Joyner and crew to hit Gate City
FROM STAFF REPORTS
GREENSBORO - Move
over. Twin Cities.
The hardest working man in
radio is blowing into town.
Radio sensation Tom Joyner
and '70s love balladeers The
Spinners will headline "The
Greatest Homecoming on
Earth" sponsored by North Car
olina A&T State University
Alumni Association. .
"The Tom Joyner Southwest
Airlines Sky Show" will broad
cast live from the War Memori
al Auditorium, Greensboro Col
iseum Complex, at 6 a.m. Oct.
22. Doors will open at 5:15 a.m.
The A&T University Founda
tion and 97.1 FM WQMG are
co-sponsoring the show.
Joyner has hosted the "Tom
Joyner Morning Show" on the
ABC Radio Network since 1994.
A Tour-time Billboard Magazine
award winner, Joyner began his
radio career immediately after
he graduated from college. The
Tuskegee, Ala, native received
his bachelor's degree in sociolo
gy from Tuskegee Institute.
Joyner made headlines in the
mid-1980s when he accepted
simultaneous positions of morn
ing drive man at KKDA-FM in
Dallas and afternoon drive tal
ent at WGCI-FM in Chicago.
His daily round-trip commute
between the two cities earned
him national publicity, high rat
ings and millions of Frequent
Flyer miles.
Coca-Cola and the Tom
Joyner Foundation have created
a tremendous opportunity for
listeners to raise money to help
deserving students continue
their education at historically
black colleges and institutions.
You can help A&T raise money
by buying Coca-Cola Classic
bottles. Save the caps and bring
them to A&T's alumni office,
bookstore, cafeteria or Student
Union. This month, the fund
drive will benefit Winston-Salem
State University.
, The Spinners will perform
Oct. 22 at 9 p.m. in the Guilford
Ballroom, Holiday Inn Four
Seasons. The group has been
performing for decades, and its
classic sound and musical
approach continue to have uni
versal appeal.
The Spinners are one of the
few groups who can boast of
four lead singers. They are John
Edwards, Bobbie Smith, Henry
Fambrough and Pervis Jackson.
The other member of the quin
tet is JtJilly
Hender
son.
The
Spinners'
hits
include
"Mighty
Love,
"Then
Came
Y o u , "
"Rubber
b a n d
Man," "I'll Be Around," "One of
a Kind Man," "Games People
Play" and "Could It Be."
Over the years, The Spinners
have had 12 gold records, with
their hits climbing to the top of
both the pop and R&B charts.
Ebonique will appear before
The Spinners.
Tickets are $40 per person.
Tables are available at $500 and
$1,000. Tickets are available at
A&T's ticket office, 334-7749.
A dance party will be held
after the show.
Other homecoming activities
include:
? Oct. 21 - coronation of
Miss A&T, Corbett Sports Cen
ter, 7 p.m.
? Oct. 22 - 21st annual
Richard E. Moore Memorial
Aggie Homecoming Golf Tour
nament, Bryan Park Golf
Course, 8:30 a.m. (Cost: $100).
? Oct. 22 - Gate City Alumni
Chapter's ninth annual Scholar
ship Aggie "No Tap" Bowling
Tournament, BufTaloe Lanes
(10:30 a.m., noon, 1:30 p.m. and
3 p.m.). Tickets: $20.
? Oct. 22 - The McDonald's
Heritage Bowl Campus Tour,
Holland Bowl, noon-4 p.m.
? Oct. 22 - chancellor's
reception (by invitation), Holi
day Inn Four Seasons, 6 p.m.
? Oct. 22 - A&T Greek Step
Show, Corbett Sports Center, 8
p.m. Tickets: students $8, gener
al admission $12.
? Oct. 23 - annual Teloca
Homecoming Breakfast,
Greensboro Hilton, 8 a.m. Cost:
$15.
? Oct. 23 - A&T homecom
ing parade, starting location -
Market and Laurel, 9 a.m.;
pregame show - Aggie Stadium,
11 a.m.
? Oct. 23 - homecoming foot
ball game, A&T vs. Howard
University, Aggie Stadium,
12:30 p.m. Tickets: reserved $20,
general admission $15, children
$10.
? Oct. 23 - A&T Hip-Hop
Vibe '99 Concert, Greensboro
Coliseum, 7:30 p.m. Doors open
at 6 p.m. Showtime is 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $21.50.
? Oct. 23 - Harvest Moon
Homecoming Dance, Veteran
Memorial Coliseum, Winston
Salem, 8 p.m. Tickets: $25.
? Oct. 23 - Dr. Frank C. Bell
Endowment Scholarship Ball
featuring William Bell, former
Stax Record R&B recording
artist, Koury Convention Cen
ter, 9 p.m. Tickets: $50.
? Oct. 24 - A&T alumni wor
ship service, Koury Convention
Center, Imperial Ballroom C, 10
a.m., Rev. William F. Wright,
New Zion Missionary Baptist
Church.
? Oct. 24 - A&T Gospel
Show, Harrison Auditorium, 4
p.m.
Call A&T's ticket office, 336
334-7749, for more information.
Lonise Bias headlines Red Ribbon Week
Mother of late basketball
star to speak on evils of
drugs
Prom staff reports ?
