RALEIGH. N.C.
VOL. 48. NO. 83
TUESDAY
SEPTEMBER 19.1989
N.C/s Semi-Weekly
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i Triangle Savings And Loans
Groups Win Hearing On Discrimination
Community organizations in
Raleigh and Durham have won the
right to public hearings on lending
discrimination by two Triangle sav
ingl and loans: Home Savings and
Lou of Durham and Raleigh Federal
; Savings Bank of Raleigh. The hear
ings probing lenders’ failure to make
loans in low-income and minority
neighborhoods, will be the first of
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their kind in the Southeastern states.
“This is a rare opportunity for com
munity people to hold lenders accoun
table for their abandonment of our
low-income and minority
neighborhoods," said Paul
Holmbeck, chairperson of the
Durham Community Reinvestment
Committee. “We are very encourag
ed tht federal regulators have found
our data to be significant and that
they will continue to look into the
records of these two lenders.”
At the hearings, called “oral
arguments” by regulators, communi
ty groups will offer data showing a
failure to extend housing loans in low
income and minority areas. Lenders
will endeavor to defend their records
and proposed remedies for the pro
blems. Residents of low-income,
minority and central-city
neighborhoods will also use color
coded maps and other visual aids to
show the distribution of lenders’
loans, with green areas designating
high loan volumes in prosperous
areas and red designating areas that
have received few or no loans.
Studies earlier this year by the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution found
Triangle savings and loans to have
the seventh highest rate of denial of
black loan applicants relative to
white applicants: a rate of nearly 4 to
1.
“Without home loans, housing falls
into disrepair and neighborhoods can
die,” said Sterling Goodwin,
chairperson of the Raleigh Communi
ty Reinvestment Committee. "We
are working to keep our
neighborhoods and mihority
businesses alive. But wee can’t do
this without equal access to loans.’’
The Triangle hearings were trig
gered by government findings this
month that the community case
against the two lenders is “substan
(See LENDING. P. 2)
New Oeneration Of
Leaders Appearing
On Political Scene
WASHINGTON. D.C.—As
thousands of college and high
school students attended opening
sessions of the 19th annual Con
gressional Black Caucus
Weekend here in Washington
Sept. 13-17, a new generation of
African-American youth ap
peared to be meeting the black
Idhders of the past in the modt
significant political gathering of
the decade.
More than SO issue forums,
bra in trusts and workshops were
convened in Capitol Hill office
buildings and major hotels, as the
23 congressional members of the
CBC focused on the theme, “A
Global Crisis: Our Children at
Risk,” with special forums and
symposia on drug abuse,
unemployment, illiteracy, educa
tion and housing.
Rep. Walter Fauntroy
(D-D.C.), host congressman, and
Democratic House members
Kweisi Mfume (Baltimore), CBC
Weekend chairman; Ronald
Dellums (California), CBC chafar
man; and Julian Dixon (Califor
nia). CBC Foundation president,
welcomed the thousands of youth
delegates and observers prior to
receiving some 15,000 regular
visitors, organizational represen
tatives, exhibitors, participants
and party-goers.
Television/film star Lou
Gossett, Jr. presided at a panel
discussion titled “Black Artists
Against Drugs” at which
students heard Jesse Jackson,
farmer Rep. Shirley Chisholm
(D-N.Y.) and a number of enter
tainers urge the youth to become
involved in improving their com
munities as the civil rights
leaders of the past had done.
REP. WALTER FAUNTROY
The closing convocation of the
CBC “Youth Summit” featured
sons of Jackson, Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., Supreme Court
Justice Thurgood Marshall,
former New Orleans Mayor
Ernest Mortal, Congressman
Harold Ford (D-Memphia),
Nigerian Chief M.K.O. Abiola, as
well as the daughters of Dick
Gregory, Malcolm X, business
leader Percy Sutton, Archbishop
Desmond Tutu and the grand
daughter of Paul Robeson, a
black hero for more than 50
years.
In holding sessions on the
future of the Afro-American
(See LEADERS, P. 2)
Distrust Medical Establishment
AIDS Trials Failing Minorities
Testing
Bypasses
The Poor
Many minorities infected with the
AIDS virus are not seeking new life
prolonging treatments because of a
lack of information and distrust of the
medical establishment, doctors and
social workers say.
Poor blacks and Hispanics are
under-represented in clinical trials
where experimental therapies are
tested, and they often don’t seek
treatment until they are sick enough
to qualify for free medical care, said
AIDS caseworkers attending a
government conference on AIDS and
minorities.
