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The Compass Friday, November l3, l'^98 11 FLO-JO continued from page 4 Louis. At the time she was accompa nied by her husband, A1 Joyner, and daughter Mary. She was en route to the Jackie Joyner Kersee relays for high school athletes. Griffith Joyner dazzled fans with her stunning speed and caught their atten tion with her colorful bodysuits and her 6-inch fingernails. Flojo was well known for the standards she set in track fashion. At the 1987 World Champion ships in Rome, she caused a sensation by running the first two rounds in a skintight suit similar to a speedskater's togs. In 1988 Griffith Joyner was voted The Associated Press Female Athlete of the year, and she also won the Sullivan Award as the nation's top athlete. "I gave it my all," she said in 1988. "This is more than I ever dreamed of. I am just so happy. I'm just so happy." After retiring from track in the wake of the Seoul Games, she served for a time as co-chairman for the President's Council on Physical Fitness. She be gan designing and modeling clothes and working with children, both through sports programs and a series of books. She attempted a comeback before the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, but problems with her achilles tendon in her right leg forced her to abandon the attempt. " The Olympic family is saddened and stunned by her passing," US Olym pic Committee President, Bill Hybl said. "She was a role model for girls and young women in sports, and her legacy will be one that includes kind ness and an interest in children. She will be missed." YOUR AD COULD BE HERE? To Ad\ertise In The Compass Call 335-3711 Today 335-3711 Today AFROPUZ 8Z s3jb9’92 /OjaqajAit'S Biuepv K sijueg ij UBiuqsy 03 snquinjo^gi iisbq'ji /tuag oi ipuuag g irepjofg uisujuaoojjv XiiaqsuBH'9 stognQ '5 93§95jsnxX SjnquioqosT unossipM ] :ua\oq Xqssbj^ ’IE 3)(doto£ uosjajjBj'63 3oubij3 gj pjBMOH ’33 uiBipioag \z uojuih "61 bmoi 7,1 }UqB{sJ '9I sXbJ^ XI -I3U33J9’JJ J95(3UUBg n Sll3SnqOBSSEI/\[ I :SS0J3V sjaAvsuyzndoijY ECSU will compete in the 1998 By: Staff Elizabeth City State University will compete in the 1998 Honda Campus All-Star Challenge, the first academic competition between Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Modeled after the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning College Bowl, the Challenge features teams of four students and one alternate. Each team represents a participating HBCU, a pre dominantly Black College, competing for a share of more than $300,000. The grants can be used to upgrade campus facilities, provide institutional re sources and improve the quality of student's lives. ECSU's tournament was held Oct. 27-28 to determine the members of the University's traveling team. The winning team was the Honors Program Blitz. Its members are Vincent Lawson, Deanna Morring, Chaka Ruffin and Tinika Ruffin. These four and the tournament's other top scor ers—Artelia Covington, Santiel Honda Campus All-Star Challenge Creekmore, Sarah Foster, Shalon Hawkins and Tiffany King—will make up the University's Varsity Squad. The team's coach is Mr. Derrick Wilkins, director of the University's Academic Computing Center. Wilkins, this year's campus coordinator, has coached the team for four years. He said he was pleased and excited with the performance of the students. "This year's campus tournament fea tured some serious players who also wanted to have fun," he said. "Because of the support of our vice chancellor for academic affairs and the departmental chairpersons who played a big part in our on-campus efforts, we wiU mount a serious challenge at the national tournament," he said. The Traveling Team will advance to the National Championship Tourna ment to be held March 11-15 in Wash ington, D.C. The competition will fea ture more than 320 student representatives from 64 HBCUs all competing at one location. ACROSS I. In 1965, it became the first state to pass a racial imbal ance law, which defended schools having 50 percent non-Whites as racially imbalanced. 4. The South's oldest Black university. II. This Black mathematician and astronomer published 10 almanacs between 1792 and 1802. 12. An early African-American graduate of Harvard College, he was dean of Howard University’s Law School from 1879 to 1880. 13. A Morehouse College president for 27 years, he became the first African-American president of the Atlanta Board of Education. 16. A giant figure in the civil rights battles of the 1940s and 1950s, he later became president of Howard University. 17. In 1894, George Washington Carver, the great agricultural scientist, received a degree in agricultural sci ence from this state university. 19. The first Black to become a professor at Harvard fvledical School in 1949. 21. This English professor at Brown University edited the first college guide for African-American students. 22. This university was founded after the Civil War to allow recently freed Black slaves to participate in post-secondary education. 25. Boston agency founded in 1963 to help gifted minority high school students to obtain quality education: A Better 29. He founded the United Negro College Fund while presi dent of Tuskegee Institute. 30. A professor of philosophy at Harvard University, he pub lished The New Negro in 1925. 31. The first Black dean of the College of Brown University, he became president of Morehouse College in 1995. DOWN 1. In a landmark Supreme Court decision in 1938, this uni versity’s law school was ordered to admit Lloyd Gaines to avert an attempt by the university to send Gaines out of state to law school in order to preserve its ‘Whites only' law school. 2. This Puerto Rican of African descent built one of the most important libraries devoted to African-Americans. 3. College established by Booker T. Washington. 5. His dissertation for his Ph.D. in history from Harvard University, the first for an African-Annerican, was on the African slave trade in the United States. 6. This historian offered the first course in African civiliza tion at a U.S. university in 1922. 7. African-American educational movement promoted by Molefi Asante and Asa Hilliard III during the 1980s. 8. He headed the United Negro College Fund before his 1971 appointment as executive director of the National Urban League. 9. This North Carolina Black women's college is only one of two still existing today in the United States. 10. African-American woman became the first Black chan cellor of a predominantly White institution, the University of Colorado. 14. The first Black woman tenured professor at Harvard Law School. 15 Pulitzer Prize-winning Black joumalist of The Washington Post who has accepted a tenured post in jour nalism at the University of Illinois. 18. The African Methodist Episcopal Church’s Union Seminary, a manual labor school, was founded in this Ohio city in 1845. 20. Lincoln University, an early Black college, was incorpo rated In 1842 under this name. 21. This African-American educator is the director and founder of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington in Seattle. 23. Spelman College, a college for Black women is located in this city. ' 24. The first private Black medical college in the United States, it celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1976. 26. Ghana has honored this African-American professor of Harvard University with a postage stamp as part of a pro gram by the New York-based Inter-Govemmental Philatelic Corporation. 27. This university appealed a 1996 ruling by the Rfth Circuit Court of Appeals, stating that racial diversity should not be a consideration in college admissions. 28. This university began offering a bachelor of arts degree in African American studies in 1976. BY; Henry Marty Codjoe Courtesy Emerge: Black America's News Magazine
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