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9/-? 5- THE CAMPUS ECHO Issue 9 North Carottna Central University April!, 1992 Campus Radio Station Gets Approval By JOHNNIEWHITEHEAD Associate Editor After two decades of vying for a frequency in the airwaves. North Carolina Central University has finally obtained a license from the Federal Communications Com mission for a campus radio sta tion. “It is not yet official,” says Donald Baker, lab director for the new station. “The administrative law judge has sent us a memorandum granting us a right to use the fre quency. The process will be com plete when the FCC sends us a construction permit.” In past years there have been ru mors that the University had a li cense. However, Baker maintains that the Public Broadcasting Sta tion gave the University equip ment, there was never a license. All citizens have a right to apply and have a right to compete for the available air space. Hence, the litigation process ensues and the FCC determines which applicant is best suited to serve the commu nity. NCCU applied for the space that a station in Warren County, WBSP, the largest minority public radio station in the country when it went on the air in 1975, abandoned re cently, leaving 100,000 watts available in its protected area. Donell Lewis, program director for the station, maintains that NCCU programming will address issues that affect the 30 percent minority population the station will serve. “Minorities will be our principal audience but not to the exclusion of others,” he says. Also, saysLewis, the station in tends to use the African News Network, which operates out of Durtiam 'and reports information about Africa, to give the station a “stronger flavor.” “Athletics at historically Black colleges, hypertension, AIDS, cancer and teen pregnancy will too receive attention because of their immediate effect on the Black See Page 3/Radio Station Law School Dean Urges Blacks to 'Resume Struggle’ By JOHNNIE WHITEHEAD Associate Editor Is the deck is stacked against Black Americans? Are blacks are sliding backward rather than forward in looking to the legal system for redress? Dr. Irving Joyner, associate dean of North Carolina Central University’s School of Law, an swers with a resounding “yes.” On March 20 at the 13th Annual BlackExperience Woikshopatthe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s William and IdaFri- day Center, Joyner tackled the issue of “Executive, Judicial, & Legislative Vie w on Civil Rights.” “We have to resume the struggle,” says Joyner, because North Caro lina is now a “test case” challenge to the Voting Rights Act [VRA]. “The opponents of the act want you to believe that they are chal lenging the new district They are not.” Redistricting is taking place across the entire country because of the population shift as shown by the1990 census. The state has gained an additional congressional seat as a result of people leaving the larger cities such as Philadel phia and New York to “come home” says Joyner. A new, snake-like 12th district has been drawn from Durham to Gastonia, and it will apparently give blacks an additional seat on the state legislature. Joyner maintains that the pur pose of the district is to give blacks a chance to have “one” seat on a legislature that has 11 seatsr—all filled with whites. The VRA is to designed to maintain a “level play ing field,” and that any attempt to redress past wrongs is called “re^ "When the police concentrate solely on our community as the problem with drugs in this country and refuses to arrest whites in the same manner makes this entire process illegal, unfair and uncon stitutional.” In Wake County, 95 percent of Dr. Irving Joyner verse discrimination” by the Re publican Party says Joyner. The judicial system, says Joyner, focuses primarily on blacks for their so-called “War on Drugs.” those arrested for alleged drug in volvement were black says Joyner. The anti-loitering ordinance which is designed to prevent on-the-street comer dmg dealing has arrested blacks only, according to Joyner’s statistics. “In 1990, in Greensboro, 90 percent of the arrests were of black persons. In 1991,99 percent were black. In 1990 in Durham 100 percent of those arrested on these charges were black. In 1990 in Fayetteville 98 percent were black.” Drug trafficking does not begin with the Black community, Joyner points out. He says that law en forcement efforts are grossly mis directed. “Blacks are at the end of •the process. Television covers and praises the police for seizing $53.16 worth of drags. Police resources need to refocus. Twenty-five per cent of African-American men are in prison or on parole. Guess why”? Also contributing to the erosion of civU rights in this coimtry is the recent confirmation of Justice Qarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, says Joyner. “He is our big gest enemy, and that’s a shame. But I don’t feel ashamed to say it. He has betrayed the straggle, which has been consistent with the Su preme Court.” Moreover, Thomas’ biggest sup porter, Strom Thurmond, Sen.— S.C., has throughout his career woiked to prevent the VRA from coming to a vote.”Many blacks felt proud elevating Thomas to the Supreme Court. But if it wasn’t for these rights he defiantly oppose he wouldn’t be able to live in his neighboriiood and wear his white wife.” See Page 3/Joyner Campus All Stars Dominate Competition By JOHNNIE WHITEHEAD Associate Editor Students Protest Department of Education s Policy on Minority Programs WASHINGTON (CPS)- About 300students rallied in protest of the Department of Education’s pdlicy onminority scholarships and called on Congress to increase the amoimt of money available for financial aid programs. The Rev. Jesse Jackson joined the United States Student Association in a March 9 news conference call ing for legislation that would pre serve the legality of minority schol arships and make PeU Grants an entitlement “George Bush is paying race poli tics at a time when the economic recession is most conducive to di viding groups of people and dis tracting students from the real source of their financial aid prob lems, says Tajel Shah, president of USSA and a student at Rutgers University. “In the same way that Bush is dividing middle-class students from the “neediest students” with his Pell Grant proposals, he is also dividing whites from ‘minorities’ who •’undeservingly” get a