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Campus Echo Spellings to head UNC system

BY JANE STANCILL THE NEWS & OBSERVER (TNS)

CHAPEL HILL — Margaret Spellings, a former U.S. education secretary with a career in policy and politics, was elected president of the University of North Carolina system Friday.

The vote by the UNC Board of Governors was unanimous.

Spellings, 57, a longtime policy adviser to former President George W. Bush, was the frontrunner for the job of overseeing the state’s public university system with 17 campuses and 222,000 students.

She will succeed Tom Ross, 65, who is due to step down early next year at the board’s request.

Spellings will start the job March 1. She was a given a five-year contract with $775,000 annual salary, a retirement plan, performance bonus, relocation expenses, a car allowance and the president’s residence.

Two board members — Thom Goolsby and Marty Kotis — voted against the

terms of her contract.

Speaking after the vote, Spellings said she couldn’t wait to move to North Carolina. She praised the state motto — Esse quam videri, which means “To be rather than to seem.”

“I love it because it issues all of us a personal challenge,” she said.

NCCU’s ULTIMATE HOMECOMING

“We are in challenging times for higher education,” Spellings said.

“While there are no easy answers or an obvious roadmap for the way ahead, the opportunity is clear — to firmly establish the University of North Carolina as the finest university system in the country.

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Big raises at the top 12 UNC chancellors get 7% - 19% raises

BY SHAKIRA WARREN ECHO EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Winners Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority showcase their talent in the Homecoming Step Show.

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Bhadelia spent 6 months aiding Ebola victims

BY SHAKIRA WARREN ECHO EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

When West Africa was struck with an Ebola epidemic in the summer of 2014, infectious disease expert Dr. Nahid Bhadelia put her life on the line helping victims in Sierra Leone – for six months.

Nearly 17 million people die annually from infectious diseases,

according to the World Health Organization. At least 30 new diseases have emerged in the last 20 years, threatening the health of millions of people, the WHO said in a press release.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes Ebola as a rare and deadly disease caused by infection

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Dr. Bhadelia talks with a student about her presentation.

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N.C. Central University Chancellor Debra Saunders-White, along with 11 other University of North Carolina system chancellors, just got a hefty raise.

The UNC system’s Board of Governors – 32 individuals appointed by the N.C. Senate – voted in a closed meeting on Oct. 30 to raise the salaries of the 12 chancellors.

Saunders-White’s raise of 16 percent boosted her annual salary by $50,000 to $330,000.

N.C. State University Chancellor Randy Woodson received a 13 percent raise of $70,000. This brings his salary to $590,000. Western Carolina University's David Belcher received a 19 percent raise of $63,500. His new salary is $387,500.

Lou Bissette Jr., interim chair of the Board of Governors, told WNCN that UNC’s chancellors “are really the backbone of the system. We expect to have the very best system of higher education in the country, and in order to do that, you have to have the very best individuals running those campuses.”

But the raises come in the wake of a decadelong series of severe budget cuts to all UNC universities.

NCCU alone has undergone $60 million in budget cuts in the last decade, resulting in faculty and staff layoffs, program eliminations, tuition increases and decreased funding in departments.

In response to the 2013 budget cuts of $135 million to all UNC universities, then-NCCU SGA president Reggie McCrimmon told the Campus Echo that the cuts “will hinder our ability to recruit highly talented students into NCCU.” Then-SGA vice president Carmelo Montalvo

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Faith leads to victory

BY SHAKIRA WARREN ECHO EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

After being diagnosed in November 2014 with Dermatofibrosarcoma Protuberans, a rare and sometimes fatal skin cancer, N.C. Central University graduate student Dominique Hardy kept her faith and didn’t let her DFSP diagnosis discourage her.

“I’m privileged to be here,” said Hardy.

Now, having beat the odds of the cancer, Hardy is pursuing a public adminstration master’s degree with plans of becoming a dual law student.

Hardy was born and raised in Dublin, Ga. where she earned a degree in liberal studies from Armstrong Atlantic State University.

At AASU she was president of the campus branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

The cancer first appeared when Hardy was

9 years old, but remained undiagnosed for 15 years.

“When I was a little girl, there was a spot on my back that appeared as the size of a pinhead,” said Hardy. “As I grew it began to grow.”

Hardy said the spot eventually began to look like a sunken hole, which prompted her mother to take her to the doctor.

“At nine years old, the doctor told me I had lupus,” said Hardy, referring to the first of several misdiagnoses.

Lupus is an inflammatory disease caused when the immune system attacks its own tissues.

There are 200,000 to 3 million lupus cases in the United States each year.

Hardy returned to the doctor a year later. “All the blood work came back and the doctors told me it [the lupus diagnosis] was a false positive,” said Hardy.

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Chancellor Debra Saunders-White at her installation on April 4, 2014.

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Get a grip on your $ N.C. Treasurer stresses financial literacy

N.C. Treasurer Janet Cowell speaks with student Erim Akpan after her presentation.

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BY EVAN OWENS ECHO STAFF REPORTER

You may find these facts surprising: According to an Inceptia survey of college student financial literacy, more than three in four college students reported that they were not prepared to deal with financial challenges. Sixty-seven percent of college freshmen fail a basic financial literacy test.

And just 45 percent of college freshmen said they understand that their credit score may affect their ability to get a job.

Startling facts like these motivated North Carolina Treasurer Janet Cowell to engage NCCU students on the importance of money management.

Cowell spoke for an hour before a packed crowd on Tuesday in the Hubbard-Totton Auditorium as part of her “Treasurer’s College Finance Tour.”

“I want everybody to know about how to handle money,” Cowell explained. “That’s why we’re partnering with universities all over the state.”

Cowell said that it is more important now than ever before that students educate themselves about handling finances.

“You face a harder challenge in this gener-

ation than previously,” she said. “And we just wanted to talk to you about that because you are going to be making a very important set of decisions.”

Sarita Broadway of the College Foundation of North Carolina reinforced the urgency expressed by the treasurer.

“Americans are more in debt today than ever before; the student loan debt average is $27, 000,” Broadway said..

Broadway presented students new resources available on the CNFC’s web page. The resources provide students with financial basics for high school and beyond, Broadway explained.

“We want students to be able to manage their money effectively,” she said.

On the web page, students can find a budget calculation tool, and complete a financial basics course.

“It’s important for students to access these resources and educate themselves as soon as possible,” Treasurer Cowell said.

“You can start out on the right foot or the wrong foot,” she explained. “So it’s important that students understand how to think about money and get the resources they need.”

According to Cowell, when students are fi-

nancially healthy, the benefits extend beyond themselves.

“I want you to be successful; it’s good for the state, too,” she said.

Students at the event said they now understand the importance of financial literacy, and that they will utilize the CFNC’s online resources in the future.

“Any opportunity to learn how to save money and save myself years of debt is definitely something that I’m going to utilize,” communications freshman Dwayne McBean said.

Recreation Administration Junior J’Keyah Higgins said that the most important aspect of the event was neither the information nor the online resources.

“I like coming to events like this because I can talk to the speakers,” she explained.

“They’re a resource to me, and now I can talk to them on my own time and make connection with them.”

Though Treasurer Cowell spent some of her time highlighting the risks involved in taking on student loan debt, she left students with an optimistic view of higher education.

“I think getting a college degree is the way to go; you just have to make sure you educate yourself and make smart decisions,” Cowell said.

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EBOLA CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 with one of several Ebola virus strains.

Ebola, which, according to Bhadelia, is not as easily transmittable as pneumonia and tuberculosis, is contracted through contact with bodily fluids. The symptoms of the viruses include fever, chills, diarrhea, and complications with pregnancies.

According to the CDC Ebola is a zoonotic disease, meaning it is thought to have jumped from animals such as fruit bats or primates (apes and monkeys) to humans. The CDC said 6 out of every 10 infectious diseases in humans are spread from animals.

“Since 1980, 45 new human infectious diseases have been transferred from animals to humans,” said Bhadelia, adding that this is often because humans are increasingly encroaching into animal habitats.

Bhadelia has been working with infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria since 1999.

She said the Ebola virus was discovered in 1976.

In her presentation she described the biggest problems she and others faced trying to help Ebola victims.

These included: a lack of investment in research and poor data, shortages in lab capacity, medical staff and facilities, community distrust of outsiders, lack of education, a panicked response to the crisis, and a failure to develop systems to respond to healthcare worker illness in national and international staff.

Ebola victims require constant atten-

tion. But in the West African crisis there was shortage of medical staff – and because of the heat they could wear protective suits for only 1-2 hours at a stretch.

Things turned from bad to terrible when airlines cancelled flights into Sierra Leone, cutting off the flow of medical supplies and equipment.

“We had to cut up tarp for aprons,” said Bhadelia. “People die of Ebola, not from Ebola,” said Bhadelia, explaining that Ebola victims can be saved with proper care and adequate investments.

