THE CAMPUS ECHO
EXCELLENCE WITHOUT EXCUSE
ISSUE 23
NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
APRIL 1,1993
NEWS
BRIEFS
United Christian Campus
Ministry To Sponsor Program
By MAURiCie Crocker
NEWS EDITOR
Students and members of the
community will hear lectures and
discuss racism from a religious
perspective in a three-day program
sponsored by the United Christian
Campus Ministry. First Annual
Religious Emi^asis Weekend will
be held here at NCCU begining
April 16. The event will kick-off,
with a banquet held at W.G.
Pearson Cafeteria, and will involve
members of 20 One objective of
the event will be the joining to
gether of 10 churches from the
Duiham community in worship.
D. Michael Eric Dyson and
he Rev. Joann Brown Jennings will
lecture (Hi“The Continuing Delima
on Racism And The Ongoing
Challenge.” “This will be the first
time North Carolina Central has
hostedaneventofthiskind,” stated
he Rev. William Joesph Barber II,
NCCU’s United Christian Campus
Minister.
The banquet, held 7p.m. in the
W.G. Pearson cafeteria, will allow
the students and organizers of the
program to collaborate, and ex
press their views concerning reli
gious issues. Baiter said.
The banquet will be followed
by two lectures with the first be
ginning at 8:30 a.m. Saturday
concerning the issue of racism.
Michael Eric Dyson assistant
professor of American civilization
and Afro-American studies at
Brown University. Dyson, editor
of Emerge Magazine, and recent
winner of the 1992 National
Magazine award from the National
Association of Black Journalists,
has also appeared on several na
tional television programs includ
ing The Oprah Winfrey show.
The second lecture will be given
by t Rev. Joann Brown Jennings,
who is a seminary trained minister
anda prominent social wo±er and
consultant in the community.
“Both lectures promise to be very
lifting,” Barber said.
The cost is $12 for the
general public and $6 for NCCU
students. If you have any questions
please contact the Rev. William
Joseph Barber at 682-1940.
Peace Corps
Receives Grant
A Domestic Education
Grant of 6.7 Million dollars has
been awarded to the Peace
Corps FellowsAJSA Program.
The grant will allow 800
graduates at IS universities
natitmwide to earn their
master’s degree and teacher
certification after serving in the
Peace Corps. Recruiters will
be in the Raliegh-Durham-
Ch^relhill area and are in
search for volunteers upon
graduation. Peace Corps
Volunteeets benefit rom all
expenses paid and language
training for the two years they
work.
Brown Wins SGA Presidental Bid By 4
Votes. Cox and Glass Petition For Runoff
By JASON WILLIAMS
EDITOR
Only eight votes separated
the top three candidates for student
body presidential in the April 1
campus elections, and both the
runner up candidates have called
for a run off election. More than
1100 student voted.
“It’s crucial,” said student
body president candidate Tyrone
Cox as read the results of election.
Student body vice president
Derek Brown received 362 votes,
junior class president Trina Glass
received 358,TyroneCox received
354 and Mario Elliott, received 79
votes respectively.
“It was a close race,” Glass
said. She declined to comment any
further.
The vote, which was finally
released arotmd 10 p.m. last night
stunned many students.
“I was shocked by the re
sults,” said Emily Dickens, who
won the race for junior class vice-
president with 132 votes: “I thought
the student body at Central would
Brown
elect a queen with a more positive
attitude. But the next year will tell.
Derek [Brown] has experience and
would be a positive attribute to the
Uiuversity.”
During the presidential de
bate, all of the candidates said they
wanted to combat student ^athy
and wanted to get the student out to
vote. Brown has stated that his first
concern would be to revise the
constitution, a goal he has set since
Glass
he served as sophomore class
president.
Brown wants to eliminate
some of the burecracy the legisla
ture fa^^es trying to incorporate
rules. ,
Gla^ according to her plat
form, that “the straggle continues”
and that she will focus on the
campus, the local community, and
ourselves.
Glass’s immediate concern
Cox
for the student body is to combat
the apathy of students,
especiallythe lack of student par
ticipation in SGA’s events on
campus.
Cox has stated his immedi
ate concern is to to set up a campus
community service program.
“We at Centr^ do not give
enough back to the community,”
Cox said. “We can’t keep all of our
knowledge to ourselves,” he said.
As the results were read,
many students debated the
wisdom of a runoff. Some
students said that they didn’t
feel like voting again, while
other revelled in the thought of
a runoff.
“It’s exciting to see the
stiff competition,” said the
chairman of the election board
Anthony Cooper. “It shows the
candidates worked hard. As a
senior, I will be glad to leave
NCCU in their hands.
However, the election
board was dismayed with the
low voter turnout. Only 25
percent of the student body
voted, a 5 percent increase from
last year.
‘The turnout still isn’t good,”
Cooper said. “We woe eiqiecting flie
tumouttohe great Wecanallhutknodc
ondoors and hand studentstiieballots.”
