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Zlpage2 October 3,1995 The Campus Echo 1801 FayetteWlle Street Durham, NC X7707 Editor - Alicia B. Williams Associate Editor - Toni S. King News Editor - Victor E. Blue Sports Editor - Carey Johnson Features Editor - Derrick Armstead Art - Dustin Harewood Layout and Design - A. Williams, T. King Business Manager - Dawn Jones Copy Editor- Shelvia Dancy Staff Reporters Aaron McRae, Nictde EUis, Tonya Mitchell, Jibiil Thomas, Christie Standi, Michelle McRae, KoiieBurrow, Erica Diaon, Maria Alston, Lateefah Williams, Willie Glenn, Wink Spencer, Rob Moore, Chris Richburg, Warren Greenfield Advisor- Dr. Gladstone Yearwood The Echo office is located in Room 319 of the Farrison-Newton Communi cations Building, NCCU. Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to submit articles, editorials, and art Student pnticipation is vital to the quality of our repotting, please voluteer. Policy on Letters The Campus Echo welcames leoen from readers. Leners should be no more than 300 words in length. The editor reserves the tight to edit all letters and articles, as needed. Eagle [onntpy by Dustin Harewood c'HoiJ Way , X LOST r£W 'Pot/lucis JjALXIIJOi up ANO 'D0UJ^J THIS UILUI AfjV lOHftT A-gcirr ALL this' comumri sewicc ' (joT To TX7 T/i£ CJyESTioW SHOULD -BpAsKjUk Is, ujnyviVM'r You asT xicKev our last YeA'^-J '' — CwHe>J You hap a GW Of uKe, ONE -poitJr siy! OPINIONS Apathy wreaking havoc in our lives By T. Anthony Frazier The twin evils of “I don’t care” and “I don’t know” invade our community like cancer and eats away until it chokes the very life out of our community. Accountability can’t be disregarded in our communities and. racism is no excuse for not exercising personal responsibilty in your own life. The very stmetures that should be about the business of providing a normal well-being for all its citizens in any community are deficient. This cancer which draws its strength from ignorance and ap wreaks havoc on our value system. Where is our outrage at the fact that AIDS is the number one killer of. young African-American women, our mortality rate at birth is higher than some Third World nations. The number one killer of young African-American men is other young African-American men Their greatest threat isn’t people with hoods and sheets but someone who looks just like them. Where is our outrage at the fact This cancer produces seeds that give life to a bitter harvest for which we have ourselves to blame. that we are being destroyed inside our own communities? The use of scapegoats prevents us from confronting reality and finding solutions to kill this cancer. We’re the majority of people locked up in the penal institutions in America and the building of prisons has become a national pasttime. If we can be so outraged at forces outside our community, why aren't we outraged for allowing conditions such as these to exist? Let us eradicate the word “generation gap” from our vocabulary. The younger generation does great harm to itself when it disregards past achievements of the older generation. We must imderstand the blood, sweat, toil, and tears wasn’t for nothing. The priveledges and rights we have today didn’t come easy and we stand on the previousgeneration’ssboulders. We, of the younger generation, must weave what occured yesterday and what occurs today into a new garment. When we put this new garment on our backs, we will be able to face tomorrow with a new vision and a renewed purpose. Life isn’t a remote journey or a thrill ride. Just as we were bom in the daylight, our nightfall shall come. When nightfall arrives it will be too late to ask for more daylight. You must give meaning and purpose to your life while daylight exists. To base your life on material possessions with no substance in your soul is fruitless. Values are the tools by which you succeed in this life. Our community's real achieve ment and greatness will only be derived fromapositive self-image. No community is destroyed without first destroying itself from within. This cancer of ^thy and ignorance produces seeds which give life to a bitter harvest for which we have ourselves to blame. I’m reminded of a quote by the Jewish theologian Ateaham Joshua Heschel concerning moral outrage in this society. “Wemustcontinue to remind ourselves that in a free society, all are involved in what some are doing. Some are guilty, all are responsible.” It is all too easy to stand aside or look the other way and claim it doesn’t affect you. Even in your silence, you’re implicated in whatever ills befall our community. The challenge and the task lies in front of each of us to complete the mission of those who came before us. Let us draw strength from the words of the old spiritual “Walk together children, don’t you get weary.” Now”s the time to conquer foreign language phobia By Michael J. Johnson Spanish Instructor Do you suffer from foreign lan guage phobia? If so, don’t