According to the CDC, 12,054 lab-confirmed cases of Ebola were diagnosed in Guinea and Sierra Leone in 2014, resulting in 6,491 deaths.

Bhadelia discussed the ethical dilemmas for clinicians in the Ebola epidemic. She described the criteria for determining who was admitted as an Ebola patient. She said there were times when they had to limit patient care because of concerns for the physicians’ safety.

Bhadelia said the real heroes of the 20142015 Ebola crisis were the local health care officials who put their lives in danger for the well-being of the patients, often without access to protective suits.

She said the hardest part of her job was treating healthcare workers with whom she had been working side by side.

“Thirty-five of 50 healthcare workers in Kenema who contracted Ebola died,” said Bhadelia about her clinic.

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for the BCBSNC Speaker Series on Global Health will be Dr. Keith Martin, executive director of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health and Bobby Jefferson, director of the Center for Development Informatics, on Nov. 12.“If you don’t do what you are there to do, there is no one else around,” said Bhadelia, when asked if she was ever afraid of catching Ebola. “Yes,” she acknowledged, she was often “terrified,” especially when her medical colleagues in Kenema began catching Ebola.

Bhadelia, a physician and assistant professor at Boston University School of Medicine, came to N.C. Central University on Oct. 27 as the first keynote speaker for the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Speaker Series on Global Health.

In Bhadelia’s presentation, “Emerging Pathogens, Health Systems and the Ebola Epidemic,” she recounted her experiences in Sierra Leone treating Ebola patients.

Bhadelia framed her personal experience in the Ebola crisis within the larger issue facing humanity: the dangers of infectious diseases in a global interconnected world. According to Bhadelia, infectious diseases can be caused by viral or bacterial pathogens.

“It’s not just science.

Its culture and economics that are involved with pathogens,” said Bhadelia, explaining that it’s sometimes difficult to halt the spread of infectious diseases.

RAISES CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 said he feared that class sizes would increase and become unmanageable. “This takes away the face-to-face relationships with professors that students really appreciate," Montalvo said. "Students need to raise hell.”

NCCU faculty have received only a single 1.2 percent raise since the 2008 economic recession. This year UNC system faculty and staff will be receiving a onetime $750 bonus in December.

“The Board of Governors has gone off the rails, and then they’ve gone off the rails farther,” UNC-Chapel Hill

Are you looking for a rewarding career where you can use your major and help people?

professor Altha Cravey told WNCN-TV. “This is obscene. These kinds of raises are obscene.”

At NCCU, Tom Evans, a former associate professor in the department of language and literature now teaching parttime, had this to say about the raises: “You think you might want to share the wealth and give the faculty a raise.”

But 30 Campus Echo emails sent to NCCU faculty asking for a response to the chancellor raises remained unanswered as of 6 p.m.

Thursday.

Angela Miles, chair of the department of business administration,

said she wasn’t aware of the pay raise, but when informed she said she thought it was “rewarding.”

“I think that is a good thing,” said Miles, adding that the legislature might now go a step further and give raises to faculty and staff.

“I think that the legislature should give more recognition to faculty, ensuring that the UNC system remains as a model education system,” she said.

Chemistry junior Nicole Boone said she would like to see the chancellors do more for

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Holocaust survivor tells her story Esther Lederman shares her experience of fleeing from the Nazis in 1939

BY SHAKIRA WARREN ECHO EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Seventy-six years ago, Esther Lederman and her family fled their home in Lodz, Poland, when the German army invaded their country.

Even before the invasion, Lederman’s family, which was Jewish, was informed about what the Nazis were doing to Jews in Germany.

“We heard the rumors about what was going on in Germany,” said Lederman. “It was very hard to believe that a government could treat their citizens the way they did.”

Lederman spoke to N.C. Central University students at the B.N Duke Auditorium on Oct. 15 as part of a junior-senior seminar called On Survival and Healing, taught by professors Rachelle Gold and Camille Passalacqua.

The audience was also shown three short videos about Lederman’s life, provided by The Holocaust Speakers Bureau.

Lederman, who lives in Chapel Hill, grew up in Lodz with her mother, her father and her little sister.

Her father was a manager at a hardware store, and her mother was a dressmaker. Lederman said she had a great life before the Nazis invaded.

“I did figure skating, and I traveled,” Lederman told the Campus Echo after her presentation. “Everything was wonderful.”

But Lederman’s life changed forever on Sept.

1, 1939, when the Germans invaded Poland.

Lederman said the Germans were polite at first.

“No one ever anticipated what was going to happen,” said Lederman. the to According United States Holocaust Memorial Museum web-

In 1939 a Polish farm family helped Esther Lederman hide from the Nazis.

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“It seems that it would be difficult in itself just to tell the story and relive those experiences.”

MONIQUE JONES, PRE-NURSING SOPHOMORE

site, “The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.”

According to the website, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler viewed Jews as enemies of the German middle and lower classes.

The Nazis forced German Jews to identify themselves by wearing armbands with the Star of David and publicly identified Jewish-owned businesses for all to see.

Similar oppressive measures were forced upon Polish Jews.

“They would catch Jews with beards, and they would cut and pull them out,” Lederman said in one of the video

clips. “They knew how to hurt, and that was very scary.”

Lederman said the Germans began forcing Jews to live together in ghettoes — in horrific conditions — in December, 1939.

That month, before they could be forced into a ghetto, Lederman and her family escaped to Chmielnik, Poland, where her father’s brother lived and where they felt life would be easier.

She said the Jews in Chmielnik didn’t have to wear yellow stars that identified them as Jews, but did have to wear white bands with the blue Star of David.

Lederman said the city was overcrowded,

and the people lacked food and jobs.

According to Lederman, schools were off limits to Jewish people, so she and some other teenagers tried to keep up with their studies.

She wanted to create a sense of normalcy.

“Textbooks were available because we had them,” said Lederman.

“Teachers were available because they were also refugees kicked out of their homes.”

Lederman said she met her future husband, Ezjel Lederman, in that group of students.

Lederman said word was circulating about what was being done to Jews in Poland, specifically that the Germans were evacuating the ghet-

tos and sending Jews to concentration camps.

Lederman’s boyfriend told her to get false identification papers stating that she was Catholic in hopes of keeping her out of the camps.

Because of the rumors, Lederman’s boyfriend told her he and his family were going to go and live with a family they had known for years, the Zals, who hid them in a small farm house on their property.

On Oct. 1, 1942, Lederman recalled, the Nazis ordered women ages 1540 and men 15-45 to assemble at a Chmielnik marketplace to be sent to labor camps.

She and her father went and were chosen to be sent, but a ghetto po-

liceman sneaked Lederman out of the marketplace and told her to go home. Her father was sent to a labor camp.

Lederman went back home to her mother and sister. Her mother suggested she go and find the Zals, where her boyfriend was hiding, to see if they could take in the family.

Lederman found the Zals, but three days later she found out the Nazis had “cleansed” Chmielnik and sent all its residents, including her mother and sister, to the Treblinka extermination camp. Lederman said she never saw them alive again.

The Zals hid Lederman for almost two years.

The Allies liberated the camps in 1945, ending the Holocaust.

Lederman returned to her hometown of Lodz, where she was reunited with her father that year.

NCCU students said they admired Lederman’s strength and described her as inspirational.

“You can tell she is a hard fighter,” said recreation administration junior Nykeia Burris.

“Instead of her showing hatred, she shows love to people.”

Pre-nursing sophomore Monique Jones said Lederman was a strong woman.

“It seems that it would be difficult in itself just to tell the story and relive those experiences,” said Jones. “It is amazing how someone could overcome so much tragedy.”

On Survival and Healing, the course taught by professors Rachelle Gold and Camille Passalacqua, is listed in the Department of Language and Literature.

It is open to all students and will be offered again this spring.

Students dive into the language of crime

BY COURTNEY THOMPSON ECHO STAFF REPORTER

Step into Stefanie Frigo’s forensic linguistics course (ENG 3030) and you might find yourself reading a sentence like this: “Drop off $1 million in the trash can at the corner of Avenue A and Elm Street … or you will never see your daughter again.”

Ransom notes like this, along with suicide notes and death row testimonies are standard fare for Frigo’s class.

And despite what you might think, forensic linguistics isn’t about weird grammar rules or a mysterious foreign language.

Forensic linguistics refers to the language used in law and the detection of crime, or forensics.

After a crime is committed, a specialist looks at documents related to threats, extortion, confessions, bribery, plagiarism and disputed suicide.

The specialist may examine the way questions are worded in a lie detec-

tor test.

Students in Frigo’s class may even look over questionable suicide letters. Does the handwriting match that of the deceased?

Are these the kinds of words the deceased would use? If not, the letter may represent a murder, not a suicide.

One document they have examined in class is the ransom note written in the 1996 JonBenet Ramsey case.

