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.
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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.
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