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A SportsWeek ,_r A Community 1 A8&Th w?jfo?!'7 Jackets advance FTCC students in playoffs smii ^A3 s?? cj receive GEDs 75 cents WlNSTON-SALEM. GkEENSBORO HiCH POINT Vol. XXVI No. 13 ... the chronicle .6 K C ROOM MV -? -* ^ -A ^ AMV 66?St!T5ThN5r f i 1:3 /97* - Celebrating 25Years - 7999 ~ ' 'Redisricting = Resegregationr BY CHER1S HODGES THE CHRONICLE The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school system called Nov. 11a day for celebration. But the NAACP and the Black Leadership Roundtable called it a day of protest. , The protest centered around the School Choice plan, a redis I tricting plan the groups think takes Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools back to the days of Jim Crow law, where schools were separate and unequal. "Under this plan, what it has done is built brand new multimil lion dollar middle schools in Kernersville and Clemmons," said See Protest on AS Photo by Cheris Hodges Robert Hainton Jr. prof**fx the school choke plan. Service Learning WSSU students find hope, despair in Snow Hill, N.C. Following is the first of a two-part series detailing a trip made by nine Winston-Salem Slate University students to Snow Hill, N. C. The university is part of a statewide effort to get students at historically black colleges and universities involved in cleanup efforts in the wake of Hurricane Floyd BY JER] YOUNG THE CHRONICLE 7:25 a.m. - When Atiya Dennard arrived at the Thompson Center, two Saturdays ago, she was excited. Dennard, a senior from Greenville with a quick wit and infec tious laugh, was returning home to help victims of Hurricane Floyd. One of two students on the trip from the eastern part of the state, Dennard said she relished the chance to help out. "I know people in that area," she said. "This has been really, really hard on them. 1 think that this is just my time to help out." Dennard was part of a group of students who ventured out 2 from the university's campus to make the almost four-hour jour ney to Snow Hill, N.C., a tiny hamlet in the eastern part of the state. Most were sociology majors who came to get a feel for the world they would face as social workers. The vast majority had never heard of Snow Hill, much less been there. But they were all united in one goal - to help people touched by the flood get back on their feet. Part of a statewide effort to get historically black colleges and / universities involved in flood relief, the state's HBCUs are paired . ^ with a county in the eastern part of the state. During the first part v of the project, students hand out information on safety and ser >* vices available to flood victims. Later, the students will return to help clean up flooded houses and buildings. > Students have sponsored their own flood relief efforts on cam '2 pus. including a food drive sponsored by a fraternity and a cloth ?2 ing drive sponsored by two students. ' But this was the first time most students would actually see what a flooded town looked like. , ; "We've done other things," said Gail Favors, coordinator of community service and service learning. "We just haven't been 'r out yet." Favors had lofty goals for her students. "I hope they get good communications skills out of this. 7:53 a.m. - After what seemed hours of waiting for lunches ( See Flood on A11 < Photos by Jeri Young "hrystql Beamon peeks out of the door of her temporary home - i trailer set up in her front yard. Storytellers' annual festival opens in Winston OBY CHERIS HODGES THE CHRONICLE > Storytelling is a tradition born in African villages. .. It was raised in America so the past would not be forgotten. This week in Winston-Salem, rife tradition of telling colorful titles lives on. ; ? The National Association of Sack Story Tellers' 17th annual ack Storytelling Festival began yesterday and runs through Sun day. The festival will honor story idler and writer Eleanora Tate and Jtjhn Hope Franklin. Both will fioceive the NABS Zora Neale Hurst on award at a banquet Satur day night in the Adam's Mark Hotel. ?t Darby West, a member of the North Carolina Association of Black Story Tellers, said members of the group are excited Winston Salem won the right to hold the festival this year. The group expected to have more than 1,000 people from Canada, the ' Caribbean and other countries attend the festival. The opening ceremonies for the festival begin tonight at 7. At 8:30, the group will march from the Adam's Mark down to the Sawtooth Building on Marshall Street to continue the opening night festivities. Storytellers from all genres of the oral tradition will be present this week continuing the tradition of entertaining and informing. The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school system has teamed up with NABS to bring the storytellers to the students. Today, many students in area schools will get a chance to see and feel the magic of storytelling. "We have three elementary and three middle schools that are part nered with the adopt a storyteller," said Willette Nash, cultural infu sion specialist with the school sys tem. The schools participating in the adopt a storyteller program are Kimberley Park. Diggs and Moore elementary schools and Atkins, Hanes and Paisley middle schools. "A storyteller will go into the six schools for an hour." Nash said. She said the children will have a chance to see