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(~\i p riis For Ref erence \ t? oj 1 ^ Not taken ^Vn** tSS*9^ - -* 7 ? cents c CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OK COMMUNITY JOIIRNAI from this "brary Voj# jqqj No. 30 C Johnson talks about the Bobcats -See Page Harvard professor speaks on hip-hop - See Page A10 A&T remembers its dead students - See Page A3 Spanish Nite raises money -See Page CI Lakeside wants a police presence Largely Hispanic community says crime a big problem BY COURTNEY GAILLARD iHECHHONICLE Most days Duliu Garcia is relieved to see her truck still sit ting outside the management office at Lakeside Apartments where she works as a translator. She has lived in Lakeside for the last seven years but she does n't feel safe in her home Garcia or any~ time she steps foot outside the office, which is shielded by a secure, glass window. "They kill eSch'orher. They do drugs. Children are abused. Women are abused," said Gar cia. who is originally from Mexico City. "The most impor tant thing is that the police need to be here patrolling Once in a while." Police cruise through the complex maybe once a week, according to Garcia, if they are not responding to a call. But more crime seems to occur at night and on the weekends, she said. Crime statistics from the Winston-Salem Police Depart ment for Lakeside were requested by The Chronicle but were not received by press time. Garcia has joined a growing group of Lakeside residents who are requesting a meeting with Police Chief Pat Norris and that the department set up a police substation in the corn See Lakeside on A10 IN WITH THE NEW Pholo by Kevin Walker Albert Cuthbertson spent time last week covering graffiti with fresh paint at the YWCA Empowering Family Center on Liberty Street . It is an activity that Cuthbertson is used to doing . The center's walls have been the target of graffiti artists several times now. Icon Height makes appeal to young people BY T. KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE Black mothers, fathers, grandmothers and grandfa thers have left today's young people with a great inheri tance, said Dr. Dorothy I. Height. Built with sit-ins, protest marches and boycotts, the inheritance is being spent each time young people get jobs, buy homes, enroll in col lege and cast ballots. But Height - one of the few living civil rights giants - said that inheritance is in dan ger of being squandered because it is not being invested wisely. "It is disheartening to real ize that too few are going through open doors and really know how they got open. Too many go through those doors and feel they have made it on their own." Height said. "(The struggle) is not over. They have a lot more to accom plish." Height was at Winston Salem State University on Monday to speak at a Women's History Month symposium. Height, who turned 92 yester day. has been at the forefront of the fight for equal rights for blacks and women for more than 70 years. She is perhaps best known for her work as Sec Height on A9 Photo by Kevin Walker Dr. Dorothy Height Parmon pushes DOTfor answers Blacks claim that racism is rampant ED CLARK FOR THE CHRONICLE RALEIGH - The Legisla tive Black Caucus of the N.C. General Assembly wants to get some answers about the working condi tions for African Am wi cans at t h e Depart ment of Trans- Parmon porta tion. The caucus met with black maintenance workers last week to get more facts ab^ut allegations of widespread racial harassment at the NCDOT. Rep. Earline Parmon prompted the meeting after she attended a news conference by workers seeking to get the word out about the alleged racism. "I had to take the informa tion back to the caucus, Par mon said. "Someone had to do something about it." Among the allegations by African-American workers is that a white DOT employee on Feb. I hung a hangman's noose in the Raleigh DOT's mainte nance shop where seven African American men had also worked for years. The management and employees of the facility saw the hangman's noose prominently displayed for the full month of February, Black History Month. Recently Wake County Dis trict Attorney Colon Willough by declined to file criminal Sec DOT on AS Panel ponders state of black/Jewish relations Phirtm by Kevin Walker Rabbi Mark 5trauss-Cohn Rev. Lamont Johnson Liron Strauss BY T. KEVIN WALKER the Chronicle Rabbi Mark Strauss-Cohn has a picture from the 1960s in his office of Abraham Joshua Hesche! - one of the 20th century's leading Jewish theologians - walking side by side with Martin Luther King Jr. and other African-Americans during a protest march in Selma. Ala. For Strauss-Cohn. rabbi at Temple Emanuel, the picture is a reminder that there was a time when Jews and blacks stood together for justice and against Jim Crow. But after the \ ictories of the Civil Riglits" Movement. Jews and blacks went their separate ways. Today, the relationship between (he two groups fluctuates from being nonexistent to hostile. Strauss-Cohn was among a panel that discussed the history of black/Jew relations last Thursday- on the cam pus of Winston-Salem State University. The discussion was organized by WSSU political science professor Antonio Baxter, an African- American who two years ago converted to Judaism. "I'm right liere in the middle." Baxter said of being both black and Jewish. Strauss-Cohn said it was shared values that brought blacks and Jews together in the past. Both cultures, he said, have strong beliefs in faith, family and share a com mon respect for their elders. The viciousness of racism and anti-Semitism also brought the two groups together. Sec Relations hi A4 In Grateful Memory of Our Founders, Florrie S. Russell and Carl H. 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