Program Helps Minority
Prospective For Teachers
—4AP)—More blacks are retiring
ben teaching than are entering the
field, but officials hope to reverse
that trend with a program that is
designed to draw more talented black
students into the profession.
So far, the program has helped dou
ble the number of black applicants
for scholarships for prospective
teachers, officials said.
“I think it’s going to have a tremen
dous effect,” Rep. Dan Blue, D-Wake,
“We are losing minorities in the
ling profession more rapidly
..in any other profession."
ice Project Teach was started in
July, 144 minority youngsters have
applied for scholarships under the
North Carolina Teaching Fellows
i, which provides 400 scholar
ships per year to students who agree
to become teachers after college.
In the 1986-87 academic year, 69
blacks applied for the scholarships,
which provide $20,000 per student
over four years.
Leaders of the Public School
Forum of North Carolina, a non-profit
groups that promotes better public
education, reported on Project Teach
to an audience of legislators,
members of the State Board of
Education and educators.
Sen. Tony Rand, D-Cumberland,
said teaching was more attractive to
blacks and women when few other
paths were open to them.
“With changes in society's views,
they have more opportunities
and ..they're going elsewhere where
they can make more money,” Rand
said.
Project Teach was modeled after
get-out-the-vote drives in political
campaigns, said Jo Ann Norris, a
Public School Forum officer.
Local black leaders compiled lists
of black youngsters in their areas
who scored 790 or better on the SAT or
PSAT as high school Juniors in
1966-87. They were recruited to apply
for teaching scholarships.
Eight school systems participated
in Project Teach: Cumberland Coun
ty; Durham City; Greensboro City;
Pitt County; Robeson County;
Halifax County; Northampton Coun
ty and Warren County.
A total of 99 black community
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Hiring Techniques
Racial Suit Settled
BackPay
Training
Provided
An Onslow County bottling com
pany has reached an out-of-court set
tlement in a race-discrimination suit
that the U.S. government filed in 1986.
The company, Pepsi-Cola Bottling
Co. of Jacksonville, did not admit any
discrimination but agreed to get out
side training in hiring techniques and
provide the government with periodic
reports an its hiring practices.
The settlement was reached in ear
ly December and was signed Dec. 19
by U.S. District Judge W. Earl Britt,
Join B. Meuser, trial attorney for the
U J. Equal Employment . pportumty
Commission, told a local daily.
The EEOC filed the suit in
September 1986 after blacks working
for the compa complained that the
parking lot wa.» segregated by race
and that black employees were not
allowed into the main office without a
white escort. The EEOC claimed in
* its suit that in the company 's 22 years
of operation, it had hired only whites
as drivers. The company denied this.
The settlement was confidential,
but Meuser outlined the general
terms as follows:
oThe company agreed to pay back
wages to several employees that the
EEOC said should have been pro
moted but had not been because of
r race. Neither party would disclose
the exact amount.
•The company agreed to provide
the EEOC with reports on its hiring
practices.
•The company agreed to use the
state Employment Security Commis
sion in recruiting its employees.
•The compalny agreed to get out
side training in interviewing and hir
ing techniques so company officials
would be familiar with equal-oppor
tunity requirements. The EEOC will
monitor the training, Meuser said.
Papsi has made several changes
due the suit was filed, Meuser said.
“(Black! helpers have been pro
moted to drivers,” Meuser said. “The
atmosphere is entirely different, I'm
The Pepsi employee who brought
ttw complaint to the EEOC, Michael
K. Smith, was killed in a ear accident
In May 1M7. But his mother will col
lect some money as part of the settle
mont.
POLICE ESCORT - Newark, N. J.: John Royster (L) is escorted by an Essex
County Prosecutors Detective to the Essex County Jail after his capture at his
brother’s house in East Orange. He allegedly used a shotgun to kid Ms ex-girlfriend
and critically wounded her sister on a subway platform at Grand Central Terminal
Jan. 7. (UPI)
Jesse Jackson Tells
Of Using Painkillers
CONCORD, N.H. (AP)-Demo
cratic presidential aspirant Jesse
Jackson says he can sympathize with
people trying to fight drug addiction
based on his own brief experience
with painkillers following surgery
years ago.
