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I TUESDA Bllllonal Michael Jac media pan ment with Soi Pag* 9 a: c v . o b hs multi agree onth. \r ify o \S> r~ CO ** Working For Team NCAA names Marlynn J. Jones Aggie assistant athle tic director for development. Page 8 1 This Week Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis on this day in 1968, at age 39. Also, Eddie Murphy wac born in Brooklyn in 1961 Carol ■r RALEIGH. N.C. VOL. 50. NO. 37 TUESDAY APRIL 2, 1991 N.C.'s Semi-Weekly DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST SINGLE COPY Q|T IN RALEIGH ELSEWHERE 300 Significant Benefits Amphitheater Promises Economic Lift Raleighs new 20,000-seat outdoor performance center promises Jobs and an economic lift for the entire region when it opens in July, the general manager of the $13.5 million facility said. Walnut Creek Amphitheatre will of fer approximately 400 young people from Raleigh an opportunity to earn summer money. The performance center is expected to draw in excess of 250,000 concert-goers to about 30 performances this summer, generating $5 million in ticket sales revenue alone. “Walnut Creek will be an economic force for the entire region,” explains G. Wilson Rogers, general manager of the facility. For the first time, he points out, Raleigh has its own attrac tion to draw people off the beaches and into the city. “People will travel from as far west as Winston-Salem, and as far east as Elizabeth City, to come spend money here in our com munity.” Restaurants, convenience stores, retail establishments and hotels all will benefit, Rogers says. The am phitheatre will generate ancillary in come from parking and sales of concert-related merchandise, food and beverages. In subsequent sum mer concert seasons, the am phitheatre will produce 35 to 40 shows. Research conducted at other PACE amphitheatre sites estimates revenue in their communities at $230 million over a 10-year period. Hardee’s Walnut Creek also will have a tremendous impact on employment, the manager says. Each summer, the amphitheatre will hire about 400 seasonal workers—mostly young high-school and college students—to work at the facility. “I would have died to have a job like this when I was a student,” ex claims Rogers. Walnut Creek is being developed and operated under the direction of the Sony Music/PACE Partnership and Cellar Door Concerts, through a 20-year lease agreement with the City of Raleigh. Houston-based PACE Entertainment Corp. is a multimillion-dollar producer and presenter of live entertainment. In addition to developing and operating amphitheatres across the country, PACE produces more than 500 con certs annually. “The Sony Music/P ACE Partner ship has worked very hard at being involved in the communities in which we operate. We make it a priority to be a good neighbor,” said Rogers For example, the students hired for the summer will live in Raleigh, and near the amphitheatre. It makes sense to hire young people who live close to work, and he adds, “It gives them something to be proud of in their jobs and in their community.” The facility has also announced more exclusive sponsors for the $13.5 (See AMPHITHEATRE, P 2) Students Charge NCCU With Backing Down On Scholarship Promises <AP)— Some North Carolina Central University athletes have been removed from classes and barred from the cafeteria because the university had not paid scholarship bills, the scholarship. I was told that the school would take care of everything, but I was put out of classes because bills were not P*ld.” Moss is not playing tennis for NCCU this spring. The problems with unpaid bills have decimated a squad that went 18-7 last year; only two of nine players are available for competition. “I don’t know of any students who did not get what they were supposed to get,” said Robert Poole, vice chancellor for development and the university’s link with the athletic department. Christopher T. Fisher, the school’s athletic director, said he could not respond to the students’ statements because of laws governing privacy of students. Tyronza Richmond, the NCCU chancellor, was out of town and unavailable for comment, said David Witherspoon of the school’s news bureau. Last fall, Richmond was sent a report from Les Brinson, chair man of the NCCU Athletic Coun cil, which held hearings in Avgust 1980 on the tennis team’s com plaints about unpaid scholar ships. Brinson said he came away convinced that some athletes were so zealous in wanting to play that they didn’t listen to the conditions that the university at (See ATHLETES, P. 2) HENRY C. LATTIMORE students said. The athletes said they are thousands of dollars in debt. A school official denied that the students had been shortchanged. “Most definitely. I’ve been deceived,” said Kevvin Moss, a member of the tennis team who said the school left him |8,000 short. “1 was promised a full tennis Networks Promote Attacks from CAROLINIAN Staff Reports The Cult Awareness Network is currently under fire from the black religious community because of what church members view as a blatant at tempt at making money, according to the executive vice presider' of the Shaw Divinity School. Dr. Joseph Paige, who also serves as vice president for the Coalition for Religious Freedom, said he opposes the well-funded “hate group” and the unlawful activity of deprogramming. The tax-exempt organization is noted for its dramatic abductions of Unification Church or Hare Krishna members, and trying to get them to denounce their beliefs. Although they have been acclaimed for their work by the federal govern ment, some factions of the black church disagree with the gioups “deprogramming” practice. Deprogramming