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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 199i,
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Paul Laurence Dunbar Center in
Salisbury Sponsors a prevention program
for adolescents. Rowan Events, IIB. ,,1,
Livingstone launches continuing adult program
SPECIAL TO THE POST
SALISBURY — Another
Livingstone College adult busi
ness college “cohorts” class begins
this weekend.
■ The classes match adults who
take classes in evenings and on
weekends and can obtain degrees
in as Httle as 18 months. Credit
can be given for life experiences
also.
. Livingstone President Burnett
Joiner annoxmced the beginning
df the Continuing Education and
Military
School has
white flight
Tte ASSOCIATED PRESS
ICHARLESTON, S.C. - Concern
about discipline, fights and
h)arassment of white students has
prompted some parents to pull
their children out of Charleston
County’s new Military Magnet
Middle School.
But organizers of the school,
wlhere students adhere to a mili
tary system during a 10-hour day,
beheve it will prove so successful
the cormty will want to start
another.
During the first month of class
es, 55 students have withdrawn,
70 percent of them white. The
(Charleston) Post and Courier
reported Tuesday. Now there are
945 students, about 90 percent of
them black.
Rhonda Jerome, who trans
ferred her daughter from the
school last week, said that on the
first day students sounded off by
race and sex. But the class
laughed because her daughter
was the only one in the white
female category.
She also said her daughter was
hit and the target of racial slurs.
She worries that, instead of a
school with high academic stan
dards, the Military Magnet
School has become a school for
problem children.
Commandant Steve Twining
said the girl’s homeroom teacher
did not mean to single her out on
the first day and he regrets how
she was treated by other stu
dents.
“It was a horrible situation that
she encountered and one that we
will not tolerate,” he said.
He said the school is trying to
build a cadet corps in which stu
dents identify themselves by bat
talion, not race. He predicted
there will be demand for a second
school.
The Citadel, South Carolina’s
state military college, has
announced plans to adopt the
school and will send cadets to
tutor and drill students.
County School Superintendent
Chip Zullinger said a good pro
gram is developing, but he is con
cerned about start-up problems
and said the racial makeup
should better reflect the commu
nity.
The reasons for the student
transfers are not all clear.
Some students may not have
liked the military atmosphere
and longer days. There were also
problems with buses and many
uniforms and textbooks arrived
after the school year began.
Violence was one reason Debbie
S^wa of North Charleston and
Cheryl Patrick of West Ashley
said they withdrew their children
last week. They also worried
about academics.
Lifelong Learning Program in
March. Joiner noted the national
trend of adults who need and
want to continue their college
education or want to attend for
the first time.
He tapped Carol Meeks as the
program director.
“This is the way education is
moving for adults,” Meeks said.
“Enrollment figures show that
more people who are 25 years old
and older are entering college at a
higher and faster rate than those
who are 18 years old.
“Most working adults do not
have time in their busy schedules
to go to class three times per
week between 9 and 5. So we
designed the class schedules to
operate around their work hours.
The response has been veiy
good.”
With a goal of meeting the
needs of the adult learners in the
local and nearby communities,
the college set up the Adult
Business Degree program. It is
created for adults who have
earned 60 or more college credits
and could graduate in 18 months.
AU of those who participate stay
in their cohort group and advance
through the accelerated program
together.
The first cohort group began in
March with students like Doris
Harris, a Mocksville wife and
mother and full time library assis
tant at Hood Seminary
“This really is what I needed to
get me back on track to complet
ing my bachelor’s degree,” she
said. “Because of the evening
classes, I am able to keep my fuU
time job. Otherwise, I would only
be able to try to take a course now
and then at lunch time.”
Sam Simmons drives from
Gastonia to Salisbury every
Thursday for classes.
“Tb me this is a great program,”
he said. “I have tried others. This
one fits my needs because I work
and I do volrmteer work in the
corrununity. I have actually been
Parade for a hero
PHOTO/GWEN PLUMMER
Salisbury native and Denver Nuggets rookie Bobby Jackson signs autographs Saturday during a parade in his honor.
Jackson, who starred at the University of Minnesota, was hailed as a role model for his community work.
