FLOYD T. CARTER
RHA Reaidenta
Promote Drug
Free Society
Yoath Activities,
Chibs Organised
The Raleigh Housing Authority
recently held a "Drug-Free
Festival” to promote a drug-free
community in Raleigh.
Executive Director Floyd T.
Carter of the RHA was elected
recently as senior vice president
of the Public Housing Authorities
Directors Association. PHA/DA,
a national organization for the
professional development of
public housing authority direc
tors, has current membership ex
ceeding 1,000. Carter has served
as vice president of housing and
trustee on the board of directors.
PHA/DA is jointly holding
workshops with the U.S. Depart
ment of Housing and Urban
Development on the tenant in
tegrity program and training
housing personnel throughout the
nation.
Carter and Raleigh Housing
Authority residents are pro
moting drug-free communities as
a project to help area youth.
The Halifax Court public hous
ing community held a Drug Free
Day festival recently, sponsored
by the Halifax Court Resident
Council in conjunction with the
Halifax Court Concerned Parents
Coalition for the Prevention of
alcohol and drug abuse.
More than 300 parents and
youth participated in the all-day
affair. The festival started with a
parade around tfea MnmunHf
led by the Helping Hand Mission
marching band. The residents
were further entertained by the
Enloe High School Jazz Band and
Dance Troupe. The Resident
Council presented a “drug free”
skit and community youths
presented their talents. An after
noon cookout was held with music
provided by a local disc jockey.
According to Resident Council
President Peggy Dublin, the
festival was a success and she
plans to make this an annual af
fair. Other agencies and
organizations participating in
(See RHA RESIDENT, P. 2)
BY DANIEL MAROLEN
Hie Afrikaner squabble for leader
ship of the South African government
is over. And P.W. Botha has finally
agreed to relinquish the presidency at
the end of 1989, handing the seat over
to National Afrikaner Party leader
F.W.de Klerk.
Both has had a long leadership in
the government of South Africa in
which he has been the minister of
defense, prime minister, and finally,
president of the country. A recent
stroke forced him to relinquish the
leadership of the National Party
which has ruled South Africa without
a break since 1948.
The African people of South Africa
will miss nothing in the departure of
P.W. Botha from their country’s
political scene. In fact, they will
heave a sigh of relief because Botha
was the most brutal and soulless
ruler South Africa has ever had since
the formation of the Union of South
Africa in 1910. During his term as
prime minister, Botha’s police and
army killed, wounded and detained
more Africans than all his
predecessors put together. In addi
tion, Botha bombed and destabilized
the neighboring black-ruled African
states of Lesotho, Angola, Botswana
and Mozambique, the country that
(See INSIDE AFRICA, P. S)
Search Begins For Howard Prexy
University Board of Trustees Chair
man John E. Jacob recently announc
ed that a search committee has begun
work on the process of seeking ap
plications for the presidency of the
university and making a final recom
mendation for the appointment of a
new president.
Dr. James E. Cheek, president of
Howard since IMS, announced his
retirement in April, effective June SO,
IMS. Dr. Carlton P. Alexis, executive
vice president, will servo as interim
president, effective July 1. Dr. Cheek
served as president at Shaw Universi
ty from lSSS-SS prior to taking the
leadership position at Howard
University. I
The following is a text gf Jacob’s
announcement.
“When President Jamas E. Cheek
announced his retirement on April B,
liee, the board of trustees authorised
me w appoint a presidential searcn
committee. The board hu juat ap
proved the search plan, and I am
pleased to explain to the member of
the university community and the
public the procedures that will be us
ed by the presidential search commit
tee. V
“A search committee staff, formed
to handle administrative details for
the committee, will be directed by
Dr. Marion Mann, associate vice
risldent for research. Dr. Constance
Rotan, secretary of the board of
trustees, is secretary of the search
committee.
“At die outset, it is important to say
that, contrary to rumors that have
been circulating, the search commit
tee does not have any name or names
under consideration at this time.
“It is axiomatic that the first step
in a presidential search should be a
decisive statement Mwwnjng what
uw university bwu iw uw iuw»« w
the institution—its mission, goals end
objectives during the next decade and
beyond.
“The Howard University Self
Study, 1909, which was completed by
the faculty, staff, students and
trustees last month, is such a state
ment. The board of trustees has reaf
firmed this mission and these goals
and objectives as a blueprint for the
future. Prom this blueprint the board
has determined the criteria to be used
in selecting a president.
“The search will be marked by full
disclosure of the process of the search
and confidentiality of the names of
the candidates. The committee
favors an open search with frequent
statu reports and opportunities for
representatives of the major
segments of the campus community
(See HOWARD UNIVERSITY, P. X)
!ng New Challenge*
school Closing Brings End To Era
. . — . i _ 1AAA — 1- _ l_l_i._l._t I — — 1 A A. JJ. A- -B LI- —A_._l A.
