COPING
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selves, which is the first step in being
able to cope in a world outside of self,
she said.
The line between seeking help for a
problem and trying to free oneself
from-that problem can be difficult,
especially for people with addictive
personalities, Dr. Hayes said.
“If a person found themselves
feeling unsure about a choice they
made, that may be a sign of a
problem," she said.
If there's a conflict in values or a
person is not happy with the choice he
made, or if a person continues to
worry about whether he's done the
right thing, that may also be a signal
of a problem, she said.
By fully understanding why one
particular problem is more difficult
to cope with than others, one might be
better equipped to find ways of coping
with the problem, including solving
the problem within oneself before
seeking outside help.
MUST GO
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Deacon Board to fire Forbes, the
two sides began expressing their
concerns and many emergency
meetings were held.
At one meeting, members of
the congregation who wanted
Forbes to stay even after he was
fired voted to reinstate him.
Following that meeting, which
the Deacon Board said was not
valid, the other members of the
congregation who wanted him out
voted to fire him again.
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Forbes had filed a temporary
restraining order on the church's
decision, which prevented the
church from removing him from
the pulpit, discontinuing his
|44,000-a-year salary or taking
the church-owned Lincoln Town
Car, among other things.
Forbes filed the order because
of what he called harassment,
intimidation and assault by some
members of the church.
Although the court lifted the
restraining order and told the
congregation that Forbes owuid
not be likely to win the lawsuit
against the church, Forbes may
still file against the church.
In the meantime, some
members of the church are
questioning whether the church
shoud take back the severance
package that was offered to
Forbes upon his termination.
The package included allowing
Forbes to remain in the church
owned house for four months to
allow him to find a job, allowing
him use of the Lincoln Town car,
and allowing him telephone
privileges.
Some members said that
beause of Forbes’ decision to
fight the congregation, they may
take back the package.
CHILD MURDERED
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reported, but the girl was not found
After continuing to interview the
friend of the mother, the body was
located.
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moved recently from New York to
Rocky Mount and background
informaiton on them was not
available.
Oramus had two sons who had been
removed from the home and placed in
the care of the Department of Social
Services.
Joyner was being sought by New
York authorities on a bench warrant
for unspecified charges.
A third person, Ivonne Cabrera, 26,
of Rocky Mount, was arrested later in
connection with the death. Cabrera
has three children. They have been
taken into custody by Social Services,
police said. Oramus’ two other
children are also with Social
Services. All the children reportedly
lived in the same house with the three
adults.
CLASSROOM
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so. White students were also more
likely to believe that white faculty
were positive and considerate toward
black students.
However, a majority of both white
and black students agreed that race
relations are no worse at Duke than in
American society in general.
White and black students gave
widely different responses to
questions about witnessing
discriminatory behavior by Duke
faculty. '
The survey asked individual
questions about wltwslng eight
specific types of discriminatory
racuun, and classroom comments;«
behavior that happen* in private and
is known mainly to thoae involved
■uch aa lower academic expectation
or lower grades.
“Whatever the cause, there is a bif
perception and communication gap,
perception and communication gap,"
the report said.
The committee’! report termed ai
“particularly disturbing" the fad
that 10.8 percent of black student!
responding to the survey aaid they
■aw a general pattern of faculty
expecting lower academic
performance from blacka, while 4.1
percent had teen incidents of lowei
grading and 18 percent perceived a
pattern of lower grading for blacks.
However, the report noted, tha
survey did bring out eome positive
points. One is that a large majority oi
black students—almost 87
percent—Indicated they had not seen
any examples of such discrimination
at Duke.
‘that Is, about two thirds or more
of the black respondents had not seen
or experienced the various
prejudiced or negative behaviors
attributed to [white] Duke faculty,"
the report said.
Also, the report said, survey
responses revealed that 20.2 percent
of blacks and 11.4 percent of whites
were aware of instances in which
white faculty demonstrated special
sensitivity to a black student because
of his or her race.
“We found the fact that more
blacks report such behaviors than
whites to be very important," the
report said. “This question gave
white students concerned about
‘reverse discrimination' a chance to
come but of the closet with a
vengeance.”
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percent of blacks said they wished
they had chosen to attend a university
with more black students and faculty
and four percent wished they had
chosen a traditionally black
university. However, 66.1 percent of
black students said they would choose
Duke again. Of white students, 88.6
percent said they would still choose
Duke. •
The'most enthusiastic responses in
the survey came from Hispanic and
Asian Students, with 90.9 and 90.5
perceht, respectively, saying they
would choose Duke again.
