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Page A14-The Chronicle, Thursday, March 14, 1985 Michaux’s bill gets lukewarm support From Page A1 ll■llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll■llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll■llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll women are the big losers in se cond primaries, said Michaux. “All the other candidates want to do is make it through the first primary,” he said. “Second primaries are expensive and they tend to be racist.” Bills to eliminate or restrict the use of second primaries have been introduced in the legislature before, but have always lost. This time, said Michaux, lukewarm support from Gov. James G. Martin may help the bill pass. Republicans tend to favor the elimination of second primaries because it gives them a better chance to win, said Michaux. When a black is named on the Democratic ticket, conservative white Democrats and Republicans vote for the Republican candidate, he said. Co-sponsoring the bill with Michaux is Rep. C. B. Hauser, D-Forsyth. But the way he sees it, Hauser said, the bill has too much opposition and won’t pass unless some changes are made. Michaux said he expects changes in his original bill. Most can accept the bill if it has a ceiling precentage of votes required to prevent a second primary, said Hauser. For exam ple, Hauser said, the revised bill might stipulate that, if a can didate gets 40 percent of the vote, a runoff wouldn’t be necessary. But anything under 40 percent might require a runoff. “I’m willing to accept 40 per cent,” said Hauser. “If you don’t have a ceiling, you wilF nominate somebody, then the other party will elect somebody in the fall.” Rep. Annie Brown Kennedy, D-Forsyth, was not a co-sponsor of the bill, she said, because, as of yet, she hasn’t decided whether she supports it. “I see both sides,” said Ken nedy. “I’m not convinced second primaries are necessarily the pro blem some see them to be. “It can work either way,” Kennedy said. “We (blacks) have had some bad experiences, that’s true, but I see the possibility of a black winning in a second primary. The rationale the op ponents use is that whites will gang up together and the black candidate loses in the runoff.” If the bill is modified to have a ceiling percentage that is reasonable, Kennedy said, she will support it. “I need to have a bill I think is reasonable,” she said. “If such a bill is introduced ... 1 will support it. There is certainly an area in which perhaps we can attract a fair medium to arrive at a for mula or some position where a person with a strong lead could be declared the winner.” Forsyth County’s two Democratic senators, Marvin Ward and Ted Kaplan, said they don’t have enough information on second primaries to know if they can support Michaux’s bill. Kaplan, “but I’m also aware of the political history of this coun try where the majority voters are the ones that are supposed to win. “I’m really not decided on this issue. I’m not opposed to it and I’m not in favor of it. I’m just gonna wait to hear both sides of it.” Said Ward: “I don’t have any strong feelings either way. I have not studied the issue. And, until you study any issue, you just don’t know.” Subscribe Today At Our Office And P^k UpYo.., 1985 BLACK HERlTAftt CALENDAR (Current Subscribers Also , (First Come Basis — I ^ Quantity) Winston-Salem Chronicle “I’m aware of the issue,” said Rumblings at Rutledge I From Page A1 listed are: More blacks in Southern cities All 28 metropolitan areas with black populations of 25 percent or more are located in the South, according to the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau. This is among findings in a report on metropolitan areas as redefined in 1983 by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The report shows 1980 census population counts according to the new boundaries of the areas and supersedes a similar report using 1981 OMB definitions. Metropolitan areas with 1980 black populations over 40 percent were Jackson, Miss.; Albany, Ga., and Pine Bluff, Ark. Others over one-third black were Mem phis, Tenn.; Florence, S.C.; Savannah, Columbus and Macon, Ga., and Montgomery, Ala. The five highest black popula tion totals were in large metropolitan areas outside the South. They were New York, with 2.8 million; Chicago, with 1.6 million, and Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Detroit, with about 1 million each. Blacks were the majority in 16 central cities, led by East St. Louis, Ill., with 96 percent. The new figures show that 28 central cities had at least 100,000 blacks, including 1.8 million in New York and 1.2 million in Chicago. In 1980 the metropolitan areas, as redefined, had 82 percent of the nation’s blacks, 92 percent of Asians and Pacific Islanders, 88 percent of Spanish-origin persons and 48 percent of American In dians, Eskimos and Aleuts. About three-fourths of whites lived in metropolitan areas. The net effect of the 1983 redefinition slightly reduces black percentages in both central city and suburban areas; central cities as defined in 1983 were 21.8 per cent black compared with 22.5 percent by the 1981 definition. The corresponding percentages for the suburban population were 5.9 and 6.1. This report provides data for 257 free-standing areas and 23 consolidated areas with their 78 components, presenting data on housing units, households and group quarters. Data are pro vided separately for metropolitan areas in Puerto Rico. It includes summary data on a few changes in metropolitan definitions made by OMB in 1984. Copies of “Metropolitan Statistical Areas,” PC80-S1-18, (GPO Stock No. 003-024-06137-6), are available from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. • the