Vol. XXXVI No. 34
660 West Fifth Street j
NC 271011
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
?THURSDAY, April 22, 2010
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Tom Joyner
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papers he
received on
behalf of his
uncles on
Wednesday,
Oct. 14, 2009,
in Columbia,
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F i n k e I m a n
speaks a I Wake
Forest last
week.
Wake Law probes case of
Tom Joyner's executed kin
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHONICLE
Legal ttiitpxiap Paul Finkelman visited Wake Forest
University last week to talk about a precedent setting ease
that brought justice to a South Carolina family nearly a cen
tury after the atrocity occurred.
Finkelman's discussion. "Guilty Until Posthumously
Pardoned: Reversing the South Carolina Murder
Convictions." was hosted by the Wake Forest University
School of Law's Innocence and Justice Clinic, which was
officially launched last spring.
"This is a venture that is still pretty new for us ... and by
many measures, just a rip roaring success." commented
Ronald Wright, executive dean for Academic Affairs and a
professor of Law at WFU. "We are very pleased to have the
clinic up and running."
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Community welcomes addition of technology
BY TODD I l ( K
THi. t HROSICI I *
Residents of LaDeara Crest Apartments took time
Saturday to celebrate their new free wireless Internet
service and the 75 computers that have been donated
to them
One Economy Corporation, a global nonprofit
that uses technology to help low income communi
ties. partnered with telecommunication giant AT&T
to provide three years of free wireless high speed
broadband Internet service to everyone living in the
245 unit affordable housing complex. Winston
Salem l orsvth County Schools donated refurbished
computers to every family in the complex with
school-age child BELFOR Property Restoration
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Evan Tspepas and Blanch McCants instruct l.aShonda McCall,
seated, on using her new computer.
Historically
Black,
Recently
Green
WSSU joins the world in
celebrating Earth Day
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Winston-Salem State University celebrated Earth Week
from April 12-16 with a series of events designed to promote
conservation and sustainability. Earth Week ushered in the
worldwide celebration of Larth Day on April 22
While schools like Wake Forest University - which host
ed more than 100 vendors on Saturday for its annual
Piedmont Earth Day Fair - regularly hold events that tout the
importance of
protecting the
environment, his
torically black
colleges and uni
versities have
been slow to
adopt such initia
tives
Winston
Salem State has
been the excep
tion. This marked
the second year
the school's stu
dent- based
Campus Life
M a r k i n g
Committee held
events celebrat
ing Larth Day.
"It's about
getting out the
word, getting out
information, so
USSl Bun,
A student/model takes part in a fashion
show last week at W SSI that used "recy
cled clothing."
students are aware of ?au to cut down on their energy usage
and water usage." said Victor Kirk, a senior who served a* the
student coordinator for Earth Week
Four days of activities were held during the week each
dav followed a different conservation theme. Last Monday
the water theme dav students wore blue for outdoor events
like a step performance, a "recycled" fashion >how and a
speech on conservation. Tuesday focused on energy conser
vation. so students were encouraged to turn oil lights, unplug
cell phone chargers and walk or ride hikes Wednesday was
devoted to recycling with a contest between dorms to see
which could collect the most recyclables.
The grand finale was the Green Olympics held last Friday
in Iront of the Cleon I Thompson Center Students competed
in a number ot events. They used a sponge to transfer water
from a bucket into another containei Then, following the
conservation theme, the water was reused for a game of hot
potato with a dripping wet sponge. There wav also "Green
Jeopardy." where students were qui//ed on environment
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This Won't Hurt at All
Phoco by Kevin W?lkct
A health care professional pricks the finger of Macio
Freeman on Saturday in order to conduct a cholesterol
test. Freeman was one of dozens who received free
i screenings at a weekend health fair. See story on Bl.
New Heights
Members of the Cawer family to visit
Mount Everest
BY LAYLA FARMER
nil CHRONK I I
Seventeen year-old
LaQuisha Stone is
preparing to emnark
on the trip of a life
time. Haneshrands.
Inc. announced on
April 14 that Stone,
a junior at Carver
High School, and
Guidance Counselor
Theresa Hamer had
been selected to rep
resent the school on
an excursion to the nation of
Nepal.
Hamer
The trip coincides with
Expedition Hanesbrands.
where mountaineer Jamie
Clarke and his climbing
team will attempt to
reach the summit of
Mount Everest, the
world's tallest
mountain, which is
located in Nepal
The companv is
sponsoring the
expedition as a
means of showing
off its research and
development capa
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l.aQuisha Stone . left , with her mom. l.aShonda Stone.
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