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White Student Quits as FSU Drum Major Because of Race
FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — A
rhite student who resigned as drum
lajor of the marching band at a pre-
ominantly black school said he did
for the good of the band.
“I don’t want this to cause
ay more trouble than it has,” said
illy Foster, 22.
Foster stepped down Aug. 31
rfter being selected as the first white
Renee Glenn
Shontain Peterson
Gunshot to
Woman's Head
Proves Fatal
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ired the gun or it discharged when
jlenn pushed the gun away from
ler face.
Willette "Tutu" Spease, Glen-
I's roommate and longtime friend,
hey — and another friend, Fred
2rump — had just left Club 25 on
'forth Liberty Street and were sit
ing inside a car outside the apart-
nent
She said she had just gone
inside the apartment when she
jeard a gunshot. When she came
back outside, she said, Glenn's
Faced was pressed against the driver
side car window.
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"I went to the driver side and
Jpened the door and she fell in my
>rms," Spease said. "For a while, I
sat there holding her."
Before they left the club, she
said pleaded with Peterson to put
the gun away, but she assured him
that he would be careful.
Peterson, who was arrested
after he arrived at the hospital to
check on Glenn the morning of the
shooting, is being held in the
Forsyth County Jail without bail.
CORRECTION
■ In last week's Chronicle, an Art-
sReach" headline misidentified the
sponsors of the "Arts of the Ethics:
Coming Together for a Change"
Workshop. The conference is spon
sored by the Sawtooth Center for
Visual Arts.
The Chronicle regrets this error.
person chosen to lead Fayetteville
State University’s marching band
last month.
Students, band members and
administrators who spoke about
Foster’s resignation — which came
four days before the band’s season
debut — agreed that racial pressure
was behind it. Some said that much
of the pressure came from students
who were not band members, the
Fayetteville Observer-Times
reported.
An FSU student who asked
not to be identified said the resigna
tion “was definitely a black-white
thing. I think a lot of it came not
from within the band, but from stu
dents outside the band who watched
the practices.”
She said some students
believe that although a third of the
students at the historically black
university are white, key positions
on the campus should go to blacks.
Some black students see the white
students as commuters who don’t
participate in extracurricular activi
ties.
“Billy wasn’t like that,” said
Mallonee Clay, one of last year’s
drum majors. “He is a dedicated
member of the band. He loves and
supports the band. He’s a member
of (the band fraternity) Kappa
Kappa Psi and goes to all the musi
cal events. I think students on the
outside didn’t understand.”
FSU Chancellor Lloyd “Vic”
Hackley said Foster should not have
resigned.
“I wish he had talked to me. I
would have encouraged him to stand
tall and keep going. This is unfortu
nate for him and the school,” Hack-
ley said.
Band director William Woods
stood behind his decision to make
Foster one of his two drum majors.
But he said the band “would move
on” and the controversy would not
disrupt the band’s season.
Foster said he will remain in
the band to play the mellophone, an
instrument similar to a French horn.
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