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THURSDAY, MAY 20, 2004
Change still key
50 years after
Brown decision
BY CATHERINE SHAROKY
STAFF WRITER
Educators, students and those
who lived during the integration of
Chapel Hill schools joined
Saturday at Lincoln Center for a
frank discussion about the progress
that has been made since Brown v.
Board of Education and the work
that still needs to be done.
Beverly Jones, dean of
University College at North
Carolina Central University, spoke
in commemoration of the 50th
anniversary of the Supreme Court
ruling that integrated public
schools. She addressed the contin
uing need for involvement and
community interest in the educa
tion of minority students.
“It takes a village to raise chil
dren,” Jones said, stressing the
importance of combining faith,
local and state government, parents,
children and the school board in
helping minority students succeed.
Jones said the “civil rights move
ment of2004” will begin by hiring
culturally sensitive teachers who
understand their students’ back
grounds. It will continue by pro
viding students with resource cen
ters, such as local churches, that are
open every day to provide support
and encouragement, she said.
Parents and other adults can also
contribute by instilling humane val
ues and teaching students that they
can succeed, Jones said.
Local chapters of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People and the National
Alliance of Black School
Educators, which sponsored the
event along with the Chapel Hill-
Carrboro City Schools, gave other
speakers a chance to reflect on the
changes in Chapel Hill in the 50
years since integration.
Rev. Robert Seymour, who lived
in the area before Brown v. Board,
recalled that during the 1950s
Chapel Hill was “as southern as
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any town in Mississippi,” and that
integration was a struggle that
took almost a decade to enforce.
Valerie Foushee, CHCCS board
member, spoke of her “separate
but sorely unequal” education
before integration.
Joanne McClelland, an English
teacher at Chapel Hill High School,
tearfully recalled that only one
white girl befriended her while a
student at Glenwood Elementary
School during integration.
The Chapel Hill area has
changed greatly, but speakers
agreed that there is still much to be
improved.
“Every day when I walk down
the hallways and I hear things, I
know we still have not overcome,”
McClelland said about the current
racial problems in public schools.
Current East Chapel Hill High
School student Nicole Farrar
noticed that the cafeterias in her
high school are still segregated, but
now by the students’ choice.
The community must reinter
pret the word integration, said Rev.
John Manley. He and Seymour
said the focus needs to shift to an
integration of neighborhoods and
an understanding of cultures in
order to bridge the gap between
white and black students.
Seymour was dismayed at the
small crowd size, saying that if a
civil rights discussion had been
held 50 years ago the gymnasium
would have overflowed. He said he
hoped the crowd size was not an
indication that the community was
satisfied with the status quo.
‘lt is important that we don’t
forget our history,” said organizer
Janice Webster, CHCCS and
NABSE member. She ended the
event by looking toward the future
with an African quote: “aluta con
tinua, the struggle continues”
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U.S. misjudged Iraqi forces
Planners overlooked enemy’s tenacity
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The
Defense Department underesti
mated its enemy in the Iraq war,
failing to predict how resilient
Saddam Hussein and his govern
ment would be, the Pentagon’s No.
2 civilian said Tuesday.
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul
Wolfowitz also said it’s impossible
to say how long a large U.S. mili
tary force will have to stay in Iraq
after political power is handed to
Iraqis on June 30.
Wolfowitz spoke at a Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
hearing, the latest called by law
makers worried about the Bush
administration’s handling of the
war and reconstruction so far and
about its plans for the future.
Answering a question about
miscalculations made to date in
the year-old campaign, Wolfowitz
said: “I would say of all the things
that were underestimated, the one
that almost no one that I know of
predicted ... was to properly esti
mate the resilience of the regime
Hangers subject of
ordinance debate
BY SHANNAN BOWEN
SENIOR WRITER
Neighbors of Fidelity Street’s
Hangers Cleaners are still fighting
for the business to cut the hours of
its operation, even after an N.C.
Supreme Court judge ruled that it
complies with the requirements of
Canboro’s Land Use Ordinance.
At a recent request from the
Village Square Homeowners
Association, the Carrboro Board of
Aldermen decided Tuesday night to
set a public hearing on June 22 to
consider an ordinance amending
the Carrboro Land Use Ordinance
provisions dealing with noise.
Hangers boasts of an environ
mentally friendly dry cleaning
method developed at UNC, but
residents claim the cleaners oper
ates loud machinery at odd hours
and is not neighborhood friendly.
Though the homeowners associ
ation initially wanted a public hear
ing set soon, resident Laura Rogers
said Tuesday that the residents
wanted a hearing later in August so
that potential solutions for the
building’s use could be made.
But the board decided it would
be fair to both parties to have the
hearing as soon as possible to
decide the future of Hangers’ oper
ation hours.
The drafted ordinance, present
ed by Planning Administrator
Irish McGuire, proposes that audi
ble noises associated with the
cleaning machinery only be
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that had abused this country for 35
years.
He said that included the failure
“to properly estimate that Saddam
Hussein would still be out there
funding attacks on Americans until
he was captured; that one of his
principal deputies, Izzat Ibrahim
al-Douri, would still be out there
funding operations against us; that
they would have hundreds of mil
lions of dollars in bank accounts in
neighboring countries to support
those operations”; and that the old
intelligence service would keep
fighting.
