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in the music industry, catapulting him int<
Guinness Book of World Records and a
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Higher Education
Rosetta Riley discussed “The Cadillac Quality
Story” to faculty and staff at Saint
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This Week
William E.B. DuBois founded the
Niagara Movement in 1905, a group of
young black intellectuals who called for
absolute equality with whites, a direct
challenge to Booker T. Washington, the
founder of Tuskegee Institute, whose
policy was compromise and accommoda
tion.
RALEIGH, N.C.,
VOL. 51, NO. 45
TUESDAY, APRIL 28,1992
N.C. s Semi-Weekly
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Racial Bias Charged In State Education
BY CASH MICHAELS
Staff Writer
The race for state superintendent
of public instruction on the Demo
cratic site was thrown a curve last
week when Dr. Dudley Flood, for
merly the highest-ranking African
American in that department, came
out publicly against his former boss,
current Superintendent Bobby Eth
eridge.
During a news conference held at
the Raleigh campaign headquarters
ofEtheridge’s opponent in the May 5
Democratic primary, Owen Phil
lips, Dr. Flood alleged racial bias in
staff and salary reductions a well as
Student
Delivers
Positive
Message
A personal battle with fam
ily sickness compelled Dain
E. Vines to think about be
coming a doctor. His mother
suffered
from a de
bilitating
exhaustion
for years,
and doctors
couldn’t di
agnose it..
After his sis
ter was
born, Vines
was told that she wouldn’t
walk or talk. And while Vines
was in college, his father had
a stroke.
"I felt helpless, and I knew
that I never wanted to have
such a sense of helplessness
again,” Vines said.
Vines, a Greensboro native
who will serve as the North
Carolina State University
student commencement
speaker on May 9, is a strong
believer in the ability of
people to right wrongs, to
answer unanswered ques
tions, to pick up a faltering
life.
And he wants to convey this
(See GRADUATE, P. 2)
VINES
politically biased management deci
sions between 1989 and 1990 in the
Etheridge administration.
A spokesman for the Etheridge
campaign denied Dr. Flood’s allega
tions.
Before he left in December 1990,
Dr. Flood had served in the State
Department of Public Instruction
for 21 years as a division director
(where he was instrumental in the
desegregation of North Carolina
public schools), an assistant state
superintendent, and an associate
superintendent (the highest non
elected position in the department
at that time).
Butin 1989, two things happened
that would drastically impact both
Dr. Flood’s position and future with
the department. Etheridge became
the new state schools superinten
dent, and there were mandated
budget cuts by the General Assem
bly in state government that meant
a major restructuring of the depart
ment.
“I was reorganized,” Dr. Flood
said from a prepared statement. He
was relieved of his former duties
and reassigned as an ombudsman.
“I soon learned [it] was an empty
title, with few real responsibilities
and even less authority. It was far
more show than substance.”
Then Dr. Flood said he discovered
something that was a clear indica
tion of uneven treatment. Under Dr.
Etheridge’s reorganization, Dr.
Flood said that it was announced
that all retained administrators
would experience major salary re
ductions. But it was more than a
year later that a Greensboro news
paper actually published the salary
schedule of those administrators
(including Dr. Flood), and he was
shocked to see that while he took a
$15,000 cut in salary along with the
demotion, every white administra
tor on the list had received a raeise.
The only other black male onthe list
also suffered a decrease in salary. In
other words, all but two of the seven
holdover administrators received
raises, and those two were black.
Dr. Flood said this and other ac
tions by the Etheridge administra
tion “created a work environment
insulting to black professionals.”
Flood added that when the General
Assembly mandated staff cuts in the
department, “It was no surprise”
that the cuts fell disproportionately
on black employees at all levels of
the department.
(See DUDLEY FLOOD, P. 2)
House Arrest Helps Prison
Unique
Response
Program
The Division of Adult Probation
and Parole reports that more than
1,000 offenders are currently under
supervision using electronic house
arrest.
