Dewi DO VI SERiOL q L r **CHIU CHAPEL HILL NC a (times VOLUME 95 - NUMBER 14 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2016 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE: 50 CENTS Duke University president seeks end of sit-in protest (AP) - Duke University’s president met Sunday with pro testers in their second day occu pying his office’s waiting room to demand the firing of three ad ministrators and a $15 minimum wage for all campus workers. Duke President Richard Brod head met with demonstrators in side the building that houses his office and those of other top ad ministrators. Nine students have camped in a waiting area outside Brodhead’s office at the school’s main administrative building since Friday afternoon. University officials told the students they face criminal tres passing charges, academic sanc tions or both if they didn’t leave U.S. Senator Cory Booker - U.S. Senator Cory Booker Announced as 2016 Undergraduate NCCU Commencement Speaker U.S. Sen. Cory Booker will serve as the keynote speaker for North Carolina Central University’s 127th Baccalaureate Ceremony on Sat., May 14. The Commencement exercises will take place in O’Kelly-Riddick Stadium on the university’s campus. Booker will address approximately 700 students receiving their bachelor’s degrees from the university. According to preliminary estimates from the NCCU Registrar’s Office, the Class of 2016 is anticipated to be one of the largest graduating classes in the univer sity’s history. A New Jersey native, Booker won a special election to represent New Jersey in the United States Senate on October 13, 2013. He was subsequently re-elected to a full six-year term on November 4, 2014. He currently serves on the Senate’s committees on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Small Business and Entrepreneur ship; Environment and Public Works; and Homeland Security and Gov ernment Affairs. Booker is the ranking member of the Senate Sub committee on Surface Transportation. Booker has also emerged as a nationalleader in the Congressional push for common sense criminal justice reform, advocating for front-end sentencing reforms and ban ning ofjuvenile solitary confinement in federal facilities, and spear heading legislation to make the hiring process fairer for the formerly incarcerated. Booker began his career in public service after graduating with a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School by starting a nonprofit or ganization that provided legal services for low-income families and helped tenants advocate against absentee landlords to improve living conditions and stay in their homes. At the age of 29, he was elected to the Newark, N.J., City Council from the city’s Central Ward. Booker became mayor of Newark in 2006 and worked over his seven-year tenure to steadily increase the city’s economic growth to a record high since the 1960s. He is cred ited with improving the overall quality of life for Newark residents. A Stanford University graduate, where he earned both a bache lor’s and master’s degree, Booker played on the varsity football team and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. He studied at the University of Oxford, where he received an honors degree in history. The late father of Booker, Cary Booker, a North Carolina native, is a 1962 graduate of North Carolina College at Durham, now NCCU. Booker was inducted in the Society of Golden Eagles in 2012, a group that recognizes alumni celebrating their 50th class reunion. Along with his classmates, the elder Booker was recognized during the university’s Founder’s Day Convocation on November 2, 2012. A separate ceremony for graduate and professional students will be held on Friday, May 13, in McDougald-McClendon Arena. Sunday, university spokesman Michael Schoenfeld said. The sit-in students wanted amnesty from criminal or academic re percussions before walking out, said Mina Ezikpe, one of the oc cupiers. “If they don’t give us am nesty, we’re not leaving and so it’s up to the administration how they want to proceed,” said Ezik pe, a junior from Atlanta study ing cultural anthropology. It’s been about a decade since the administration building was occupied by protesters, Schoen feld said, but “protests at Duke are neither rare nor identical.” Photos posted on the Twitter account of the campus newspaper shows graffiti on signs and leaded-glass windows urging Trask’s firing. Other pho tos posted by the Duke Chronicle show dozens of students chant ing or seated on the lawn outside the administration building. The administrators that pro testers want fired include one top executive involved in a dis pute with a parking attendant two years ago. A lawsuit filed last month by the contract traf fic control officer accuses Duke executive vice president Tallman Trask III of using a racial slur against her. Trask has said parking atten dant Syliva Underwood refused to let him park in his usual spot and stepped in front of his car. He denied making any racial comment. Campus police investigated Underwood’s allegations two years ago, but she “chose not to pursue her police complaint,” the university said in a statement. A campus institutional equity office separately investigated the allegation of an uttered racial comment. “This investigation also did not produce sufficient evidence to confirm the allega tions,” the statement said. Duke’s current minimum wage is $12 an hour, compared to the federal and state mini mum of $7.50, the statement said. The school is pushing to require companies with which it contracts for campus services to also pay at least $12 an hour, the statement said. 1 year since death of man shot while runningfrom police NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - The family of a black man shot to death by a white police officer in South Carolina while running away is mark ing the one year that has passed since his death. Local news outlets report the family of 50-year-old Walter Scott is holding a moment of silence at his gravesite Monday. The family says Scott’s mother, brother and other relatives will lay flowers on his grave and then address the media. Former North Charleston of ficer Michael Slager is charged with murder in the April 4, 2015, death of Scott, who was running from a traffic stop. The shooting, captured on cellphone video, re- ignited the national debate about how blacks are treated by law enforcement officers. Slager is out on bond before his trial, which is expected later this year. Smithsonian to acknowledge Cosby allegations at new museum By Ben Nuckols WASHINGTON (AP) - The Smithsonian now plans to ac knowledge the sexual-assault allegations against Bill Cosby at its new African-American histo ry museum on the National Mall, which will include two items re lated to Cosby’s career in televi sion and standup comedy. The museum’s founding direc tor, Lonnie Bunch, said in a statement March 31 that visitors to the exhibit will recognize that Cosby’s "legacy has been se verely damaged.” The museum plans to include the cover of a Cosby comedy al bum and a comic book from his pioneering TV drama "I Spy” as part of its exhibit on black entertainers and artists. Initially, the museum planned to include historical facts about the items without mentioning the allega tions. Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame to Enshrine McLendon - Again HOUSTON, Texas - Legendary basketball coach and innovator John McLendon was announced as a member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement class of 2016 to be honored Sept. 8-10 in Springfield, Massachusetts. The announcement was made in Houston, the site of the 2016 NCAA Men’s Final Four, and televised live on ESPN SportsCenter. McLendon, who started his college coaching career at North Carolina Central University (then known as North Carolina College) in 1937 and served as the Eagles head basketball coach from 1940-52, was first enshrined into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1979 as a contributor. In September, he will enter the hall posthumously as a coach. Born April 5, 1915 in Hiawatha, Kansas, McLendon’s contributions to the sport of basketball are virtually innumerable. His advisor at the University of Kansas was the inventor of basketball, Dr. James Naismith. During his time at NCCU, McLendon pioneered basketball’s full court game, using such strategies as the full court press, the full court zone (now known as the zone press), the open center offense whose variants include the “four corners,” the rotating pivot, and the double-pivot. In 38 years as a head coach, he achieved a collegiate coaching record of 523 wins to 165 losses for a .760 winning percentage, including a 239-68 record at NCCU. He was the first coach io win three con secutive national championships, leading Tennessee State to NAIA National Championships in 1957, 1958 and 1959. He was also the first black coach in a professional basketball league (with the Cleveland Pipers in the American Basketball League in 1961) and the first black coach at a predominantly white university (Cleveland State employed him in June 1966). McLendon died on Oct. 8, 1999 at the age of 84. This year’s class also includes 27-year NBA referee Darell Garretson, eleven-time NBA All-Star Allen Iverson, two-time NABC Coach of the Year Tom Izzo, three-time NBA Finals MVP Shaquille O’Neal and four-time WNBA Champion Sheryl Swoopes. Distinguished committees focused on preserving all areas from the game also selected four directly elected members. They include Zelmo Beaty from the Veterans Committee, Yao Ming from the International Committee, Cumberland Posey from the Early African American Pioneers Committee and Jerry Reinsdorf from the Contributor Committee. North Carolina bathroom law could be By Larry O’Dell RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The fate of North Carolina’s new law aimed at restricting restroom use by transgender people could be determined in Virginia, where a school board has ordered a teenager to stay out of the boys’ room. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond could rule any day now in the case of Gavin Grimm, who was born female but identifies as male. Grimm says he has to take a “walk of shame” to use a restroom at Gloucester High School. Whatever the judges decide, the impact will be far more sweep ing than what Grimm envisioned when he challenged the policy last year. “I did not set out to make waves -1 set out to use the bathroom,” Grimm says. North Carolina’s bathroom bill was unveiled, debated and signed into law in a single day last week, two months after the appeals court in Richmond heard arguments in Grimm’s case. But two workers and a trans- gender student at the University of North Carolina are making similar arguments as they seek a federal injunction preventing en forcement of the new law. Among other things, the law directs public schools, public universities and government agencies to designate bathrooms and locker rooms for use only by people based on their bio logical sex, and says transgender people can only use bathrooms matching their gender identity if they’ve had their birth certifi cates changed, which in North Carolina usually requires sexual reassignment surgery. decided in The law has prompted a national backlash. Businesses and politi cians have announced boycotts of North Carolina, and legal challenges ensure that the wedge issue will dominate the Republi can governor’s re-election cam paign against his Democratic challenger. Advocates on all sides will close ly read the ruling, since U.S. Dis trict Judge Thomas Schroeder in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, an appointee ofPresident George W. Bush, will have to adhere to any precedents set by the appel late court, said Joshua Block, the American Civil Liberties Union lawyer representing Grimm. “One way or another, what hap pens in Gavin’s case is likely going to set the rules of the road for how the North Carolina case proceeds,” Block said. Grimm alleges that school board policy requiring him to use girls’ restrooms or a single-occupancy unisex bathroom available to all students violates Title IX of the U.S. Education Amendments of 1972, the federal law prohibit ing sex discrimination in public schools. He also says the policy denies him equal protection rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. The North Carolina suit raises similar claims, alleging that transgender people who haven’t received a sex-change operation and changed their birth certifi cate can’t access their preferred restrooms, and are therefore treated unequally from non transgender people. Since Grimm’s trial judge has yet to decide constitutional is sues, the appellate ruling will fo cus on the Title IX question and “won’t provide guidance about Virginia the constitutionality ofthe North Carolina law,” said Kevin Walsh, a University of Richmond expert in constitutional law. The U.S. Justice Department filed a “statement of interest” in Grimm’s case in July declaring that failure to allow transgender students to use restrooms that correspond with their gender identities amounts to sex dis crimination under Title IX. In North Carolina, gay rights ad vocates warned that the new law puts billions of dollars in federal educational funding at risk. North Carolina’s law also bars local governments from making their own restroom ordinances, providing other protections from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, or requiring businesses to pay higher wages or paid sick leave, raising authority questions that aren’t at issue in the Virginia case. Block sees a possible road map in the 4th Circuit’s ruling strik ing down Virginia’s same-sex marriage ban. A federal judge later told North Carolina law makers that the appellate court made such laws unconstitutional throughout the five-state circuit, which also includes South Caro lina, Maryland and West Vir ginia. The U.S. Supreme Court later legalized gay marriage na tionwide. The use of public facilities by transgender people has emerged as the next most important le gal issue for LBGT advocates, and North Carolina is the first state to require public school and university students to use only bathrooms that match their birth certificates, according to the Na tional Conference of State Leg islatures.