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Carolinian RALEIGH, N.C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 29,1991 /VOL. 50, NO. 80 N.C. 's Semi-Weekly DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OP JESUS CHRIST SINGLE COPY QC IN RALEIGH ELSEWHERE 300 Spaulding Alumni Reunion Set: Members Challenged See Page 17 Triangle Coalition To Hold Conference For Educators. SeePage 19 NCCU Nursing Program Makes Strides BY DAVID L. SAWYER SteffWriurlH North Carolina Central University has improved its scores on the na tional nursing exam, malting dramatic advances toward the re quirements set forth last spring by the University of North Carolina system's Board of Governors. Chancellor Tyronza R. Richmond says challenges are to come but the results are a clear demonstration that NCCU is able and ready to pro vide first-class nursing education to all qualified students. Richmond said that the department of nursing achieved a 94.percent passing rate for the first-time takers of the July nurs ing board examinations. Fifteen of 16 NCCU nursing graduates passed the examination. according to the North Carolina Board of Nursing. NCCU also award ed baccalaureate degrees this year to 12 graduates who were already registered nurses, and were not re quired to repeat the examination. Previously, UNC System President C D- Spangler, Jr. proposed to his board that the Central program be moved to southeastern North Carolina and be shared by Fayet teville State University and Pern broke State University, but pressure from the board of trustees, faculty, students, parents, alumni and legislators won a reprieve. Bernard Allen, chairman of the board of trustees, said the board has indicated to the chancellor they need to resolve glaring areas revealed in the news concerning the university and that the results of the nursing ex ams point to some of the positive things the university is doing. Allen, who was recently appointed to another four-year term by the Board of Governors, said, “Enroll ment is high along with SAT scores Students are doing exceptionally weli in math and science. The university has a rich heritage of strong leader ship over the years and was on£e viewed as the flagship of historical in stitutions. My goal is to see it return to that status. “I will not be a candidate for the chair in September,” Allen said, referring to a retreat Sept. 16-18 for new board members and a status report. "I served two terms and now it’s time to shift the leadership around. Any member is qualified to (See NURSING, P.2) In 280 ZX 1 Robbery One Wake County According to police reports, a ban dit held up a crowded Northeas Raleigh bank, escaping with an un disclosed amount of cash during lunchtime Tuesday. Raleigh now has a total of 30 ban! robberies so far this year. The* incident occurred about 12:4! p.m. at the Wachovia Bank and Trusi Co. in the Beacon Plaza Shopping Center on the corner of New Ben Avenue and New Hope Road, accor ding to records of the Raleigh Police Department. The bandit waited in line, ther handed the teller a note implying that he had a gun. No weapon was evei seen. The man fled the and dark tint to police. The robber is described as six feel tall, 179 pounds with a medium-browr complexion. He was wearing a medium blue work shirt, a fluores cent orange vast, and blue work pants. Ip other news: Orange County’s 911 system is now under scrutiny. Manager John Link Jr. said he would study ways tc reform the Ml emergency system following an incident in which dispat chers Joked about a victim’s race and were slow to call deputies to the seem of a fatal accident. The incident was detailed in an anonymous letter distributed last week to the county commissioners and the news media. a; Si NEWS BRIEFS PAL-North Carolina's 1991 Principal of tlw Year, is Dr. John Schroodere. Dr. Schroodor, is shown horn reading to children enrolled in pro-school program at Bomontary School In High Point. He was by congratulatory gifts and phone calls from Hundreds of thousands of citizens will be marching on Washington, D C. to demand the right* of workers in the United States in seeking the American dream. A wide spectrum of leaders in America recently issued a strong statement calling, for an end to the growing management practice of firing workers Who go on strike by giving their jobs to “permanent m “There are presently key bills being dratted in the Congress to 'restore workers' rights and to ensure greater fairness in the workplace, the name of the legislation we support is the “Workplace Fairness Bill introduced by William Clay of Missouri and Sen. Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio,” Chavis said. “During the last ten years, workers have been unjustly fired for engaging “All workers should, have the right to maintain their jobs without employment discrimination W racial harassment.” —Rev. