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ECHO
EXCELLENCE WITHOUT EXCUSE
North Carolina Central University
Durham, NC 27707
Issue No. 70
Friday, Nov. 7,1997
ALSO INSIDE
Cheryl Woods, a
21-year-old
psychology major
from Roxboro,
N.C., reigns as
Miss NCCU for
1997-98.
Pages
in flight
Editor's note: The Campus Echo will publish in
this column brief news items on current and
former members of the NCCU community.
Our goal is to let you know about significant
and interesting achievements of the
university's students, faculty, staff and alumni.
We will publish news of awards and honors,
internships, full-time jobs, graduate study,
significant out-of-state travel and other
information that will show the full range of
activities by the Eagle family. If you have
something you would like to be included in
Eagles in Flight, please call us (560-6504) or
drop by our newsroom in 319 Farrison-
Newton Communications Building. We prefer
to have submissions in writing, and you must
include your name and local telephone
number so that we can verify information.
Students
Ansel Brown received the Alex M. Rivera
Scholarship Award for 1997-98....Shayla
Nunnally, a senior political science major from
Petersburg, Va., interned with the North Carolina
Attorney General's office in the Consumer
Protection department last summer... .Kamora
Avent, a senior theatre major from Durham, N.C.
interned with the U.S. Geological Survey in
Raleigh during the summer Orlando
Culbertson, a senior chemistry major from
Cleveland, N.C., critiqued computer programs as
an intern at Los Alamos National Laboratory from
May 17-Aug. 1, 1997...
Faculty and staff
Dr. Thomas Hammond, chair of the
Department of Modern Foreign Languages, is
president of the College Language Association for
1996-98....Dr. Elwood Robinson, chair of the
Psychology Department, has been awarded a
$400,000 grant from the National Institutes of
Health to study the use and abuse of alcohol in
minority communities....Dr. Bernice Johnson,
dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, led a
contingent of seven NCCU faculty to the
Telelearning '97 Conference held in Scottsdale,
Ariz., Sept. 28 to Oct. 1. The national conference
offered workshops, seminars and addresses on
"distant education": courses offered off-campus via
teleconference. The Public Broadcasting System is
considering NCCU as a distant-learning pilot site.
Others attending from NCCU were Mary
Hawkins (Health Education), Arcelia Jeffreys
(Physical Education), Freddie Parker (History),
Debra Parker (Human Sciences), Sher Teer
(Nursing) and Carlton Wilson (History).
Alumni
Rotella Jones, '80, was one of four finalists in
the Teacher of the Year/ Gold Star Award
sponsored by Carolina Bank...Dennis Walker, '83,
recently took the position as principal of
Albemarle Middle^ School in Charlotte,
N.C....Michael Arnold, '84, is a licensed chaplain
with a master's degree in divinity from Morehouse
School of Divinity; currently, he is working toward
a master's in marriage counseling...Harry
Southerland, School of Law '84, has opened a
second law office in Raeford, N.C....Navy Seaman
Teresa M. Johnson, '86, was recently aboard the
U.S. Sixth Fleet flagship USS La Salle for a 17
day multinational exercise...Talise Young Morris,
'87, is a budget analyst at Glaxo
Wellcome....Timothy Elleby, '92, has been named
vice president and city/ market executive for First
Union National Bank of Virginia...Debbie G
Baker, '94, was sworn in as assistant public
defender in Scotland County Superior Court
..William T. Wilson, Jr., '94, recently received the
N.C. Council of Community Program's 1996 area
Board Member Leadership Award...Ensign
DeMichael T. Morgan, '95, was commissioned a
naval officer upon completing Officer Candidate
School in Pensacola, Fla.... Luis Franco, '96, is a
web page designer at SASS Institute in Cary, N
C....Jeremy Ardrey, '96, is vice president of sales
and finance at Ty Cox Accounting and Business
Services, Inc. Ardrey is a former Student
Government Association president at
NCCU....Tiffany Cole, '96, is a sales
representative with WSRC radio in Durham....
What is insida
Campus News
Pages 2-4
Perspectives
Page 5
Arts & Entertainment
Page 6
Sports
Page 7
Editorial
Page 8
New dormitory may be coed
Student life administrators
support the idea, but Chancelior
Chambers is not convinced.
by Mari McNeal
Staff Writer
The new dormitory that will replace Chidley
Hall, North Carolina Central University's only
all-male residence hall, may not exclusively
house male students when it is completed.
Of the seven dormitories at NCCU, only two
are coed: Annie Day Shepard Dormitory, which
houses honors students and was all-female when
it was first built, and McClean Dormitory, which
became a coed dorm for graduate students this
year.
Chidley Hall has been all-male since it was
built in 1951.
Those who support housing females in the
new dorm (without a name so far, but known
informally as the new Chidley Hall) say it might
deter male students from sneaking females into
their rooms after coed visitation has ended.
But others, including Chancellor Julius
Chambers, are concerned about the more than
100 male students who would be displaced if
female students were allowed to move in.
A LEADWG MUSICIAN
Robin Reaves, director of NCCU's marching band, leads the ensemble during the Oct.
