The Carolinian
RALEIGH, N.C.,
THURSDAY-SUNDAY
VOL. 47. NO. 86
SEPTEMBER 29. 1988
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Contest Begins Today!
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Hugh Masakela Delivers
Solid Freedom Message In Song
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NEWS BRIEFS
J
JESSE JACKSON
DEBATES
Former presidential hopeful
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson will Join
Jarist Robert H. Bork and six
ether panelists for a two-hour
face-off between prominent
liberals and conservatives at
North Carolina State University
an Oct. 5. (See story. Page 2).
THIRD PARTY
CANDIDATE
Dr. Lenora B. Fulani, presiden
tial candidate for the New
Alliance Party, who has qualified
for federal matching funds and
the only third-party candidate to
he on the ballot in all SO states this
year, told an honors student
forum at North Carolina State
University this week that
presidential candidate Mike
Dukakis should be defeated. She
says “Dump Dukakis," and send
the Democratic Party a message
that it no longer can take minori
ty votes for granted.
ACCESS PROGRAM
Six Wake County high schools
will be served by the ACCESS
Program cooperatively
developed by the Wake County
Public School System and Wake
County Education Foundation.
Hie schools include Broughton,
Enloe, Fuquay-Varina, Wake
Forest-Rolesville. Athens Drive
and Garner.
BLACK SCORES RISE
Hiough the annual report of the
College Board showed a decline
In the average Scholastic Ap
titude Test scores for 1988,
minority students taking the test
continued to Improve their per
formance. The improvement
reflects the success of Head Start
and similar federally funded pro
grams Instituted to assist
■indents from poorer families in
closing the education gap.
POETRY WEEK
The Paper Plant will par
ticipate in National Poetry Week
Oct. 15-23 at a full-scale festival
at the Fort Mason Conference
Center in San Francisco with
simultaneous and cooperative
events in Philadelphia, New
York, New Orleans, Chicago and
Raleigh. The Paper Plant is spon
soring a two-night poetry
marathon on Fayetteviile Street
Mall Oct. 20-21, with Karen
Bartlett, Rudy Wallace, Gerald
Barrax and Anna Wooten
Hawkins.
(See NEWS BRIEFS, P. 2)
TOP TIM—Participant! In tha fourth annual H.C. Senior Oamai atata finmi
(farad a variety at actlvltloe recently, Including baseball, tootbaU. tennis,
and, aa this contestant discovered, horseshoes. Several hundred
ctttsns over 8S years eld tram across the state attended the ovMt (Photo by
TaMSaMr-Cabeway)
Establish Rapport
Debate Overlooks Minority Need
BY DR. ALBERT E. JABS
Contributing Writer
An Analysis
WINSTON-SALEM-Wait Chapel
on the Wake Forest University
Chapel was the scene of the historic
presidential debate but both can
didates could have used a little more
Baptist preaching style—they both
came across as somewhat wooden,
passionless, and methodically
managerial.
While visionary, charismatic,
Reagen-like rhetoric is not in good
form for many minorities, the simple
truth is that people like a little “soul
power” in leadership communica
tion. The candidates simply did not
deliver on this front.
The candidates have a statistical
grasp of minority needs but fail to
discern the emotional dimension or
i M • m
tiness of much of America. Minorities
were looking for some fire, some
commitment, some imaginative vi
Both candidates are more
mainstream than they realize. They
are rich, powerful, with extensive
Both candidates are more mainstream
than they realize. They are rich, powerful
with extensive networks and resource
systems, precisely the opposite of the poor
and homeless.
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BUSH
“heart” understanding of pressing
needs like social disintegration,
poverty, drugs, alcoholism, and emp
sion; what they found were retreads,
cliches, and tired phrases. The had
heard it all before.
DUKAKIS
networKs ana resource systems,
precisely the opposite of many of the
poor and homeless. While both are
17. 5. Feats Overshadowed
Drugs Taint Olympic Games
Lab Tests
Defeating
To Athlete
From CAROLINIAN Stall Reports
Earlier this week in Seoul, South
Korea during the long-awaited
showdown to determine the world’s
fastest male, a black athlete suffered
a major blow in the rivalry between
American sprinter Carl Lewis and
Canadian Ben Johnson.
Johnson was stripped of the gold
medal because he allegedly chose to
use a steroid to gain an unfair advan
tage over Lewis. The use of the
steroid (stanozolol) has caused
Johnson to be forever remembered in
the annals of Olympic history. .
Johnson, in an attempt to defend
himself of the charges, claimed that
his drink in his track bag may have
been spiked.
