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-THURSDAY, August 30, 2012
Carver dress policy gets mixed
reviews on first day of school
BY LAYLA GARMS
THE CHRONICLE
Carver students (clockwise from top)
McDonald, Keesha Poe and Wanye Tate.
Photos by Layla Garms
Alexus Westberry, Shaquira
Carver High School students returned to class
es Monday donning clothing prescribed by the
school’s new Standard Mode of Dress (SMOD)
policy for the very first time.
The new strict dress standard prohibits visible
logos on clothing and requires students to wear
collared shirts and black or khaki slacks or skirts.
School officials said the
first day under the new poli
cy went off without many
hitches, though a few stu
dents had to call home for a
change of clothes because
they did not arrive dressed
appropriately.
“Fve never had uni
forms before and it’s an
experience for me,” said
Wanye Tate, a junior mem
ber of the school’s Student
Council and Carver Against
Destructive Decisions in Youth (CADDY) club.
“It’ll help me because when you go for interviews
and go to work places, you’ll have to dress up any
way, so this will get me used to it.”
Shaquira McDonald, also a junior, said she
doesn’t like the dress code one bit.
“I feel like we should have our own say about
what we’re wearing,” said the 16 year-old
Statesville native who transferred to Carver last
year. “We’re basically adults now.’
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Church-inspired
workout burns
calories, lifts souls
BY LAYLA GARMS
THE CHRONICLE
Dozens of local folks
caught the spuit” last week
uring an exercise session led
y Precious Quire-McCloud
t the Miller Park Recreation
lenter.
Her Praize Kraze work-
luts are designed to battle the
lulge while embracing the
loly Ghost.
For the last 14 years,
Juire-McCloud, a well-
mown local stage actress, has
ised her upbeat and encourag-
ng attitude to bolster the con-
idence of other women
hrough her motivational Web
.ite, myUBU.com. Last
nonth, Quire-McCloud, a
Yumba instructor and former
rack and field athlete, com
Precious Quire-McCloud leads the Praize Kraze.
bined her love of fitness with
her passion for empowering to
create her first Praize Kraze
session.
Donna Montgomery, CEO
of Total Entertainment Inc.,
was among the more than 80
women who flocked to that
initial session. She loved it
instantly.
“With Praize Kraze, it’s
more contemporary gospel
music,” explained the Marion
native. “You won’t have as
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much gyration as you do with
Zumba. It’s a little more laid
back ... the atmosphere was
charged with love and ener
gy”
The workout fuses dance
See Praize on A6
FUe Photo
Hundreds line-up outside of the Forsyth County Board of
Elections in 2008 to cast their votes early.
Elections head
fights for more
access in
East Winston
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
The chair of the Forsyth
County Board of Elections
is still hoping that East
Winston will have four early
voting sites come October.
Democrat Linda Sutton
was on the losing end of a 2-
1 vote earlier this month
when her fellow
Board of Elections
members, Jonathan
Dills, a Republican,
and Democrat
Michael Flatow,
gave the OK for 14
early voting sites
throughout the
county, the same
number of sites
available during
the 2008 election.
The plan passed
excludes one early
site from 2008,
voting
the
Malloy/Jordan East Winston
Heritage Center on Seventh
Street, and Sutton wants it
added, so much so that she
plans to submit an alterna
tive early voting plan to the
State Board of Elections in
hopes of having the local
vote essentially overruled.
“It is the one site that has
the most densely populated
(area) of registered voters
where you have senior citi
zens at assisted living cen
ters and handicap facilities
and low income (residents),
it has all of that,” Sutton
said of the area surrounding
the Malloy-Jordan library.
“(It) needs more access than
you need somewhere, like
say, Clemmons ... they’re
not catching a bus to come
downtown to a site.”
This will be the first time
Sutton has filed a challenge
with the State Board since
she joined the Forsyth
County Board of Elections
in October 2006.
Sutton said the
move is not
political. Though
t h e
Malloy/Jordan
area is over
whelmingly
Democratic, she
said she is acting
out of concern
for voters whom
she feels will
lack access without the site.
“We’re supposed to be
looking out for the majority
of registered voters and giv
ing them access,” she said.
“I can’t help it if they’re
Democrats, if it was the
opposite, I would be fight
ing the same way because
that’s my job as a member of
the Board of Elections.”
The three-member
Forsyth County Board of
Elections charged county
Elections Director Robert
Coffman with preparing a
list of early voting site rec
ommendations. Initially,
Coffman proposed just 12
See Voting on A5
Sutton
Meeting the Mighty Rams
WSSU Photo by Garrett Garms
A fan poses with members of Winston-Salem State University’s champi
onship-winning football team during the school’s Meet the Rams day and
Booster Bash. The event was held on Saturday evening in the parking lot of
Banes Mall.
Freshmen settle-in at Wake Forest
BY LAYLA GARMS
THE CHRONICLE
Wake Forest University has opened its doors for more than 1,200 new
Demon Deacons.
The freshmen of the incoming class hail from 22 international countries and
45 states. Among them are 35 high school valedictorians
and 63 former student government presidents.
Chicago native Myles Harris considers it a distinct
privilege to be a member of the Class of 2016 at Wake
Forest, his first college choice. Harris heard great things
about Wake from a neighbor in his hometown of Chicago
who had spent a semester as a guest professor at the school.
Harris had all but given up hope of becoming a Demon
Deac and had even accepted an offer to attend another
school when his WFU acceptance letter arrived May 1.
Harris was sitting in a class at the small Christian high
school he attended when he received the good news via a
text message from his father.
“1 got kicked out of class for yelling, but nothing could’ve kept me down
that day,” he declared.
Harris
Photos by Layla Gams
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