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CONVOCATION (Continued from page 1) as ours in this entire area;” the $1.6 million renovation of the Cheshire Building, now underway, to house the Division of Business and Computer Science; the new outdoor track, “now operational and accessible both to our students and the community as a whole;” and the college’s new Com munications Center wing of the Seby Jones Fine Arts Center. “Our next big project,” Dr. Robin son added, “is construction of a Stu dent Activities Health and Wellness Center. The $8-$10 million needed for this are part of the goal of our $17 million Renaissance Fund Campaign.” During the convocation, Dr. Robin son presented the college’s Distinguished Service Award to Ver non Malone, chairman of the Wake County Commissioners. AFRICA (Continued from page 1) Republic of Burkina Faso. Its southern edge is located on the Atlan tic Ocean. Ghana contains a diversity of climate, vegetation, cultural and economic patterns. It has a tropical climate characterized most of the year by moderate temperature, cons tant breezes and clear sunshine. There are two rainy seasons around May and September. The highest temperatures usually occur between February and April just before the rains begin. The dry season is bet ween October and February, although the driest month in the eastern coastal district is August. Rainfall in Ghana is markedly seasonal in character, and at all places there is great variability in monthly and yearly totals. It is quite common for an entire month in a so called rainy season to be without ap preciable rainfall. "Harmattan” is the name given generally to the nor theasterly winds which reach Ghana from the Saharan area, their place of origin. These winds bring very hot days with, however, cooler nights than usual, and low relative humidities. Ghana consists of a narrow coastal plain, a zone of tall rain forest, and a northern area ranging from sparse woodland to treeless savannah. Along the coast, from Sekondi, on the west to the Togolese frontier on the east, stretch plains that are broad at their extremities, narrowing as they ap proach Accra. The western part of Ghana overlooks the sea, gradually dropping down to the delta of the Volta River, studded with rocky eminences called inselbergs because of their likeness to islands jutting up out of the sea. Above these plains, the eastern half of the country is almost entirely formed by the Volta basin, with alter nating sandstone and other soft stones, and with altitudes never higher than 100 meters. To the north it is dominated by the Gambaga escarpment, on the southwest by the Kwahu Plateau, whose southern edge is also rimmed by sheer cliffs, and, from south to east, in an arc, by the moutains of Akwapim and Togo. Ghanp is divided into nine regions, and. each region has its own capital. The capital of the Greater Accra Region is Accra; the Eastern Region’s capital is Koforidua; the Volta Region’s is Ho; the Ashanti Region’s is Kumasi; the Brong Ahafo Region’s is Sunyani; the Northern Region’s is Tamale; the Upper Region’s is Bolgatanga; the Central Region’s is Cape Coast; and the Western Region’s capital is Sekondi. In Akosombo the construction of the Volta Dam has given rise to a great source of hydroelectric power and a thriving industrial community. The Volta Lake, where the U.S. government donated the bridge, is the largest manmade lake in the world and an awesome sight to see. It is an enjoyable experience to cruise on and see the rich, fascinating diver sity of tropical aquatic life. A most exciting experience of tropical wildlife abounds in the zoos, game reserves and the ponds, some of which, rather uniquely, are religious shrines. In these places are some of the world's finest tropical animals, reptiles, fishes, and birds. Ghana’s main natural resources in clude some of the best gold mines in the world located at Obuasi, Tarkwa, Prestea and Dunkwa. Most Ghanaian 11*11 women wear only pure gold earrings handmade by a Ghanaian goldsmith who has learned the trade from his ancestors. Fourteen-carat gold is an insult to a Ghanaian woman Manganese is mined at Nsuta in the Western Region while there are vast bauxite deposits at Nyinahin. Diamonds are also mined at Akwatia in the Eastern Region, and oil has been located in the country. Other resources include iron ore deposits found at Opong Manso in the Western Region and Navrongo in the Upper Region. There are also huge bauxite deposits at Kibi. Timber, cocoa and coffee are still among the country’s major foreign exchange earners. In fact, the cocoa industry in Ghana is the pivot upon which the economy of the country revolves. It is Ghana’s most important raw material and the greatest earner of foreign exchange. Cocoa thrives only in countries which lie within 20 degrees of the Equator and grows best in lands where the climate is hot and moist. The bean prefers a well drained, porous soil of considerable depth and rich in humus. Thus, Ghana is ideal for the harvesting of cocoa trees. Ghana cocoa is famous all over the world for its very high quality—“Good fermented Accra” being the standard by which other cocoa beains are judg ed. This is a tribute to the Ghana cocoa farmer as the high standard of production is in no small measure due to his remarkable initiative and in dustry. The cocoa is exported to many countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, West Germany, Holland, Japan, and the USSR. Cocoa is not indigenous to Ghana. It is the seed of the tree, “theobroma coca,” whose original home is located in South and Central