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Campus Echo Admins stifle student orgs

Student organizations speak out about faculty, staff and other organizations limiting their abilities BY LEAH MONTGOMERY ECHO ASSISTANT EDITOR

Not long ago, student organizations planned and executed homecomingweek events. The student activities board (SAB) was there to to

help organize, provide practice spaces and times, etc. So it’s no wonder that eyebrows raised when Anita Walton, N.C. Central University’s assistant vice chancellor of student affairs, said that student

organizations could no longer plan events during homecoming week. “I was told that claim was never formally documented, but rather remains a policy of tradition,” said mass communication senior and EVALESCO models

choreographer Franklin McKoy. EM had planned to hold its own show for homecoming, but was shut down because of the policy. Walton’s new policy was just one of many that hinder students from holding their

HOMECOMING 2014 II IN LIVING COLOR

own programs on campus. Mass communication seniors Bernatta Palmer and Bryan McIntosh held the “NCCU Edition Cypher” earlier this semester, but not without a cost. “We had to get a venue, and it was difficult to get a

WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rancor over immigration escalated Friday after President Barack Obama, speaking halfway around the world, promised to go through with a controversial executive order that would shield as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation and to act before a new Republican Senate can take over. Obama repeated that he would issue an executive order by the end of the year and promised not to back down over Republican threats that taking unilateral action would cripple future cooperation. “They have the ability to fix the system,” said Obama during a trip to Yangon,

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e came, we saw, Homecoming 2014 show McDougald-McLendon Gymnasium. we conquered. took center stage. Students watched perThe week commenced From Nov. 2-9, N.C. on Nov. 1 with a home- formances that included kickoff in Central University’s coming

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That big post-grad job ... Taco Bell? BY LATEKA JOHNSON ECHO STAFF REPORTER

Natasha Griffin graduated with a degree in psychology. KIMANE DARDEN/Echo photo editor

Seniors graduating this December and May might have to brace themselves for unemployment or underemployment — the prospect that they may be working in jobs that they are overqualified for. According to the Current Population Survey by the Economic Policy Institute, just under 17 percent of young college graduates are either jobless and hunting for work; working part-time because they can’t find a full-time job; or want a job and have looked within the past year, but have now given up searching. This group is up from 9 percent in 2007. In all, 8.5 percent of young college graduates are defined as unemployed. This figure is up from 5 percent in 2007. But these statistics don’t capture the full force of the dilemma college graduates face. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2012 over 40 percent of recent college graduates are underemployed, meaning that they are working in jobs for which they are overquali-

fied. That is to say, they are working in jobs that don’t even require a college degree. These sobering statistics don’t surprise N.C. Central University psychology graduate Natasha Griffin, a shift manager at Taco Bell. Griffin graduated in May 2014 with a 3.0 GPA. “Hell yeah, I am scared about living in the real world — I was expecting to be living large and in charge!” said Griffin, who earns $9.50 an hour at her full-time job. Griffin’s brother and sister, neither of whom attended college, also have worked in the fast food industry. “It’s not my dream job,” said Griffin, adding that her pay is better than what some of her friends, also NCCU graduates, earn. “Most of the people I know have settled for jobs at Wal-Mart and McDonald’s, making $7.25 an hour,” Griffin said. Unemployment and underemployment are driving many recent college graduates back into the fold. Up to 38 percent of 2014 graduates may be living at

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Immigration face-off likely BY FRANCO ORDONEZ & LESLEY CLARK

Members of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. celebrate after being named the winners of the Homecoming stepshow.

booking on campus,” said Palmer. Palmer said even though she and McIntosh are NCCU students, they were unable to hold an event on campus without being part

Myanmar. “What they don’t have the ability to do is to expect me to stand by with a broken system in perpetuity.” Confident that Obama will soon issue the executive order, supporters have begun developing an infrastructure to help qualifying immigrants. They’re lining up attorneys around the country, setting up a hotline and creating a website where vetted information about necessary requirements for the order and instructions could be shared. They expect the Obama order would grant work permits to millions of undocumented immigrants, loosening requirements of Obama’s 2012 executive order that shielded more

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Language wars BY ADRIENNE STEPHENS ECHO STAFF REPORTER

Some black Americans put other black Americans down for speaking standard English. They say they are “acting white.” But others are proud of their ability to have mastered a dialect that may be quite different than the one they grew up with. In a recent Live Leak post with more than 380,000 hits, a young black American raises these issues with the following statement: “There’s no such thing as ‘talking white’ or ‘speaking white.’ It’s actually called

‘speaking fluently’ ‘speaking your language correctly. I don’t know why we’ve gotten to a place as a culture, as a race, if you sound as if you have more than a 5th grade education, it’s a bad thing.” There are a lot of ideas here. There’s the idea that some black Americans put others down for not always speaking black English (or Ebonics as it’s sometimes called). There’s the idea that one version of English, standard — aka white — English, is somehow better than black English.

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