Six-year old JonBenet, a frequent child beauty pageant participant, was found strangled in the family home and her parents were suspected of the crime. It wasn’t until 2003 when her parents were fully cleared.

“I’ve always been interested in crime,” said Frigo.

“Crime novels, unsolved cases, the mysteries of life … forensic Linguistics is where that intersects.”

Frigo, an assistant professor in the Department of Language and Literature, is British and moved to the United

States from The United Kingdom in 2006.

Frigo, who holds a doctorate in linguistics from Queens University in Northern Ireland, wrote her Ph.D. dissertation on emotion and speech.

She said she was especially focused on “the vocal activity other than words,” or the silences and pauses that occur in human speech.

She compared silences and pauses in the way people talk about real events naturally and how they occur when actors perform in films.

Forensic linguistics course is offered each spring semester at N.C. Central University.

Frigo said students enjoy this unique approach to linguistics and its application to the real world, adding that her course applies across the disciplines and can be used as an elective.

She said she provides short lectures followed by discussion and workshops. Students will often work in groups to examine documents related to forensic issues.

Stefanie Frigo, assistant professor, offers a course in forensic linguistics.

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HARDY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 rious spot for 15 more years.

She would visit numerous doctors. They would ask whether she had fallen. Or if she someone had hit her.

A turn for the worse But during her first year at NCCU’s law school things took a turn for the worse. Hardy said she began to “feel nauseated and sick,” not realizing that these symptoms were related to the spot on her back.

Hardy said she always felt “un-

easy and unwell,” and thought she was simply stressed out from the workload at law school.

Once again she started visiting doctors one of whom sent her to a dermatologist.

“The dermatologist told me that there was no need for a biopsy, and that my scar was dead,” said Hardy.

But seven months later the spot had doubled. It began to protrude out of her shirt. She returned to the dermatologist.

This time he seemed alarmed and decided to perform a biopsy.

A few weeks later the results came in. The doctor would not give the diagnosis over the phone, and she sensed that she had something to worry about.

When she arrived to his office his body language and facial expression told her; he was about to bear some really bad news. It was cancer, an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells.

“The doctor told me I was diagnosed with a rare form of skin cancer,” said Hardy. “He said he has only seen two cases like this in his whole career.”

Hardy laughed in disbelief of her diagnosis of an extremely rare cancer called DFSP, which affects about 1-5 people per million. DFSP is a soft tissue sarcoma that develops in the deep layers of skin.

It affects blacks twice as much as whites.

After receiving the news,

she said her mind went blank.

“My first question was: ‘Has it spread?’” said Hardy. After a bit of research her doctor told her that DFSP typically spreads to the lungs.

Hardy knew her condition was serious when an employee from a cancer center came to talk to her. “That is when I had my first meltdown,” said Hardy.

Hardy walked out of the hospital in shock. After she left

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Williams targets clap

BY WANDA FOSTER ECHO STAFF REPORTER

Daniel Williams, an associate professor in N.C. Central University’s Department of Biological and Biomedical Science, can often be found in the labs at Mary Townes Science Building, standing at Bunsen burners, engaged in a battle with gonorrhea, specifically its growing resistance to antibiotics.

Williams is a Franklinton, N.C., native and an NCCU alumnus.

He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biology from NCCU and a Ph.D. from N.C. State and did postdoctoral research at Emory University.

He attended NCCU on a track scholarship, but his need to understand the hows and whys in life led him to a career in science.

“I like to know how things work and why. I tell my students to answer the question, 'Why?'” said Williams.

Williams’ “why” question is this: Why do gonorrhea cells pump out, or reject, the antibiotic drugs delivered into them?

This rejection is done by an efflux pump on the cell membrane, and it's one of the major reasons gonorrhea is becoming resistant to antibiotics.

Gonorrhea is commonly known as the “clap,” from the old French word “clapiers,” meaning “brothels,” that were associated

with the spread of sexuallytransmitted infections. It is caused by the neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria and is more dangerous today than ever.

“There are 800,000 cases of gonorrhea reported annually to the CDC. And the infection increases the susceptibility to HIV and other secondary STDs. It’s important to practice safe sex,” Williams said.

According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, gonorrhea is the second most commonly reported notifiable disease in the United States.

Epidemiologic and biologic studies provide evidence that gonococcal infections facilitate the transmission of HIV. According to the CDC report, cases of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea have increased in the last 10 years nationwide. Antibiotics such as Vancomycin, Ceftriaxone and Cefixime are increasingly ineffective against the neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria.

Resistance occurs when the normal concentration of a drug needed to clear the infection has to be increased or becomes ineffective.

Williams said it is important that the full dosage of a prescription is taken completely. If the drug is not taken properly, bacteria will remain, which could reinfect the patient. He said the overuse of antibiotics can

also cause resistance.

Williams explained that neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria can also prevent, antibiotics from identifying their target inside the cell.

His research focuses on studying and identifying new targets, hoping to aid in the development of new drugs to combat this phenomenon.

“Even if I only contribute to the textbook knowledge on how gonorrhea works, for me that is just as important as the possible medical implications. But if along the way I find something that can improve medical care, that’s even better,” Williams said.

If a gonorrhea infection is not treated early, it can develop into a sexually transmitted disease. Gonorrhea affects men and women.

The symptoms are yellowish green vaginal and penile discharges with a burning sensation during urination. These symptoms appear about 30 days after initial infection.

Anitibiotic resistant gonorrhea arrived in North Carolina in 1983 when 55 cases of penicillin-resistant gonococcal infection were reported in Durham County.

Thirty of the 55 patients were men, with a median age of 24 years.

Williams said he is worried less about a gonorrhea epidemic than about the more serious consequences of contracting HIV/AIDS.

Daniel Williams, associate professor in the Department of Biological and Biomedical Science, conducts research in NCCU’s Mary Townes Science Complex.

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Students to launch Afro Latino club

Students meet with Marco Polo Hernandez-Cuevas to discuss the future of an Afro Latino club at NCCU. MUSHAYA CARTER/Echo staff photographer

BY MUSHAYA CARTER ECHO STAFF REPORTER

When Roberto Vargas, an N.C. Central University public administration graduate student, saw Spanish heritage month advertised on AudioNet in James E. Shepard library, he was disappointed.

“It was very sad to see that it was posted on a TV screen with no sound,” said Vargas. “How is the word getting out?”

Although N.C. Central is an HBCU, many students don’t know of the brothers and sisters that are Afro Latinos with a strong heritage that ties them together.

Afro Latinos are Latin American individuals who hold significant African ancestry in their blood.

They relate and understand that they are black, but aren’t always understood in that way.

The student body is made up of 78% African Americans, 2% Caucasian, and 1.2% Hispanic.

NCCU students Hector Pichardo, Laura Acosta, Nathalie Bravo Batista, Roberto Vargas and Kleyser Agueda agree that growing up, they weren’t educated about their culture or roots.

When deciding to further their education, they wanted an environment that they not only felt comfortable in, but could relate to.

“I feel like at an HBCU, I would feel at home,” said pharmaceutical sciences sophomore Nathalie Bravo Batista. “I want to be close to people who have my same background.”

Marco Polo Hernandez-

Cuevas, an advocate for the Afro Latino culture and professor of Spanish and Afro-Hispanic Studies, started two Afro Latino clubs from 2008 to 2012.

He helped bring students together to educate and fulfill their desires and needs.

As time flew by, his students who were affiliated with the Afro Latino club graduated, but Hector Pichardo, a business and administration sophomore decided it was time to bring it back to the light. He strives to educate and unite each other as a whole.

“We try to help those academically,” Pichardo said. “It comes down to bringing this diversity all together.”

According to Pichardo, the Afro Latino club emphasizes accepting oneself and educating the people around them, and being the voice of their culture and how they’re represented as a whole.

He said it’s about family environment for those who are lost or confused.

Pichardo said working with the community will be the bridge and structure for the Afro Latino club and a way to reach out to other students. “We want to build a network so that it doesn’t stop here.”

The Afro Latino Club plans to launch as soon as possible with the help of Cuevas as a guide for students in an educative, productive and positive way.

“We’re all the same,” Bravo Batista said. “We can show you how beautiful and amazing we are. Get together and make something big out of this!”

Campus Echo, Kiva partner to aid poor Micro lending helps entrepreneurs in the underdeveloped world get their start

BY CHRISTINA HERRING ECHO STAFF REPORTER

Eight years ago 35 Campus Echo staffers pooled $75 to begin making loans to impoverished individuals around the world using Kiva.org.

Now and again a few dollars have been added to the Campus Echo’s Kiva fund. Loans have been repaid and then relent.

In all $650 has been relent to other individuals in the underdeveloped world to finance their small businesses.

Kiva, which was founded in 2005, is a non-profit organization that connects people from around the world through micro lending and microfinancing.