the rich tradition of African and African American cul ture and gain from the experience. "Elementary students really enjoy being read to and hearing stories," said the former elemen tary teacher. "I think the children will be enriched by learning from a culture other than the mainstream culture." According to Nash, this festival adds to the schools system's push for multiculturalism in education. Atkins Middle School has been involved with the festival all week. Nash said students from the school attended the youth conference the group held. TTie youth workshops are being held at the Anderson Center, on the campus of \^jnston-Salem State University. For more events during the con vention, see page CI. Mixed reviews for school rally BY T. KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE It was part pep rally, part variety show - rejuvenating to some people and a waste of pre cious time to others. The school system convoca tion held last week at the colise um was not all things to all peo ple, but all employees of the sys tern were mandated to be there. Billed as a time for all of those involved in educating chil dren to "come together," the con vocation brought every secretary, teacher, principal, custodian, cafeteria worker, bus driver, teacher's assistant and adminis trator in the county together Se, Convocation on AS Roundtable to discuss action on demoted officers BY PAUL COLLINS THE CHRONICLE At its meeting tonight, the Black Leadership Roundtable of Winston Salem/Forsyth County will consider launching a massive petition drive, a letter-wnting or telephone campaign or other actions to protest the demotion of three African American police officers this month for alleged lax police supervision of a rap concert Aug. 28 at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Many black leaders think the police officers are unfairly being made to take the rap and that higher ups should be disciplined. Police Chief Linda Davis demoted Sgts. Chuck Byrom and Steve Hairston to the rank of senior police officer, and demoted Sgt. Victor Robinson two ranks to police officer. Davis took that action after r* <"??. ? * - ?< Womble ny Manager nryce siuari issuea a repon aooui me concen tnai teatured multiple acts, including the infamous Luther Campbell of 2 Live Crew fame. Stuart's report said, among other things, that there was lax police super vision. The report said fights and nudity were rampant throughout much of the concert. The report said that there is a possibility that an actual act of oral sex took place on stage that night, though no security personnel reported seeing such an act. "Hie Police Department is investigating. Nine off-duty police officers were hired by the concert promoter to pro vide security for the concert. They were part of a security force that includ ed 14 nonpolice security guards, nine door guards and 16 ushers. A police tactical squad was on standby outside of the coliseum in case the situation inside got out of hand, but the team was never called. Stuart's report criticized not only security but Bucky Dame, the colise um manager, and concert promoters. See Roundtobl? on AS Rebuilding Liberia University professor banking on survival of war-torn African nation BYT. KEVIN WALKER THE CHRONICLE Frederick Hunder, 63. is a college professor in a country that is cling ing on to hope and survival. He prepares his lessons and grades assignments by candlelight, and he has been paid in food many times in the past. But even though he was educated in the United States and many members of his family fled to this country long ago, Hunder says he '* i L:. ? * WUII I dlMHUUIJ IllS U III Yd Miy IUI glCCIld pdMUrcy His heart is in Liberia, and that is where his address will remain - forever. Hunder said. Liberia, a tiny West African nation, is inching its way back from a decades-long civil war. Bitter fighting has devastated the country's infrastructure and created a mass exodus among its citizens, who are disbursed around the world. The University of Liberia, located in the capital city of Monrovia, was not spared from the destruc tion. Electricity and running water in school build ings are rare, but human deficiencies have been . t , .t II. i . .. ? J Hunder mosi cosny 10 me university, nunuer saia. "(The war) created a serious brain drain at the university," he said. ' Hunder has been at the school for 35 years; he currently teaches biol ogy and serves as the acting dean of the department of science and tech nology. But Hunder's long tenure is unique. Many professors and stu dents were killed during the war; many others fled and took their exper tise to other nations. Hunder, who attended Syracuse University in the 1960s, has returned to the United States for many reasons. He will give his daughter away in marriage in Georgia next week; she fled her homeland before the worst of the fighting began. Hunder has also come to visit two of his brothers, one of whom is Winston-Salem resident James Hunder, president of the Liberian Orga nization of the Piedmont Hunder has also come to help his university. Armed with a letter from the school's president. Hunder is planning to f > !t I A ^fT7*v 1^1?1 ^fMwnwionmw 1 ? FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS CALL (33 A) 723-BAR A ? MASTERCARD, VISA AND AMERICAN EXPRESS ACCEPTED .? 41 ; ' i
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