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-TK2 CTSLIXA TIKES-SATURDAY. CCTC8ER 2, 1882 DlZCk EdUCCtCrS ; (Continued from Page4) They " demonstrated once again, as James Brown once put it, you've got to pay the cost to be the boss." ' And in . the final analysis, everyone ap pears to have lost. Students say they lost because they're forced to accept a white culture while offered no real op portunity, beyond words and paper, to share their rich African culture. Alumni say they've lost because, as one put it, "we haven't been made to feel at home lately," and their input is worth about as much as whites in Chape) Hill want it to be. nursing exam. At one point, the chairman of 'the nursing department , described the mandate as "undue pressure", and added that the black schools were singled out. The law school, started in 1940 in order to keep blacks out of the white law schools, year after year met the wrath of General Administration in Chanel Hill so or appropriate' terminal degrees, otherwise the -candidate must be cleared by General Ad ministration. 1 "General Administra tion has really been a watch dog over the black schools, but they haven't been as dogmatic toward the white Schools," said one official with the black educators group. This official asked not be And administrators 'between UNC and the ithev're no longer policy . federal Deoartment of much so that now white .identified. "They do that law school graduates because they know the comprise well over fiftyt black Community isn't per cent of the past two aware, and thej feel the classes. Finally, though not least of all. came the consent decree, ending ten years of legal strife makers) ost because they can't make major decisions without getting the go ahead from Chapel Hill. Holloway says, "The board has some say," but conceded that UNC General Administration holds the controls. Recent decrees, orders and rulings handed down by the Board of Gover nors affecting the black schools, help to show its ever -seeing eye and far reaching arm. One such action that raised public brows was an objection by General Administration to a pic ture in NCCU's annual catalog showing a stu dent in the braided hair style. Critics say that ob jection smacked of racism and sought to deny cultural identity. That action increased talk of the negative ef fects of integration, with some people saying that black schools have only become desegregated of black values while blind ly, with scrutiny, accep ting of ; the ways of whites. And other mandates touched both NCCU's law school and nursing program, In the nursing case, the board threaten ed to shut the nursirv: program down if the large majority of students failed the state's: Health. Education and Welfare. The battle lasted so long that by the time it ended, HEW had been dismantled and a separate Department of Education had been formed. Soon after the desegregation agreement was announced. Chancellor Whiting sum med up its meaning dur ing a speech to students .and faculty when he said the traditional mission of black schools of higher learning "had no further legitimacy". It became clear that the effects of the consent decree would be widespread and far reaching, and, ironically, could have long term negative effects on the people who fought for it blacks though some say the final decree was much different than the original intent of the' lawsuit that ultimately brought it about. And if having a mis sion of providing educa tion to disadvantaged blacks, who had been for decades been denied at tendance at white schools, was illegal under the consent decree, then the board of governors added red pepper to the situation by requiring the black schools to only hire: teachers with doctorates : ! ,4 i HrxiV kA V.V i ' i ... .. m , ni i MA 1 I I Durhani'ondcrground black community isn concerned." But why isn't tne black community concerned or aware of the loss of black control of black schools? "Many of our pro blems in education result from racism and the fact that many of our educa tional leaders will not ac cept that concrete reali ty," said Dr. Earle Thorpe," a prominent historian who is a pro fessor in the NCCU history K department , "We need to face the concrete realities of racism, and those of us within the system can be properly critical and can be a counter force and a ounter reactor to those lealities." But then also, blacks ,ond to wait too late for input. "It's tragic," said the black educators official, "that this institution (NCCU) which has touched the lives of so many in this country, has silently slipped away from the black com munity's control. Under the guise of integration, we gave up everything. I think the black com- officials were threaten munity ought to wake up jng to cutoff the pro take an active role in the gram's funds, school's destiny.'.' Without state funding, But if blacks gave up many young black men control of the university, and women, who wanted Lbiirden off of the backs wnai uiu mcy gci m . iu (juisuc nui smg icucci qj- everyone around return.' wouia nave naa 10 lorgo , The answer is summed ' 'their dreams. up in one worai now another spring TOO MANY -of the underground's residents wind up like this: shackled and chained to he led away to jail or prison. NCCU Nursing School Dean Expects Bright Future By Joseph E. Green , Just a few short spr ings ago, NCCU's nurs ing program faced ex tinction. Its students had not done well on the nurses licensing exam and state school. Twelve of thir teen Central nursing students 92 per cent passed the state licens ing exam given in the late summer and no one from Asheville to Raleigh is talking about closing the school. "Of course we are ex-, tremely pleased with the results," said nursing school dean Dr. Johnea, (Continued from Front) just come out here, rap with the boys, pick me up a little