Microfinancing is a term used to describe small finances, small loans, and small savings given to people of low income who do not have access to banks.

Kiva gives individuals and organizations, such as the Campus Echo, an opportunity to pool their money and lend it interest free to people in need worldwide.

Kiva is a Swahili word meaning “agreement” or “unity.”

“Kiva is all about connecting people,” Kiva founder and CEO Matt Flannery said.

Every dollar lent through Kiva goes to the recipient of the loan.

Kiva provides loans through microfinance institutions on five continents and 83 countries to individuals that don’t

have access to a banking system.

The loans are administered locally through their “field partners” and their 450 volunteers from all around the world.

In a 2007 Campus Echo story about Kiva it was reported that the organization had facilitated $12 million in loans from 127,000 lenders.

Today, Kiva has facilitated more than $760 million loans from 1.3 million lenders with a 98.5 percent repayment rate.

In all, Kiva has made 1,344,397 small loans.

The first small loan the 35 Campus Echo staffers made went to a Jeremiah Miruka, a Kenyan living outside of Nairobi.

In all, about $1,000 was pooled together to help him expand his hardware shop.

The Campus Echo has now made 21 small loans since 2007 to individuals and groups in seven countries, including Cambodia, Peru, Costa Rica, Kenya, Rwanda, Mongolia and Togo.

“We were going to write a story about Kiva itself, and then we thought it would be fun to make donations, to do loans and go through the process, just to understand it,” said Bruce dePyssler, Campus Echo adviser. “We’ve just kept it going year after year.”

“It’s good to get the students in there. I like to get the students to pick out who we’re going to loan to.

“So it’s kind of good for them to see what people are dealing with in the under de-

veloped world,” said dePyssler, who has lived and or done research in the Philippines, Puerto Rico, India, Africa and Mexico.

“In a lot of these countries, if they borrow money locally from a loan shark, they’re paying 50 percent interest. It’s ridiculous, and they end up in debt.” dePyssler said that he lived with a family in India whose lives were being destroyed when a family member took out a tiny loan with a huge interest rate from a loan shark.

Another loan the Campus Echo made helped a man named Rozbek from Mongolia.

He used his total loan of $2,475 to fix a truck he uses for his transportation service.

-He also bought seeds for his vegetable planting business.

Kiva funds are disbursed to borrowers through local field partners that charge small fees to administer the loans locally.

Each field partner is given ratings according to the default and delinquency rates on the loans they make.

As loans are repaid the funds are deposited in the Kiva account and Campus Echo staffers can relend the money.

Microfinance programs have changed the lives of many in the underdeveloped world, especially poor women, according to the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, a global partnership of 34 leading organizations that seeks to advance financial inclusion. Of the 21 loans the Campus Echo

Zendere, a livestock trader from Kenya, is one of the most recent recipients of a $25 loan from the Campus Echo. The loan merged with others that total $600, will be used to buy a cow and several goats.

Screen shot courtesy of kiva.org.

has made 13 have been provided to women.

According to CGAP.org, qualitative and quantitative studies have documented how access to financial services has improved the status of women within the family and the community. Women have become more assertive and confident.

In regions where women's mobility is strictly regulated, according to CGAP, women have become more visible and are better able to negotiate the public sphere.

Women own assets, including land and housing, and play a stronger role in decision making.

In some programs that have been active over many years,

there are even reports of declining levels of violence against women, according to CGAP. One woman the Campus Echo made a loan to was Mary Moige Ongubo, a Kenyan living in Kahawa. Ongubo used her entire $725 loan to buy cereal and feeds for her small poultry business.

“One of the main problems with poverty is you don’t have any capital. You don’t have anything to do anything with,” said dePyssler.

“Kiva has helped the Campus Echo staff provide a little capital to a few individuals. If you get capital in your hands, you can at least get a start in life and take it from there.”

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Gold star pedagogue Rachelle Gold lands a string of teaching awards

Rachelle Gold gives a lesson on racial identity in her English Composition I class.

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BY CHRISTINA HERRING ECHO STAFF REPORTER

“Teaching is love made visible” — Those were the words Rachelle Gold used to describe her passion for teaching. In the past year alone, Gold, an N.C. Central University assistant professor of English since August 2008, has received three awards in 2015: the NCCU Outstanding First-Year Advocate Award in March, the NCCU Award for Teaching Excellence in May and the Chancellor’s Award for Student Service in August.

“I’m very humbled by the fact that all three awards that I’ve won were student-nominated,” Gold said.

“The fact that other people thought enough of me to nominate me made my heart sing.”

A ‘completely and totally dedicated’ teacher One of her student nominators, Amy Currle, an English literature senior, described Gold as “a tough, but fair and reasonable educator” who “never misses an opportunity to inspire students to realize their potential, regularly offering guidance and advice to students.”

Currle recalls the story of how she first met Gold. “I was strongly considering leaving the University when Dr. Gold responded to my email of inquiry regarding the English education program,” Currle said.

“She invited me to her office despite it being the most chaotic time of year. Dr. Gold greeted me with a beaming smile of welcome … [who] managed within minutes to convince me that I was welcome, making the right decision, and that NCCU’s English department would become my new home.”

In addition to the three awards listed above, Gold received the Student Athletic Advisory Committee Teaching Award in 2014 and the Disabled Student Services Eagle Advocate Award in 2013.

“She’s completely and totally dedicated to her students,” said former department of language and literature chair Michele Ware.

“She spends a huge amount of time with them, and I think you can see that in the amount of awards she’s received.

“Students know when a teacher really wants to help them, and she’s one of those kinds of teachers, a really caring individual,” Ware said.

“Some teachers are content to just go in and lecture and leave, and that’s it. But for her I think that one-on-one connection is re-

ally important. Personally I always thought that my best teachings get done in those one-on-one conferences, and I think that she would probably agree with that.

“Most of us are not in it for the money, we’re not in it for the fame, so the reason we’re here is to teach, and that connection to our students is really important to us,” said Ware.

A background that helps her connect with students Gold, a San Jose, Calif. native, was valedictorian of the San Jose State University class of 1993, where she received her bachelor’s of arts degree in humanities. In 1995 she earned a master’s degree in English literature from Indiana University.

In 2002 she earned a second master’s degree in education from the University of California-Berkeley. And in 2008 she earned her Ph.D. in education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Gold, now in her 14th year teaching, said she loves it more now than when she first started.

“You have to have a really big heart to teach at our school, to connect with the students,” she said.

Gold, who has taught at two predominantly white universities, UC Berkeley and UNC-Chapel Hill, said the difference between teaching at an HBCU and a PWI is “not as much about race distinctions, but about socioeconomic distinctions.

“The students are much more appreciative of me as an educator, and when a teacher teaches at a school like Berkeley or Chapel Hill, they’ve often been only ‘A’ students,” Gold said.

“When we’re opening our doors of access more widely to these students from different parts of the state of North Carolina from rural communities, and maybe open the door to people who are the first in their family to go to college, there is an excitement and enthusiasm about those learning that sometimes, not always, when you’re at a place that’s super prestigious, that’s super-high status, the students just expect the teaching.”

Gold said growing up in San Jose exposed her to a mix of cultures.

She says she gets what it’s like to be in a group that’s discriminated against because she’s Jewish, and she described herself as an advocate for diversity, especially religious diversity. She also is passionate about LGBTQ equity.

“Anything that’s not really mainstream, I’m an advocate for,” she said.

“My family is Jewish. I’m Jewish, so I always felt like I didn’t belong. And so that’s another piece of the puzzle, so that when you are ‘other,’ this is a place that makes sense for me to feel like I fit in,” Gold said. “I don’t believe in this ‘race doesn’t exist,’ post-racial nonsense … It’s not that; I just see you for your name.”

Reflections on the experience of teaching at HBCUs vs PWIs Gold said that what’s frustrating about teaching at an HBCU as opposed to a PWI is that NCCU is a high-poverty campus.

“Students often don’t have the books,” she said. “Students can’t afford a parking place, so they’ll consistently be late because they can’t afford a parking permit and they’ll be driving around looking for a place to park.

“Some of our students have lives that are very much on the edge, at the edge of moving from working class to the edge of being homeless,” she said.

“So that’s the part that’s hard — when you don’t have security in relation to having food, in relation to not having utilities. It’s hard because it has an ability to interfere with someone’s studies.”

Gold said she has even used her own money to buy books for students.

She said when she was at Chapel Hill, she felt that her students were going to be ok, whether they had her as a teacher or someone else. But she said she feels more needed here.

“I love teaching. I’m not saying I don’t have teaching frustrations.

It is frustrating when I see students’ purchasing decisions. Like, when I see people with really fancy nails, or really fancy jewelry, or really fancy hair or nice kicks and nice clothes, but they don’t have books, pens or paper. I do have judgement about that, because nothing is free.

