NASA Freezes Hiring,
Executive Promotions
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP)
NASA needs to give hopa to inner
eity ehildran by hiring mora
woman and minorities in upper
laval managamant joba, tha chief of
the apace agency aaid.
NASA Adminiatrator Daniel
Goldin aaid ha’a fro sen all promo
tions and hiring for tha agency’s
top axacutdvaa while administra
tora find waya to bring mora
woman and minoritiaa on board.
But the move draw fire from tha
head of NASA’a Marshall Space
Flight Cantor in Huntaville, who
aaid than aren't many woman and
minoritiaa in NASA managamant
because few have tha education
and experience for the job.
Speaking to reporters, Goldin
aaid ha waa ‘terribly frustrated’ to
learn that the agency’s 320-mem
ber Senior Executive Service has
only rix members who an minori
tiaa. Almost all of those six an
Equal Employment Opportunity
officers charged with recruiting
more woman and minorities, he
said.
The apace agency chief aaid ha’a
froaen promotions and transfan at
tha senior level “until wa gat a bet
ter feel and understanding among
all of us on how we can take ac
tion, not in a vindictive sense, not
in a numbers sanaa, but really
bringing the beat America has to
offer into tha Senior Executive
Service.”
• Jack Lee, director of tha
Marshall Space Plight Center, said
he disagreed with Goldin’a ap
proach.
“He could have dona tha same
thing without tha freesea,” Lae
■aid. *1 agree he should see what
the agency’ll plan is. Wo already
have plane for it with people in the
pipeline.*
Lee, who supervisee a staff of 67
executives that includes three
women and no minorities, said
part of the problem was the lack of
women and minoritdee with engi
neering and technical training.
The number of women and minori
ties in the lower ranks at Marshall
is growing, he said.
“It has been only in the last few
years that emphases on science
and engineering have caught on
with females,” Lee said. "The ma
jority of people in our SES ranks
have been with the agency and
Marshall for 20 years or so. Like
any corporation, you don't start off
6- and 10-year people aa president
of the company.”
His explanation didn’t satisfy
Goldin, who said he wants to ag
gresadvely recruit women and mi
norities for NASA executive jobs.
“We can’t be world-class if we
don’t reflect the full diversity of
America,” Goldin said. “Not to say
we’re just going to hire any minor
ity in any job... There are brilliant
minorities. There are brilliant
women. It’s time the system
understands how robust an organi
sation you can have when you
have cultural diversity in it.”
Goldin said hiring administra
tors who aren't white males is im
portant to give hope to “those
young children in the inner city.”
“If they don’t see... peers that
are executives at NASA, that are
astronauts, role models, they don’t
have hope,” he said.
“Tap Dance Kid” To Open
Charles Blackwell’s The Tap Dance
Kid will be the opening production for
the North Carolina Central
University Dept of Dramatic Art,
with shows scheduled October 28 to
November 1 and November +■«.
Curtain times are 8:15 p.m.
Monday thru Saturday and at 3:15
p.m. Sunday at the University
Theatre in NCClTs Farrison-Newton
Communications Building. Auditions
are scheduled at 7 p.m. August 31 and
September 1 at the University
Theatre.
Hie department will bast a high
school drama competition sponsored
by the North Carolina Theatre
Conference November 21 and 22.
Femi Euba’s The Gulf will be
presented February 24-28. George
Wolfe’s Hie Colored Museum will be
performed March 81-April 4.
Auditions for the two second
semester productions are January IS
and 14.
SOUND BARRIER—"AH citizens should enjoy the
fruNs...prevMe al citizens with equality” said John W.
Winters citing a poem and referring the city council to the
book on equity, in hopes of removing the council's
Insensitivity for not supporting a sound barrier to shield
Heritage Park from a planned axtonalon of Weatarn
Boulevard. (Pictured) “The Great WaN of Raleigh” or a
sound barrier off the Raleigh beMne/440 near an affluent
neighborhood. (Photo by Jamos Giles)
Tennessee Studies Free Tuition
Option To Resolve Desegregation
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)—
Tennesee’s black students could
attend state-funded colleges for
free and other students pay no tui
tion at Tennessee State University
under a proposal to resolve a col
lege desegregation case.
