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Volume39,Number 12 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. THURSDAY, November 15, 2012
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Bus-rider Sharon Jones.
Push ongoing
for Sunday
WSTA service
BY LAYLA GARMS
THE CHRONICLE
Mayor Allen Joines
says that he is still in talks
with Forsyth Medical
Center and Wake Forest
Baptist Health about the
possibility of the two hos
pitals helping to under
write the cost of operating
limited Winston-Salem
Transit Authority routes
on Sundays.
The idea of
Sunday service
came up earlier
this year as the
City Council
pondered a
proposed $0.30
hike for city
bus fare, which
currently is $1.
The idea was
floated during
budget talks as
one of the ways
for the city to
make ends
meet.
"There was
a lot of debate
during the
budget prepa
ration,"
{explained City
Council mem
ber Dan Besse,
a mpmhfr of thi
Public Works Committee
and a strong proponent of
Sunday service. "The
compromise when the
budget was adopted was
that we wouldn't raise the
rates but we would wait
on the Sunday service
addition."
Winston-Salem is the
only major North
Carolina city that offers
no bus service at all on
Sunday. Joines envisions
a plan that would offer a
few Sunday routes cen
tered around the down
town area and the two
hospitals.
"Nothing has been
decided yet, but we are
having that conversation,"
Joines said. "They are
two of the largest employ
ers in the city and our
research shows that a
good number of the riders
are medical center
employees."
Because Baptist and
Forsyth are nonprofits,
neither pays property
taxes, and because so
many of their clients and
employees utilize public
transportation, the med
ical centers could benefit
significantly from the
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offered seven
days a week,
city leaders say.
Bus riders
are excited
about the possi
bility of Sunday
service. Bus
rider Tay
Gibson, 20,
thinks Sunday
service is a
good idea, even
though he does
n't normally use
WSTA on
weekends.
"I feel like it
would be more
convenient for
people that have
things to do,"
remarked
Gibson, who is
soon slated to
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Technical Community
College. "Not for me per
sonally, because my
mother has a car and I
have a way around, but
for other people that don't
have a way to get
around."
As a native of
Brooklyn, N.Y.. Sharon
Jones is accustomed to
public transportation
services on Sunday.
Jones, who works in the
cafeteria at Wake Forest
University, said she
sometimes has to work on
Sundays and finding a
ride to and from her job
can be a challenge. The
mother of two said she
would also relish being
able to utilize the bus to
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Unbeatable!
WSSU Photo by Garrett Gtmu
Winston-Salem State University Chancellor Donald Reaves and AD Bill Hayes hold the trophy as Head
Coach Connell Maynor, his Rams and the WSSU family celebrate their second-straight ClAA
Championship in Durham on Saturday. The Rams were rewarded for their unbeaten season on Monday
when it was announced that the team received a #1 seed and a first-round bye in the Super Region One of
the NCAA DI1 Playoffs. The Rams will either face Shippenburg (Pa.) or Bloomsburg (Pa.) on Nov. 24.
Half Empty or Half Full
Local lawmakers pessimistic and optimistic about GOP gains in N.C.
BY LAYLA GARMS
THE CHRONICLE
The Republican Party
further secured its strong- -
hold on North Carolina
after last week's election.
When the General
Assembly opens its 2013
session in January, the
GOP will hold 32 of the 50
seats in the North Carolina
Senate and 76 of the 120
seats in the House of
Representatives, in addi
tion Gov.-elect Pat
McCrory and presumed Lt.
Gov-elect Dan Forest are
Republicans. Forest's
opponent. Democrat Linda
Coleman, has yet to con
cede. She says that there
are still votes left to be
counted that could erase
Forest's razor thin margin
of victory.
Local Democrats are
among those apprehensive
about this supermajority.
Earline Parmon, who was
recently elected to lead the
North Carolina Senate's
District 32, said she is "not
very optimistic" about the
climate she'll be walking
into.
"I think we're going to
see a complete right-wing
agenda trying to be accom
plished, and having the
General Assembly under
Republican control, the
governor will just rubber
stamp the legislation,"
Parmon stated. "I'm afraid
that we're going to see the
kinds of things that we've
seen in Washington in the
last few years in terms of
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New college offers personal touch
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
When Dr. Lucas
Sh&llua and his wife,
Dorothy Edward, started
Mount Eagle College,
they thought about how
fortunate they were to
have gone to college in
their native Tanzania, a
country in East Africa
where higher learning
opportunities are limited.
"We beg students here
to come to class, where if
you cross the Atlantic
Ocean in Africa ... (and)
you say you have a train
ing opportunity, people
will sleep at the door of
your house," said Shallua,
the college's director and
organizer. "They will not
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Mount Eagle Collage founders Dr. Lucas ShaUua ami his wife Dorothy Edward
stand in one of the college's labs.
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Dance legend says his art speaks to social injustice
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Dancers perform "Body Against Body."
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BY LAYLA OARMS
THE CHRQN1CLE
Bill T. Jones, an internationally known artist, choreogra
pher, dancer, theater director and writer, visited the campus of
Salem College last week to headline the first-ever installment
of die June Porter Johnson Series for the Visual and Performing
Arts.
Jones founded the Bill T. Jones/Antie Zane Dance
Company with his life partner, the late Amie Zane, in 1982.
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