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DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA — SATURDAY, MAY 12,1990
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Uchmond Makes Case
or Keeping Nursing School
;hancellor Tyronza Richmond Wednesday, May 8, made it clear that
Jtih Carolina Central University’s position to closing the NCCU
(sing Department doesn’t mean a fight with Fayetteville State or
jibroke State Universities.
But it is a fight to keep the NCCU program fully operational. Dr.
ckmond stressed at a news conference the past achievements of the
XU Nursing department and his conviction that the proposal by the
iversity of North Carolina General Administration is a disaster for
jrth Carolina’s minority students.
Following is the text of Dr. Richmond’s prepareu statement which he
i with a quote from the Report to the Governors (1989) of the
;calaureate Nursing Education in the University of North Carolina of
Consultants;
"Concerning the programs at North Carolina Central,
North Carolina A&T, and Winston-Salem State, it is
important to remember that the first Board admonition
U.s. TO SEEK RETRIAL
MEMPHIS, TENN. — Shortly after a jury reported last week that it
was hopelessly deadlocked, the Assistant U.S. Attorney indicated that
Ik government would seek a retrial of black Tennessee Congressman
Hamid Ford on charges of bank and mail fraud. However, Ford said
he viewed the mistrial "as a victory."
The state’s first black member of Congress also renewed his charge
tat the indictment against him was brought by racist prosecutors as
part of a campaign by white conservatives to politically destroy
prominent black politicians.
Ford was accused of selling political favors by receiving loans
which he never planned to repay from two prominent Tennessee
bankers Jake and C.H. Butcher.
BLACK WOMAN NAMED TO HEAD
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON
HOUSTON, TX. — A black woman - Marguerite Ross Barnett -
was named last week to head the 32,000-student University of
Houston making her one of the highest ranking female educators in
fccountry.
Barnett is 47, author of five books and current chancellor of the
University of Missouri - St. Louis.
BLACK WILL HEAD WHITE HOUSE
PRESS ASSOCIATION
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sheridan Broadcasting Network reporter
Bob Ellison last week became the first black to head the prestigious
White House Correspondents Association. The association is
tomposeij of those reporters who cover the White House on a regular
sis.
The 47-year-old Ellison said he sees the post as a "signal that the
loot iCi journalism fw African-Americans and other minorities is
ijir.'
DRUG CZAR PROPOSAL SCARES
MANY BLACKS
ORLANDO, FL. — The nation’s drug policy director - William
Bennett - in a little reported speech recently suggested Children living
in dnig-infested neighborhoods be taken from their families and
placed in orphanages. He was speaking before about 3,000 delegates
10 a world drug conference sponsored by the Atlanta-based Parent
Resource Institute for Dmg Education.
Since most dmg infested neighborhoods are in black or minority
communities, several at the conference viewed Bennett’s remarks as a
feet attack on the black family. One outraged delegate said, "The
administration’s war against chugs is failing. But instead of adopting
a more workable policy, it proposes to destroy black families simplj
ecause they are pextr and live in high crime areas."
It was unclear as to whether the Bennett proposal was just an idea
or was administration policy.
PROMINENT RAP GROUP APPEARS TO
ADOPT "CRESS THEORY" ON RACISM
LOS ANGELES, CALF. — The Rap music group "Public Enemy"
apparently adopted the "Cress Theory” on racism. The group’s
piblicist has begun sending copies of the 15-page theory to record
reviewers and radio stations as part of a promotion of its new album
'Fear of a Black Planet"
The theory was authored in 1970 by Howard University
psychiatrist Dr. Frances Cress-Welsing. In essence, the theory argues
white people are genetically inferior to blacks. This inferiority,
stys the theory, has produced among whites "a neurotic drive" to
dominate other races.
"Public Enemy" says it hopes to hold public fomms to expose the
&ess Theory to a wider range of people.
WHITES ARM FOR POSSIBLE ATTACKS
ON SOUTH AFRICAN BLACKS
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — In recent weeks, South
African whites have gone on a gun-buying spree in apparent
preparation for what they believe will be an eventual armed
showdown with the country’s majority black population. Gun store
owners say they are having trouble keeping up with the demand for
Jims.
On an even more ominous note, a group of whites broke into a
Sovemment store house recently and stole heavy weapons such as
"hookas and grenades. Meanwhile, the leader of one white
®Premacist group has openly warned blacks of possible attacks.
