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Student-Stewardess
Accomplishes Goals
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Dean Louis Westerfield of the
North Carolina Central University
School of Law has been quoted as say
ing full-time work and full-time law
school attendance don’t mix well.
Cathryn Garner agrees with the
dean. She says, “It isn't a good idea
for most students ”
Ms. Garner, however, worked full
time as a flight attendant for Pied
mont Airlines during her three years
as a law student. She received her
juris doctor degree from NCCU in
May, and was notified this month that
she had passed the North Carolina
Bar Examination.
Motivation was important, she
says, and so was time management.
“I am very good at managing my
time.”
She had to be good at managing her
time. She was living and attending
law school in Durham, while flying
out of Washington and then Baltimore
on a weekend schedule with Pied
mont. It was the weekend schedule
that made her accomplishment possi
ble, but she had no difficulty getting
those assignments.
“We bid for our schedules on the
basis of seniority, but nobody else
wants to work weekends.”
Typically, she attended classes
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday
through Thursday, with her Friday
classes ending around 1 p.m. The
absence of afternoon classes on Fri
day made it possible for her to fly to
Washington or Baltimore to begin her
weekend of work.
During the week, she said, she
started classes at 9, remaining at the
law school unti' 4 D.m., in class or stu
(See STUDENT, P.M)
_
On The Hill
UNMET DUKAKIS PROMISES TO
JESSE RACKING CAMPAIGN
DRIVE?
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Democratic
presidential nominee Michael
Dukakis was on Capitol Hill last week
challenging a reluctant GOP
presidential candidate George Bush
to debate campaign issues.
Pine. But some critical observers
feel that the Massachusetts governor
might better spend his time first shor
ing up his disjointed campaign team
that seems uncertain about what
issues he should tackle, how and
where. And finally, what he intends to
do about coming to grips with alleged
, promises he made to Jesse Jackson
on that Monday morning at the start
of the Democratic Convention.
This latter issue is sundering the ef
fective operation of his campaign
machinery, insiders say, and if
Dukakis doesn’t grab control and set
the operation quickly back on course,
his chances of winning the presidency
in the November elections might be
dim, indeed. Bush is maintaining a
troubling lead in the polls.
Jesse Jackson himself signaled the
serious disarray when he appeared
on the David Brinkley show and told
acting host Sam Donaldson that none
of the promises elicited at his conven
tion meeting with Dukakis had been
kept, including the important one of
placing a senior official of Jackson’s
choosing in a policy-making position
on the Democratic National Commit
tee.
With the November elections only
weeks away, the most effective
Democratic campaigner, Jackson, is
not even being utilized! NNPA has
learned confidentially that the
Dukakis inner (white) circle doesn’t
want Jesse to campaign for the
ticket, except in limited areas. They
have restricted him from campaign
ing in Detroit, for example, capital of
the state he won in a primary land
slide. Lindy Boggs, in Louisiana, is
fighting to return to Congress, and
needs Jackson’s support, but the
Dukakis inner (white) circle doesn’t
want him in that state for fear of
alienating the conservative white
Democrats that have avidly sup
ported Ronald Reagan for the past
7 Vi years! These are a few examples.
There are more.
Some reports have reached NNPA
that “Jesse has agreed to abide by
these restrictions and everything,
come a few weeks from now, is going
to be okay." But some sources have
told NNPA that Jesse Jackson “con
(See ON THE HILL. P.14)
Uejiant CouncUmen
Justices Reject Desegregation Plan
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP)-Two
members of the U.S. Supreme Court
did not agree that the four defiant city
councilmen in the Yonkers, N.Y.
desegregation case should have had
their fines stayed, but they were out
voted by their colleagues on the
bench.
Justices Thurgood Marshall and
William Brennan, in a 13-page dissent
written by Marshall, rejected the
argument that the coun
cilmen—Henry Spallone, Nicholas
Longo, Edward Fagan and Peter
Chema—were protected by
“legislative immunity" when they
voted against a court-ordered
desegregation plan. Marshall and
Brennan agreed with the rest of the
court that finea should be reinstated -
against the city.