use of outdated books • insufficient and obsolete equipment in the business curriculum. For example, in a data entry class with 25 students, there is only one business machine for all of the students to use, they say. • a double standard for hiring black and white teachers. Black teachers, says one of the students, must have master’s degrees, whereas the requirements are relaxed for white instructors. • insufficient parking for students • no accommodations for the handicap ped • insufficient lighting around the school for night students • only one pay telephone for the entire student body. Since many of the students who come to Rutledge are low-income and don’t have cars, some of them say, they have to use the telephone to call for rides. • no breaks between classes for night school students. Students attend classes from 6-9:30 p.m. • no first aid facilities • a lack of respect from the faculty and administration. required to turn their books back in to the bookstore, Middleton says there was ob viously a misunderstanding between the students and the bookstore. “Those were loaner-type books,” says Middleton. “They are used in the classroom and then turned back in. ‘1 feel some of them didn’t get the word that they didn’t buy the books,” says Middleton, when asked if the students were aware they were paying a book ren tal fee instead of purchasing the books. I and wrote the words “Re™ 5'"' say ^ ■ words the drawing. “ShetolduswheneverwesfMt , on the board not to bother student. “She said her daugi her last n.ght, she had shoes were too',a dent sa!f children. There If guidelines for excellence. ^ * Rare Incident Inside Efforts Fail In addition, some students allege that drug trafficking occurs on campus and say they are forced to return books they say were purchased at the beginning of the quarter. Middleton says he knows nothing of drug traffic on the campus, and that the students paint a misleading picture of the school in general. For instance, he says Banner “was dropped from the class because she had an attitude problem. She threatened the teacher and had a poor attitude in class.” Middleton also says the school plans to create accommodations for the handicap ped. In the meantime, Middleton says, the school already has a special restroom for the handicapped, as well as a lowered water fountain. Middleton says Rutledge schedules all classes on the street level of the school to accommodate the school’s four handicapped students. Lights have also been installed in the rear of the school’s one building, says Middleton. As for the students who were The case of the student having several teachers is unfortunate but rare, says Middleton. The class’s original teacher resigned with only three days’ notice, Middleton says. A temporary replacement was hired until a permament teacher could be hired, he says. After the perma ment teacher was hired, he says, she became ill and was out for a week, and substitutes for her were hired. But the per mament teacher has returned, Middleton says. A student in the same teacher’s class also complains that, while the teacher was in the hospital, she gave a test she had designed to another student in the class, who in turn passed the test among her friends in the class. Middleton says he drove the student to the hospital to see the teacher and to pick up some teaching material for the substitute, which included the test. And he says the student, whom he describes as a good student, denies having looked at the test or having given copies of it to friends. “The girl was a good student and wouldn’t need the test,” says Middleton. But the complaining student denies Middleton’s claims and maintains that the test was given in advance to one student who in turn passed it on to others. That, she says, shows a lack of concern. “Those white teachers don’t want to stand up and teach what they consider a bunch of illiterate niggers,” she says. “They think we are heathens and bar barians, but all we want is a little understanding.” In that same class, adds the student, the teacher once drew a hand on the board C01( In order to have some of their addressed, the students started a pd to present to Middleton, they say. dent Cynthia Caldwell says one.... of the faculty members told her that, thought she had anything to do wi petition , he would have her kicked school and could take legal action as tier. “Dean (Gary) Madison sal take legal action towards the petiiioi' get us put out of school,” says Call “He said if people call for jobs (cal references), he would say we ( signed the petition) were troublemai “For $2,100 (Rutledge’s year,” says Caldwell, “thestudenisl to know what they are getting.” The students say they have tried liI their concerns worked out i school, but after repeated attempts still no solutions, they decided to outside help. Many students say theyl been threatened by faculty raembet! administrators to keep their com silent. “Mrs. Wilhelemina Cheeks school’s student services director) me, ‘Who do you think will tecomi you when you try to get a job?”’say student. “And Mrs. (Belinda) Lant data entry teacher) told me that shea see to it that I didn’t get a job wl graduated. “We don’t want to cause ptoble the same student says. “We need! treated fairly. And we need teachf teach us. We are not going there loj the same way we came in. We learn; that’s why we are complaum 17 mg. "tar". 1.3 mg. nicotine av. per cigarette by FTC method ^lace for Th* ®** Winston World Title Series, Saturday, March 16 & Sunday, March 17. |] Piedmont Dragway Greensboro, NC First 500 Spectators (age 21 ^ and older) receive a FREE WINSTON Drag Racing Hat on Saturday Ticket Information: 919-449-741L
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