i ~ Waist Vol. V No. 33 ' *4f B^BE? Bl. .--^ ^gfl^K^S . ... ' * 1 Melanie Campbell and Lisa Steele are two of the Wake Wake Students By Sharyn Bratcher Staff Writer When Wake Forest admitted itsTirst blaclTsfudent in 1962, one of his prospective suite mates blurted to a friend: "Yes, but where will we go to the bathroom if he uses this one?" The seventies style of prejudice is more subtle, but it still exists -- and many of Wake's 150 black students have begun to speak out about it. "We have formed a student organization, but we don't have a name for it yet," says sophomore Melodie Campbell. "A group of us got together in the library one night and compared experiences. Each of us had thoiioht 'Mflvhf it's ilict mp ' hilt fKJnono/4 e-.., ..-"j i uiv) vui iiiwigj IIUU iiappviivu to all of us.4' ~ 1~~ t>4 One of the "things'* that happened was a professor who complained to a student that teaching his class was like "teaching a bunch of fifth grade (blacks)." A black woman attended a Halloween party at a fraternity where one student was costumed in blackface ~ with a noose around his neck. Several WFU fraternal organizations have held minstrel shows or performed skits in blackface. One . group even did a blackface routine in a speech class. "Racism here is under the sheets," says Lisa Slade, a ? sophomore- from-W a s h i n gtone D* . " V ll-give-you^aiiexample of how it is. There is a hall in anotherdo,rmitory where members of a certain sorority live. We went overthere a few weeks ago and just as you get off the elevator, there is one of those black jockeys that people put in their yards - right there in the hall/' The incident which triggered the mood of protest among black students was Old South Weekend, a celebration held by the Kappa Alpha fraternity, in which members dress in Confederate uniforms and display Confederate flags from the windows of their house. The Confederate flags appeared on campus the day that Wake Forest was holding its Equal Opportunity Banquet in Reynolda Hall. Some visitors to the campus ^were^ reportedly-offended by the display. The next day black students bought a Confederate flag and burned it in a trashcan in front of Reynolda Hall. "We wanted to make a statement that the flag represented a racist pig attitude," said Jimmy Steele, one of the leaders of the demonstration. Steele, who is president of the Afro-American Societv at Wake Forest, explained that his group had ofiginally 'Regressive' By Sharyn Bratcher organizations comprising Staff Writer the Coalition on Tax ReSam Smith is a business form., executive who makes $100,- a family subsisting on 000 a year. In buying minimum wage earnings groceries for his family, he spends 41 per cent of that pays $92.16 a year in food income for food, and pays tax. So does Mary Johnson, almost $100 per year in who is raisihg three kids on sales taxes. Upper income a salary of $2.90 per hour. families spend only 8.9 per Unfair? cent of their income on The Coalition on Tax food, spending a higher Reform thinks so. portion of their income on The repeal of the food tax , non-taxable items, such as and a new property tax personal services. structure are the major Twenty-two states exconcerns of the Coalition on empt food from their sales Tax Reform, a group of taxes, but in North Carolina local organizations who revenue from the three per want to change the present cent state food tax accounts tax system in North Caro- for $150 million in the state lina. budget, almost double the "The people with the amount of five years ago, --fart iifen of-the food tax are nuir ifnyranlniting the least able to afford it," food prices. said Mike Taylor of the "The tax structure needs Urban League, one of the to be revised," said Kate y ? \ ton-Sale "Serving the East Winston C ?20 cents ^ Bfe?>J5[Baattdrl3lHt*yrhtig^i a>ifcMEB3ggvJ^] &cv ^MNtaiE 1^. ? ? ^M| ?5*>" ' %' w V |^^|i *.? - V *|?. Forest students upset about racism on campus. Attack Racism w I - fP* ?K^ ^Fjfl ^TBEj?^^^^^^^BW(Wrrn5^BK!Z!SSjB^'^l^2jBf!^^^Bfij^i]-- - l^^MI'" Jimmy Steele ii?. i _. . intended to have a march of its own on Old 'South Weekend, showing the other side of pre-Civil War times, but the event was scheduled a week earlier than they expected, sa they burned the flag as a gesture of their disapproval. Dr. Larry Palmer, director of minority affairs on campus, commended the students for the orderly way that the demonstratior^was handled. "I'm glad they're waking up," he commented. C*anu M/v4AJ *U ~ * *u~ *: L- 1 1 r nuicu mat inc icaaiun nc uas receiveu irom white students has been mostly positive, although Kappa Alphas have remarked that they "don't see what all the fuss is about." "The Klan is for real," one member commented., "We were just ^oing for fun.'' T ax Laws Atfc % Mewhinney, an attorney for One measure of property the Legal Aid Society. "An tax relief presently being across-the-board property considered in the North tax cut wouldn't help the Carolina legislature is the people who need it most." circuit-breaker tax cut. The She explained that 28 per bill, which was introduced cent of Winston-Salem and by Senator Carolyn* Mathis, Forsyth County's taxes are (D-Charlotte,) would repaid by only 25 taxpayers, quire the state to pay the including Western Electric, property taxes exceeding a Duke Power, and the R.J. certain percentage of their Reynolds Company. A pro- income for senior citizens perty tax cut would benefit and disabled persons. For them, but it would not example, if a family has an benefit the 45 per cent of income of $6,000 and owes the county population who $240 in property tax, the rent their houses, even family would pay three per U 1 11 1- -- r- . uiuugu lanuiurus pass on cent oi tneir income, or property tax costs to their $180, in property tax, and tenaffts. the state would pay the Ms. Mewfiinney sug- remaining $60. gested that property taxes * Coalition members say be charged on a graduating that the state need not lose '-seated like incomc tax, so jtcveMc -frow?