Volume 82 No. 7
Grimsley High School
801 Westover Terrace
Greensboro, NC 27408
Friday, April 21, 2006
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Three international students from Spain display their iiag at L’lNCG’s annual International Festival. L'NCG
has exchange agreements with universities in various countries for students who desire to study abroad.
Each sprinii UNCG hosls
an Inteniaiional Festival
that seeks to raise cultural
awareness by providing
live entertainment, games,
and food samples to the
Greensboro community.
International students and
community members will
represent the more than
50 countries.
BYWILLB.\KF.R
Reporter
Shaiing an exporionco witli
50 diffi'rc'Mt cultures is an
oppi'itunitv tliat will unveil
itself on April 22 when the
University of ,\orth Carolina
at Greensboro presents its 24'-''
annual International Festival, an
event that is open to the public
and completely free of charge
in parking, food sampling,
and fun.
Popular each year in the triad
area, this yearns festival has a lot
of promise. The entertainment
will run from 12:00pm to5:00pm.
Reggae and high-energy Indian
hip-hop music, along witlr plenty
of dancing, wnli entertain the
crowd. Also on the menu for
entertainment are martial arts
demonstrations, ethnic dancers,
and a plethora of musicians from
around the world.
More than five hundred
international students who attend
L'NCG from over 70 different
countries will contribute to the
largest student-coordinated event
of the year.
Festivities begin at noon with
a marching hand representing the
United Slates, and then the events
become more ethnic. I'o begin,
anyone who opts to participate can
obtain a passport. A representative
from each country's booth will
stamp passports of visitors. At
the end of the day, a raffle drawing
w ill take place for various prizes
for those individuals who obtained
stamps from all fifty booths.
Activities include face painting,
enjoying live entertainment
from musicians and dancers,
having one’s name written in
.Arabic, korean, Chinese, and
Japanese, just to name a few. Gf
course, visitors can participate
in food samplings from all over
the world.
Although admission to the
International Festival is free to the
public, a handful of vendors will
also be in attendance. Boba House,
located on Tate Street, W'ill be on
site selling vegetarian Vietnamese
food; Jack's Corner will be selling
Mediterranean food; and Baluba's
African Market, which is located
on Lee Street, will be selling items
from their store.
"Our International Festival is
a campus-wide event and we are
able to get support from some
groups around the school and
community, so our admission is
completely free. We feel that it
is a great idea to get every one
involved in cultural awareness,
so by keeping this event free we
are able to attract many different
people" says the director of
international student and scholar
services, Anelise Hofmann.
Absorbing all the festivities,
visitors cannot help but develop
knowledge of other cultures and
make new friends.
For high school students,
this event is a wonderful
opportunity to learn about
possible locations for studying
abroad in college. This year has
been named the "Year of Study
Abroad," so students may want
to comsider doing so because
UNCG's International Program
Center (IPC) will be on site for
future prospects.
IPC at UN'CG allows for
students in their sophomore
year or higher to study abroad
in various countrie.s, such a.s
Estonia, Finland, Germany, or
Poland. Such programs allow
for students to spend a semester
abroad, fulfil! general education
requirements, and enjoy a life
changing experience all at the
same time,
Bradley receives key to city
at homecoming celebration
Josephine Boyd Bradley
faced angry mobs and
torment as the only black
attending Greensboro
Senior High her senior year.
On March 31, she was
welcomed back to her alma
mater by members of the
community, government,
and press at a celebration in
honor of her.
BY DANIEL ARONSON
Reporter
' ' Pr. Josephine Boyd Bradley
returned to campus for the second
time after graduating 50 years ago.
On March 31, Grimsley honored
her as the first African-American
to graduate from Greensboro
Senior High School. She received
the key to the city and spoke to an
assembly of students, dignitaries
and press in the Chance Cousins
Auditorium at 10:00 AM.
"We are honoring Dr. Bradley
in an effort to thank her for the
tremendous sacrifices she and
her family made to integrate the
school," said Cathy Daniels -Lee,
Co-chairperson of the committee
organizing the event.
