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PEOPLE OF NOTE
Harding grad stands
by scholarship honor
Nichols
Harding High School graduate Everette
Brandon Nichols earned a
scholarship from the Ben E.
King Stand By Me Foimdation
to continue his studies at
Norfolk State University
At Harding Nichols was a
member of the marching band,
gospd choir, NAACP and the
track and fidd team.
• Northwest Corridor
Community Development Corp. has earned a
$2,150 grant from Foundation For The
Carolinas to underwrite pubhc fcsrums on gen-
trification.
The grant will be used to con-
_ tinue the discussion by bringing
neighborhood stakeholders
together to improve relations
along the northwest corridor
and to empower residents.
• Rashad James has been
awarded the 2006-07 American
Meteorological Society 21st
Spears
Century Campaign Scholarship.
James, a West Charlotte High School gradu
ate, is pursuing a degree in earth seduce at
N.C. A&T State University in Greensboro. The
scholarship is intended to encourage minority
students who have been traditionally imder-
represented in the sciences to pursue care^:^
in atmospheric and related oceanic and
hydrohe sciences.
• R. Douglas Spears Sr. has been elected
regional director of the National Pan-Hellenic
Coimcdl’s Southern Region for 2006-2008.
Spears, a life member of Omega Psi Phi
Fraternity was elected in October at the 10th
Southern Region conference held in Miami. He
will be responsible for coordinating and char
tering coundls (chapters) in the region which
spans eight southern states, the Bahamas and
the Viigin Islands.
Spears, a 20-year member of the Pan-
Hellenic Coundl, has saved the Southern
region as first assistant regional director, trea
surer and historian.
Spears serves as a Sixth District (the
Carolinas) Membei^hip Selection Chairman
for Omega Psi Phi. He is a member of Pi Phi
chapta’ and a graduate of Johnson C. Smith
Univa^ity
Racial definition in U.S. is blurring
Continued from page 1A
“The racial lines will basi
cally be blurred,” said
William H. Frey a demogra
pher with the Brookings
Institution. ‘It’s hard to say
what the different classifica
tions will be. ... The stark
racial categories now won’t
hold.”
Mixing and melding will be
the norm for today’s children,
who by 2043 wiU be movir^
into positions of power across
society as the last baby
boomers close in on 80.
“Think of the electoral
base,” said C. Matthew
Snipp, a sociologist and
demographer at Stanford
University “It seems likely
that the power structures will
change.”
Demographers say some of
today’s trends will continue;
industrial northern cities like
Detroit, Pittsburgh and
Cleveland will probably keep
losing population, though
some argue that lower costs
of living may attract people
who can telecommute to jobs
elsewhere.
The fastest growing states
will continue to be Nevada,
Arizona in the southwest and
Florida in the southeast.
Census projections throx^h
2030 show the so-called Sim
Belt continuir^ to gain popu
lation.
Wth some cities and sub
urbs becoming more densely
populated, far-out exurban
areas will keep growing -
which wiU. probably mean
longer commutes and more
demand for gasofine.
Demographers predict costs
for gas and water, now rela
tively inesqjensive, will mush
room.
Lifesaving drugs and tech
nologies will help Americans
stay alive longer than ever -
and tile nation overall will
age.
In 2000, 12.4 percent of
Americans were aged 65 and
older _ but that percentage is
projected to jump to 20 per
cent by 2043. More than one
in four residents of Florida,
New Mexico, Nortii Dakota,
Maine, Montana and
Wyoming will be over age 65.
Here’s another way to think
of the senior boom: Between
2000 and 2050, the group of
Americans who are 85 and
older will nearly quadruple to
almost 21 million
The good news is this will
help revitalize rural, retire-
ment-fiiendly places with lots
of natural amaiities hke the
nation’s Westan moimtains
and some Great Lakes areas,
said Kenneth Johnson of
Loyola University-Chicago.
“These tourist and retire
ment destinations are the
fastest-growing rural areas,”
he said, adding that this is
attracting workers - many
new immigrants - to build
houses and tend hotels.
But a big bxibble of elderly
Americans also will strain
government pension and
health care programs for
senior citizens, and there will
be ‘big battles” over how to
payforthem, Bongaarts said.
Demographers repeatedly
warned that projections are
tentative - things change.
Expected medical break
throughs may not happen.
World events - wars, diseases,
economic ups and down - can
stop or speed up immigration.
Americans could stop having
enough children to replace
themselves, which they’re
just barely managing now.
Things that seemed a lock
just a short time ago can be
thwarted.
Two years ago, for example,
California officials downgrad
ed by 15 percent their predic
tions for state growth, mainly
because Latino families were
having far fewer babies than
expected. When the U.S. hit
200 million people in 1967,
the nation was supposed to
reach 300 million before the
end of the century
“Nobody really knows for
certain where this will go,”
Snipp said. “All this is
premised on many, many
assumptions."
St. Augustine’s College moving in
right direction, president proclaims
By Sommer Brokaw
THE TRIANGLE TRIBUNE
RALEIGH - A few weeks
ago, more than 100 students
at St. Augustine’s CoUege
started their own media buzz
when they marched to the
state capital to protest mold
in their dorm i-ooms, a lack of
campus safety and invasion of
privacy
An anonymous letter with
some similar criticisms may
have added fuel to the fire,
but administrators are deter
mined to stomp out the nega
tive publicity
“Althoi^h student protests
generally reflect a negative
image on the college, tiiere’s a
httie piece of me that’s proud
and pleased,” St. Aug’s
President Dianne Boardley
Suber said in a released state
ment. “I am a product of the
‘60s, and I value being heard.”
But Suber took a harsher
stance at a media day held at
the Seby Jones Fine Arts
Center,
Suber said that St, Aug’st
foimded in 1867 to educate
fi*eed slaves, is one of several
historically black institutions
that face ridicule by those who
would like to see them fall,
and that is why it’s important
to emphasize the good things
happening on campus.
“St. Augustine’s CoUege is
not alone,” Suber said. ‘Tt is
part of a number of entities
that is imder fire. There are
those that do not want us to
succeed. That is why it’s so
important to look at oxir chal-
ler^s and successes in a bal
anced way”
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