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NOVEMBER 16,1989
VOL. 48, NO. 100
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Yellow Jackets, Fans Recall
The Reign Of Hammonds
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NEWS BRIEFS
RECRUITMENT
PROGRAM
North Carolina AAT State
Uaivenity held a recruitment
reception this week at the Holi
day Inn North. The purpose of the
reception was to Inform prospec
tive students, parents, school ad
ministrators and counselors of
the university’s academic offer
NEART ASSOCIATION
Walkers throughout Raleigh
and Wake County will get out
their favorite traveling shoes
Nov. It for the American Heart
Association's Turkeywalk. The
event is expected to attract
walkers of all ages from the com
munity, according to Ed Will
ingham, event chairman. Funds
raised through pledges and dona
tions will support research,
public and professional education
and community service pro
grams.
UNCF AUCTION
The Raleigh-Wake Committee
of the United Negro College Fund
will bold an African-American
art auction and sale Nov. 19 at the
Holiday Inn, State Capitol. The
event will feature the works of
local African-American artists.
Viewing begins at noon, followed
by the auction at 2 p.m. Par
ticipants will be treated to wine
aad cheese, compliments of Har
ris Wholesale. Live music will be
provided by the Reggie Jeffreys
Group.
QUARTERLY DIVIDENDS
The board of directors of North
Carolina Gas Corp. hits declared
a regular quarterly dividend of 39
cents per share payable Dec. IS,
to stockholders of record on Dec.
1.
SLOW AIRLINE GR0W1JI
Growth of American Airlines*
(See NEWS BRIEFS, P. 2)
Student President Threatened
Racial Tension Stalks NCSU
(chancellor
Planning To
Take Action
The recent string of racial incidents
at North Carolina State University
has many students and school ad
ministrators concerned over the
welfare of African-American
students there.
The school’s acting chancellor,
Larry K. Monteith, made it clear in a
recent interview that he will be sen
ding a statement to faculty, staff and
students declaring that participation
in racially-oriented events is in
tolerable at NCSU.
Student Body President Brian L.
Nixon, who made the incidents public
last week, told faculty members that
he had received anonymous phone
calls and notes threatening him with
bodily harm and threatening his life.
Nixon is one of the first African
American student body presidents to
hold office at NCSU.
Members of Phi Beta Sigma
Fraternity reported that during a
pledging event, several white male
students began throwing rocks at
them as they walked along the
railroad tracks that cut through cam
pus. The fraternity member then
chased the white students, apprehen
ding one. That student was taken to
the public safety office and was
reported to the police.
Similarly, an African-American
(See RACIAL, P. 2)
Before Wilder, A Black Governor
Received Job Through Impeachment
NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP)-Until
L. Douglas Wilder’s election as
governor of Virginia, the only black
ever to serve as a U.S. governor got
the Job in Louisiana because the
lieutenant governor died and the
governor was impeached.
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Community Services At NC Colleges:
A Way To Help Our Public Schools
BY PAMELA SUE MAYER
Special To The CAROLINIAN
An Analysis
Successful living requires that you
see yourself as a person who con
tributes to society, rather than one
who takes from it. North Carolina
would benefit immensely if all its
citizens would grow up learning how
to be active and helping members of
their communities. How can we bring
this about?
Our universities can take the lead
in this change in our society. All
students graduating from four-year
colleges and universities in our state
should have the opportunity for
public service Public service should
be incorporated into the academic
program.
In addition to academic credit,
universities should establish com
munity service scholarships for those
students who maintain at least a B
average and contribute 75 hours or
more of community service in an
academic year.
One ideal vehicle for providing
community-wide benefits from the
talents and energy of college youth
would be the public schools. There is
no better place to strengthen a
now have some form of youth service
program. Gov. Richard Celeste of
Ohio has proposed one to benefit the
schools in his state.
North Carolina’s 2,000 public
schools desperately need the help
that thousands of college community
service students could provide. One
Some college students will be able to assist
in the classroom. They can improve the learn
ing climate by reducing class size and im
proving the adult-child ratio.
democratic society tnan through its
public schools. They offer a common
community open to all children and
families. They respond to society’s
needs, treat everyone equally, and
represent the best place for an invest
ment in North Carolina’s future.
This is not a new idea. Thirty states
study a decade ago suggested there
were almost 30,000 jobs that needed to
be done in North Carolina’s schools.
Some college students will be able
to assist in the classroom. They can
improve the learning climate by
reducing class size and improving the
adult/child ratio. This is important at
a time when our changing society re
quires more attention be given to in
creasing number of poor, minority
and troubled children.
Other students can assist in ad
ministrative and support services.
They also are greatly needed in our
schools. In business, there are about
10 employees for every manager; in
North Carolina’s public schools, the
ratio is 30 to 1.
More importantly, public school
children will see leadership role
models as the best and brightest of
our college generation work in their
schools while serving their state.
