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VOLUME 102, ISSUE 11
Special Section
A&E
Sports
Students share their personal stories in our annual special “In the First Person”
Our very own Dr. Carl’s photography is on display at Carrboro Town Hall
Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier 64 years ago. But where are the black college baseball players today?
In the fold
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Campus Echo
Anti-n nuke movement powers up
INSIDE PHOTO FEATURE l SHAKIN’ THE MESS OUTTA MISERY
BY JULIE WERNAU CHICAGO TRIBUNE(MCT)
CHICAGO — When the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan was knocked out with one mighty wave, the all-but-forgotten anti-nuke movement suddenly powered up in the U.S. Paul Gunter, director at Maryland-based Beyond Nuclear, barely found time to sleep. Web traffic spiked, and Gunter's mailing list exploded with new members. David Kraft, who for 30 years has quietly operated a Chicago-based nonprofit committed to ending nuclear power, scored his organization's first face-toface meeting with the governor of Illinois. The state boasts the largest number of nuclear plants in the country. And in Pennsylvania, Eric Epstein, chairman of Three Mile Island Alert, was deluged with media requests. He trekked to the infamous
Ashley Chestang playing “Daughter” asks Big Momma “Corrine,” played by Tempest Farrar, for information about her mother in “Shakin’ the Mess outta Misery.” The play, directed by Johnny Alston, theatre department chair, just finished campus run.
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CHI BROWN/Echo staff photographer
Where’re the boys?
Campus gender imbalance reshapes the dating game
Mangum’s mess NCCU alumna may be charged with murder
BY CHRIS HESS ECHO STAFF REPORTER
A photo taken during a social psychology class shows a typical male-ffemale ratio at NCCU: Six women, three men. NEKA JONES/Echo staff photographer
BY ASHLEY GRIFFIN ECHO EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Looking around the N.C. Central University you sometimes might think you’re at a women’s college.
For every male student at NCCU there’s about two female students. And the gender imbalance is not just here on the verdant green. It’s a national phenomenon. According to the
U.S. Department of Education, by 2015 the average college graduating class will be 60 percent female. Gender ratios are not as
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Can’t live without it Successful advising critical to student success
BY CHAVON FRANKLIN ECHO STAFF REPORTER
Ask just about any N.C. Central University student about their advising experiences and you’re likely to get an earful. According to some students the problem is especially bad at the depart-
ment level. Students say some department advisers are hard to contact, others don’t seem qualified or know program requirements sufficiently. “Getting in touch with advisers can be difficult and frustrating,” said James Ford, sociology and
psychology senior. Ford said it took him weeks to contact his adviser, who then only gave him an alternate PIN number without an advising session. There are also problems brought on by stu-
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“It’s Crystal Mangum … THE CRYSTAL MANGUM,” said the nephew of Reginald Daye in 911 call in the early hours of April 3. Reginald Daye, 46, the victim of the stabbing that N.C. Central University alumna Crystal Mangum is charged with, died yesterday at Duke University Hospital. According to Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez Sr., Mangum will “more than likely” be charged with murder. Mangum, widely known as the woman who made false accusations of rape against members of the Duke lacrosse team, was initially charged with assault with a
Crystal Mangum deadly weapon with intent to kill and inflicting serious injury. Mangum, who graduated from NCCU in 2008 with a degree in police psychology, has been in the spotlight since the Duke Lacrosse Scandal garnered national attention. Mangum’s troubles in Durham began on the night
of March 16, 2006, when she was hired as an exotic dancer for a party organized by members of the Duke lacrosse team near Duke University’s West Campus. What ensued in the coming days and weeks gripped the entire city, both Duke and NCCU’s campuses, and the nation. Three lacrosse players, Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans, were soon charged with rape. The case and subsequent investigation became a symbol of racial and socioeconomic division within Durham. Wealthy and privileged white Duke students accused of raping a lower income
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Where da weed at? BY SHANEKA WHITE ECHO STAFF REPORTER
Modeling, sports, Marching Sound Machine, Greek organizations, academic clubs — just some of the wholesome extracurricular activities available to students. But there’s one extracurricular activity some student enjoy, one that’s illegal and not so wholesome — smoking marijuana. Some students say the “high” helps them focus more in the class and makes class work clear. “I have had a class once where half of the class was high and I thought I was going to catch a contact,” said Brett
Chambers, an instructor in the department of English and mass communications. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s website marijuana is the most commonly abused illicit drug in the United States. Marijuana is a dry, shredded green and brown mix of flowers, stems, seeds, and leaves derived from the hemp plant Cannabis sativa. In 2009, over 20 percent of college students reported that they
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STEVEN BROWN/Echo infographic artist