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l)iA rrw-f Newspaper Separtr.ent - C. 27706 ' ' ' lTl-tn' Tho Dccr Press Oiir Freedom Depend On III rdrds of VJlzdcm All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been ; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. Tbemts CttljU ' VOLUME 55 - NUMBER 17 "READ BY OVER 30,000 DURHAMITES" DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY. APRIL 30, 1977 TELEPHONE (919) 6834587 PRICE: 29 CSNTfr - v . . . ' I 7 ' 66Inmaie RALEIGH - Wake County District Judge Parker said last week, "If students can be spanked in school in mates should be spanked in , prison." The statement was made following Judge Parker finding a Polk Youth Center inmate Cheyenne Burt, guilty of assaulting a J, correctional officer. A day before the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that ; school officials could constitu tionally use corporal punish ment in disciplining pupils. A representative of the North Carolina Prisoners Labor Union and civil rights attorney Jerry - Paul have criticized the judge's comment and decision as en couraging assault on inmates by correctional guards. On March 29 several black and white . inmates at Polk Youth Center fought, resulting tai one white inmate being hospitalized.) Captain , Coy Stevenson.:,: and Several guards stopped the fight, removed the white inmates to another area, then ordered Burt.t a black in mate to' accompany them to trie shower. '- In court, Stevenson said that when he and the offi cers reached the shower, Burt, a small . slender youth of 19 c 3iaeCi j3spoiasitJS.. Arc Dsscsq h CCp CHAPEL HILL - Salva- j. r re sai . -r lure uciuaiiciuciui 13 UIW VI ua w-nr ,n hi. rt,tMt. wiw vi ev vmbva vk.Mwt.w ir. ruanZ urn h n,4T.,.m.nrt. aaa vvt iumi w nn ed from school after he and other students were accused of being in the school hallway when prohibited, and later was told to leave the campus, The school s suspension Siolicy requires that after an in brmal hearing in the princi pal's office or assistant prin cipal's office in which sus pension results, the prind- nal will "attempt to call the parent." If the parents cannot be reached "the student is kept at school, in a status of in school' suspension" for the rest of the day. n.i-i.,i After Assistant Principal -u n-.t. n call Salvatore's parents to in form them of the suspension without success, Salvatore was told to leave the school. Sal vatore told a reporter that he did not have money catch a bus and waited at the edge of school property to catch a ride. Meanwhile, school offi- cials warned him that he was trespassing and had him arrested by the Chapel Hill nolice.. Following his arrest, his one day suspension was made an explusion for the rest who comprise 28 per cent of . , in the Chapl Hiu scnoois, : the student popuhition at Ouyt1.fiwWW"PPe- .1 :.W.. V-hi 7; ViSffiiiiv ; years, attacked Stevenson and choked him until the other guards were able to subdue , Burt with their billy clubs. Questioned as to why the youth was taken to the shower. Stevenson replied, for ques tioning. Burt subsequently was hospitalized for several days. Burt's story was different. After being taken to the shower, he said two inmates using the shower were ordered to leave by Stevenson. Once in the shower, Burt said that Stevenson told the guards with him "Lay it to him." At that time, he- said the guards un leashed a hail of blows that knocked him to the shower floor where he said that he was beaten for several minutes. Burt was hospitalized for mul tiple injuries. . ... At,. the trial, held three weeks after the incident,' Jerry Paul, Burt's attorney, showed the court the injuries which included stitches In Burt's head, a swollen eye and face and wounds oh both legs and armsJ; Burt walked to the , witness stand with a bad limp. Paul contended, that Burt was not taken to the shower for questioning but for beat ing by the officers. Stevenson, of the school year. I Tnlilr thriM nf manv py - . " J. oelled and susoended students r - - I ctaJT?rievance committee, .r - - r" ' o - - -' An Interim report of CO- ED indicates that , most stu- dents have not been informed by the school administration of the existence of the committee, which is supposed to be comprised of two teachers, two ninth grade stu dents and two parents. At SalvatOreV hearing, no students participated. The de- cislon or the Grievance Commi- ttee has not been made public, but informed sources said to a reporter that the committee will recommend to the superintendent that Salvatore he allowed to return to school. nSu.j t.,i. . ruwuuu o7iu, auwii. for the Orange County -Chat ham County Legal Services, re presented