“I was trapped for a moment
myself” by painkillers, Jackson told
about 85 patients at Seaborne
Hospital, a drug-rehabilitation center
in Dover. ,
But in an interview later, Jackson
said the episode lasted “less than a
day.” He also stressed that it occur
red under a doctor's supervision.
“I was simply relating to them, it's
so easy to go into dependency and so
difficult to get off," Jackson said.
"Even my very brief exposure was
enough to make me sensitive to peo
ple who want drugs, because drugs...
attack your mind. And when drugs at
tack your mind, you do things you
didn't mean to do."
Jackson expressed concern Mon
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rehabilitation center had been
misconstrued to indicate “that it [the
drug] had been abused.”
“The real important story was that
we, as a country, must stop the flow
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nuu Announces 909.3 Million in
Grants To lJ.S. Homeless Outside
Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development Samuel R. Pierce, Jr.,
today announced the names of non
profit organizations and localities
which will share 156 grants—totaling
$69.3 million—under two special pro
grams for the homeless. He also an
nounced two personnel appointments
for homeless programs.
The funds include $54,3 million in
grants for transitional housing and
supportive services for the homeless,
and $15 million for supplemental
assistance for facilities to assist the
homeless.
Secretary Pierce said, “These
grants can help provide a way for
King Festival
Scheduled For
NCSUJgn. 16
Art, education, economics,
literature and music will be just part
of the fare when North Carolina State
University >.osts the third annual
Martin Luther King, Jr. Cultural
Festival on Saturday, Jan. 16.
The Shaw Players and Co. will
stage a full production of the play
“Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope” at
1:30 p.m. in NCSU’s Thompson
Theatre as part of the day’s ac
" Threyem is sponsored by NCSU in
cooperation with St. Augustine's Col
lege and Shaw University.
The festival will begin with
registration at 11 a.m. Throughout
the day there will be seminars on the
family, the church, politics and
government, relationships,
literature, art, drama, education and
economics.
There will be special sessions for
elementary school, junior high and
high school students.
The celebration will conclude with
a cultural concert in Stewart Theatre
presenting music, drama, dance and
oratory. The concert will begin at 7
p.m.
DanceVisions, an NCSU dance
company, will perform, and the
gospel choirs of Shaw, NCSU, St.
Augustine’s and Enloe High School
will give a performance.
At 5 p.m.. there will be an
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homeless people to begin preparing
themselves for independent living.
These programs, with their use of
federal and private dollars, and local
facilities and sponsorship, represent
the united effort needed to alleviate
the serious homelessness problem in
America today.”
The Transitional Housing
Demonstration Program was
authorized by the Homeless Housing
Act of 1986 to develop ways of pro
viding housing and supportive ser
vices for homeless persons capable of
making the transition to independent
living. The current finding is from the
transitional housing component of the
Supportive Housing Demonstration
Program, authorized by the McKin
ney Homeless Assistance Act, signed
by President Reagan July 22,1987.
The McKinney Act also authorized
a program of Supplemental
Assistance for Facilities to Assist the
Homeless. The program is designed
to stimulate innovative community
methods of assisting homeless people
and providing them with the support
services necessary to help them
become self-sufficient members of
the community.
Private non-profit or governmental
entities were eligible to apply for fun
ding under the transitional housing
program. One hundred eighteen pro
jects in three categories are being
funded in this round: projects for the
mentally disabled homeless, families
with children, and other homeless. To
compete for funding, applicants were
required to demonstrate financial
capability and experience in develop
ing housing or providing supportive
services. Application breakdown: 34
projects for the mentally disabled
($19.2 million), 47 projects for
families with children ($20.2 million),
and 37 in the other homeless category
($14.9 million).
The $15 million in SAFAH funds are
being awarded to 38 applicants in 24
states in the form of comprehensive
assistance for Darticularly innovative
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Shaw Divinity School
Extends Registration
From CAROLINIAN Staff Reports
Shaw Divinity School officials an
ticipate a record enrollment for the
tJjSffeg semester, ^•mifFfng special
provisions for additional classrooms,
offices and student study facilities,
according to Dr. Joseph C. Paige, ex
ecutive vice president, who is also in
charge of public affairs for the fledg
ing theological seminary.
