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THE CAMPUS ECHO EXCELLENCE WITHOUT EXCUSE ISSUE 13 NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OCTOBER 1,1992 Mass Meeting SGA Calls For More Homecoming Money, More Say About Fees, New Student Center By JASON WILLIAMS EDITOR At a mass meeting in the Alfonso Elder Student Union at which a number of campus issues were discussed, the Student Gov ernment Association called for an additional allocation of $20,000 for the Homecoming show. At the Thursday, Sept. 24 meet ing, SGA President Riyllis Jeffers and SGA Business ManagerEathan Johnson asked for a list of student grievances to be presented to the . chancellor thp next morning. Johnson said that the Home coming show may have to be can celed unless more money can be raised. “We have to seriously con sider not having a show,” he said. “We won’t have any activities in the Spring if we blow it all on Homecoming.” Student government is allocated $40,000 a year for Homecoming, but the SepL 5 concert featuring Chubb Rock cost $15,000 which leaves roughly $25,000 to stage SbHkiil body pnddoBt Flijrllb JefTcn rtodi IM of "diMlenlf comotm ” to Iht choDcdlor'f coniubBl Goi^" McCuili wbUt Jiurior doM preMnit Trtna GIoh and SGA inciiilicr Jaooii Eran took oa the Homecoming show and other activities for the academic year, according to Johnson. SGA believes that the additional money will allow the booking of Mary J. Blige, Super Cat and A Tribe Called Quest for the show. Student leaders also questioned the hnancial management of many campus departments, including the office of the vice chancellor of student affairs, the library, and Campus Security. Parking Also on the agenda was student dissatisfaction with recent ordi nances restricting parking in resi dential neighborhoods around campus. According to Jeffers, several residential areas around NCCU’s campus will begin to restrict paric- ing to two hours on certain blocks of Peco, Duncan, Concord, Formosa, Dupree and Lincoln streets. Support for student activities Another issue was the $ 100,000 aUocated to the Shepard Library for study rooms. Jeffers says she wants to make sure that this money is used wisely. “If we can’t study, then there’s no reason to be here,” she said. Jeffers also said that students should pursue obtaining the old Law School and Summer School office in the William Jones Build ing as a center for student activi ties. The building now stores of fice supplies that campus organi zations ought to be able to use, Jeffers said. The building should not be used as the new chancellor’s office, be cause “the administration already has a building,” Jeffers said, while “the SGA office doesn’t even have a typewriter.” The University needs to look toward the future, Jeffers said: “We gotta have the same vision. We aren’t going into the year 2000 See MEETING, page 3 Spike Lee Cheers UNC Students' Fight For Free-Standing Black Cultural Center Fayetteville Man Charged In Sept. 12 Shooting on Campus By JASON WILLIAMS EDITOR Bernard N. Martin, 24, of 524 Rock Canyon Road in Fayetteville was arrested Friday in connection with the SepL 12 shooting of six students oh campus. Martin faces six counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, and one count of possession of weapon on campus. He is being held under $100,000 bond, the Herald-Sun reported Sunday. Martin allegedly shot former NCCU lineman Rodney Edmonds and five other students after a dis pute. Three others, including two students, were injured as they fled the scene. All of those injured were treated and released from area hospitals. “We are glad that an arrest has been made,” said NCCU police chief Anthony B. Purcell. “BuL it doesn’t stop there. We need to go to trial and get a conviction.” Interim Chancellor Donna J. Benson could not be reached for comment. By JASON WILLIAMS EDITOR After a 14 year-fight for a free standing culture center, students at UNC-CH have given their chan cellor an ultimatum. The letter signed by the Black Awareness Council, said that Paul Hardin, UNC-CH chancellor, must present concrete proposal for the building to the Board of Trustees by Nov. 13. According to the let ter, this position is NON-NEGO- TIABLE and “failure to respond to this deadline will leave no other choice by to organize toward direct action.” The letter follows a Sept. 3 march by 300 students on Hardin’s home. Student supporters of a black cultural center have caught the at tention of the nation, with the New York Times ran a story on their plight, which caught the eye of flimmakerSpikeLee, who supports the center and spoke to roughly 8,000 people in the Smith Center SepL 18. Although Lee was scheduled to speak at 10 p.m. the doors opened at 8 : 30 p.m. because of the large crowd expected. Before Lee spoke, members of the Black Cultural