Salvatore and argued that the school's suspension and expulsion policy had not been followed and that Salva- tore has been denied "due process." He also argued that Salvatore, who has been tracked in special education classes since the first grade "was a child with special needs, social maladjustments. and learning disabilities," and, under state law, could not be I ' "'' ' - -I JUDGE PARitER SAYS- Should Be it CHEYENNE BURT questioned on the witness stand, said that most ques tioning of inmates in the unit occurs in the prison office. Paul said the motive for the beating was" that Stevenson wanted to "get back" at the inmate considered the ring leader of the fight which had hospitalized the' white inmate. Stevenson, as well as the guards accused of the beatings, is white. On the stand, Stevenson said Burt was the ring leader. Before finding Burt guilty of assaulting Stevenson, Judge denied educational opportuni tes. A.JS. J,,. . - Accordtag to data com- -smother black students- at Guy B. Phillips were more than twice as likely to be suspended as white students. During that period, "Eighty-seven discipli nary incidents occurred which led to suspensions." Involved in these incidents were 28 black students (85) and twelve white students (15). (Several students were sus pended more than one time). Similarly, offenses that grew out of the incidents in the school were charged . against 85 of the black students. Blacks were likely to be suspended for fighting, skipp ing class, and insubordination; whereas whites were most likely to be suspended for possession of alcohol. Blacks stayed out of school an average of 4.6 days com pared to whites an average of 1.6 days in the semester. ' The same data for the same period is available in the CO-ED report for the entire school system, including the attitudes of the parents, stu dents, and school personnel involved in the disciplinary actions, Questioned about the (11 Dr. Horace G. Dawson, information Agency chats Nanjlra, Charge d' Affairs I ill, "" v , ' , 'I center, and Dr. Hamid Taqi of Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga., during the recent conference on Southern Africa at North Carolina Central University. The Con ference was sponsored by the NCCU Center for Inter national Studies. (2) Dr. Anneliese Markus de Kennedy left, and Sharon Jones, a North Carolina Central Uni versity student talk with Dr. Darrell Randall, pro fessor of African Studies at the American University, Washington, D. C. (3) Michael Sessoms, a NCCU stu dent snares Ideas with social workers from South Africa durina the conference. The South African stu dent on the right, is not identified. Others are Esliwe Shuenyame, second from left, and Julie Charles, second from right. The South Africans are studying at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Spanked" Parker'covered his face with his hand, ran his fingers through his long hair, as if his was a difficult decision. "I think everybody assaul ted everybody," the judge said. But his sentence was prayer for judgement continued, which would not give any added time to Burt's sentence. "By this decision, you're encouraging them (guards) to beat prisoners up," Attorney Paul said. "I agree with you," Parker remarked. He continued, say ing, "If students can be spank-' ed in school, inmates should be spanked in prison." Explaining, his reason for giving the sentence of prayer for judgement, Parker said Burt ? had been punished enough. He said that he felt Stevenson and the officers had "given sum mary judgement on the scene" or, in other words, had taken the law, into their own hands. An official of the North Carolina Prisoners Labor Union, agreed with Paul and said, "This particular ruling is going , to encourage all kinds of vio lations of prisoners' rights all racially-motivated suspensions and community responseMrs. utilized.but parent groups and. Service agencies are nOW working together to deal with the problem of denial of edu cation to blacks, particularly black males. The legal services' attorney provided the Degraf- fenreidt family was an example 01 community service agencies inat are Mginning 10 address the suspensions. Ms. Martin said, "We felt that all the work that we put into gathering data and writ u.BF.urMi, .UFiUS.... sw.J and administrators face the u prooiems. A parents' organization, Parents for Educational Progress (PEP) is beginning to utilize the findings of the CO-ED report to propose alternatives to suspensions. In a subsequent report we will take a look at PEP's recom mendations to Dr. Finley Ruch, Principal, of the Chapel Hill High School regarding sus pensions and expulsions. While the parents of black