“I want them to improve as readers, writers and thinkers. I want all of my students to be the best that they can be. Not just scholastically, of course, but also in terms of their own principles.”

In her spare time, Gold – a selfprofessed exercise addict – loves to box, swim, lift weights, Zumba, bike and do yoga. She has even participated in triathlons. Gold is also travels to Belize in Central America to scuba dive in the barrier reef.

Gold said she gave away her TV 16 years ago, and that’s why she has so much time to exercise. She doesn’t have children, so her focus is her students, her dogs and exercise.

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HARDY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 she tried to call the two people who were the closest to her, but no one answered.

“I called the individual I was living with and asked her to meet me at home,” said Hardy.

Hardy said the hardest thing she had to do was tell her mother. She said it took her two weeks. “I am the fourth out of five kids,” said Hardy. “I just couldn’t find a way to tell her.”

After Hardy discussed her diagnosis with her family and friends she was on a mission to get a CAT scan to determine if her cancer had spread. “I know I needed a CAT scan when the dermatologist was telling me about where it could spread,” said Hardy.

She said none of the doctors she went to would give her a CAT scan because "it was out of protocol.” Hardy said she knew she did not have much time because if her scar had grown over 50 percent in 7 months, she did not know what else it was capable of.

Prayer changes things One night Hardy said she had a defining moment when she just prayed. “I said God, I’m scared and I have no idea on what I need to be doing right now,” said Hardy. “I felt compelled immediately after I prayed to call another individual.”

Hardy said she called a 60-year-old woman whom she knew was a cancer survivor.

“She told me about the Cancer Treatment Centers of America,” said Hardy.

Cancer Treatment Centers of America was founded in 1988 by Richard J Stephenson.

It is a leader in integrative cancer care designed to provide hope and options for cancer patients. There are hospitals in Atlanta, Chicago, Phoenix, and Tulsa.

Hardy called Cancer Centers Treatment of America at Southeastern Regional Medicial Center in Newnan, Georgia the night she found out about them.

“I called and told them I’ve been diagnosed with cancer and I need someone to tell me something,” said Hardy.

She said she explained to them that she was having trouble breathing and she needed a CAT scan.

The CTCA employee told her that they were going to take care of her and give Hardy a CAT scan. The only thing she had to do was turn in her paperwork.

“They flew me out and did everything for

me,” said Hardy.

According to Hardy, CTCA provided her with compassion, a layout for her cancer, and a team of people that included a nutritionist, oncologist, and chiropractor.

“I didn’t feel like a number or a research project,” said Hardy. “I felt like a person who was empowered by options.”

After Hardy arrived, she received her CAT scan and the doctor told her that her cancer had not spread.

“The oncologist told me that my cancer was refusing to move from the area that it was in,” said Hardy.

Hardy knew that her cancer did not respond to chemotherapy and that she would have to go through radiation surgery.

“They used their expertise and compassion to help me feel empowered by my options,” said Hardy. “They developed a plan for me based on my thoughts and their expertise.”

Hardy said that she and her team of doctors decided to go with the surgery on her back and that there was no way they would know if they could get it all. Hardy said if they didn’t get it all that she would have to undergo thirty rounds of radiation, and they would have to remove skin from her thigh to cover the hole on her back.

On Nov. 24, 2014, doctors removed the cancerous tumor from her back, which left a big hole.

“They did their best to give me pain medicine, but it felt like I was laying on a railroad tracks,” said Hardy.

Road to recovery Hardy described her recovery process as intense. “Sometimes in life, recovering is more difficult than what actually happened,” said Hardy.

“I remember one defining moment after my surgery when I realized I couldn’t walk,” said Hardy. “Your stomach and your back is how you do everything and some people don’t think about that.”

Hardy said in the process of her learning how to walk all over again created a meltdown. She said a custodian from CTCA came by and encouraged her to walk and to try again.

“That compassion helps aid people in the healing process,” said Hardy.

In mid-December of 2014, Hardy received her test results: she is cancer-free. She has been in remission for 8 months.

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“I can’t say that she [SaundersWhite] doesn’t deserve a raise.

When you have that title, you need to be able to do more than what is required of you,” said Boone.

“I feel like the professors on campus should have received a raise as well.”

Mass communication sophomore Collin Ellis said he doubts Saunders-White needs such a large raise and that there are better uses for the money.

“I think they should use that money for other departments on campus,” Ellis said.

Mass communication senior Genesis Jackson was critical of the raises and even suspicious of the motives behind them.

“I looked at three particular chancellors in the Triangle and they all have something negative surrounding them,” said Jackson.

“I thought it was hush money.”

But SGA president Olivia Robinson said Saunders-White de-

serves the raise. “It was well deserved for all the hard work the chancellor does,” Robinson said.

The UNC system’s 17 chancellors collectively earn just less than $6 million.

In all, the raises amounted to about $675,000. UNC chancellors are provided free housing, housecleaning staff and automobile expenses.

As an executive parachute, they are provided with their salary for one full year after they leave.

Dominique Hardy overcame a rare form of skin cancer.

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“I said God, I’m scared and I have no idea on what I need to be doing right now.”

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What’s new at the Holton community center?

Senior Nielah Hicks, 17, is retouching the relaxer on her mannequin head. After she graduates from Northern High School she plans on attending East Carolina University.

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At the Holton Career and Resource Center, Katony Stanfield, 17, prepares to shave a reclined client in the school’s barbershop. Upstairs in the cosmetology classroom, students Irene Diaz, 18, and Rebecca Aguilar, 17, sit behind computer screens searching the internet for hair images for the grand opening flyer.

Down the hall, a group of students watch a PowerPoint presentation about possible career opportunities.

The Holton community center, located in

the heart of East Durham, is a pillar for students interested in mastering a trade and possibly diving head first into a career.

Each program is expecting new changes for the next school year with intentions set on enhancing the learning experience for students.

According to Assistant Principal Lisa Bair, a fire safety program will be added to the public safety curriculum next year.

Those interested in pursuing a career in this field can sign up as early as January for fall classes.

The two-year fire safety program will prepare students to pass

the required state test to become firefighters.

“Beginning next year, the students will be able to come and get all of their credits here instead of coming from other high schools,” Bair added.

“They will start enrolling just in Holton and they will get their English and math here as well. It will be a full four-year program for them.”

Bair further explained that during the first year students will take general classes upstairs, in the high school located in the building.

Then students will transition downstairs and complete their specific programs.

During their senior year, students will have the option to take business classes at Durham Technical Community College through the College Career Promise, a state funded program, and receive college credits.

Bair said that expanding the program to four years and having students enrolled at the Holton Center will give students more time to focus on building strong GPAs. The barber school is a three-year program and students are required to complete 1510 hours for the licensing examination.

All of the hair-cuts, shaves, and washes are

done by students while instructors monitor close by.

Mario Little has been an instructor at the Holton barber shop for one year. Before coming to the Holton Center he worked at Park West Barber School for three years.

Little said he enjoys working with the students because it allows him to give back to the community.

The barber shop is open to the general public Monday through Friday from 1-5 p.m.

Students enrolled in the barber program learn the importance of giving back to the community by providing free services for displaced veterans and by giving discounted hair cuts to Durham police officers, firefighters, and military personnel.

The three-year cosmetology program is also open Monday through Friday and these students are required to complete 1500 hours before taking the state examination.

Not only are these students working towards becoming beauticians but they are also learning how to advertise and market their business.

“Before joining the cosmetology program, I learned how to do hair by watching YouTube and I’ve always done my own hair,” said Nielah Hicks, 17.

The Holton website explains that students enrolled in the public safety program learn basic career information including corrections, emergency and fire management, secu-

‘DONS Basketball League’ beyond hoops

BY EVAN OWENS DURHAM VOICE/ VOICE STAFF REPORTER

A summer basketball league calls to mind the squeaking of sneakers, the sound of the whistle blow, and the swish of the ball going through the net. But for participants in Campaign 4 Change’s summer league, it meant much more.

Don’s Basketball League (DBL) provides a 12-week summer basketball league during June, July, and August, at no cost to its participants. Founder Otis Lyons, or “Vegas Don,” says that the league provides an “authentic NBA experience.”

“Our coaches scout players, come together and decide on draft picks, and then have a formal draft, just like in the NBA,” Lyons said.

The DBL rules also allow coaches to trade players midseason, similar to the NBA’s trade rules.

“Say a coach is in need of a forward,” Lyons said. “He can just trade a player with another team.”

The league provides a live DJ and in-game commentators, and players even had the chance to perform in front of the camera, with the season opener broadcast on FOX50, Lyons added.

The DBL also has its own magazine, in which teams and players are recognized for their performance. The league’s game results can be found weekly in The Triangle Tribune, The News and Observer, and The Durham Herald-Sun. But the on-court experience is just one small part of the summer league. Players are required to complete community service and attend educational workshops.