Attorneys for the state declined
comment until they can study the
friend-of-the-court brief filed Tues
day in federal court by Lewis
Laska, a Nashville attorney and a
TSU professor.
The free tuition option would
cost the state about $26 million,
Laska estimated. He said that fig
ure was based on the 1991 tuition
and student racial breakdowns.
To defray the cost, the state
could “withhold financial support
for athletic programs, close white
institutions or limit enrollment at
white institutions,” the brief said.
An alternative to that proposal
would be requiring all students at
Middle Tennessee State to take 12
credit hours at TSU to get an
MTSU degree, he said- This would
only apply to Davidson County
residents.
The friend-of-the-court brief
does not require action by U.S.
District Court Judge Thomas A.
Wiseman, Laska said.
Other recommendations in the
108-page brief:
-TSU should have a monopoly
on all public college classes offered
after 5 p.m. in Davidson County
and on all electronically transmit
ted classes in Middle Tennessee.
-TSU and other public colleges
in Middle Tennessee should have
identical academic calendars.
-The court should provide a bet
ter way to show how state money
earmarked for enhancement at
TSU works to right the wrongs of
the past. Laska said enhancement
at TSU is considered routine con
struction at other colleges.
The desegregation lawsuit be
gan in 1968 when a TSU instruc
tor tried to stop construction of the
University of Tennessee at Nash
ville, saying it would encourage
segregation in Nashville’s state
colleges.
Laska contends that the 1979
merger of TSU and the UT-Nash
ville reduced educational opportu
nities. He cites the decline in night
accounting classes at TSU, from
10 in 1977 at UT-Nashville to two
in 1992 at TSU.
The merger has also stunted en
rollment growth at TSU, Laska
says.
The state Board of Regents proj
ects TSU enrollment of 9,892 by
1995, the brief says. TTiat is less
than the 10,950 students predicted
in 1979 for TSU.
Laska said he filed the brief be
cause he wants to set the agenda
for further action in the desegrega
tion suit.
“As a TSU faculty member, Pm
deeply concerned about the agenda
of the institution and dismayed
that the other institutions have
not made proper progress in deseg
regation,” Laska said.
It is required in the Constitution that at least one of the per
sons each elector (the people who cast the actual votes for presi
dent) votes for shall not be an inhabitant of that elector's home
state.
Rep. DymaUy
Wins Honors
In Senegal
Rep. Mevyn M. DymaUy (D
Calif.), chairman of the Subcom
mittee on Africa of the UJ3. Houee
of Repreeentativee, hae been
awarded Senegal's highest
honor—the Order of the Lion.
In a ceremony in the Bsnsgaleas
capital, Dakar, following the an
nual meeting of the Organisation
of African Unity, President Abdou
Diouf declared, "By the power in
vested in me, I make yon, Con
gressman Msrvyn M. Dymally, a
commander of the National Order
of the Lion of the Republic of Bene
gal*
Dymally, who was first elected
to Congress in 1980, is retiring in
December at the end of the current
session, bringing to a dose a 80
year career in public service. Be
fore coming to Congress he was a
major figure in California politics
where he served in the stats Sen
ate and rose to become one of only
three African-Americans to be
elected lieutenant governor of a
state.
In the House of Representatives,
he ahs been the leading apohae
man for an enlightened American
foreign polity toward Africa. Afri
cans have hailed him as thair most
effective American champion.
The Senegalese honor follows
similar decorations hastened en
him by the heads of state of 4m
Central African Republic and 4m
Ivory Coast
Navy Fireman
On Exercises
In San Diego
R. Smith, son of
Geraldine M. 8mitfa of
Court, Raleigh, is
participating in two
William R.
U3S Kitty Hawk,
Diego.
Smith is involved in a
task fares
more than 10 slri|
400 aircraft aad
The lots graduate of Garner High
School, Garner, joined Urn Navy in
February in INI.
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