Cooper attributed die increased
turnout to the f^ that elections were
held in the readenoe halls ratha-than
die Student Unkxi. Off- campus siu-
dat voted in die Uidoa
Robinson Wins Bid For Miss NCCU
Students also elect
class officers into
student government
By JASON WILLIAMS
EDITOR
While some students con
tended that the race for the title
Miss North Carolina Central
University would be highly
contested, the vote seemed to
prove something else.
Laurie Nichole Robinson,
from Fort Washington, Mary
land, won the title 182 votes
over first runner-up Melanie
Brown. Robinson had 355 votes
Robinson
compared to Brown’s 173. Tania
Butler followed with 169 votes,
and there was a tie for fourth
between Llaakytedide Atkins
and Danielle Houston.
Robinson said during her
can^gn diat she will serve as a
“stu^t. Mend, motivator, and
an advocate in die axnmunity.”
Robinson alsoranundo-themotto
“I’m Every Woman”, echoing a
hit son by Whimey Hoston.
“Doubt says, it’s hopeless, but
Faith says through God all things
are possible,” RobinscMi said dur
ing the Miss NCCU pagaent
Nkxiday.
In other pertinoit elections,
junior cogress member Ginja
Massey was successful in her bid
tobecome junior class vice presi
dent Massey defeated Louis
“Skip” Perkins by 80 votes.
Massey earned 208 votes to
Perkins’ 128.
Emily Dickens won the junior
class vice president office with
132 votes over Eric Mays who
had 84.
Kia Lightly, took sophomore
classpresidency, with 161. Selena
Wynn and Christain DuBoise’s
had 84 and 82 votes, respectively.
CassandraPalmer’s 196 votes led
her over Teresa Walker’s 130 to
become sophomore class trea
surer.
KiraJ.BaskervilleandMelania
Page, running as senior and jun
ior class president, were
uncontested in their bid.
Baskerville earned 312 votes.
Page earned 204.
Onfy die senior class voted a full
slate in studrait coigress elections.
They are: Pamela Harris, Lovette
Henderscm,ChristieHill,Kimberiy
HcqistMi, Canrien Mattocks, Sraija
Woods, Jerome McNair, Namia
Smith, and Juanita Williams. No
cme was elected to junk»‘class con
gress. Threemembersof the sqiho-
morecIassccxignessareLesileBoyd,
Michelle Gathers, and Keitra
Musgrave.
VictoriaPearson,Affivia“An:ty”
Davies, and January Williams will
serve as senicff, junior, and sqiho-
mcxe class queens respectivley.
CongressmanWattDelievers44tii
Honors Convocation Address
SGA Election '93-
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By JASON WILLIAMS
EDITOR
Rep. Melvin Watt, D-12th Dis
trict, challenged about 300hundred
people in McLendon-McDouglad
Gymnasium today to “understand
and leam to speak the language of
change and make personal commit
ments and to pay dividends on in
vestments.
Watt told the audience at the
44th Honors Convocation of stu
dents, parents, and faculty that blades
have had a history of success and
then a period of decline
He said that there is a pendulum
swings between thedtyofHope and
the valley of Hopelessness. “That
has swung backward for tfie last 12
years,” he said.
To get the pendulum swinging
again back toward hope again. Watt
says the government must provide
economic stimulus, investment, and
earned income tax credit
“It takes moneytomakemoney,”
Watt said. Watt praised President’s
Clinton’s plan to create 700,000
new jobs. Watt recalled the days of
his youth when he worked for
minimum wage in a factoiy. “Some
of my friends still woik there,” Watt
said.
Another personal point in Watt’s
30-minute message had to do with
the importance of govemmait in
vestment in education. “The U.S.
invested in me with grants,” Ire said.
“It allowed me to become a lawyer.”
Watt graduated Hu Beta Kappsi
in the late 60s’ from UNC-CH and
earned his law degree from Yale
University in 1970.
Watt’s urged students to give
something back to the community.
Watt said that he believes that par
ents are sending mixed signals to
today’s youth by telling them to
move out rather than stay and Ixiild
their neighborhood.
Watt attributed his his success in
the community to his mentor and
rolemodel, NOCU Chancellor Julius
Chambers. “)Mth a moral certainly.
.. I would not be a congress memter
and I would not be speaking hear ’
today with the role that Julius
Chamber played in my life,” Watt
said.
Watt said that after law school he
could ofgorre anywhere in the world,
including Wall Street. However,
Chambers encouraged Watt to make
a commitment to his community, he
said. Instead of going to Wall Street
Watt stalled woridng In Chambers
firstlaw office in Chariotte. “He told
the same thing to Harvey Gantt,”
Watt said. Gantt, former mayor of
Chariotte, made an unsuccessful bid
to defeat incumbent senator Jesse
Helms during the 1990s’campaign.
Its amessage that Watt has passes
oa
Recently, Watt’s son accepted
an offer to woik with the Children
Defense Fund over another position
with a $10,000 higher salary.
Watt says he proud of his son’s
public spirited decisioa
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