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Issue 47
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NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
Durham, NC
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March 3,1995
Model U.N. comes to NCCU
By Christopher Richburg
Echo reporter
From March 2- March 5, NC
Central University will play host
to the sixth annual Model United
Nations. This year’s Model U.N.
will be held at the Omni Hotel and
Convention Center. It will include
representatives from 12 of North
Carolina’s historically black col
leges and universities.
Properly called the North Caro
lina Consortium for International
Intercultural Education / Triangle
Universities Securities Seminar
Model United Nations, the model
U.N. gives students an opportunity
to become familiar with interna
tional issues, providing a hands-
on, realistic approach towards how
the United Nations operates.
Education
gets dean
By Angela lindsay
Echo Correspondent
A new dean for the School of
Education was approved Feb. 22
by the Board of Trustees. An in-
toim dean has filled the position
for over two years, since the retire
ment of Walter Brown.
Sammie Campbell Parrish spent
three years as assistant state su
perintendent for the N.C. Depart
ment of Public Instruction and
became superintendent of Cleve
land Public Schools in 1992. She
is taking over for interim dean
Carolyn Whitted.
Parrish, a native of Washing
ton, D.C., earned a bachelor’s de
gree from Illinois State Univer
sity, a master’s from Virginia
Polytechnic, and a doctorate of
education from the University of
Virginia.
She has been accredited with a
Cleveland school-reform package
that establishes 26 community
model schools with curricula de
signed by parents.
“There will be bargaining based
on diplomatic trade off,” said Eu
gene Eaves, dean of University
Colleges and director of Interna
tional Programs. “Rather than read
about it, you get to know.”
Eaves added that the Model
U.N. is a simulation of the real
United Nations in which students
become ambassadors or delegates
for a U.N. country.
As ambassadors, they will be
required to act in ways befitting
that country, to be played out in a
series of meetings of the three
committees of the U.N. General
Assembly and the Security Coun
cil.
Student ambassadors were en
couraged to research on the culture,
government, economy, and history
of their chosen country as well as
watch the news and read the news
paper.
“They have to get in the mindset
of that country,” said Eaves.
Among the students participat
ing are Kipchoge “Kip” Ryan,
Anthony Mitchell, Gilbert
Sherwood, Cry stal Jones, and S teve
Allen.
Ryan, who is the Secretary
General, will open the session, and
give the welcoming address. This
will be his fourth straight Model
U.N.
Highlights of the Model U.N.
include greetings from Chancellor
Julius Chambers and the keynote
address by Amos Bernard
Muvengwa Midzi, ambassador to
the United States.
Eaves hopes to continue to raise
an awareness of international is
sues after the Model U.N. He
plans to help form a U.N. club or
International Studies Club as well
as submit a proposal to interna
tionalize NCCU.
“We should look beyond,” says
Eaves. “Weshouldhaveaclimate
that is more intellectually inquisi
tive."
This year’s Model U.N. also
marks the 50th anniversary of the
founding of the U.N. Association.
Founded by Robert Ryan, the
model U.N. has over 60,000 par
ticipants in the U. S. Two-thi rds of
them are high school students.
Collegiate model U.N. pro
grams began to grow only recently.
“Thenumberof chapters hasnearly
Going round and round
Students from NC Central's Child Development Lab play on campus with their teachers,
from left: Kim Moore and Sarah Straud. The NCCU-CDL- provides Early Childhood
Education majors an opportunity to get practical experience, while giving the children an
abundance of one-on-one attention.
Honors convocation rescheduled
By Terri Boykin
Echo Co-editor
The date for the 1995 Honors
Convocation has been changed
from Friday, April 7, to Wednes
day, April 5, in McLendon-
McDougald Gymnasium at 11 a.m,
according to the Honors Convoca
tion Committee.
The guest speaker, Samuel D.
Proctor, who spoke at the
Chancellor’s inauguration in 1993,
is a professor of the practice of
Christian ministry at Duke Divin
ity School.
Proctor has also served in ad
ministrative positions with the
Peace Corps in Nigeria and Wash
ington, and is a member of the
governing boards of the United
Negro College Fund. He has been
awarded honorary doctor's degrees
from 45 colleges and universities.
The parents of those receiving
awards will be mailed an invita
tion, but all parents are invited to
attend, said Ruth Kennedy, chair
of the Honors Convocation com
mittee.
Hundreds are honored at each
convocation, yet student partici
pation has been low, said Kennedy.
Toencourage more student turnout,
Kennedy said a class procession
will begin the festivities.
Eachclassof theUniversity will
march as a group into the gym. The
class with the most students present
will have an academic scholarship
donated in it’s name.
A new award this year will
recognize a student who has at
tended college against tremendous
odds, regardless of academic
achievement, leadershipor service,
Kennedy said.
Honors week will begin with a
talent show on Mon., April 3. The
doubled in the past decade from
about 500 in 1985 to nearly 1,000
today,”accordingtoJim Muldoon,
director of Model United Nations
and youth programs at the U.N.
Association of the United States of
America.
“Chapters range in size from 12
members at Saint Louis University
to more than 250 at Harvard Uni
versity."
Since the end of the Cold War,
rising interest is being focused upon
the model U.N. This, in addition to
the rapid turn to democracy over
seas, has made it a force to be
reckoned with.
The purpose of the U.N. Asso
ciation is to promote awareness of
the United Nations and its pro
grams. It is a non-profit group.
Trustee
nominated
for UNC
board
Echo staff
A member of N. C. Central
University ’ s Board of Trustees has
been nominated for a seat on the
University of North Carolina Board
of Governors.
David Stith’s appointment, if
approved, would fill one of the 16
vacancies on the 32-member
board, which governs the 16-
campus UNC system.
Stith is currently serving his
second two-year term. He is
chairman of the Trustee-Student
Relations Committee.
Stith’s stint on theNCCU Board
of Trustees has had moments of
controversy. In 1968, two armed
bodyguards accompanied him to a
board meeting when it was reported
that he was the target of threats.
Stith has also been critical of
the use of campus facilities, uni
versity police and towing activities.
convoeation committee is recruit
ing a major talent, said Kennedy.
The Undergraduate Research
Symposium will be held on Tues
day.
ho’ sWhoinAmericanColleges
and Universities award winners
will be honored on Thursday at
10:40, and the leadership and ser
vice awards banquet follows that
night at 7:00.
Friday, April 7, is Student Ap
preciation Day. Each teacher has
been asked to do something that
day to show all their students they
are appreciated.
Samuel D. Proctor