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Winston-Salem Chronicle
THURSDAY, JUNE 10/1W3
'Tower concedes nothing without a struggle" ? Frederick Douglass
VOL. XIX, No. 41
Racist Notes Left on Dorm Doors at Salem
A Officials discuss incident
with black, white students
By RICHARD L WILLIAMS
ChronicU Managing Editor
Racist notes using the term "nigger" were left on
the dormitory doors of four students at Salem College,
students to discuss the incident. .
The incident, which occurred during the early
morning hours of April 26, were left on the doors of
four students ? three African Americans and one white,
college officials said.
A Salem College student who requested anonymity,
said the notes attached to the doors of the black students
said "Niggers Go Home," and the one attached to the
door of the white student called her a "nigger-lover."
The white student's boyfriend is black.
The $iay of the incident, Julianne Still Thrift, presi
dent of Salem Academy and College, M. Cynthia Farris,
dean of students, and Sidney L. Kelly Jr., head of the
religion department and faculty advisor to a group con
cerned about the quality of life of African- American stu
dents, met with the four students.
That evening, meetings were held in several dormi
tories to discuss the incident In all the meetings, admin
istrators said, black and white students alike expressed
shock, outrage and anger over the incident. Meetings
continued Tuesday of that week, and on the following
day Thrift sent a memorandum to all students calling the
incident a "cowardly" act.
"It was a real attack on what we claim we are, the
kind of environment we think we have here," Thrift said
Tuesday in an interview.
The incident occurred three days after Onua, an
African- American organization on campus, held its
inaugural dinner-dance at which Deloris "Dee" Smith,
president of the Winston-Salem Urban League, was
guest speaker. Thrift said the program might have trig
gered the racist notes.
Later that week, a special leadership class for fresh
men discussed the incident and talked about what could
be done to improve race relations on campus. The fol
lowing week, an open forum was held in the Refectory,
where students, faculty and staff eat lunch, to further
discuss the incident.
"Out of this terribly tragic incident, we have been
able to get in touch with many underlying issues that are
now being dealt with in a very open way," Farris said.
"What was a terribly destructive act has resulted in ver^r
constructive things that we wilt continue to move for
ward with in the fall."
Salem College, a four-year, all-women's liberal arts
school on the city's south side in Old Salem, has about
800 students, 5 percent of whom are minority. Officials
from the college say they are saddened by the incident,
and that they are committed'to a diverse faculty andstu*
- dent body. They note that two of the six new faculty
members for the next academic year are African-Ameri
can. They also said that new faculty and staff members
will receive special training for dealing with issues of
diversity.
"We do not seek diversity because it's simple or
easy or because it's symbolic," Thrift said, "but bee mm
it improves the educational experience of all our stu
dents and because it's good for the society in which we
live."
Three of the students were freshmen and one was a
sophomore. The four said they plan to return to Salem
College in the fall, said Rachel Barron, a college
spokesperson.
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; ??-/^^Ebbby Brown Cancels Tour
tf MMLULU I AP ) ? Bobby Brown has can
celcd the European leg of his world tour on the
Moo, i
Even though he was told to take at least a
month off, Brown said he would perform one last
time here. Brown, who has been on the road since
last December, arrived here last week following per
formances in Japan. Brown promised a few surprises
at last week*! show at the Neal Blaisdell Area, but
. j -A ""^I'TniTW ?
wouldn't say if one of them would be an appearance
by his wife, singer Whitney Houston, who flew in
from California to be with her husband.
r ,1"' Rosa Parks Sues Bookstore
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ATLANTA ? Civil Rights movement heroine
Rosa Parks has sued an Atlanta bookstore and three
men for return of a book inscribed to her by the late
Martin Lather Luther King Jr. Last July, the men
reportedly contacted Parks and told her they had
found the book Strength to Love ? but demanded
$2,500 before they would return it Negotiations with
Parks* lawyer produced a deal for the book to be
returned at no charge, but a few
months ago the men reneged on
that agreement. Parks filed her
suit at the end of May. Neither
the men nor the bookstore ?
Oxford Too ? would explain
why they are refusing to return
the book. Parks is often credited
with sparking the* modern civil
rights movement when she
refused to give up her seat on a
Montgomery, Ala. public bus to a white man and
move to the back of the bus. That action in the mid
1950s helped launch the civil rights career of Dr.