Salisbury honors its native son
By Malcolm Plummer
FOR THE CHARLOTTE POST
SALISBURY - Salisbury
native Bobby Jackson tinned an
overcast Saturday afternoon
into a bright and sunny day.
The NBA rookie, riding gal
lantly in a dark-green pickup
truck, greeted thousands of fans
and well-wishers at a parade in
his honor. Heading Bobby
Jackson Day, the parade started
at Soldiers Memorial AME Zion
Church and ended at Salisbury
High School. There, in front of a
packed auditorium received all
of the honors fitted for a king.
And the people loved him.
Reading a proclamation offi
cially recognizing Saturday as
Bobby Jackson Day, cify officials
presented the Salisbury native
with the key to the city.
Thunderous applause and
shouts from the audience served
as ample evidence of Salisbury’s
appreciation and respect for the
Denver Nugget rookie. Tmjust
glad to be home to see my fami
ly, cousins, and friends,” said
Jackson.
Salisbury’s first professional
basketball player, who was
dressed in an understated
brown tweed jacket and slacks,
seemed to know everybody’s
name. And they sure knew him.
A procession including every
one from Salisbury High’s
Marching Hornets to Little Miss
Black Salisbury-Rowan seemed
to be not only a warm tribute to
a native son coming home but
also a reflection of ideas that
Jackson, according to those who
know him best, epitomizse; dis
cipline, hard work, and knowl
edge of where you came from.
PHOTO/QWEN PLUMMER
The Salisbury High School marching band took part in the
parade honoring Bobby Jackson.
“We used to fight aU the time,’
said Jackson’s twin sister
Barbara. “I’m so proud of him. I
cannot begin to tell you how
happy I am for him,” she said
outside of Soldiers Memorial
waiting for the parade honoring
her brother.
If anybody knows about
Jackson’s journey fron the low-
income housing of Brookview to
the NBA courts it would have to
be his mother Sarah.
“He listened to what I said,”
she said. “He’s got a good head
on his shoulders and he’s very
determined.”
Talk about Jackson’s disci
pline with his friend and
Livingstone basketball coach
Andrew Mitchell and he’ll teU
you about Jackson’s regimented
schedule.
“Early this morning, actually
earlier than I planned to get
up,” said Mitchell, “Bobby called
me up wanting to know if I
could get the keys to the gym at
Livingstone because he wanted
to work out. So I got up, got the
keys and met him at the gym
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able to apply some of my class)
assignments to my current job.” t
The course content at-i
Livingstone is traditional but tai^-'
lored to the working adult. ThJil
teaching strategies used by tfe'
instructors are specificalfy
designed for the adult leam^^.
The college will even take i^"
courses to the commimity upon;
request. g,;;
For more information, call Car®l,>
Meeks at (704) 638-5710 or (80Q)rf
835-3435.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLUMBIA, S.C. - A blacfe ,
University of South Carolina pro-.;
lessor is pushing for more minon
ity faculty members at a school^;
where just one in eveiy 30 facul-*'
ty members is black, compared-'|
with one in six students. J
“It’s time we did some things to'”
even that up,” said Aretha”
Pigford, one of five blacks with .j
tenure in USC’s College of^.j
Education.
Pigford has received a W.K
Kellogg Foundation recruiting-.;
grant that could grow to $1 miLi:
hon over five years if she gets
matching funds.
Pigford’s program would target,-
black graduate students and lurej
them to Columbia with generous!
financial aid. Each would be
paired with a professor who- )
would help them develop teach
ing skills.
“We want to do a national ^
search for motivated, talented ,
people in a variety of disciplines,”*.
she said.
University President Johnj
Palms said he supports the con
cept, but he has some reserva
tions, including finding the
matching funds. (
“We’d like to get other resources^i’
to join in,” he said. '
Much of the money Pigford'.’,
hopes to raise would provide',^
financial aid for up to 30 gradm'*.,
ate students as well as stipends^^
for mentor professors. “We wan^..
to bring students into a situation'
where there's a commitment,”,.,
she said.
