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The Chronicle
Volume40,Number36 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. THURSDAY, May 8, 2014
Stable Carver leader sought |
BY LAYLA GARMS
THE CHRONICLE
School officials say a new
Carver High School principal
could be selected as early as
this summer.
"My biggest need and
requirement there is that we
have to have somebody who
has experience and we have to
have somebody who under
stands the Carver community,
someone who will commit to
staying at Carver for a long
period of time," said
Superintendent Beverly Emory.
"TTte need for the Carver com
munity is to have some stability
there."
Ronald Travis, the school's
current principal, is departing
at the end of the school year to
head to Main Street Academy,
an alternative school that serves
students in grades 6-12 who
have been booted from their
regular schools because of
behavioral issues.
Travis, a product of the
Happy Hill Gardens public
housing community, said the
decision to leave Carver was
his own and difficult to make.
"1 am saddened, but when
an opportunity like this pres
ents itself, it's so unique that
one has to take it. ...Even
though 1 hate leaving Carver,
I'm also excited about the fact
that I'll be able to deal with
children from throughout the
county," said Travis, who
served as an assistant principal
at Carver from 2002 to 2005
and then from 2009 to 2012,
when he succeeded Nathaniel
Barber, who led the school for
three years.
Carol Montague-Davis led
the school before Barber; she
left after four years to become
an assistant superintendent. All
See Carver on A7
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Ron Travis with Beverly Emory at Carver last year.
WFU Photo
The audience applaud the 2014 Lavender graduates.
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Photo by Layla Garms
J. Robby Gregg addresses attendees.
WFU holds first LGBTQ graduation
BY LAYLAGARMS
THE CHRONICLE
Wake Forest University held its first Lavender Graduation on
Wednesday, April 30, giving an inspirational sendoff to LGBTQ
(lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning) undergraduate and
graduate students who will receive their degrees later this month.
About 20 students were feted. Each was presented with a laven
der cord during the service, which drew a crowd of hundreds to the
Z. Smith Reynolds Library auditorium and included reflections
from several students and university officials.
The University of Michigan is believed to have held the first
Lavender Graduation ceremony in 1995. The color lavender is said
to be symbolic - a combination of the pink triangle that gay men
were forced to wear in concentration camps during World War II and
the black triangle designating lesbians as political prisoners in Nazi
Germany. Today, the color is associated with achievement, survival
and triumph over adversity.
"I do not want to suggest that our work is done," cautioned Dr.
Angela Mazaris, the founding director of the WFU LGBTQ Center,
noting that many members of the LGBTQ community still face dis
Sce Graduation on A2
Phoios by Todd Luck
Amy Adams speaks.
Speakers:
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Coal ash
threat real
BY TODD LUCK
rHE CHRONICLE
The Feb. 2 pipe leak that dumped
39,000 tons of coal ash into Dan River is
just the beginning of environmental prob
lems caused by Duke Energy's coal ash
basins, according to environmentalists who
spoke at Temple Emanuel last Thursday.
The gathering of the Temple Emanuel
Environmental Movement (TEEM) - which
addresses enviromental issues through regu
lar movie screenings and discussions -
focused solely on the coal ash controversy
last weeK alter
technical issues
prevented high- I
lights from the
Robert Redford
narrated film
"Watershed" from
being screened.
Even before
the Dan River
spill, which Duke
Energy started
cleaning up with a
vacuum dredging
Dean Xaujoks
technique this
week, state environmental groups like
Appalachian Voices and the Waterkeeper
Alliance sued the company to force it to
clean up its coal ash basins - like the one at
Dan River - which they contend pollute
both surrounding water bodies and ground
water.
"There are many complicated environ
mental issues; this is not one of them," said
Frank Holleman of the Southern
Environmental Law Center, which is repre
senting the environmental groups in the
lawsuit.
Coal ash is the waste left over after coal
is burned at power plants. Currently, Duke
Energy has 33 basins holding more than 100
million tons of coal ash at 14 sites around
the state. It's kept in unlined pits that are
separated from local waterways by dams.
The problem, according to Holleman. is that
the basins are leaking into local water sup
plies. The groups are asking Duke to move
the coal ash to a dry, lined pit or to recycle
it into concrete as other utility companies
do.
A video presented by Appalachian
Voices' Amy Adams claims an unusually
high number of unexplained cancer cases
have occurred in young people near the
Belews Creek coal-fired power plant She
said it was uncertain if Duke's coal ash,
which contains toxic compounds like mer
cury, arsenic and lead, is the cause, but
she'd like to see it investigated. Adams,
used to work for the Department of
Environment and Natural Resources
See Coal ash on A7
Victim remembered
BY T. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONIOtB __
The life of Jerome Dwayne France was celebrated last
Thursday near the site where it came to a savage end.
More than 150 of France's family members and friends
gathered for a solemn vigil near the intersection of New
Walkertown Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. France
died in that immediate vicinity in the wee hours of April 27
after being struck by a pick-up truck driven by Travis Scott
See France on A7
Photo by Kevin Walker
Flowers and
I candles sit
I near the spot
where Jerome
France died
last month
after he was
intentionally
hit by a pick
up truck.
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