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amenities of. off -campus living.
Mary Young, housing coordi
nator at WSSl'. said the university
has noticed a decline in housing
applications for at least two years.
"Students like having the free
dom of doing what they want to do
when they live off campus." Young
said. "They can have visitation
whenever they want it, and they can
have air conditioning. They live two
to a room (on campus) and they
have your basic dresser and bed. Off
campus, they can enjoy other things
that they can't bring on campus."
When completed by next Janu
ary. the new co-ed dormitory will be
comprised of suites and apartments
and will house 400 students. It will
provide air conditioning, cable tele
vision and a telephone connection in
each room. The apartments will also
have a kitchen.
Young said currently, the uni
versity does not attempt to woo stu
dents into campus life, although
they do guarantee a room to incom
ing freshmen. When the dormitory
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Caldwell stressed that there are
many similarities in coaching a
football team and having a success
ful business. He said recruitment is
necessary and both professions must
be prepared to sell their product.
"I've got to sell Wake Forest
University to bring players and staff
to the team," Caldwell said. "I've
got to make it look like the greatest
thing on earth. And that's what busi
ness owners need to do. If you've
got mediocre players, you'll have a
mediocre team. As business owners,
you've got to have quality players to
have a quality business.!!
Kermit Blount, the new head
football coach at Winston-Salem
siness Owners told to Anticipate Success
is nearer completion, the university
will try to attract more on-campus
students, she said.
"The older dorms will be
cheaper for room and board than the
newer ones," Young said. "When
the new dorm is finished, we'll be
closing Colson and Bickett (halls)
and later Pegram (Hall). They'll be
torn down and the 400 students
housed in the new building will bal
ance those closures."
With a decrease in housing
requests and the construction of a
new dormitory, there will be an
, increase in housing fees this fall, she
said.
, Room and board fees in the
existing residence halls are now
SI, 381 a year. This fall, that figure
will jump to SI, 450.
When the new dormitory opens,
the fee for suites will be SI, 625.
Students who live in on-campus
apartments will pay ,$1,050 a year
for room and board. Young said that
is a less-expensive Tate because
those students will have an optional
meal plan, since their apartments
will include a kitchen, which will
allow them to cook their own meals.
But not al students want to live
off clmpus. Irvin L. Payne, a WSSU
senior, at 34' is a little older than the
traditional college student. He lives
off, but said if he had a choice, he
would rather live on campus.
"I would love to have the mem
ory of living on campus if I were a
younger student," Payne said. "My
advice to those who live on campus
is to stay an campus to avoid paying
bills. As long as mom and dad are
paying your tuition and room and
board, you might as well suck it up
and enjoy it."
Lisa Sales, who is also older
than most traditional students and
who is raising a family, agreed
"Students who live on campus
think living off campus is glam
orous for seme strange reason, but
they should be glad to be here,"
Sales said. "They're near the library
and they have everything they need
right here. They ought to enjoy cam
pus life before they get out in the
real world. They just don't know it,
but this is their last vacation before
they enter the real world."
But students who live on cam
pus said they have mixed feelings
about being there.
Toshia Gibson, a junior, said
along with the academics, campus
life gives her an opportunity to bond
socially with other on-campus stu
dents.
"I like being able to get to actu
ally see activities that go on on cam
pus and not having to wait and hear
about them later," Gibson said. "I
have a lot of friends on campus and
I get to sfc^ everybody."
But she said campus life does
have its drawbacks.
"Sometimes 1 feel closed in and
secluded from the world," Gibson
said. "I mean, all I see every day is
this campus."
But students who live on cam
pus said the worst part about cam
pus life is a lack of privacy because
of what they call "cramped" living
conditions.
Guy Parks, a senior from New
York, offered the most graphic
explanation.
"Even in the bathroom, you
can't have your privacv," Parks said.
"You feel self-conscious about
somebody hearing something that
should be natural. But the good
thing about living on campus is that
you know you're not in it by your
self. There are other people on cam
pus you can share stories with and
complain about how bad the break
fast was this morning."
Parks said he also realizes that
he wouldn't be able to afford living
off campus.
"It's easier to live on campus
because my parents pay fbr it,"
Parks said. "If I moved off campus,
I would be expected to work and
pay all my bills myself."