students organize against ex pulsions and suspensions, white groups in the small university town are also organizing, some left, of the United States with Dr. D. D. C. Don of the Embassy of Kenya, through the North Carolina i rprison system." The union uffi- cial, Dr. James Grant of the 'i. Charlotte 3, also said the de cision might well "trigger a ? response from the inmates in; i terms of having to deal with - this kind of act on the part of -; correction officers." Corrcc ' tions officers assaulting in mates, Grant sajd, would also lead to "riots, rebellions and unrest in an already abomin able situation that exists in the North Carolina prison system." After consulting with his client, Attorney Paul said that a decision on appeal of Parker's decision had not yet been reached. Contacted after the court session by a reporter, who ' questioned Parker on what he meant when he agreed with . Attorney Jerry Paul that the decision would encourage the beating of inmates, Parker changed his statement and said that he had not agreed with Paul. Several persons in the court said they heard the statement. Parker did not retract that the statement that inmates should be spanked by the guards. (CCNS). 3 for implementation of ability grouping (referred to bv . pian and 1 identify student, teacher, nareni Hrfminisfrntiv and black community response to the proposals. Meanwhile, Salvatore De graffenreidt and. the other students expelled from Guy B. Phillips and other schools m thc ChapeI m schoo, system are deprived of an edu cation. Salvatore now spends his time working on a pulp wood truck, although he wants to go back to, school so he can learn a trade. In subsequent rennrts we uill foat,, in-r. t , -r "ZT siuuciiio, wiiu van iiuu uu k a d , f t t . , t throudl each dav (Ccm 8" "ugn each flay. (tCNS) 2 Dcrfc-ailcs Aro Nanod To Honor Group The Board of Advisors for the Outstanding Young Men of America Awards Pro gram announced that the men named below have been selected for inclusion in the 1977 edition of Outstanding Young Men of America. The Outstanding Young Men of America Program is co-sponsored by the United States Jaycees and numerous other leading men's civic and service organizations throughout the nation. Serving as chairman of its 12 man Advisory Board is Doug Blankenship, U. S. Jaycees past president. ' In every community there are young men working dili gently to make their cities, as well as their country, better places in which to live. These men, having distinguished themselves in one or more fields of endeavor, are out standing and deserve to be recognized for their achieve ments. The criteria for selec tion include a man's volun tary service to community, professional leadership, aca demic achievement, business advancement, cultural accom plishments and civic and poli tical participation. The Board of Ad visors and Editors salute all chosen as Outstanding Young Men of America.' -Tyrone Randolph Baines Joseph Uroy Smalls Jr q M I'm ( DR. HELEN G. EDMONDS, left, listens as William Clement, chairman of the North Carolina Central University Board of Trustees announces at a recent meeting of the Board, that she will be named Distinguished Professor Emeritus at NCCU, the first time this distinction has been accorded. Dr. Edmonds, a former member of the U. S. Delegation to the United Nations, has been a member' of the NCCU history faculty since 1941. The plaque held by Clement commemorates Dr. Edmonds' retirement. fJCCU Honors Retiring Personnel Twenty-Five Year Veterans North Carolina Central University faculty and staff members Sunday honored 12 of their number who retired this year or will retire after the May 22 commencement. The university also honored at a reception the five faculty and staff members who this year completed their 25th year of employment at the uni versity. Honored on the occasion of, their letlrment were John Alford, housekeeping assistant; ff Pstrol Y Hire RALEIGH - Captain John Jenkins of Greenville was appointed last week to the post of commander of the state highway patrol by Cover-, nor James Hunt. Jenkins is a 30 year veteran of the patrol, who rose to the top position from the ranks as a trooper. Captain Jenkins said that a substantia increase in the number of blacks hired in the patrol "would depend on the process of applications that we get from blacks. I'm sure that there are blacks who are quali fied and they will be given every consideration." Hunt, assisting Jenkins with a reporter's question about Jenkins' plans to em ploy blacks in the patrol, said, "I have expressed with Captain Jenkins that that is high priority with me as Gover nor." The patrol employs appro ximately