PAGE 2 The News Argus Nov. 4, 1988
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HOMECOMING
Financial support ensures continuation of black institutions of higher learning
i tr\ ciirvivA in on hict\
By Mia Wilson
NEWS ARGUS EDITOR
H-O-M-E-C-O-M-I-N-G! It's
homecoming ya'll! Homecoming is
the time when our schoolwork fades in
the back of our minds and fun and
activities takes its place. Parties every
night, football game exu-a special, act
ing crazy and just letting yourself "get
loose."
However, the main object of
homecoming is to welcome our alum
ni.
Before I go on, let's imagine for a
minute that after you receive your
degree and "depart to serve," you also
forget or don't want to give back to the
school financially. If every alumnus
had that attitude, homecoming could
also be a past memory - along with
your professors, classes and old
schoolmates.
As blacks, we need to support our
black institution or our 100-year cele
bration could be a dream not celebrat-
i
ed. We need to retire that age-old say
ing, "I gave while I was here. . . my
tuition for four years!" Well, Winston-
Salem State University is more than a
four-year venture. It's an institution
that provides education for blacks so
that we are able to survive in an highly
competitive and prejudiced world.
As a result of bettering ourselves,
we should help our younger brother
and sisters along by supporting our
school and keeping WSSU alive so
they also will receive a quality educa
tion. As a race, we need to help each
other up instead of pulling each other
down.
It is a shame that we can give to
Hanes Mall, fast-food businesses, for
eign cars, booze and K-mart, but when
it comes down to the university, our
pockets are empty, We are broke this
month or we are plain not interested.
In other words we get that I-got-mine-
now-you-get-yours-the-best-way-you-
can- fever. We need to put an aspirin
on that attitude. Get involved and save
our black colleges, or next time we
chant H-O-M-E-C-O-M-I-N-G, it will
be from the stands of Wake Forest or
UNC-Chapel Hill.
Report says colleges unprepared for rape epidemic
College presidents have been urged to take immediate
action to rcducc tfic incidence of sexual assaults on cam
pus and to protcct the rights of student victims. A report,
published by the Rape Treatment Center of Santa Monica,
Calif., cites many cases of campus rape in which victims
have been revictimized by their colleges and recommends
major new policies and programs to remedy this problem.
Gail Abarbanel, the director of the Rape Treatment
Center director and report co-author, said, "We're facing
an cpidemic. A recent national survey found that one in
every six college women had been a victim of rape or
auempted rape during the preceding year. "In our experi
ence treating victims from dozens of college campuses
around the country, we have seen that most colleges are
unprepared to deal with this crisis."
The report, entitled "Sexual Assault on Campus:
What Colleges Can Do," cites common complaints of
campus rape victims, including having to live in the .same
dormitory as the assailant following the rape; unsafe uni
versity housing vulnerable to break-ins by strangers; the
absence of any rights or protections for the victim if she
reports the assault and pursues a campus investigation;
and failure by colleges to take disciplinary action against
offenders.
One case described in the report occurred at a large,
private college in the South, where an assailant kicked in a
flimsy locked door leading to a coed's room and sexually
assaulted her as she was taking a shower. It was later
determined that the lighting, doors, and locks in the col
lege's housing units were inadequate and made break-ins
easy.
Aileen Adams, Rape Treaunent Center legal counsel
and report co-author, cautions college administrators,
"Colleges that do not provide a safe environment for stu
dents run a high risk of expensive lawsuits."
The report calls upon colleges to:
• Adopt and send to every student an official policy
that condemns rape and sexual assaults.
• Revise student conduct codes to specifically prohibit
sexual assaults and provide certain rights for victims.
• Establish procedures to modify living arrangements
when the victim and the accused live in the same housing.
• Institute mandatory, campuswide educational pro
grams on sexual assault for students, faculty, and staff.
• Provide support services for victims, including
immediate medical treatment and counseling, and develop
procedures for how college personnel should respond to
victim reports.
Ms. Abarbanel added, "The consequences of not
implementing widespread changes are potentially enor
mous. Without new policies and programs, victims will
not come forward to receive the help they need to recover
from their Uauma; most assailants will not be brought to
justice; and campus rapes will continue to escalate."
Mia Wilson nanned news editor of News Argus staff for ttiis year
By Joanie Tiittle
STAFF REPORTER
Mia Wilson
Mia R. Wilson, 21, was appointed editor-in-chief of The
News Argus staff this year.
Ms. Wilson is a native of Fayetteville and a senior at
WSSU.
She has been on the newspaper staff for three years start
ing as a reporter then managing editor and now editor.
"I feel very comfortable with my new editor position. I
have a wonderful and very supportive staff, and this year the
Winston-Salem Chronicle is printing the paper so there will
be some little changes on the newspaper that I hope everyone
will be pleased about."
Ms. Wilson is pleased with the paper's new format. The
paper will be published once a month and more city-wide
events will be in the paper.
Besides working on the newspaper, Ms. Wilson is also
involved in Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., is secretary of
Los Cameros Hispanicos (The Spanish Club), and is a mem
ber of Day Student Association, University Ushers, Judiciary
Council, and Gotham City Club.
In the futtu'e, she wants to write for the feature section on
a newspaper or publish her own magazine for black audi
ences.
The News Argus Staff:
Editor Mia Wilson Staff Reporters Tonja Adams Staff Reporters, continued PhotoaraDhers Mia Wilson
Advertising Manager Joanie Tuttle Georgellen Brown |y,ngg ^ ^ joanle Tuttle
Sports Editor Bryon Tlnnln Stephanie Jackson Ma’rcus Myers Richard Alford
Entertainment Editor ..John Poindexter Wyenia Matthews 03.^. Hichara aiio
^ ndi Smallwood Faculty Advisor: Dr. Valerio Saddier
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