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. Director, UCC Commission for Racial Justice replacements” and calling ort Congress to pass the Workplace Fairness BUI, HR 8/5 55, which would outlaw the practice. The March will be held Saturday and is being ' sponsored by the Libor Movement. An African American Leadership Committee for Workplace Fairness has been organized in Washington to support the efforts of African American workers. William Lucy, secretary-treasurer of AFSCME; Norman HIU, president of the A, Philip Randolph Institute; Benjamin L. Hooks, executive director of the NAACP; Joseph E. Lowery, president of SCLC; and Congresswoman Eleanor HolmOs Norton have initiated an effort to get African American leaders to sign and support a document entitled. “Helping Blacks Achieve the American Dream; Justice at Wofk." President Bush's refusal to support the Civil Rights Act of 1801 is Indicative of the Administation’s anti labor at»*‘ude. “All workers should have the right to maintain their jobs without employment discrimination or racial harassment,” said the Rev. s Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., executive director of the United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice. in collective bargaining. Worker* today are routinely fired when they strike to proteat injustice in' the workplace. The Workplace Fairness BJ11 would restore the basic rights of collective bargaining. Strinking workers would be permitted to return to their jobs as originally Intended by the National Labor Relations Act."’ he said. The statement signed by the African American leaders asserted, the rights of workers to form unions and bargain contracts with their companies are under attack across the nation. ‘'As a result, the well being of millions of wotting Americans, particularly black men and women is at risk. * Chavis said. The statement emphasized, "As leaders of the black community we cannot afford to sit Idly by while this basic democratic rights »i America's workers are eaten away In the industrialized world. South Afri<m is the only other countmUtat tolerules reprisals against iegafStrikers." We recall the past unity between the Civil Rights Movement and the Labor Movement. Now is thejutivlo rebuild that unity and to stand together for human rights civil rights and workers rights. Justice delayed is justice denied. Justice must-be for all or justice will be for none. The 30 leaders called on civil rights proponents, the black community, religious, political and business organizations around the country to contact their congressional represen tatives and President Bush in support of the billy jwhich has 211 co-sponsors in the House and 32 co-sponsors in the Senate. With an increase of nine points on the Scholastic Aptitude Test, students in Wake County Public School System’s class of 1991 topped the na tional SAT average for the first time in many years. Educators are celebrating their ef forts now after the figures show North Carolina studens are doing bet ter on the SAT and the state is conti nuing to move up in the current rank ings. This achievement is encouraging for two reasons. First, Wake’s par ticipation rate is much higher than the national rate. Traditionally, more the more students take the test, the lower the average score. Second, Wake’s scores continue to be among the highest in the state. The average total score for Wake County’s class of 1991 was 904—eight points above the national average of 896 points and 60 points above the state average of 844. While state SAT scores improved as well, the im provement in Wake County students’ scores ran counter to the national decline in SAT scores. In 1990, Wake scores were just five points below the national average. Wake’s average math score was 483 (reflecting an 11-point gain), and the average verbal score was 421 (show ing a decline of two points). Approx imately 75 percent of eligible Wake County students opted to take the SAT while nationally only 42 percent took the exam. Statewide, 57 percent of the students chose to take the SAT. While cautioning that one-year changes in test scores do not always signal a trend, Wake Superintendent Bob Wentz was pleased with the school system’s performance. “We are encouraged to see our con tinued progress by surpassing the na tional average of the SAT and a clim bing total score,” Dr. Wentz said. “Surpassing the SAT national average is one of our systemwide goals. We will continue to strive to meet this goal. “It would be easy for any school system to increase the total average score by discouraging some lower scoring students from taking the test,’’ Dr. Wentz said. “That did not happen in Wake County. In fact, a larger percentage of students took (See SAT SCORES, P. 2) ABA Endorsements Mixed In Judge Clarence Thomas To High Court Question • BY DENNIS SCHATZMA.N Special to The ('AltOl.lM AN Applying'the same approach used in evaluating Supreme Court nominees since they scuttled North Carolina's John J. Parker's