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XI NO. 29
U.S.P.S. No. 067910
Winston-Salem, N.C.
Thursday, March 14, 1985
35 cents
28 Pages This Week
Sykes’ mother:
Police ‘stopped’
$5,000 reward offered for information
on who raped and murdered her daughter
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
With less than a month to go
before the April 15 murder trial
of Darryl Eugene Hunt begins, a
private investigator hired by the
victim’s mother has posted a
$5,000 reward for any informa
tion leading to the arrest and con
viction of the murderers.
Hunt, a 20-year-old black
man, has been charged with the
Aug. 10 rape and murder of
Winston-Salem Sentinel copy
editor Deborah Brotherton
Sykes. But Mrs. Sykes’ mother,
Evelyn Jefferson of Eden, said
she is not so sure the police have
the right person.
“1 have no idea if he (Hunt) is
the one that killed Debbie,” Jef
ferson told the Chronicle. “If the
reports are true and correct, then
they don’t have evidence to
match him to the crime. But if the
police have something they aren’t
telling, he could be the one. I
think everything should be
thoroughly checked before he is
acquitted.
“All I’m interested in is that
they get the right, quote, person,
unquote, involved. My interest is
that they get the right one.”
H. D. Hemmings, the private
investigator hired by Jefferson,
said he has had several “calls”
since he posted the reward money
late last week, but he refused to
discuss them. Although it’s
premature to say when, Hemm-
“All I’m interested in is
that they get the right,
quote, person, unquote, in
volved. My interest is that
they get the right one. ”
- Evelyn Jefferson
ings said, he is confident that his
investigation will lead to a con
viction.
“I hope that some day we will
indict someone in this case,”
Hemmings said “As for Mr.
Hunt, I don’t know.”
Jefferson said she has believed
all along that more than one per
son was involved in her
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Tmton-Salem State trustees vote to raise dorm rents
ROBIN ADAMS
iMicle Assistant Editor
The Winston-Salem State University
of Trustees voted to increase dor-
litory fees by $70 at its regular board
Kiing last Thursday.
Ajticipating a deficit in WSSU’s housing
and the growing need for funds to
sovatemany of the school’s seven dorms,
Ruffin, chairman of the board’s
Wee committee, asked the board to raise
isper-student dormitory rate from $875 to
® per semester. In addition, Ruffin re
eled that the board consider three other
ttiires to cut costs.
for students who share dorm rooms with
two other students, Ruffin proposed that the
tuition be reduced to $775 per semester. He
also proposed that an engineering study be
done on the school’s seven dormitories to
determine what repairs need to be made and
that the school’s personnel costs be reduced
by $100,000.
The board passed Ruffin’s first two sug
gestions, but defeated his proposal to reduce
the personnel budget by cutting the number
of staff members.
According to figures Ruffin presented the
board, WSSU spends more of its housing
budget for salaries than any of the other 15
University of North Carolina schools.
“We are spending 51 percent and the
average at the other institutions is 37 per
cent,” Ruffin aid. “We need to get person
nel costs in line. And it can easily be done if
we get in touch with the other institutions.”
But board member Aurelia Eller objected
to Ruffin’s plan to further reduce the hous
ing supervisory staff. Last year, six housing
supervisors were laid off, but Ruffin said
that didn’t decrease personnel costs. Raises
for state employees last year offset any
decrease the layoffs may have had on the
personnel budget, said Chancellor Haywood
Wilson.
Eller and fellow board member John
Davis suggested that there might be other
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Rumblings at Rutledge
Administration says student complaints are blown out of proportion
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
Carolyn Banner, a Rutledge College
student, says she can’t finish school
because of what she terms a “personality
conflict” with one of her teachers.
After questioning the teacher about a
grade. Banner, who says she makes A’s
and B’s, says the teacher banned her from
the class and, since the instructor is the
only faculty member who teaches that
class. Banner can’t graduate.
Another Rutledge College student, who
is handicapped and asked that his name
not be used, says he has to have others
dial a campus telephone for him because
the phone is too high for him to reach
from his wheelchair. In addition, if he
wants to get snacks between classes, he
says, he has to get other students to get
them for him because he can’t get his
wheelchair down stairs.
Another student, who also didn’t want
her name used, complains that her science
class has had five different teachers this
quarter.
Those problems are just a few students
at the majority-black school, which offers
six diplomas in business-related fields,
have had to encounter, a group of
students told the Chronicle recently.
“There are a lot of us who want to
speak out but can’t because we fear
retaliation,” said one student who didn’t
want her name used. “They call us
disgruntled students. They (the school’s
administration) threatened us not to come
to the paper and not to have a petition.
But J. Robert Middleton, the school’s
director for the past 23 years, said the
complaints are limited to a “little group”
of students and are all isolated incidents
that have been blown out of proportion.
“We try to reconcile little problems,”
said Middleton. “It’s just an accumula
tion of things. I think a lot has to do with
the non-traditional student. When I first
heard of the dissension, I called a meeting
with the students who had problems. I
wanted to put them with the correct peo
ple to solve their problems. Only nine
students showed up.
“Our problem is that we have a student
government president who seems to want
to find fault and we have never had that
problem before.”
Student body President Joyce Mouzon,
who is black, could not be reached for
comment.
Student Concerns
Among the problems the students have
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