“The councilmembenT primary
argument is that a federal court lacks
authority to order an individual local
legislator, as opposed to the body in
which he serves, to enact specific
legislation,” Marshall wrote in the
dissent, issued last Thursday night.
"In the councilmembers’ view, a
Federal court, by entering such an
irder, runs roughshod over what they
ice as the local legislator’s right to be
ibsolutely free from such restraints.
While this issue arguably is of
lubstantial interest, this case is not a
proper vehicle for addressing it.”
Marshall and Brennan said this
was not a situation where the federal
court was trying to force local
legislators to vote in favor of a par
ticular bill in order to'remedy a con
ititutlonal violation. Rather, they
Mid, "This case is about a district
court’s ability to enforce its consent
NCSU Library Launches
Series For New Authors
Award-winning young writer Kaye
B. Gibbons of Raleigh has been nam
ed the first resident author under the
recently created North Carolina State
University Friends of the Librai '
Author of the Year Program.
The program, thought to be unique
among academic libraries, was an
nounced by NCSU Director of
Libraries Susan K. Nutter as part of
the NCSU Libraries’ celebration of
their centennial year in 1980.
The Author of the Year Program is
intended to assist a series of promis
ing new authors, especially those
associated with NCSU, in fostering
their literary careers.
Gibbons, 27, is a native of Nash
County. She attended NCSU and the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel pi. While at NCSU, Gibbons
worked at the NCSU Libraries’
Technical Information Center.
She received international acclaim
with her first novel, “Ellen Foster,”
published in 1987 by-Algonquin Books
of Chapel Hill.
In May the novel was awarded both
the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fic
tion by the American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters and a
PEN/Hemingway First Novel Cita
tion.
Earlier In the year, "Ellen Foster"
reached No. S on the bestseller list in
France. Recently, Paramount Pic
tures purchased the motion picture
option for “Ellen Foster.”
During their tenure as authors of
the year, Gibbons and her successors
will be able to use the Friends of the
Library study carrel at D.H. Hill
Library as well as other library
resources. The resident author also
will be included in the libraries’
social functions.
In other events to celebrate the
libraries’ centennial year, NCSU
Friends of the Library will sponsor its
first program of evening talks by
North Carolina authors, including
Gibbons. Also, the Friends of the
Library will hold its first book sale.
The NCSU Libraries plan to install
an automated circulation system
developed with the libraries of UNC
Chapel Hill and Duke University.
Later in the centennial year, NCSU
will dedicate both an ll-story addition
to D.H. Hill Library and a new
Natural Resources Library.
fue G*eat
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BY TR1TIA MCLAUGHLIN
Special 1* 11m CAROLINIAN
Many of the artifacts from the
“Rameses the Great: the Pharaoh
and His Time” exhibition will arrive
in Charlotte not as strangers to the ci
ty but as kindred spirits. Charlotte
and Rameses’ Egypt, 3,300 years and
4,200 miles apart, both grew to enjoy
a high standard of living because of
an element in their geological
makeup—gold.
Legislators
Set Hearing
For Citisens
Legislators studying the state’s
rest homes would like to hear
from citizens interested la pa
tient care and the quality of life
for residents of nursing and rest
homes.
The Legislative Committee on
Nursing Homes, Rest Homes and
Ombudsman will hold a public
hearing In Raleigh on Wednes
day, Sept. 14, from it a.m. to 3
p.m. In Room 1218 of the State
Legislative Building on Jones
Street.
Any person wishing to address
the committee Is asked to contact
John Young at 733-2578 or David
Moser at 1-5484551. Audience
members may address the com
mittee. All comments will be held
to five minutes or less. Written
(See HEARINGS, P.M)
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It is most appropriate that
Ramoses the Great—the pharaoh
who oversaw the greatest volume of
gold ever extracted from Egyptian
lands—should visit another gold
capital on his North American tour.
Gold has long been a source of
wealth and power. The use of gold in
Jewelry dates back 5,000 years, long
before the pharaohs reigned.
Organized, systematic panning of
gold came under royal jurisdiction
during Egypt’s Old Kingdom period,
more than 4,000 years ago.