Dr. Josephine Boyd Bradley
attended Dudley High School for
three years before transferring
to Greensboro Senior High. She
was one of several black students
the American Friends Service
Committee, a Quaker group,
recruited to apply for admission
to the then all-white Greensboro
Senior High. Two other black
students were turned down
because they did not live in the
school's attendance zone, but
Bradley, then a rising senior, lived
within the white high school's
district. On July 25, 1957 Boyd
received news that the school
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Dr. Josephine Boyd Bradley looks in awe at her portrait, unveiled at a
ceremony held in her honor, to be displayed in the lobby of main hall.
board approved her transfer from
Dudley to Greensboro High.
"It seemed that somewhere
between 7:30 pm on July 23 and
7:30 am on July 24, life for me
had suddenly entered a new
dimension," said Dr. Josephine
Boyd Bradley, as quoted in the
preface of her doctoral dissertation
"Wearing My Name: School
Desegregation, Greensboro, NC,
1954-1958.
On September 4,1957,17 year-
old Josephine Ophelia Boyd,
accompanied by her mother,
walked through the entrance
of Greensboro High School,
surrounded by angry, hostile
whites on either side. For the
next nine months, she endured
taunts and derogatory names.
People threw eggs and tomatoes
at her, boys spat on her food
and thumbtacks were placed on
her seat.
Despite the challenges she
faced. Dr. Bradley was an honor-
roll student who graduated and
attended college. She earned a
Ph.D. in Women's Studies from
Emory University in 1995; a
master's degree in social work,
from Michigan State University
1966; an M.A. in American
Studies with an emphasis on
African American Studies as
well as a certificate in Women's
Studies from Emory University
1994; and a B.A in Political
Science/Sociology from North
Carolina Central University,
where she graduated summa cum
laude (1963).
Bradley arrived at Grimsley on
Thursday March 30 as the guest
of honor at a town meeting in
the media center. She conversed
with freshman students Friday
and then attended a ceremony
honoring her in the auditorium.
City Council member T. Diarme
Bellamy Small presented Dr.
Bradley with the key to the city.
An original portrait of Dr. Bradley
will be unveiled by junior Michael
Betts, junior Eric Blake, freshman
Ellie Miller, and artist Leo
Rucker and installed in the main
building's lobby of the school.
Students will perform tableaus of
scenes from Bradley's high school
experiences. Student Council
issued a proclamation declaring
March 31st "Dr. Josephine Boyd
Bradley Day" to be celebrated
each year.
Stormy weather, shrunken
booklets taint SAT scores
After humid air moistened
and shrank SAT booklets
from the administration in
October, thousands of tests
were scored incorrectly.
Colleges and students
struggle with acceptances
and rejections as scores are
corrected and redistributed.
BY MELISSA BYRD
Staff Writer
Parents and students were
shocked to learn of College Board's
afinouncement that an estimated
4,000 of the 495,000 SATs taken last
October were scored inaccurately.
The news on Wednesday, March
8, resulted in a wake of new
anxiety for college applicants.
"In terms of consequences, this
is the largest mistake ever made
on the SAT," said Robert Schaeffer
of the National Center for Fair
and Open Testing. Overall, less
than one percent of scores were
affected. Eighty-three percent of
those tests were miscalculated by
only 10 to 40 points. About 200
students missed over 100 points,
and 16 tests were off by 200 to
400 points.
College Board has notified
students who received flawed
SAT scores and has contacted
affected colleges and universities.
Students who obtained scores
higher than that of their actual
grade will be informed of the
miscalculation but will not have
the extra points retracted. In
addition, the $41.50 registration
fee will be returned to all of the
involved students.
A problem was first discovered
in December 2005, when two
participants requested for their
tests to be re-evaluated. By the
time the error was uncovered.
hundreds of students had already
made decisions regarding colleges.
Though schools of applicants are
now aware of score adjustments,
some matters are past the point of
consideration. Students who did
not believe their scores were up
to par hesitated to apply to their
first-choice colleges. By the time
revised scores were announced,
the time was far beyond the
deadline of applications.
"Our expectation is this will
not have a significant effect
on any of our decisions," said
Christopher Guttentag, Dean of
Undergraduate Admissions at
Duke. The university received
83 defected scores out of 19,300
applications. Twelve of the scores
were off by more than 50 points.
"On the day of the test
administration, there was heavy,
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