BALSA pTans scholarship banquet
By TONYA V. SMITH
Chronic* Staff Writer
Afro-American students at
}\ftdke Forest University are spon
1 soring a banquet to raise funds for
! their compeers wishing to attend
? lav school.
Ronald H. Broivn, candidate
when you decide to go to law
school here," said Grady Crosby, a
first-year law student, and former
star football player at Howard Uni
versity and East Forsyth High
school. ~
Afro-American enrollment in
the law school has increased by 100
percent, Abernathy said. There were
can send f-tionation to: BALSA
Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 7206,
Winston-Salem, N.C., 27109.
Brown, the keynote speaker, is
a member of the executive commit
tee of the Democratic National
Committee and chairs the Commit
tee on State Participation. He is past
1
Photo by Charm ane Delaverson
Above are the siuqems wno aw In cftarge~o1Mhe banquet. From left are Angela Leverman, Joe
; Ross, Valerie Gwynn Quick, Grady Crosby, Clayton Morgan, Rick Bradley and Alvarez Abernathy.
i
for Democratic National Committee
; rtairman, will be the keynote
speaker at the Black Law Students
; Association (BALSA) scholarship
! banquet Feb. 25.
This year will mark the fourth
year Afro- American law school stu
dents have sponsored the scholar
ship banquet, which is the brain
child of graduates Lisa Caldwell,
now an . orney with Womble Car
lyle Sandi.Jge & Rice law firm, and
Jeaneue Peace, an attorney in Siler
City. This year's theme is "Exceed
; ing the Expected."
"The banquet was started in
\ 1985," said J osephRbssTT, co
-chairman of the organization's
gublicity committee. "Jeanette said
came out of a frustration of not
j because Wake Forest is so isolated
; from the rest of the city, and it's
t hard for the community to believe
! there are blacks on campus who are
? interested in this city."
^ The scholarship banquet-is
; unique because it is sponsored by
{ students, and is one of the only
! efforts in which students raise funds
| for potential students. For BALSA,
{ it's an opportunity for them to help
[ increase Afro-American enrollment
> in the predominantly white univer
* sity's law schoq), said Alvarez
i Abemathy, the group's president,
A $10,000 goal has been set for
i the banquet. The funds will be used
] to help Afro-American students pay
i the $8,757 in tuition a year.
I "You're talking about making a
;! $30,000 to $40,000 investment
six first-year students in the pro-^
gram during the last academic year,
and, this year, 13 Afro- Americans
enrolled for their first year of law
school, he said. BALSA has helped
a lot in that effort by sending stu
dents who attended predominantly
Afro-American schools back to
recruit.
Most of those students are
introduced to BALSA during their
first year. The organization gives
students their books, outlines and
they provide a support system for
each other, said Ross.
"We try to give our group the
Support we need because law school
is a different experience ,M he said.
The transition tn la u/ grhnrri ic
often made a little difficult because
-oAvhite-students displaying signs
of subtle racism, said Abernathy.
"Some of the professors here
try to be as helpful as possible and
most can be less outwardly racist
than the students," Abernathy said.
- "The professors do show more
concern than the students/ said
Angela Leverman, a first-year law
student who did her undergraduate
work at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. "But in our
class I haven't had a problem (with
racism) because there are 12 to 13
other blacks with me in all my
_c lasses."
Tickets for the banquet are $30,
general admission; $75, patron; and
$125 for a sponsor. All donations
are tax deductible. Anyone unable
to attend the banquet and wishing to
contribute to the scholarship fund
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