SEPTEMBER 20, 2006
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A&E
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Sports
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Opinions
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Sports
Women track team
continues on course,
looking for a win
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Beyond
Two stories look at the
pain and rhetoric of the
war in Iraq
Pages
Photo Feature
Roderick Heath tags
along with a house
keeper on the evening
shift
Pages
Opinions
Wanna lighten up a
bit? Get your Dr. Fred
Palmer’s at the
bookstore
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Campus Echo
Too
many
bodies,
killers
Violence often
random in Iraq
By Solomon Morre
AND Peter Spiegel
WASHINGTON POST
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Some are intact —
the flesh torn only where the bul
lets entered. Others are perforated
by drill holes or slashed into
ragged pieces. They lie in dusty
ravines and pools of sewage,
deserted roads and abandoned tor
ture chambers. . ,
In a normal country, the bodies
that appear every day in Iraq —
142 over the last five days, includ
ing more than 32 on Friday,
Interior Ministry officials said —
might be examined for clues by
someone interested in solving the
crimes.
There is no shortage of potential
evidence; handcuffs pulling the
inert shoulders taut, blindfolds, a
crowd of witnesses who saw the
dead man before masked men
gunned him down in the street or
stuffed him into a police car.
But in Iraq, there seems to be
neither interest nor time for that.
There are too many bodies and too
many killers with too many ties to
the nation's warring political fac
tions.
Usually, the best anyone can do
is point to a vague actor — Shiite
militias, Sunni insurgents, crimi
nals and gunmen. The murderters
are often as nameless as the vic
tims.
■ See BAGHDAD Page 5
Program
gets kids
started
early
By Lisa Rochelle
ECHO STAFF WRITER
If the person sitting next to you
happens to be at least four years
younger than you, don’t be sur
prised. N.C. Central University’s
Early College program presents an
opportunity for 240 high school
students to attend their first year
of college at the University.
“The program is a unique
opportunity to expose students to
positive education that is much
easier than normal,” said Nicholas
King, principal of the early college
program.
Supported by the Quotes
Foundation, the program is funded
by a $400,000 grant from Secern,
Inc.
The school has to meet state and
federal requirements and needs
major support from the surround
ing community.
“In order to really see the suc
cess of this program, parents,
teachers and all support staff need
to come out of their comfort zone
and help push it along,” said King.
The students attend classes
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Lunch at Chlldley’s
NCCU WILL GET A STATE-OF-THE-ART CAFEIERIA, TILL THEN ITS A WALK UP THE HILL
A worker walks along the installation of modular units located off Alston Avenue east of Childey Residence Annex.
The units will serve as a temporary replacement for Pearson Cafeteria beginning Oct 24.
Roderick HEATH/Ecto Photo Editor
Pearson Cafeteria will get a major facelift costing $9.5 million.
The renovation will be funded by a North Carolina bond passed in
2000 for UNC and stbte community colleges.
By Jean Rogers
ECHO STAFF WRITER
Students can expect
to start hiking to the east
side of campus to eat
meals after fall break.
For the next 14
months Pearson
Cafeteria will be closed
for renovations and stu
dents will be served in a
makeshift building next
to Childey Hall’s park
ing lot on Alston Ave.
The temporary build
ing, which will open on
Oct. 24, is composed of
modular trailers.
Pearson, which was
originally scheduled to
be redesigned in 2002,
will undergo a complete
renovation that will take
14 months to complete.
The temporary build
ing will seat 364 people,
but Pearson seats 450.
The inside of the trail
ers will have ceilings 8-9
feet high and the floors
will be carpeted.
The entrance and out
side of the modular units
will be fully lighted and
a canopy will cover the
entrance. ^
The menu offered will
be almost the same as
what is offered in Person
Cafeteria.
The prices and the
hours will remain the
same according to
Lawrence Lisburg,
Sodexho’s general man
ager.
“We are going to try to
keep the menu as close
as possible but that
depends on the health
department and insur
ance,” said Lisburg.
The new cafe, will
cost $9.5 million dollars.
The funds come from
a $3.1 billion North
Carolina bond passed on
Nov. 7, 2000 for the UNC
system and the state’s
community colleges.
Originally only the
inside of the cafe was
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Architectural rendering of the proposed W.G. Pearson Cafeteria.
The cafeteria is scheduled to be completed in 14 months.
Image courtesy of Moody Nolan Inc
NCCU ranked 30th by magazine
Black Enterprise rated the top 50 schools for African Americans
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Sept issue of Black Enterprise
Magazine list top schools
By Vanessa Jackson
ECHO STAFF WRITER
N.C Central University ranked
30th among the top 50 colleges for
African Americans in the
September issue of Black
Enterprise magazine.
The ranking represents a 12 spot
increase since 2001 and an average
trend since the list’s first appear
ance in the magazine’s 1999 January
issue.
A total of 1,423 colleges and uni
versities met the criteria estab
lished by BE and Thomas A.
LaVeist, Ph.D., CEO of DayStar
Research.
The survey was completed by
more than 500 African American
higher education professionals
,including presidents, chancellors
and directors.
They rated each school based on
a scale from 1 (strongly recommend
ed) to 5 (strongly discouraged).
The schools surveyed were
accredited four-year colleges with
an African American student enroll
ment of at least 3 percent. Their
enrollment data was to be submitted
to the U.S. Department of
Education.
The variables considered:
black student graduation rate; aver
age survey score for the school's
academic environment; average
survey score for the school's social
environment; total black undergrad
uate enrollment; black undergradu
ate students as a percentage of total
undergraduates (credit for this vari
able was capped at 50% for HBCUs).
Florida A & M topped the list,
Howard University placed second,
and North Carolina A & T
University came in third.
It was surprising to some stu
dents that N.C. A & T University
ranked higher than N.C, Central and
that Duke University was listed at
all.
“We should have been up there
with A & T,” said Elementary
Education sophomore Ashley
Tedde.
BE surveyed universities from
across the country.
■ See RANKING Page 2