King. ;$f
Cops Cleared In Beating
NASHVILLE, TN ? A grand jury recently
refused to indict five white police officers who
choked and beat a black officer after pulling him
over in his unmarked car last December. However,
two of the officers were fired for using excessive
force while the other three were cleared and rein- ?
stated. Meanwhile, the black officer Reggie Miller
said the entire incident was prompted by racism.
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Ttin Wff.k In Biac* History
On May 12, 1967, H. Rap Brown replaced Stokcly Carmichael
as chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating C ommittec.
Blacks Say Police Quick to Overreact
? Police officers defend
their actions
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Doris Bines (center), whose son was killed by a police officer last
week, is consoled at a candlelight vigil at Cleveland Avenue Homes.
By MARK R. MOSS
Chronicli Slaff Writer
On two occasions last month, Winston
Salem police officers used pepper spray on
black residents of public housing complexes
while attempting to make arrests.
Last week. Officer Eugene F. Piscitelli
again used the gas while attempting to make
an arrest at a public housing complex. This
latest incident, which resulted in the shooting
death of Daron Lamont Bines by Piscitelli and
the officer being severely wounded, prompted
several residents to complain that police often
overreact when investigating reports of distur
bances in African-American communities.
Several residents discussed their feelings
last Friday during a vigil near Cleveland
Avenue Homes, where Bines was shot. About
75 people, including two police officers
attended the vigil, sponsored by Black Men
and Women Against Crime.
"The residents are afraid and so are the
police," said Wanda Mclntyre, a Kimberly
Park resident and youth program director for
the Kimberly Park recreation center. "The bot
tom line is that this city is on the edge of a
panic attack."
But, she added, nl don't think you can
judge how the police are doing their job by
this shooting."
Estclla Jenkins, a resident of Happy Hill
Gardens, said she felt ambivalent about the
Daron Lamons Bines
presence of
police in Iter
community.
"We can
do without
them," she
said, "but at
the same time
we got to
have them."
Last
month, when
police used
pepper spray
on residents
at Kimberly
Park, out
raged resi
dents claimed
that officers
used exces
sive force.
Two weeks
later, police
used the
spray again,
this time on a
crowd that had
gathered at Happy Hill Gardens. Pepper spray
contains oils from cayenne pepper and does
not cause permanent injury. -
Officer EJF. PbcUtUi
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Shooting
Victim
Discusses
Attack
A Victim friend
of skinhead
By DAVID L. DILLARD
Chronicle Staff Writer
Julius Jai Johnson never
thought twice about waving a peace
sign to an old friend ? even if he is
a skinhead. But this innocent ges
and fatal to a friend.
Aaron Harrison Moser, a for
mer schoolmate of Johnson's at
Independence High School, shot
and killed Thomas Joseph "Tom
cat" Scharf last week and wounded
Julius Johnson (left), Mikel Matthews and Erica Clark at the hospital
Johnson, authorities said.
Moser is an acknowledged
skinhead with ties to the National
Socialist Front, an off-shoot of the
Ku Klux Klan. Moser and Scharf
are white; Johnson is black.
As Johnson was recovering in
his room at Baptist- Hospital this
week, he revealed details about last
week's shooting on Clemmonsville
Road. After waving at the car,
Johnson said, the Pinto turned
around. He recalled Moser and two
other white majes in the car asking
Scharf about someone named Joe.
For no apparent reason, Johnson
said, Moser shot Scharf, a white
male, and Johnson ran from the
scene with the gun pointed at his
back.
"Paul (Bishop)yet!ed out shoot
him, but Vance (Adams) pushed
him or hit his arm and the bullet hit
me in the legv" Johnson said. "If it
wasn't for Vance, he migftt have
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Outdated Meats
Go to E. Winston
? Lawsuits pending
against Food Lion
By MARK R. MOSS
ChronicU Staff Writer
On the heels of nationally televised allegations thai
Food Lion was misrepresenting the freshness of its per
ishable products comes assertions from a former
employee that the grocery store chain was sending old
meat to its store in East Winston.
Bobby R. Woollen, a former Food Lion employee,
maintains that while he worked at the Jonestown Road
store in predominantly white southwest Winston-Salem,
he was often told to "send all close-to-date and out-of
date stock to the Claremont Store."
Woollen makes the claims in an affidavit dated
Dec. 8, 1992. Accompanying the affidavit is a list of
about SO names of former employees who Fingerhut,
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