The CAROLINIAN, in an attempt
to find out if such a scenario could
have taken place, consulted with a
local physician, Dr. Fred J. Long,
who specializes in general surgery at
Wake Medical Center and operates a
private practice in Raleigh.
Dr Long said, “The long-term use
of the steroid would most likely be
detectable in the lab.” The normal
high content of the drug usage would
show up in testing, he said. A large
consumption of the drug would take
at least a couple of weeks to be
broken down by the body. Dr. Long
estimated the usage by the athlete at
somewhere in the vicinity of 100
milligrams.
Dr. Long said the effects of steroid
use are most direct and dangerous to
the liver. “When introduced into the
system chronic steroid use can lead
to liver failure. Chronic use can also
(See DRUGS TAINT, P 2)
PEER COUNSELOR PROGRAM-The New Horizons Program
of the YWCA Hargett Street Branch conducted peer
counselor graduation recently with featured speaker, Dr.
Robert Bridges. From left to right: Mr. Khalif and Ms. Ibrahim
Ramadan, Ma. Stacey Grier, ms. Carol Davis, Dr. Bridges, Ms.
April Love. Standing left to right Ms. Toni Peoples, Ms.
Cassandra Echols, Ms. Ebony Funderburke, Ms. Keyca
Jones, Mr. Patrick Dewberry, Ms. Teshla Morgan, Mr.
Warren Bennett and Mr. Maurice Graham.
Dr. Bridges Discusses Barriers
And Limitations To Counselors
Special To The CAROLINIAN
The New Horizons Program of the
YWCA Hargett Street Branch recent
ly conducted Peer Counselor Gradua
tion. The featured speaker for the
event was Dr Robert Bridges,
superintendent of Wake County
Public Schools.
Dr. Bridges expressed appreciation
for the quality of presentations given
by the current and previous peer
counselors during the earlier part of
the graduation program. Dr. Bridges
had as a main focus of his lecture
dependence on the Creator in over
coming the barriers that often sug
gest artificial limitations.
Previous peer counselor graduates
who aided in the program were April
Love, Maurice Graham, Warren Ben
nett, Patrick Dewberry, Stacey Grier
and Cassandra Echols.
Fabette Smith of the Minority Net
work on Adolescent Pregnancy made
opening remarks and New Horizons
Program Director Khalif Ramadan
explained the purpose of the Peer
Counseling Component and
Justice Expects Court
To Take Prompt Action
On Educating Judges
Chief Justice James G. Exum, Jr.,
of the State Supreme Court says he
expects the court to take prompt ac
tion on a report recommending man
datory continuing legal education for
Tar Heel judges.
The chief justice praised the com
mittee, headed by Associate Justice
Louis B. Meyer of the Supreme Court,
for the “very thorough job it did.”
The committee recommended that
the court require the state s 257 trial
court and appellate court judges to
take 30 hours of instruction “in one or
more approved continuing legal or
judicial education programs” every
two years, beginning next July 1.
It’s estimated that upwards of 90
percent of the state’s judges already
attend judges’ conferences held in the
state each year which offer instruc
tion that meets the requirements of
the proposed mandatory program.
LAWS AND PROCEDURES
Commenting on the report, Justice
Meyer said, "We wanted to make
sure that everybody is treated alike—
we feel very strongly that a continu
ing judicial education program is
necessary to keep abreast of the law
and procedures.”
Chief Justice Exum appointed the
committee in October 1987 after the
North Carolina State Bar adopted a
mandatory continuing legal educa
tion program for lawyers.
“If the court decides to adopt some
program of mandatory continuing
legal education for judges, the pro
gram in all likelihood would be very
close to what this committee has
recommended, and any changes
would be minor changes in detail,”
Exum said.
ANNUAL CONFERENCES
The committee’s proposal states
that annual conferences held for
superior court and district court
judges by the Administrative Office
of the Courts and the University of
North Carolina’s Institute of Govern
ment in Chapel Hill ‘‘are approved
for credit...” Some of these con
ferences are frequently held in con
junction with meetings of North
Carolina lawyers.
Also approved would be all continu
ing legal education progarms spon
sored by the North Carolina Bar and
by eight recognised “national pro
viders of legal education."
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
AOC Director Franklin Freeman
said the conferences held for trial
judges in the state each year are “ar
ranged in such a way as to minimize
lost court time and maximi e judicial
(See EDUCATING, P. 2)
acknowledged contributions that
those in attendance had made to the
procram.