™gene TerreBlanche also said the majority of whites would never
a black government in South Africa even though the country is
” black. Whites have raled South Africa for years under a racist
system known as apartheid. But the system is gradually falling.
black WOMEN CAPTURING BEAUTY TITLES
Chicago, ill. — it has been a good year for black beauty
JWtestants. Miss America Debbye Turner is black. Miss USA Carole
mst is black. And it was announced that Playboy Magazine had
*J5cted its first black "Playmate of the Year." She is 21-year-old
Rwee Tenison of Boise, Idaho.
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was to improve the quality of the programs to insure
higher passing rates. Among other things, this required
significant changes in admission policies and other
adjustments that clearly meant a drop in enrollment. The
sound principle was that fewer graduates and higher
passing rates were by far preferable over a large
graduating class that included many students who could
not pass the licensing examination. The Board’s intent and
expectation, of course, was that higher passing rates and
improvements in the quality of the programs would add to
their stature and that the enrollment decline would, in
time, be substantially offset.
"In fact, the Board intent has been met to a significant
degree."
Statement by Dr. T. R. Richmond,
Chancellor, North Carolina Central University
May 9,1990, in its entirety:
The purposes of this news conference are, first, to make completely
clear North Carolina Central University’s position on the establishment
of a new nursing program in the area around Fayetteville and Lumberton,
and, second, to let you know what North Carolina Central University has
requested of the UNC-General Adminisfration with respect to its own
nursing program.
North Carolina Cenfral University is in full agreement with the need
for a baccalaureate program in nursing to serve the southeast central area
of North Carolina. We are not engaged in a battle with Fayetteville State
University or Pembroke State University, nor do we intend to be drawn
into one.
In a report released April 2, five consultants employed by the UNC
system to provide advice on its nursing programs concluded that the
southeast central region, which is served by Fayetteville State University
and Pembroke State University, lacks sufficient access to programs
leaing to the Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree.
The consultants did not find that there were no programs in the area to
train nurses. The area is adequately served by Associate Degree and
Diploma programs in nursing, but the registered nurses trained by those
programs have no nearby program offering the Bachelor of Science in
Nursing degree. For that reason, the General Administration proposal
presented to the Educational Planning, Policies and Programs committee
of the UNC Board of Governors in April recommended that a new
program in that area enroll only Registered Nurses. The students in that
program would not face the test iiomially called the nursing boards -
more properly called the National Council Licensure Examination for
Registered Nurses. All would have passed that test before being admitted
to the regional program.
North Carolina Central University has no opposition to the UNC
system providing an opportunity to earn baccalaureate degrees to
registered nurses in southeast central North Carolina. We do believe that
it is folly not to enlist the assistance of the state’s existing programs in
developing such a program. The cost of establishing such a program from
the ground up at Fayetteville State University would be high, and there is
to the best of my knowledge no groundwork laid to determine the
demand for such a program. NCCU would recommend that the UNC
system follow the proposal of the five consultants and initiate this
program as a cooperative program involving existing nursing programs.
Parts of the area to be served are within an hour’s drive of five of the
UNC system school’s — those at Wilmington, Greenville, Durham,
Chapel HiU, and Charlotte. One or more of those programs could
combine forces with Fayetteville State University and Pembroke to
launch almost immediately a program offering baccalaureate
opportunities to registered nurses in that area. UNC-Greensboro has
shown that satellite programs can work; their satellite program in
Hickory serves a Western Piedmont area which would otherwise be
equally isolated from a baccalaureate nursing program. -
Tomorrow (Thursday, May 10) afternoon at 3:30 the Educational
Planning, Policies and Programs Committee meets for the first time since
they heard the UNC General Administtation’s proposal on April 17. I
believe they will learn at that time that I have asked President Spangler to
reconsider the proposal to close the program at NCCU. I hope, of course,
that he will announce that he is reconsidering that proposal, and ask that
the committee defer action on his proposal until a later date.
Mr. Spangler, however, is clearly under pressure from some members
of that committee to make a proposal similar in nature to the one he made
April 17. When the five consultants presented their report on April 2, a
member-emeritus of the Board of Governors and the Committee, Mr.
William Johnson, expressed disappointment that the proposal did not
recommend closing one or more of the system’s nursing programs.
Although Mr. Johnson has no vote on the committee or the board, as a
past chairman of the Board of Governors his voice does carry
considerable weight. Accordingly, I shall not be surprised if the
Educational Planning, Policies and Programs committee does seek to
continue with the proposal which has been placed before it, even in the
face of my opposition, the opposition of a host of the leaders of our
Research Triangle community, and petitions from NCCU students,
alumni, and friends from all over the state and even outside the state. I
have asked President Spangler to seek an opportunity for me to appear
before the full Board of Governors to express my opposition to the
closing of NCCU’s nursing program.