miniscule amount of race-targeted scholar ships.” In December 1991, the Department of Education proposed that univer sities be prohibited fiom awarding scholarships based solely on race. March 9 was the last day for public comment on the proposed rule. Education Secretary Lamar Alexander emi^asized that no stu dent has a scholarship will lose it because ofthe new policy. He says that scholarships can continue to be used by colleges to attract students if the scholarships are based on a number of factors, such as eco nomic background, geogr^hic lo cation and race. The primary result of the move will stop predominantly white col leges ftom offering scholarships based solely on race to encourage the enrollment of minorities. Race can still be considered in a scholar ship, as long as it is “one factor among several.” About 2 million students minority scholarships, but only 45,000 have race-specific scholarships. “As students we will not be di vided and conquered. We want access to higher education for all, “says Stacy Leyton, vice president of USSA and a graduate of Stanford Banquet For Children: More than 300 children were honored earlier this month when the Academic Help Center held its third-annual recognition banquet at the North Carolina Central University's W.G. Pearson Cafeteria. The center is a non-profit computer tutorial program for children of low-income homes. From left are Jaenise Johnson, from Triangle Day Care; Chauncey Covington, from Burton Elementary School. Standing from left, are Dr. Beverly W. Jones, chairman of the board of the center; Dr. Jeffery Elliot, vice chairman; Martha Carlisle, vice president of the Melvin R. Lane Charitable Trust and keynote speaker, William Bell, chairman of the Durham Board of Country Commissioners, and Howard Clement, Durham city councilman. Sheer domination. The most overall points—1,900. An undefeated record—^9-0. After reading a number of vari ous almanacs, dictionaries and encyclopedias, as well as studying 10,0(X) questions for the past five months. North Carolina Central University’s Ron Brinson, Kia Hardy, Randy Johnson, Will Moore and Joe Smith, with Jarwin Hester serving as alternate, have claimed their share of the South eastern Sectional Honda Campus All Star Challenge Championship. “I was happy for the team, espe cially for the older members,” says Johnson, team captain and 21- year-old political science major firom Fayetteville. “We lost in the final game last year and it feels good to be able to vindicate that ” Hard work is also a key to why the team won, says Hardy, a 20- year-old Spanish education major and one of two new members [Ron Brinson is the other] on this year’s team. “AU the work has paid off,” she said. “I am very proud of the team and it was a well-deserved victory.” In addition, the experience of the returning members proved to be valuable. “Their experience pulled us through,” says Hardy. “They taught us a lot. We tried to stay Captain: Randy Johnson ahead and make them come to us.” Eighty students from historically Black colleges and universities in the region competed as they tested their general knowledge against one another over ai^roximately 12 hours of questions and an swers. Also, Johnson said Ms. Constance Roberson of the Alfonso Elder Student Union who serves as campus coordinator and coach with Dean Milton Lewis who is responsible for preparing the team for competition, plays an integral role in the team’s success. The event is a modified version of the College Bowl television show. It pits 64 teams fiom the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education against each other in this battle of intellect. Three of the schools that NCCU See Page 3/AII Stars Chidley Hall Project: New Co-ed Dorm by 1995 University. “Students know that the answer to the crisis in higher edu cation is not to abolish minority scholarships, but to strengthen the student aid programs so that they serve the needs of low- and middle- income students.” According to astatementby USSA, PeU Grants now cover less than 25 See Page 3/ Protests By JASON WILLIAMS Staff Writer By 1995, North Carolina Central University wiU have a new three story co-ed dorm between Chidley HaU and the track, once the North Carolina legislature approves the project The Chidley HaU Project has three phases. The first phase is the build ing of the additional dorm. The second phase involves making Chidley Main a conference center for student government and recre ational activities. The third and fi nal phase is the renovation of Chidley’s Aimex for seniors and married students. The present design for the Chidley HaU Project has been approved. “We [NCCU & builders] are cur rently waiting for the final vote from the general legislature,” says Robert Smith, assistant vice-chan- ceUor for business operations. The new dorm wiU be suite-style, with three or four rooms sharing one bathroom. It wiU also have two separate sections, one for the males and the other for females. The project’s total estimated cost is 24 miUion dollars, which would required a “baUpaik” thirty year annual mortgage of between five and eight hundred thousand dol lars, Smith says. Although the Chidley HaU Project was removed March 27, finom fi nancial affairs and placed under Dr. Roland Buchanan of student affairs. Smith states that changes could occur. The yearly mortgage wiU be paid by using student housing fees. After the new donn is buUt, the housing fee at the new dormitory wiU be higher than that for other dorms. “The North Carolina legislature wiU vote on the issue sometime after June 30,” Smith says. Also, he notes that NCCU is stiU paying for renovations completed on Chidley and LaUiam HaU from 10 years ago. The dorm wiU be buUt by Gantt Huberman Architects. NCCU also has a proposal to up grade the other dorms within the nest three years. The proposal calls for additional and better lighting and improved water and heating conditions. Inside Editorial/Page 2 Hip Hop Review: Exclusive Interview with NCCU's "Havokand Chaos"[Bdige 4 Yolanda Alexander's Advice Column: "Jumpstart Her Heart"! Page 5 Student Feature: "Marvin Reed Proves Age is Just a Number"5 The next issue of The Campus Echo will be the last one for the semester. Deadline for all paid advertisements, press releases, and coverage of student activities is April 10th. Questions? Call 560-6504
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