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Thursday, January 11,1996
Dating tips at Winthrop University
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more of my ideas,” he said.
“Another 25 percent use the
handouts, and 50 percent at
least hear some different dat
ing ideas. I guess 300 out of an
audience of 700 give them
selves a much better chance of
dating success.”
Coleman’s workshops are
entertaining and informative,
with topics ranging from what
makes dating difficult to com
munication and the impact of
alcohol on dates are discussed.
With such serious issues
prevalent on college campuses
these days, Coleman recom
mends parents get involved
with the dating habits of their
college-age kids, especially if a
student needs advice.
“My advice is to be a good lis
tener,” he says. “Don’t give
them feedback you think they
just want to hear. Be blunt and
ask ‘What have you done to
put yourself in the position to
get a date?’ .
“Also, never stop looking for
things that might help them.
For example, if you come
across an article with an idea
for a good date or anything
that might be useful in making
dating decisions, send it to
them the next time you send
them money.”
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Gang member turns life around
Continued From 15A
gang warfare was part of being
African American.
So was dealing drugs, wear
ing gold jewelry and making
babies.
It was a matter of black
pride. Anything else, he
believed, was being white.
Now Cuspard calls that logic
ignorance.
It was mostly ignorance
about the real black culture
and the civil-rights pioneers
who struggled to ensure that
people like Cuspard could
work to reach their potentials,
feed their children, buy a
home, pay their bills and live
in peace.
“I took school as a punish
ment,” Cuspard said. “I never
knew people died for me to go
to school. No one learns that in
school.”
Cuspard is convinced that
understanding history can
help replace what he says is
the distorted, violent brain
washing about what it means
to be African American that
kids learn on the street.
“If you get into your history,
you won’t gangbang,” Cuspard
said. “Because, of all the
things people went through for
you, you won’t want to be
killing each other.”
Aside from the work Cuspard
does in school, he spends time
on weekends organizing chil
dren to help clean up their
neighborhoods.
He also works as a part-time
intern for District 8
Councilman Cody Williams.
But it took more than a his
tory lesson to stop Cuspard
once he got started on the
streets.
Cuspard didn’t think about
stopping until life hit him
harder than the death of
friends and family.
He began to understand that
his hopes of being a rap star
were fading.
He didn’t have enough cred
its to graduate, and he was
about to watch his friends
move on without him.
He was trsdng to make up
credits in day and night school
when his need to perform for
his peers got him thrown out of
school.
And his girlfriend became
pregnant.
The issue was no longer stay
ing in school and staying alive,
it was surviving life.
“I was scared to death,”
Cuspard said. “Everjrthing
started slapping me hard in
the face. Bing, bing, bing. It
wasn’t a game anymore.”
That’s when another of
Cuspard’s big brothers, one
who is a successful executive,
was there to coax him off the
streets.
“He told me to get myself a
job and take care of business,”
said Cuspard, whose father
died when he was 10 and left
him with a painful emptiness.
Cuspard doesn’t want his
own child to feel that pain and
he expects to work hard,
marry his girlfriend and create
a peaceful life for his year-qld
son and the children to follow.
But Cuspard still visits with
his gang Mends. He still con
siders himself a member.
“I’ll never stop going to the
neighborhood,” said Cuspard,
who has stopped preaching to
his old friends about the
worthlessness of gang bang
ing.
Cuspard has learned that
words mean nothing, so he’ll
let his actions speak for him.
“I’ll never do anything that
stops me from seeing my child
the next day,” he said.
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