In' making its recommendations,
the ’ ‘ Committee noted that there
already exists a method for reporting
and dealing with cases of sexual
harassment, add suggested a parallel
set df procedures for dealing with
racial discrhhinhtion. 1
The committee’s report also said
that many survey respondents’
written comments about
discrimination in the classroom
referred to teaching assistants and
instructors of undergraduate writing
courses.1 “Some training on racial
sensitivity, along with a general
orientation to the roles and
responsibilities of university
teachers... will improve the
classroom racial atmosphere at Duke
immediately and elsewhere in the
future. These TAs and instructors are
the faculty of the future.”
The committee also proposed a
race relations manual for faculty and
a black alumni mentorship program.
INSIDE AFRICA
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watch the proceedings with interest,
knowing that Justice was done and
democracy meted out equally to all
individuate. All people want to see
democracy take root in South Africa,
and the country saved from strife and
turmoil. They all want a democratic
change, not the “concessions” that
President da Klerk promises.
At its recent conference in Central
Africa, ANC said, inter alia, “The
circumstances which forced us to
stage an armed struggle haven’t
changed, Black rule can only be
attained through revolution."
ANCte and AP’s standpoints are
diametrically divergent and cannot
be reconciled. But South Africa needs
democracy. Hence, ANC, which
stands for a free, unitary, democratic
South Afrfea, should point the way to
what«' post-dpartheid South
should be. Otherwise the sti
will be perpetuated.
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Panasonic Kid Witness
News Program Expanded
SECAUCUS, N.J.—Panasonic Co.,
a leading marketer of consumer
electronics products, today
announced the nationwide expansion
of its highly successful Panasonic Kid
Witness News Program—a hands-on,
video education effort for urban
grammar school students. Originally
piloted in 17 schools in five U S. cities
last spring, the program has been
broadened to include 50 public
schools in 19 cities across the country,
and will continue throughout 1990.
Using complete state-of-the-art
video studios from Panasonic, sixth
grade students in the program gain
valuable communications and
organizational skills while preparing
15-30 inute videos on topics of their
choosing. Guided by their teaches
and a wide array of print and
videotape instructional materials
School Transportation Costs Vp
Routing Hope For Help
What has 706,000 pairs of arms and
legs, travels 665,000 miles per day for
a total of 123 million miles per year,
gulps down nearly 23 million gallons
of liquid, and costs more than $142
million?
Give up?
North Carolina’s student
transportation system.
North Carolina, with more than
13,000 public school buses, has the
eighth largest school bus fleet in the
nat.on We transport 706,000 school
Jesus Is The
Answer To U.S.
Drug Problem
BY DR. ALBERT E. JABS
An Analysis
It was a rap session. The
students—Carole Walker, Bruce
Jacobs, Kimberly Ford, Chris
Clayton and others—told it the way
it was. Drugs are out there; peer
pressures, trying something new, and
emptiness in life are causing the drug
disease. The students—from Palm
Beach and other places—have seen
violence, public sex, and the
cheapening of life. The entire
class—every young man and
woman—said they begin each day
with prayer—and all agreed that the
power of Jesus Christ can knock out
any other “power” on the street. This
was no puDiic opinion pou; it was
straight out of the students’ own
mouths.
The headlines in this morning’s
newspaper scream of drug-related
problems: the presidents meet in
Colombia, Mayor Barry and drug
trafficking all over the land. The are
inter-related problems—countries
must find new crops other than coca
and wealthy nations must help
economically depressed nations
develop new markets other than
coca—but on the “gut level,” the
students enunciate clearly that an
internalized attitude of a mind and
spirit of Christ will help them in the
daily battle. This is heady stuff for a
secular society.
Students are not left or right wing;
they are not electronic evangelists;
they are simply telling straight out
what each person must do—rich or
poor—black or white—Jew or
Gentile—simply put on the mind and
spirit of Jesus the Christ. They are in
a battle of life and death.
If one would listen to the students,
the answer to the drug problem will
not come from Drug Czar William
Bennett, or the incarceration of the
Noriegas, or even with another
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quiet confession each day which puts
on the armor of Jesus Christ to wage
the battle when the devil gets on the
back. The students said this, not the
professor. The students.
