JGSU Freshmen
“Excited” About
College Life
By La Shun Lawson
Special To The Peat
A total of 380 freshmen enrolled in
; Johnson C. Smith University for the
; fall semester. :<*
According to admissions director
Moses Jones, the freshmen came
. from North Carolina, South
7Carolina, Georgia, Florida, New
■ York, New Jersey, Washington,
-D.C., Virginia, Illinois, Texas, Ohio,
"Zaire, Nigeria, and South Africa.
; . Jones said the university received
1.700 applications, an increase of 127
over last year's applications,
I “In the recruiting Program/’ he
-explained, “the admissions office
ueed names supplied by the National
Association of College Admissions
Counselors. National Scholarship
services for minority students and
the assistants of many faculty, staff
and students, all helped in recruiting i
students.'*
Freshmen at Johnson C. Smith
University are very excited about
their hew college lives. Many qf
them have different reasons as to*
why they came.
tyewearF whim Show
C^There will be an “Eyeweiff*'
Fashion- Hairstyle” show .at the of
fice «f Dr. Raleigh Bynum on
Sunday, from 12:30-3:30. Coordinat
ing the event is Dy’Ann Ervin of
“Styles By Dy’Ann” on Shamrock
Rd. Tura eyewear will be featured.
The public is invited to this free
of-charge event to take advantage of
'individualized attention in the co
ordination of eyewear, fashion, and
hairstyle. Dr. Bynum's office is lo
cated . in Suite 300 of the East
Independence Plaza&uikftng at In
dependence and McDewefi. light
refreshments will be served.
Ch^Hee White
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!: Marine Pfc. Charles Whiter son of
; Pear line White of 3505 Faye St.,
;v*srlotte, has completed nfctuit
training at Marine Corps Recruit
[Depot,Parris Island, S.C.
•r During the U-week training cycle,
White was taught the basics of .'
.battlefield survival. He was intro
duced to the typical daily routine
that he will experience during fas
enlistment and studied the personal
;and professional standard! tradi
tionally exhibited by Marines.
He participated in an active phy
sical conditioning program and
[gained proficiency in a variety of
[military skills, including first fad,
i rifle marksmanship and closa order
drill. Teamwork and self-discipiina
were emphasized throughout the
training cycle.
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TUs huge gathering of yewtg ladles assembled for
the recent Delta Sigma Theta Sererity. Inc. 1SS5
1986 Debutante Get-Acquainted Affair held at Little
Rock AME Zion Church. All are destined to be Delta
Debutantes and in preparation will take part fa several
events throughout the year. Elaine Brown b the
president of the Charlotte Alumnae Chapter of Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority lac. (Photo by Peeler’s Portrait
Studio)
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Special To The Peat
■ Chapel Hill • Elementary school
:s failure^, and the well-documented
: intellectual decline observed
among underprivileged children can
be cut dramatically through quality .
day care programs begun shortly
- after birth and extra help during the
v first three years of school, ac
- .' Cording to a 14-year study presented
Monday.
The study, conducted at the Uni
versity of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, shows that early intervention
programs can:
-Raise the IQs of children from
poor families by almost 10 points.
- Sharpen their language skills.
-Boost their scores on achieve
ment tests from the bottom 25 per
cent to near the national averagjfc.l
Dr. Craig Ramsey, director of
research at UNC’s Frank Porter
’. Graham Child Development Center,
presented results of the research in
Denver at the National Early
Childhood Conference on Children
with Special Needs.
Ramsey, professors of pediatrics
and psychology, heads the center’s
Abecedarian Project, « long-term
-. eflwttedenm
ntaged children. $
. — —- most comprehensive
study of its kind ever conducted and "
one of the largest sample sizes ever
studied,” tyunftey said.
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Afferent pieces of information per
- child per year-everything from how
they performed on various tests and
the results of nose and throat cul
tures to their relationships with then
grandparents and participation in
formal religion.”
The result; he said, is an “extra
ordinarily rich portrait” of the fa
milies and the forces affecting the
children’s intellectual development
“We are now able to show that
quality preschool education has a
significant long-term impact on
intelligence of high-risk children,
and that the inpact is positive,” he
said.
Prom 1972 until 1977, UNC scien
tists enrolled 111 infants from poor
families in Chapel HOI to partici
pate in the project. Because there
are few poor,whites in the area 90
percent of ttte infants were black.'
, . Half of the children, the control
group, were given free medical care
and dietary supplements, along with
social service Support for their fa
milies. The other half, designated as
the experimental group, were given
the same benefits but also enrolled
In a day pare center operated on the
UNC campus . by Prank Porter
Graham staff. ‘ ^
After the youngsters reached age
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five and began kindergarten, the
groups were each divided into two
sections, Ramsey said.
