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7A Cgatlotte $o0t Tuesday, June 1, 2006 Students commit to make positive changes Members of Males Committed to Change and coordinator Starkie Sharp (third from left) walk on the South Mecklenburg High School campus. The club encourages young African Americans to succeed academically and socially. Chapters are also on the campus es of Vance and Myers Park high schools PHOTOADURTIS WILSON Continued from page 1A through the cracks, we want to encoiir^ them.” The club, which is known as MC2 (as in MC squared) meets once a month to cover club agendas, go on college field trips, gather at South Meek sporting events to support the school’s athletic teams, and occasionally meet for fdlowship. Men at First Baptist Church have ^so helped the Afiican American students at Soutii Meek , by organizing some of tiie club’s functions. “The young men over at First Baptist set up pre^ams for them to participate in every first and third Saturday,” Sharpe said. “They try to hold activities tiiat promote unity” One of those activities was a recent college field trip to South Carolina State Univs^ty where the young men got to explore college life first hand. John McMLchad, the club president, said Males Committed to C3iai^ is sorely needed at South Meek, even though there are chapters at Vance and Myers Park high schools. “Here we’re like a minority there’s no clubs for us, all they think we can do is play sports, that’s it,” McMichael said. ‘This club helps prepare us for college, Fm goir^ to Nortii Carolina A&T to m^or in Mechanical Engineering.” Having a dub to call their own is very important to students hke Keith Faulkner, the dub secretary “It’s made a pretty big change in the way I approach school,” Faulkner said. “You see young guys that you go to school with and you try to focias their energies on doing something positive.” Treasurer Donte Williams agreed. ‘Tt helps further ourselves in sdiod so we won’t be out doing random things,” he said “We’ve done tutorials to get some peo ple’s grades up. We did something like a grade sheet and you don’t want to get called out in finnt of your fiiends so its kind of a competition.” The dub does have a firm standard that its members must adhere to. Every young man who becomes a member of MC2 must maintain a 2.5 grade point averse. The sheer numbers of the group is encouraging to Vice President Tbrrell Partlow, as he looks back over the success of the club during the 2005-06 school year. “Havir^ more than five people comir^ together, having a big group of people has stuck out in my mind, the bonding has real ly stuck out in my mind,” Partlow said. “Next year I’d likp to see more programs held by us to raise money to go on another trip or something.” Unity, economics on agenda at N.C. Legislative Day By Cynthia Dean THE TRIANGlf TRIBUNE RALEIGH - People of color had their say at North Carolina’s Capitol. The first People of Color Legislative Day was held May 23 at the Legislative Building. The POC is made up of the North Carolina NAACP Branch, the N.C. Assodation of Community Development Corporations, the THangle Urban League, the Women of Color Coalition and other grassroots organizations partidpating in the joint effort. Organizers deemed the day a success with an estimate of about 350 partidpants. Many attendees met early that Tuesday morning at First Baptist Church on Wilmingtori Street and thai marched to the Legislative Building. A press conference was held, where NAACP President Rev. William Barbour laid out the major points of the agenda. The six priority topics were: housing and economic develop ment, criminal and economic justice, education, health care, votary rights and violence g^ainst women. One of the most discussed issues was raising the state’s mini mum wage and securing a hvtng wage. The group supports rais- it^ the minimum wage to $6. They ultimately want to see a liv ing wage with regular increases tied to an inflation index. Barbour said a living wage is a framework to improve the quality of fife for all people. House member Jean Farmer Butterfield (D-Edgecombe Coimty) told partidpants that she supports what they support. “It (wage increase) is good for the worker, the employer and for the economy,” Butterfield said. “A fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work.” In the area of education, the coalition wants full funding of the Leandro Court decision that mandates the state to fund aH imderachieving schools. The court dedsion concludes that all children in North Carolina deserve a quality education provid ed by the public school systen. POC members endorse House Bill 529 that places a two-year moratoririm on aH executions until fiirther studies about the process are completed. Conedning the issue of voting rights, the coalition hopes to see its legislative representatives vote in favor of House Bill 851. The bin enacts a same-day registration law that permits a per son who misses the registration cutoff date to go to a one-stop voting prednet. The group also requests that more state dollars go toward assisting victims of domestic violence, including edu- catiem and prevention programs see GRASSROOTS/6A Have your favorite cup of coffee while reading WWW. ®I)e Charlotte ^osit .com Just ask Newsweek. Prepare for greatness. After all, Newsweek ranked CMS high schools among the best In the nation. And that wasn't the only news this year: * Chariotte-Mecklenburg Schools became the first metropolitan school district in the U.S. to be acCTedited by SACS CASI, the largest accrediting agency in the world. ♦ Prestigious SRA/McGraw-Hill awarded CMS one of only three national Pride of SRA Academic Recognition Awards for ^ementary reading in 2006. • The top 10% of CMS studenta outpelormed the top 10% of the students in the nation m the SAT If you ask us, we couldn't have done any of it without our extraordinary students, parents, faculty and administrators. Go ahead. Take a bow,
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