“We just received some funding from Duke Energy, which allowed us to hire someone to teach a STEM class,” Lyons said. “We still teach career trade, but our focus is now more on the STEM program.”

Players’ participation in com-

Edward Walker, DBL Most Outstanding Player Award recipient, admires prizes he received from the DBL. Walker's mother, Mrs. Olympia, holds a poster of Walker as DBL team mom Gwendolyn Daye captures the event with a camera.

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munity service is a way to help the community, Lyons said.

“We wanted our players to be able to play for free,” Lyons explained. “So the mandatory community service is a way for them to pay, not with money, but by giving back to the community.”

DBL 2015 Most Outstanding Player, Edward Walker, said he enjoys serving his community as a DBL player.

“It’s great helping out people. We get to play basketball but at the same time serve our community, and that’s a big help,” Walker said.

Above all, the DBL tries to instill within their players a sense of discipline and respect.

Lyons said that the way they achieve this is through their no tolerance policy for misbehavior.

“We have a zero tolerance for gangs, zero tolerance for pants saggin’,” Lyons explained.

And although Lyons wants his players to enjoy the summer league, he will not hesitate to

enforce his rules, he said.

“It’s about being very firm and strict in a powerful way that they can look up to,” Lyons said.

Edward Walker knows firsthand how important discipline is when being held to Lyon’s strict standards.

In 2014, Walker lost his basketball privileges because of an altercation.

“I went a little overboard and got too mad about what someone said to me, but I realized it was just part of the game,” Walker explained.

Walker returned to the league in 2015, winning the league’s highest honor for players.

“I learned my lesson and learned to overcome my anger,” Walker said.

In order for players to remember the lessons they are taught during their time in the DBL, the league created The Ten Commandments.

This includes commandments like honor your parents, be loving to your family, help

someone, always finish what you started, and be a leader.

“They must learn those, and they must live by them,” Lyons said.

And it seems to work.

Three-year DBL player Tamarcus Davis said the changes he’s seen within himself go deeper than his skills on the court. To him, the league has helped him grow as an individual.

“I think I’ve matured a lot. It taught me that I can do anything that I put my mind to,” Davis said.

Davis aged out of the league this past season.

“It helped me grow as a person,” he said. “I learned the importance of responsibility and leadership.”

Davis said the experience of the DBL is more valuable than AAU or high school teams.

“AAU and high school ball are pretty much just about basketball,” he said, “but the DBL is more than just basketball. It’s about giving back to the community.”

Part of the reason players learn so much from their experience in the league, Founder Otis Lyons said, is that the DBL administers an exam to all players, at the end of the season.

“Players study the DBL 10 Commandments, the 15 Principles of Winning, and the information they learn in our STEM workshops,” Lyons explained.

“And at the end of the season, they have to pass an exam in order to receive any awards.”

To Lyons, the most important thing is that the players learn something and better themselves. To him, it is essential that players know what his motives are.

“Our players also pay back by becoming productive citizens,” Lyons said. “When the kids can see that you’re not there for the money or for selfish gain, they will try to do everything they can not to disappoint you.”

rity and protection, law enforcement, and legal services.

At the end of the course students develop a personal plan for a career in public safety.

“Students in this program also volunteer with the Durham Rescue Mission helping with the Dress for Success program and annually help build homes for Habitat for Humanity,” Bair said.

Before exiting the programs students are required to meet with Heather Haymer-Covington the Career Development Coordinator.

With her assistance students decide what plan of action they want to take after their course is completed.

The Holton Career and Resource Center is located on 401 N. Driver St and re-opened in 2007 while Dr. Carl Harris served as Durham Public School superintendent.

The push to revive the community inspired the renovation of the abandoned former high school.

In addition to the cosmetology, barber and public safety classes the Holton Center offers a wide range of programs to the community including the Duke Wellness Center, and Durham Parks and Recreation programs and activities.

The students welcome new clients everyday and to show their appreciation for their community, Voice readers will receive a free hair cut from the barber shop or cosmetology program simply by mentioning this article.

ABOUT THE VOICE The news stories in this section are just a few of the many communitybased news stories written for the Durham VOICE — A Community Newspaper for Northeast Central Durham.

The Durham VOICE – which can be seen in its entirety at http:// durhamvoice.org – is the product of collaboration between the UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication and NCCU’s Department of English and Mass Communication.

The stories on this and the next few pages were written by N.C. Central University students in Dr. Lisa Paulin’s advanced reporting course. They were first published alongside stories written by Jock Lauterer’s community journalism students at UNC-Chapel Hill and Durham high school teens.

Lauterer is director of the Carolina Community Media Project in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC-Chapel Hill and the VOICE’s co-adviser.

Lauter, Lisa Paulin and Bruce dePyssler are the publishers of the VOICE. Former Campus Echo editor-in-chief, Carlton Koonce, is the Partners for Youth Opportunity Teen Mentoring Coordinator.

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Walltown dancers perform Walltown’s students grace downtown Durham at the annual CenterFest

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Walltown Children’s Theatre took center stage in a dance performance on Sept. 19 at the Durham Arts Council’s annual CenterFest in downtown Durham.

The dance students stood in formation anxiously waiting for the beat to drop, while a curious crowd gathered around to watch the free show.

The hip-hop and Bollywood performances showcased the diversity and skill level that Walltown dancers possess.

WCT parent, Gina Simons, said the ballet dance program learns point, a classical ballet technique requiring dancers to support all body weight on the tips of fully extended feet.

“It’s a really difficult technique to learn but our kids can do it, and that sets our dance program apart from others,” Simons added.

Walltown Children’s Theatre, a non-profit organization located on 1225 Berkeley Street, opened its doors in 2000 to young performers.

WTC spokeswoman Meg Feigal said that Walltown has been called one of Durham’s best kept secrets.

“We teach children more than dance techniques, we teach children to express what can’t be expressed on a standardized test,” Feigal explained. “We also teach children to express creativity and wisdom.

Performing is another way to help build character and wisdom.”

“We are not just building technique but leaders

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in the community,” Feigal said.

The artistic programs offered at WTC include dance, acting, vocal technique, and piano and guitar classes. Children are also able to participate in Zumba classes, which are designed especially for active children who love to dance.

After school academic tutoring and collaborative leadership opportunities are also available to students.

WCT programs operate year round, and during the summer months there is a summer camp.

Children enrolled at

WCT range from 3 to 17 years of age and vary in ethnicity and economic status.

The cost of classes at WCT fluctuate per session and WCT offers students and families two different price structures.

Families have the option of paying a tuition starting at $210 which includes one class per week these classes run from the fall until January.

This plan is for families who can’t pay or commit to a year-round enrollment.

WCT also offers a

year-round program.

These classes start at $135 per month and students are able to attend an unlimited number of classes each week.

Because WCT is committed to providing opportunities for young performers, there are scholarships available for those who cannot afford tuition fees.

After families fill out a scholarship application WCT evaluates the family’s needs and sometimes students can apply to the program for a reduced rate.

Although a scholarship or reduced rates are not

always awarded WCT works to ensure all students passionate about performing are included in the program.

Founding Executive and Artistic Director, Cynthia Penn-Halal, created the program to inspire hope and perseverance using the arts as a tool to develop character.

According to the website WCT has partnered with city and local agencies, universities, community development organizations and churches to identify and meet the needs of families that are not able to

afford instruction.

“As a ‘need-blind’ organization, we have always promoted inclusion.”

Within her three years of working the WCT Feigal said many of the alumni keep in touch and many come back to teach.

“I was in the Walltown community’s summer camp. It helped me come out of my shell. Broke me out of being shy real quick. And also taught me to get involved in the community,” Walltown alumni Ashley Bagley said.

“I was also given a scholarship to dance and act at Walltown Children's Theater which opened me up to more opportunities than I could ever imagine.

We performed all over the place. We went do workshops with Alvin Ailey and even performed at The American Dance Festival.”

Bagley acted with the theater for five years and put on several productions at the Carolina Theatre and several other places.

She currently performs in Lovers Lane an online drama web series starring many local NC actors.

WCT dancers are preparing for their annual Durham Nutcracker performance, expected to be held at the Durham Arts Council Dec. 11-13.

“The show is largely inspired by the Nutcracker but has a Durham flavor,” Feigal said.

“About 50 kids perform ranging from 5-17.”

Feigal added that the Nutcracker performance is expected to showcase a variety of dances including classical ballet, hiphop, Bollywood, and tap.

Community counts on Los Primos Grocery store owner Collado weathers the storm for 13+ years

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Since taking over Los Primos 13 years ago, owner Miguel Collado has battled through adverse conditions and managed to maintain one of the only supermarkets in Northeast Central Durham.

“When we first came here, this was a very downgraded store with very little services to people,” Collado said.

“When we took the store, the store should’ve been closed prior to us taking it over because of the sanitary situation that was here and the way that they ran it.

