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I THE CAROLINA TIMES SAT.. SEPTEMBER 27, 1980 St. Aug. Gets Grant Award Of $92,630 For Special Services NAARPR Leaders Reportedly Attacked By Klan Dr. Prezell R. Robin son, President of Saini Augustine's College, an nounces lhat St. Aug's is the recipient of a gram award for special services, in the amount of f 92,630. This gram was given by the Department of Educa tion of the department of Healihand Human Ser vices, and is the third con secutive year award. This gram for special services is one of the Trio programs offered by HHS. The purpose of the program is to provide motivation for the economically disadvan tage student. This special services program, entitled "Project Uplift," enrolls ISO students at St. Augustine's, most of whom are Director; Ms. Debra Matthews, Counselor; Mrs. Vernell Beasley, Coordinator of Communications; Mrs. Patricia Regis, Reading Instructor; and David Parker, Assistant Pro fessor of Mathematics. The four major com ponents of (he program are counseling, tutorial assistance, cultural enrich ment activities, and special enrichment courses. The objectives of these components relative to the program are as follows: Counseling provides guidance and vocational training through utiliza tion of a team counseling approach in assisting par ticipants in making academic and social ad justments necessary to adequately deal with societal concerns. Tutorial assistance provides in struction in all academic disciplines. Cultural enrichment activities serve to augment the teaching and learning process. Special services provides a series of reinforcement to learning projects which provide enrichment ex periences to parallel cur ricular offerings. And lastly, special enrichment courses include skill development in the areas of communication skills and mathematical enrich ment and science rein forcement. The specific aim of these courses, Reading, English Com position, Fundamentals of Mathematics, and Creative Writing, is to im porve the academic per formance of program par ticipants. The special services pro gram is designed to lift aspirations of students who doubl opportunities for success in today's world, to provide ex periences thai will enable students to express, relate, and maintain inner con fidence essential to oral and written communica tion, and to interpret meanings of visual sym bols, charts, graphs, com puter printouts, and travel: directions. "Twenty students are selected to conduct tutorials in mathematics, and tutors also provide services for students who encounter learning dif ficulties with hard sciences," staled Dr. Thelma Roundtree, vice president for Academic Affairs at St. Aug's. She explained that the cultural enrichment activities in clude museum tours, visits to theatrical perfor mances, and Research laboratories. In addition, year three's activities will include travel to historic sites within the state of North Carolina. "Special Services at Saint Augustine's is an ad caemic program which allows students to earn, credit hours in their freshman and sophomore years as part of the general education area," she said. Dr. Nichols Named To Selection Board For Rural Leaders' Awards Dr. Beverly A. Nichols, chairman of North Carolina Central Universi ty's department of home economics, is a member of the selection board for two prestigious rural ser vice awards. Dr. Nichols serves as one of seven selection trustees for the Winthrop Rockefeller Award for Distinguished Rural Ser vice. The awards, named for the late Arkansas gover nor, will be presented in May, 1981, by the Na tional Rural Center of Washington, D.C. The two winners will receive $10,000 awards under a grant to the center from the Winthrop Rockefeller Charitable Trust. Raymond Philip Shafer, former governor of Pennsylvania, is chair man of the selection board. He said the awards LWfKl By Joe Black I ' f Are you one of those who is always asking, "Where is the political repre sentation for our community?" Are you tiring of too little action and too much rhetoric? Would you like to see things turned around? If you answered yes to those ques tions, then heed the advice of the National Coalition of Black Voter Participation when they urge us to become involved by locating the voter participation campaign in our town and offering oir services. My friends, we have arrived at the time when we must become more sophisticated in our selection of political candidates. They all promise us a chicken in ev ery pot, but the pages of history show that too many of them mean a chick en for those who have and unfulfilled dreams for those who have nothing except hope. Thus, it requires our recognizing that the selection is more than Demo crat or Republican, or Carter versus Reagan. We must listen to and evalu ate those political leaders who project sincere plans that, are designed to give us lasting dignity and self respect via equality of justice and an opportunity to attain preparation for today's jobs so that we receive paychecks rather than handouts. To achieve this goal, we must not let political parties think that we are their robots. So, register.... think.... and then vote. Jbe'Bhck Vice President The Greyhound Corporation will recognize individual leadership and rural development contribu tions in local communities and the academic com munity. The 1980 awards were presented to Ms. Minnie Miller Brown of Raleigh, in recognition of her work as a teacher, rural sociologist, and advocate for rural people; and