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The Carolinian RALEIGH, N.C., THURSDAY-SUNDAY . AUGUST 25,1988 VOL. 47, NO. 76 N.C.'s Semi-Weekly sSsr25e DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST ELSEWHERE 300 Drug Action Specialist Helps Families Cope Page 13 . — zsssassi Page 22 NEWS BRIEFS CHAVEZ ENDS FAST Farm labor leader Ceear Chavet ended his 3<-day fast at a mass 8unday by breaking bread with the children of Robert F. Kennedy as thousands showed their support for his boycott of California table grapes. MEXICO FLIGHT American Airlines has an nounced that It will begin this fall making nonstop flights from Ralelgh-Durham International Airport to the Mexican resort of CanCun. YULE TREE FARMERS HIT HARD BY DROUGHT A 47-month-long drought in the western North Carolina moun tains may force some Christmas tree farmers out of business if the dry trend continues, experts say. GLADYS KNIGHT BUS INVOLVED IN PILEUP A so Id-out Gladys Knight and the Pips concert was canceled when five of the group's crew members were injured Saturday in a wreck near Canton in western North Carolina. BOY PREACHER SUSPENDED A street-preaching U-year-old was suspended minute* after ar riving for the flnt day of tchool after he *tuck a Bible in the prin cipal’i face and told him, "You go to hell,” school official* said. DRUGS ARE TOP ISSUE North Carolina businesses should be given incentives to pro vide drug education and treat ment programs for their employees. James C. Gardner, a Republican candidate for lieute nant governor, said today. FELLOWSHIPS FOR INDIANS American Indian students pur suing doctorates at one of the four minority Institutions of the University of North Carolina system may be eligible for fellowships valued at $4,000 per year. To be eligible, an individual must be enrolled full-time and in good standing in a doctoral degree program, meet state residency requirements, be found to have financial need and be an American Indian under the pro gram’s definition. HIGHER ELECTRIC BILLS Records for peak demand and one-day usage of electricity were shattered in August as air condi tioners and fans did battle with trlplo-dlglt thermometer readings. TWO TAUNTED. BEATEN Two teenager* were beaten in a parking lot by five other youthi in what may bave been a racially motivated attack, Naaeau Coun ty police have said. The Incident took place In Great Neck, N.Y. Traditions To Bo Highlighted At Homecoming BY MARY COOK Special TP The CAROLINIAN On a somnolent June day in 17M, the slave ship Camden drifted Into Eden ton harbor and unloaded her cargo of African slaves. Stumbling from the slaver’s fetid hold, these dased and exhausted men and women found three prosperous white planters eagerly awaiting their ar rival. Josiah Collins, Nathaniel Allen and Samuel Dickinson had purchased Guinea Jack, Fanny and the 78 other Africans to work 100,000 acres they owned near Lake Phelps in modern day Washington County. Separated from homes and tradi tions, these Africans, their descen dants and other American slaves carved out a white agricultural, manufacturing and lumber empire on the edge of the malarial “Great Alegator Dismal” swamp. In the pro cess, they left their indelible mark on Josiah Collins’ lucrative 5,870-acre (See TRADITIONS, P. 2) Colleges Brighter For Blacks BY R.P. CORNWALL CHUNN SUH Writer For those who know Ms. Willie C. High, Shaw University’s director oi public relations, she is optimistic by nature. But as the university opens this year, she is elated. "We expect a year embellished with success stories—financial, educational, social, cultural and the whole gamut," Ms. High said in an in terview. "I just talked to the dean [and] our anticipated enrollment is somewhere between 1,450 and 1,500 students,” group.” she said. “The students that we have The Shaw “family” is led by Dr. admitted seem to be committed, very Talbei f o Shaw, who assumed his Black schools are reporting higher enrollments with Shaw University admitting 1,115 students and Saint Augustine’s College an unprecedented 2,500. enthusiastic, and they bring to the duties last year. campus their various experiences The Shaw experience is consistent that will make for a good family with the reports of increased interest in all historically black college? by students across the state. St. Augustine’s College, across town from Shaw, admitted 800 students out of an unprecedented 2,500 applicatons, bringing the school’s total enrollment this fall to 1,700 students. “The reasons why minorities are going to college in increasing numbers are the same as why other students are going to college in in creasing numbers: the emphasis in Marshall Warns Racism Up Message To National Bar Assn. BY SHIRLEY REED-BLASH NNPA News Service WASHINGTON, D C -Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall gave a sound warning that racism in the United States is “broader and stronger” than ever before. Marshall, appointed to the bench in 1967 during the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson, addressed an overflowing audience of conven tioneers during the 18th annual awards banquet of the National Bar Association, held at the Sheraton Washington Hotel. As more than 1,000 attorneys, justices, and legal professionals from across the country listened attentive ly, the justice asserted that inroads made by him and other civil rights advocates are being threatened. “We’re not gaining ground, my friends. We might be losing it.” Marshall said the NBA’s role is as