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The Campus Echo
October Issue
North Carolina Central University
Durham, N,C,
NCCU; Filming site for movie
Vice Chancellor Robert S. Poole, left and Chancdlor Tyronza
Richmond, right, welcome television journalist Tony Brown to
North Carolina Central. Brown’s first film, “The White Girl,’
was shot at Central and in Durham during September. Some 200
Central students, faculty, and staff appeared in the anti-drug
film.
By Vaiarie Leach
Television journalist Tony
Brown’s $2 million anti-drug
movie, “The White Girl,” was
shot on campus here
September 14-30.
According to Paul Brock,
unit publicist for the movie,
the Central campus had the
look Brown was looking for to
shoot 60 percent of the film.
“Because N.C. Central’s
campus is one of the most
beautiful campuses in North
Carolina, as well as the nation,
it was chosen,” said Brock.
“The great band also was a
factor in making the deci
sion.”
Several North Carolina
campuses, including North
Carolina A&T State Universi
ty were considered, but
Durham and NCCU were
chosen because Brown
thought their look would have
national appeal.
NCCU’s student union, ad
ministration building, and
gymnasium were among the
filming sites.
The title, “The White
Girl,” has a double meaning.
It is the street name for co
caine and also refers to the
way Kim Barnes, the light
skinned protagonist, thinks of
herself.
Brown calls the movie a
“black love story with an anti
drug message. Kim suffers the
harsh realities and personal
degradation associated with
cocaine addiction. Her search
for love and a drug-free life
are typical of what many
young people in our society
are going through,”
Brown has said that “when
‘The White Girl’ ends, no nor
mal person will scamper to the
nearest exit for a ‘hit.’”
Starring as Kim Barnes is
Troy Beyer, a regular on the
prime-time soap opera
“Dynasty” as the daughter of
Dominique Devereaux
(Diahanne Carroll).
Teresa Yvon Farley plays a
friend who introduces Kim to
the world of drugs, and
Taimak, star of the movie
“The Last Dragon,” plays a
young man in love with Kim
who tries to help her overcome
the drug problem.
Also appearing in the film
are scores of NCCU students
who signed up during registra
tion to be extras.
Indira Lindsay, a 21-year-
old senior from Greensboro,
worked as an extra for three
consecutive days. Her parts in
cluded screaming and fainting
over male models in a fashion-
show scene and sitting in on
club and seminar scenes.
“During the few days I
worked, I learned that making
a movie is nothing like it ap
pears on the screen,” said
Lindsay. It requires much pa
tience because scenes are done
over repeatedly, but overall, it
was a lot of fun.”
“The White Girl” will be
ready for release in early 1988.
Students Protest
By James S. Guitard
Over 500 students
demonstrated outside a Sept.
16 board of trustees meeting to
protest inadequate security
and other campus problems.
While the crowds rallied
outside, inside Patricia Fair,
president of the Student
Goverment Association,
presented the board with a
lengthy list of student
grievances, including com
plaints about disorganization
in the financial aid office and
a lack of visible security forces
on campus.
Chancellor Tyronza Rich
mond announced that eight
new vviards would be hired in
an effort to tighten security
and restrict unauthorized
parking. Richmond estimated
the cost of the additional per
sonnel at over $100,000.
“A significant number of
our student body doesn’t feel
safe,” said Dr. Tyrone Baines,
executive assistant to the
chancellor, “and a perception
of a lack of security is as bad
as a reality.”
Baines cited several steps the
administration has taken
recently to beef up security
around Chidley Hall. Outdoor
floodlights and fourteen
security cameras costing
$21,000 have been installed,
see PROTEST pg. 2
NEW MEMBEIRS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEEIS of North Carolina Central University
are, from left, Carl Stewart, of Gastonia; Patricia Fair, of Hamlet, who is an ex officio voting
member as president of the student body; Ted N. Griffin of Durham; and John N. Smith of
Durham. Administering die oath of office to the new board members was Judge Carolyn
Johnson of Durham, an alumna of the NCCU School of Law.