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6A NEWS/^£ Cgatlotte $o«t Thursday, September 7, 2006 Campus abuzz with prospect of winning Continued from page 1A campus where basketball is king of the athletic hill. The men’s and women’s teams played for the league champi onship in March — a first for the school. The men’s ten nis team has won six of eight CIAA champi onships. The McNeill football team last had win ning season was 1998 when it went 6-4. The school’s only CIAA championship was earned in 1969. McNeill - the oldest coach on the football staff - was 9 years old. “Morale is up,” said Ruth Mitchell, JCSTTs student government president. “Because our football team was on a losing streak, there was no one on canrpus who remembers the glory days.” A win against Bowie, the Williams preseason favorite to win the CIAA East Division, would go a long way in legitimizing Golden Bulls football. Williams, a junior who leads the team in tackles, said the Bulls, who were picked by league coaches to finish last in the West, are pla5dng with a sense of urgency. “It’s just the third game of the season and right now we’re afraid to lose,” he said. ‘We’ve got a lot of h3TDe behind us, fans are starting to jump on the bandwagon, and that’s a great thing, but all in all, we’re just afraid to lose right now.” If the Bulls continue to play weE, excitement will continue to build, said Mitchell, a senior from Gainesville, Fla. As word of Smith’s success spreads, alumni and students are expected to see for them selves at Irwin Belk Complex, a 4,500-seat stadi um where the Bulls are 0-11 since it opened in 2003. There’s also the long-term bounce from winning football. “One of the things people are looking hard at is home coming,” Mitchell said. “When the team gets oflf to a winning start, it changes the dynamic of the campus and the beautiful thing is the players haven’t gotten big heads.” Mitchell is so confident in JCSU, she’s made a friendly wager with Bowie State stu dent body president Prince Daniels on Saturday’s game. She wouldn’t reveal the stakes. “Somebod3fs going to have to shsune himself at home coming, I’ll put it that way,” she said. Smith won’t be able to sneak up on Bowie, said McNeUl, who went 0-10 last year with the Bulls, his first season back on campus after going 10-10 from 1995- 96.”We know -it’s an impor tant game because it’s a con ference game {for JCSU) and it’s not one for them,” he said. We don’t know how they’re going to prepare for us. I know being 2-0 they’re going to prepare a Mttle differently than they would have if we were 0-2.” Carolina Medical Associates ^Wfelcomes E>r, James McGhee He jom Dr. Avinash Shah, Dr. Maher Agha, Dr. Jeanea Hundley and Dr. Susan Echterling. Dr. McGhee has practiced in the Charlotte area for 12 years. He is accepting existing and new patients in primary care medicine. For appointments call 704-542-2191 7108 Pineville-Mafthews Rd. Charlotte, NC 704-372-3126 2115 E. 7th St. Charlotte, NC CAROLINA MEDICAL ASSOCIATES Academic Excellence Cultural Diversity In^endent Thought A World OF Possibility Diversity Open House September 26th at 7p.m. kSVT (704) 943-4500 Digital divide still separates students By Ben Feller THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - Many more white children use the Internet than do Hispanic and black students, a mminder that going online is hardly a way of life for every one. 'Two of every three white students - 67 percent - use the Internet, but less than half of blacks and Hispanics do, according to federal data released Tuesday. For Hispanics the figure is 44 percent; for blacks, it’s 47 per cent. . ‘This creates incredible bar- Hers for minorities,” said Mark Lloyd, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and an expert on how commimications influ ence civE rights. • Not using the Internet “nar rows their ability to even think about the kind of work they can be doing,” Lloyd said. “It doesn’t prepare them for a world in which they’re going to be expected to know how to do these things.” • The new data come from the National Center for Education Statistics, an arm of the Education Department. It is based on a national representative sur vey of households in 2003. Overall, 91 percent of stu dents in nursery school through 12th grade use com puters; 59 percent use the Internet. Yet within those numbers, the digital divide between groups is a national concern. Studies have shown that access and ability to use the Internet help improve peo ple’s' learning, job prospects and daily living. Schools have taken big steps to close the gaps. Virtually all U.S. schools are connected to the Internet. The gaps in Internet usage between whites and minori ties, though sizable, are smaller during the school day. 'That’s not the case at home. A total of 54 percent of white students use the Internet at home, compared with 26 percent of Hispanic and 27 percent of black youngsters. Limited access can erode a student’s ability to research assignments, explore college scholarships or just get comfortable going online. . Kids use the Internet most often for completing school assignments, the new study says. But they also count on it for e-mail, sending instant messages and playing games. 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