important today as when he became involved in the 1930s. {Ie cited the growing social and economic pro blems in this country. “We claim that we have made great strides—a lot of people do. I’m in the group that doesn’t believe that,” said the justice who added that he would continue the fight for equality in America until racism and other injustices are eradicated. ' Reminding the capacity audience that there is strength in numbers, Marshall, who appeared to be in good health, called for a large-scale, unified effort to stave off the expan sion of racism. “All of us have a job. We can’t do it as an individual and we can’t do it in small groups,” he said. He stated that the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence have very little importance if the peo ple of this country do not adhere to the democratic principles they espouse, principles he has tried to achieve for the last 50 or 60 years. "[Our] goal is that every Negro child that is born to a black.mother in the state of Mississippi, orjfcny other state like that, born to the dumbest, poorest share-cropper, is, by merely drawing its first breath in a democracy—born with the exact same rights as a similar child born to (See RACISM, P. PARENTS TALK TOCOtJNSELLOR-Parents of new and accompanying their youngsters to the Raleigh transtar students enrolling for the first tlmo at Saint Augustine's It expecting tome 650 new student* for tho fan Augustine's College talk with Graham Venable, admissions USB semester, counsellor at the college. Those are soma af tha parents CVUniinui « iw vanoyo- p NC Congressmen Lobby To Amend Changes In Title III Program GREENSBORO (AP)-Nortli Carolina congressmen are lobbying Congress to amend changes in the Ti tie III program that means Bennetl College and 10 other historicall) black institutions in the Southeast will lose $2.3 million in federal fund: they had expected to use in the com ing year. In a letter to Rep. Augustus F Hawkins, D-Calif., chairman of th( House Committee on Education anc Labor, Tarheel congressmen said “We do not believe it was the inten tion of Congress to disrupt grants im mediately for 1988 and 1989. We., cannot accept the sudden cancella tion of these previously approved pro grams.” Title III is a federal program tha began in 1965 in an effort to movi developing institutions, includinf historically black schools, into th< educational mainstream. The schools won’t get the mone; because Congress recently prohibite* black institutions from receivinj funds from both the major parts o the Title III program, known as Par A and Part B. In June, Bennett was awardei funds from both parts. It is the onl; North Carolina school to get fund from both parts. Gloria Randle Scott, Bennett's president, said she will be hard pressed to make up about $100,000 her school had expected from the federal Title III Droeram “It hurts us pretty badly,” Ms. Scott said. It means the school has to find the money somewhere else, she (See DENIED, P.2) Protest Leads lo inl.su African-American Studies BY SHEILA SMITH MCKOY Special To The CAROLINIAN' North Carolina State University will oiffer an African-American studies minor beginning this fall, due in part to the African-Americn stu dent protest last March. According to Dr. Thomas Ham mond, the director of the African American studies minor committee, “The protest came at the right time; it brought attention to the needs of black students at N.C. State.” Ham , mond said he had completed the pro I posal for the minor at the time of the , student protest in March. ! The committee, consisting of both black and white faculty members, was formed to assure that the cur I riculum for the minor met goals for , the program, which include the abili . ty for critical thinking from a global, not a European, perspective. The minor is interdisciplinary and will be administered under the Divi Academic Honors Two Sisters Achieve Goals it is gratifying when two sisters achieve their career goals in the same year. For Ava Danelle Greene and Willa-Jo Michelle Greene, daughters of Judge and Mrs. George R. Greene, 1968 has been their year. Ava graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1964 with a B.S. degree in criminal justice. While at Carolina she sang with the Carolina Choir for four years, she was a pre orientation counselor and minority advisor and was on the Dean's List her-last two years. She went on to Howard University Lavwgchool and received her juris doctor degree in 1967. While at Howard she sang with the Howard Chapel Choir and was on the Law Journal for two years. After graduation she served as a law clerk for Judge Theodore Newman in the Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. In February of this year, Ava passed the Pennsylvania Bar Exam with a score high enough to allow her to waive the D.C. and Maryland exams. In September, attorney Greene will join the corporate counsel staff of the Maxima Coro in Rockville. Md. Willa-Jo graduated from Carolim in May of this year with a degree ii pharmacy. While there she was i Pogue Scholar and received an awan for having maintained a 3.0 or bette grade point average for four years She was also a pre-orientatioi counselor and minority advisor. Will tana MS. W1LLA-JO M. GREENE i sang witn uie BSM Gospel Choir and i played the (lute with the Marching i Tarheels Band. I She decided to seek early admis - sion to the Pharmacy School at the . end of her sophomore year. Because i of the rigorous academic schedule > (See ACHIEVING, P. a) sion