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\ Wil Vol. XIII, No. 28 U.S.F HBHHHHHHBHHMMHHHH "Our biggest question Is, Is th What they pre proposing Is a NAACP President Walter M< NAACP ve By CHERYL WILLIAMS they Chronicle Staff Writer Ban THE proposed new optional _ middle school would provide a ?--JE ' dumping ground for problem students, said NAACP President << n cuivi mai aiuui munuay uigiii, ^ mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm concerns ? . , tee, Walter Marshall he , list ' voiced at a ; previous meeting. He said that the NAACP is not ( opposed to the concept of helping crit students with severe learning pro- the blems.. But removing those toe students- from regular middle ?spe schools, he said, is not the way to be< do it. um "Our biggest question is, is rea there really a need for that s > school?" Marshall said. "What an< William Lide Accepts athletic direc By ROBIN BARKSDALE III Chronicle Staff Writer no I The chairman of WinstonSalem State University's physical ? education department will leave ^ the university at the end of the ^ school year. pr< T)r. William E. Lide will of- ha ficially resign from WSSU in po May and become the new athletic toi director and physical education j01 department chairman at ch Salisbury (Md.) State College in July. Lide was offered the posi- tic tion at the predominantly white sa school in February. 4 ca He said a number of factors of contributed to his decision to ac- to ^cept the offer from the college, at u/hirVi is classified as a Division Site of firsl By RON WORD Associated Press Writer ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - The dis< Mose, the nation's first free black se result in a rewriting of the history < their influence on colonial America thropologist in charge of the excava The fort, which existed from 17i "important to black history that d< the history books," Kathleen Deagj anthropology at the University of F a recent news conference formally ai discovery. "It has the potential to change soi and correct history," she said. The settlement was comprised of ?- r .hi m ->?alt: 1 | Florida in the 18th century. "This was not just a fortificatit Deagan. 44 A community of about 1( including women and children, occu The discovery is impOrOSThrTo history, said Dr. Robert L. Gold, e i.i jiMr.v istoi >.S. No. 067910 re really a need for nother Band-Aid solu arshall toes sc are proposing is another d-Aid solution.*' aking the students out of the ilar schools would hurt their -esteem and confidence, he I. Our concern is that you don't ate them," Marshall said. 3u can't build self-confidence isolating them." he school board had approvthe concept of the optional idle school at its Feb. 23 iting. donday night it chose the old ree School as the site for the ional school. ilso at Monday's meeting sie Allen, chairman of th< ACP's Education Commit . presented the board with i of concerns and recommenda is. )ne concern on the list is tha eria for student selection fo optional middle school ar< > broad. "Each criterion is no Kificr thus (the school) wtl :ome a dumping ground for al desirables," Mrs. Allen said ding from the list. \s many as 300 sixth-, seventh 1 eighth-grade students woul< to resign Jtor's post in Md school, meaning that it doe t grant athletic scholarships. "One of the major thrusts o j accepting the position is th :t that it is a good-size " I I Am 1*7 mmiA 1V-/VJI, i^iuvi J ' ) aaiu v lisbury State, which enrolls ap oximately 5,000 students. "1 s excellent resources, and th sition offered an athletic dire< r's opportunity along with th b. That sounded exciting an allenging to me." Lide, WSSU's physical educt m chairman for three year; id the new job will be a 'Tej reer move" for him. A nati\ Darlington, S.C., Lide cam Winston-Salem after workin Johnson C. Smith Universil Please see page A3 t free bla tor of the ? RnarH :overyofFort "Some 1 ttlement, may place in thi Df blacks and freedom wa , said the an- News of t ition. to suggest tl M to 1763, is designated i :>esn*t exist in "I'd like in, curator of highlight th< lorida, said at American h nnouncing the "Ever sin have been s< ne stereotypes bolizes that munity," hi former British Clark he! tnd were given Legislature The remi >n," said Ms. two miles m X) inhabitants, tress, Castil ipied the site." 1672. the nationV Ms. I>ea xccutive direc- excavating i Salt The Twin City's A wai Wlnston-Salam, N.C. that school? Hon." hool plan be served by the proposed prograin. ^ According to information from Superintendent Zane E. Eargle's staff, the students who would attend the school would require specialized and concentrated help. Thus the staff recom> m#*n HpH 9 a?nr/\o/?K m vvii vi hii^vvi nppi uavn of locating the students in one school and working with them I there. . t Eargle told Marshall at last week's board meetttig that the I goal of the program was to j rehabilitate the students and return them to their regular , schools. 