RACIAL
dal and (radar twain in a labo
ratory setting.
In an attempt to examine tha re
lationship batwaan irwiMirraanilar
and emotional raaponsaa eauaad by
discrimination, tha Duka raaaarch
ars aakad 60 woman from 18 to 34
yanrs old—SO white and SO
black—to discuaa thair own past
experiences with both racial and
(radar discrimination. Half of the
white subjects and half of tha
black subjects wars interviewed by
a researcher of their own race,
while half wan interviewed by a
researcher of the other race.
Overall, researchers found,
when blade subjects discussed ra
cial discrimination in tee presence
of a white researcher, the leas an
ger tee blade subjects reported ex
periencing while talking about
past racial discrimination, the
more likely they wars to experi
•nce a greater increase in heart
rate. McNeilly said this pattern
was consistent with other research
indicating that blacks may sup
press anger in the presence of
whites and that this tendency has
been historically adaptive for sur
vival.
Blacks paired with a blade inter
viewer, however, exhibited no cor
relation between anger and cardio
vascular activity when discuaring
past experiences with racial dis
crimination. Although most sub
WARS
(Continued from paged
Following that war, fha Afro
Americans aervad courageously in
World War I and II from a regi
mental level to a divirion level. A
regiment U nenaHy commanded by
a fall colonel with about 1,900 men
and a di virion commander ie a ma
jor general with three times that
hi World War I, white ofllcerr
commanded the 92nd and 93rd
Afro-American divisions and whan
they arrived in France to fight the
Germans, those Afro-American*
were asaigned to French officers.
Several members won die Croix de
Guerre. The all-blaek 999th Infan
try Regiment stayed in the
in action against the Gormans.
They never lest a man through
capture or a foot of ground. The
Germans called them “Hell Fight
ore."
Also, blade woman volunteered
in the WACs (Army), WAVKs
(Navy), SPARs (Coast Guard) and
WAAF (Air Force), and for the fint
thus in American history, the De
fense Department permitted the
Afro-Americans into the Marine '
Corps and the Air Force. Afro
American women served in the
” FtoZmore, in World War II,
the higheet-ranldng black officer
was only a brigadier general and
his name was Benjamin O. Davis,
Sr. He didn't command a brigade
but visited various forte as an in
spector to observe the morale of
AftwAmeiicaas.
Drive Safely
jects reported increases in anger
while recounting these past expe
riences, no relationship was appar
ent between the subjects’ anger
and cardiovascular responses.
For white subjects, however, re
gardless of the race of the inter
viewer, the more anger the white
subjects reported experiencing as
they talked about past incidents of
“reverse* racial discrimination, the
mors likely they were to experi
ence a larger increase in blood
pressure.
In discussing gander discrimina
tion, black women showed no sig
nificant correlations between emo
tions, personality and cardiovascu
lar reactivity, regardless of
whether paired with a white or a
black experimenter. But, white
women paired with a white experi
menter showed greater increases
in blood pressure and heart rate as
their anger and resentment in
creased. No corielation was seen
when white women were paired
with a black researcher.
McNeilly said she and other re
searchers were somewhat sur
prised by the strong correlations
between increases in all cardiovas
cular measures and increases in
anger and resentment when white
subjects discussed gender discrimi
nation.
"The experiment wasn’t origi
nally designed to examine anger
regarding gender discrimination,”
McNeilly said. The gender dis
crimination task was included as a
’control’ task against which to
compare the responses to the ra
cial task. The very strong response
from white females, however, calls
for further investigation.”
B.B. KingTo
Annual Medgar
Evers’ Event
VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP>—
BIum legend BJB. King will lend
his voice to the annual Medgar
Brers Homecoming Celebration
next month.
King will perform at the
Vicksburg Auditorium on June 6
and other events will be held in
Fayette, which is 40 miles south of
Vicksburg.
"You know Medgar was the
state field secretary for the
NAACP,” said Charles Even, his
brother. “We like to spread the
events out because we don't think
it’s ftdr to keep everything in Fay*
ette when the work he did was for
King played guitar and sang in
church when he was a child in the
Mississippi Delta. He moved to
Memphis, Ikon., in 1046 and be
came known as the “Beale Street
Blues Boy” after he landed a job as
a disc jockey.
The name was later shortened to
“Blues Bey” and then “B-B."
Over the yean King, 66, has be
come well known for his vocal per
formancos and his playing of the
guitar he named “Lucille.’’
Others scheduled to perform in
duds Qrammy Award-winner Dor
othy Moore, Little Milton and
Chide Willis.