nomination in 1930, the NAACP's national board of directors met in closed session in a hotel' less than 2 miles from the Supreme Court and Congress. "I move that the Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People oppose the nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas to the United States Supreme Court." The motion was made by Kelly Miller Alexander. Jr.. NAACP board member and president of the North Carolina State conference. The second came from Granada Hills' John Mance. a 13-year veteran of the NAACP national board of directors. The final vote: 50 yeas; one nay. The lone negative vote was cast by Connecticut’s Ben Andrews, the board's newly elected vice chairman. ‘We understood that,” Mance explained during an interview. "He’s in active Republican and he knows Clarence Thomas.” Mance, a retired personnel idministrator with Lockheed, says the national board met in Washington, D. C. last Friday, just two weeks after the organization’s nation.< i convention in Houston, specifically and solely” to address the Clarence Thomas issue. The meeting lasted “about an hour,” Mance said. “Hell, we could have done this in Houston,” he mused. The national office paid for round trip tickets and overnight lodging for the (See JUDGE THOMAS, P.2) Cooperative Learning Concept—A Trend Whose Time Has Now Come HV Dll. KIIAI.IH RAMADAN CONTHIBl'TINC WKITKR A* AnvI>*Um Cooperative learning means more ihan putting a bunch of students together and telling them to get to work. It means creating positive interdependence; that is, structuring students' interactions so that each depends on, and is accountable to the others. A group identity is a goal, Children realize that their contributions are each important to the collective goal. Since every person is responsible for understanding the material no ore can get away with less than active participation. And no one is finished until everyone in the group has mastered the lesson The overall result is that students are unavoidably concerned about each other’s welfare. It is not a matter of altruism, or putting someone eise’s interest before their own. Rather.. positive interdependence means that their interests are hound together; l ean succeed only if you succeed too. So there is a built-in incentive to help, to accept help, to root for others. And as hundreds of studies attest; it works: not just for less achieving duitent*. who ure in effect the Belief inn mo* ui intense peering ti iiii mg, nil! also lor the* higher P achievers. Cooperation and interdependence mean that students share their talents and skills in a way that will benefit everyone. No one of us is as smart as all of us. The very act of orally reviewing the lesson reinforces knowledge; explaining a concept to someone else is, at least, as useful to the tutor as the tutored and students appear to have so much fun learning together, that they may be more receptive to the material and thus quicker to pick it up. More important than the well documented increased academic results is the discovery that the cooperating students learn to like each other across barriers of class, ethnicity, gender, or physical handicaps. Prejudice declines and ridicule practically disappears. Children who are different from one another start. to value the contributions of each other and enjoy being around each other and sotne studies document that many continue to socialite during their free time. In my experience as « consultant with the U. S. Department of Health and Human Resources. 1 have reviewed over 130 grand application for funding consideration since May of i woo The panel process involves each reviewing, reading the applications individually and then meeting as a group to discuss our individual findings and assesaments. What is so interesting and exciting about this process is that as the reviewers continue to read through , the applications, each of us adds to our individual assessments the. collective knowledge and viewpoints of the other review panelist. We find ourselves. reading the applications with our individual talents, but theik . reflecting' our concerns raised by other reviewers during previous group discussions. By the end of the week our Individual assessments have come closer and closer together by this cooperative interdependent process and Individuality is also preserved because each reviewer's strong points are adopted by the group and weak points are eliminated by the group. If: the Wake County Public Schools would promote the cooperative learning model, all children’s contributions would be celebrated and we would eliminate the tracking that currently exists that reinforces societie's racism, classism, sexism, etc. , In an up-coming article, I plan to discuss a need to emphasize intramural sports over varsity sports as a way of promoting positive interdependence and entire student body health and fitness.
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