piece of work and go home." ' ; Smitty is an epileptic who drinks too much, and hasn't held a fulltime . job in more than ten years. He' caught in a vicious cycle of self destruction that only death can free him from. IV. Brenda lives in the underground, ! - A young welfare mother with three young children from a mar- , riage that started too soon when she was 16 and ended too late after the third baby. Brenda has, very little education, even less incen-i tive, and in the crudest of all jokes i : a lot of dreams, i "I want to be somebody," she says sincerely, curled on the bat tered couch in her living room. "I want to do something with my life, but I don't know how." 5 And so there they are just a few of the many examples of Durham's other black community. And their very existence raises many serious questions for the black com : munity at lage. ; , How long can a black communi ty that claims to be serious about progress tolerate more than a third of its people to be criminal? How long can the community allow too much whiskey, too many drugs, and too dark a future to rob many of its young people of vitality and ambition? ''. How long can a progressive community allow almost one in, three of its children to be'born out of wedlock to a mother who is little more than a child herself? How long can the black com munity continue to allow the fathers of these children to shirk their , responsibilities, darting from child 1to child, sowing wild and destructive oats? (' Another way of saying all this is simply to ask, when will Durham's proud and progressive black com munity reach down and pull the underground black community up- ward into the daylight? But not only I will they do it, can they do it? and ain't got no good education.! You just have to get out here and get1 . .what the hY. you can gtf. ! They live a simple Jife. She works during the day as a motel maid, bringing home con siderably less than $100 each week . Everytime she gets a chance, she - steals a couple of towels, sheets or glasses. She feels it's her due. . During the day. Coco just hangs ' around. He gets high when he can, ' smoking pot when there's money to (buy it, drinking "white lightn'g" at 1 other times.- At night he hits the ; streets, prowling like some slender, . brown - skinned predator, looking . for something to steal. According to Coco,' he sells what he steals. He ' won't say to whom. But if this man; an eighth grade dropout,' who left home when he was 16 and has been hustling the streets of .. Durham ever since is typical of the national statistics, he sells the : goods to some "law abiding" citizen in his neighborhood. Either that, or he sells them to a "fence", who in turn sells . them to "law-abiding" citizens.' You can find almost anything you wanlin Durham's underground. The 'scene shifts to one of Durham's splo houses. Splo, houses provide entertain ment in the underground. You can get in free, if someone knows you, or if someone who is known brings you in. Inside, the lights are dim,, the music is loud, andrhe.smoke is thick enough to cut. The drinks are often just a tad better than rotgut, and seriously overpriced, but to those, residents of the underground who need relief, this is fun. But for some, it's also business. Deals get cut in splo houses with the blink of an eyelash. A coat gets' sold here, and a dress there, some slacks in the corner, and a chronograph watch by the jukebox. Scene switch two: Buzzard Roost, ' 7 a.m. on a Monday morning. Smit . ty lives in the underground, but he's !no criminal. i "No man, I don't do no wrong. I Men's Fashions Featured In Chameleon Saturday Nothing. U A j nas wine anu guue. A jubilant mood the permeates nursing 4d f 1 i i- 1U LJ US - Jj, , . i 6-7 UM :-l'- hMMi. mmL Mr-kils B n I o Q Q til t til Id a jiid '. jU jj-. .;- . k..J- -;.V - STILI, THERE The statue of Dr. James E. Shepard, founder of what is now known as North Caro Una Central University, still stands in front of the administration building on campus. Bui the school he founded is vastly dif ferent today than it was then, and the power that runs it is not to found any place on campus. Pllolo bvSHuMa.tflfM here." While Dr. Kelley, who has been dean of the nur sing school since 1978, is pleased with the results, she contends . that the " school has always been, turning I 'oufc. qualified nursing candidates, 1 '.tthe difference i this year was in the nature of the exam," she said. "The exam that was given this year not only measured a student's medical nursing skills, but also tested behavioral skills," she added. Dr. Kelley said that when the school was fac ed with closing because of poor scores, the media reaction was awesome. She said that her phone was constantly ringing with calls from newspaper and television reporters. Now that the school's scores have gone up, the. media seem . 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Productions, , a Durham-based entertain ment production com 'pany, the fashion show will feature Mercy "D", a professional model with more than five years 'experience, who is well ' known in the Triangle , area. . Eight other models will appear in the hour long show that will get underway at 9 p.m. The . show will run through five fashion scenes, according to the show's commentator, Ms. La Wanda Saddler Lyons. - The casual scene will . feature, among other styles, Calvin Klein jeans, accentuated by Arrow flannel shirts and western boots. The disco scene will feature Pierre Cardin slacks with Serio Valante shirts, along with styles designed for the loose and lively world of disco. The swimwear scene will run the gamut from: brief to basic, including some old-fashioned,' but modern "coveralls". In the executive scene, models will show styles that are designed for money and "being sharp". 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