to Roman Kettler of Eden, S.D., a farmer, financial innovator, community worker, and organizer. In addition to former Gov. Shafer and Dr. Nichols, selection trustees are Leroy Davis of Southern University, Baton Rouge, La.; Myron Jones of Indian Training, Inc., Albuquerque, N.M. Roderick N. Petrey, at torney of Miami, Fla.; Richard D. Remington of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and Ms. Marta Sotomayor of the U.S. Public Health Service. Jones Petrey, and Rem ington are members of the board of directors of the sponsoring National Rural Center. R.T. Watkins Gets Kyle Award Robert T. Watkins, senior vice president of Marketing for Public Ser vice Company of North Carolina Inc., was honored at the Southeastern Gas Associa tion's annual meeting .in Norfolk, Virginia, September 19. Watkins was given the Volney H. Kyle, Jr. Award for outstanding contribution to the association and the natural gas industry. It is the association's highest award and has been given to only seven individuals since it was established in 1967. Watkins was honored for his con tinuous involvement in speaking to national and regional gas associations, encouraging attention to basic training needs in the industry, and stressing the need for re-entry into ag gressive marketing. Watkins, the associa tion's newly-elected se cond vice president, has been in natural gas sales and appliance merchan dising since 1931. When he joined Public Service Company of North Carolina, the company had 23,000 customers. It now has 134,000. A native of Charlotte, Watkins is past chairman of the American Gas association's marketing section, a member of the board of directors of the Southern Gas Association and the Southeastern Gas Association, and is on an ad hoc comm it tee assist i ng . the state's Energy Policy Council. Among his many civic involvements, is working with children who have specific learning disabilities. The Southeastern Gas Association is composed of approximately 500 representatives of natural gas pipeline companies, Ms. Charlene Mitchell, National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression executive secretary and three other leaders of the Alliance branch in Los Angeles were reportedly attacked by members of the Ku Klux Klan at a meeting of the Central Committee of the Democratic Party of San Diego County (in San Diego, California) on the evening of September 16. The incident is said to have occured shortly after Ms. Mitchell testified before the Central Com mittee at tfie public meeting, urging its members to disavow the House candidacy on the Democratic Party ticket of KKK Grand Dragon Tom Metzger; and to initiate an investigaiton of the rally he led in Oceanside in March at which numerous people were beaten by alleged Klansmen, in cluding members of the news media. Deacon . Alexander, Alliance West Coast Regional organizer, was reportedly the first to be attacked by KKK members attending the meeting. (Alexander has been active initiating the Alliance program to outlaw the Klan in the Ci ty of Oceanside for over a year.) Bob Duren, Alliance chairman of the Police Crimes Task Force in L:A., reportedly at tempted to intervene and protect Alexander from a vicious beating when he, in turn, was attacked and beaten. Ms. Mitchell reportedly tried to block the attack on the others' and was roughed up in the process allegedly by Klansmen. During the beating, a plainclothes officer is said to have pulled out his badge and arrested Alex ander and Duren. Attorney Linda Ferguson, a member of the Alliance Legal Sup port Committee, and Ms. Mitchell are said to have left the meeting un protected, while the Grand Dragon Metzger left with a police escort. On the way to the police precinct where Alexander and Duren had been taken, it is reported that the two women escaped what they perceived to be as another vicious attack by outrunning the Klansmen. Both Duren and Alex ander are being held on $10,000 bail, charged with assault and possession of a concealed weapon. NAARPR co-chairman Fr. David Garcia stated: "Our beloved Executive Secretary and the L.A. 1 piss, mhVL : V w 't S I i JjN i f I J? Jf ... ulLL "drflrift irew ff Development of OavelopmentCoordinitor of Media & ? S.an.d.?!na!',., rt WSHA-FM it Shaw University Is shown with Louis Mtf ?LS aLAssiSrant l? es,?e,nt Carter and Cnaries D- Ferris, Cairman of the Federal Srji hi i"s.,Co",m,"' (c). after attending a communications symposium in the Blue Room of the White House recently. . ' Alliance members are the latest victims of an alarm ing series of attacks on our people by the KKK and Nazis. That such outrageous attacks occur can only heighten the urgent need for state legislatures to immediately pass legislation outlawing these racist hate groups. The U.S. Congress must move quickly to ratify the United Nations con- venants outlawing genocide. The situation demands such a positive step to eliminate racism in this country. "The propensity for violence by KKK leader Tom Metzger exploded once again Tuesday night September 16, at the Cen tral meeting of the San Diego County Democratic Party. This is not an issue of free speech. We de mand Pris!rtnt 'Cnrtir -s and the Carter-Mondaje . Presidential Campaign; f nmmitlAA immAniaMMr r ' denounce ivieizger ana didacy on the Democratic '.S Party ticket. "Our Alliance urges telegrams be sent to Carter . . 1TI1. -. T T 1 ai me wnue mouse ana the Campaign Committee, as well as the California Congressmen." 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