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Faculty leader wants Howard president out WASHINGTON (AP) - A faculty leader at Howard' University is calling for the ouster of President H. Patrick Swygert, accusing him of putting one of the most prestigious historically black schools in financial jeopardy. i neouore tiremner, chairman ol the faculty senate, wrote to Howard's board of trustees this past week on behalf of the senate's leadership coun cil that it is time to end "an intolerable condition of incompetence and dys function at the highest level." The let ter was obtained by The Washington Post. Swygert, who has been president since 1995, said he had seen the letter and doe¬ plan to resign. "1 thifrk it clearly demonstrates Swygert now democratic and how open the uni versity is and how free the faculty is to express opinions," he said. The letter accuses Swygert of failing to keep financial problems at the university hospital from spilling over into academic budgets. Academic programs^jre plagued by sub standard equipment and facilities, it said. It also cited a recent National Science Foundation audit that criticized Howard's management of grant money. The federal government is the largest source of revenue for the private university. The faculty senate, made up of more than 1 XXX) full-time professors, has had a contentious relationship with the admin istration. Earlier this month, the leadership council voted 16 to 2, with one abstention, to send the letter of concern to the board. The council has about 50 members. Obama pays tickets 17 years late BOSTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama got more than an education when he attended Harv ard Law School in the late 1980s. He also got a healthy stack of parking tickets, most of which he never paid. The Illinois senator shelled out $375 in January - two weeks before he officially launched his presidential campaign - to finally pay for 15 outstanding parking tickets and their associat ed late fees. The story was first reported by The Somerville News. Obama received 17 parking tickets in Cambridge between 1988 and 1991 . mostly for parking in a bus stop, parking with out a resident permit and failing to pay the meter, records from the Cambridge Traffic, Parking and Transportation office show. He incurred $ 1 40 in fines and $260 in late fees in Cambridge in all, but he paid $25 for two of the tickets in February 1990. Jen Psaki, a spokeswoman for the Obama campaign, dis missed the tickets as not relevant. S.C. may host first presidential debate COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina is back on track to hold the first Democratic presidential debate after organizers of a debate next month in __ New Hampshire have had to move Iheir event back to June. The candidates have made firm commitments to House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn to appear at the April 26 debate at his alma mater. South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, said Morton Brilliant, the chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party. The 90 minute debate at the his torically black college will be tele Clyburn vised live nationally by MSNBC from the state expected to have the first presidential primary in the South. New Hampshire had originally scheduled Republican and Democratic presidential debates for April 4 and April 5, but many of the leading candidates couldn't come because of trips to Iraq or other scheduling conflicts. Those debates have now been moved back to June. Leading off the debate calendar is good for South Carolina, said Carol Fowler, first vice chair for state Democrats. The April 26 debate will kick off three days of Democratic events in South Carolina. On April 27. the party holds its Jefferson-Jackson dinner, a fundraising event candidates have been encouraged to attend. ^ % Appeals court sets arguments in ex-CU student's sex assault suit DENVER (AP) - A federal appeals court has scheduled oral arguments May 7 in the attempt by two women to revive their lawsuit alleging they were sexually assaulted, by University of Colorado football players or recruits. The lOthU.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments by both sides in the appeal of a federal judge's decision to dis miss the lawsuit filed by Lisa Simpson, who has agreed to be named publicly, and another women, who has not. Sixteen women's and civil rights groups including the American Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP have filed friend-of-the-court brief supporting the women Simpson and the other woman say they were assaulted at an off-campus party in 2001 and that CU violated federal Title IX gender-equality law by fostering an atmosphere that led to the alleged attacks. U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn ruled the women failed to prove the university had actual knowledge of sexual harassment or that the school was deliberately indifferent to any known sexual harassment. In their August appeal, the women argued that university officials knew of sexual assaults and harassment four years before the party that Simpson attended, and that nof enough was done to curb it. The Chronicle (USPS 067-910) was established by Ernest H. Pitt and Ndubisi Egemonye in 1974 and is published every Thursday by Winston-Salem Chronicle Publishing Co. Inc., 617 N. Liberty Street. Winston-Salem, N.C. 27101. Periodicals postage paid at Winston-Salem. N.C. Annual subscription price is $30.72. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: The Chronicle. P.O. Box 1636 Winston-Salem, NC 27102-1636 Fats Domino coming home to New Orleans BY STACEY PLAISANCE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS - Fats Domino broke into soft sting as he stepped slowly through his gutted house in the city's Mood-ravaged 9th Ward on last Friday. Sometimes the Hall of Fame piano man mur mured a line of his familiar lyrics. At other moments, he just seemed to be thinking out loud, with a tune. "Why such bad luck fall on me?" the 79-year-old sang, looking-out a rear win dow into the neighborhood where he was born in 1928. In between melodies, he said repeatedly that it's time to come home. "I'm ready," he said. "I wasn't ready to leave," Domino - whose real Legend Fats Domino on stage. name is Antoine and who is known in New Orleans nearly as much for his reclusiveness as for hits such as "Blueberry Hill," "Blue Monday" and "Ain't That a Shame" - rode out Hurricane Katrina in the 9th Ward, where the Aug. 29. 2(X)5 storm did some of its worst damage. His family and agent had reported him miss ing and learned days later that he had survived when they saw a photo in The Times Picayune that showed him stepping oft a rescuer's boat Domino, who had been back to see the 9th Ward at least once before last Friday, said he had no doubt he would eventually return lor good. Workers are rebuilding his home, which is expected to be restored by summer. For many in the heavily devastated neighborhood, which some have said should n't be rebuilt. Domino's return is a sign of hope. "This is not about just get ting one guy back in his house. It really is symbolic of this city coming back." said Bill Taylor, director of the See Domino on A12 South works to honor past with names BY CIOVANNA DEIX'ORTO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA Crisscrossing suburban Atlanta's Clayton County, the self-proclaimed home of "Gone with the Wind," is a thoroughfare named Tara Boulevard, after the imaginary plantation home of the Civil War novel's heroine. It's an image that plays well with the genteel evoca tion of "old Southern charm" that marks the area's tourism ettorts. nui it doesn't sit well with many residents as the county's population shifted from mostly white to predomi Parks nantly black over the past cou ple decades. Since the death of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks in 2005, some have pushed the county to change Tara Boulevard's name to pay hom age to Parks. A compromise is in the works - state Rep. Darryl Jordan, who represents part of Clayton County, is pro posing naming a nearby high way after Parks instead. "What better way to honor someone than to give them a name?" said Robert Hartley, a local businessman who's led the effort. Both the Civil War era and the civil rights movement are an integral part of Southern history, but which memory is more visible continues to spur debate in a region that loves to name its roads, highways, intersections, even bridges after individuals. "People are in a rivalry about whose ideas about the past ultimately get inscribed, literally, into places." said Derek Alderman, a cultural Sec Nantes on A9 flflNV ALLEGACY WIRELESS BANKING Cell phone Pocket PC device. 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