mURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1991 ? SEE BLACK COLLEGE SPORTS REVIEW INSERT ? I 58 PAGES THIS WEEK CLASSIC ji 'Wr W r, -m ll #(. Major challenge Winston'sRafhs rarin' to go as national playoff hosti f|JJ| PAoeBi Winston-Salem Chronicle ON THE AVANT-GARDE By 1'ANG NIVRI to the Isn't it time to retutfj prayer to our Part 2 o Americans are starting to reassess the deci sion to remove prayer from our public schools. There is something in the American psyche that says we made a serious mistake. All of a sudden, Judges are now willing to go to the supreme court ?id insist on their right to begat their fcourt sessions with prayer. School administrators are challenging the notion of removing prayer from high school graduation ceremonies and religious music from band litera oMe. Here at North Carolina, a teacher was will ing to be fired rather than cease offering a morn ing prayer. There is something going on. And I think it is good. Parents arc starting to tisten to their children. Parents are starting to wonder if maybe the rea lm oar children fine so willing to kill each other bomber jackets is because they think that life han; around dll they run llfof ? toy Irfe told by an idiot? But it's not told ty an idiot and before it's too late we've got to turn back. IT? Tlma To Turn Back Which is why more and more folks have decided thai it is lime 10 draw a line in the e&ica tional sand ? they are saying that we madea wrong turn when we deeded to take waver out of our public schools. They are saying thai it's time that we as parents, as educators, as people who are genuinely concerned about the future of this country ?? about our community, about our society, about our own children ? it is time that we reexamine the rote our schools play in help ing to shape just what kind of perscj will literal ly walk down the sidewalk into a Mplonaid's and sit down beside you and me. That is what this is all about?and even more! Our schools are not being used just for edu cation? they are social laboratories in which we are helping to shape public policy by shaping the minds, hearts and soufs of our young people ? our future leaders ? our future clerks, bankers, nurses, lawyers, doctors, mechanics, and leach* ?s. By our removing pray er from the schools ? and replacing it with nothingness ? our children figufed that "the question as to whether a person is moial or not* is irrelevant ? is not important; for if it was important, then we as parents would have made sure that they, our children, would have been exposed to it We seem to have made more of an effort to protect their teeth ? by adding fluoride to their drinking *$ter ? than we did to protect their, very souls. ? By taking God out of His riggful place in our society, we've created a tearmnpsayiroBmeiit in otir schools that leaves youngsSrs inside for something else. They know that there must be more* Granted, this need to find some sense of spiritual purpoae, spiritual value is certainly bet ter served by die organized chinch, but answer me this: How do you teach children about living, and learning, and being civil with one another, to respect one's neighbor as one's self without addressing the question of ethical v>hies> without broaching the subject of who in<God*s name made us in.the fist place? Imagine, in the earliest moments of a child's most basic curiosity, the < whole idea as to why he is even here ? why we all exist in the first plscc? is beyond discussion ? off limits. ; No! I fen not insisting on you or anybody else becoming a Christian, Moslem, Jew, or any thing else. What many of us are saying is that in our effort to save the spotted owl, we've almost ... Please see page A6 Parents: Black kids need sensitivity By SHERIDAN HILL Chronicle Staff Writer The meeting started out like any other meeting, with a report, but an hour later school board members and central office administrators were listening quietly to the passionate remarks of black parents and teach ers* Last Thursday night, five members of the school board met twenty concerned parents, grandparents and teachers at the meeting of the School board's minority affairs committee. Dr. Larry Coble, Palmer Friende, and four division directors were also at the meeting at St. Phillips Moravian Church on Bon Aire Avenue. As Kay Morgan, director of instruction, was con cluding her report on a pilot program to help white 'We need teachers who will put their hands on his shoulder and say it's gonna be alright instead of throwing him out on the street." - Concerned parent teachers understand black students, a grandfather stood to say, "I am totally disarmed. You are making^steps towards what I came here to address. You're already into iL" He told the group about his granddaughter, who was put in a comer for most of second grade. "The teacher thought she was disruptive, and so she just turned her around to face the corner and didn't teach her. Then we got a note from the teacher that she would be retained into second grade," he said. Fleming A. El-Amin, a teacher at Glenn High, said, "Teachers need to be sensitive to their perceptions of students so that learning, not snap judgment, is taking place." It's how teachers handle the little things, he said ? such as asking a student to remove his hat and thanking him instead of walking up and snatching it off his head ? that can escalate into stu dents being suspended from school. 