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{ By ROBIN ADAMS
t Chronicle Assistant Editor
Dr. Edward Fort, chancellor of
.vout a copy of last year's chancello
But nowhere in the slick-paper
blems the school has been plagued '
blems that have been heavily rep
. finances to a suit filed by a faculty
tenure because of his race, to crit
school's board of trustees and alur
university and its unwritten missi
been classified as "diamonds in th
What the booklet does represen
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The School of Engineering is on
engineering schools in the state ar
The School of Business is one c
accredited undergraduate progran
The state has appropriated $i
school building.
Standards of excellence have in<
in nursing where eight years ago c
the national nursing exam passed
The booklet also names some of
eluding Dr. Ron McNair, the first
space shuttle mission; Dr. Ed>
rheumatology and assistant profes
University Medical School; Dr. J
Institute; and the Rev. Jesse Ja<
American to mount a serious prej
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ing while impaired and pending
charges of drunken driving and
possession of marijuana,
Eversley said the members actly
wrongly in notifying the press.
The story involved the Rev.
Emery Clark Jr.'s arrest for
drunken driving on two separate
occasions and his congregation's
vote to allow him to remain as the
church's pastor - although it was
not unanimous.
"I think the members of the
church did make a mistake and
the newspaper should not have
given the story front-page treatment/'
Eversley said.
"I think there's always the
danger the press will be
marf5>uT3fed by a small minority
or an employee with something
that may not be publicly
newsworthy. I don't think if it
was a white church, it would have
appeared on the front page Jof a
daily newspaper)." /
But in October 1983, The High
Point Enterprise gave front-page
coverage to the arrest of a white
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r's report with pride,
booklet does it list the many prowith
the past couple of years ? proorted
in the media. From tangled
member who claims he was denied
icisms from some members of the
nni that Fort is out of tune with the
ion to educate students who have
le rough."
t, says Fort, is the real A&T story.
le of only four nationally accredited
id the only one in the Piedmont.
)f five in the state with a nationally
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8.5 million for a new engineering
:reased in all major areas, especially
>nly 13 percent of the nurses taking
' A&Ts most famous graduates, int
black astronaut to participate in a
vard Treadwell, section head of
sor of medicine at the East Carolina
ames Hefner, provost of Tuskegee
:kson, who became the first black
sidential bid.
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Baptist minister on drunken driving
charges. The pastor there
resigned.
A Question Of Leadership
Moreover, Chronicle Editor
Johnson contends that there's a
significant difference In the
power of a black minister and the
power of his white counterpart.
"Black ministers often are
spiritual and political leaders,"
.*vsiuiauii saiu. 1 ncy ic even
more powerful than black elected
officials because they don't have
to answer to white people. They
get their power strictly from the
black community. Look at the
'f Rev. Jesse Jackson. He's never
held a public office but he wields
r enormous political power."
But Goodwin said the media's
treatment of such stories affects
^ public confidence in those media
- and that, in the Clark case, he
t knew many people who lost conJ
fidence in the Chronicle.
5 "I think you can beat a dead
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"The name of the game is dem,
cent interview with the Chronicle,
polishing them, that's a noble gt
"... I have to steer the cou
something we preserve ... but hi
the door to take that exam. You
... and programs to get them be;
But Fort is the first to admit
hasn't been easy.
"Taking diamonds in the rc
*a noble gesture, but that al
? Dr. Edward Fc
Chancellor
"It can become a situation wl
heat; take a lot of flack," he says
the institution's mission. If an i
growing list of challenges, ... bai
tread water or it will wither and c
to see that happen to this institu
"If we do more than just survr
those challenges."
Many of those challenges, says
control over.
"Now, there is less concern I
are," says Fort.
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man who's been put in the paper
because he is known -- and ii
helps circulation. Other people
do this stuff all the time and you
never hear about it. How much
play do you want to give
something like this?"
But to Robinson, who agree
that such stories sometimes in
crease newspaper circulation, th
fact that a minister ? a communi
ty leader - is involved is all th
more reason to cover it.
"When it's a minister, yo
definitely should go after it,1
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and for excellence," said Fort in a re- /
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rsture, but that alone won't do it. *
rse and make sure that history is ^
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have to combine history with vision
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that making those accomplishments
>ugh and polishing them, that's
one won 7 do it. " L
irt, N.C. A&T State University
iere in some cases you take a lot of
. "But my vision is that of enhancing
institution can't meet the busy and
riers and criterion, ultimately it will
lie or be merged. And I don't intend
tion.
ve, we have got to do more than meet
Fort, are things the university has no
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i Robinson said. "That man is a
resident of the community and
his occupation happens to be the
: ministry. He's innocent until proi
ven guilty, but we must state 4Joe
i Blow has been charged.' If he's
* proven innocent, then print that,
too."
s But by then, Eversley main
- tains, an innocent person could
e have suffered irrevocable harm. I
i- And the harm such a story would
e do would not justify its benefit to
the public. . I
u "Freedom which is not
" disciplined is chaos," he said. La
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