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Tuskegee University Wins Honda Back To The Future: Information
Campus All-Star Challenge
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Alabama 's Tuskegee University students show their excitement on winning the National Championship
at the 5th annual Honda Campus All-Star Challenge, the premiere African American academic
competition featuring students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
For the first tim e in the five year
history o f the Honda Campus A ll-
Star Challenge (H C A S C ), a univer
sity has won the N ational Champion
ship Tournament fo r tw o consecutive
years. Alabama’ s Tuskegee U niver
sity narrow ly won over Georgia’ s
Morehouse U niversity in an exciting,
to -th e -fin a l-w h is tle cham pionship
game. The final bonus question w orth
25 points determined Tuskegee’ s w in
over Morehouse.
T he super academ ic a c h ie v
ers fro m Tuskegee c la im e d v ic
to ry fro m an o rig in a l fie ld o f 64
team s fro m H is to r ic a lly B la c k
C o lle g e s & U n iv e rs itie s , e m e rg
in g as the w in n e r in the 1994
Tuskegee used their w inning grant
money to buy a satellite dish fo r the
university. In 1990, the grant money
from the w inning team from West
V irg in ia State C ollege b u ilt the
“ Honda Com puter Center” in the stu
dent union; and Prairie V ie w A & M
U niversity used their w innings to buy
a van fo r student affairs use.
In addition to Morehouse and
Tuskegee, the other teams that par
ticipated in the HC ASC N ational
Cham pionship Tournam ent hailed
from: N orfolk State University, Xavier
U niversity, U niversity o f the D istrict
o f C olum bia, N orth Carolina Central
U niversity, Jackson State University,
and Fayetteville State University.
P rofessor M c K inley B i rt
Just another way of saying,
“there is nothing new underthe
sun” or my perhaps tiresome
quote, “nothing changes but
the name of the game”. But,
that’s the way it is folks, traps
for the unwary, but golden
opportunity for the perceptive.
Thai certainly holds fo rt the read
ers who were amazed that I was doing
several nationwide radio ta lk shows
from my hom e/studio/office-or that
this allegedly new “ Communications
Superhighway" is something I was
demonstrating back in 1966. So, by
the same token, should we fin d them
equally surprised when, about a year
from now, they fin d me doing nation
wide television broadcasts from the
same or sim ilar facilities?
And, w ill they be as equally sur
prised as were a group o f young stu
dents in Beaverton earlier this year
when I told them that in the 1970’ s
the Oregonian newspaper published
an account o f the In te rn a tio n a l
W o rld ’ s Fair held here at S wan Island
almost a hundred years ago? And that
Television Transmission by phone
was demonstrated? (Lew is & Clark
Exposition, 1905).
O f course, the research that en-
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abled me to publish “ Black Inventors
O f Am erica" tw o decades ago has
also precluded my being too surprised
at early break through in technology.
It was the m agnificent contributions
o f these A frican Am erican innova
tors that have always spurred me on-
-and drive me now to pursue a new
round o f inventions and advances in
communications technology, as w ell
as m otivational materials and lec
tures to inspire youth, I hope that this
time the school district is ready fo r the
modem world.
One reader supplies an observa
tion I have reached as w ell. Is it
possible that the isolation o f people
before a screen in their home w ill
produce further lack o f interpersonal
relations such as has happened w ith
impersonal retailers and supermar-
kets-w here once, the “ marketplace”
was also fo r meeting people, sharing
trivia litie s and touching bases w ith
neighbors in a leisurely interface?
Another reader reminds me that
when he was on the staff o f “ Elec
tronic Data Processing” Corporation
in 1970,1 approached the firm w ith a
model fo r a computerized data inter
face to replace the awkward system o f
picking up canceled checks by small
planes flying the Colum bia Gorge
and other rural areas. There was so
much to be done-and s till is fo r the
ways).
For further reading and research,
check out the fo llo w in g: Best overall
article: “ Taking a trip into the Future
On the Electronic Superhighway” ,
Tim e Magazine, A p ril 1993, p.50,
etc. A t the Magazine Rack o f your
favorite bookstore: “ PC Magazine ,
first choice and “ B Y T E Magazine” .
There are others.
Looking Glass Bookstore faxed
me the fo llo w in g list (there are oth
ers) 316 S. W . Taylor,Portland 97204,
phone 227-4760, F A X 227-0829.
“ The W h o le In te rn et U se r’ s
Guide & Catalog” , by Ed L . K ro l, 4 /
94,O ’R eilly & Asso. Inc.,Cambridge
$24.95.
“ Internet Q uick Reference” , by
Que, Indianapolis, 3/94 $12.99.
“ In fo rm a tio n S uperhighw ay”
w ill be out in August and is also
published by Que, $19.99.
Also see ‘Telecom m uting: The
Future Technology O f W ork” by Cross
&Raizman, Dow Jones-Irwin C o, 1986.
“ Dictionary O f Computer W ords”
at “ Looking Glass” .
“ Pocket Pal: A Graphics Arts
Production Handbook” , (much re l
evancy to electronic/computer print
outs) 15th edition. International Pa
per Co., send $6.75 to them at 1682
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