Many books have been written
about oppression, lack of bonding, or
oo identity. This rootlessness makes
anyone a sitting duck for deadly
The students agree that to avoid a
pew form of oppression, a new form
of slavery or bondage, they must
confess like the great servant Apostle
Pater, their true identity comes as a
royal priesthood, chosen race, and a
holy nation in the common confession
that Jesus the Christ is the “real
K«r” of life. It is hard to believe,
that is what the students said.
IDEALISM
Ideas are like stars; we will not
succeed in touching them with out
hands. But like the seafaring men on
the desert of waters, wedhoose them
as our guides, and following them
ranch our destiny.
Charles Schun
INSULT
There are two insults which nc
human will endure; the assertion that
he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the
doubly impertinent assertion that he
has never knows trouble. ■'k'f £
Sinclair Lewis
children, including 29,000 to summer
school, approximately 660,000 miles
every school day. Pupil
transportation costs for the total 123
million miles per yer come to more
than $142 million.
In the past two years, drivers’
wages have risen 40 percent, and
even more alarming, diesel fuel costs
have risen almost 50 percent in the
first four months of the current school
year.
Faced with these quickly rising
student transportation costs and
tighter tax revenues, the General
Assembly has funded a system that
could bring increased efficiency to
the student transportation systems
all across the state.
Since 1906, the Legislature has
appropriated $4 million for software
purchase and enhancements, as well
as digitizing, training and installation
sendees to help the local schools
create efficient, practical busing
routes.
Known as the Transportation
Information Management System,
the computerized mapping system
will take the addresses of the students
eligible to ride school buses and
electronically combine and re
combine them, drawing maps which
make the best use of available
drivers andbupes.
The system’s advanced software
allows for electronic “cutting” and
“pasting” of possible routes. Similar
systems are used in major
metropolitan areas to route public
transportation and in the private
sector to deliver mail, packages, and
to pick up garbage.
Improved efficiency will result in
future savings to the state and to the
local school units by requiring less
fuel, fewer repairs to the existing
buses and eventually, fewer school
buses. When the TIMS system is in
place throughout North Carolina, it
could reduce pupil transportation
costs by 10 to 20 percent.
In addition, the mapping system
should reduce the amount of time
students spend on and waiting for
buses. It also will enable school
administrators to more quickly and
easily create and maintain their bus
routes.
Forty-six of the state’s 134 school
districts have had the TIMS unit
installed and personnel trained on it
since the system was first available
in 1986. By the summer, an additional
24 school districts will be able to use
TIMS. These 70 school districts
account for 65 percent of all the buses
and 70 percent of all the students
enrolled in the state’s public schools.
from Panasonic, the students gain
“hands on” experience on how to
operate video equipment. And,
limited only by their imagination and
creativity, students develop,
research, write and tape a video
program of news reports, feature
stories, documentaries, editorials
and other stories.
- "Today’s students are very
creative and enthusiastic about
working with video," says Bob
Greenberg, general manager,
Communications Division at
Panasonic. "The Panasonic Kid
Witness News Program encourages
them to utilize that creative energy,
develop hidden talents and showcase
them on video," he explained.
In last spring’s program, each
partipating school submitted a video
tape which focused on news events in
students’ local communities. The
tapes wore evaluated by a panel of
distinguished judges from
broadcasting, Journalism, video
production and education, as part of a
national competition.
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year, the Panasonic Kid kWitness
News Program goes a step further by
encouraging students to develop
more than just news segments in
their video. We’d like students to
expand their creative thinking and
use feature stories, documentaries,
editorials, as well as news reports. It
is our hope that the video will not only
reflect their concerns and interests,
but will lead them to a greater
personal, social and political
awareness as they look at the people
and events around them.”
This year, students will again
participate in the Panasonic Kid
Witness News video competition and
can earn valuable video equipment
and other prizes for their schools.
Videos submitted will be evaluated on
creative excellence, technical
execution and relevance. In addition
to earning valuable video and audio
equipment, winning schools receive
specially designed trophies and
individual student certificates of
merit.
In addition to the video
competition, students will also
compete in a second contest which
allows them to create a unique
backdrop using photography, canvas,
posterboard or any other media. The
winning school will be awarded
valuable Panasonic equipment.
Out of sight...
Out of mind.
Stand right up for who
you are.
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