PARALLEL PURSUIT-- Wiliam Lupton, front, of Morgan State University was
one of 15 faculty members from minority and women’s colleges who studied
parallel computing at Argonne National Laboratory in January to learn to teach the
advanced technology to their classes. Paralel computers are faster than
conventional computers, because they break large problems into small segments
and work on them aH at the same time. Campus classes wil be linked to a parallel
computer at Argonne.
Shooting At “Juice”
LANSING, Mich. (AP)—A teen
ager was wounded last Friday night
when shooting erupted at a Lansing
theater where the movie Juice
opened.
Shooting started between two
groups of teens shortly before 10
p.m. in the lobby of the Lansing Mall
west Cinemas in Eaton County’s
delta Tonwship, said Bob Robison, a
supervisor for the county’s emer
gency dispatch.
Jamarc Roberts-Ricardo Randall,
17, of Lansing, was shot twice in the
leg, Robinson said. Randall was
taken by friends to St. Lawrence
Hospital, where nursing supervisor
Donna Corbett said he was in stable
condition early Saturday.
No other injuries were reported.
It was undetermined whether Ran
dall was a bystander or wasinvolved
in the fight, Robison said.
The movie, which depicts inner
city life in Harlem, was just letting
out when the shooting started with
one person firing shots at the lobby’s
ceiling.
The fight spilled outside, and
several shots were fired back into
the theater, shattering two windows
and striking the ticket booth.
At least nine shots were fired from
at least two handguns, and a third
gun was found at the scene, Robison
said.
Theater managers declined to
comment on the shootings, referring
questions to a national headquar
ters where calls were unanswered
early Saturday.
Like Boyz N the Hood and New
Jack City, Juice is a portrayal of
inner-city life directed by a black
filmmaker. Ernest Dickerson, who
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has worked in the past as Spike Lee
s cinematographer, directed and co
wrote Juice.
Many theater owners, reacting to
crowd violence that plagued Boyz
and New Jack City, beefed up secu
rity as the movie opened nationwide
Friday.
Army Hold Mass
Battalion Meet
On Saturday, Jan. 25, at 11 a.m.,
the U.S. Army Recruiting Battalion
Raleigh will hold a special promo
tion ceremony at the North Carolina
National Guard Armory, 4105
Reedy Creek Road. More than 40
young Tarheels will receive acceler
ated promotions, prior to leaving for
basic training. Christopher Cline,
Douglas Kearns, and Leston Parker
of Raleigh are among the promotees.
In addition, Lt. Col. Douglas M.
Boyd, North Carolina native and
N.C. A&T State University gradu
ate, will assume command of the
Raleigh Recruiting Battalion. He
replaces Lt. Col. Ronald E. Deaver,
who has been promoted to colonel
and assigned to the Recruiting
Command Headquarters in Fort
Sheridan, 111.
Brig. Gen. Alfonso Lenhardt,
deputy commanding general at the
Recruiting Command Headquar
ters, will be in Raleigh to preside
over the activities. Dr. Richard
Moore, assistant vice chancellor,
University Relations, North Caro
lina A&T State University, will be
the featured speaker.
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Punching Affair
Gets 14 Ousted
MILWAUKEE <AP>- Fourteen
seventh and eighth grade black
students were suspended from a
Milwaukee middle school after they
punched several white classmates
amid a rumor that it was “White Kill
Day,” school officials said.
“They hear about the racial
inequities of the past and interpret
this as a time to act,” said Bell
Middle School principal Dennis
Schumacher.
Schumacher also linked the attacks
to a vow by Milwaukee Alderman
Micheal McGee this week to launch a
guerilla war against the city if
conditions for minorities don’t
improve by 1995.
“City officials who fuel the fire...
with their militant rhetoric don’t
help,” Schumacher said.
Schumacher described the
suspended students as chronic
troublemakers. He said about seven
white male students reported that as
they went to first-period class, the
black male students, in groups of two
or three, ran up to them and punched
them.
None of the students were seriously
injured, he said. The perpetrators
were identified by teachers and
safety aides who witnessed the
attacks.
Schumacher said teachers heard
rumors that Thursday and Friday
were designed as "White Kill Days”
at Bell and that some students said
they were afraid to come to school on
those days.
But Florence Johnson, director of
human relations for Milwaukee
Public Schools, said she believed the
“White Kill Days” were blown out of
proportion.
“It may have been nothing more
than a hoax by one student,” she said.
School district administrator,
Denise Calloway said Friday that no
other schools had reported race
related problems this week.
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managing corporate repsonse programs
related to urban affairs, community
relations in Brown & Williamson
operating cities and community news
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Revives Performance
DURHAM—The North Carolina
Central University Department of
Dramatic Art will revive, through a
command performance, one of the
national winners of the 1991 Ameri
can College Theatre Festival, “Of
Mules and Men” adapted by Dr.
Randolph Umberger.
Critics have called the play an “ar
tistic, entertaining and enlighten
ing experience that celebrates and
affirms the common origins of man
kind.”
The award-winning cast will take
you on a visit to Eatonville, Fla.,
with Zora Neale Hurston, the most
prominent writer of the Harlem
Renaissance, for an evening of
humor and reflection with rural
African-American folklore.
ShowtimesareFeb. 12-14at8:15
p m. and Feb. 15-16 at 3:16 p.m. in
the University Theatre of the Farri
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Building on the comer of Fayette
ville and Lawson streets.
Because of expected heavy de
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NCCU ticket office in the Pearson
Cafeteria Annex on Lawson Street
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