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CAMPUS
ECHO
EXCELLENCE WITHOUT EXCUSE
North Carolina Central University
Durham, NC 27707
Issue No. 77
Friday, April 17,1998
INSIDE
Tennis, softball
wrap up spring
season; long
season ahead
for track.
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Civil Rights lawyer guest speaker
at annual Honors convocation
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
i drop by our newsroom in 319 Farrison-Newton
Communications Building. We prefer to have
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we can verify information.
, Students
Douglas G. Johnson n, a junior English major
(with a concentration in media communication)
from Raleigh and a staff writer for The Campus
Echo, has received a summer reporting internship
with the Winston-Salem Journal in Winston-Salem,
N.C Cheryl Woods, a senior psychology major
from Roxboro, N.C. and the reigning Miss NCCU,
has been awarded the W. Burghardt Turner
Fellowship to attend SUNY-Stony Brook in New
York. She will receive a full scholarship (plus a
stipend) while pursuing a Ph.D. in health
psychology....Culver Clark, a senior finance major
Kansas City, Missouri, has received an internship
■ with the City of Durham Budget
Department....Keith Sexton and Mona Campbell,
boA senior business majors from Winston-Salem,
N.C., and Yolanda Blizzard, a senior business
major from Fayetteville, N.C., have received
internships with Durham Hilton Hotels...Sheena
Suggs, a junior accounting major from Rich
Square, N.C., and Camille Curvan, a senior
business major from Lago, Maryalnd, have received
internships with the Ty Cox Accounting
Firm...Robin Swindell, a senior accounting major
from New Bern, N.C., received an internship with
Dunbar Realty....Helen Wiggins, a senior
accounting major from Durham, N.C., has received
an internship with CCB baiik....Kacee Conley, a
senior business major from Raleigh, N.C., has
received an internship with Business To Business
Inc....Sebrena Rudd, a senior computer
information sciences major from Sharpsburg, N,C.,
and Nikki Dunn, a senior computer information
sciences major from Hookerton, N.C., have
received internships with Veterans Administrative
Hospital....
Faculty
Marie Ewing Keeler has joined the staff of
WNCU FM as Development Director. Keeler has
previsouly worked at WQOK FM as Promotions
and Marketing Director, at the Independent Weekly
as Sales Operations Manager and an account
executive, and as Project Coordinator for Clear
Channel Radio Works....
Alumni
iDenise Moye (B.A., ’95) has been elected a
jbanking officer for Wachovia Bank, N.A....Ann
I Marie Nicholson (B.A., Dec. '97) has been hired as
Ian assistant in the advertising and sales department
I with the Atlantic Monthly in New York City....
This will be the final issue of
The Campus Echo for the
1997-*98 school year.
We will resume publication fall
semester.
Have a safe and happy
summer!
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Sports
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Editorial
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by Shelvia Dancy
Editor-in-Chief
Hundreds of North Carolina Central University students were honored
at thq university's 49th Annual Honors Convocation held April 1 in the
McLendon-McDougald Gymnasium.
Elaine R. Jones, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal
Defense and Educational Fund since 1993 was guest speaker.
Jones earned a bachelor's degree from Howard University, served in the
Peace Corps in Turkey, and became the first African American woman to
graduate from the University of Virginia School of Law
She has been a fellow at Harvard University's Institute of Pohtics, and
in 1989 she became the first African American elected to the American
Bar Association Board of Governors.
"This is your day," Jones told students gathered in the gym. "Be
inspired with the behef that life itself is a great and noble challenge...not a
mean thing we ought to shuffle through as best we can.
"You are here because you understood that at an early age.You have
prepared yourselves so that you deserve honors."
Among the honorees were Monekia Gause, a senior political science
and Enghsh major from Sunset Beach, N.C. Gause was honored with the
Chancellor's Award, given annually to the graduating senior who has
maintained the highest grade point average during aU four years at NCCU.
Gause has been awarded a full scholarship to attend UNC-Chapel Hill's
School of Law.
Jones concluded her speech by urging students to remember NCCU
once they have graduated. "Help to endow some academic chair, make a
contribution to a capital campaign," she said."Institutions like NCCU
caimot flourish without active alunmi. Remember that for the future."