While classes will begin on Satur
day, Jan. 9. registration has been ex
tended to Saturday, Jan. 16. Registra
tion will be held at Meserve Hall on
the Shaw University campus. Classes
will meet at the Highland Baptist
Church facility at 509 Hilltop Drive,
off Rush Street near Garner Road in
Southeast Raleigh, soon to be the new
permanent home of the Shaw Divinity
School.
According to Dr. Paige, Dr.
Gregory T. Headen, Divinity School
president, has proclaimed 1988 as a
banner year for Raleigh’s own
graduate theological seminary in
terms of enrollment projections,
gifts, program expansion and ser
vices.
“Relocation to our new facility is a
tnaior plus for the General Baptist
family,” Paige said, adding that the
new facility can serve all of the objec
tives of the GBSC, including Shaw
University and the various GBSC
auxiliaries. Paige said that the ultra
modern, 500-seat church, which he
calls “the new Shaw Divinity School
Church,” is a natural for both Shaw
University and the GBSC, “and it will
serve the area as a community
church.”
“The support is already
phenomenal,” Paige said, “even
beyond one’s wildest imagination.”
In addition to increases in financial
support, Paige stated that faculty,
staff and student morale are at an all
time high. ,
“People feel good about the Divini
ty School,” Paige said. “They see
progress. They see commitment and
dedication. They see the realization
of a dream, and there's a lot of ge
nuine excitement.”
For further information, call Dr.
Gregory T. Headen, president, or Dr.
Larkin Rossiter, dean of academic af
fniiM OOOtTAI
Pro! Recalls Rights Movement
BY UBBBIB SGUNBM
Special To Th« I'AKOIINIAN .
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s
dream of racial equality and peace
won't be within reach until futurapro
spects of black masaee in the Uhited
States are improved and apartheid in
South Africa is abolished, says a
Duke University professor who knew
the slain civil rights leader.
With the approach of the national
holiday honoring King's birthday. Dr.
C. Eric Lincoln, a sociologist of
religion and expert on the history of
race relations in America, assesses
progress toward achieving KMg's
dream since his death as a mixed
bag.
“In some ways, we have made a
great deal of progress. But it'a what I
call practical progress, rather than
ideological progress. By that I mean
that for whatever reasons, through
whatever instrumentalities, some
black people have Uves of better
quality than they did 90 years ago.
Jobs are better; educational oppor
tunities are better. I think the
greatest gain we’ve made is that
black people and white people are
talking to each other,*’Lincoln said in
an interview.
“On the other hand, the future of
the black masses, in general, doesn't
look greatly improved. I think the
major obstacle to improving racial
relations Ues in the refusal of large
numbers of individuals to give up the
notion that they are part of an excep
tional!
i are no ex
there arec
King
of his efforts on
United States,
if he lived today, would be
principles to fight for the at
the apartheid system in South Africa.
“I think that if Martin Luther King
had tried his passive non-violent tac
tics in South Africa, he would pro
bably have come around to my
understanding of human behavior...
and iT it was bad in Mississippi and
Alabama, how infinitely worse it
would be in Johannesburg,” said Lin
coln, who attended Boston University
with King in IM7.
Lincoln, who has written numerous
books on race relations as well as a
book on King's life, described himself
as a longtime staunch supporter of
the civil rights leader.
“When the civil rights movement
began to gain momentum under the
leadership of Dr. King, I was one of
those persons who supported him
strongly and cheered him loudly. I
wrote a lot about him and gave
money to support his work, but I did
not follow him because of ideological
differences. I didn’t have the
discipline to subject myself to the
consequences of the non-violent no
tions mat King espoused."
Lincoln said he and King had
discussed their differences. “I told
him that I doubted the efficacy of ex
pending such a virtue as passive non
violent resistance on people who
didn’t understand non-violence and
whose understanding of the morality
involved was minimal... I felt that to
submit to the brutality or people who
had never committed themselves to
the notion of your humanity was an
exercise in futility."
In the yean since King's death,
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ON THE MARCH—hi March, IMS, Martin Luther King, Jr* Mentoomery, Ala. (Drawn* Courtesy The Associate
led over 3,000 protestors on a inarch from Selma to OaMshars, Inc.)