THE CAMPUS ECHO EXCELLENCE WITHOUT EXCUSE ISSUE 19 NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY JANUARY 28,1993 NEWS BRIEFS $108,000 Gift To Endow NCCU Chairs Crimminal Jutisce Department Get Service Organizatior Lambda Alpha Epsilon was founded by Peace Officers in San Jose, California during the summer of 1937. This organiza tion was formed to unite those men who shared an interest in law enforcement. Two aims of Lambda Alpha Epsilon were to promote higher standards of education among the peace officers and to promote a unity of action among law enforcement agencies. Lambda has success fully extended from the West Coast to the East Coast. Originall} the organization only recognized the field of law enforcement but during the 1970’s it was open to all facets of Criminal Justice and is now known as the American Criminal Justice Association— Lambda Alhpa Epsilon. This 1992-93 school year is proud to introduce the first chapter of Lambda Alpha Epsilon on NCCU’s campus. The blue and gold shades of Alpha Chi Omega was founded by President- Rodeney Hopkins, Vice Presi- dent-Keith Patterson, Secretary- Rachel King, Treasurer- Terri Oliver, Parliamentarian-Tymeka Whiteside, Historian- Susan Alford and Advisor Rebecca Tatum. Presently Lambda has 23 active members excluding the officers. This organization is a professional fraternity for Crimi nal Justice majors only. Lambda Alpha Epsilon requires a student to have 24 hours, a 2.5 G.P.A., and interested in a profession in the Criminal Justice field. Lambda’s goal is to be influential and productive on and off of this campus. Our desires is to provide a system of networicing for future Criminal Justice gradu ates. -Nikki Berry 150 Students Graduated In Fall Ceremonies for gradu ates at NCCU during the month of December lingers on the minds of many students. There were a total of 150 students, including graduates and undergraduates that finished in last December. James Pierce, university’s registrar, said thathe didn’t have anything against the idea except that it would conflict with the university and cause a tremen dous amount of work on the registrar’s office with the time factor. "We are still clearing students for graduation for December 1992," he said. Only 15% of the students that begin at this university graduate in four years. The statistics increase to 33% after seven years. As long as the students at this university graduates, if it takes up to eight years, the university as well as the parents are satis fied, Pierce said. -Corey Kent By ERNIE SUGGS Herald-Sun Special In a major step toward cre ating an endowed chair atN.C. Central University to attract top-notch scholars, Franklin R. Anderson and his wife, Susie R. Powell, donated $108,000 on Monday. “NCCU deserves our sup port,” Anderson said. “We care about the university, be cause NCCU has demon strated it cares about the com munity.” The gift is the largest pri vate donation ever given to the university. It will be used toward setting up two endowed chairs in the law school. “We think the gift is going to be very beneficial and will serve as an example to others to give,” said Mary E. Wright,dean of the law school. “This is an expression of confidence in the university and the law school.” Wright was one of about 100 guests who attended a glittering re ception for Anderson and Powell on Monday at the University Towers, hosted by Chancellor Julius Cham bers. “I think the thing that is most pleasing, was the people taking the time to come out tonight and tell us they recogonize the mission ^d the need at NCCU,” Chambers said. “Look around this room, I don’t think you can put together a more impres sive gathering.” Throughout the course of the evening, a tired, but smiling Ander son said he couldn’t understand why people were congratulating him and his wife. “I am excited about Julius Cham bers being here at NCCU and I’m excited about the opportunity to con geal support for NCCU,” said Anderson, an NCCU trustee since 1989. “There is a tremendous pool towardss goodwill here, we just haven’t molded it.” Anderson’s wife, a former law professor at NCCU, said that while doing research on giftgiving, she likened the couple’s gift to “Indian Giving.” “What that really means is mo tion and to keep this gift in mo tion,” Powell said. “The Indians believed that when you give a gift, you have to in turn give that gift to someone and so on, to keep it go ing in a circle. This is the part of the giving process that will revitalize the school. The law school de serves this.” With the gift from Anderson and Powell, the university will be on its way to funding three of the 10 endowed chairs that Chambers hopes to create within the next five years. “We’ve talked so many times about getting chairs,” said board chairman Bert Collins “We are sort of slow, but I hope this can inspire others to give.” In a competitive market that finds NCCU battling schools like N.C. A&T and Howard universi ties for top faculty members, along with backyard rivals Duke and UNC, NCCU has no endowed chairs. “Endowing 10 chairs will make NCCU a major university in this state,” said Anderson, who recently sold his plastics business. Custom Molders, Inc., which grossed more than $ 15 million annually. “This is a permanent elevation of the uni versity. We need 10 and we are just putting up one leg.” The first leg will be in biomedi cal chemistry and will be estab lished from the $1 million gift that Glaxo, Inc. gave the university. Eagle Radio And Televison Station To Arrive In March By MAURICE CROCKER NEWS EDITOR Soon Students and Faculty all over campus will be able to adjust their radio dials and hear, “You’r lis tening to the soulful sounds of WNCe North Carolina Central’s student radio station.’’NCCU’s radio and television stations will be in full operation in March. The radio station will focus on education, entertainment and new isues that concern the campus and the community. The station will have sev eral different formats. Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, and Hip-Hop are just a few. Ronda Robinson and Greg Lewis, both founders of the NCCU Broadcaster Club, en courage everyone to get in volved th the station. Robinson says, “we already have a television staion on campus, but students just don’t know about it. The cost to run the television sta tion is paid for by each student’s tuition.” The Broadcast Club will be holding auditions for anchors, reporters, and talk show host. The auditions will take place Feb.l through Feb. 4 and will be held in the Farris-Newton Communication Building in the Learning Resources Center. Robinson and Lewis encour age students to come and join the Broadcast Club. There are behind the scene positions available as well. The Broad casters club is looking for pro ducers, editors, and directors. The club is planning to lake two field trips oneto Black En tertainment Television (BET) station in March, and another to the Black College Radio Convention in Atlanta on April 9th and 10th. Anyone interested needs to contact Mr. Charles Spellman or Mr. Milton Jordan in Room 303 in the Farris-Newton Com munication Building w. H 1 Rhonda Robinson and Greg Lewis Speaker Stirs Crowd During King's Celebration King By JASON WILLIAMS EDITOR Lift ev’ry voice and sing, Til earth and heaven ring, with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise High as the list’ning skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us; Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; Facing the rising sun Ring of our new say begun. Let us march on till victor)' is won. Dr. L.H. Whelchcl, philoshopy and religion chairman at Clark Alanta University, gave the ad- dressduringNCCU’s annual birth day observance of Martin Luther King, JR. last Monday. Whelchel, also a retired minis ter, gave a “call and response” ser mon with some of the 900 people in attendance shouting “amens.” Whelchel talked about King as a “drum major for justice freedom and peace.” King passed the batton to me and your to march for justice and peace, he said. We must walk together,” he said. “Black and white. Rich and poor. Ph.d or no degree.” We must stop being obsessed with gold, jewerly, and designer clothes,” he said. He questioned the signifiance of a $100 cap on a ten-cent brain. Whelchel also spoke of the ‘ ‘neo- conserativc” altitudes that some blacks have developed over the past few years. According to Whelchcl, Su- ”I too, Smg America, I am a darker brother,,, ”-Langston Hughes NCCU when Chambers told them the need for endowed chairs. “Mr. Anderson called me and said that he wanted to talk to me. They still don’t know how excited I was,” Chambers said. “But more impor tantly, we have African-Americans telling the university that they want to see the university develop and become great.” Part of the reason the law school was chosen was because of Powell’s association, as well as the need and desire to attract well-known legal scholars. “We wanted it to be a gift that had some focus,”PoweU said. “We didn’t want it spread all around.” Chambers said that the law school is currently under review by the American Bar Association and the endowed chairs will help. “I hope to have those chairs fully- funded within the next five years to attract distinguished legal scholars here,” Chambers said. Rdpe Victim Files Suit FAIRFAX, Va.- A young voman has filed an $18.9 million suit against George Mason Uni- /ersity, claiming that campus po- ice bungled the investigation ol ler alleged rape The woman, who was a 17- year-old freshman at the time ol he attack, said she was raped and sodomized by three men in hei lormitory room at 2:20 a.m. Sep- :ember2,1991, the campus news- 3£^r reported. According to the lawsuit, which dentified the victim as “Jane Doe,’ nitial rcportscirculatcdby the uni- s'crsity mediarelalionsdepartmeni indicated that the crime was an ‘acquaintance rape” even though he young woman told investiga- OTS she did not know heraUackers, he Broadside reported. The lawsuit also referred to “the iniversity administration attempt ing to coerce her, and through hei parents, to withdraw from the uni versity” and said the “the jniversity’s agents and employees published reports about the crime mplying the victim ‘asked for it.”' The suit claims that Jane Doe vas not taken to the hospital until S a.m., and she was not examinee jntil 9 a.m. In addition, the suit claims thal iniversity police “took the wrong jedding to the forensic laboratory’ md “failed to monitor the collec- ion and evaluation of evidence.” The woman also is suing the hree alleged rapists, all formei jcorgc M^n University students, or assault and battery, false im- jrisonment and trespassing. preme Courtjuslice Clarence Tho mas is a prime example. Whelchel wondered how Tho mas became so adm andtly opposed to affirmtai ve action when he [Tho mas] benefited from it. Thomas has gone from one white caretakerto another, Whelchel said. “And now he opposes the thing that got him there.” Whelchcl also spoke about the war of drugs. The drug war will not be won in LA street comers, the jungles, or the battlefield. The war on drugs must be won at home, the churuch and schooltVhelchel said. *4"