New Wake Forest president to speak
at Union as part of inaugural events
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
As part of the slate of events
to mark his inauguration as the
13th president of Wake Forest
University, Nathan O. Hatch
will take part in a community
prayer breakfast and prayer
service at Union Baptist Church
Oct. 18.
The breakfast is by invitation
only, but the prayer service,
which will start at 8:15 a.m., is
open to the public. It will feature
a keynote address by Maya
Angelou. Wake's Reynolds pro
fessor of American studies.
Hatch and several community
leaders will also speak.
Hatch is at home in church
es. The Columbia, S.C., native is
one of the most influential
scholars in the study of the his
tory of religion in America.
The Union service is one of
the few inaugural events that the
general public is invited to
attend.
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Nathan Hatch will be inaugurated Oct. 20.
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monthly rent for one large anchor
store at one of their malls,"
claimed Alozie. "What type of
message does this send to a multi
million dollar corporation?"
Alozie's attorney. Sabinus
Megwa, agrees.
"It's very weird. Usually, if
someone is discriminated, there's
damages'to his civil rights, so I'm
surprised there was not an award,"
he said.
In a statement, the Mills Corp.
said: "We are pleased that the jury
recognized that the plaintiff was
not entitled to any recovery on his
claims. We believe, however, that
neither the nominal award (of $1)
nor the punitive damages that
were assessed against the defen
dants are supported by the evi
dence."
Alozie said that it is time for
Arizona Mills and the Mills Corp.
to apologize to the community for
their discriminatory behavior.
"They wanted to close my store
because it attracted what they
believed were the wrong type of
people."
Alozie opened the store in
July 1999 under a temporary
lease. At the end of 2000, he says,
the mall management told him
there was no temporary space for
his store but that he could stay if
he signed a permanent lease.
His store closed while he
waited for a space under a perma
nent lease. Meanwhile, a compet
ing nonminority business. Painted
With Oil, was able to keep a tem
porary lease, as was Tommy Hil
figer, Alozie said.
Alozie did manage to reopen
with a temporary lease in June
2001, which lasted until Septem
ber that year, when a permanent
space was found. His rent tripled
to more than $16,000. He stayed
there until he was harassed for
failure to pay rent, he said, and he
engaged in a dispute over whether
he had paid on time.
"The bank's records showed
that they already had deposited
my rent check even though they
were claiming that I was late,"
said Alozie.
His store generated more than
$500,000 in sales in 2000. includ
ing $100,000 in December, he
said. He made $41 jOOO in January
2001 , but monthly sales never hit
that mark again, he said. He attrib
Maya Angelou will keynote special service
Hatch, the former provost at
the University of Notre Dame,
will be inaugurated Oct. 20
Evqnts stretching over a week
will be held to usher in the
school's new leader, concluding
with a home football game on
Oct. 22 pitting Wake against
N.C. State.
A pair of academic sympo
siums moderated by Princeton
University historian/ lecturer
Stanley N . Kat/ and Washington
Post columnist EJ. Dionne Jr
will take place Oct. 19.
Hatch's invitation-only inau
gural service will be held at Wait
Chapel. All of the chapel's 2200
seats are expected to be occu
pied with Wake Forest faculty,
representatives of other colleges
and universities, governmental
officials, members of the univer
sity's board of trustees and vol
unteer boards, community lead
uted the downturn to being closed
for five months in 2001 .
When the Arizona Informant
first covered the story in 2002,
mall management and the Mills
Corp. refused to comment on the
case or mall policy. Now, they
claim to have a zero-tolerance
policy for discrimination of any
kind, and adhere to state and fed
eral guidelines.
However, the mall, which has '
about 175 stores, has not had any
other black-owned stores and lists
very few diverse store offerings.
Ron Busby, chairman of the
Greater Phoenix Black Chamber
of Commerce, said the court win
is a victory for black-owned busi
nesses that have long complained
that landlords change leases or opt
not to renew when the business
attracts a "certain crowd."
ers, student and administrative
staff representatives.
