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North Carolina Central University
Durham, NC 27707
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issue No. 76
Friday, March 20,1998
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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,
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Students
Virlyn Ellis, a senior management major from
Durham, has been chosen for a co-op with Pitney
Bowes....Christina Anglin, a senior computer
information sciences major from Durham, has an
internship with Nortel....Hodgie Aiken, a freshman
computer science major from Durham, has been
chosen for an internship with Blue Cross/Blue
Shield insurance company....LeCarston Chestnut,
a senior computer information sciences major from
Raleigh, has a co-op with Fujitsu....SheMa Dancy,
a senior English-journalism major from
Jacksonville, N.C., is one of six finalists nationwide
for the Newhouse Graduate Fellowship for
Minorities at Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y.
The fellowship, awarded annually to two students,
provides free tuition, books/supplies, health
coverage, up to $1,500 for moving expenses, and an
$1,100 monthly living stipend while the student!
pursues a master's degree in journalism...
Faculty
Dr. Angelo O. Terry, vice chancellor for
student affairs, will assume chair of the Enrollment
Management Network at the National Association
of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA)
convention in Philadelphia. Terry has also accepted
an appointment on the Editorial Board of the
National Association of Student Affairs
Professionals (NASAP) Journal...Hr. Sylvia M.
Jacobs, chair of the department of history, received
the Mary McLeod Bethune Service Award and the
Lorraine A. Williams Leadership Award while
attending the annual meeting of the Association for
the Study of Afro American Life and History in
L.A. last fall and a meeting of the Association of
Black Women Historians held concurrently with
the ASALH.
Alumni
Gloria M. Stevens-Conyers,
'92 (B.A., political science), has been
named N.C. National Guard
Outstanding Soldier of the Year. She is
currently with 30th Corps Support
Group at the National Guard Armory in
Durham.
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by Tomeka D. Ruffin
Features Editor
Students and administrators from local
universities gathered in B.N. Duke Auditorium
March 3 to discuss the future of affirmative
action within the UNC system.
Panelists included N.C. Central law professor
Irving Joyner, Durham city councilman Howard
Clemmons, and Richard Robinson Jr., assistant
to UNC system president Molly Broad.
Student representatives from NCCU, Duke
University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and N.C. A & T
were also there, including Arthur Smith, SGA
president at N.C. A&T, Tobby Whaller,
president of Duke University's Black Student
Alliance, Mo Nathan, SGA president at UNC-
CH, and Anthony Wright, a law student at
NCCU's School of Law.
William Bryan, vice- president of SGA
facilitated the discussion.
The panelists discussed their concerns about
the UNC system's investigation of admissions
procedures and scholarship programs within the
UNC system.
Joyner said that with the investigations by the
UNC system of scholarships currently offered
by UNC schools, the UNC system will take
away scholarships and programs designated to
help minorities.
"There is going to be an examination within
the system of any program or effort that benefits
minorities, and the efforts toward affirmative
action are going to go the other way," said
Joyner.
"From a legal perspective, the courts are
going to be antagonistic [to affirmative action
programs] and if these programs are challenged,
they will be overturned," he continued.
Robinson said that UNC system president
Molly Broad is only concerned with admissions
policies, and wants to ensure that universities are
not giving preference during the admissions
process.
"We have not abandoned affirmative action,
we are continuing to follow the affirmative
outreach program," said Robinson. "The press
would have you to believe differently."
Robinson said that the UNC system wants to
ensure that universities are attracting an equal
number of students of all races.
Robinson repeatedly said Broad is trying to
ensure that everyone has a fair chance at gaining
admittance to UNC system universities and that
no one is being admitted unfairly.
Some students expressed concern that the
investigation of UNC system affirmative action
programs will result in the abolishment of
minority scholarships.
Students said they needed to ban together to
protest and write letters and petitions to ensure
that they have a voice in the outcome of the
examinations.
Catilla Everette, SGA president said students
at NCCU need to work with students at other
universities to devise a plan of action to protest
setbacks in the UNC system's affirmative action
William Bryan, NCCU's SGA vice president for the 1997-98 school year,
addresses the crowd at the SGA-sponosred affirmative action forum held
March 3.
staff photo by Dawn BowUng-Wallace
policies.
"We are working pro-actively on affirmative
action," she said. "[NCCU] is a small population
and we need to link ourselves together with
other universities."
University's capital campaign
gets closer to $50 million goal
Five years into its most
ambitious capitai campaign yet,
N.C. Centrai expects to surpass
its $50 miiiion goal, says
NCCU's vice chanceiior for
deveiopment.
by Shelvia Dancy
Editor-in-Chief
North Carolina Central University is one
step closer to reaching its $50 million capital
campaign goal, thanks to the more than $1
million in contributions that have poured in from corporations and
university friends and alumni within recent months.
At a press conference held last month at the Museum of Life and
Science in Durham, university officials announced a dozen new
contributions to the fundraising drive, including $1 million from the
William R. Kenan Foundation, and $333,000 from NationsBank.
The press conference was held in conjunction with a dinner for
scholarship recipients and their sponsors.
"The golden rule of fundraising is people only give to people, so its
critical for us to get in front of potential donors students, faculty members
and administrators who truly believe in the causes and the education at
Central," said David Hoard, vice chancellor for development at NCCU.
"I think we're beginning to present the case for N.C. Central in a way
that people's lives are being touched, and they wish to support the
university and our initiatives," he continued.
Since its inception five years ago, the Capital Campaign has raised
surpassed the $20 million mark.
WeVe working with alumni, friends, and
corporations to raise the dollars.
I'm looking to exceed the goal.'
David Hoard
NCCU's vice chancellor for development
about 40 percent of its goal, with
more than $20 million raised to date,
said Hoard.
"We've surpassed the $20 million
mark," said Hoard. The campaign
officially ends in the year 2000, said
Hoard, but he intends to raise more
than the $50 million called.
"We're working with alumni,
friends, and corporations to raise the
dollars. I'm looking to exceed the
goal," he said.
Among the contributing alumni
are Carl Biggs, owner of C& E
services Inc., based in Virginia and a
1974 graduate of NCCU. He
contributed $50,000 towards scholarships at NCCU..
The money will establish a scholarship in honor of Dr. Vernon Clark, a
biology professor at NCCU who once taught Biggs.
Robert Massey also contributed $5,000 in support of the Nancy
Rowland scholarship fund, established in memory of the former director of
undergraduate admissions who died in December.
Hoard said the current capital campaign gain is the most ambitious in
NCCU history, and is one of the largest capital campaign drives of any
historically black college and university in the state.
Hoard said he is confident the university will meet and surpass the goal,
saying he expects to receive at least $15 million more by the end of
December.
"I project we'll have cash and commitments in the $35 million range,"
Hoard said.
Money raised during the capital campaign will be used to support such
projects as scholarships and endowed chairs at N.C. Central.