BY MARJORIE ELLIS MCLEAN
Contributing Writer
When Zebulon High School dosed
its doors on June 7, it marked not only
the closing of a school year, but the
closing of an era—an era which
started In about 1930 with the
Wakefleld-Zebulon High School.
In 1943, the name was changed to
Shepard High. Shepard School served
black children of eastern Wake Coun
ty until 1970, when the “separate but
equal” school system was eliminated
and Wakelon School and Shepard
School marged. Wakelon School
became Zebulon’s elementary school,
and Shepard became Zebulon’s high
sviiuui. lire imrervciuim vi
to 1989 saw many change! in the con
tinuing struggle to upgrade the
overall quality of education in the
Zebulon area.
Beginning next school year, high
school students from Zebulon will at
tend the new East Wake High School,
which is locate# a lew miles west of
Zebulon. Many educators, ad
ministrators and pilrents believe that
a larger school could offer broader
and better curriculum, and thus bet
ter prepare today’s youth to meet the
challenges of a new century.
And so-as the Wakefield-Zebulon,
Shepard, Wakelon and Zebulon High
may add meaning and a greater ap
preciation of the continuing struggle
to come to grips with the problems
relating to the education of our youth
in the waning years of the 20th cen
tury.
It was in about 1930 that the first
four-year high school program was
started at Wakefield-Zebulon
(Shepard) School. The first school
principal, Charles A. Marriott, pur
chased the first school bus (using his
own money) to transport black
children from Riley Hill, Wendell,
White Oak, Pilot, Knightdale,
Shotwell and Wilder’s Grove. That
8 semi
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DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST ELSEWHERE 30*
TUESJ, JUNE 13,1989
VOL. 48, NO. 55
HomicidesBaffleCop
s
Crack, Or
A Serial
Killer?
MIAMI, Fla. (AP)—Seventeen
women, all black and moat of them
crack addicts and prostitutes, have
i mysteriously died in a small section
of downtown Miami since 1906, leav
ing authorities unsure if they have en
countered a serial killer or a deadly
new form of drug abuse.
Last week, after a new wave of
publicity, Dade County Medical Ex
aminer Joseph Davis officially
declared the cases homicides. But the
physician acknowledges the cause of
death to be unknown, and in
vestigators say they are as frustrated
as before.
“If in fact there is a serial killer or
killers out there or if it’s cause by
crack cocaine, we don’t just know
yet,” says John Farrell, chief of the
headquarters division of detectives
for Metro-Dade Police. “We consider
them span cases and we’re in
vestigating them as if they' were
homicides.”
FBI behavioral scientists and ex
perts from the National Center for
Disease Control in Atlanta have been
called in by local authorities to sift
through the sparse data, but their
reports are not yet in.
Farrell notes that there is not even
a proven link between the deaths
which began in September 1966, but
there is a pattern.
The bodies of all but one of the
women were found in a narrow,
predominantly black section of
Miami and adjoining Dade County.
They were lying in overgrown vacant
, (SeeHOMICIDES, P.l)
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WMams participated In the "Close-Up” program In WssMngton, D. C. Ml an
students at Enlaa MgD School and AKA dohutantos. Tha program Is daslgnad for
students interested in the poNcal arena and Is an adventure la parsanal growth
and maturity.
Teachers’ Group Beset
By Racial Differences
(AP) Part of the recent division
among board members of the state’s
largest teachers’ group stems from
tensions that have persisted in the
organization since it was forged in
1970 out of the white N.C. Education
Association, observers say.
The N.C. Association of Educators
says it has taken steps to establish
racial harmony by adopting
guidelines that guarantee that at
least 25 percent of its board and staff
members are black. Further, the ex
ecutive director and his or her
associate cannot both be white. Cur
rently, about 21 percent of the
association’s membership and nearly
40 percent of itsstaff are black.
Still, there have been disputes,
usually over hiring. Board members
fought in 1966, for example, over
whether to promote K.Z. chavis, a
black man who later died in a car ac
cident, to executive director or to con
duct an open search. Chavis got the
job during Karen Garr’s first term as
president, and some former workers
and board members say they did not
get along well. Ms. Garr insists they
got along fine.
Gladys Graves, a former NCAE
president who Is black, said in an in
terview last fall that during her two
terms as president, she had received
anonymous notes asking, “When
ever there is a black president, why
are so many black people hired?”
Last month during the state con
vention of the NCAE in Raleigh, a
(See RACIAL, P 2)
Election Tac
Expose Skit
BY A.I. BOTNICK
Special Te Tfce CAROLINIAN
An Aaliyah—Part II
Throughout his presidential cam
paign, whether as a Democrat or
Populist, Duke received steady
coverage in the Spotlight, Liberty
Lobby’s weekly publication. One arti
cle profiled him as a serious con
tender for the White House. His
racist, including his Klan involve
ment, were openly acknowledged and
Duke supporters were quoted as say
ing he “has the potential of becoming
thl modern-day GeorgeWaUace.”