But Patterson, who is majoring
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in mass communications, said if
nothing else, campus life has
improved her communication skills.
"Living on campus teaches you
how to relate to other people," she
said. "And it requires great patience
because you know you have to get
along with people, especially if4tV
your roommate."
State University also pointed out
similarities in coaching football and
running a business during his
speech.
"In business as well as sports,
you organize a staff that sets up a
structure base to perform specific
duties for your group," Blount said.
"In the business world, you use
business managers, supervisors and
vice presidents. In football, we use
offensive coordinators, defensive
coordinators and a special teams
coach."
Blount said the quality of the
product, whether in business or
football, must be better than any
other competing product. He said
both must have a game plan in order
to have a successful business.
"You have to have the right
people in the right place in order to
make the transition take place
smoothly and uninterrupted,"
Blount said. "That's what you need
as business owners to prepare busi
ness deals."
During the gala, the East Area
Council named Classic
Cadillac/GMC Truck Inc., owned
by Chandler Lee, as the 1992
Minority Business of the Year. Lee
was selected among four other nom
inees, which were S. Eli Bradley df
the Packaging Store, Clarence Dal
ton III of Dalton Realty Inc., David
C. Hinton of David C. Hinton CPA,
and W. Ray Kelly of Winston
Salem Bible College.
Lee, who has only been in the
city for two years, has managed to
turn two previously bankrupt busi
nesses into profitable and successful
companies. Lee said he was hon
ored to be recognized by his peers.
"It's always been a personal
mission of mine to be a leader and a
role model to help others go into
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business for themselves," Lee said.
"1 really fe?l like it's a tribute to me
and I appreciate it. I hope I can be
catalyst to take the business to
greater heights. I'm proud of my
employees and especially my wife
and family who have stuck by me
and helped me make a positive con
tribution."
Photo by Prestor Wyles
Chandler Lee (far right) of Classic CadiUac/GMC Inc. was named 1992
Minority Business of the year by the East Area Council of the Chamber
of Commerce. Also pictured are (I to r }: Al Spain , Cynthia Cheek and
Harriet Beckham-Lee.
Noted
As one of nine children of a
mother on welfare, the Boston
native said hp much
racism in his lifetime. But he said
one way to erase biased attitudes is
for churches, universities and com
munities to come together to
address the changing demographics
of society.
Felder said Afrocentricism,
what he defines as the idea that
African Americans must be seen as
active persons in history without
demeaning the value of other cul
tures. must be taken seriously.
"Many of us fail to understand
there is another story to tiis-story',"
Felder said. "Our history as African
Americans did not begin with the
slave trade. We have been stereo
typed on T.V.. and some us have
even begun to believe the hype and
focused our energy on hate, which
we act out in our hostilities."
Felder graduated from Boston
Latin School, where he was the only
black in his class. He holds a B.A.
from Howard University and
advanced degrees from Union The
ological Seminary, Oxford Univer
sity and Columbia University.
But he said the nurr\ber of
degrees a person has does not make
society treat him any different. He
said America has a different value
system for blacks.
"African-American sisters and
brothers have lived in a society that
is hostile to them, irrespective of
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what may have been done to them,"
Felder said. "It's a tragedy when a
away. What do you expect? It's
amazing we don't have riots every
day. We see repression, police total
itarianism and things that happen
just because of our skin color."
Felder , who appeared on the
"Donahue" show last week, said
that . during the show Phil Donahue
said he understood why it is impor
tant to emphasize a multicultural
society: so that black children can
have positive role models and have
high self-esteem.
"I had to correct him," Felder
said. "I said white children need it,
too. If they're not informed about
the other story, white children will
develop from little racists into big
racists.'"
But Felder did not bash a par
ticular race for the nation's prob
lems of dealing with cultural diver
sity. He said the key to better
relations is to learn how to develop
a partnership across racial lines to
achieve success constructively.
Felder is the author of 'Trow
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bling Biblical Waters: Race . Class
and Family" and "Stony the Road
We Trod: African-American Bibli
cal Interpretation."
He is the editor of "The Journal
of Religious Thought" and an
African-American study Bible to be
on the market in July.
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