25 game against Livingstone College. Reaves, who replaced Xavier Cason, is the first
female band director in CIAA history. Cason resigned last summer to become band
director at Durham's Hillside High School.
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Chambers is also concerned that parents who
believed NCCU had predominantly single-sex
dorms could be upset by the proposal.
The dorm is scheduled to be completed by
next fall, and NCCU's Board of Trustees will
make the final decision whether the dorm wiU be
coed.
Timothy Greene, a 21-year-old junior from
Roanoke Rapids, N.C., said he supports the coed
possibility and believes it would prevent
students from breaking coed visitation policies
in single-sex dorms..
"It will give [men and women] a chance to
see if they can live beside each other," Greene
said.
Campus
officer still
waiting for
promotion
She won her sex discrimination
iawsuit, but Campus Poiice Lt.
Renee Lynch hasn't received the
promotion or back pay NCCU was
ordered to give her.
by Secret Melvin
Staff Writer
Three months after the State Personnel
Commission ruled North Carolina Central
University denied Campus Police Lt. Renee
Lynch a promotion because she is a woman.
Lynch hasn't gotten any of the money or the
promotion which the commission ordered the
university to give her.
Last month a Wake County Superior Court
judge agreed with the commission and ruled that
NCCU must promote Lynch, a 24-year veteran
of NCCU's police department, to police chief
and pay her $20,000 in back pay.
But NCCU has appealed the commission's
decision, and is waiting for the results of an
appeal it filed in July.
The commission's ruling came after five
years of legal battles between Lynch and
NCCU.
"I think they are trying to harass and irritate
me," Lynch said. "They don't want to do what's
right."
Alan McSurely, an attorney for Lynch, was
quoted in The News & Observer as saying:
"They do not want to put Lynch over men, that's
just what it boils down to. That's the resistance."
Kaye Webb, NCCU's attorney, would not
comment on when the university will comply
with the Wake County judge's order, but she did
say the university "would abide by the court's
order."
Lynch, however, still waits. "They haven't
said a word to me," she said.
Ban on *lewd, obscene’ behavior OKed
Homecoming concert
generates concerns
among school officials
by Evelyn Howell
Staff Writer
People who engage in "indecent, obscene and
lewd" behavior on campus are now subject to
discipline, according to a policy approved
Monday by the the University Planning Council.
Behavior of some students at last month's
Homecoming concert spurred North Carolina
Central University officials to consider adopting
the policy.
The policy, which is effective immediately,
applies to "students, faculty, staff and non
university members while on university
premises or university-related premises or when
involved with off-campus university activities."
According to vice chancellor for student
affairs Dr. Angela Terry, a former NCCU
student jumped on stage during the
Homecoming concert and stripped to his boxers
while dancing provocatively with performers
onstage.
The concert, which kicked off NCCU's
Homecoming week, featured rapper Li'l Kim
and Luther "Luke" Campbell, former leader of
the controversial rap group 2 Live Crew.
Shortly after the concert, Terry developed a
draft of a code of conduct proposal.Terry said
that when she learned two days before the
We are now dealing with all
students who were involved in
any lewd and obscene behavior at
the concert,"
Dr. Angela O. Terry
Vice chancellor for student affairs
Homecoming concert that Campbell had been
arrested in Virginia for lewd acts, she took
precautions to make sure the concert did not get
out of hand.
“I learned only two days before the concert
that he was arrested at Virginia Union
University,” Terry said. "That’s when we
decided to film the concert."
Terry said a review of the videotape
identified "five or six" students who behaved in
lewd and obscene ways during the concert.
"We are now dealing with all students who
were involved in any lewd and obscene behavior
at the concert,” Terry said.
Under the policy, which will be added to the
Student Handbook, the vice chancellor for
student affairs or the chief of Campus Police
will have "the authority to prematurely end an
event/activity wherein lewd, indecent, or
obscene behaviors are evident.”
In addition, the policy will prohibit people
who do not attend NCCU from taking part in
lewd behavior while on campus.
The Office of the Dean of Students also wiU
have the authority to prevent student groups
from sponsoring performances for one semester
if any behavior deemed lewd, indecent, or
obscene were to occur at any of their sponsored
events.
The Office of the Dean of Students will have
the right to terminate privileges of student
groups that sponsor activities where students and
performers had violated the proposed obscenity
code.
Individual students or smdent groups accused
of violating the obscenity code will have their
cases tried and decided by the Student Judicial
Court.
Terry said she discussed the proposed pohcy
with student leaders on campus. “I have tried to
reflect some of their input as to minor
modifications of the proposed code,” the vice
chancellor said.
Terry said that the purpose of the code is not
to censor activities, but to hold event sponsors
accountable for the content of their programs.
"The policy is fair," said William Bryan, Vice
President of the SGA. "It is to my understanding
that this is not censsorship but rather a form of
responsibihty."
"This is neccessary to ensure everyone act
according to policies and procedures," Bryan
added.
Members of the University Planning Council,
which meets in open session on the first Monday
of each month, include Chancellor Julius
Chambers, vice chancellors, six deans, the
Faculty Senate chair and SGA leaders.