ELABORATE PLANS—Raw Yarfc City Maytr OavM N.
DhridN (Ml) Mi BaamraMc NUMM Party eMram,
RmmM H. Brawa, (rt|hQ bath naraaaai “mcltwiirt Mi
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Trash Tally Tops 212 Tons In Last
Fall’s First Citizens Bank Big Sweep
The list could be an inventory of
the county landfill: tires and car
parte, a rusted gas can, a refrig
erator, a stove, a toilet bowl.
Unfortunately, ifs not
These items are only a sampling
of the 212 tons of litter volunteers
picked up from North Carolina wa
terways in last foil’s First Citizens
Bank Big Sweep ’91.
Enough trash, collected in the
course of four hours, to fill a fleet
of 21 garbage trucks to capacity.
Organizers say the bulk of dis
carded appliances and furniture
were hauled off inland lakes and
waterways, where the cleanup hit
frill stride last year. There, volun
teers found an electric motor,
shopping carts, a mattress and
rusted box springs, a desk, safe
door, car seat and carpets.
But there’s more to the annual
statewide cleanup than peculiar
finds.
Bottles and cans left behind are
no less of an eyesore. And plastic
and discarded fishing line are
deadly to aquatic wildlife that mis
r
take them for food or become en
tangled.
It’s this type of everyday gar
bage that continues to hold rank in
the state’s “dirty dozen,” the 12
items most cited in the cleanup.
On the coast, cigarette butts head
the 1991 dirty dozen; inland, glass
bottles.
The volume of trash collected
statewide—47 tons more than
1990—is a rare measure of the
hazards of our throwaway society.
But it’s also a measure of the
North Carolina effort, which ri
valed cleanups in Texas, Califor
nia and Florida in participation
and shoreline miles scoured.
Close to 12,500 volunteers
scoured 400 miles of Tar Heel
shoreline, from the southern
mountains to the coastal plains to
the beaches.
The inland and coastal cleanups
combined netted 420,000 pounds
of litter, more than any other
state. The heavy appliances and
car parts played a role in driving
up the reported weight of North
Carolina’s garbage, says Susan
Bartholomew, First Citizens Bank
Big Sweep exacutive director.
The jump in inland participation
was also a factor.
"When we have more tons of
garbage than anyone else, it’s
partly because our cleanup covers
more area than just the beach,”
Bartholomew says. "And to me, it’s
incredible that there are volun
teers out there who are willing to
pull up refrigerators, car parts and
tires for four hours.”
DAY, iJUNE 2,1992—PAGE 7
Survey Finds
Local Businesses
To Add Employees
i The Raleigh area is expected to
head into summer with a robust
job market, according to hiring in
tentions just released for the third
quarter by Manpower, Inc., the
world’s largest temporary help
firm.
The Employment Outlook Sur
vey findings for July, August and
September show that 40 percent of
the local businesses interviewed
intend to add more staff, 10 per
cent plan labor reductions and an
other 50 percent foresee no
changes,” said Raleigh area
spokesperson Bill Williams.
Williams said that in general
employers are usually quite up
beat during the summer months.
“Current results are even more op
timistic than those of a quarter
ago, when 30 percent anticipated
adding personnel while seven per
cent predicted staff cuts. Last year
at this time, 27 percent planned
increases and seven percent ex
pected to trim employment rolls.”
For the next three months job
opportunities are most likely in
construction, non-durable goods
manufacturing, finance/insurance/
real estate, education and public
administration. Workforce reduc-,
tions are seen in transportation/
public utilities.
Nationwide, employers express
an optimism not seen in the past
two years. Of more than 15,000.
companies interviewed, 25 percent
expected to increase employment
rolls. Only eight percent antici
pated staff cutbacks and 64 per
cent said they would remain at
present levels. An additional three
percent were not yet certain. The
improvement over recent quarters
substantially exceeds the normal
seasonal increases and the favor
able outlook extends to all geo
graphic regions.
WORD WISE
Q. Pool seems to be
back in style, but now
they’re called billiards
parlors. Isn’t that just a
snobby way to make this
game more upscale?
A. Billiards iB the ge
neric term for any game
played with from two to
15 balls and a cueball on a
rectangular table with a
raised, cushioned edge.
fool, which also is called
pocket billiards, is the
name for billards games
which use 15 balls. The
object of the game is to
drive the balls into pock
ets using a cueball which
the player hits with a cue
stick.
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Fla. 32808-4367.
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