America. The official and commercial language of Ghana is English, although thee are more than 50 African languages and dialects spoken in the country. The main local languages are Twi (CHWEE), Ga (GAH, with a hard “G”), Fanti (FAHN-tee), Ewe (EH-wee), Dagbani, Hausa, and Nzima (ZI mah). Beginning in primary schools, students must learn English, but several different languages are taught likewise, for the purpose of promoting national unity. ALAN COOPER (Continued from page 1) resigns,” said the mayor. “I’m telling you I have the letter right here with his signature that in dicates that there is a vacancy because he has resigned,” Campbell said. When challenged by District E Council woman Mary Cates about whether there was a problem with following the normal appointment process, Campbell said, “Well, I think there was a problem with removing the chair,” referring to Dr. Cooper. The council eventually agreed to accept Michaels’ resignation, but the nomination of Cooper was put off un til the next council meeting, schedul ed for Tuesday, Oct. 16. In an interview with The CAROLI NIAN after the vote, Campbell ex pressed concern that the council did not move to reappoint Dr. Cooper to fill the vacancy created by Michaels’ resignation. “We did not have a majority of councilmembers that were willing to move forward with the appointment,” Campbell said. “It will be held until the next council meeting, at which time either a vote will be taken... or additional nomina tions can be made.” Several people in the community said that the reason the council was reluctant to vote on the issue of Cooper’s reappointment is that it would then show clearly who did and did not support Cooper’s efforts on the Human Relations Commission. The fact that the council voted not once, but at the insistence of Camp bell, twice, during its Sept 18 meeting, to replace Cooper with two other candidates, indicates that he was consciously removed. When the council meets again on Oct. 16, those who plan to vote against Cooper can make it clear by nominating other candidates and then voting for them. Several members of the Human Relations Commission, in a tense meeting called Monday specifically to address the removal of its chair, felt that this is just the latest episode in a series of alleged attempts by the council to slowly dismantle the com mission. * Rev. Jim Lewis of the Episcopal Diocese led the criticism, saying that the council was confusing the com mission by its actions. “They’ve [the council] tried to reduce our member ship from IS to nine, they’ve tried to take our human relations [function] away from us, they have fought us cm the Crabtree issue straight on through... We haven’t been able to have the hearings we’ve wanted to have, and now they’ve removed our BILLY TAYLOR Pianist Billy Taylor Performing For Gantt Jazz pianist and composer Billy Taylor will perform a benefit concert on Oct. 11 at 7:30 p m at Jones Auditorium on the Meredith College campus in Raleigh. Performing with Taylor will be Vic tor Gaskin, bass, and Bobby Thomas, drums. All proceeds from the concert will support the Harvey Gantt for U.S. Senate campaign. Advance $50 patron tickets are being sold by volunteers. For information on these tickets, which entitle the patron to special reserved seating and a post concert reception, telephone Sue Simonds at 782-3252. General admission tickets, which are $15 are available at the following ticket outlets: Readers Corner on Hillsborough Street, Cedar Creek Gallery at City Market and Books at Quail Corners, all in Raleigh; Regulator Bookshop on Ninth Street in Durham, and Cameron’s at University Mall in Chapel Hill. Taylor, more than any other single jazz artist, is credited with bringing jazz to the forums of national radio and television. He is the winner of two Peabodys and an Emmy and is recipient of the first Certificate of Recognition given by the U.S. Congressional Art Caucus. Taylor-has been a presiden tial appointee to the National Council on the Arts and, in 1987, was honored by the National Endowment for the Arts with a jazz masters fellowship. “It’s one of the things I’m par ticularly proud of,” said Taylor. “It’s nice to be considered by your peers to be a jazz master.” The award is presented to jazz musicians whose careers have made a significant contribution to the art form in the African-American tradi tion and whose influence has been felt throughout the world, especially by young artists. Shortly before his death in 1980, Stan Kenton remarked that Taylor was the most important figure in jazz. This sentiment was reiterated by the editors of Downbeat magazine who presented Dr. Taylor with their lifetime achievement award in 1984. Taylor, a North Carolina native, was born in Greenville in 1921, the son of a dentist and a schoolteacher. He first studied music in Washington, D.C., and pursued classical piano study at Virginia State College in Petersburg. The Oct. 11 Raleigh appearance is sanctioned by Gantt for U.S. Senate Campaign Committee. C» candidates including Gantt, and Fourth Congressional District Rep. David Price who introduced Brown to the group. Brown praised the “hard work” of Price and Third District Rep. Lan caster. He called them “represen tatives of the people whom the people could be proud of.” N.C. Democratic Party chairman Lawrence Davis, III and N.C. Democratic Party Executive Direc tor Everett Ward, who accompanied Brown, called the visit “a tremen dously successful one.” “It accomplished just what we wanted it to, increasing enthusiasm for this campaign and all of our can didates,” said Davis. “The