twenty black patrol men and no women in the 1129 member force in the state. (That does not include the telecommunications operators and other non patrol personnel employed). Barely a year ago, the portly, beer guzzling and very likeable British Ambassador to the United Nations, Mr. Ivor Richards, was selected by her Majesty's government to proceed with negotiations with all the parties involved to achieve black majority rule in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia). During the long summer and fall negotiations, the forever optimistic Mr. Richards held high the prospects of ulti mate success. The leaders of Black Africa were one with Ambassador Richards' high expectations. Ambassador Richards shuttle diplomacy between London and Geneva, under- Too .. 4 ' ' lJf( 1! 1! Mrs. Nellie Alston, housekeep ing assistant; Mrs. Alma Biggers director of residence life; James R. Butts, assistant pro fessor chemistry; William Car ter, boiler operator; Dr. Helen G. Edmonds, Distinguished Professor of History ; Mrs. Alice Farrison, instructor of English; Mrs. Juanita Jones, housekeep ing assistant; Dr. Charles E. King, professor of sociology; Mrs4 Lillie McCall, housekeep ing assistant; Mrs. Annie McCoy, housekeeping assistant, Patrol eaders in the previous administration of Colonel Edwin Jones stated that quali fied black men and women applicants could not be found for vacant positions in the patrol. Last fall a recruitment program was begun by the patrol to solicit minority applicants by speaking to groups of senior citizens whom patrol leaders thought would influence younger blacks who were qualified to apply. Jenkins said three years ago.when he was made captain of Troop A in Greenville - the position he held until his appoint ment last week - there were no blacks among the 105 troopers in that dis trict. When he left, he said, he had employed five blacks. Jenkins is known in the patrol as a strict disciplinarian who says. "I think everybody requires a certain amount of dscipline. in the same token they expect a certain amount of discipline." The highway patrol has been suffering from lack of morale for several years ii King By Laura Parks taken with high hopes in the summer of 76 rapidly suc cumbed to the chill diplo matic winds of the fall. By Christmas the world knew that the Jolly Santa Claus figure of Ambassador Richards was carrying an empty diplomatic sack. For a while the interested parties maintained the fiction that something of importance was nevertheless accomplish ed, even if it was only a ten tative date for Zimbabwe black majority rule. The fiction soon gave way to white RhodesianY Prime Minister, Ian Smith's undistinguished . assertions that former US Secretary of ) 7 ' I ' i A f and Mrs. Winnie Robinson, in structor of history. Dr. King was also inducted into the University's quarter century club, as were Floyd Brown, assistant professor of physical education; Mrs. Willa Lewis, assistant professor of physical education; Philip Marable, chief of security; and Mrs. Thelma Smith, adrnmistra--tive assistant to the chancellor. More pictures-Page 2J which surfaced under the Holshouser administration as apparently political pro motions disturbed many of the patrolmen. Governor Hunt's first appointment prior to being inaugurated was the frmation of a task force to study morale and discipline problems in the patrol. Questioned as to why he did not go out of the state rather than pick a comman der from the ranks, Hunt said, "It would have cause sub stantial morale problems if we could not have found a man in the state." Some change in the top administration of the patrol will be undertaken by Jenkins. While Hunt said that Jenkins will not be a flunky', he said that with decisions affecting top leadership, "I would likely be apprised and certainly Judge Carlton would like to be apprised." Carlton is Secretary of the newly -formed Department of Crime Control and Public Safety. Previously, the Highway Patrol was within the Department of Transportation. fCCNSV 3 oil Two State Henry Kissinger tricked him into agreements that he could not possibly support. Smith's essential argument was based on the assertion that Rhodesia's 260,000 white settlers were in danger of having their chrfl liber ties and properties annulled . and confiscated by the six million blacks. This assertion was a lie of Hitlerian dimen sions. Kissinger's proposala ,were, in fact. ; designed to prolong and perpetuate white economic supremacy in Rho desia while granting political majority rule to the blacks. ; Rhodesia's black leaders and other leaders of Clack Continued On Page 2
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