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THE CAMPUS ECHO EXCELLENCE W;(THOUT EXCUSE Issue 35 NORTH CAROIJNA CENTRAL UNITERSITY April 8,1994 NCCU Hosts First Annual Honors Week By Terri Boykin Staff Writer The week following spring break will bring an other celebration—NCCU’s first annual Honors Week, with the theme “Celebrating A Tradition of Excellence at NCCU.” The celebration will be gin Monday and continue all week, culminating in the Honors Convocation on Fri day at 11:00 a.m. in the McLendon-McDougald Gym. The featured speaker will be Jewell Jackson McCabe, founder and chair of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women. In 1981 McCabe estab lished the coalition to engage professional women in a net work to meet their career needs and facilitate their ac cess to mainstream America. The coalition now has a membership of 7,000 in 25 states. McCabe is also president of Jewell Jackson McCabe Associates, a management consulting firm that includes among its clients American Express, Matsushita Elec tronic Corporation of America (Panasonic), the NAACP Le gal Defense and Educational Fund, and The College Board. Her company specializes in strategic communications and provides marketing, commu- nity-govemment-public rela tions, and management con sultant services, Dtiring the Honors Con vocation, departmental, lead ership and service awards will be given to students. Those students who have made the honor roll and/or dean’s list will also be honored. All of these students are expected to be present. If you are an honor student, look for the list at your department chair’s office or the registrar’s office to be sure your name is on it. Other award recipients will be notified by mail, but verification can be made at your department chair’s office. Monday will begin the celebration with an “Evening with the Performing Arts” at 7:(X)p.m. Durham’s renowned jazz group. Eve Comelious and the Chip Crawford Trio, will be performing. Other per formers include: the Wesley Williams dancers; the NCCU Dance Group; the Worship and Praise Inspirational Mass Choir; the NCCU cheerlead ers; the Bon Vivant models; a monologue by Anitra Ingram of August Wilson’s “Fields,” and a duo by Kim Britt and Yamise Fields, members of the NCCU Tourine Choir. On Tuesday, an Under graduate Research Sympo sium will be moderated by Profesor Emeritus Helen Redmonde. Students from various areas will present brief abstracts of their work, such as “Living Black: Living White /Mulatto Ex periences in the Novels of Nella Larsen,” by Eric Pristell. It will be held at 1:00 p.m. at the Health Sci ences Building Auditorium. Wednesday night at 7:00, a“Salute to Leadership and Service” will be pre sented with Sylvia Kerckhoff, mayor of Durham, as the guest speaker. Held in the Student Union, a gala reception will be given to honor the stu dents involved in volunteer service in Durham area. The Honors Colloquium, “Today NCCU — Tomor row the World” will be held 1:00 p.m. Thursday at the Health Sciences Building Auditorium. Panelists will include Representative H.M. Michaux Jr.; Ms. eweii jacKson MccaDe E’Vonne Coleman, executive anchor WTVD-News; and two director of the Durham Arts NCCU students: Tyrone Cox, Council; Earl Sanders, a senior in accounting, and Pat former NCCU professor of Neems, a senior in English music; Miriam Thomas, co- Education. EDITORIAL FEATURES FEATURES ARTS Eagle Train page 2 General Walls page 4 - - ■ ■ ! Above The Rim page 7 Touring Choir page 6
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