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Elaine R. Jones, the first African American elected to the American
Bar Association Board of Governors, was guest speaker at NCCU's
49th Annual Honors Convocation.
staff photo by Paul Phipps
Headed for the House
David Smith, a third-
year iaw student at
NCCU's Schooi of Law,
juggies the demands of
school and a full-time
job as he campaigns for
a seat in the N.C. House
of Representatives.
by Shelvia Dancy
Editor-in-Chief
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It's not easy being a student.
Especially when you're
campaigning for a seat in the state
House of Representatives.
David Smith, a student at
North Carolina Central
University's School of Law, is
campaigning for one of three seats
in the North Carolina House of
Representatives.
"Here in Durham I see a lot of
people whose needs aren't being
met," said Smith. "It was obvious
to me there was a lot of
opportunity to make a difference
in Durham, and people were
willing to support me as someone
who could bring about that
difference." David Smith, a law student at NCCU, says it is difficult juggling school, family, work, and a political
Juggling the demands of campaign. But he says he's up to the challenge,
school and a political campaign is
Staff photo by Paul Phipps
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no easy task, he said.
"I stay up very late at night -
there are always things that need to be done,"
said Smith. "And miming for office you have to
show up for a lot of things so I wind up going to
a lot of things on weekends. This has been a big
sacrifice for my family.
"My wife has been my number one resource
and I couldn't do this without her. I also have a
great campaign committee of friends who are
also supporters."
Smith, who took a lighter course load this
semester to devote more time to his campaign,
spends about 25-30 hours per week planning his
campaign. Much of that time. Smith said, is
spent fundraising. He said he has managed to
raise $15,000 in just the past six months.
Among the candidates Smith will face off
with in the primary elections scheduled for May
5 is incumbent Mickey Michaux, who received
both his bachelor's and law degrees from N.C.
Central.
Smith himself is no novice to the political
world. He has worked on several local political
campaigns, worked a year for the Democratic
Legislative Campaign Committee, and served as
a policy advisor to the current Lieutenant
Governor of North CaroUna for two years.
"I got really great exposure to a lot of
different issues: drunk driving, education, health
care - you name it, if the state was in it I looked
at it," he said. "I was helping people out and
solving problems for them, and I Uked it."
Smith said that as a student at NCCU and a
candidate for political office, his perspective is a
unique one. He said he too is concerned with
issues many students care about, such as tuition
hikes and the lack of adequate parking on
campuses.
"The state ought to just say if you want to
build a building at the university., integrate
parking into the design of the building," said
Smith. "If the state provides an incentive, for
universities to think about parking when they
build buildings, then they will. Right now, they
don't. Those are real issues that I never hear
anybody talking about."
NCCU sponsors community cleanup
by Dinky Kearney
Staff Writer
Students at North Carolina Central University
will help provide a healthier environment in
Durham through a university-sponsored
community cleanup along Fayetteville Street at
noon on April 18.
Volunteers will meet at the W.D. Hill
Recreation Center at 8 a.m. and work until
noon. They will help pick up Utter and remove
dense vegetation.
Yolanda Banks Anderson, director of
NCCU's environmental science program, is in
charge of the event.
"The neighboring community wanted
something done to their neighborhoods and they
asked if NCCU wanted to do it," she said. She
said NCCU agreed to support the cleanup.
""The university is dedicated to service, and
is happy the community cares about the
envirotunent and happy the community and the
appearance of their neighborhood," she said.
Rosa Anderson, a member of the community
service office staff, said students who participate
in the cleanup will receive 15 hours of
community service. At the end of the event,
organizers will sponsor a cookout for the
volunteers.
Shonita Alford, a sophomore poUtical science
major who will participate in the cleanup, said
she cares about the environment and the
appearance of the conununity. "I want to clean
up because yom conununity is your home away
from home," she said. "The campus or
surroundings do not need to look in disarray. It
should be intact and people will come and
respect it. I plan on participating until I graduate
and students should take the initiative [to do the
same]," she said.
Herb Williams, a senior environmental
science major from Durham will also participate.
"By taking the initiative, other people might get
involved with their community," he said. "This
clean up will help other neighborhoods stage
their programs because they will see other
people helping their neighborhood," he said.
The District 4 Partners Against Crime, a
volunteer group from Durham, and the Young
Marines, a volunteer group from Fayetteville,
will also participate in the clean up.