Palms also said he is concerned
about training graduate student|
who might be recruited away by
other colleges.
“I think it is badly needed,” sai(|r!,“
Ansley Abraham, head of the/ *
Compact for Faculty Diversity ir^.j
Atlanta. “I wish we had more„„
schools that would give that kind, (j
of support to this issue.”
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Less than 5 percent of aU pro-, „
fessors teaching at American col-.:
leges are black, Abraham saidj (j
When those who teach at historif
cally black institutions are tj
excluded, the number of blacks*
who teach at the college level is~-J
about 2 percent.
“We’re very excited about the. .
potential of this project,” saidj^i
Betty Overton, the Kellogg.^
Foundation’s director of higher.,',
education programs. “It inte-,,,^
grates into higher education
work our theme of capitalizing on
diversity”
Colleges have attempted pro^ ,„
grams to recruit blacks in thq"/,'
past, she said, however, “Our'j
read on them is many have not
been extremely successful.” -
Rowan Events
Oct. 2
• 10 a.m. - Zeta Phi Beta Health Fair,
Livingstone College, Old TVent Gym, 801-
W. Monroe St., Salisbury.
• 6 p.m. - Ju jitsu, Paul Laurence
Dunbar Center, 820 S. Long St., E.
Spencer. Committed to the development
and strengthening of mind, body and spir
it through fitness training. Instructor:
Sensei Craig Harrison. Eight years to
adult Tliition $15 per month, For more
information, call 647-0054.
• 6 p.m. - Junior Tbastmasters, ^liUer
Recreation Center, 1402 W. Bank Street
Salisbuiy. This program is designed to
improve public speaking and writing
skills. For boys and girls, grades 6-8.
• 6 p.m. - Girls Club, Miller Recreation
Center, 1402 W. Bank St., Salisbury . Fun
and games for ages 9-14. Discussions on
various topics. Every Thursday 6 to 8 p.m.
Registration ongoing. For information
call: 638-5297/5298.
• 6 p.m. - Youth Night, Miller
Recreation Center, Hall Gym, 1402 W.
Bank Street, Salisbury. Seven to 14 years
olds will compete in 3-point shooting,
around the world, dribbling, 21, 3-on-3,
and 5-on-5. Each Thursday until Oct. 23.
Register each Thursday from 5 to 6 p.m.
• 6 p.m. - Over 35 Basketball, Paul
Laurence Dunbar Cener, 820 S. Long St.,
E. Spencer.
• 6 p.m. - Cultural Film Festival,
Dunbar Family Resource Center, 820 S.
Long St., E. Spencer. Thursdays, 6-8 p.m.
Hosted by retired actor Greg Curlee. For
information, call 637-0054.
• 6 p.m. - Volleyball game, Livingstone
College, New Trent Gym, 801 W. Monroe
St., Salisbury. Livingstone College vs.
Johnson C. Smith University.
• 7 p.m. - NAACP meeting. Soldiers
Memorial AME Zion Church, 306 N.
Church St., Salisbury.
Oct. 3
• 6 p.m. - Park Avenue Neighborhood
Meeting, Tower of Power United Holy
Church, 601 E. Cemetery St., Salisbury.
• 7 p.m. •- Bible Study, Jerusalem
Baptist Church, North Long Street,
Spencer.
• 7:30 p.m. - Bible Study - Tower of
Power United Holy Church, 601 E.
Cemetery St., Salisbury.
• 7:30 p.m. - Football game, Salisbury
High School, 500 Lincolnton Rd.,
Salisbury. Salisbury High School vs
Lexington High School.
Oct. 4
• 9-10 a.m. - Intercessory Prayer line,'
Jerusalem Baptist Church, N. Long St.,'‘
Spencer. Call in prayer requests eacfr
Saturday morning. Call 637-3447. r
• 10 a.m. - Story Time, Miller Center,,
1402 W. Bank St., Salisbury. For 4 to 6
year olds, who will hear stories and par
ticipate in an art activity. Cost: $2, resi
dents; $4, non-residents. For information,
call 638-5297.
• 10 a.m. - Autumn Jubilee, Dan*
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