The public schools would select
assignments, match students to
them, provide orientation, and super
vise them on the job. They would
evaluate the students and the service
(See COLLEGES, P. 2)
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TAKE BACK THE NBHT-Loma Taylor a student at Saint
Augustine’s College was one of many demonstrators on
hand tor the “Taka Back Tim Night” march and rally hold
m NCStTs campus. Tha march was stagad to protest
vialanca against woman. (Photo by TaMb SabIr-CaUoway)
Adoption Soon Ao Effective Way
To Unite Children With Famlttee
In conjunction with National Adop
tion Week, the Children’s Home
Society of North Carolina will join
adoption agencies and support groups
throughout the United States and
Canada in celebrating the national
observance.
National Adoption Week is coor
dinated by the North American Coun
cil on Adoptable Children, a coalition
of organizations with many ap
proaches to serving children and
families. National Adoption Week is a
public affirmation of adoption as a
way to unite waiting children with
permanent, loving families.
Minority-race children constitute
40 percent of those who have special
P.B.S. Pinchback, born on May 10,
1837, to a planter and a former slave,
had been a riverboat steward and
gambler before the Civil War and
Reconstruction gave him a chance in
Louisiana politics.
He was acting governor of Loui
siana for 40 days at the end of 1872
and the beginning of 1873, while Gov.
Henry Clay Warmoth was being im
peached.
He was elected to the state Senate
in 1868 and became its president pro
tem in 1871. Oscar J. Dunn, who had
defeated Pinchbeck in an election
three years earlier, died in office
later that year and Pinchbeck suc
ceeded him.
“He was elected by the Legislature
in a controversial vote,” said
Lawrence Powell, a Civil War and
Reconstruction historian at Tulane
University. “He played to mixed
reviews in the black community,
especially the New Orleans Mack
community. But he was a very
skillful, pragmatic politician.”
He said Pinchbeck is best known
for putting together the deal in which
New Orleans’ City Park was created,
and for helping found Southern
University as part of a deal in the 1879
Constitutional Convention.
Dunn and Pinchbeck were among
three blacks to serve as lieutenant
governor of Louisiana—the only state
to elect any blacks as lieutenant
governor during Reconstruction.
Pinchbeck was born in Georgia,
educated in Ohio and became a cabin
boy on a Mississippi River steamboat
In 1848, later becoming the boat's
steward, according to “The Gover
nors of Louisiana” by Miriam G.
Reeves.
“He was a skilled riverboat
gambler,” Powell said. m
He ran the Confederate blockade at
Yazoo City in 1818 and got to New
(See GOVERNOR, P. 8)
needs. Nationally, 60 percent of
children available for adoption have
special needs. Because of their age,
physical or mental handicaps, needs
to remain with siblings or minority
racial heritage, they are more dif
ficult to place for adoption.
The Children’s Home Society is the
largest statewide, private, nonprofit
and nonsectarian adoption agency in
North Carolina. In addition to adop
tion services, the agency provides
free problem pregnancy counseling
and post-legal adoption counseling.
The basic philosophy of CHS is the
belief that society is best served by
strong family units in which stan
dards and goals are high. Also, that
children are best served when nur
tured in a warm, caring family where
role models are wholesome and limits
(See ADOPTION, P. 2)
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Shaw Alumna To Receive
Special Recognition Here
dent of Gary Enterprises of
Stuart, Fla., will receive an
honorary doctor of humane let
ters degree from Shaw Universi
ty at the Shaw Founder's Day
Convocation on Friday, Nov. 17.
Ms. Gary is a Shaw alumna.
She earned her M.A. degree at
North Carolina Central universi
ty in speech pathology and
audiology following her gradua
tion from Shaw. Ms. Gary has
taught in the English depart
ments of two Florida colleges and
in the Department of Speech
Pathology and Audiology at
Shaw.
Her community service and in
volvement has been extensive,
8he has served on the executive
board of the Martin County, Fla.,
Council on Aging, the board of
martin Memorial Hospital, the
Treasure Coast Builders Associa
tion, the National Association of
Bar and Bench Spouses, Jack and
Jill, Inc., and the board of the En
vironmental Studies Center in
Martin County.
8he is a member of Delta
aigma nni sororny, me., ana
attends the Evergreen Baptist
Church in Indiantown, Fla. Her
husband, also a Shaw alumnus, is
an attorney of nationwide repute
as a trial lawyer. The Garys have
Wake Eyed For .
Possible Waste
Storage Site
Radioactivity
NC Generates Low
Level Materials For
Industry, Medicine
From CAROLINIAN Stuff Reports
Because some low-level radioac
tive wastes are potentially harmful to
human health for several hundred
years, waste materials must be plac
ed in secure dispgial facilities and
properly managed and if the N.C.
Low-Level Waste Management
Authority has its way North Carolina
could house the newest site for waste
Because some low
level radioactive
wastes are potentially
harmful to human
health for several
hundred years, waste
materials must be
placed in secured
disposal facilities and
properly managed.
materials.
Among four other counties in North
Carolina, an area in Wake and
Chatham counties was chosen as
favorably suited in the state for waste
materials to be disposed oi. Rich
mond, Rowan and Union counties
have also been cited due to their
many miles of rural land.
Davd G. Ebenhack, vice president
for Chem-Nuclear, the company that
was selected by the authority to
design, build and operate the facility,
said his company is also responsible
for ovrseeing the site selection pro
cess. “These are favorable site areas
which have been selected for further
study,” he said during a presentation
before the 15-member authoritv
(See NUCLEAR WASTE. P. 2)