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CItarlotte
Volume 19, No. 41
THURSDAY MAY 27,1993
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News Charlotte
And^j^B^^Of The World.
Money For
JCSU Library
Johnson C. Smith Univer
sity has received a $1 mil
lion match
ing grant
from the
Bush Foun
dation for
the con
struction of
a new li
brary.
The grant
is part of
JCSU’s $50
million cap
ital cam
paign, with the Bush money
pledged to match funds
raised by the university for
up to $250,000.
"We are excited about our
unprecedented $1 million
challenge grant from the
Bush Foundation for the
construction of a new li
brary," Smith President
Robert Albright said.
The 750,000-square-foot
library will cost $8 million.
Town Meetings
With Rep. Watt
N.C. Rep. Mel Watt wants
his constituents to make
suggestions on how to deal
with the country's most
pressing Issues.
The 12th district congress
man will tour the area with
a five-day series of local
meetings. The tour starts to
morrow in Greensboro, the
first of 12 cities Watt will
i"' visit. The Charlotte meeting
is scheduled for 12 p.m.
June 4 at McDonald's Cafe
teria.
Summer School
At Barber-Scotia
Registration for Barber-
Scotia College's summer
session will be held in the
McLean Student Union June
7-8 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. More
than 50 courses will be of
fered for summer school,
which runs from June 9-
July 16. Students can regis
ter for up to nme semester
hours.
For more information,
call Selma Burrell, summer
school director at 786-5171,
extension 330.
One Day It's A
Farm, Next Day
It's A School
ORANGE FARM, South Af
rica - When M.A. Khumalo
moved to this rural shack
community in 1989, there
was no school for his three
children. So he built one on
an abandoned chicken
farm, and 10,000 students
turned up.
Khumalo, a dynamic phar-
maclst-tumed-educator,
has relied on community
self-help and basic business
skills to create one of the
country's largest and most
Innovative private schools.
He did it In less than four
years.
"The state of education is a
mess. It's for us to rectify,"
said Khumalo, whose kids
attend the Voice Education
al Center, more commonly
known as Chicken Farm.
"You know nobody Is going
to help you out here."
Denny's Is Again
Accused Of Bias
Against Blacks
By Herbert L. White
THE CHARLOTTE POST
The Denny's restaurant
chain is in hot water again
after more charges of racial
discrimination.
Six black Secret Service
agents say they were refused
service last month at a Den
ny's restaurant in Armapo-
lis, Md. on the same day the
chain settled a federal dis
crimination complaint in
California.
The Justice Department
has demanded an explana
tion from Denny's, which is
owned by TW Services of
Spartanburg, S.C. TW Servic
es is owned by Jerry Richard
son, who is trying to
bring a Na
tional Foot
ball League
(NFL) team
to Char
lotte. After
disclosure of
the suit, Richard
son sent memos to Den
ny's franchises reinterating
the company's non
discrimination policy.
'We Intend to use our au-
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PHOT(VPAUL WnXIAMS m
Identical twins Pansy Brewer (left) and Patsy Mobley will graduate from Central Pied
mont Community College this weekend vdth degrees in medical records.
Always Together, Sisters Will
Double As College Graduates
"All through
our lives, we
have always
been there
for each oth-
By Cassandra Wyiin
THE CHARLOTTE POST
L atsy Mobley and
D I Pansy Brewer
have caused a lot
I \ of double takes
around Central
Piedmont Com
munity College.
The 36-year-old identical
twins have matriculated
for two years on the Char
lotte campus in pursuit of a
medical records degree.
Most times, they were to
gether in classes and the li
brary.
They have always done
things together. "All
through our lives, we have
always been there for each
other. We are very close,
from the time we were ba
bies. We stay In touch each
and every day," Brewer
said.
And this week, they will
be together at graduation.
Their education was
made possible by the Char
lotte Housing Authority's
Gateway program, which
helps' residents go to
See TWINS On Page 2A
M
er.
Pansy Brewer, who'll
graduate from CPCC
with her sister.
thorlty to the full
est to ensure
that inci
dents like
this do not
recur in
any part of^
this compa-*
ny's activities,"
Justice Department spokes
man Dean St. Dennis said.
The agents were in Annap
olis preparing for an April 1
visit by President Clinton,
St. Dennis said. He said the
agents were refused service,
but he had few details.
The Baltimore Sun quoted
an unidentified law enforce
ment source as saying the
agents reported they ordered
breakfast and when no food
was delivered, reordered sev
eral more times. After about
an hour, the agents left with
out being served, the source
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Life Sentence Is
Cheaper Than
Execution: Study
FROM NEWS SERVICES
DURHAM - N.C. could save
money by handing out life
sentences for convicted kill
ers Instead of executing
them, two Duke University
researchers say.
N.C. taxpayers pay an aver
age of $329,000 more to try,
convict and execute a mur
derer than it does to gain- a
first-degree murder convic
tion with a 20-year prison
term, Philip J. Cook and
Doima B. Slawson say. When
the savings in prison costs
are figured in, the extra cost
to the public of Judicial pro
cedures leading to execution
is $163,000, according to the
study by Cook, professor of
public policy and economics,
and Slawson, a lawyer who
Is assistant research profes
sor of public policy.
Eighty-six Inmates are cur
rently on death row, with 39
black men and one black
woman scheduled for execu
tion, according to a spokes-
Inmales
On Death
Row In
N.C.
•OUKCI/fl.C. DEPT. OP OOBStcnONS
man for the N.C. Dept, of
Corrrections. Five Inmates
have been put to death since
See LIFE On Page 3A
Jury Pinds In Favor
Of Black Professor
At N.Y. University
By William Reed
NATIONAL NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION
A New York college will
have to pay for illegally fir
ing a controversial black
professor, a federal jury has
determined.
The jury determined the
City University of New York
(CUNY) had violated Dr. Leo
nard Jeffries' right to free
speech when It removed him
as chairman of the Black
Studies Department, after he
delivered what was called, "a
racially charged" speech. The
federal jury, which Included
five blacks, also found six
CUNY officials liable and
awarded Jeffries $400,000 in
monetary damages.
Lawyers for Jeffries had
charged that the dismissal
stemmed from a speech he
gave in Albany in the sum
mer of 1991 In which he crit
icized Jews. The speech on
multicultural curriculums at
the Empire State Black Arts
and Cultural Festival, which
was used as a platform to
criticize the power of Jews in
Hollywood and their role in
the slave trade, led to charges
to Jeffries being anti-
Semitic. Jeffries, who had
been appointed to a state
commission reviewing the
public education system's
curriculum, had long called
for Inclusion of more lessons
and to focus on all cultures
that make up a school's mul
ti-ethnic population. The re
moval had not affected Jef
fries' status as a tenured
professor or his annual
$70,110 salary.
CUNY maintained Jeffries
was removed because he was
a poor administrator and
continually tardy for his
classes. One of the jurors
said that they ruled in Jef
fries' favor because the uni
versity did not support Its
contention that he was de
moted for reasons other than
the speech.
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