Hatch will deliver an inaugu
ral address at the installation
ceremony, following formal
greetings delivered by speakers
such as Sen. Richard M. Burr
and Mary Pipines Kasley, the
wife of Gov. Mike Easley. Both
are Wake Forest alumni.
Thomas K. Hearn Jr., who
retired as Wake president earlier
this year, is also slated to take
part.
The installation ceremony
will be webcast live on the Wake
Forest Web site and shown live
on a giant screen in the school's
Brendle Recital Hall.
Immediately after the 3 p.m.
ceremony, a public reception
will take place on Hearn Plaza
(the Quad), outside the chapel.
Maya Angelou has been on
the Wake Forest faculty.
Wilson
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prominence.
"The playwright's voice in
American culture is perceived as
having been usurped by televi
sion and film, but he reasserted
the power of drama to describe
large social forces, to explore the
meaning of an entire people's
experience in American history,"
playwright Tony Kushner told
the New York Times. "For all the
magic in his plays, he was writ
ing in the grand tradition of
Eugene O'Neill and Arthur
Miller, the politically engaged,
direct social realist drama. He
was reclaiming ground for the
theater that most people thought
had been abandoned."
Wilson cast such a large
shadow on Broadway that Vir
ginia Theater will be renamed
the August Wilson Theater on
Oct. 17.
Wilson attributes his success
to his ability to let his characters
take over a play.
"I start - generally I have an
idea of something I want to say -
but I start with a line of dia
logue," Wilson said in the speech
excerpted by the New York
Times. "I have no idea half the
time who's speaking or what
they're saying. I'll start with the
line, and the more dialogue I
write, the better I get to know the
characters. For instance, in writ
ing the play 'The Piano Lesson,'
one of the characters, Bemiece,
says something to Boy Willie,
her brother, and he talks about
how 'Sutter fell in the Well.' Well
this is a surprise to me. I didn't
know that.
"Then I say, 'Well, who is
Sutter?' You see, if you have a
character in a play, the character
who knows everything, then you
won't have any problem. When
ever you get stuck, you ask them
a question. I have learned that if
you trust them and simply do not
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August Wilson counted
poet, activist Amiri Baraka
as one of his inspirations .
even think about what they're
saying, it doesn't matter. TTiey
say things like, 'Sutter fell in the
well.' You just write it down and
make it all make sense later. So I
use those characters a lot. Any
thing you want to know you ask
the characters."
As for his own inspiration,
Wilson cited what he called his
four B's: Romare Bearden. the
artist; Amiri Baraka. playwright
and poet; Jorge Luis Borges, an
Argentine short-story writer; and
blues, j which he calls "the
biggest B of all."
In his speech, Wilson argued
for re-establishing strong family
ties in the African-American
community.
"I think that we as black
Americans need to go back and
make the connection that we
allowed to be severed when we
moved from the South to the
North, the great migration start
ing in 1915," he stated. "For the
most part, the culture that was
growing and developing in the
Southern part of the United
States for 200 and some years,
we more or less abandoned. And
we have a situation where in
1 99 1 kids do not know who they
are because they cannot make
the connection with their grand
parents - and therefore the con
nection with their political histo
ry in America."
When "Fences" was
optioned as a movie, Wilson
proved that he had not lost his
connection to his community by
demanding that an African^
American be hired to direct the
movie.
In an interview with Spin
magazine, he said: "I am not car
rying the banner for black direc
tors. I think they should carry
their own. I am not trying to get
work for black directors. I am
.trying to get the film of my play
made in the best possible way. I
declined a white director not on
the basis of race but on the basis
of culture. White directors are
not qualified for the job. The job
requires someone who shares the
specifics of the culture of black
Americans."
The film was never made.
And Wilson has never apolo
gized for concentrating on the
black experience.
"In my own work, what I
hope to do is to place the tradi
tion of black American culture,
to demonstrate its ability to sus
tain us," he explained. "We have
a ground that is specific, that is
peculiarly ours, that we can
stand on, which gives us a world
view, to look at the world and to
comment on it. I'm just trying to
place that culture on stage and to
demonstrate its existence and
maybe also indicate some direc
tions toward which we as a peo
ple might possibly move."
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