SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 2005—THE CAROLINA TIMES-13
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VIKINGS
BULLS BULLDOGS BRONCOS PIRATES PANTHERS BLUE DEVILS
From left to right are : Renee Clark, president, NCCU’s student government association; Cressie H. Thigpen,
NCCU Board of Trustees member; Mrs. Kay T. Thomas, NCCU Board of Trustees member; Robert C. Wil
liams, chairman, NCCU Board of Trustees; Chancellor James H. Ammons; William "Bill" Hayes, NCCU’s
athletic director; William "Bill" Bell, mayor, City, of Durham; William G. Smith, member of the UNC Board of
Governors; Ms. Norma D. Petway, director, NCCU’s office of alumni relations; and Dr. Beverly Washington
Jones, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, present NCCU’s new eagle logos.
North Carolina Central University
Rolls Out New Eagle Logos
KENYA PARRISH
LOUIS PARRISH
North Carolina Central University (NCCU) unveiled its
lew eagle logo designs Friday during a celebration that in-
luded music, food and fun.
'The NCCU Eagles will enter the 2005 season with a fresh
lew mascot design to reflect the energy, enthusiasm and
onfidence of an institution on the rise in a dynamic city and
late," said Chancellor James H. Ammons.
In support of NCCU’s new logo designs, a total of 14
estaurants in the Durham and Chapel Hill areas, helped to
iromote the new logos by having their staff wear T-shirts on
Tiday.
The participating restaurants included: Chicken Hut,
larger King, Symposium Cafe, Golden Corral, Kentucky
Tied Chicken, Carolina Ale Hou.se, Roy’s Country Kitchen,
s Coffee House, Amante Gourmet Pizza, Dillard’s Bar-
B-Que, O’Charley’s and Mama Dip’s Kitchen.
In 2004, Ammons appointed a committee to develop a new
eagle mascot design. The charge of the Committee, chaired
by Sharon Saunders, special assistant to the chancellor for
Public Relations, and Atty. Kaye Webb, university general
counsel, was to develop a design that NCCU constituents
and the general public would like and identify with as-being
a symbol or trademark of NCCU athletics and the university.
Before each meeting, committee members were asked to
share each round of proofs with their colleagues for discus
sion at the meetings.
This new mascot design is intended for use as a coordinat
ing symbol for all sports-related and school spirit activities
of the University. The seal remains the university primary
logo.
High School Students Attend
Higher Learning Institute
GREENSBORO — Two students from Greensboro participated in the
Higher Learning Institute and Year Round Program at North Carolina
Agricultural and Technical State University this summer. The
participants were Kenya and Louis Parrish (brother and sister), students
at Page High School.
The Higher Learning Institute and Year Round Program is geared to
give high school juniors and seniors an opportunity to experience college
life while taking courses and banking them for college later. The high
school students attend classes with college students and are involved in
workshops on self-esteem, money management, etiquette and other is
sues. In addition, they go on educational and entertaining field trips.
Stone Center announces fall
season; includes art,
film, dialogue on culture
CHAPEL HILL - An exploratioa of black popular culture, a Diaspora
Festival and a performance by poet, actress and activist, Sarah
Jjes are part of the fall schedule at the University of North Carolina at
jjpe! Hill’s Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History,
jlie season will also ificlude an African-American art exhibit by local
Electors, a four-day residency by Palestinian-American poet Suheir
^i^niad and a lecture by human rights and youth activist Malika
arders,
Stone Center was founded in 1988 and is dedicated to broadening
orange of intellectual discourse about African Diaspora cultures. The
jaier moved to a new facility in August of 2004 and is now located at
OSouth Road jast west of the Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower,
or more information, please visit
lP|//www.unc.edu/de.pts/stonecenter or call (919) 962-9001. The events
'oe Stone Center are free and open to the public unless otherwise
Spanish translation is available upon request.
29,6 p.m. Tim Tyson will give a lecture and book signing in the
of the Frank Porter Graham Student Union. Tyson, author of
'^summer reading selection, "Blood Done Sign My Name," will speak
Martin Luther King Jr., Black Power and the Southern Dream of
feedom." The event is co-sponsored by the Carolina Summer Reading,
and the Stone Center. For more information, contact the New
Carolina Parent Programs at 962-8521.
