Barber-Scotia College president Dr. MkUe McLean,
carter. receives cltaUons for Motoric haMrtgo from
William Price Jr., left, representing North Carolina
right, of the United SUtee Department of Interior. *
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A conference for inventors, entre
preneurs, researchers and. others
with an interest in the ieghl pro
tection of intellectual property will
be held at the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte October 9.
: Scheduled from 9:30 a.m. to 9
P P\ V* Speech P00®8 of Cone
Cento, the conference is sponsored
by UNCP’s Urban Institute and the
#tojh Carolina Small business and
Technology Development Center.
The coat is $19 per person.
The program is designed far those
who want to know more about in
ventions, patents, copyrights, and
technology transfer.
The following presentations are
scheduled:
-Dr. Fred Carr of the N.C. Small
Business and Technology Center,
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THANK YOU FOR READING
THE CHARLOTTE POST
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I know that many of you have heard the expression
“everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to
die." tt depresses me to see that those words often reflect
the attitude of too many Black Americans.
In the Black community, an individual is greeted with
laudatory shouts of “right on or "stay on the case" as long
as he Is elucidating about racism. But woe unto the Black '
person who dares to challenge or point out weaknesses
that Black people can improve upon. Quickly the cheers
change to Jeers and "Tbm." “Oreo." “Negro.” or bourgeoisie,
the vtUlfylng names we now hear.
However, I remind those name-callers that we. as a race,
are doomed to second-class status as long as we refuse to
admit that we are not perfect I am the first to admit that
Black Americans have made great socioeconomic gains
during the past 3 decades, but we canhot afford the luxury
of Uvtajgon our victories of yesteryear. The battle for equal
ity of opportunity and Justice la still being fought. We must
strengthen our battle lines by making the family — father,
mother, and children — strong and united. Tb achieve this
goal, wt must be willing to admit that many Black babies
don’t go to bed hungry because of racism. No. they lack
food because a Black man has failed to fulfill his respon
sibilities as a father and a husband. fJ, Q/
Think about It. Do we Blacks have the courage to
reduce the'number of single-parent homes in our
community?
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JdeT^iack
, Vice President '
The Greyhound Corporation
and Company, Central Piedmont
Community College, Small feusineea
Development pi vision of the North
Carolina Department of Commerce
and the N.C. Small Business and
Technology Development Center.
Aregistratknleaaf 945 will cemr
the coat of lunch on both days of the
.. conference, refreshments and mate
rials. Checks should be made pay
able to the Greater Charlotte Cham
ber of Commerce, 129 West trade
Street, P. O. Box 32785, Char
lotte, N.C. 28232.
For more information, call
Deborah Saunders, Charlotte
Chamber of Commerce, 7042774911
or Forrest Gunn, Small Business
Administration, 704*714587.
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■toning armor; the was too realistic
to believe that (afar? taltt but he was
special and wooderful and MMHad
at least seme of the qualities that
make'for knighthood »)*5j »v '-$*■
That was In the baginaing. Then
the chinking began. And then the
■: drinking got worse. No matter what
abe did or what abe didn’t do, the
drinking continued to fat worse.
:' 73fae knight la aMnMg armor has
become, to her, ■ tarnished, worn
'v.eut tin solder. Aad she is angry.
Not only that, she ia ashamed,
guilty frustrated and fairly well
Her husband is an alcoholic. And
die is blanuciag him. HnWiq tom
responsible for e disease she
doesn’t even know be has.
She’e triad everything she kaows
to help him. Threatening to leave
him, leaving him. Counthg Ms
drink**, pouring out MS boom
Making Mat eat more fowl Scald
helped.
•omeone else does,” he toys. “So
when accusations of ‘drinking too
much’ are thrown at him, the ll
cobollc or chemically dspandant
person win deny it But remembcr
these people don't really see ttwir
drinking the wty others do. So when
say *it’s not that bad,’ they
There is a common misconception
about alcoholism that the alcoholic
must “hit bottom" and ask for help
before anything canJtie done to help
hiip, aseu^Nl to HSmmert.
Early studies by Vernon Johnson,
the Often-celled “father of Inter
vention” and founder of the John
son Institute, indicated that rather
than a “spontaneous insight’’ into
their alcoholism, a series or build
up of crises sparked people into
recognition of their -Hirest and the
subsequent request for help. These
crises could be financial, legal,
marital, family, career or job
related, It was Johnson’s belief that
crises could be creatively used to
“bring the bottom up” to the alco
holic. Prom this concept, the In
tervention process was developed.
Intervention works as family
members learn the basics of alco
holism as a disease. They learn the
person who has this disease is ill, nat
bad, and that be or she has no mom
control over his or her drinking
drug urn than a cancer victim has
over their disease, explains
Emmert
They learn that the disease is
program!v*. Unless treated, it will
continue to get worse, never better
Through a series of training ses
sions these people who are close to
the alcoholic prepare for the actual
Intervention. They begin- keeping
diaries in which they list facts and
Incidents about the drinking be
havior. They are coached in pre
senting them facts in a non-judg
mentalway.
Arrangements, are made for in
surance, time off from work or
schools-a suitcase is even packed
all in preparation for the alcoholic to
enter treatment S.
On the day of the Intervention,
family members, akx« with the
facilitator, meet in a pre-arranged
place where the alcoholic is invited o
to join them. Then, one by one,
they begin reading their lists to the
her drinking
explains.
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