“They are not as well-educated
about prevention and they don’t have
a cousin who is a doctor who can tell
them about the latest drug that’s be
ing tested in a clinical trial in their
area,” said Dr. Gina Brown, assis
tant attending physician in obstetrics
and gynecology at Harlem Hospital.
Also, the poor are often suspicious
of attemmpt8 to get them into
medical research, she said. Many
hear only that the treatments, like
AZT, make patients sick and don’t
understand that the drug can cripple
the AIDS virus, said Brown, also a
clinical instructor at Columbia
Presbyterian Hospital in New York.
One way to include more minorities
in clinical trials would be to move the
trials out of academic medical
centers and into the neighborhoods,
many conference participants said.
(See AIDS, P. 2)
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Education Project Plane To Help
Studente To “Get On Right Track*
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Special To The CAROLINIAN
North Carolina’s Donna Oliver, na
tional teacher of the year in 1987, will
be the keynote speaker for the Educa
tion of African-American Children
conference to be held at North
Carolina State University’s McKim
mon Center on Sept. 29 from 9 a.m. to
This conference is a community
component for the “Getting on the
Right Track” project developed by
Dr. Don C. Locke, head of the
Counselor Education Department of
North Carolina State University, and
funded by BellSouth Foundation. This
project works with students, parents.
INSIDE
AFRICA
- BY DANIEL MAROLEN
NNPA News Service
The group of African nations at the
United Nations, and the non-aligned
group of world nations have re
queated an urgent special meeting of
the UN Security Council to consider
the deteriorating situation in
Namibia caused by South Africa’s
groee violations of key aspects of the
United Nations’ plan (Resolution 435
of 1878) for the independence of
Namibia.
Although UNTAG is doing a noble
Job to implement Resolution 435, its
activities are frequently hampered
by South African interference. Now,
the Security Council has convened a
prolonged debate to find out what
should be done to halt South Africa’s
blockage of the process of giving
Namibia its long-awaited in
dependence. Already several
speakers have spoken, but the most
impressive speech so far has been
that of Maj. Gen. Joseph N. Garba,
Nigeria’s ambassador and perma
nent representative at the UN. His
speech summarized the problem of
South African interference and viola
tions of the tripartite agreement ful
ly, and suggested what the Security
Council should do to halt the uncalled
for interference.
Gen. Garba said that it was time
South Africa was told that its obses
sion with preventing SWAPO from
forming the legitimate government of
independent Namibia will not be per
mitted to open a Pandora’s box of
dangerous ednsequences for peace in
the-regiqp! He also said that South
Africa's Constitutional AiOembly and
Draft Election Proclamations were
flawed and empowered the regime’s
administrator veto power. But what
was more preposterous was the
stipulation that the administrator
should be the unelected president of
the Constituent Assembly. Garba also
(See INSIDE AFRICA, F.
Task Force On Excellence
Ethridge Says Improve Schools
atate School Superintendent Bob
Etheridge, citing reams of statistics
that show North Carolina secondary
school students lagging behind their
peers in other states, has recom
mended a five-point program design
ed to “deal with the crisis that hits us
every year when the College Board
releases the SAT rankings.”
The state superintendent said it is
true that the SAT isn’t really intended
to measure the educational quality of
a state’s public schools, but "Try to
tell that to the average parent and
taxpayer, and you are in tor an argu
ment."
The program Etheridge envisions
comprises the appointment of a blue
ribbon Task Force on Excellence in
Secondary Schools, increased ac
countability through school-by-school
comparison of SAT scores, use of the
PSAT and other coaching measures
to better prepare students to take the
SAT, coordinated efforts to get more
students into higher-level math
courses and use of recently passed
Senate Bill 2 to improve student
First (/JVCF Weekend
Aiming To Generate
Excitement, Funds
celebrities will get their chance to
have it all Sept. 29-30 when the
Raleigh-Wake Committee of the
United Negro College Fund holds its
first UNCF Weekend.
Kenneth Wilkins, chairman of the
1989 Raleigh-Wake UNCF campaign,
said the activities planned during the
weekend are expected to draw par
ticipants from across the county.
An open reception on Friday night
will kick off the weekend. Set for 7:30
p.m. at the Holiday Inn, State Capitol,
the reception will be free to anyone
who purchases tickets to any UNCF
activity.