1 Quiet fell over the church as one mother described her son's suspensions and transfers to other schools, often, she said, without the guidance counselor being Please see page A6 Dr. Maya Angelou converses with Alderman Virginia Newell, chairperson of the Maya Angelou Tribute to Achievement, and Marshall Bass. Angelou named UNCF 'Friends' chair By YVETTE N. FREEMAN Chronide Staff Writer The poet, author, playwright, Dr. Maya Angelou was honored by the United Negro College Fund at a special dinner at the Graylyn Conference Cen ter, Monday, Nov. 18. During the evening, Mrs. Billye S. Aaron, the UNCF Southern Regional Vice President officially appointed Dr. Angelou as the North Carolina Special Gifts Chairperson. Jonathan Bush, brother of President George Bush, is the National Special Gifts Chairman. After receiving the appointment from Aaron, Angelou expressed her gratitude and commitment to the cause, of the UNCF. "I am so much a part of the Negro colleges. I am made because Please see page A6 League narrows field to 3 D. Smith in the running By SHERIDAN HILL Chronicle Staff Writer The Winston-Salem Urban League has narrowed a list of 15 applicants to three can didates for the position of executive director, including former director D. Smith. The other two candidates are from the west and mid-west part of the country. The search for a new director began August 1, when the National Urban League declared that the position could not be filled without conducting a national search. Irrec oncilable differences between D. Smith and the former board led to her resignation last December. Board member and city personnel director William Hill chaired the search com Please see page A3 Judge removes ban on minority scholarships By LAURIE ASSEO Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) ? A federal judge won't order the government to bar tax-sup ported colleges from awarding minority scholarships, saying the Education Depart ment deserves the chance to finish reviewing its policy. U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin on Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought by seven white college students who said minor ity scholarships violate the 1964 Civil Rights Act. \ Education Secretary Lamar Alexander has said he planned to announce a decision by next week on the issue. In the meantime, Sporkin said, "A court should not step in pre maturely and make the agency's decision for it" "This case presents the clash of two important societal principles ? race neutrali ty' vs. programs designed to provide equal educational opportunity to a segment of our citizenry which has suffered past discrimina tion" and may still be discriminated against, Sporkin wrote. Alexander, speaking with reporters last week, refused to say whether he would allow schools to use public funds for minority scholarships, and he predicted the issue would wind up before the Supreme Court. The seven students, represented by the conservative Washington Legal Foundation, were challenging the legality of scholarships available exclusively to blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans. Such scholarships make less money available to non-minority stu dents, the plaintiffs said. Sporkin said any discrimination lawsuits should be brought against the colleges involved, not against the Education Depart ment. The department sparked a storm last December when it advised promoters of the Fiesta Bowl football game that it would be illegal to set aside money for minority schol arships. The agency later modified its ruling to let tax-supported colleges offer minority scholarships as long as they arc financed with Please see page A3 WSSU students Marcia Wingfield (front, lift), Eryn Gee (front, can ter), Patricia Ervlng (front, right), and Darryl Bryant (2nd row, left), recently participated In the Model U.N. Regional Conference at Appalachian State Univeralty, Oct. 18-20. Dr. Donald MacThompsor was the WSSU Model U.N. advisor. FOR HOME DELIVERY CALL ? 722-8624 ?

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