THE CAMPUS ECHO
ISSUE 26
NORTH CAROLINA CENTRALUNIVERSITY
Students Intern At the White House
By Terry Boykin
Staff Reporter
NCCU students were in
volved directly in Clinton’s
administration changes this
summer.
Eight studMits from NCCU
interned at the White House
this summer working in some
of the top offices, including
the Office of the Vice Presi
dent, the Office of the First
Lady and the Presidential
Personnel Office. These of
fices were involved in chang
ing White House policy for
the new Qinton administra
tion.
Monique Krind, a sopho
more in accounting, was the
only freshman who went to
Washington. She worked in
the Chief of Staff’s office.
The Chief of Staff’s office
takes calls and correspon
dences to the White House
officials and directs calls
within the White House.
Vice-President Gore was in the
office often, as well as other top
officials whom Krind was able
to meet
Since she is a Thurgood
Marshall Scholar here at
NCCU, Marshall’s son, who is
Director of Legislative Affairs,
personally took her on tours
and offered to help her find an
internship next summer in the
capital.
Michelle Dobbins is an ac
counting senior who worked in
the National Economic
Council’s office. The majority
ofherwoikconcerned Clinton’s
Welfare reforms. She re
searched and prepared Docu
ments to go to committees in
NEC.
While there, she met with
David Elwood, head of Health
and Human Services, and
Nelson Mandela, after his
meeting with President Clinton.
Dobbins said that the con
tacts made while in the White
House will be invaluable, both
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Vice President Albert Gore and Monique Krind, a White House Intern, pose in the office
of The Joint Chiefs of Staff.
those with the actual staff as
well as with the other interns,
whichincluded students from
Yale, Princeton and the Uni
versity of California.
Darrell Allison, who is a
political science senior. In
terned in the Presidential
Personnel office which ad
vises the President on selec
tion and placement of ap
pointees. He worked with
the Assistant head of the
National Endowment for the
Arts, who referred him to the
American Institute of Archi
tecture, a lobbying group in
Washington. Allison ac
cepted a paid internship with
See WHITE HOUSE, page 3
^Renaissance Man*
Stanback Rises To Excellence
By Donna Lee
Staff Reporter
Superior Court Judge Albert
Leon Stanback Jr. is without a
doubt the epitome of success.
The North Carolina Central
University alumni graduated
with scholastic honors from
both the undergraduate school
in 1965 and law school in 1968.
Stanback is one of nine su
perior court judges that was
appointed to a seat after legis
lature reorganized judicial dis
tricts in North Carolina in or
der to have more blacks on the
superior court bench. Stanback
is one of two black superior
court judges in Durham.
While attending NCCU,
Stanback was involved in vari
ous student organizations in
cluding the Tau Psi Chapter of
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
Dr. Richard Mizelle, Pro
fessor of Psychology atNCCU
and Stanback’s line brother,
spoke highly of Stanback.
“Leon is a Renaissance Man,
in the sense that he was a mu
sician, an athlete, a scholar
and a person very committed
to humanity.”
Stanback practiced law in
Greensboro for seventeen
years before becoming a
member of the North Carolina
Parole Commission in 1985.
After three and a half years
serving as commissioner, he
was appointed to the superior
court bench in 1989.
Stanback has very adamant
feelings about drugs and cam
pus violence. He contends that
drugs have permeated today’s
society, especially in the black
community and are causing de
terioration of a significant seg
ment of our young people.
Much like drug usage,
Stanback says that campus vio
lence needs to be curved and
that guns are too readily avail
able.
"Campus violence and stu
dent deaths are no doubt unfor
tunate, but life on campus is an
extension of life in our commu
nities,” said Stanback. “Com
munity involvement is necessary
in order to control crime in our
city and involvement of the
college community is necessary
to curve crime on campuses. Law
enforcement cannotdoitalone”.
Stanback also commented
on education in today’s society
and expressed that serious stu
dents will usually excel, others
will eventually be weeded out
and those who genuinely want
to learn will learn.