' / WFU Writer | Attacks Inequity NEW YORK -- "The l|'c Iff lljP battle against educational J3f It ml inequality must be stepped St II y m 1 | up at the ground level," |||j- / f III ?-writes KMhettae Clay, 20, / 1 II of Midlothian, Virginia, in 7^'*"" / f? ' the v Sugust issue of fbg- /if I II-" Seventeen Magazine. J jBy m'-mm?'' "I was in the fourth ||<-\ / || I II ^ grade when I attended my / I first integrated school," T U I S writes Katherine, "and I \'|IS^3 wasn't prepared for the Sgf II | culture shock. For the first /* time in my life, I realized ft-ii that I was a minority, and . * jMMM 1 that my writing and math lw 1 skills didn't measure up to Jff J those of the , white ; Katherine credits the Ifer ~ 'Jm love; respect, and all around support of her par-' ents for helping her to overcome the hurdles of her 18?^ new environment, but goes %^^2i!bs2iP^ on to say that jmany of her ||jg / fellow minority students do % I not have this * advantage Ip I / and so are not able to adjust ;) r; / / quickly enough. * Conse- ]8S J // quently, separate stan- S l j/i dards for black and white t?!| / / j students have developed. f? / \l i/\ hi- many cases, grading Sfe / JJ . .. scales are altered in favor ||p I T ' of minorities. meS " %jMA.%Ar In junior high, when f|j[ j ^ _ Katherine received a num- 9t0& /\ "M ber of academic awards, tjj ^ All she realized, "Many white students were actually more deserving of the ' f Sears price awards ihairfr-As a result, ^ Limited Quantities I had mixed feelings of ? pride and guilt, and I felt ? Our collection is c * bad when^ 1 faced resent* S.e$jt to believe it! k" ment from some of the ^ one * White w?~?ho felt they " C,ombos Muscle, . XA . - sieeves. ah ol should have won those V H jn for beg awards- Half-sizes. Katherine believes that ? . , .. . . . Ask about ! minonty students are given > the opportunity for a good | T~ education too late in their lives. "Educational equality should begin in kinder i garten of the first grade \ \ becausc this is when a child J[ M \ /|fl ' starts to develolp self- ft* I ? \ confidence and a sense of r*. I Ml herself as a student," she . P J, ^|k writes. "If we provide good f ' education for all children in : 1the first place, the scales jjt; , ^ ^ won't have to be tipped in favor of minorities at a later The daughter of Mary mjm ;;xHBg| Clay Thomas and Add Thomas, Jr., Katherine is a 1 junior majoring in English ' jl at Wake Forest University ini Winston-Salem. She ^ has won the 1979 Academy of American Poet's^ Prize for WFU as well as several ^?1 ^J" awards in various debate f#-| and forensic tournaments. B A staff member of her college newspaper, ; ^ Katherine hopes someday to be a journalist or to work in the publishing field, and -r\ eventually to write a novel. ^ Theta Nu Sigma 10 "lll,r The Alpha phi Chapter of J 30 %-J Theta Nu Signa Sorority of ? ^ *m the National Beauty Cul- II tural League, Inc. met July % 16 in Burlington at the Ramada Inn. _ y ^U.1JLgiJ.C This meeting was set up to make plans to attend the X? Fashion styles f< National Convention, which * women! SunSens^ ru: n? gradient lenses wi win DC nc.u III v.iucagu, m., g, . " Vn convening on July 28th thru *: Ld the look you'r August 7th. v Come in ana tak Local Sorors attending Why not buy severs were: Mrs. Willie Martin, Mrs. Minnie Webb, Mrs. , Minnie J. 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