'The problem f Black facul­
ty a r c cr in t ab il it y ( t
prcdorninantly whuc in. titu­
tions i intensified y the fact
that a zcncrati n f cholar:
were 'I Idl '<.I \ ith adrnini tra­
live p )"ition� and thcr counsel­
in' d \1 tie s c a rl i e r in l h 'i r
car .cr ," he add . 'The. c don't
count 100 .. ard I II lishing and rc­
ve ar ch n.quircrncnts) when
one j" lip for tenure."
The Howard pro cs 'or, \ h
\ as a kc_ political advi: ir to the
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Rev. Jesse Jackson during his
first presidential campaign, also
points out that an overall
decrease in the number of Black
faculty members as another
dimension of the mounting crisis
facing Blacks in academe, ex­
acerbating the pro lem.
Ac ordinu l the American
un 'il on Education,
llcgcs and univcr-
iti' have J , 27 full-time Black
facult members a decrease of
4.3 percent fr m the 19,674 in
1977. Blacks n \ make up4 per­
cent of the overall number of
Ameri an c lIege educators.
Walter. notes that the
shorta 1 f Bla k faculty t day
i. e. P' i, lly fell at hi t rically
Bla .k ch )1. He fund the
a era ie age of Black faculty
members at one in titution to be
55, which led him to ask, "Who
arc r 'placing them?"
Asian and Irican educat r
are filling the id he says he has
disc vcrcd.
Th American ouncil on
Educau n stimate that his- '
t rically Bla k institutions
employ some ,200 Black
educator f an overall 12,
faculty member on the more
than 100 predominantly Black
college campu es.
sentation of Blacks at
predominantly white schools is
only 2.3 percent.
Walters emphasizes that the
shortage parallels the cri i of
declining Black student enr 11-
ment in American universities.
Moreover, Walters note that
many Black tudent don't per­
ceive the professorial profession
a lucrative when compared to
professional· opportunities in
engineering, busine and ot h r
career field .
Walter believe that t h
developing the Congress will b
ble to "make a difference at
every level".
He fore ees organization of­
ficial sitting down with
academic journal editors to find
lit why they haven't publi hed
\ orks of Black profes ors.
The rganization may al 0 try
t attr ct re carch d lIar on be­
half of Blac faculty.
And if a liege or univ r ity
. ntinuously maintain a p or
record of re ruiting and
pr mating Black fa ulty, the or­
ganizr tion may take s m f rm
o action.
SURI KI G
REPRESENTATI0
"This fact has sobering im­
plications for Black faculty
members' proportional repre­
sentation in predominantly
white institutions,' says an ACE
report, n ting that overall repre-
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