For years, Lonise Bias has
preached against the evils of
drugs.
*' Next Tuesday, she brings her
message to Winston-Salem.
Bias is the mother of Len
Bias, the gifted University of
Maryland basketball player who
died in 1986 shortly after being
drafted by the NBA's Boston
Celtics.
Four years later, the Bias
family suffered a second tragic
toss when younger son, Jay, was
killed in a drive-by ^hooting at a
frail.
? Bias will be the keynote
? *
speaker for Red Ribbon Week -
a seven-day drug awareness
campaign
coordinated
by The
Coalition
for Drug
Abuse Pre
vention.
Red
Ribbon
week was
created to
mark the
1985 death
Bias
of DEA
agent Kiki Camarena. Camare
na was tortured and murdered
just as he was about to close a
dangerous ring of Mexican drug
lords. In his honor, friends and
family wore red ribbons to com
memorate his death.
Bias has dedicated the years
since Len Bias' death to raising
awareness of the havoc drug
abuse creates in America's fami
lies. A veteran of the national
talk show circuit, in 1996, Bias
received a standing ovation from
President Clinton after a moving
speech on the perils of drug
trade both for users and dealers.
Also slated to take part in
Red Ribbon Week is Students
Against Violence Everywhere, a
group founded by Carver High
School freshman and Chronicle
teen columnist Todd Nelson.
Following is a list of activi
ties for Red Ribbon Week:
Oct. 23 - Displays created by
local chapters of Students
Against Violence Everywhere
and the Youth Advisory Council
See Bias on A10
Democrats
from page A2
between Feb. 1 and March 7. That
^ould give the New Hamsphire
winner five weeks to ride the tide
of victory.
Fifteen states and American
Samoa have scheduled primaries
and caucuses March 7. More than
1,300 delegate votes will be up for
grabs, 61 percent of the 2,169
needed to win the nomination
under current assumptions.
The day was tailor-made for
Bradley, whose strong ties to the
Northeast date to his Hall of
Fame career as a professional bas
ketball player with the New York
Knicks. Connecticut, Maine,
Maryland, Massachusetts, New
York and Rhode Island are lean
ing toward Bradley, consultants
say.
He also is strong in Minnesota
and his home state of Missouri,
they said.
Of the remaining states, only
California's 367 delegates and
Ohio's 146 delegates pack a punch.
Gore holds a 5-2 lead over Bradley
in the Golden State and must
maintain it.
"If Gore ends up losing in both
California and New York, it's not
necessarily a fatal blow. But it's
pretty close to it," Garin said.
The flip side, consultants say, is
that the race could end March 7 if
Gore wins New Hampshire. New
York and California.
"Right now, it's advantage
Gore," said Los Angeles consul
tant Bill Carrick, a Gore ally. "But
this is a trendy place where votes
can move really fast."
With 41 percent of the delegate
votes awarded through March 7,
Gore and Bradley would spend the
next week battling in Utah (edge
to Bradley), Nevada (edge to
Gore), Colorado (toss-up) and a'
few other states before a Southern
showdown.
Up next, March 14: Bradley's
day of reckoning. If Bradley had a
good week, this is Gore's chance
for a comeback.
The vice president is from Ten
nessee and enjoys 3-to-l support
among blacks, two advantages that
could give him a sweep of the day's
six states - Florida, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee
and Texas.
Bradley plans to pick one state
to focus his resources, hoping to
stall Gore's momentum. His top
aides have worked in Mississippi,
and Bradley is within 12 percent
age points of Gore in Oklahoma.
Paul Begala, a Democratic
consultant and Gore ally, said
Bradley will run out of oxygen
after the March 7 primaries, which
are stocked with high-salaried,
well-educated voters who tell poll
sters they favor Bradley over Gore.
With little support from labor
or minority voters, Bradley will
not feel as welcome among South
ern Democrats, Begala said.
"Bradley is down now to
Chablis drinkers and Brie eaters
and Volvo drivers," he said.
"Those are wonderful Democrats,
but you've got to have some beer
drinkers or you don't get the nom
ination."
Twp-thirds of the delegates will
be pledged through March 14,
awarded proportionally based on
the candidates' showing in con
gressional districts and statewide.
If Bradley wins New Hampshire,
sweeps the Northeast, loses Cali
fornia and is swept by Gore on
March 14, the delegate count at
this point could still be roughly
even.
Consultants say it could be a
slugfest after March 15, with the
advantage going to Gore because
of his support among party lead
ers. He should get a lion's share of
the 799 "super delegates" - elected
officials and party leaders whose
votes are not tied to primary
results.
One wild card may be Bradley's
larger-than-expected campaign
treasury. Gore's free-spending
ways continue this week with a
$440,000 ad campaign.
The worst-case scenario for
Democrats: Tnfe primary fight for
liberal voters drags into May or
June. If the GOP contest is settled
sooner, the Republican nominee
would get a head start courting
general election voters.
"Gore will be the ultimate
nominee, but he will be defined
way to the left of mainstream - out
of money and short on ideas," said
GOP consultant Scott Reed.
Reed managed the 1996 cam
paign of Republican nominee Bob
Dole, who staggered out of the
primary - broke and easily cast by
President Clinton as a pawn of
extremists in his party.
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