of University Studies. Jack W. Wilson, head of the division, said, “It is a solid academic program. We hope it is well received by the students and that white students as well as black students will avail themselves of this opportunity.” The minor will consist of 15 hours of course work, with three required courses and two electives. The re quired courses are Introduction to Black American Literature, African Studies and either Afro-American History Through the Civil War or Afro-American History Since 1865. Electives will be chosen from a list of courses relating to African and African-American history, an thropology, foreign language, sociology, speech-communication and social work. There are problems with the pro gram in that some of the history and literature courses do not satisfy the degree requirements for some schools. Also, since the minor will be ad ministered through the Division of University Studies, there is no control over instructors’ salaries or the. availability of courses, and tenure is (See BLACK STUDIES, F. 2) Report Looks At NC School Bus Accidents Five persons were killed ana 1,064 others were injured during the 1867-88 academic year in accidents involving North Carolina school buses, accor ding to figures relased by the Colli sion Reports Section of the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles. Commissioner of Motor Vehicles William S. Hiatt on Monday issued the annual sunjmary of school bus ac cidents. Only-one student was killed in the -accidents. The other four fatalities were occupants of vehicles involved in collisions with school buses. Of those injured, 661 were students, 72 were bus drivers and 331 were 'pedestrians or occupants of vehicles. v Almost 960 of the wreck victims were in accidents involving more than one vehicle. (See BUS ACCIDENTS, P. 2) our society is on getting education,’’ said John J. Schmidt, coordinator of school counseling for the state Department of Public Instruction According to Nathan F Simms, vice president for student services for the University of North Carolina system, "The message is out there: When you go to college it increases your ability to participate in the American way.” White universities are also reported to be recruiting more minorities for their freshman See LOOKING UP, P. 2) Blacks Invite Jackson To Dnke Campus DURHAM—The Rev. Jesse Jackson will speak at Duke Universi ty on Sunday, Aug. 28, as part of orientation week activities for Duke students. Jackson will speak at 7 15 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium Jackson was invited to campus by Duke’s Black Student Alliance One of the leaders of the pi gressive wing of the Democratic Pat ty, Jackson was the main rival to Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis in the campaign for the 1988 presidential nomination. Cameron Indoor Stadium, which is currently undergoing interior renova tions, will hold about 7,000 people for the event. Acting on a request from Duke President H. Keith Brodie, the Department of Athletics has ac celerated refinishlng the floor so that Cameron can be used as a site fur th' speech. Admission to the speech will be by ticket only. Allocation of ticket w > determined by a committee by William J. Giffith, vice presided for student affairs. Tickets will be distributed on first-come, first-served basis follows: Students—New students wiil p- r priority for student tickets 'u, for new students were distributed m Page Box Office beginning at s . Wednesday, Aug. 24; and lor a.i students beginning at noon Thursday. Faculty—The Academic Council Office, 304 Union West, will distribute tickets for faculty from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Thursday. Administration—The Office of University Relations, 615 Chapel (See JESSE JACKSON. P. 2> Judges Bench CONVICTED OF SHOOTING A seven-woman, five-man jur, deliberated on Tuesday for an hour before delivering a guilty vent against James C. McDqwell who v . on trial for first-degree murder in the shooting death of 51-year-old Dons Gillie, a mother of six. Ms. Gillie was killed last august as she left an even ing church service. Immediately after the verdict, the jury began to consider a sente > whether McDowell, 20, will recce life in prison or the death penalty The jury also found McDowell gud ty of shooting into an occupied veha to and attempted armed robbery with a dangerous weapon. Conviction of first-degree murder charges require that the jury rule the ad un premeditated and committed w>,:ic another felony was in progress, r both. McDowell was arrested and charg ed on Aug. 20, one day after Ms. Gillie was found dead in her car in the park ing lot of the Gospel Center on North Driver Avenue. She had been shot in the stomach and left side with a .32-caliber pistol as she sat in the vehicle. SUIT FOR DAMAGES A North Carolina woman, Evelyn E. Kuykendall, M, of Marshville. fil ed suit Monday in U.S. District Court in Greenville against Charles and Frances Hunter of Kingwood, Texas. The Hunters operate-Hunter Ministries. The suit asks the jury to se^ap proprlate damages for the injuries Ms. Kuykendall alle&Mfly incurred after the Hunter* performed tljpKjv ing on of hands in a «ervjce last-year, but when she was “slain by ' tin spirit,” they failed to provkio-e-oat cher and allowed her to fall on the floor, fracturing her spine and neck. Ms. Kuykendall also alleges that after she fell, the Hunters displayed (See JUDGES’ BENCH. P. 2)
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