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Page 2, Tuskegee University News, September 19, 1996
Payton to frosh: 'stick to dreams'
TU New Bureau
Great performahce is not the result of "lack-
luster effort,~ ti~e President of Tuskegee
University told freshman students this week,
as he warned them that "life without struggle
is not much life at all."
Regardless of their social class, they must be
prepared to struggle, which Tuskegee
University President Dr. Benjamin F. Payton
said starts with "the simple things in your life.
"Character grows out of struggle and you will
not be able to develop the character of a good
:student without overcoming temptations" like
failing to attend class or not being on time or
forgetting to set aside time to dream and plan
': to reach lofty heights.
More than 800 first-year students had
arrived for the traditional Sunday morning
welcome from the President of the University.
Fresh-man Orientation continues for one week.
Fall semester classes began September 3.
Success at Tuskegee University - and in life -
would not depend solely on family background,
Dr. Payton told the, first-year students. What
will matter, he explained, is the quality of what
students believe about themselves and their
capacity to learn and to make a difference.
What does it matter that you have a high
achieving background if you don't plan to do
anything with it?" he asked rhetorically.
As men and women, they could make a dif-
ference in life as individuals, Dr. Payton
:acknowledged, but noted that "there is some,
.thing about the requirements of living in
modem society that makes the family impor-
" tant. It takes two to make it today, two who are
cooperating, two who are sacrificing, two who
are trying to understand one another."
And despite moments of disagreement with
children, he said parents must stick with their
children and "draw out of them the best that is
in them."
Noting the challenges Olympians faced in
pursuit of Gold Medals, President Payton
reminded the freshmen that they would have
to learn to put "first things first."
They would have to set aside time to prepare"
for the challenges they would face at Tuskegee
University and in life.
Stay with the truth, stand by what you
believe in, he encouraged the students.
Persistence in advocating the truth and hold-
ing on to high moral values might lose to popu-
larity, but they would win strength of charac-
ter, Dr. Payton promised.
Muhammad Ali lost his boxing crown when
he embraced Islam and opposed the War in
Vietnam, but when he receive the lighted torch
in Atlanta, that was an apology from America
for what it had done to him, Dr. Payton said.
Some of their "toughest battles" in life will not
be physical but moral, he told the students.
In order to get somewhere in life, they would
need to develop some idea of where to go,
President Payton said. And while it would be
difficult at times at Tuskegee University, "you
will surmount the difficulty." The more you
work at it (the difficulties), the easier it will
become.
~tick to your dreams," he encouraged the
freshman class. =Make up your character.
Tuskegee will help you if you help yourself."
I I I I
Westinghouse funds TO g
TU News Bureau
The Power Systems component in the School
of Engineering and Architecture has received a
$20,000 gift from the Westinghouse Foundation
that will complete the laboratory phase of the
program's development.
The Westinghouse Foundation gift will be used
to develop laboratory experiments that help
reinforce digital communications, and control
systems concepts.
Power Systems is one of four program thrusts
in the electrical engineering department of the
engineering program. Electrical engineering
students may also focus on communications,
computer and VLSI, and micro-electronics.
Almost $200,000 has been invested in labora-
tories supporting the Power Systems program in
the last three years.
Two years ago, the Alabama Power Foundation
made a $75,000 equipment grant and the pro-
gram received a $75,000 equipment grant from
the National Science Found-ation a year later.
The Wisconsin Power and Light Company
sponsored three students and a professor at the
American Power Conference which convened in
Chicago last spring.
Engineers who focus on power systems cur-
riculum are responsible for the generation, dis-
tribution and use of electricity. Dr. Ben Oni, the
principal investigator for the Westinghouse
Foundation grant.
"This is an exciting period that calls for new
ideas and new technology to make the power
systems deregulation process
says.
Technical details have not been
out to support the deregulation,
but customers will not be
sources from whom they purchase
The long-standing monopoly of
nies is coming to an end, Dr. Oni
He also predicted "a gap" in
engineers with backgrounds in
and the number of engineers
so few electrical engineers have
this specialization.
Many electrical engineering
offer power systems as an area of(
Dr. Oni added. Tuskegee
program emphasis which the
grant is expected to help
The laboratory experiments thel
grant will be used to develo
ly on using computers to,
trical machines.
Dr. Oni joined the Tuskegee
in 1993 as chairman of the
neering department•
He has since stepped down fromi
ship to devote more attention to
ties.
More than 300
graduate students are enrolled
engineering program.
In addition to electrical, the
offers degrees in aerospace
and mechanical engineering.
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