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CAR AND CAMPUS GM program gives students first real taste of marketing/7C Kim Vinson leads Winthrop University pitch. MORE THAN FORMAL WEAR Girl Talk prom project provides girls with gowns, etlquette/1B THE EAGLE East Meek’s Kirt McReynolds alms make mark as state’s topisprinter/IC Volume 31 No. 27 trohe Chariot 'tv •/? The Voice of the Black Community Former Bush advisor Claude Allen ' * was a rising star in national conservative circles. Allen Fallen GOP star lost his way Former Bush aide Allen got his start in N.C. By Nedra Pickier THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - During President Bush’s State of the Union address, Claude Allen had a coveted box seat as a guest of the first lady The for mer aide to North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms sat there with an embarrassing secret. For weeks as he worked side-by-side with Bush on policy that would be included in that Jan. 31 address, he carried the secret that was about to threaten the reputa tion he biult dming a swiftly rising career in Republican government. What the Raleigh native knew and apparently didn’t tell others at the White House is that he could be in legal trouble. Pohee say Allen was caught trying to get refimds on items he hadn’t boi^it at a Target store in the Washington’s Marjdand suburbs, just 30 days before the State of the Union address he was helping to craft. White House officials say they didn’t know the truth about the allegations until last week, after Allen, 45, had resigned from his $161,000-a- year job as Bush’s domestic policy adviser. The felony chains have shocked those who knew Allen and consid ered him completely devoted to God, family and country “Nothir^ fiom my personal experiences with him would ever have led me to question his integrity his morals, his honesty” said Alex Azar, the Health and Human Services Department deputy secretary who worked with AUen dur ing aU five years of the Bush presidency “He was always regarded as someone with real integrity and somebody with a keen moral compass.” Allen is the great-grandson of slaves who. was raised a Democrat in a poor Washington neighborhood. He’s a graduate of UNC- Chapel HiU and Diake Law School. In college, he says he became a bom-again Christian and a Repubhean. He rode those ideologies up through positions in state and federal government, aU the way to the White House, where last year he became See REPUBLICAN/3A Danielia Cotton is not your t^ica! rocker. And that’s just the start./l D PAPPAS PROPERTIES The S200 million redevelopment of tiie former Midtown Square will include a Target and the Carolinas’ first Home Depot Expo. Neighbors in the adjacent Cherry community are embracing the project as a stimulus to improving homeowners’ property values. Urban neighbors embrace change Midtown redevelopment a plus for historic Cherry By Herbert L. White herb.\vhUe®ihecharlo(tepostcom By 2007, Cherry will be an A-list neighborhood. Ibansforming the former Midtown Square mall means major changes for one of Charlotte’s oldest black neigh borhoods. New shops, restau rants and condominixims will brii^ thousands of people to the area. And the worldng- class neighborhood is looking to cash in Cherry sits directly across fiom the $200 million redevel opment of Mid’toym Square into a retail and residen’tial hub. Developers Pappas Properties and Collett & Associates closed 1^ week on the 10-acre site bounded by Kings Drive, South Independence Boulevard, Baxter Street and Kenilworth Avenue. The transaction paves the way for a new urban commu nity at the doorstep of uptown Charlotte, and a mixed-Tose project adjacent to Little Sugar Creek Greenway “I see it as a good thing,” said PhjHis Lynch, president of the Cherry Neighborhood Association. “It’s not going to impact what we’re doing. I expect it to be a development plan like the one they have out at SouthPark.” Cherry which borders the tony Myers Park neighbor hood as well as the new shop- pir^ center, has long been a potential taiget for upscale development, but aU attempts have been turned away See DEVELOPMENT/2A Black New Orleans residents returning home By Christopher Tidmore IHE LOUISIANA WEEKLY NEW ORLEANS - The fuel of the large influx of white candidates into the New Orleans mayor’s race, and the other down ticket contests, was a perception that African-Americans had permanently fled the dty in numbers proportion ately larger than whites. Eager Repubheans and white Democrats reasoned that Caucasians would hold a permanent majority in the dty affectir^ the pol itics of New Orleans and Louisiana as a whole. According to Professor Jeff Sadow of Louisiana State University at Shreveport, this is wishful thinking. His research sug gests that African- Americans have and will return faster than previ ously estimated, strength ening the campaigns of Democrats in the short term, and eventually returning the Crescent City to black majority sta-' tus by the end of the year. As Sadow explained, “Using a voting model based upon past elections shows, with so many Blacks registered as Democrats and historically voting for such candidates that Democratic candi dates should have Httle Please See MORE^A DANCE FEVER; Natasha Thomas-Schmitt (right) of the Alvin Alley Dance Theater leads instruction at Northwest School of the Arts last week as part of a residency program. Charlotte is one of 10 U.S. cities to host the program this year. The residency was sponsored by the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center Education Institute. PHOTO/CURTIS WILSON High speed digiial divide Study: Broadband less prevalent for blacks By Herbert L. White herb.idiile@ihecluirlotteposlcoin Digital Divide Shifts to Broadband The ^epansion of new internet ser- ■vices could have positive social, eco nomic, and health implications for Afiican Americans, accoi'ding to a study The study, conducted by the Washington-based Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, indi cates that while inteiTiet usage by all racial and ethnic groups has steadily increased, a racial gap'persists. As a result, Afiican Americans still have less access to resources such as- employment materials and health information. “Access to broadband is contingent upon education, income, and occupa tion, but the racial differences in use within income and education cate gories sv^gest that these factors do not fully explain low use by Afiican Americans,” said Margaret Simms PhD, vice president of governance and economic analysis at the Joint Center. “Internet usage would 3 GAP/3A the box NEWS, NOTES & TRENDS Low grades pushes queen off throne By Lisa R. Boons BLACK COLLEGE WIRE Miss Wmston-Salem State University has been stripped of her tide because her grade-point average dropped below 2.5. Tiffany Richmond, 22, a senior mass communica tions major, is not alone; Thirteen stu dents who held key titles or positions on campus were told to vacate their posts. “After the official posting of semester '^'^nmona grades, the Office of Student Activities verified aU the grade-point averages of the Student Government Association and the organization presidents,” said Melody Pierce, vice chancel lor of student affairs. “According to the SGA constitu tion, all members of the executive committee must maintain a 2,5 GPA. All students who did not meet the qualifications, we asked to step down and selected a replacement immediately Please see CAMPUS /3A INSIDE Life IB Religion 56 Sports 1C Business 7C A&E1D Happenings 6C To subscribe, call (704) 376-0496 or FAX (704) 342-2160.® 2005 The Chailotte Post Publishing Co. r’Wjwmi.B, Recycle o
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