Conunittee were rallied the crowd with African and English chants of “Black Power!” Public Enemy’s “Fear of a Black Planet’ played over the speakers and signs of crossed fist appeared in the crowd. The crossed fists symbolizes bondage and support for the philosophy of Malcolm X. There were many students at the rally from schools all over the Triangle, especially NCCU. NCCU “I’m here as a representative of NCCU,” said student body presi dent Phyllis Jeffers who is a BCC VDP, “an ambassador to show them our support. Their issue is similar and can be used on our own cam pus. We [students] want our cam puses back. Students don’t have control over the campuses all over the country.” Some other NCCU student’s agreed. Junior maiketing major Larmar Walton said that he sup ports the black students at UNC. From his understanding the cur rent BCC, an office in the Carolina Union which can seat 50 comfort ably, is about half the size of NCCU’s student government of fice. “They shouldn’t be de prived,” Walton said. “Black students need something they can relate to and something to have pride in.” Junior political science major Dwayne Houston also thinks they should have acenter. “It’s a shame that the chancellor passed on of fer to build the center at no cost to the university,” Houston said. “It’s a known fact that Jordan was go ing to donate funds for the build ing.” The Michael Jordan Founda tion has offered to pay the esti mated $3 million constructioncost of the BCC, according to BCC director Margo Crawford. “They have gone through proper procedure with no resulL” Houston said. Forty acres and a mule About 3,000 people where al ready in at the Smith Center by 9 p.m. BCC leaders were busy See BCC, page 3 Chancellor’s Office Receives Demands The list alsd jsays Um "*ddvi By JASON WILLIAMS EDITOR Oft Friday* at about 9 a.m. * - ^ staderd body itre&ideat Phyllia ^ carapis depattmsittor Jeffers asd oth^ mdmst leaders voting power/ iei»ehod»jtbecftatK^3r^sj^cfr with a thiee-pago list of studeftt eoaceross* (afeterla, Shepard Library atK juniorclass prcsidcmTrina Glass fflid student body vice-president Derek Brown read pages two and three, respectively. "*I feet good that we got the list out. Ushows that the students can together. I hope it expands,” Jeffers said. of ifte Jfto^ oau^versia parts of the letter calls for the ro tftovalofB^lattd Buchanan asme tbatcelorof stwl^t affairs, "I did not tktmt diat de dsion,”Jefrerssaid.“thatdecmot was made by those iftdmduais whe sat oa ihe ae^ion the mm, However, Jeffers sMd tted as Chambers, who will become dhancellor Jan. 1 and totheboard evdluauon and reorganizatitai ot the financial aid office” and im proved living conditions in the donas. Tfie Icucr also states that $20,000 needs to be allocated from student affairs to “provide a student oriented Homecoming Weekend.” Leadera also desire a greater access to the Walker Comj^cx. the Union, and BN Duke Audito rium, yet acted on a similar list of con cerns issued in 1990 by Pau Woodson, then when things have gone era/.) around here,” Jeffers said. “Hehat also threatened the SOA.'* tho.se threats were.. "WeTl pass it along to du chancellor. What can be dtmr wiU.”said Benson’s consultan: GeraldM;^;;3wtts,w1mieceivedth6 list. Benson ^as not indteofficea , .the time,.. Mrs. Clinton Explains Clinton-Gore Agenda Hillary Clinton By JASON WILLIAMS EDITOR Hillary Qinton said Tuesday that her husband’s platform in cludes more issue confrontation, more economic opportunity and employment advantages for Afri can Americans, Clinton spoke with seven rep resentatives of the college media for about forty-five minutes in the Senate Room at North Carolina State University. Clinton said that she wanted to use the opportunity tb talk with reporters and editors of college newspapers to reach out younger voters, since voters between the ages of 18-24 normally vote in low numbers. “We are looking towards your fiiture,” she said, “If all my husband were doing in this campaign was to move ftom one house to another and go the Camp David for the weekend it would be worth doing.” According to Qinton, what they will be doing is woiking to build America’s economy again and be voices for children and the woik ing poor. “The children that suffer the most are the children of the woiking poor,” she said. Clinton then quoted statics that one in five children are in in American lives in poverty and ^ith children under six its one in four. Clinton also stressed the need to get rid of Bush’s “trickle-down economics.” “Trickle-down economics hasn’t woiked for anyone,” she said stressing the need to get rid of Bush’s economic policies. Clinton also questioned the tax See CLINTON, page 7 To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield** — Alfred Lord Tennyson
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