NCCU has been offering some form of advanced training for nurses
since just after the end of World War II. Initially, that training was
specifically in the area of public health nursing. The post-War era saw
tremendous advances in the health of the American people, and in large
part that was due to the public health nurses whose task it was to carry
modem health care into the remotest rural areas of what was then still a
rural nation. NCCU played a role in that achievement.
For most of the period between the mid-40s and mid-50s, NCCU
offered a one year certificate program in public health nursing, although
for at least one year our catalog listed a master’s program in public health
nursing. Beginning in the 1950s, with a growing need for bachelor’s
degree programs in nursing to provide a solid academic foundation to
clinically-trained registered nurses, NCCU offered the bachelor of
science in nursing degree to students who had already completed their
clinical training. Our 196« ''0 catalog announced the creation of a basic
program in nursing, which oifered high school graduates the opportunity
to complete th ir full training m nursing at NCCU, earning a bachelor’s
degree. Our ;,eparate r ogram * tr registered nurses was phased out in the
. .-ing semester ’ 0 "’I, at which time we began to offer registered
nurses the opp -r ; , to ' hallenge up to five of the clinical courses in
nursing.
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KALAPANA, HAWAII — Volunteers work from throughout the
night to load the Star of the Sea Painted Church on to a truck in
hopes of moving the historic church before lava from the Kilauea
volcano moves in. Over 130 structured have been lost to the lava so
far. (UPI Photo)
Steam rises as tava from the Kiiauea volcano meets the Pacific
Ocean before sunset. The lava consumed 139 homes and structures
on its way to the water. (UPI Photo)
NCARRV
Groups Urge Action
On Police Killings,
Excessive Force
Representatives from families
and communities where police have
used deadly force in the past two
years held a press conference
recently in Raleigh with North
Carolinians Against Racist and
Religious Violence to urge action
on what the organization called an
"escalating pattern of violence
between law enforcement and
North Carolina citizens."
"The perception by law
enforcement that citizens have
increasingly little respect for law
and thus are more likely to resist
arrest matched with a perception by
citizens, especially in minority
communities, that law enforcement
officers are becoming more violent,
can only lead to an increase in
violence between citizens and
police," said Christina Davis-
McCoy, coordinator of North
Carolinians Against Racial and
Religious Violence. "This cycle
needs to be broken immediately by
action at the state and federal
level," said McCoy.
NCARRV issued a report on
police use of deadly force in North
Carolina, citing six killings of black
men by law enforcement in thirteen
months — cases in Goldsboro on
February 1, 1989, in Wilmington
on February 9, 1989, two in
Charlotte in 1989, one in Sampson
County on October 15, 1989, and
most recently a shooting in Bolton
on February 27,1990.
Two of these were by Highway
Patrol Troopers, the others were by
city police officers. The report also
noted the death on March 31, 1990,
in Caldwell County of a 31-year
old white man, also shot by a State
Trooper. According to the State
Department of Crime Conttol and
Public Safety, there have been four
fatal shooting by Troopers in the
past year, and eight altogether since
1983. Highway Patrol spokesman
William Cannell has pointed to
"less respect for the law" as the
reason for this increase in recent
statements to the press.
Mab Segrest, director of
Research and Publications for
NCARRV, said that her
organization had recorded only six
cases of police use of deadly ibree
against minority men between 1985
and 1988 — an almost one hundred
percent increase in 1989. "The
Highway Patrol statistics point to a
similar doubling in the past year,"
Segrest said. "I think we have to
ask what is going on"
S'.egrest said that the Attorney
Gene.ral’s office and the Police
Infornaation Network do not keep
statistics on the number of citizens
shot aiid/or killed by police only on
the number of police shot by
citizens — although Attorney
Generail Thornburg has indicated he
will begin keeping statistics on
police deadly force. 'When we
asked a staff person in the Attorney
General’s office how many of the
cases of jpolice violence the SBI has
investigated, he replied, ‘we don’t;
keep our files that way’."
The NtGARRV report covers the
law on use of deadly force, police
training, and civil remedies.
"Investigations by District
Attornies, majority-white grandt
juries, and/'or the State Bureau of
Investigatioin — most of which are
not given pu blic disclosure — often
appear to community people as a
case of ‘police taking care of
police,’" commented the report.
Segrest citeil a report by the
Community Uelations Service of
the U.S. Justice Department that
called for scree ning and framing of
police for ski 11s of negotiation
rather than confrontation. "When
was the last time the department
-ecognized, formally or informally,
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