. , TIlEY HAD AlSO berer remember that you can o=ver take anything for graned in America ROOmy King's beating aIX1 verdict mad dear. Assign yowselt: Our nsddy used to ask my sib� m1 � w�tl1:r � teacher gave us any borrework, Ifwe said 00, be'd say "well assign yowself." "Don't wait 8I'Oum for�y to diIect�u \0 dowbat youare ., out do a Utical b r, grumbler, or cynic. vote. Demoaacy is not a spectak>rsport. If you see a reed, don't ask, "Why doesn't somebody do some­ thing?"; ask, "Why don't I do �thing?" Never work jist for IOOO:y. We are tre ricrest nation on earth with Ire higbest intarceration, drug , addiction, am child poverty raes in tIl:world Don'tconasewealtnor farre with character. Be boeest, AOO demaOO that tbose woo repre­ sent you be borest, Don't be afraid of taking risks • orofbe�criti�orofnot� popular. If you don't want to be criticized don't say anything, do anything, or be anything. Don't be afiaid of failing. It's til: way you learn to do � right. It doesn't matter how many times you fall down. All that maters is how ' many times you get up. Take parenting and family life seri usly, Am imist that � you work for am woo represent you do so, Our nation mouths family values we 00 not practice. We all reed to stress family rituals am be moral examples for our children and rot have tbem until we are emotionally and economically ready to meet treir needs. IF WE CUT COIreIS, �y will too. If we lie, they-will too. If you don't valce hard work, they won't eitll:r. Never think life is not worth living or that you cannot make a differm:e. Never give � - 00 mater bow hard it gets, m1 it will get very hard sometimes. AOO old proverb reminds that "wben you get to your wit's erd, remember that's w}1ere God lives." Harriet Beecher Stowe said wbenyougetintoa "tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as trough you could rot hangonaminu longer,nevergive up tren, for that is just tbe place and time that, the tide will tum. " Hang in with life. AOO don't think you have to a big dog to be decent or make a difference. Dr. King ised to say over am over that everybody can serve. Finally, we must s1q> tre dis­ tinction we make between our children' and other people's children. We must seek to affinn personally that our own very much loved children and other people's children are all gifts of a loving God with an equal claim on the American dream. HIGHLAND PARK WASlDNGTON,D.c.-ZetaPhiBeta a series of campus workshop for Sorority, Inc. has been awarded a students on how �y can .avoid the $34, grimt from the Nancy Reagan dangers and social and heal th Foundation to expand the so rity's lCpercussions of drug and alcohol revent drug 001 aie<�".��". u e in the college-a du t , Zeta Phi Beta m tion. -Q;Ji,-1AII'-l91, nt from--� .... _ According to Dr.' Eunice S. DepartJnentofEducationforanational Thomas, National Presi