In i960, Duke finally hit gold in his
political campaigning and the mine
was in District 81.
transportation for black students to
any school in Wake County. Senior
citizens recall that the parents of
students made weekly payments to
help defray the transportation ex
penses and to help maintain the bus.
The first driver, Arthur Perry, drove
the bus without pay for the first year.
In 1933, under the principalship of
Richard A. Carroll, Jr., the school
was accredited by the North Carolina
State Department of Public Instruc
tion. The first high school teacher,
Willie H. Hunt, taught all high school
subjects. His salary was paid by the
r
ym wi— v« (fw oiruuviiio. wum misi
served as principal of Juniper Level
School and Holly Springs School.
Under the leadership of Principal
Garland L. Crews (1939-1970), the
school continued to grow. Additional
huiMinga were added to the campus,
the staff increased, and
in 1955, the school was accredited by
the Association of Schools and Col
leges.
In 1961, Ms. Odessa Harris Roberts
became the first high school super
visor. Prior to that position, she serv
(See CLOSING, P. 2)
t
Student Defaults
To Cost Schools;
"Tough, But Fair"
UNCF Says Rule
Has Drawbacks
Education Secretary Lauro
tCavazos received praise from the
^United Negro College Fund for his
r'positive decision” to abandon
fonper Secretary Bennett’s proposed
rule on loan defaults when he pro
jected stiff new measures by going
after schools with high default rates,
including St. Augustine’s College.
Cavazos said, “We are taking tak
ing decisive action against those who
cheat our citizens, those who promise
to educate but deliver only a debt.”
He focused the crackdown on
schools rather than students because
of what he called “rampant” abuses
by vocational and trade institutions
that induce students to sign up for
loans without telling them they will
have to repay the money.
About 4.6 million students are ex
pected to borrow money from the $5
billion federal student loan program
this year. Of that amount, $1.8 billion
will cover defaultedloans.
New rules, to take effect in January
1991 for the Guaranteed Student Loan
Program: Schools with default rates
above 60 percent (nearly 200 schools)
will be subject to limitation, suspen
sion or termination from the GSL pro
gram.
Schools with 40 percent to 60 per
cent of their students failing to pay
back loans (450 schools) must reduce
the figure by five percent a year or
face the same penalties.
Schools with default rates above 20
percent (almost 1,700 schools) must
develop default management plans.
Tarkio College, Tarkio, Mo.; Flam
ing Rainbow University, Stilwell,
Okla.; Sojourner-Douglas College,
Baltimore, Md.; Arkansas Baptist
College, Little Rock; University of
Guam, Agana, Guam; Lane College,
Jackson, Tenn.; Voorhees College,
Denmark, S.C.; Knoxville College,
Knoxville, Tenn.; Wilberforce
University, Wilberforce, Ohio and St.
Augustine’s College are all among
those with the worst payment records
among the four-year colleges.
The final rule still has several
drawbacks, according to the UNCF.
It fails to consider dollars in default,
along with default rates, as indicators
for departmental scrutiny and
default management initiatives at the
institutional level. Further, defaults
would be calculated in a way that
disadvantages UNCF member
schools because their graduates are
much more likely to be employed in
lower-income jobs, in the early part
of their careers.
Finally, the regulation adopts a
pro-rata refund policy for high
default schools with no showing of the
Vocational school
students have an
average 40 percent
default rate compared
with 20 percent for
community college
students and 10 per
cent for four-year col
lege students.
relationship between the two
elements. UNCF member schools, all
of which are private, non-profit four
year colleges and universities, can ill
afford to refund student aid funds us
ed to pay faculty and staff and pro
vide room and board, after a student
is enrolled for 60 days.
In 1667, the department released
default data which was incomplete
and inaccurate, the department’s in
spector general stated that the data
wed “is neither a complete nor an ac
curate picture ot any guarantee agen
cy operation. Management’s use of
the current data will result in the
Department of Education making in
correct decisions in monitoring and
managing the multibillion-dollar
GSLP.” Yet, now, in May of 1989,
despite the efforts of Sen. Paul Simon
to establish a national loan data
system, the department has chosen
not to implement his plan and con
tinues to used flawed data. UNCF in
stitutions will be seriously affected by
the use of the department’s data.
UNCF said, “Finally, we are pleas
ed to note that the secretary has
recognized the parameters of his own
regulatory authority by making cer
tain other highly controversial pro
(See SCHOOL ERA, P.2)
lies Of David Duke
I, Racist Code Words
Susan Howell, a political science
professor and director of a University
of New Orleans poll, said District 8i
“at this moment is thje perfect
laboratory for Duke.” She termed his
victory “a product of economic
frustration, racial anta| J
little hope that the future will be bet
ter.”
Duke spoke of his past Klan and
Nazi activities as “youthful pranks”
(See ELECTION TACTICS, P. 2)
bu siren.