Wolfowitz also said U.S. officials
were wrong to impose so severe a
policy of de-Baathification, the
decision to purge members of
Hussein’s Baath party from the
government. The move threw out
of work thousands of teachers, mil
itary men and others, many of
whom had been required to join
the party for employment, and was
blamed by some for not only boost
ing joblessness but helping fuel the
insurgency.
allowed during the hours of 7 a.m.
and 7 p.m. on weekdays, but does
not limit times on weekends.
Hangers, located at 127 Fidelity
St. in a building that has housed a
dry cleaners since 1988, is zoned B
3, which is designed to accommo
date commercial needs that are
more appropriately handled at the
neighborhood level rather than the
community level.
But neighbors have tried to
change the cleaner’s operations for
almost a year, saying that it is not a
neighborhood-friendly business.
Residents presented complaints
to the Board of Adjustment in
October that Hangers was not abid
ing by the B-3 zoning regulations.
Board members discovered that a
majority of the apparel cleaned at
Fidelity Street’s cleaners came from
other Hangers locations as far away
as Wade Avenue in Raleigh.
Hangers’ owners responded to
the complaints by filing a petition
in Orange County Superior Court
to have the case reviewed, which
determined that the cleaners was
in compliance with zoning regula
tions.
Doug Mitchell, the owner of the
building that houses the cleaners,
said he hasn’t made any decisions
about the property, despite the
neighbors’ complaints. “Hangers is
there to stay.”
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The ban on former party mem
bers in public sector jobs was eased
last month.
Wolfowitz also said that the next
year to 18 months will be critical in
Iraq because it will take that long to
stand up fully trained and equipped
Iraqi security forces and to elect a
representative government.
Pressed by Sen. Russ Feingold,
D-Wis., on how long substantial
numbers of U.S. troops will have to
remain, Wolfowitz said he could
not predict.
Occupation forces have signed
up some 200,000 Iraqis for police,
army, civil defense and other secu
rity jobs. However, training has
been slow, insurgent violence is on
the rise and Iraqis remain far from
capable of securing the country
without the 160,000-member
U.S.-led occupation forces.
Feingold asked if the current
135,000 Americans will have to
stay through 2005.
“We don’t know what it’ll be.
We’ve had changes, as you know,
month by month,” Wolfowitz said.
“We have several different plans to
be able to deal with the different
levels that might be required.”
Israeli troops kill 20 in
refugee camp invasion
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
RAFAH, Gaza Strip Under
heavy cover fire from helicopters,
Israeli troops combed this refugee
camp for weapons and gunmen
TUesday in the biggest Gaza offen
sive in years. Twenty Palestinians
were killed.
The death toll was the highest
one-day total since 35 Palestinians
were killed in the West Bank city
in Ramallah on April 5,2002.
The United States said it was
asking Israel for “clarification.”
The United Nations and European
Union demanded an end to the
incursion, which Israeli security
officials said would last at least a
week.
Early Wednesday, Israeli troops
and tanks entered the refugee
camp next to the West Bank town
of Jenin, Israel Radio reported,
killing a local leader of the Al Aqsa
Martyrs Brigades, linked to Yasser
Arafat’s Fatah movement The mil
itary had no immediate comment.
The Israeli army said the aim of
“Operation Rainbow” was to
destroy weapons-smuggling tun
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“Our current level is higher than
we had planned for this time this
year.”
Officials had expected they’d
have only 115,000 troops in Iraq by
now but were forced in the spring
to extend the tours of some 20,000
Americans because of unexpected
ly high violence.
Before the war, some military
planners estimated all but 70,000
Americans could have been with
drawn by the end of 2003. Gen.
Richard Myers, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said since
that he never thought that number
was plausible.
Defense Secretary Donald H.
Rumsfeld briefed the House Armed
Services panel in private TUesday
on a number of Iraq issues. The
panel also was briefed by Army
Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who
investigated U.S. soldiers’ abuse of
inmates in an Iraqi prison.
Some House members viewed
still-classified photos from the
scandal, in which Taguba reported
“sadistic, blatant and wanton crim
inal abuses” by military forces at
the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison
complex near Baghdad.
nels and arrest Palestinian mili
tants. It said it didn’t intend to
demolish large numbers of
Palestinian homes. Troops tore
down four homes TUesday, wit
nesses said.
Last week, Israel destroyed
about 100 houses, making more
than 1,000 Palestinians homeless.
Troops moved TUesday into the
Tel Sultan neighborhood on the
outskirts of the Rafah camp.
Bulldozers began tearing up a road
to separate the neighborhood from
the rest of the camp, and soldiers
backed by about 70 armored vehi
cles conducted house-to-house
searches, sometimes using bull
dozers to knock down doors.
The army said most of the casu
alties were gunmen killed by mis
siles or machine-gun fire as they
prepared to attack troops.
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name of Dean Bresriani, Interim
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs.
•A page 4 article misspelled the
names of Robin Ryder and Frieda
Behet, principle investigators in
the UNC-Democratic Republic of
Congo research project.
•An editorial page column that
referenced the N.C. General
Assembly should have said the
2002 budget deficit was $2 billion.
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