The highlight of the evening was
the awarding of certificates by Carol
Davis of the Wake County Health
Department to the four graduates.
The graduates of the New Horizons
August class of 1988 are Ebony
Funderburke, Keyca Jones, Teshla
Morgan and Daniel Purdue.
The next peer counselor training
for youth ages 14-17 is scheduled to
begin on Saturday, Oct. 8, at noon in
the YWCA, 554 E. Hargett St. If you
would like to be a part of this class or
know someone whom you feel would
be interested, call program director
Khalif Ramadan or assistant director
Toni Peoples at 834-7386.
uther activities sponsored by the
YWCA Hargett Street Branch include
after school care, Golden Oaks, infant
toddler care, karate, field hockey,
tutorial and summer daycamp.
MURDER SUSPECT—Caesar Lamont
Johnson Is still being hold In the Wake
County Jail. Johnson Is charged with
the murder of Jerry Wayne Pa*elL
Johnson wl* appear In court on Oct.3
to face the charges. MoonwhRo, Ms
mother. Ms. Betty Johnson, and Ms
sister, Ms. Wanda Donlse Johnson,
also act behind bars charged with being
accessories altar tha fact. Their court
data Is sat for Oct. 10.
Ivy League graduates and running as
president of all Americans, the bald
truth is that they probably have not
had any hungry days or homeless
nights.
In spite of their countless advisors
on imaging and speaking, both can
didates failed to utilize the story
technique—a rhetorical device to
establish rapport with an impersonal
audience. A contemporary story of a
minority person in pain, where
government could be a servant,
would have bridged many gaps bet
ween the majority and the minorities.
Non-verbal cues, fine-tuning the
image, and issue projection have a lot
"(See DEBATE, P. 2)
Japan Turning
Deaf Ears To
Stack Demands
BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS, SR.
NNPA Newi Editor
Japan is obviously turning a deaf
ear to the protests of the National
Newspaper Publishers Association
against blatant racist statemenmts
by some of Japan’s top officials and
displays of Black Sambo mannequins
in its department stores.
Several NNPA editorials assailing
Japanese insults, from former Prime
Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone’s state
ment that blacks are dumb (“They
lower the intelligence level of the
U.S.”) to the most recent statement
of Liberal Democratic leader Michio
Watanabe’s declaration that blacks
run up credit card debts (“They don’t
mind going bankrupt because they
take the position ‘we don’t have to
pay anything back’”). In other
words, blacks are deadbeats.
The editorials have appeared
across the country in our affiliated
newspapers. NNPA headquarters in
Washington, D.C. has been inundated
with phone calls from irate blacks
and others who stridently urged
NNPA to launch an immediate all-out
boycott drive against all Japanese
made products. Japanese
Americans, both individually and in
groups, have also contacted NNPA
protesting racist statements and ac
tions by officials of Japan and
(See JAPANESE, P. 2)_
Judges'
Bench
SHUTTLE TO CARRY DRUG TEST
As the space shuttle Discovery
roars skyward Thursday, it will be
launching an attempt to create a bet
ter AIDS drug.
The experiment is designed to
reveal the molecular structure of
reverse transcriptase, a key enzyme
that enables the AIDS virus to
replicate in human cells. Knowing the
structure could help scientists devise
a drug that stops the virus from
reproducing while leaving healthy
cells undamaged.
The experiment, one of several that
will be aboard the shuttle, will take
advantage of the weightlessness of
space. Under those conditions, scien
tists are better able to grow crystals
that conform to the true shape of the
complex, three-dimensional
molecules that make up the enzyme
JORDAN QUESTIONS MARTIN’S
COMPETENCE
After spending the past week ques
tioning the ethics of Gov. James G.
Martin, Democratic gubernatorial
candidate Robert Jordan switched
tactics Tuesday and began question
ing his competence.
Jordan cited several incidents, in
cluding mistakes in restoring driving
privileges to convicted drunk
drivers; tourism inquiries being
answered several months late; and
several critical audit reports.
The Jordan campaign also criticiz
ed Martin’s hiring of former
Democratic Lt. Gov. James C. Grene
as a highly paid consultant, accor
ding to John C. Crumpler, Jordan’s
campaign manager. Democrats
charge that Green was hired as a
“political payoff (or his tacit sup
port of Martin during the 1984 gover
nor’s race, and that Green has done
little to earn his keep.
DRUG ARRESTS
The Wake County Sheriff’s Depart
ment and SBI made a special
delivery Friday morning and ar
rested two people who, ere to receive
a package that contained what was
(See JUDGES’ BENCH, P. 2) *