is the controver sial and sometimes violent process of holding a person against their will and subjecting the person to verbal abuse and sleep deprivation to force the person to relinquish their beliefs. CAN was formerly known as the Citizens Freedom Foundation, an organization started in 1974 with the (See CHURCHES, P. 2) L ii MISSION ON THE MOVE - Sylvia Wiggins, director of the Raleigh Helping Hand Mission, along with friends were making final plans to be out of their East Martin Street location by Monday. The Helping Hand Mission is now located on Rock Quarry Road providing the same, if not more services than belon* (I’hatu by J. Giles; House Speaker Says No Compromise In Sight On Pending Rights Bill WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Thomas Foley says no compromise is in sight with the White House on civil rights legislation and he expects a House vote on a Democratic-sponsored version this spring. The House Judiciary Committee voted 24-10 last week to approve the Democratic bill, similar to one President Bush vetoed last year. It rejected the White House’s more modest alternative on a voice vote. “We think it ought to be enacted in the early months of this session,” Foley. D-Wash., said later. He said he expected a vote in April or May Foley expressed a willingness to reach a compromise that would avert another veto. “It the administration showed an interest in moving in the direction of the bill that was vetoed last year I think that we would be open to a discussion about that But so far I know of no specific compromise in the works,” he said. (See RIGHTS BILL, P. 2) Inside Africa Nations Turn Deaf Ear To Apartheid BY DANIEL MAROLEN Despite the successful meeting bet ween Dr. Mandela and Prince Buthelezi a few weeks ago, aimed at bringing about the end of faction fights between factions of ANC and Inkatha members, more killings of blacks by blacks continue to take lace in and around Johannesburg. Time and time again, this column has made a clarion call to humanity to end the genocide of apartheid that has taken a toll pf 5,000 killed and many more wounded and maimed since 1986. Again ahd again, the world community of nations has turned a deaf ear to this appeal and, instead, exploited the genocide to turn world aversion to what is happening in South Africa against the very victims of the evil of apartheid themselves. This is a wrong history will not par don mankind for. Surely, what irks South Africa to day isn’t the occasional flare-up of factional fighting in apartheid’s tribal hostels in and around Johan nesburg. Apartheid creates the ethnic hostels which spark these fights. Apartheid specifically created these ethnic hostels to set groups of Africans against each other. It's not Mandela, or Buthelezi, or the Zulu or Xhosa or ANC or Inkatha people who create the hostels and Bantus tans that lead to the factional fighting. The faction fights are the trap which President de Klerk and the apartheid regime set to divide the African population of their country. It is the Boers’ gimmick of genocide to perpetuate their clique in its minority rule and white domination. The Zulu people have no voice in national affairs. Nor has ANC nor In katha any voice in the killings that have ravaged the country since 1966. Both Inkatha and ANC have no decision-making role in any national matter in the country. The world community must not misconstrue the black population for causing the faction fights. Apartheid (See INSIDE AFRICA, P. 2) RECOGNIZING MEMBERS - ftAACP held its Freedom Fund banquet at Shaw University an March 16. Mrs. Aie M. Peebles, extreme left, presented We membership plaques te Clinton C. Downing, third trem left, Charles .—Mill _ “Chuck" Hunter and Gertrude Pope. Standing next to Ms. Peebles is guest speaker, Evang. Shirley Caesar, who stirred the audience with her speech. On the extreme right is Rev. H. B. Pickett, branch president. Inauguration Planned For Franklyn Jenifer WASHINGTON, D.C.-Dr Franklyn G. Jenifer, who became the 14th president of Howard University on April l, will be formally in augurated to the presidency on April 5 in ceremonies beginning in Burr Gymnasium on the university’s main campus. Delegates from a number of univer sities and thousands of guests are ex pected to be on hand for the events that will include a dramatic academic procession, the inaugura tion ceremony, various exhibits and special events at the university’s 18 schools and colleges, and an in augural concert at 5 p.m. in Cramton Auditorium followed by a reception in the Blackburn Center. The concert will consist of entertainment by a variety of performances by members of the Howard University communi ty Since coming to Howard University last April as the first alumnus and the fourth African-American to serve as its president, Dr. Jenifer has launch ed a number of initiatives. Perhaps the most significant are the reconi mendations in his recent repott to Howard’s board of trustees, titled “Howard 2000,’’ in which he presented more than 80 recommenda tions in a comprehensive blueprint for strengthening the university. The board unanimously approved his recommendations. Dr. Jenifer came to Howard from the post of chancellor of the Massachusetts Board of Regents where he served since 1986, oversee ing a statewide systei. <f 29 colleges and universities. A native of Washington, D.C., Di Jenifer was educated in the D.C. public schools, graduating from Sp ingarn High School. He went on to Howard University where he earned the bachelor of science degree in 1962 and the master of science degree (See DR. JENIFER, P. 2>
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