Special guests will be WTVD’s
Miriam Thomas, Secretary of State
Rufus E dm is ten, State Superinten
dent Bobby Etheridge and on-air per
sonalities from WQOK-FM. Heavy
hors d’oeuvres will be served.
On Saturday at 8 a.m., dozens of
golfers will converge on Pine Hollow
Golf Course, Clayton, for a golf tour
nament. Prizes and trophies will be
awarded for all flights. Donations of
$40 will cover golf cart and green
fees.
ticipate in the tournament ia James
“Bonecruaher” Smith, heavyweight >
boxer.
A reception, hair and fashion show
and dance will close out UNCF
Weekend. All will be held at the Holi
day Inn.
The reception will begin at 7 p.m„
followed by the hair and fashion show
at 8 p.m. The show is being coor
dinated by Ms. Jeanette Beckwith,
Ms. Lola Fuller and Ms. Gwen Harr
ington. Models will Include Wake
teachers, members of the Raleigh
Junior League, clients of Harrington
Salon and others. Following the hair
and fashion show, participants will be
treated to a dance, with music by the
Reggie Jeffreys Group. A $80 dona
tion will cover the reception, hair and
fashion show and dance.
"We have planned UNCF Weekend
so that just about anyone will want to
participate in one or more of our
events,” Wilkins said. “Already, we
have gotten commitments from a
number of golfers who will be joining
us ”
(See UNCF WEEKEND, P. 2)
achievement and enhance accoun
tability.
Etheridge said North Carolina
students score well when compared
with other states through the eighth
grade, then fail dramatically to keep
up in high school.
The state superintendent said he
was “frankly shocked at some of the
comparisons turned up” by his
department.
“There is some evidence that our
high school students don’t sign up for
tough courses, that they don’t
prepare themselves tc take the SAT,
and that they spend less time on
homework than their counterparts in
other states,” Etheridge said.
He said the state’s efforts, beginn
ing in the early ’70s, to make a con
centrated effort to improve the
education of young children, have
clearly paid dividends.
“While the California Achievement
Tests given to elementary students
and the SAT given to high school
students are not comparable, our
CAT scores show that we have im
proved dramatically in student
achievement in grades K-8, and we
are above the national norms in
reading, mathematics and language
skills in those grades. Our mistake,
apparently, was assuming that giving
our children a good foundation would
automatically translate into good test
comparisons through high school,”
he said.
The state superintendent said
North Carolina SAT scores for the
past five years have remained about
the same while those of neighboring
states have climbed. South Carolina,
for example, has raised its average
score by 55 points in seven years
while North Carolina has raised its
score by only 17 points.
“It is scary when you look at a
graph comparing our students with
MIRIAM THOMAS
Forest-Rolesviile high schools in
motivating African-American
students to want to go to college, to
develop their skills in college-bound
academic tracks, and to stay in col
lege after they get there.
Donna Oliver gives five tips for
good teaching. The first: “You’ve got
to have a genuine love for teaching.
You’ve got to do it because you want
to.” The good teacher comes into the
classroom enthusiastic, full of life,
and with an authentic passion for the
educational process.
If teaching is the first choice of
teachers, then those teachers have a
good chance of becoming effective
teachers. When teachers see
themselves as professional people
(See EDUCATION, P. 2)
Mrs. Shaw Dias
In Classroom On
Shaw (J. Campos
Lillieth H. Shaw, wife of Shaw
University president, Talbert 0.
sassfi&i&Er1
Mrs. Shaw, 56, was director of the
university’s counseling center, and
aleo taught an introduction to «nHf
class in which students are taught a
variety of topics, including how to
study, and history of Shaw
University.
Dr. Shaw and his wife grew up in
Jamaica and attended collate
together at West Indies CoUageln
Jamaica and were married In 1955
and came to the United States in 1969.
Mrs. Shaw received her bachelor’s
degree from Andrews Univsrsity In
Michigan, and later obtained a
master’s degree from Bowie Stats
College In Maryland. Both degrees
were in early childhood education.
She taught at a private school in
Chicago and later taught classes in
home economics at Oakwood Collage
in Huntsville, Ala. When the Shews
lived in Washington, she taught at a
private academy.
The Shaws have two children,
Patrick Shaw, 22, of Silver Sprtnp,
Md., and Tami Shaw, 21, of RaMgh.
The Shaws came to Raleigh in hie
1907 when Dr. Shaw was named
president of Shaw University.
A hospital SPnk-me. —«d th*
death appeared tobecdrdiac-reCsted.
Funeral services will be haid
Wednesday at Martin Street
Church. —