I say it was a curse to the community to have to go to the meat department and buy meat and there were rats back there.”

The store, under Collado, has done much better business. He said it’s done 10 times the volume it used to do, but it’s doing eight times the volume because of all the competition.

“You have Save-A-Lot down the block, you have new stores

“I have to be really thankful to that person who comes in.

It doesn’t matter who they are, how much money they have, how much they have on the food stamp, it doesn’t matter.

That’s still a human being that you have to treat with respect and honor.”

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that open up, but not in the immediate vicinity. We offer a lot of services to the people in the community because this is a walking store. We don’t depend much on people driving in their cars.”

“We have low income houses here, so we have people walking here, we’ll drive them home,” Collado said.

“We give them a free soda every time they shop here.

We’ve been doing a Christmas gift every year for the past 3 years. People are already asking me when it’s gonna be done.”

A local resident, Sheneka Cooper, said that having this supermarket open for so long has been very helpful in the

community.

“I’ve been here since 2004, and I’ve seen that people depend on this store being open,” Cooper said. “They can’t go nowhere else.”

Collado said he has no plans of slowing down.

“I love the people here.

You know for every bad one, there’s 100 good ones,” Collado said. “We will survive the Alston Ave. project because people like to shop here.

They’re gonna start in January 2016, and we’re gonna remain here.

As a matter of fact, we’re gonna start doing some changes around here, start changing the front view of the store.”

Collado encourages people that don’t live in Northeast Central Durham to come walk around the neighborhoods and “see people who don’t have a key in their door.”

“They should come around here and see because there’s a lot of poverty around here.

There’s also need for the government to help some of these people get jobs. I cannot put any more employees here because this is a small store, I have 14 employees, and I cannot afford to have anybody else.”

Collado feels the need to display humility when dealing with all of his customers, no matter how much money they have.

“I have to be really thankful to that person who comes in,” Collado said.

“It doesn’t matter who they are, how much money they have, how much they have on the food stamp, it doesn’t matter. That’s still a human being that you have to treat with respect and honor.”

Even though he would like more people to come around the community, Collado said he is blessed and appreciative of having the store.

“The people that live over there, that work in government buildings over there that are making the money, they don’t come to spend their money in my store,” Collado said.

“I don’t need their money, but they should come around here and see how some people are living.”

“I’m getting by, thank God. I’m paying my bills. I’m not gonna be a millionaire, I don’t need to. I’m satisfied with what I’m doing, with what God is giving me. He’s given me this store and all the wonderful people that support it.”

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It’s music, photography, films, fashion or even a simple painting.

And there's plenty of art to see at the Alpha Rho Tau art sale, which ran through Oct. 2 in the student art gallery located in the Fine Arts Building.

Alpha Rho Tau, a club for art students and non-art majors, has about 20 members with art professor Chad Hughes as their faculty adviser.

The art sale featured work from students including Matthew White, Devin Davis, Jasmyn Etheridge, Frank Mansaray and Jarome Chesson.

The students said they want to share their creativity not just with the campus but with everyone and anyone within shouting distance. Prices ranged from as low as $10 to upwards of several hundred dollars.

Although buying a piece of artwork like a drawing or painting might not seem like the best investment for a college student, this art show just might change your mind.

Each artist uses their abilities differently, creating styles that fit no one else but themselves.

For instance, Davis's work dabbles in a variety of styles. It ranges from action-packed comic cartoons to stunning portraits of celebrities and floral girls, taking inspiration from what he sees in his daily life.

White’s work and style is influenced by his own dreams and his love for pop culture. He records his dreams and tries to illustrate these dreams while keeping his work vibrant.

Etheridge's style on the other hand is full of life. She creates a bizarre and surreal atmosphere with her fun but wild characters in her artwork. Every print is an

adventure for the eyes.

Mansaray’s approach is fairly traditional but abstract. His portraits are eye-popping with African themes similar to Chesson’s work, whose art keeps to an Afro-centric theme, but, in a delightful twist, adds galactic elements.

The students say the proceeds pooled together and then used to buy art supplies.

“As art students, we’re financially struggling most of the time. Art supplies can be very pricey especially since we don’t always get our art supplies from the art building. A lot of the time we have to provide it for ourselves,” said junior Ayana Jarvis, Alpha Rho Tau president.

“It was just an opportunity for each art student and non-art majors to sell their artwork.”

Although members of Alpha Rho Tau participate in a number of events in the Triangle, such as the CenterFest and College Night, they feel like they need to raise awareness about NCCU’s student artists. NCCU art studies junior Kiara Sanders says she hopes the art sale will do just that.

“I feel like a lot of people aren't aware about NCCU's art program. A lot of people don't know about it or don't know what goes on in the art program because we're so small,” said Sanders.

“The art sale can give a window into the kind of work we're doing and the talent that's here at this school ...there's so much of it.”

Darvlyn Mclean agrees. “The art and music buildings are attached but if you look around, only one of them can actually be heard,” said the visual communication junior. “Ours can be seen, but people don’t actually look up.”

“Tribal Woman” by Frank Mansaray.

“Mother Nature” by Jarome Chesson.

“Kids These Days” by Matthew White.

“Unnamed” by Devin Davis.

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the “Ultimate Homecoming.”

Events kicked off with the Gospel Concert.

Students, faculty, administrators and alumni witness a thrilling Eagle football victory over the Norfolk State Spartans 24-16 when Quarterback Malcom Bell nailed several touchdown passes in the last quarter.

Students showcased their talents throughout the week at events like the aforementioned Choir Ball, the Ultimate Dance and the Fashion Battle, and the Step Show.

NxLevel won the Fashion Battle and Sigma Gamma Rhos and the Iotas swept the Step Show competitions.

Kourtney Daniel-Robinson was crowned Miss NCCU, and Omari Collins was crowned Mr. NCCU. To wrap up events a Hip Hop Concert at Durham Performaning Arts Center featured Big Sean, Rich Homie Quan, Rapsody, and Roland Champaine.

NCCU Eagles took down the Norfolk State University Spartans 24-16.

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Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. took second place at the Step Show.

Temeric Morrison singing “Intentional” at Choir Ball.

The Association of Students for a Better Africa perform an African dance at the Fashion Show Dance Competition.

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Chirs Saunders, Arthur Reese and Mike Evans overlooking design plans for a production at The National Black Theatre Festival.

Assistant master carpenter for the National Black Theatre, Torenzo Blair, works a drill.

Mike Evans, a general contractor, throws off some sparks with a rotary sander.

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Left: Stage hands Kendall Clark and Jamel Kornegay put the finishing touches on a set.

Right: University theatre tech Arthur M. Reese outlines his vision for a set design.

Malcom Green, festival tech/actor, and Robert Wright, actor, going over their lines in the play.

t’s a huge project building the sets for a single theatrical production ... try building sets for 14 theatrical productions.

And that’s exactly what was happening in last July and August in the basement level of the N.C. Central University Farrison-Newton Communications Building.

The flurry of activity was all in service of The National Black Theatre Festival which Ran August 3-8 in Winston-Salem.

The challenge of building 14 sets was overseen by Arthur Reese, the technical director of the festival and NCCU’s University Theatre’s technical director.

The National Black Theatre festival offers six days of professional theater, film, poetry, workshops, seminars, and vendor markets.

It was founded by Larry Leon Hamlin in 1989 who cultivated a place for African-American actors and theatre lovers to be honored and included.

At that time the New York Times described the festival as “one of the most historic and culturally significant events in the history of black theatre and American theatre in general.”

A photo slide show of the project is available in the multimedia section of campusecho.com

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Former President George W. Bush, middle, reacts after former President Bill Clinton, right, cracked a joke as moderator Margaret Spellings, President of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, listens during the Presidential Leadership Scholars Graduation discussion at the Bush Presidential Center in University Park, Texas, on Thursday, July 9, 2015.

Sixty scholars participated in the yearlong program where they traveled to each of the presidential libraries.

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To accomplish this mission, we must be productive, accountable, agile and transparent. We must keep a firm grasp on our obligation to innovate, to remain the engine that drives North Carolina’s growth and assures such great quality of life here.”

Friday’s election followed a contentious process that was criticized by some UNC board members, legislators and faculty.

Spellings becomes the second woman to lead the UNC system. She is an outsider to North Carolina, having spent her career in policy and politics in Texas and Washington.

She has broad contacts nationally in education and political circles and her appointment will put a wellknown Republican in charge of an institution that for most of its history has been run by Democrats.

When she arrives next year, Spellings will have an immediate to-do list: heal divisions among the Republican-domi-

“To accomplish this mission, we must be productive, accountable, agile and transparent. We must keep a firm grasp on our obligation to innovate, to remain the engine that drives North Carolina’s growth and assures such great quality of life here.”

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nated board, build bridges with skeptical faculty and sell taxpayers on the March bond referendum, which could bring UNC campuses nearly $1 billion for building construction.