“Electronic house arrest is a
supervisory tool used by probation
and parole officers to control the
daily schedule of offenders the
courts feel can remain in the
community,” DAPP Director John
Patseavouras says.
There were 1,003 offenders on
electronic house arrest as of April
15. That includes 577 offenders in
the 50 counties supervised by the
regional base station in Raleigh and
426 offenders in the 50 counties
monitored by the regional base
station in Winston-Salem.
‘There is increased use of house
arrest because of the judges’
growing awareness of the
availability of the program and the
program’s unique response
capability,” Patseavouras said.
In response to concerns voiced by
judges and legislators, the
department added a 24-hour
response capability to the electronic
house arrest program beginning in
September 1991. By November
(See HOUSE ARREST. P. 2)
ADDRRESSMG MALE CRISIS - The Garner Road YMCA
and the local chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority co
sponsored a Mack achievers career fair for teenagers
recently to address the African-American male crisis. In
photo, Lemuel Hinton, attorney at law, tells participants
they may pursue any course of study to become a lawyer,
but “you must develop good communicative and
analytical skills.”
Self-Help Credit Union Making $50
Million Available For Home Loans
Self-Help Credit Union, a state
wide community development
lender, has made available $50 mil
lion in home lending programs for
Cornell Study Reveals Adolescents
Most Abused And Maltreated Group
ITHACA, N.Y.—Cornell Univer
sity researchers have shattered the
commonly held belief that child
abuse victims are predominantly
young children.
In the first national look at ado
lescent maltreatment the research
ers have found that teenagers expe
rience all types of abuse and neglect
r
at higher rates than younger chil
dren.
They report that nationwide 29
out of1,000 adolescents (ages 12 to
17) are maltreated, compared to 19
per 1,000 children (under age 12).
“Our research dispels the prevail
ing myth that adolescent maltreat
mentis somehow less pervasive and
TOWN MEETING
A Town Meeting will be held in Durham on April 29 to discuss “North
Carolina Students Teach and Reach (NC STAR): Facing the Future
Together.” NC STAR is a civic and education program that brings college
students into Durham classrooms tohold open discussions aboutrespect for
diversity and developing better race relations. The meeting will be held at
Riverside High School at 7:30 p.m., and is co-sponsored by People for the
American Way in North Carolina, the Durham Human Relations Commis
sion, and the Durham City and County Schools. For more information or
directions, Call 1-800-768-7329.
CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
The Heritage Arts Program of Southeast Raleigh Community Develop
ment Corporation seeks volunteers to assist at a family festival planned for
Moore Square Park in downtown Raleigh on Saturday, May 2. This
Bicentennial event pays tribute to elders and ancestors of the African
American community. Call (919) 664-8524 for information.
(See CALENDAR, P. 2)
less senous than abuse ol younger
children,” said Jane Powers, a re
search associate with the Family
Life Development Center in the
College of Human Ecology at Cor
nell. “Adolescents experience more
maltreatment yet are slipping
through the ‘service cracks.’
“If such cases are not identified
and treated, there can be lethal
consequences for maltreated ado
lescents, such as drug abuse, delin
quency, violence, pregnancy, run
ning away and suicide.”
Powers and John Eckenrode, pro
fessor of human development and
family studies at Cornell, conducted
secondary analyses of the federally
funded 1988 Second National Inci
dence Study of Child Abuse and
Neglect. They presented their find
ings at the Fourth Biennial Meeting
of the Society for Research on Ado
lescence in Washington, D.C., in
March.
Although the national study
found that 43 percent of reported
maltreatment cases involved ado
lescents and 57 percent involved
children, it should be noted that the
adolescents covered only six ages,
from 12 to 17, while the children
(See ADOLESCENTS, P. 2)
low- and moderate-income North
Carolinians. In a unique partner
ship with federal, state and local
organizations, these programs will
give families greater flexibility and
lower their downpayment costs. In
the demonstration phase, Self-Help
made 226 loans to low- and moder
ate-income North Carolinians for a
total of $9.6 million. These pro
grams have a potential to reach
1,000 families who desire to pur
chase their first home.