be upset because there are several hundred students who have this fear. Foreign languages are somewhat intimidating, confusing, challeng ing, and of course “foreign." For your information, there are more than 376 million Spanish speakers in the world today, and this number is increasing. This makes Spanish one of the fastest growing languages in the world and in the United States. We are living in a global society. A society that consists of many people. And languages are part of society. An article by Rep. Toby Roth, says there are more than 100 arelanguages spoken in the city of Qiicago alone. This leaves Ameri cans in a very debatable situation. Should the United States have one language? According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, phobia is defined as a persistent, illogical fear of a spe cific thing or situation, or any strong fear, intense fear or aversion. Do you have any of these symptom? Foreign language phobia can occur in the early stages of educa tion, but it is known to be more noticeable in the teenage years. This fear can continue for years especially among adults and col lege students who are required to study, speak, write, and read a sec ond language. Here are several suggestions to treat this phobia. Dr. Thomas Hammond, professor of French for more than 19 years and department head at North Carolina Central University, “strongly believes that it is imperative to practice daily in the classroom as well as out of the classroom setting, but most of all foreign language learning is a life time process that takes dedication and repitition." Another suggestion by Dr. Fellow, Professor of French, “states that it is necessary to leam and study daily, leam cognates imme diately, and study at least five ex- pressiom per day so that at the end of the semester your ability to speak the language is satisfactory”. Dr. John Harrington, Professor of German, “states that it, clearly a phobia, it takes application, the more you practice the better you are with it; practicing the target language and hearing it spoken is important especially during leisure In most cases, students who have never studied a second language can overcome foreign language phobiamoreso than those whohave experienced language learning. It is very important to have a positive attitude about language learning so that your mind can be free from intermptiom. Many students who have had foreign language phobia had a hor rible experience and continue to dwell on the past. If you had a bad experience and want to start fresh, just focus yourself and think positive and look at this experience as an investment. Foreign language professors are human beings and they know that it is difficult at times, but who ever said education was easy. Buena Suerte! Get Involved “Did she contact the dis ease from the library and is it safe?” is die question sur rounding the death of J.E. ShepardLibrarianPatriciaCole Haith. Lack of research on the ori gin, causes and treatment of Legionnaire’s disease has baffled the general public with the question, “Where can you come in contact with the Legionella bacteria?” Take a Deep Breath...and Relax. In order to reassure the saftey of its students and faculty, N.C. Central University voluntarily closed the library and contacted Pathcon Laboratories to per form safety tests within the li- te-ary on August 18,1995. Unfortunately, results did confirm the presence of Legionella bacteria in eight, out of an imspecified number of samples. University officials immediately implemented safety procedures, such as those suggested by the Occupational Safety and Health Administra tion. An air quality compliance program was implemented, cooling and heating systems were checked, entry of air con taminants was restricted, cool ing towers were decontaminated and carpets were thoroughly cleaned. So what does this informa tion mean to the general public? Quite simply, it means that the university was only performing precautionary measures when they closed the library to com plete their safety analysis. All this information and technical talk is not intended to make people psychosomatic, but to regain the confidence in the university’s ability to pro vide a safe learning environ ment. After all the recent proce dures implemented at the li- bH-ary, it is probably the safest place on our campus. But, a funny thing happened while I was doing research for this editorial. Several problems “came to light” about inad equacies of the library. One major concern is the vast amount of books that are out-of-date, and those that lack the informa tion they originally contained because they have been cut out! Stop having anxiety attacks regarding the safety of the cam pus lib-ary, and focus more attention on helping Chancel lor Chambers generate funds to upgrade the educational mate rials that it contains. Derrick Armstead, Features Editor
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