Studies Show Black Students Distrust Business
Leaders and Admire Politicians
A recent poll of elected student
leaders at three historically black
* institutions revealed a paradox:
Two-thirds of the campus leaders
hinge hopes for their economic
future on private enterprise. Yet,
more than three our of four students
fell they can not trust business and
industry leaders to make decisions
for the common good.
B&C Associates, Inc., a corp6
rate communication and research
firm, polled 55 students attending
leadership conferences at North
Carolina A&T State University,.
Spelman College and Morris Brown
College. Robert J. Brown, B&C
chairman and chief executive offi
cer, says, "The students' skepticism
indicated a need for more in-depth
involvement by industry leaders in
issues touching people's lives, from
education and crime to health care."
Brown, a trustee of Boston Univer
sity and Winston-Salem State Uni
versity and supporter of numerous
scholarship funds, asserts, "To com
bat negative perceptions, corpora
tions need to be involved, not just
with college students but starting at
the preschool level."
While responding have a dim
view of business leaders, the survey
suggests that college students hold
politicians and civil rights leaders in
higher esteem. Among respondents,
U.S. Senator Carol Moseley-Braun
(D-IL) emerged as the most admired
leader, edging our Rev. Jesse Jack
son, who ranked second. President
Bill Clinton, NAACP Executive
Director Benjamin Chavis and
South African leader Nelson Man
dela ran a close third to Jackson.
Ninety-t#3 percent of the stu
dent leaders cited the national debt
as the most pressing problem facing
our nation. Crime and education
were also key concerns. When
asked what issues they would
address if they were president,
respondents said they would first act
to improve the education system,
then tackle health care reform and
illegal drugs.
The students surveyed repre
sented student government associa
tions, fraternities, sororities, and
professional and honor societies.
WSSU Students Receive Scholarship
Subrena Burnett, a Winston
Salem State University senior
majoring in business administration,
has been awarded SI, 000 from the
C.C. Ross Endowed Scholarship
Fund.
The scholarship was established'
in 1980 by C.C. Ross Sr., the first
black chairman of the WSSU Board
of Trustees and a charter member of
Forsyth Bank & Trust, the forerun
ner to Southern National Bank.
Southern National's Presidents
and CEO, Gary E. Carlton, recently
presented the scholarship check to
Burnett at WSSU. They were joined
by Rbss's wife, Dorothy, and Cleon
F. Thompson Jr., university chancel
lor.
Burnett, who lives in Alber
marle with her grandmother, Eliza
beth Burnett, is the daughter of
Clara brooks and Samuel Burnett,
both of New York City.
She has maintained a 3.0
G.P.A. while working part-time as a
library assistant in R.J. Reynolds
Tobacco Company's tax depart
ment, a position she held as cooper
ative education student full-time last
ES?9HHHHHHHHIHKES9
(I to,r) Chancellor Cleon F. Thompson Jr Dorothy Ross, Suberna Bur
nett and Gary E. Carlton.
summer. ? T cheerleading squad, modeling and
Burnett's campus activities the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority,
include the marching band, the
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By RUDOLPH V. BOONE SR
Z. Smith Awards Non Profit Leaders
A chance to get off the merry
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