Gold and royalty became
synonymous. If an Egyptian found
gold in the Nile or elsewhere, 10 per
cent of it by law belonged to the
pharaoh. The amount of gold in the
pharaoh’s treasury determined the
ruler’s military strength, national
security, religious fervor and social
standing.
Ramoses II’s aggressive pursuit of
gold and precious stones produced a
nation whose wealth surpassed all
others of that period. Rameses stress
ed gold production. He more fully ex
ploited Nubian and Upper Egyptian
gold deposits by implementing shaft
mining. Systematic panning and
shaft mining produced hundreds of
pounds of gold annually. But
resources at home were not enough
for Rameses II. He and his armies
went beyond Egypt’s traditional
(See RAMESES, P. 14)
Poverty Level
Climbing For
Blacks In U. S.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP)-In
craaaing poverty among blacks, but
not w hi tea, ahows that the nation's
economic recovery is not being even
ly shared, the head of a private anti
poverty group said last week.
But an official of a conservative
group challenged Census Bureau
figures on the extent of black poverty.
“It seems that this is a very uneven
economic recovery. The gains are not
being evenly shared... the gap bet
ween rich families end poor families
is now wider in this country than at
any point in the past 40 years,’’
Robert Greensteln said on NBC's
“Today" show.
Greensteln, head of the Center on
Budget and Policy Priorities, com
mented in the wake of a new Census
Bureau report showing that nearly
one-third of all black Americans live
in poverty.
Poverty among blacks climbed two
percentage points to 33.1 percent last
year, according to the Census
Bureau’s annual study of income and
poverty released last Wednesday.
That means that there were an
estimated o n million poor blacks in
1907, which was 700,000 more than a
year earlier.
decrees.
Even if this case had warranted the
court’s decision on the legislative im
munity question, they wrote, Yonkers
presents a peculiarity: “The city
stresses its ‘extraordinary’ system of
governance, in which the council ex
ercises both legislative and executive
powers.”
So, the two justices said, it may be
that the City Council was exercising
its executive prerogatives, rather
than legislative, when it did not com
ply with the consent decree.
Marshall and Brennan were out
voted by their seven judicial col
leagues. No written opinion was
issued, however, leaving Yonkers
leaders to speculate over why the ci
ty’s fines were not stayed and the
councilmembers’ were.
Yonkers Mayor Nicholas Wasicsko
said the Supreme Court’s action
denied “political martyrdom” to the
four defiant councilmen.
Had their penalties not been
stayed, the four would have had to
report to jail on Sunday.
CORPORATE GIFT-Executive director of the Gerner Road YMCA, Norman E.
Day, It teen In photo with IBM executives Ernest Jenkins and LeRoy Thomas, a
fow of the 1088 Back-A-Child committee members who display good coroorate
qualities.
NAACP Moves To Block
Segregated Classrooms
The U.S. Department of Justice,
once the civil rights movement’s
staunch ally, is currently planning to
eliminate 200 school desegregation
orders in six Southern and Western
states, according to an article in
Black Enterprise.
The NAACP and the Legal Defense
Fund have moved to block the effort,
extending that the ‘'closing out” of
these orders could lead again to
segregated classrooms.
Under the Reagan administration,
the department that once served as
the plaintiff in more than 500 school
desegregation cases has reversed its
position, and has not supported such
mandatory school desegregation
remedies as rezoning, pairing,
clustering, grade reorganization and
busing.
Legal Defense Fund attorney Nor
man L. Chachkin helped prepare the
case against lifting permanent in
junctions against school districts. Ac
cording to Chachkin, the Justice
Department has argued that once a
school system “implements an ac
ceptable plan in good faith, all effects
of the previous constitutional viola
tion have been eliminated and the
system becomes integrated.”
But civil rights organizations
believe lifting the injunctions will
have a devastating effect on the abili
(SeeNAACP.P. 14)
REMEMBER VIETNAM- VlUnim veterans held a ceremony to remember the
nlailng In action and prieoneri of war at the Vietnam Memorial at the Capital
lubding. The ceremony wao accompanied by a tub Marina Honor Buard, and It
hold the drat Saturday of each month to cab attention to the MlAi and POWa tram
the State el North Carobna. (Photo by Tabb SaMr-Calloway)
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