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Campus Echo
November 1,1996
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The Campu§ Echo
1801 Fayetteville Street
Diirham, NC 27707
Editor - Alicia B. Williams
Associate Editor - Derrick Armstead
Sports Editor - Carey Johnson
Art - Dustin Harewood
Staff Reporters:
NnekaHall, Celeste Happoldt,
Kifimbo Hollaway,
Tanya Mitchell, Danny Hooley,
Shelvia Dancy, Ann-Marie Nicholson
Advisor- Dr. Gladstone Yearwood
The Echo office is located in Room 319 of the Fairison-Newton Communi
cations Building, NCCU. Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to submit
articles, editorials, and art.
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words in length. The editor reserves the right to edit all letters and articles, as needed.
Eagle Country by Dustin Harewood
OPINIONS
Groove appropriations must stop
HomecOTiing atNwth Carolina
Central is try ing to be renamed the
convention in Greensboro.
I don’t know if they do head
counts at the show, but if someone
yells ‘are the Eagles in the house’
expect an overwhelming response.
From all the talk I here, students
will be abandoning mighty NCCU
to kick it with the Aggies at A&T.
As students, we are consumers
and we determine how we spend
our money. “I’ll spend my money
on the best show,” is the constant
refrain from students.
However, giving your money
to A&T instead means that we
won’t see our money in return.
Central students always com
plain about the lack of funding
and resources we get. But the
money spent during Homecom
ing goes into the schools fund and
beneflts us.
But now that cash will be fly
ing away.
Your hard earned cash is go
ing into the Aggies back pocket.
And what do they do with it? Use
it in their general fund to help
better their school.
I was reading an old copy of
the Campus Echo and came across
an interesting editorial. It stated
that the Aggies have their pride
and the Eagles have our funk; and
not the kind you get from Parlia
ment tapes.
It went on to say that morale
was gone and unity was like stu
dents on Homecoming Friday:
absent
And here it is two and a half
years later and the same seems to
be true.
Ditching NCCU for A&T is
not a new practice by any means.
I’ve talked to some alumni and
they say it’s been going on to
years.
Flying from NCCU on Home
coming has become an ugly habit,
no, make that a tradition and it
must stop.
Jesse Jackson was on campus
last week and he joked that Cen
tral students make their way to
A&T in the Summer to get their
degrees accredited in Greensboro.
I beg to differ. I think Central
students make their way to A&T
in the Fall to get their groove ap
propriated.
And this must stop.
Carey D. Johnson
A few words from the chief executive
William J. Clinton
U.S. President
We are just four years from
the dawn of a new century. It is a
time of tremendous hope, exciting
change, and enormous possibil
ity.
We are moving into the infor
mation ageandaglobal economy.
I believe that the outcome of this
fall’s election will determine how
we prepare for the future—
whether we have the courage to
build a bridge to the 21st century
and seize all the opportunities of a
new economic age.
We must work together and
build that bridge, to meet
America’s major challenges and
protect our values; to help parents
raise their children; to help young
people and adults get the educa
tion and training they need; to
make our streets safer; to help
Americans succeed at home and
at work; to break the cycle of
poverty and dependence; to pro
tect our environment for genera
tions to come; and to maintain our
world leadership for the sake of
peace and freedom.
I believe that there are three
things the American people should
look at as they decide who can
best meet these crucial challenges;
the record, the difference between
their choices, and our plans for
the future.
Voters should begin by taking
a look at the record.
I ran for President with three
major goals for this country; first,
to make the American dream a
reality once again for every
American; second, to ensure that
the US remains thestrongestforce
for peace and freedom in the
world; and third, to restore our
sense of community- the respon
sibility we have for each other
and ourselves.
We are beginning to meet these
goals with a strategy rooted in the
most profoundly American val
ues: offering opportunity to all,
demanding responsibility from all,
and coming together as a commu
nity, across the lines that too often
divide us.
That is America’s basic bar
gain. It is how we have come this
far, and it is how we’ll move for
ward into the 21st century.
I believe that this is a moment
of remarkable promise for our en
tire nation. This election will
decide whether or not we make
the most of this opportunity.
I believe that if we continue to
follow our most basic values—
opportunity, responsibility, com
munity— we can build a strong
and sturdy bridge to a better fu
ture, and the 21st century will be
another great American century.
StudentConcerns
Study Haven for Eaglesen
Hall Residents Hard to Find
Residents of Eagleson Hall
find it hard to study in the dormi
tory because quiet hours are not
being enforced at the scheduled
times.
Even though students are
supposed to adhere to these rules,
there is still an excessive amoxmt
of noise.
Many of the students com
plain of annoying things, such
as, screaming, loud music,
slamming doors, ovemse of the
public address system and the
constant sounds of people run
ning.
Trying to study in this envi
ronment is not an easy task to
achieve and grades may suffer
because of this problem.
Eagleson resident Adeline
Williams has some comments
on the topic of co-ed visitation.
“It is ridiculous!”
She said many guests who
enter the on-campus residence
have trouble showing respect
towards other individuals in the
dorm.
Residential hall administra
tors do acknowledge this prob
lem and are taking some con
structive steps to rectify it.
Two methods currently being
discussed are scheduling conflict
meetings and opening idea ses
sions, where students and ad
ministrators brainstorm for pos
sible remedies.
Freshman LaTanya Bowman
accuses most of the residents’ of
having maturity levels similar to
when they first entered college.
She also speaks of the trouble
she has just trying to get consid
eration from other students.
Many people advise going
to the James E. Shepard Library
or the A. E. Student Union.
However, there are times when
this is just not convenient or
even possible.
Besides, the library closes at
11 p. m. and how many people
want to be walking aroxmd a
college campus at that time of
night, when you could be com
fortably studying in your room.
My conclusion is that some
thing needs to be done.... now!
First, all individuals who ex
perience a problem with the
noise level should confront the
source of the problem.
Secondly, if the situation
isn’t rectified consult the Resi
dential Assistant or the Resi
dential Director.
However, if these two steps
don’t adequately settle the
problem there should be some
way to officially document the
behavior of the perpetrator, and
use it to formally punish that
individual.
If these measures are imple
mented there would be less
complications and the residents
of Eagleson Hall, as well as the
other campus housing locations,
can get back to studying.
Because, if the noisy students
are not in college for the right
reasons, the people they are
annoying surely are.
Jessika Sagoe