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3A NEWS/The Charlotte Post Thursday, May 25, 2000 WCCJ is part of Radio One family Continued from page 1A . media company in the country,” -Brown said Wednesday from dDenver. “They own about 50 sta- 'tions in 19 or 20 markets. Radio -One is the largest African IA m e r i c a n (Owned media Jcompany in Jthe country, preaching over J8 million lis- Jteners.” J Brown said Jhe will be a s e d in ■Atlanta, but ■as regional ■manager will oversee stations throughout the ' southeast, including WCCJ and Offeree Raleigh-based stations - :WQOK, WFXC and WNNL, a gospel station, : Most Radio One stations have : urban hip hop, R&B or gospel ; formats, but Brown said he’s not : sure what format WCCJ, which ; currently competes with WBAV ■ in R&B classics, will have in the :future. i One scenario has WCCJ con- Brown verting to a format that com petes with WPEG’s hip hop fla vor. The station switched from smooth jazz last year and dou bled its listenership in the latest Arbitron ratings. ‘T haven’t gone into a needs analysis yet to see what is going to be needed in Raleigh, Charlotte or Atlanta,” Brown said, “I don’t know aU the back ground. WCCJ is working better than the previous jazz format.” Brovm, 43, said his wife Neysa and two children — Dylan, 8, and Drew, 6 — will remain iii Charlotte for about a year while he finds a house in Atlanta. That wfil pro-vide stability for the chil dren, Brown said. ‘This is an exciting opportuni ty,” Brown said. “I wfil be back in Charlotte a lot. I’m not mo-ving the family yet. I’ve got to look at schools and ■will keep the family in place through May or June next year.” In Atlanta, Brown wfil manage WTHA and WAMJ, both m sta tions in a pairing similar to WPEG and WBAV. “For me this is opportunity to Parents angry over letter IJj/ Angela Burrus ipNSOLIDATED MEDIA GROUP »3!ALEIGH — Berdenia Carter of Washington Tferrace Apartments ejected her daughter and three granddaughters to get a quality edu- Ation without experiencing the prejudices she faced during the first i^ays of school integration. i And Carter was secure in saying they were recei-ving the best edu cation at Brentwood Elementary School. 1,-1‘It’s a great school,” she said “The teachers are great and aU of (my l^fidren) are getting a great education. My daughter is in the first Ijfade and reads on a second grade level.” ;jl.But this year, the Wake County School Board approved a new reas- «gnment plan transferring nearly 6,000 students to different schools ■based on income and academic achievement rather than race, 'The ■plan would result in transferring 68 Brentwood students, including Carter’s children and other children from Washington Tbrrace, to Uoyner Elementary. i Despite the adjustment of transferring, many Washington Tbrrace parents had no problems sending their children to an exemplary mag net school. That was until their own days of attending a bitter school eti'viromnent would be relived by their children. il‘This go back to the 1970s, when I went to (Eifioe High School),” Oarter said. “We used to have to ride the city bus because we couldn’t ride the school bus.” (Joyner PTA co-presidents- Holly West and Barrie Shavlik wrote a letter that was circulated at the school protesting the admittance of Bf-entwood’s students by saying they would deteriorate their magnet ^ool status. ;The letter stated Joyner had no special programs to offer the stu- (tents as well as tying up over 80 magnet school applications next year, ; We wfil only be able to accept 20 of these children whose families are making the effort to come here as magnet famfiies because instead we are being asked to take these 70 children from Brentwood,” the letter ^ted. “These magnet programs were put in place by the School Board ll) years ago to help improve the population at our school and to dicourage the neighborhood parents to want to send their children to ihool at Joyner. Our status as a magnet school is now being diluted Ijy the reassignment of these children from Brentwood. ;“At Brentwood, there is a Title I reading program in place which we (fc not have because we do not qualify. We do not have enough children below grade level in reading to warrant this special reading program ^^d teacher in our school. Unless we are able to get programs like this ;in place before school starts, we really have nothing to offer these chfi- jdren.” The letter ended with the two planning to form a neighborhood asso- ;ciation that would bring a lawsuit against the School Board, based on 'their findings. ; Washington parents were appalled by the notion of their children’s /presence lowering property values, despite agreeing that Joyner does (not have special needs programs that would benefit low-performing (students. ;! “So we had a problem with that because it was more so of a racial (thing,” Carter said. “Saying that if our kids go to that school, their (neighborhood would go down. I could see if they were building a ■:prison, then the poverty level would go do-wn. ■ “When you ride through over where Joyner is, they got apartments -that look worse than what we have over here. It’s not like they’re liv- ling in exclusively la-vished homes. But that has nothing to do -with edu- (cation.” (■ Carter questioned Joyner officials about the letter’s circulation but ((Principal Kathleen Marynak told her the school has no control over its ;distribution. f “I feel like anything that goes through a school goes through a prin- -cipal,” Carter said. “I don’t care what you say. The assistant principal ■said they pulled that letter before it was sent out. Now, if you let a let- ■ter go through like that, then that says something about you and your (school,” (■ The letter also caused parents and their children concern about (attending Joyner. ( “(The kids) are aU saying that Ve don’t want to go to Joyner,”’ Carter (said. “Why do they want to go to a school where they’re not wanted? (“Children have an impact on how parents feel, sometimes too. They (tend to hear and feel the same responses.” ( “I want my (child) to get a good education -without going through any ■problems, -without worrying about somebody picking on her,” parent ^Deborah Jenkins added. ‘T feel I would have to go there with her in the (morning and be there when she get out of school. I’m hoping it’s not (going to be like that but I feel like that.” ( Meetings were held between Brentwood and Joyner faculty as well (as parents. Joyner