*«pt. 12, 7:30 p.m. Beneath the Underground Film Screening is an
^ftiative venue for grassroots moviegoers held in the basement of the
Center. This opening session will feature "Girl Beat: The Power of
the Drum" by Suzanne Girot. The film is a profile of Banda Dida, an all-
girl drumming and vocal group from Brazil.
• Sept. 20, noon. A Human Rights Brown Bag Lunch will be held in the
Hitchcock Multipurpose Room of the center. Reserve a lunch and hear
from Afro-Peruvian human rights advocates Monica Carillo and
Milagritos de la Rosa. This event is co-sponsored by the University Cen
ter.for International Studies. To reserve a lunch, call the center at 962-
9001.
• Sept. 21, 7 p.m. Bradley Simmons teaches the art of Afro-Cuban
drumming. Simmons is a musical director and professor of West African
music and history at Duke University. The drumming classes will be held
each Wednesday in the Hitchcock Multipurpose Room at the center, and
a limited number of musical instruments will be provided at no charge.
Call the Stone Center at 962-9001 for more information or to register for
the class. The one-time registration fee is $5.
• Sept. 22, noon. Bakari Kitwana, the noted social critic and author of
"The Hip Hop Generation," will present and sign his latest release, "Why
White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wangstas, Wiggers, Wannabes and the New
Reality of Race in America."
The signing will be in the Pleasants Family Reading Room in Wilson
Library.
• Sept. 22, 7 p.m. A Black Popular Cultures/Black Popular Struggles
symposium will open the center’s yearlong examination of the social and
political context of black popular cultures. The symposium in the Stone
Center Theatre will feature a discussion with Dr. Raquel Rivera, a
freelance journalist, sociologist and author of "New York Ricans from
the Hip Hop Zone," an examination of the New York Puerto Rican in
fluence on hip hop culture, and Bakari Kitwana, author, former executive
editor of The Source magazine, and a co-founder of the National Hip
Hop Political Convention.
• Sept. 28. 7:30 p.m. The Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent
Films will open in the Stone Center. Theatre with the screening of
"Boricua" by Marisol Torres. The film tells the intertwined stories of four
young Puerto Ricans in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago.
• Sept. 29, 5 p.m. Lawrence Blum will discuss his book, "I’m not a
Racist, but..." in the Stone Center’s Hitchcock Multipurpose Room. The
book discussion is co-sponsored by the Parr Center for Ethics. For more
information, contact the Parr Center at 843-5640.
• Sept. 30 An African-American art collectors exhibit will open in the
center’s Robert and Sallie Brown Gallery and Museum. The exhibit fea
tures pieces from local collectors of African American art and AfriCobra,
a program based in the civil rights movement designed to promote black
art.
• Oct. 4, noon. Diaspora Festival ,of Black and Independent Films
presents an hour of.film, food and discussion with director Tameka Wil
son and her film short, "I Know What You Did Last Semester." This
event in the Hitchcock Multipurpose Room is co-sponsored by Saladelia
Car & Catering. Call the Stone Center at 962-9001 to reserve a lunch.
• Oct. 4-7, Suheir Hammad, an award-winning performance poet and
HBO Def Poetry regular, will be a Stone Center artist-in-residence. The
Palestinian-American writer and author of three collections including
"Bom Palestinian, Bom Black," will visit select classes and student orga
nizations, and conduct readings and writing workshops.
• Oct. 5, 7 p.m. A Hekima Reading Circle in the Stone Center Library
will feature a discussion with poet Suheir Hammad and her book "Bom
Palestinian, Bom Black." The event is co-sponsored by the Carolina
Women’s Center. The first 15 registrants will receive a free copy of the
book.
• Oct. 6, noon. Hammad will sign her new release, "Zaatardiva," in the
Pleasants Family Reading Room in Wilson Library. "Zaatardiva" is a col
lection of poetry about love, politics and art.
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