national party under the leadership of Ron Brown has provid ed state parties across the country a real campaign-oriented support base which enables Democrats to develop a successful campaign,” said Ward. TWO 6ERMANYS (Continued from page 1) statesmanship; all justifications for unity. Within the past decades the country has given billions to Israel, in addi tion to assimilating countless of refugees, paid $10 billion to Russia as the price for leaving the way open for unity; given another $2 billion for the Persian Gulf situation, and paying $39 billion in assistance to East Ger many in order to create a bridge of stability between East and West. Billions more will have to be paid in the future. As all countries look at their history, they will find skeletons in the closet. The demons of the Hitler era are dead. As President Pavel of Czechoslovakia so eloquently staed it, “To say someone is bad because he or she is German is akin to racism or anti-Semitism.” Students of history know that in U.S. history, in this century, in times of stress there has been a tendency to demonize or grossly caricature “the enemy.” Whether this be the “liberty cabbage” syndrome of World War I, the “Jap menace” of World War II, or the current caricature of Arabs as “terrorists.” Reasonable people, even in times of stress, must remember the dangers of media simplification, sensa tionalism, or outright distortions. Our constitutionalism is rooted in the basic understanding that majorities and minorities have responsibilities and protections. This is particularly true in times of stress. naRnnitf fhppkftpSTt today. It has deliberately kept a low international profile. On Oct. S, unification day, a new chapter in Ger man history began. A lasting legacy in all of this, in spite of a world besieged fay SAL crises, specie extinction, Persian Gulf clouds, and threats of violence in many places, is the restoration of a broken nation into a community of nations; that is hope and promise is even the difficult area of historical change. ' . RON BROWN (Continued from page 1) He pointed to six of eight congres sional seats Democrats won during 1989, and victories in governors’ races in New Jersey and Virginia, and the mayor’s race in New York Ci ty “We have a rejuvenated party, building a future for America and this state. Doug Wilder did it in Virginia and Harvey Gantt must do it in North Carolina,” he said. Brown was referring to Douglas Wilder’s Democratic victory in Virginia, and the campaign of the Democratic nominee for U S. Senate in North Carolina. “Speaking about the Democratic Party’s nominee for the U.S. Senate in North Carolina,” Brown said, “Harvey Gantt stands up for what he believes in. He reaches out to all voters. Electing Harvey Gantt will send an important signal to all people throughout this country and around the world, that we choose people to represent pepole, based on their qualifications, and reject the politics of hate. The way Harvey Gantt is campaigning here in North Carolina is the way candidates should be cam paigning all across the country.” Brown also criticized Gantt’s oppo nent, Jesse Helms’, negative cam paign ads, saying they had nothing to do with the “bread and butter” issues concerning the people of North Carolina. Brown called Helms’ cam paign “dirty gutter politics.” He called the Bush administration a continuation of the Reagan ad ministration, which promised to balance the federal budget and get waste out of federal government. “They haven’t done either of those three things. We’ve got a kinder and gentler rhetoric, but no kinder and . gentler action,” Brown said. He added, “The decade of the '80s was a disaster, a turning back of the clock on civil rights, human rights and social justice. The rich got richer, the poor got poorer, and those of us in the middle got the very lifeblood squeezed out of us. A perma nent underclass was created. They dropped out of school, they dropped out of work, they dropped out of life. They feel no connection in our socie ty... engaging in antisocial conduct... and unless we start doing something about some of these problems through education, through rebuilding our families, through reaching out and helping one another, through understanding the ap propriate roles of the private sector, government and the community working together, we may lose an en tire generation of Americans.” On the following morning Brown appeared in Wilmington at a breakfast given in his honor by the New Hanover Democratic Party and then it was on to Chapel Hill and Orange County where he attended a luncheon reception given by the Orange County Democratic Party. On Saturday afternoon, he talked with supporters, other Democratic Finally, the real challenges of this world for the future will have a great deal to do with conflicts, shortages, and places like Swaziland, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. Caricatures of Germans, Jews, Arabs, Afro-Americans, and people of other nations have no place as all of us must battle group hatred and diseases of the heart and body. The decades of imprisonment that characterized East German life is reason enough for German unity. The restored nation can be a beacon of hope to other nations where brothers/sisters are divided or frac tured. Indeed, it is a symbol of hope for all of us. CRIME (Continued from page 1) ed in the case so far, but the church has 60 days to appeal the order to the state Office of Administrative Hear ings or close its day-care facility. State law allows it to continue operating the center during an ap peal. . The state could seek