Half of the original controls began
receiving extra help with school
work from master teachers, while
the other half received nothing, be
yond the medical and nutritional
support.
About 50 percent of the youa^ten
in the original experimental group
also were given extra beta from
master teachers, while the other 50
percent were given no further spe
cial education.
"AO of the more than 90 children
who have remained in thfc area and
the study have now completed the
second grade,” Ramsey said.
'“Those who received educational
assistance before and after kinder-,
garten averaged almost 10 IQ points
higher than the childreo who re
ceived none, and they experienced
only half as many school failures.
"The other children who were
given either early or late help Ml
approximately mid-way these two
extremes, which suggests that it’s
possible to intervene at different
times and still have a beneficial
^effect.” JdBgfe
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bonds between children
families, he said,
its oeen wen-documented that
the beet single predictor at how a
child will do in school is the educa
tion of the mother,” the psycholo
gist added.
“Many of the mothers in the study
had become pregnant as teenagers
and bad had to drop out of school.”
he said. “We found that those whose
children were in day care usually
returned to complete their high
school educations and got better jobs
than they would have been able to
otherwise. This, in turn, helped their
children and strengthened the fami
ly unit.”
Ramsey said that while quality
day care for poor children would be
expensive if implemented across the
nation, it would benefit the children
and save billions of dollars a year
now wasted as children repeat
grades.
“When a child is retained in a
grade in North Carolinam it costa
approximately $4,300 for him to
repeat that year,” he said. “You can
get a lot of good day care for $4,300.”
In the next step of the UNC study,
researchers will assess the young
sters after all of them completed the
sixth grade to find out how lasting
the intellectual and scholastic gains
have been
Some studies of the national Head
start program have suggested that
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the improvements might pot last.
“We haven’t seen that in our study
yet and.don’t expect to,” Ramsey
said. “We think that’s because our
preschool education has been much
more intensive, although by design
it has not been , significantly dif
ferent from other quality day care
programs in the community.”
ItTs not clear yet why youngsters *
from extremely poor families are at
greater risk of school failure than
others, he said. Most experts believe
it is either becaupe there, is some
thing missing from their environ
ments or because there is some
factor present that actively slows ■
their intellectual growth.” -. v' ■ • ■
. The notion that academically ori
ented day care programs can signi
ficantly benefit middle- and upper
middle class children is unproven
and controversial. ,
The UNC study has involved some
38 senior scientists since it began
and has cost between $10 million and
$16 million. It has been supported by
the National Insfitnte of Child
Health and Human Development,
the.Carnegie Foundation, the N.C.
irtment of Huqtan Resources
the Administration for Chil
The National Black Nurses’ Asso
ciation. Inc. will be spomoring its
first annual luncheon on Saturday,
November 2. at 11 a.m. Using the
theme, “Up Where We Belong,’’ the
luncheon will be held at McDonald’s
Cafeteria. Speaking at the event will
be Linda Harris Striggles, the
founder of the Charlotte organiza
tion. She is also the president of'
National Black Nuraee’ Association.
Teach-SomeoneTo Read
’ Tegch .someone to read and give
them a gift that can’t be repaid. The
Mecklenburg Literacy Council will
be bolding a tutorial workshop on
Friday, November 8, from 6:30
.9:30 p.m.. and on Saturday, No
ygmber 9. from 10 a.m. until S djb.
Volunteers will be trained to tutor
adults on a one-to-one basis in read
ing and writing skills. For informa
tion or registration, call 376-9638.
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Halloween Party
A Halloween Party for ages three
to 12 will be held at the McCrorey
YMCA, 3801 Beatties Ford Rd., on
Thursday, October 31, at 6 p.m.
Activities will include games,
movies, space walks, face paint
ing, food, treat*, and much mare.
Admission is |2 per person (includes
treat bag). There may be ad addi
tional small charge for some ac
tivities.
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The United States is the greatest country in history. I ,•;<)
believe strongly in our economic system. But we
cannot consider our system a success until we have
taken an active role in educating aU our citizens la the
workings and benefits of our system and have
extended to thei* the opportunity to participate.
]/■'' ‘T. -MIkeStenhouse *•
Campaign Co-Chairs: Mary S. Montague,
Hugh Campbell, Jr.
Steering Committee
Jim Babb
Les Bobbitt
King Bostrom
Irwin Coffield
Tom Cox
Doris Cromartie
Patty Dewey
Judy Diamond
Don Gillespie
Lit Hair
W T Harris
Ike Heard, Sr.
> Buke Lattimore
Eric Locher
Mark Markanda
Ann Maxwell
Ike McLaughlin
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Jim Stenhouse, Sr.
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Jim Whittington
Sam Young
PWe support Mike Stenhouse
U:- For City Council At-Large,
and ask you to join us in
voting for him on November 5th.
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