Vol. XXXIV No. 7 THURSDAY, October 25, 2007 Sibling golfers are making heads turn -See Page BJ Jena 6 case is subject on local discussion - Se* Page A3 1 Talented f I young e S 110807 1 ???? ?TH CAROLINA ROOI ?SYTH CTy PUBLIC '0 w 5m ST Photos by Layla Firmer Father LeBron Taylor speaks. Bond projects being watched School Board Member Motsinger defends colleague's absense BY LAYLA FARMER THE CHRONICLE Since its inception in 2002, the CHANGE (Communities Helping All Neighbors Gain Empowerment) organization has lived up to its word, weighing in on a vari ety of important issues and bringing about, well, change in several key are n a s . However, there is Motsinger still more work to be done. More than 200 CHANGE delegates met at St. Paul's United Methodist Church last Thursday evening to talk about what the organization has been able to accomplish and what's next on the agenda. One of CHANGES crowning achievements over the past year was helping pass the 2006 $250 million school bond, which will be used for the construction of new schools and the renovation of old ones. A Bond Oversight Committee was then formed to monitor the school system's progress. See CHANGE on A14 Halloween 'hanging' set-up shows heightened sensitivity over noose Jena case has put historical symbol of racial intimidation in the spotlight BY LAYLA FARMER THE CHRONICLE A noose found hanging from a tree in Jena, La., has seemingly sparked a rash of copy cat incidents around the nation and heightened sensi tivities over what is considered one of the ugliest symbols of racial intimidation. In short -~ black people don't want to see anything hanging from the trees these days. Katherine Lyth learned that recently. The controversial decora tion is seen here in a photo snapped by a resident. Lyth and her husband, Frank Lyth, are the parents of five children. The family, who are white, moved to the most ly black City View neighbor hood recently from Los Angeles. The Lyths co-existed peacefully with their neigh bors until they decorated their front yard for Halloween. Among the mock gravestones and casket was a dummy sus pended from a tree limb. It was that decoration that stirred a hornet's nest, sparking a con troversy that has yet to be resolved. "We've always decorated - my kids love Halloween, and we do too - we've always dec orated scary, had haunted houses . . . We've had zombies See Noose on AI2 Photo by Kevin Walker Harry Andrews looks down Old Greensboro Road. Back to Her Ram Roots Fox 8's Ferguson teaches future reporters at her alma mater BY TODD LUCK THE CHRONICLE Nicole Ferguson entered Winston-Salem State University to learn; now that she's a Fox 8 WGHP reporter, she has returned to her alma mater to serve - as a professor. Once a week she returns to the school's campus to teach a mass communication class to about a dozen students who are only a few years younger than 24-year-old Ferguson. "They're very respectful," said Ferguson, a 2004 WSSU grad. "They call me 'Ms Ferguson,' they don't call me 'Nicole.' We keep it at 'Ms. Ferguson.' And they know I mean business, and I expect a lot out of them. It's gone really well." Photo by It Nicole Ferguson helps one of her students, Jamal Richmond, as he prepares to read a news script. Ferguson believes that stu dents learning from someone who is currently a broadcast reporter, like herself, can be a very powerful experience. She learned that first hand as a mass communication student at WSSU when she took a one hour credit course taught by for mer WXII 12 reporter Tolly Carr, who is also a WSSU grad uate. Carr was a huge inspira tion, she said. His class was the first time she thought about get ting into the television news business. "When 1 sat in his class I thought 'Wow I'd love to do this one day!' He provided a differ ent perspective for us, being in the business, versus some of our other classes, our other profes sors. That's the first time I real ly thought about it when I was in his class," Ferguson said. She was sadden when Carr's burgeoning career came to a halt earlier this year after he hit and lulled a pedestrian while driving drunk. The former newsman was sentenced in August to 25 to 39 months in prison. Ferguson headed North after earning her degree from WSSU. She studied at the prestigious See Ferguson on All Guinier: Future of affirmative action is fuzzy Harvard Law professor talks about need for changes BYTttDD LUCK THE CHRONICLE Lani Guinier. a civil rights attorney best know for her failed nomination for an assistant U.S. Attorney General post in the 1990s, spoke on race and social change at Winston-Salem State University last week. Her remarks touched on issues from the past, present and challenges that she says await us all in the future. "People ask 'Why do we have to talk about slavery, that Lani Guiltier lectures last week at WSSU. was so long ago?' and my answer is 'Well, why do you have to talk about the American Revolution? That was a long time ago as well."' said Guinier. "In many ways, slavery defined our democracy to the same extent that the American Revolution defined our Declaration of Independence." She said that slavery deeply affected all three branches of government. She cited the fact that presidents and Supreme Court justices and members of Congress owned slaves and that the South gained many seats in the House of Representatives by counting their slaves as three fifths of a person. The issues of race are hardwired into our democracy, said Guinier, Harvard Law School's first black woman tenured professor. Guinier was nominated in 1993 by President Bill Clinton to head the Civil Rights Division of Set Guinier on A12 Loud and Clear T NCCUFtao N.C. Central University Chancellor Charlie Nelms gets a hearing test recently at the school's Department of Communications Disorders. Each member of the universi ty's faculty and staff were invited to get his or her hearing checked, since officials at the department believe that hearing impacts instruction as well as the workplace effi ciency. Nelms hearing, by the way, was "spot-on." In Grateful Memory of Our Founders, Florae S. Russell and CariH. Russell, Sr. 'Growing and Still Dedicated to Serve You Better " y&mztll fflmtrrai jSimtg Wishes to Thank Everyone For Their Support 4 822 Carl Russell Ave. ( ?*t Martin Luther King Or.) Winston -Salem , NC 27101 (336) 722-3*459 Fsx (33