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CMS Schools Conducting Title IX-Self Studies SHAPELY ELESE WILSON —Huntersville native Local “Disco Queen” Enroute To “Big Times” By Deborah Gates Post Staff Writer Elese Wilson was in prepa ration of starting an all girl’s band which was to consist of area college students when she received a call from En tertainer's Booking Agency to see if she’d be interested in being a "Disco Queen." Elese said she always want ed to be a star and thought a position of this sort could mean room for advancement. So Charlotte-Mecklenburg say hello to Elese Wilson, alias “Disco Queen.” A native of Huntersville, and a 1974 Senior class Presi dent graduate of North Meck lenburg Sr. High School, Elese said she started her musical career when she sang on the choir for 10 years at Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Hunters ville, and in the junior high school choir. At North Meck lenburg Elese was not able to participate in the choir for she found working for the Student Government to time consum ing to involve herself with much else. However, Elese said she had the opportunity to make announcements on the Sr. High PA system, therefore involving herself still with a form of communications. Today, Elese says the disco is her way of communicating. ‘‘It gives me a chance to meet new poeple,” Elese said. “I walk around to the tables to meet and greet people, and see what kind of mood the crowd is in," she said. Elese said it is more to her show than talking and spinning re cords. "The difference is how you come on to the people. Let them know they'll get their money’s worth.” Elese said her show is a "disco show and dance,” and that people have the tendency to think that a “Disco Queen" only dances, but this is not true in her case. She said many people come out to see what a girl DJ can really do, and she commented, "being a disco queen is alright but I hope to move up and one day have a television show, and be as big as LaBelle.” Elese said her first show was at Jerry’s Lounge in Kannapolis which she found to be a shakey experience but said, “I got off on the crowd.” She's also traveled to South Carolina and the Georgia line. “I haven't hit Atlanta yet, but I’m looking forward to it,” Elese said. Business however is really booming for the “Disco Queen,” for she is making plans to do some beach parties at Myrtle Beach in the sum mer. If you’ve discoed at the Midnight Special, Queen's Col lege, Olympic High School, or Independence High School, you may have seen the "Queen,” for those are a few more spots in the Charlotte area she's discoed. * Births ™ Mr. and Mrs. David Brown 3350 Sargeant Dr...A girl Mr. and Mrs. Paul Pitts 7127 Barrington Dr...A boy Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Dowell 4403 Rosethom PI...A boy in an enori to identity and correct instances of sex dis crimination regarding stu dents and employees, Char lotte-Mecklenburg Schools are conducting self-studies in each school and department of the school system. The self-studies are in com pliance with the federal Edu cation Amendments of 1972 and Title IX Regulations of 1975 which prohibit sex dis crimination in treatment of and programs for students and in employment policies and practices. School systems which do not comply with the Department of Health, Educa tion and Welfare (HEW) regu lations risk losing federal fi nancial assistance. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)-Title JX Team met with principals and area assistant superinten dents to explain how to esta blish committees and organize the self-studies. The team de veloped manuals and guide lines for conducting the stu dies. Committees include stu dents, teachers, parents and administrators. Among the topics being re viewed by the committees are: access to courses (gen eral, physical education and vocational education); coun seling; treatment of students; employment; financial assis tance; athletics and student marital and parental status. In each subject area, the committees identify cases of noncompliance with federal requirements and explain mo difications and remedial steps undertaken. A sample questionnaire for students included in the man uel points out situations in which discrimination may ex ist; -Counselors advising students to take certain courses or follow certain careers on the basis of sex. -Course descriptions with sex biased pronouns. -Boys and girls receiving dif ferent types of punishment. -Boys being asked to move chairs or carry equipment while girls are asked to water Keep your out-of-town friends informed on what's happening in Charlotte by sending them a copy of the Charlotte Post each week. The cost is only $8 per year. plants or dust furniture. The local school and depart ment studies are to be com pleted by May 16. A system wide task force of employees, students and community re presentatives will analyze and summarize findings of the self-studies to develop a sys tem-wide report by June 30. Records of the studies must be kept in the schools and departments for three years and are subject to inspection by HEW In addition to the self-stu dies. Charlotte-Meeklenburg Schools are meeting other Title IX requirements such as conducting awareness pro grams to promote non-discn initiation. A video-tape has been presented to some teach ers and all principals and other administrators in each feeder area and in depart - ments to review the purpose and provisions of Title IX. The EEO-Title IX team, which includes Marian Wright. Ger son Stroud and Or. James Mikkelson. has also developed complaint procedures for stu dents and employees to report cases of discrimination on the basis of sex I BY CARL T. ROWAN Carter and Tax Reform Millions of Americans are very skeptical about President Carter and his campaign promises. This cynicism is deepest when the sub ject of tax reform is raised. One of Mr. Carter's most dramatic promises came during his acceptance speech at the Dem ocratic convention when he said: “It's time for a complete overhaul of our income tax system. I still tell you it's a disgrace to the human race. All my life I have heard promises of tax reform, but it never quite happens. With your help, we are finally going to make it happen and you can depend on it.” Most Americans relate this to “tax loopholes" which have per mitted the rich to avoid billions in taxes. They assess Mr. Carter's promise in terms of things like the Treasury Department announce ment recently that in 1975 182 wealthy persons with at least $200,000 in income paid no tax. About 6,000 other persons with adjusted gross income in excess of $200,000 had an effective tax rate of about 20 percent, the same paid -hy_a father of three children earning $11,000. But if the President's promise of "tax reform” is to mean anything, it must go beyond wiping out such glaring inequities. The simple question is whether Mr. Carter means to really try to alter the pattern of income distri bution in this country. The Census Bureau tells me that in 1975 the 11.250.000 families who make up the lowest 20 percent in terms of income got only 5.4 percent of the money. The 20 per cent of our families with highest income ~gor 4t t—percent of the money. This means that 11 million poor families got just over one-fourth the income they would have received if the money had been distributed equally to all families, while the 40p 11 million families got double their "share" of the income. In fact, the top 5 percent of our families (about 2.800.000 of them) had just about the same income in 1975 as the 22,000.000 families at the poor end of the totem pole. Census Bureau reports that blacks make up a whopping 20 percent of the poorest.*fl'th of our families which got. little income, but only a handffil of black fam ilies (3.8 percent) are in the top 20 percent getting most of the money. President Carter surely knows that those figures do not represent any recent phenomenon. They symbolize the American way of life—as evidenced by the fact that the pattern of income distribution in 1975 was almost precisely the same as in 1948 or 1968 or any other year you wish to name. Part of the cynicism about Mr. Carter and his promises relates to the question of whether he really intends to try to alter income dis rnbutiorrin America. His Budget Director. Bert Lance, suggested to a few of us at breakfast a few days ago that he doesn't think that i is the President's primary goal in pushing for tax reform. Lance said he doesn't think it's Mr. Carter's intention to take from those who .have money and giv e to those who don't have any. But what kind of meaningful tax reform can there be if it doesn't achieve this result to a significant degree? The reason real tax reform "never quite happens" is that it involves some serious changing of "the American way," or what is loosely called "the free enterprise system." 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