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page 3 Friday, September 28, 1984 Tuskegee Mayor Johnny Ford visits campus The mayor of Tuskegee, Ala., the Honorable Johnny Ford, Sr., the first Black in the city’s history to be elected to the of fice in 1972, was at NCCU Thursday, Sept. 27 to discuss the need for student voting and leadership. In April 1982, Ford was also elected president of the Na tional Conference of Black Mayors, an organization representing 249 Black mayors across the country. Mayor Ford’s political career started in 1968, when he became a campaign strategist for the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Following Sen. Ken nedy’s assassination, he returned to Tuskegee to become Executive Coor dinator for the Tuskegee Model Cities Program from 1969-1970. From 1971-1972, he served as state supervisor for Community Relations, United States Department of Justice, Montgomery, Alabama. Deeply committed to and in volved in the community. Mayor Ford serves on numerous boards of local organizations and agencies. He organized the Macon County Council of Govern ment, a member of the Tuskeege Community Rela tions Committee, on the Board of the John Andrew Community Hospital, organized, and a member of, the Mayors’s Commission for the Department of Cultural Affairs along with many others. Mayor Ford is also concerned about the develop ment and well being of our youths. He is a member of the Carver District of Boy Scouts and the Tuskegee Chapto-, Jack luid Jill of America, Inc., and participates uid spends a considerable time organizing and promoting the various ac tivities of these organizations. On the national and state level, he was organizer of Alabama Coordinating Coun cil of Miniority Economic Development, a member and secretary to Excutive Commit tee of the South Central Economic District, a member of the Governor’s Manpower Ancillary Committee and the Governor’s Tourism Council, board member of the Alambal League of Municipalities and the National League of Cities, a board member of the Southeast Alabama Sickle Cell Association. He was ap pointed by the President to serve on the Presidential Ad- eluding mentions in visory Committee on “Personalities of the South ”, Federtilism. Mayor Ford is “Outstanding Young Men of chairman of the Alabama America”, “Who’s Who in Southern Leadership Con- America”, and “International ference. and serves on theNa- Biographies” (London, tional Board of SCLC. He is England). He was also named also co-chairman of- the Na- “Honorary Citizen” of Ban- tional Committee for a Two jul, theGambia, West Africa, Party System. ancestral home of Alex Haley, The recipient of the and Sister City to Tuskegee, Freedom Humanitarian Alabama, along with being Award, Mayor Ford has been awarded the key to the city, chosen for many honors, in- Johnny Ford, Mayor of Tuskegee, Ala. DUKE THE FUQUA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS MBA The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University offers one of the finest available opportunities for unsurpassed professional management training. We are interested in men and women who have proven aca demic, leadership, and social abilities. Andrea S. Hershatter Assistant Director of Admissions & Financial Aid of the Fuqua School will be on campus Tuesday, October 23 Appointment information may be obtained by contacting: Career Counseling and Placement Bureau Can you vote in N.C.? New laws enhance student eligibility The N.C. Associadon Of Black Lawyers How can students qualify to vote in North Carolina? It’s a fairly routine procedure, but you better watch out that your eligibility is not denied through the use of unconstitutional questionnaires. If you haven’t registered, you need to by Oct. 10 at the Board of Elections in the Durham City Hall. If you are registered in another state, you need to send for an absentee ballot before Oct, iO. Students who attempt to register in North Carolina will be questioned dpsely to determine if they are in fact residents of North Carolina and the awuity they are in. As long as these duestions are answered in good faift, the registrar will probably approve them. Students i^Ould be honest and forthright, and dley need to understand the importano; and inqiact of their answers. . The key question is whether it is the student’s intent ‘ ‘to make North Carolina his or her home.” The Board of Elections operates under the presumption that “a student who leaves his parents’ home to, go to college is not domiciled in the place where thejtollege is located.” Hall v. Board of Elections, 280 N.C. 600, 187 S. E.'2d 52 (1972): The burden is placed on the student to establish his or her domicle in North Carolina and in the particular county that they reside in. “Residence” signifies living in a particular locality while “domicile” means living in that locality with intent to make it a fixed and permanent home. Any student may acquire domicile where his college is situated if he or she stays there indefinitely, Lloyd v. Babb, 2% N.C. 416, S.E. 2d (1979). If the student’s intention is to merely attend col lege in North Carolina and then return home or go to some other place, then he or she is not domiciled in North Carolina. The fact that the student has a present intention to make North Carolina his or her home is all that is needed to become a bona fide resident of this state. The student need not intend to stay in North Carolina after graduation from school. The stu dent must, however, abandon his or her domicile in the former homeplace. . If domicile is established, the Board of Elections must allow the student to register. In addition to verbal assurance of present intention to be domiciled in North Carolina, the Board of Elec tions may look at the following types of evidence: I . location of bank account(s), 2. registration of automobile, 3. possession of a North Carolina driver’s license, 4. where file student is living and with whom, 5. where tte person is presently registared to vote, 5. whefiio' the student has contracted for utilities (gas, elec- trk, tekphooe), 7. status of diurch membership, 8. where taxes are paid, 9. age, and 10. any other relevant information. 3) Any other method or procedure used to determine residen cy of any applicant shall be applied in a non-discriminatory manner to all. All county boards shall inform all registrars, judges and registration commissioners that students may not be denied per mission to register where they attend school solely on the grounds that they are living in a dormitory or are students, pro vided they are otherwise qualified. If there is any disagreement about domicile, and you feel you have been unfairly denied eligibility, contact the president of your local Student Government Association with the name of the registrar and the date of the incident. 'll j;
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