JANUARY 20, 2010
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iong-time mentor to
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Sports
Opinions
Durham’s Finest
A NCCU athlete
Chi asks if receiving
Local public schooi student
exudes talent on
government aid
artwork on dispiay in
and off the field
makes a person truiy
independent
NCCU’s museum
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Campus Echo
Quake
hits
home
Haiti has local
ties to NCCU
By Jamese Slade
ECHO STAFF REPORTER
Two first-generation Haitian
Americans with ties to N.C.
Central University are strug
gling to come to grips with the
scope of the tragedy.
Haiti is a poor country; more
than 50 percent of its citizens
live on less than one dollar a
day.
Rony Camille is an NCCU
alumnus who graduated in
2007. Camille first heard that an
earthquake had struck Port-au-
Prince on Jan. 12 while at work
at his job as media program
director for Tyngsborough,
Mass.
• “It was horrible. My mom is
one of 10 kids and I have very
few immediate family members
here in the U.S. and the rest
' live in Haiti,” he said.
“We have been trying to call
but to no avail,” he said last
Former Campus Echo
editor-in-chief Rony Camiiie
Echo file photo
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HAm’S APO(»U.YPSE
Water, food and medical care finally arriving to a shattered city
An eideriy man walks throfrgh'tfteTfibbie of the coilapsed Nationai Cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday Jan. 17.
Destruction grips Haiti five days after an earthquake rattied the country.
Patrick FARRELiVMjami Herald (MCT) *
By Joe Mozingo and
Ken Ellingwood
LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT)
Port-au-Prince, Haiti — Thou
sands more Marines and
airborne troops joined the
struggle to provide desper
ate earthquake survivors
with food and water on
Monday, while Haitian offi
cials sought to move people
to the provinces to relieve
pressure on the relief
effort.
Four ships carrying 2,200
Marines anchored off the
coast and started ferrying
supplies and personnel to
Haiti's capital. A total of
1,100 troops of the Army's
82nd Airborne Division had
arrived in Port-au-Prince
by late Monday, about a
third of total deployment
planned.
Troops are airlifting
emergency supplies and the
injured, providing logisti
cal support, managing the
Port-au-Prince airport and
standing by to help provide
security amid scattered
reports of looting and gun
fire in the capital.
The Haitian government
mobilized as well as it
could to remove the dead,
clear debris and move sur
vivors. On the road west out
of Port-au-Prince, public
buses were filled with peo
ple and luggage heading to
the provinces.
The government, weak in
the best of circumstances,
was trying to function from
a yard outside a police sta
tion near the airport. Many
government buildings in
the center of the city,
including the national
palace, the parliament,
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Exile and trial of the Campus Echo
A1973 federal appeals court reinstated student paper after a two-year hiatus
By Ashley Roque
ECHO STAFF REPORTER
The September 1971
memo from then-Chancellor
Albert N.
Whiting was
clear enough:
“I am here
announcing
that all funds
Centennial News the publi
cation of the
Campus Echo have been tem
porarily suspended ...”
The chancellor’s memo
threatened to permanently
suspend University sponsor
ship of the Campus Echo
unless a consensus could be
reached with the Campus
Echo editor regarding “stan
dard journalistic criteria.”
Another University-spon
sored edition of the Campus
Echo would not appear until
the fall of 1973. During the
intervening two years, the
matter was tried first in dis
trict courts and then in feder
al appeals courts.
When the dust finally set
tled, the Campus Eiiho’s edi
tor-in-chief, Johnnie Edward
“Jae” Joyner, and SGA presi
dent Harvey White were the
victors in one of the nation’s
landmark cases in student
press law.
The case, officially titled
Joyner v. Whiting, ruled that
the University had violated
the First Amendment by cut
ting funding for the Campus
Echo.
In a 3-1 ruling, the Fourth
Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
in Richmond overturned the
Headline of the SepL 16,1971 Campus Echo that began the exile.
Courtesy of NCCU Archives
lower court’s ruling in favor
ofWhiting with the following: “We reverse [the lower
court’s decision] because the
president’s irrevocable with
drawal of financial support
from the Echo and the court’s
decree reinforcing this
action abridge the freedom of
the press in violation of the
First Amendment.”
Joyner, recalling the ver
dict, said his first reaction
was relief
“I just sat down in the
stairwell and cried,” he said.
Since the verdict, Joyner v.
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Finding the finest
Picture Postcard,” by Mark Srippp, drade 11, Jordan High School.
By Diane Varnie
ECHO STAFF REPORTER
The blinding flash of cam
eras on Jan. 11 might have
left the random bystander
mistaking the event for a
photo shoot.
On that night, the N.C.
Central University Art
Museum hosted a reception
for the premiere of
"Durham's Finest."
The exhibit showcases
student artwork from all
Durham Public Schools.
"Durham's Finest" is the
only district-wide art show
that displays the talent and
artistic development of 240
students, ranging from
kindergarten through high
school.
Four two-dimensional
and three-dimensional art
pieces were chosen to repre
sent each of the district's
schools.
The opening reception
was a proud moment for
families and a confidence-
booster for the artists.
The event provided a rare
occasion for some students
to see their artwork in a real
museum setting.
"When a student gets the
opportunity to display their
artwork, it allows their self
esteem to be built and also
allows them to see that their
creativity has a voice," said
Artrianna Garth, an art
teacher at Bethesda
Elementary School.
"When they go into art
class, it gives them a chance
to get away from the book
work and [they] are able to
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