faculty’s assurances that their children will be wel- (come at the school did not relieve parents’ stress. ; “If you’re going to assign children to a school, why not assign them (to a school that is equipped for their needs?” Carter said. “(School offi- ■Cials) said they wfil get that (in place). Then why don’t they already (have it?” i School officials refused comment, referring aU calls to the conununi- (cation director of the Central Office, who was out of to-wn. ( Joyner PTA members Samuel and Rosalyn OUison wrote a letter (welcoming Washington Tbrrace students while refuting the letter (written by West and Shavlik. get involved with a company that is going to be a pretty large broadcasting company serving the African American communi ty,” said Brown, who worked for 13 years with CBS in New York City before coming to Charlotte. liggins is in his mid-30s and very smart, Brovm said. “I like the vision he has for the compa ny, They have already made moves getting involved with the Internet and sateUite radio.” Pam Summers of Baltimore was also named a regional man ager, said Brown, who will report to the company’s chief operating officer, Mary Catherine Sneed, whom he replaces as the Atlanta station’s manager. Brovm praised the people he has worked with in Charlotte over the years, noting that many of them have gone on to bigger jobs in the industry. “Working around talented peo ple was part of the reason for my success in Charlotte,” Brovm said. ‘We put Charlotte on the map in urban radio.” Brovm has served in leadership positions with 100 Black Men, Have a News idea call us at 376-0496 ®f)e Cfjarlotte the Museum of the New South, Charlotte Chamber, Urban League and the Community Building Task Force. “I am going to make sme spe cial things happen in Charlotte,” he said. ‘You have another com pany that is going to be very involved in the Charlotte com- mimity. It is going to mean great o KOVGSmRK APAHTMENTS Clean safe, quiet communily conve niently located on bus line. Affoidablel bedroom garden and townhouses. Refrigerator, range, AC and water included in tent Helpfiil resident man- agp-and mainlEnanoe staff. Call 333-2966 M-F 9:30-6:00 THE CHARLOTTE POST (USPS 965-500) is published weekly for $30.00 per year by the Charlotte Post Publishing Co., 1531 Camden Rd. Charlotte, NC 28203-4753. Periodicals postage paid at Charlotte, NC. POSTMAS TER: Send address changes to THE CHARLOTTE POST, PO Box 30144, Charlotte, NC 28230 Celebrate Your Heritage... with invitations by Carlson Craft i The Heritage Collection " Designs For People Who Share An African Heritage" PAPERTOWN 4420 Monroe Rd. • 342-5815 =Prevention Researchers make progress in controlling AIDS By TINA MOORE Associated Press Writer PHILADELPHIA—While major advances have been made in treating the virus that caus es AIDS, researchers are still working to develop an immunization for the disease, speak ers at a University of Pennsylvania symposium said. “The most important thing is to work on is a vaccine,” said researcher David Ho of Rockefeller University. Ho, who spoke to nearly 200 medical researchers and hospital staff Thursday, was named Time Magazine’s Man of the Year in 1996 because he helped develop the treatment method of using protease-inhibitor cocktails in the early stages of the disease. The researchers met at Penn’s West Philadelphia campus to discuss inroads in finding a cure and progress in treatment. The conference especially focused on viral reservoirs, which are areas of the body that contain the virus even when it is virtually undetectable in a patient. Because the virus has n’t disappeared, treatments must be continued. That can be expensive, painful and, at times, unbearable for the patient. “If you try to just attack the virus, the cells seem to be immune to it,” said Dr. Francisco Gonzalez-Scarano, a neurologist at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. “If you look carefully, you see that the virus is still around.” In those cases, he said, “There’s no rational way to think about stopping treatment.” While that may sound dire, researchers at the symposium pointed out that huge inroads have been made in treating the virus. “The fact that we can talk about control is really a testimony to how research has been successful,” said James A. Hoxie, MD, director of the Center for AIDS Research. The year-old center is funded by the National Institutes' of Health to connect AIDS researchers from area universities and hospitals. The center has 109 investigators based at Penn, the Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania and the Wistar Institute. It is one of 18 such centers in the country. “It’s very dangerous for people to feel that this epidemic is over,” Hoxie said. “We are nowhere near a cure for this.” Right now, researchers are studying patients whose immune systems have been able to hold off the virus on their own. “We have to believe that we are smait enough to figure out how those people are doing that and induce that state,” said Dr. Bruce Walker, an immunologist at Harvard University. Research specialist Jerrold Sulcove works at Penn’s immunology department and attend ed part of the symposium. “Everyone would love to see a vaccination,” he said. “A lot of people are working along those lines.” HIV is a virus that is spread through sexual contact, sharing needles during intravenous drug use, and sometimes through contact with body fluids, i.e., blood, semen, breast milk, urine, etc. The HIV virus caus es HIV disease. HIV disease damages your immune system, i.e., your ability to fight off infections and other diseases. Having HIV disease (or testing "HIV Positive") doesn't mean that you have AIDS. AIDS is a condition that occurs when your body’s immune system has become damaged to the point that it can no longer fight off infections. Persons with AIDS have HIV disease, and, due to the damage to their system, have developed at least one serious disease, like cancer or pneumonia. People with AIDS can, and often do, die from their illness.ln partnership with Present Day Ministries and the Mecklenburg County Health Department, The Charlotte Post will provide information about HiV/AIDS in this space each week. We will also increase our reporting on the diseases, which may appear in other parts of the newspaper with our AIDS logo. Dr. Kaplan CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIAN Injured in an accident? 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