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50 Pc.
Stainless
Steel Set
Flatware
8 each: kni f es, * V
dinner & salad
forks, soup
spoons. Plus 16
teaspoons, one
butter knife and
sugar shell
4 patterns.
12.99 each s
Q Pc . Beverage Set
Fragrance pattern
376/30834
4.99
Assorted Stoneware Mugs
.79
Yamashita 45 pc,
FinePorcelain China Set
8 each - dinner & salad
plates, soup/cereal
bowls, cups, saucers.
Plus a
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Yellow stripe
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69.99
Assorted Ceramic
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Ernie, Cookie
Monster, Owl,
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9.99
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pyrex
CORY
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2.qt .
Whistling
Tea Kettle
Colorful
breakproof
lip, handle & neckband
1.99
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King Size
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22" x 16",
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frames
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is storage
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Heat-resistant glass tube;
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EKCO
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8$'
Libbey
Glass
Inkeeoer Canisters
33 oz.
9.99
tHe spot for sHoppers
Dial—A—Brew^ N0RELC0
3-10 Cup Coffee Maker
Brew Miser T M basket helps save
coffee. Makes dark, medium or
light. Keeps coffee at
serving temperature. HB5140
21.99
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*Ask at store for details.
Offer expires November 15, 1977.
5.00
16.99
Sunbeam
Frypan with
Partitioned
Crock/Casserole
Prepare several
foods at once .
Use crock as
separate casse
role . Easy clean ,
Teflon II cooking
high dome cover
33.99
Toast-R-Oven®
Toaster
4-slice capacity.
Top-browning
setting. Separate
oven temperature
dial. Removable
oven tray and rack.
Hinged crumb tray. T104
33.99
m-
Sunbeam
Crocker-
Cooker—Fryer
1 appliance:
Slow cooker,
regular cooker,
deep fryer.
Dishwasher safe,
removable crockery
vessel, thermostat
control, glass cover ,
cooking guide . 9-13
33.99
2—10 Cup Flavo—Drip
Coffee Maker
Brews coffee fast and keeps
it warm. Also heats water
for other hot beverages. 5975
16.99
Chrome
Electric
Food Slicer
6-§-" serrated
steel blade.
Adjustable
thickness
knob, food
grip, thumb
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removes for
easy cleaning.
33.99
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Prices subject to change Monday, Nov. 7, 1977.
THE BATTALION Page 9
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1977
Student attention
goal of president
of Prairie View
l niled Press Inlernalional
Prairie View - Gruffly, as if scold
ing liis own recalcitrant child. Dr.
Alvin I. Thomas admonished the
sobbing, young woman to dry her
eyes and act like an adult.
The young woman, a freshman
from Houston, owed a $64 line for
speeding and was afraid to face her
parents. Thomas loaned her the cost
of the fine, briefly lectured on the
responsibilities of being an adult,
and dissmissed her.
She thanked him, and sniffing
gently into a shredded tissue, left
the office of the president of Prairie
View A&M University.
Thomas, president of the pre
dominantly black university since
1966 and before that dean of indus
trial education and technology, said
he believes in giving personal atten
tion to his 3,600 students.
“We strive to give our students
personal attention at Prairie View -
whether they re black, white, or
brown, Thomas said. “And because
we re a small university, we can do
that.”
Thomas sees nothing contradic
tory in providing his students per
sonal, sometimes paternal, attention
while telling them not to think they
are elite because they are black and
not to expect the same personal at
tention from society.
“We ve created a lot of black
pride, which should ve been done a
long time ago, but we also created a
lot of things that weren t too helpful
because we created the impression
that just being black would do it,
Thomas said.
Rather than teach black elitism.
Prairie View teaches achievement of
certain standards - the same
standards required by predomi
nantly white universities, he said.
“We can t tell them that just
being black is it because blackness
is not 'it'. If you go to a doctor,
you re not worried about how many
black people work for him: you re
worried about getting out of that
hospital, Thomas said.
“We never did quite buy the idea
of the black image or black power
because we thought it was just
something that was not going to fly,
he said. “We realized we weren t
going into a black situation - we
•were going into: a majorit\ situa
tion.
Thomas said the institution s goals
are defined very clearly as providing
opportunities to whites, blacks and
browns who are locked out of the
majority system.
We re taking them that are
locked out of the system altogether
and giving them portholes through
which they have access to a quality
of life, a quality of professional op
portunity and seeing that they have
a chance, acting on their own merit,
to achieve it, he said.
Thomas concedes that blacks,
which comprise approximately 12
percent of the nation s population,
are under-represented in most pro
fessions, hut the federal^govern
ment s so-called “quota system is
not a solution to the problem.
The solution, he said, is to be the
quintessential Horatio Alger hero
and overcome all obstacles - finan
cial, spiritual and physical - to be
come recognized for one s own
achievements.
Most Prairie View graduates be
come first generation professionals
who pursue careers, get married,
buy homes in the suburbs and rear
families, or, in Thomas words, “be
cause integrated into the American
stream as middle class Americans.
As more blacks join the so-called
middle, class, fewer blacks become
prison inmates and stand in welfare
lines, he said. As more blacks join
“middle America, he said, fewer
blacks express anger as they did in
the 1960s.
“I don t think this anger has
changed much - it’s always a fraction
of an inch from the surface,
Thomas said. “The black student
still feels that while we have had in
tegration and we have had changes,
he still is bitter about the whole sys
tem.
“You see it in young black people
coming from integrated high schools
where they didn’t have the oppor
tunity, where they saw the preju
dice, where they saw the block vot
ing in terms of student councils,
where they saw they didn t get the
grades, where they saw themselves
fudged out of offices and honors,
where they saw the covert racism.
Because historically they have
been victims of discrimination,
many black students still believe the
so-called “system constantly op
presses them, Thomas said, and
they cannot differentiate between
competition and discrimination.
When blacks face this competi
tion, they must realize it is not
necessarily discrimination, he said.
“It may look like discrimination
when it is simply a highly competi
tive situation.
He warns students of the compet
itive nature of American society,
explaining they must learn to he bi-
eultural to survive.
“We re trying to get them to
understand that hostility breeds
frustration, he said. “This is a new
culture for them because the old
culture said you re a consumer cul
ture and that s it. “