a court injunc tion to close the center if a situation existed that threatened serious harm to children, if it is operating the center during an appeal. From 1982 to this part June, the center operated witlMMt state approval and without being in compliance with all state regulations, according to records of the state day care section. The major problems involved meeting building codes and obtaining a sanitation and fire inspection, but the center also violated training and discipline regulations. EDUCATION (Continued from page 1) Black educational researchers, because of their experiences and backgrounds, are more inclined to be interested in addressing issues related to or affecting minorities and the disadvantaged. Unfortunately, since 1975 the number and percentage of African-American recipients of doctorates in education have declin ed. The percentage of black doctoral recipients in education was 9.2 per cent in 1975, but only 7.0 percent in 1968 (National Research Council, 1976,1967). This is a foreboding trend concerning the production and con tribution of black faculty in fields related to educational research and development. As a further indication of that downward trend, in 1976, 691 blacks received doctorate degrees in education but only 421 received the degree in 1986 (National Research Council, 1967). In 1965, the percentage of black full-time faculty in all Helds was only 4.0 percent, down from 4.4 percent in 1977 (U.S. Equal Employ ment Opportunity Commission, 1965). Further, half of all black faculty are at black colleges. Thus, the percentage of black faculty at major doctoral granting research univer sities in all fields, including educa tion, is minuscule. Moreover, the American Council on Education (1968) reported that between 1977 and 1963, the number of black full-time faculty dropped from 19,674 to 18,827, while the number of white faculty in creased five percent to 473,787. An aside, but quite significant nonetheless, is the fact that in 1986, black men represented 39 percent of the total black Ph D. recipients. That proportion compared conversely to the 60 percent for white male Ph.D. recipients. In education, the male female ratio for blacks is a more severe 1:2. White women Ph.D. red pienta in education also outnumber white men, but the ratio la a more evenly distributed 4.5:5.5. Significantly, however, the propor tion of white male education faculty is substantially greater than that for white women. A crucial question is why is the visi ble participation of blacks in research and development so relatively low and why is American education missing out on this poten tial source that could significantly ex pand the horizon of educational researrfrtld development? Hie pro blems df/Oisufficient and declining numbersNuve been •presened, but there are other factors inherent to the academic community that suppress the participation and the subsequent production of black educational researchers. Some factors involve the academic milieu at universities where research is a primary focus. At those institutions, blacks may find themselves isolated with little or no professional support and the sense that there is little appreciation for their research interest, particularly if it centers around minority Issues. Other militating factors involve racial discrimination and prejudice, although in forms far more subtle than in years past. Additionally, other factors are connected to the fact that relatively few black doc torate holders have enjoyed solid protege-mentor relationships. The results from the lack of such relation ships could be long-lasting and pro bably stifled the careers of many. These factors will be discussed and recommendations to increase black participation in educational research will be presented. Overall, the predicament of black faculty in educational research and development is quite serious and pro bably more so than is generally realized when the large picture is considered. One could argue that the same experiences cited can occur for white faculty, but the reasons are often based on race rather than per sonality conflicts. Under such cir cumstances, there is little wonder why the number of black academi cians significantly involved in educa tional research is relatively low and the presence of cynicism mists. Given the current rate, Mack par ticipation is likely to remain tow unless vigorous action to address the problems is undertaken. Despite the tow numbers, black faculty as a group, however, can to a large extent significantly affect their collective destiny. Listed below are some major courses of action that should have the effect of increasing the number of black faculty and enhancing professional development All key individuals atpredomtoant ly white institutions who hire or nook to hire black faculty should be con scious of the environment that will be presented to Mack faculty, and than are steps that should be taken to on sure that the participation of Mack faculty at those institutions will be worthwhile. Institutions that bring black faculty to departments or schools where none are present or the numbers are negligible, should for thrightly acknowledge the likelihood that those individuals are imUknly to h» fully hy Hiller yma and hence will not Hkely be accorded the collegial amenities that most new faculty would expect. In other words, It is uanalhMcfor institutions to assume that Mack faculty will be treated “just like any other faculty member.” In many academic situations, such assump tions are quite fallacious. 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