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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.
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