*he*c tax that higher amounts are reductions, because other taxed proportionally more taxes could be modified to than lower ones. compensate for the differ < * 772 Gtfp ommunity Since 7974" 20 Pages This Week Diverse Gr Staff Writer 15 or 20 years down the A diverse group of local road and although events blacks ranging from bank- might force us to change, at ers to laborers has created least we will have a plan, as the Winston-Salem^Im- opposed to reacting all the provement Association?an time.'' organization intended to "We've got to play the devise long-term strategies man's game by his rules/' for the improvement of the said Williams. "If the man city's black community. tells us we need a swimThe organization, product ming pool in 2001, we of three? months of meet- ought to be able to tell him ings, took on its new name whether ve want one then, at a meeting Tuesday after- instead of waiting until noon in the East Winston opening day, 2001 to cornBranch Library. plain." "We see ourselves as a Williams emphasized that long-term strategy mecha- N nism for blacks in the city," said Kenneth R. Williams, Jr., a businessman and ' temporary chairman of the ' . r association. "We'd like to /" / \ I 'm>' i ( Stylln'... a fashion supplement like none other yoo've seenr Is a - -[ -1 [?- j M | 11 most special Featiirelfi | this week's Chronicle. The latest trends In children's, men's and wo? _ men's clothing are ex- ? I ? .^1plored In depth, with a 11| Ij I mi particular slant on the W \/ W preferences of black buyers.?; ? You'll meet a top de- B> John T?mple sfaner hf men's wmp ^ from Chicago, see the absolute latest in Dave Thompkins has com( styles just back from the since his boyhood in a hoi beautician's trade show, faucet on the back pore plus the fabulous writing Utyierwood Street in Bostor you've come to eipect However, he's always 1 from the Chronicle. hacf somebody else along tl Five pages of faahlon trait shared by his wife ?liv Info begin on page five. children. Their record of involvemc ^and volunteer activities has the Thompkins family be m "Family of the Year" by ^ League Guild of \Vinst0n-S2 fl t ^ BJ "They've done all that'i ^ and added more," said The worker at the local Housing ence. They favor doubling w''liam Andrews, during the intangible property tax awards reception last Fr (taxes on stocks and-bonds); increasing the liquor tax to The M a)so presentei six cents per 3.3 oz.; recognition award to the Wi increasing the corporate in- ChronicIe and a service aw come tax; and increasing Ma , Allen, adult servic the tax on cigarettes. the East Winston Library. - The Coalition sponsored ciation gifts and certificate a seminar, held Wednesday sented to 15 guild member: April 4, at Glade Street League staff. YWCA, which wasdesigned Thompkins is deputy dir to educat^ the public on Housing Authority; Olivia 1 North Carolina tax laws, office manager at Reynolds Patric Mullen, secretary for ter. However, they're invob North Carolinians for Tax more. Reform was the featured He's an active board me speaker. Members of the Urban League, a former o' Coalition on Tax Reform A&T State University Alur include: Legal Aid Society, tion, regional polemarch in / Urban League, League of Psi Fraternity and a member Women Voters, Winston/ Promoters and New Bet Salem.Fntsyth^Goimly..A*- - Church. sociation of Educators, and "We always believed you the American Association somebody," Thompkins s of Retired Persons. family. "I was always taugh - "\ onicle J Saturday, April 7, 1979 oups Rally comoetition with anv of th?* meetings has ranoerl ?? other black organizations in high as 90 persons. the city. "We're not so Prior to the adoption ot a much an action group as a name> fhe Qrganization had research and study-group. ereate|ld n. called in December by the ment Winston-Salem Urban League to bring together The task forces have various segments of the been charged with studying black community for open- the issues related to each ing lines of communication, area and making recomFrom that initial group of mendations for strategies. Olivia & Dave Thompkins ild Honors ? ed' Family ion to get a piece of the pie and help Olivia Thompkins is intricately involved * sl lone way with a *n Process carv*n8 out some of the h^on old political pie. She's been precinct chairon man at Paisley school and James Community Center and is now acting chairman in je leve e t^e jjanes Community Center precinct, he way - a ia, and their She serves on the Employment and Training Advisory Council and is a ;nt in work prodigious fundraiser for the NAACP. resulted in Each year, the Thompkins give a benefit ting named at their home for the association. ilem^r * have always been involved in . activities that deal with people," said expe Mrs. Thompkins. "My whole work life's impkins co- . f . /. . . A thorttv spent in health facilities, and -jj' although I'm in the business end, I still the guild . ? A . , ,, A have that concern for people. iday night. r r The Thompkins have raised a group of d a special achievers among their four daughters. nston-Salem Renita, 20, skipped her senior year of ard to Mrs. school to attend N.C. Central es worker at University and is a candidate for graduation in May. ^ Appres were pre- Cheryl, 16, an 11th grader at Reynolds 5 and Urban School, may repeat her sister's advanced plac^rlent. Tracy, 13, is an 8th ector of the g^der at Wiley Junior High. Tina, 4, is hompkins is ca^e<^ "th? boss of the family." Health Cen- "We've always taught them everybody ved in much ^as t0 worfc. nothing is given to you," said Dave thompkins. "That's the way mber of the we*Ve trained our children." fficer in the rtni Acc/vio. tl i-: a ?1 ? ' -- ..... r.^wv.10- i nuinpuns noi oniy practices mvoiveUpha Kappa ment, but he preaches it throughout his of the Social career as a housing counselor, manager hel Baptist and administrator. "I have always told ; _ the residents^ you cannot sit here in this_ have to help project; you must become involved. If aid of his you're going to move up, you've got to t, you've got get involved." ? i