5 4'I'm not looking for a school that is simply going to drain off i minority students and get them out of the regular schools," ? Eargle said. ; t The school's recommended site r also concerns the NAACP. e Petree was built in 1923, and t school officials estimate that it H - will- tafcc as-least $75,000 in renovations to make the building I usable. Among Mrs. Allen's suggestions to the board Monday night i Please see page A3 L CLASSIFIED HI EDCTORIALS |? ' b^I?Wn 5 SPORTS Bl ie 11 d QUOTABLE: All of the best decisions cent 5, be meoeumd in mete ii dollprs and cents.... Hour re much at e prfbe taQ does ie one place en biolherlg hood end equality?" [y PAGE A4. ck settleme Historic St. Augustine Preservation 25 years before emancipation took s country, there was a place where s a fact for blacks/* said Gold, he find prompted one black lawmaker hat the area should be purchased and is a state park. to see it become a state park to s contribution of blacks to Florida and istory," said state Rep. Bill Clark, ce there were slaves in this country, we earching for freedom. Fort Mose sym, since it was the First free black come said. ped secure $100,000 in funding for the tins of the fort were discovered about orth of the massive cocina Spanish forllo de San Marcos, which was built in gan and 14 student archaeologists are what appears to be the northwest cor ?m Chroi rd~ Winning Weekly Thursday, March 5f 1987 5< M Ha I H JH ^* SHOCKED RAMS Carletta Knox, far right^ LisaStewart and the rest cheerleaders wander onto the court of Richmond fans stood dumbstruck during a scramble to sort o to Virginia Union University at last weekend's CIAA related stories (photo by James Parker). COVER STORY WSSd and plan to attract poten By CHERYL WILLIAMb Cai Chronicte Staff Writer C0 The Winston-Salem Business Park, targeted for a Wll nearly 300-acre strip between 1-40 and Winston- " Salem State University, will be a strong drawing card for new industry because of its close relationship with the university, officials say. ~~~i think this should be a really hot area," said J. Allen Joines, the city's development director. "The rev relationship with the university will make this a real strong selling point." . The park was one of numerous proposals sug- cl? gested by urban developer David A. Crane in the Forsyth County Growth Strategy, a 12-year development plan for the area. ? J The park, for which the land is now being prepared for construction, is located just off 1-40 and east of WSSU. It is made up of two sites, an east and a west, with the Flakt Building and a ter, residential area separating the two sites. Progress on the park will continue in earnest, tra with construction of the first building in the park beginning in the late spring or early summer, said nt pinpointed in F ner of the fort. Preliminary findings suggest pr0] they've found the moat. ?? The students are painstakingly excavating floe several pits five centimeters at a time. tior Researchers said the fort had earthwork walls, j spiked with yucca or Spanish bayonets. The ear- ow, thwork was backed by a wooden palisade. Huts was for the inhabitants were thatched. veri The team has also found musket balls, gun ? flints, buttons, pieces of glass bottles, clay smok- dov ing pipes, pottery and animal bones left over from for1 meals. tha The Spanish were not totally altruistic in their 1 establishment of the fort, she said. its 15 _ "The Spanish had had a black regiment since wh< the 1670s, so they already knew that blacks were jn 1 at their northernmost point of defense than these runaway slaves who feared being recaptured by the British more than anyone else?" V?1 Ms. Deagan said the settlement was built in a for field on high ground, but dredge-and-filtTjpera- ^ i tions in the early 20th century have made the area i \ aide ) cents 28 Pages This Week aB mL HqB ^scl I j ^ ^=of the Winston-Salem State University Coliseum in disbelief. They and Rams ut the Rams' controversial overtime loss basketball tournament. See page BTfor j , < i ^ / . - ' >,iv- ? i ) ners join itial business :l millc Jones, marketing coordinator for the Webb s.f the park's developers. Ms. Jones said that the k will span more than 270 acres, 140 of which 1 be used for development.. loines said that the Webb Cos. have agreed to rk closely with WSSU in marketing land and ermining the types of buildings in the park. Representatives from WSSU were part of a lew committee that examined the project's ster plan. WSSU is excited about the opportunities that a se alliance with the park may bring, says a school ministrator. 14It will present opportunities for the faculty and dents that, prior to this time, did not exist," said fron M. Chenault, vice chancellor for developnt affairs at WSSU. Chenault said the park will jvide research opportunities for faculty and innships for students. rhe industrial park also will be a physically atctive addition to the area, he said. Besides the student workforce and the expertise Please see page A2 TT? 1 loriaa city ne to flooding. The site is increasingly being drowned by tidal >ding, and we need to get at it before condi- is worsen/' she said. ack Williams, a St. Augustine resident who is the 24-acre site where the fort was located, responsible for much of the research that fied the existence of Fort Mose. everal years ago, Williams paddled a canoe vn the marsh to find the general location of the t, but it was not until the recent excavations t the exact site was found. "he fort was the site of a fierce battle between settlers and Georgia Gov. James Oglethorpe, 3 attacked the area with Indians and Colonials 1740. imt Tor ire sain Sfv A'tignstine. f 'A little-known chapter in Colonial history in- I ves the black militia's run-in with the British ces who had occupied their fort and were using is a headquarters and as a fortification from Please see page A3 1 I ' ,1 i \ I .
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