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Ferree's District New head of W-S/FC United Methodist Church charts course Heart-felt Facts Heart Association food festival reaching out to black community Thursday, September 8,1988 ton-Salem Chronicle "The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly" VOL. XV, No. 2 'ransit center receives support IMLERIE ROBACK GREGG F onide Staff Writer The Crisis Control Ministries Advo- y Task Force recently endorsed the struction of a public transit center at comer of Third and Liberty Streets, ing it is critical to the city's Afro- erican community. Members of the city Transit Aulhori- toard joined them Tuesday, saying the $9.3 million downtown transit center will benefit the city's working poor, down town merchants and businesses which need labor. The project is scheduled for comple tion by June, 1991, but the Board of Aldermen must first vote on a site and whether to allow the WSTA to apply for $7.4 million in federal Urban Mass Trans portation Authority funds for the project Other possible sites for the center are located at Fifth and Liberty Streets, Sec ond and Main, Third and Chestnut, and Sixth and Liberty. Ritchie said, however, that the Third and Liberty Street location had effectively been chosen because the Board of Aldermen asked the city staff to work on an environmental assessment of that site. A WSTA survey of 500 people riding city buses showed that 80 percent of the Please see page A9 Proposed Transit Cent^ Site at Third and Lit Robinson, WSSU officials at odds over intern program By VALERIE ROBACK GREGG Chronicle Staff Writer cAAAIIiAn^ Photo by Mike Cunningham JUK hAMILIARr Well, It should. Sam and Joe’s vegetable stand has been In Winston-Salem every sum- sr for the past nine years. Joe Is manning the stand, located on the corner of Martin L. King Boulevard and lynolds Park Road, while his partner Is off gathering more fruits and vegetables. Winston-Salem State University recently denied an employee who is a State Senate candidate the use of students to work for his campaign in exchange for academic credit, saying it would create a conflict of interest for the university if he did so. Republican candidate Vernon L. Robin son is a professor in the WSSU School of Business. He advertised in The Chronicle last month that he was offering college students internships for the fall, 1988 session for academic credit After seeing the notice in The Chronicle, Paul 0. Cloud, WSSU affinnative action offi cer, wrote Robinson a letter which said, "As you know, the (UNC) Board of Governors' policy relative to political activities of Univer sity employees prohibits the use of university facilities, funds, services, supplies or other I»operty to support one's political candidacy." Cloud said in an interview Tuesday that Robinson's position at WSSU would be jeop ardized if he created a conflict of interest situ ation. "There can be no conflict of interest between university employees and someone running for office," he said. "If there is, he (the candidate) either resigns from the univer sity or requests a leave of absence. Robinson made a request (when he declared his candida cy) to continue, and he proved then that he had no conflict of interest. "When the article appeared in The Chroni cle, it was necessary for me to write him and ask for clarification." Robinson satisfactori ly proved no conflict of interest with WSSU when he declared his candidacy early this year, Cloud said. Since Robinson is a State Senate candidate, the Robinson University of North Car olina system prohibits him from using anj resources of the university to suppcnt his cam paign. Cloud's letter asked Robinson to report any internship opportunities that have been extended for academic credit to WSSU stu dents. Robinson said Tuesday that no WSSU students are currently working for him in exchange for academic credit. One WSSU student was working for his campaign last spring as a research intern, he said. Cloud said WSSU would have to investi- Please see page A2 V profile of rape: The crime, the criminal and the typical victim VALERIE ROBACK GREGG ronlele Staff Writer Two men approached a >man getting into her car in a ?erty Street parking lot around p.m. one afternoon last July, ey asked her for a ride, and en she refused, they grabbed •, threw her into the car and >ve away. They travelled down East th Street, past the recreation eating the odds center, to an abandoned building. There the woman was raped and badly beaten, city police Capt. E.L. Moreau said. The two left her lying in the dilapidated building. Stumbling, she made her way up 14th Street to the recreation center where she called for help. A week later, Jerry Anthony Murphy was arrested and charged with first degree rape, kidnapping and sexual offense, according to Forsyth County Superior Court records. Detectives are still searching for a second defendant. Assistant District Attorney Cliff Barrett said. This incident is only one of many occurring almost every other day in the city, and the num ber of those reported is steadily growing. Rapes reported to the police numbered 107 during 1987, according to the city Police Department 1987 Annual Report. An estimated 50 to 70 percent of rapes, however, go unreported, according to police and Family Services officials. Of rapes reported to police, the city's Afro-American women are most often the victims, repre senting 70 percent of the rape vic tims reported in 1987, according to the report. "Black women are more like ly to be raped, because the less power a person has in society, the more likely they are to be a victim of crime," Carolyn Williams, coordinator of community devel opment for Family Services, Inc., said last week. "In the past, a lot of black women may not have reported rape because maybe they thought the police wouldn’t help them. Now that there are more black policemen, it may cause an increase in black women report ing rape. "Another cultural thing is that 100 years ago, there was a stigma and a lot of black men were unfairly accused of rape. Now maybe the pendulum is swinging in another direction." Williams said that statistics show that Afro-American women are most often raped by Afro- American men, and white women are most often raped by white men. City police statistics show Please see page A9 WSSU freshman Jonathan Cole realizes lifelong dream of college ^ ROBIN BARKSDALE ronlele Staff Writer Jonathan Cole has gotten over ing angry about the tragedies in his i and is just trying to concentrate cm ^ rigors of his freshman year in col- ;e. Cole, crippled since birth, said he esn’C think much anymore about the cumstances that led to his disability. : is proud that he has been able to put I past behind him. While she was pregnant with nathan. Cole's father severely beat his fe in the abdomen, and the child she >[,»s carrying suffered birth defects. I. Iter, Jonathan said, when he was only nonths old, his father killed his moth- ending an abusive and combative relationship. But for Jonathan it was the start of a lifetime on his own, shuffling from one foster home to another. Now, despite the fact that he spends a good deal of time in a wheelchair or walking with braces. Cole speaks candidly about the circumstances that crippled him and is optimistic about his future. "I went from foster home to foster home until I was 15, and then I was adopted wheni was 18." said Cole, who will turn 20 in October. "I don't feel angry anymore. I've gotten over it. Sometimes I might try it (feeling anger). Something will happen, like the other day, and I’ll think, 'I'm mad because of what happened to me when I was 2 months old,' but it doesn't last long. I wouldn't dare try that with my (adoptive) mother. She'd tell me to slop being a smart aleck and then we'd be in each other's dog houses for a couple of days. But I don't feel angry anymore." He said his life experiences, high lighted by a trip to Ireland two years ago, have helped him get over his anger. While attending the Optional Education Center, Cole was selected to join a group of students from across the country to participate in an international cultural eruichment program. Cole, an admitted travel-aholic, spent one month living with Irish families, learning about their culture and giving insight about American life. The trip was spon sored by Experiences in International Living, a Washington-based organiza tion. Among his many observations, Please see page A9 Jonathan Cole searches for a book in the Kelly Library Photo by Mike Cunningham - hIs favorite building.
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