The Campus Echo
Number 2
North Carolina Central University Durham. N.C.
December 3, 1988
Durham man charged in 1986 student slaying
By Mike Jessup
Staff Writer
A Durham man was charged
Wednesday, Oct. 26, with fatally
shooting an NCCU transfer stu
dent in 1986.
Edward Teet, 35, of 2717 Broad
St., is accused of the murder of
Anthony Wayne Bullock, 20, who
was shot on Saturday morning.
Labor Day weekend, at 3:30 a.m.
said, “Teet was a suspect from
the beginning, but we did not
have enough evidence to convict
him.”
Just a week before Teet was
arrested, a $100,000 lawsuit
hearing alleging that NCCU did
not provide adequate security was
held. The ruling is expected in
December.
Durham Police had been inves-
suit, some information was ob
tained. Certain physical evidence
and certain knowledge of the
events that only the deceased and
the suspect would have known
were all we needed to make an
arrest,” said Roop.
Some people who had knowl
edge at the time, but did not want
to get involved or did not feel the
information they had would help.
Miss North Caro
lina Central Uni
versity, Sonya A.
Laws displays her
trademark smile at
her coronation held
last month. She is
shown here with her
escort D. Curtis
Lawson. (Photo by
Herb Delancey)
Whiting honors spirit of Janies E. Shepard
during Founder's Day Convocation
From Staff Reports
Dr. Albert N. Whiting, chancel
lor-emeritus ,addressed a crowd
of 900 in B.N. Duke Auditorium
on the camnus of North Carolina
Central University as part of the
Founder's Day Convocation.
Whiting has the distinction of
being the last president of North
Carolina Central University and
the first chancellor of the univer
sity, serving from 1967 to 1983.
In a speech designed to praise
the memory of the late founder of
the university, James E. Shep
ard, Whiting said, “Dr. Shep
ard’s challenge consisted of an
awesome agenda for this univer
sity. It is my belief that it is best
achieved by a well administrated
four -year program that reaffirms
basic values like promise keep
ing,'nonviolence and equality.
Learning depends on this.”
Shepard founded the univer
sity in 1910 and remained the
president until his death in 1947.
Shepard understood the impor
tance of language and would not
stand for sloppiness, he added.
He also allowed the audience a
chance to visualize what he
thought Shepard would have seen
today. “He would give no re
ward for low productivity. He
felt that education must deal with
purpose and meaning,” added
Whiting.
‘ Ts it not educational responsi
bility to teach students to judge
wisely and to develop them to
live for dignity and purpose and
to weigh decisions wisely for the
common good?” he asked.
According to the lawsuit, Bul
lock paid a $100 fee required of
all students living in Chidicy Hall
which provided a nighttime se
curity guard. Students living in
other dorms on campus do not
pay this fee. According to John
W. Smith, chief of NCCU secu
rity, “No guard was on duty.”
“You cannot blame [Smith) or
any of his people. There is not
out. That fact alone makes them
impossibletoprevent. Therewas
nothing that NCCU or anyone
else could be done to prevent i t, ”
he added.
The motive is unknown and the
trial will be six months to a year
from now.
Teet, the only known suspect,
IS in the Durham County Jail
without bond.
Board passes visitation policy
By Mike .Jessup
Staff Writer
With the exception of David Stith,
the North Carolina Central Univer
sity Board of Trustees voted unani
mously in favor of the dormitory
visitation policy.
“Wc arc now in the process of
spelling out the specifics and are
working with residence operations
and student affairs on how it will
actually work, but we plan to have it
in operation when the students get
back from the Christmas holidays in
January,” said Chancellor Tyronza
Richmond of North Carolina Central
University.
“From day one 1 have been in full
support of the coed visitation policy
and I recommended it to the board. ’ ’
Most students responded positively
like Debbie Bcllony, a freshman.
“Wc should have it. All the other
.schools have it.” But not all stu
dents were happy to hear about coed
visitation.
“I don’t like it. I live in Eagleson
with 25 girls on each side of the hall,
and you cannot relax with guys on
the hall. You cannot let your guard
down,” said Sara Jackson, a senior.
Margaret Harrington, supervisor
for Eagleson Dormitory would rather
see the coed visitation policy ap
plied to juniors and seniors only so it
would be “something for students to
work up to.”
Students just coming to college
may not be able to handle it.
“The reason students are here is to
get an education and I would hate to
see anything jeopardize that.”
Donnie Cox, dormitory supervisor
of Chidley Hall said, “The students
will have to accept responsibility in
order for visitation to work because
the staff cannot be everywhere.”
The new dorm security supervisor,
Caroll Wright, hired in October of
fered a note of eaution, “The stu
dents want visitation - fine. If the
students are mature enough - fine. If
they abuse the privilege of visitation,
then it will end itself.”
The dormitory visitation policy states
that: “Many residents of the dormi
tories of North Carolina Central
University have sought the privilege
of hosting guests in the rooms of
individual residents without regard
to the gender of the guests and resi
dents. Because such a privilege has
a clear potential for the promotion of
individual growth and maturity, and
represents a recognitiori that today’s
university student is in law an adult,
and in fact is expected to make major
decisions with regard to behavior,
life style, personal safety and secu
rity, and personal health, the univer
sity adopts the following policy.
“Effective upon adoption of this
policy, student residents of dormi
tory facilities may choose to enter
tain guests in their individual rooms
without regard to the gender of the
guest or the resident.
The university shall enable the
students to make this choice by the
establishment of rules, regulations,
and procedures which neither negate
this privilege nor interfere with the
rights of other students to personal
privacy, opportunity for study and
reflection, and personal security.
The rules, regulations, and proce
dures shall address, but not be lim
ited to, such issues as: days and hours
when such visits are permitted; reg
istration of guests; the availability
and necessity of personnel to moni
tor visitation rules, regulations, and
procedures; and negotiations between
roommates to establish restrictions
on such visits.
Should it be determined that cer
tain dormitories, or areas or floors of
dormitories need to be set aside to ac
commodate students who desire to
restrict guests to those of the same
gender as the residents, the univer
sity may set aside such areas.”