Sen. Terry Sanford said, “This is
partnership at its best, an effort
joined by federal, state, local and
private interests for the great and
good purpose of helping people help
themselves. I’m proud to see this
program blossom in North Caro
lina.”
The leadership of the North Caro
lina Genera] Assembly, including
Sen. J.K. Sherron, Jr. and Speaker
of the House Daniel Blue, initiated
the programs by making a $2 mil
lion appropriation in 1990, which
leveraged $48 million in additional
funds from private sources. Sen.
Sherron said, “As legislators, we
need to ensure that the programs we
support benefit North Carolinians
in every comer of the state. Self
Help Credit Uion’s home lending
programs’ track record has been
superb i n bringing access to credit to
all regions of this state, and they
have created economic opportunity
by lending to citizens of modest
means.”
Self-Help’s lending programs
have been especially effective in
meeting this need: 100 percent of
(See CREDIT UNION, P. 2)
DR. DUDLEY FLOOD
Caucus
Endorses
Candidates
BY CASH MICHAELS
Stair Writer
Two of Wake County’s African
American civic organizations have
virtually endorsed an identical list
of candidates for the May 5 pri
mary... except one. And beyond the
contest for governor, it may prove to
be the most controversial race in the
black community.
TheRaleigh-Wake Citizens’ Asso
ciation released its list of primary
candidate endorsements last
Thursday, one day after the Wake
County Black Leadership Caucus.
In the Democratic primary, boith
organizations gave the green light
to Gov. Bill Clinton for president of
the United States, Jim Hunt for
governor, Dennis Wicker for lieu
tenant governor, Ralph Campbell,
Jr. for state auditor, Jim Long for
insurance commissioner, Harry E.
Payne, Jr. for labor commissioner,
Sid Eagles, Jr. for associate justice
of the Supreme Court, and Russell
Sherill for District Court judge. In
the Republican primary, only Henry
McKoy received the nod for labor
commissioner.
But when it came to superinten
dent of public instruction, the
RWCA went with incumbent Bobby
Etheridge, while WCBLC endorsed
Dr. Owen Phillips, the Democratic
challenger.
Part of the rt ason for the split was
the statement issued by former
Associate Superintendent Dr. Dud
ley Flood last Wednesday alleging
racial bias in the Etheridge admini
stration.
According to David Barnwell,
president of the WCBLC, Dr. Flood’s
charges weighed very heavily dur
ing their deliberations.
“We did not feel that Bobby Eth
eridge performed to the [black
community’s advantage]. The num
ber of African-Americans on his
staff was reduced significantly, and
those on his staff who received [sal
ary] increases were white Ameri
cans. The two African-Americans on
bis staff received decreases in sal
ary. Those kind of blatant forms of
(See CANDIDATES, P. 2)
N. C. Mutual Elects Closs To Board
North Carolina Mutual Control
ler and Raleigh native Willie Close
has been named to the company’s
board of directors, making him, at
age 36, the
youngest ever to
be elected to that
body.
doss was
named to a one
year term on the
13-member
board during the
company’s an
nual policyhold- CLOSS
ers meeting held recently in Dur
ham. Son of Willie and Bettie Closs
of Raleigh, Close, in 1984 at 29, was
the youngest promoted to vice presi
——-1 dent. He is a
W graduate of
v Atlanta’s More
house College,
Vs j where he has
HI ^ ■ worked as ac
countant at
Arthur An
B dersen & Co.
PARRISH and Trust Com
pany Bank, both in Atlanta, and at
Deloitte & Touche in Raleigh.
NCM President and Chief Execu
tive Officer Bert Collins says that
(See MUTUAL, P. 2)
the election dem
onstrates a cor
porate commit
ment to achieve
a dynamic team
of veteran and
new leadership
on the board.
“Policyholders
asnd employees
can depend on
the unswerving commitment and
dedicated service of these leaders,”
he said.
Closs was one of two new board