University Daily Kansan, March 27, 1985
Page 12
CAMPUS AND AREA
Enrollment procedures explained in timetable
The student picks up his enrollment card. He shakes his head as he discovers he's one of the last to enroll.
Thompson said his office decided to print how the enrollment procedure worked after several students inquired about the system. The system has been in effect since the spring of 1983, when the University of Michigan in Allen Field House to enroll by computer at the Enrollment Center, 111 Strong.
He wants to know why.
For the answer, he can look at the inside back cover of this fall's timetable, Gary Thompson, director of student records, said yesterday.
at the University of Illinois.
"It wasn't a big secret," he said.
"We just noticed people were interested in it."
this way: seniors are allowed to enroll during the first three days of the enrolment period so they can get into the classes they need in order to graduate. Enrollment appointment times for other students are determined by the last three digits of their student ID numbers. Students are divided into six basic groups according to these digits and enroll according to their group's enrollment time.
If a group enrolls first one semester, that group enrolls last the next semester.
Enrollment dates are determined
Students have tried to cheat the new enrollment system and enroll early. Thompson said, but it isn't as easy as it was in the old days. Student enrollment times are more strictly checked at the entrance to the Enrollment Center.
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A FEW TIDBITS ABOUT MALCOLM X AND THE REVEREND FARRAKHAN
The following passages are excerpted from articles in The Village Voice's March 5, 1985 issue by William Strickland, Lisa Chapman Jones, Nat Hentoff, Maria Laurino, and John F. Davis about Malcom X who was murdered by three Black Muslims twenty years ago.
"Malcolm knew he had to leave the Nation of Islam after he learned that his revered leader, Elijah Muhammad, had fathered illegitimate children—a violation of Muslim law—and after he had been silenced by Muhammad for a comment he made about JFK's assassination...
"To talk against Elijah Muhammad was to talk against God, and Malcolm, in the eyes of the Nation of Islam ... (was guilty of) heresy. One of the most scathing attacks against Malcolm was led by Louis Farrakhan (known at that time as Minister Louis X): 'Only those who wish to be led to hell, or their doom, will follow Malcolm. The die is set, and Malcolm shall not escape, especially after such evil, foolish talk about his benefactor (Elijah Muhammad) in trying to rob him of the divine glory which Allah has bestowed upon him. Such a man as Malcolm is worthy of death...'
"That Sunday, February 21, 1965 when Malcolm X went to address a rally at Harlem's Audubon Ballroom, he knew he would soon die...his split with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad created a hatred among members of the Nation of Islam who had tried to attack him in Los Angeles and Chicago just weeks before...Malcolm X entered the Audubon...when a disturbance erupted in the back of the hall. His attention diverted, Malcolm was killed by a shotgun 15 feet away...
"Who built the Nation of Islam, whose Nation of Islam was it--was it Elijah's Nation of Islam or was it Malcolm's Nation of Islam? We could say it was both. But when Malcolm came to Elijah in 1952, Elijah's (movement) had been in existence since 1932. He only had, I think, three, four temples at best, with an average of 50 to 60 members in each. In the next ten years Malcolm opened 47 temples across the country and boosted the membership from a couple hundred to a couple thousand. Most of what we got to know as the philosophy of that organization was articulated by Malcolm X and I daresay most of it was his philosophy. And so the Nation of Islam we came to know in the United States was conceived and built by Malcolm X, even though the organization, the Lost-Found Nation of Islam in the West, was established by Elijah Muhammad...
"...during his pilgrimage to Mecca...in 1964...Malcolm... profoundly changed his belief in the necessity of racial separateness. As he wrote in a letter to an assistant. 'I have been utterly speechless and spellbound by the graciousness I see displayed all around me by people of all colors.'"
"When Malcolm left the Nation he had a tremendous burden. But he realized that he had a mission. His aim and objective was to free black people's minds.
"Twenty years ago at Malcolm's funeral, Ossie Davis said that Malcolm was 'our black shining Prince'. But he was also something more: Malcolm was our champion, our slayer of false ideas, racist premises and weak-kneed solutions. He could see around corners, through entrapment, and beyond the pale...
"And it was no longer possible to claim that Negroes were happy and content and believed America to be the best of all possible worlds when so many were risking their lives as proof of their discontent. Black struggle shattered all myths and produced a new black thinking which began to redefine America. And, of course, when the movement reached that point, it found Malcolm already there, waiting.
"He was there, ahead of us all the time: denouncing American intervention in the third world before there was a national antiwar movement...before most of us, indeed, could even spell Vietnam. He had identified the poison of white power long before SNCC staffers Stokely Carmichael and Willie Ricks called for the antidote of black power in 1966 in Mississippi...The flow of the river of black struggle, to borrow my friend Vincent Harding's metaphor, was coursing inevitably toward Malcolm's positions, Malcolm's analyses, Malcolm's critique...
'Malcolm inspired just about every black movement that was to follow him. And the ideas that came after him were not too different from those he had been preaching: self-determination, collective work, and responsibility...
"We live in a society that seems invisibly and without public outcry to have eviscerated moral values from the American life. Like the old priests disemboweling fowls for auguries, we have been disembowled of our ethical sense...
"If Malcolm were to come back, he would understand best of all that the system is still racist, but in newer and more devastating ways. For today's America is not only antiblack, and antichange, it is antilife itself. It has unleashed forces it cannot control: genetic engineering, atomic wastes, MX missiles on Lionel toy trains, ad infinitum. The Great Death, the end of humanity, the foreclosing of time, the destruction of the universe all hover over our heads. But it has been made possible by the death of the mind, the reduction of intelligence to mindless cheerleading for a system that is out of control and is hurting madly on its way to extinction. America has condoned and committed murder for so long that it is now loose among us, in our neighborhoods, in our homes, on our streets, and among our children. Menace has become the American Way of Life."
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