And she’ll have to win over legislators, who complained about the search process.

On Friday, John Fennebresque, the board chairman who has been sharply criticized by fellow board members, mostly stayed in the background. But, with tears in his eyes after Spellings’ remarks, he said: “It’s a magnificent result.”

Spellings’ career has been closely tied to Bush. She was

U.S. education secretary from 2005 to 2009 in Bush’s second term. Previously, she was his domestic policy adviser and his education adviser when he was governor of Texas.

She is now president of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, the former president’s library and museum, which is on the campus of Southern Methodist University.

The oldest of four daughters, Spellings was born in Ann Arbor, Mich., where her parents met and her father was pursuing a Ph.D. in geology.

The family moved to Houston, where Spellings worked in a grocery store during high

school and college. She lived at home and attended the University of Houston, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in political science.

“In some ways, I was a nontraditional student before the term was invented,” Spellings said.

“All of my formal education has been in public schools and I very much relate to the experience of many of the students who attend college today — those who commute, work, have families and are concerned about the cost and what the investment of time and money means to their future.”

After college, she moved to the state capital of Austin,

where she worked in the Texas Legislature where she served members of both political parties.

She also held positions for the Texas Association of School Boards and Austin Community College.

In Washington, Spellings pushed for accountability in education.

She was an architect and implementer of the No Child Left Behind law, which aimed to hold public schools responsible for better student achievement and a reduction in the minority learning gap.

The law had bipartisan support, but eventually was criticized for its unrealistic goals and focus on testing.

Though she spent much of her time on K-12 policy as education secretary, Spellings also formed a Commission on the Future of Higher Education, which looked at issues of access, affordability, quality and accountability in the nation’s colleges and universities.

As more devices go online, hackers hunt for vulnerabilities

BY IAN DUNCAN THE BALTIMORE SUN (TNS)

BALTIMORE — The hack was simple. Terry Dunlap tapped out a few commands on his laptop and within seconds a message popped on the screen: “Done!”

With a few more keystrokes, he could see what the security camera could see and swivel it at will.

The demonstration

by Columbia-based Tactical Network Solutions illustrates an increasingly widespread problem: A growing number of devices, from security cameras to cars to weapons systems, are designed to connect to computer networks — the so-called Internet of Things.

But as researchers find ways to compromise the machines, regulators, lawmakers and military leaders are scrambling to safeguard them from hacking.

Dunlap’s company specializes in providing “offensive cyber capabilities.”

Billions of devices

can connect to the Internet, affording cyberattackers a wide range of opportunity, said Chris Inglis, a former deputy director of the National Security Agency.

Now a teacher at the Naval Academy, Inglis said the military is preparing the next generation of leaders to be ready.

All midshipmen are required to take cybersecurity classes, and some have explored how to defend against hacking of machines.

“We believe that everyone, no matter what they do, is going to have a dependence on network systems,” he said.

The headline-grabbing hacks of 2014 and 2015 — the raids on Sony Pictures Entertainment, the federal government’s personnel office and several big retailers — involved attackers cracking into databases.

While such assaults are serious problems for the targets, the fallout for individual victims is

Terry Dunlap, owner and founder of Tactical Network Solutions, talks about how easy it is to hack devices connected to the internet on Oct. 23, 2015 in Columba, Md. Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun (TNS)

mostly handled by their employers, financial firms or credit-monitoring agencies.

But attacks on connected devices could bring the issue of cyber-

security into America’s homes and cars.

In a dramatic display this year, two hackers were able to commandeer a Jeep, wirelessly taking control of the

steering, transmission and brakes.

That hack into Chrysler’s Uconnect dashboard system prompted the company to recall 1.4 million ve-

hicles, the first recall to deal with a computer security problem.

Other researchers have shown that some

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Student loan borrowers face repayment hurdles, feds say

BY ALI MONTAG MCCLATCHY WASHINGTON BUREAU (TNS)

WASHINGTON - Student loan servicing companies are coming under fire by regulators for the second time in two months.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a report Wednesday criticizing student loan servicing companies, which are contracted to handle details like collecting monthly payments, for not helping borrowers get into plans that make it easier to repay loans.

The agency’s student loan ombudsman found that in particular, borrowers with older federal student loans may be more heavily effected by loan servicing problems, although complaints about servicing are widespread.

In September, after analyzing 30,000 public comments that showed companies using “a wide range of sloppy, patchwork practices that can create obstacles to repayment, raise costs, cause distress and contribute to driving struggling borrowers to default,” the bureau announced plans to explore industrywide regulations.

More than 25 percent of all student loan borrowers were behind or defaulting on their loans, according to the September report, while Wednesday’s shows that 30 percent of borrowers with Federal Family Education Loan Program loans are behind.

Both reports point to problems like paperwork processing delays, inconsistent instructions from loan servicers and difficulty enrolling in income-driven repayment plans as contributing to struggling borrowers’ challenges.

Natalia Abrams, executive director of Student Debt Crisis, a nonprofit group that pushes for changes in how education is financed, said loan servicing companies “are not alerting the student loan borrowers of all of their options if they run into trouble.”

In a survey of 3,000 borrowers done by the group, almost 60 percent said their loan servicer did not inform them of federal programs to help repay their loan, even though they were eligible to apply for them, Abrams said.

Borrowers also complained of loan servicers processing payments late, incorrectly report-

ing credit scores and losing information.

Although graduated students are not typically referred back to their schools for help with loans, said Anna Griswold, executive director for student aid at Pennsylvania State University, she has heard of problems with servicers from both struggling borrowers and those just trying to pay down their principles early.

Griswold said students receive guidance from their school on loans when they graduate, but servicers have direct access to the borrowers for the rest of their repayment.

“Students are given packets of information when they leave school about their options in loan repayments.

Some study these carefully and others may not,” she said in an email.

“However, when a servicer first sees that a borrower is struggling (misses a payment), they are not always proactive in helping the borrower or moving them to a different payment plan.”

Despite the Education Department’s requirement that students get counseling when they take out loans and when they graduate, there is still a lack of information and they “don’t know their options,” said Sheelu Surender, director of financial aid at Wichita State University.

“There are so many different types of repayment programs out there,” she said.

The first income-driven repayment plan was created in 2007, and payment plans have become more complicated since, evolving with the Pay as You Earn program from the Department of Education, changes from Congress and the White House.

The complexities of laws around student debt contribute to the lack of information about federal repayment programs, said Beth Akers, a fellow at the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution.

“It’s easy to pick on the servicers for doing a bad job, but it kind of begs the question, why is it so difficult for students to navigate the system on their own in the first place?” she said.

“It’s just this building up of incremental policy changes that have led to the building of this complex and complicated set of repayment options for borrowers.”

According to a new survey, nearly half of parents who haven’t paid off their own student loans have saved at least $5,000 toward college costs for each of their children.

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In contrast to legal complexities, there are only a handful of companies that service student loans. For federal loans taken out through the Education Department, there are only 10 companies that do the job.

Servicers’ biggest problem is borrowers who aren’t engaged, said John Remondi, president and CEO of Navient, one of the largest loan servicers, which used to be affiliated with Sallie Mae, a publicly traded corporation involved in the student loan business.

“Ninety percent of the defaults that we see off of our servicing platform each year are from customers who had zero contact with us during the 12 months that it takes to default,” he said in a September statement at a Deutsche Bank conference.

“During that time frame, we would typically attempt to connect with that customer 300 times through mail, phone calls, text messages or emails.”

In July, the Consumer Financial Protection

Bureau charged Discover Bank $18.5 million for illegal student loan servicing practices, like overstating how much was due on bills and calling consumers early

in the morning and late at night to collect debts.

A time line for new rules isn’t specified yet, but the report recommends policy actions like incentivizing servic-

ing companies to enroll borrowers in federal student loans’ flexible repayment options, which would increase their motivation to fit borrowers into the best plans.

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“A compromise of a connected device is much more visceral to the average consumer because it’s in some sense tangible,” said Ted Harrington, a partner at the Baltimore consulting firm Independent Security Evaluators.

“If someone is compromising the video stream of their baby monitor, that feels much more catastrophic.”

In some cases, the weaknesses have prompted lawmakers to propose legislation.

A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee held a hearing in October on a proposed car safety bill that would impose hefty penalties against anyone who hacks into a vehicle’s systems.

Regulators also have is-

sued security guidance to companies that make Internet-connected devices.

“Companies should test products before they launch them, as opposed to launching the products first and seeing about problems later,” Federal Trade Commission official Maneesha Mithal told lawmakers at the hearing.

“It’s something we call ‘security by design.’”

While cyberattacks on intelligence and defense agencies might not be revealed to the public, Pentagon officials acknowledge they are exploring the implications of hacking into machines and controlling them.

The military is in the midst of evaluating its weapons systems — some of them developed before anyone contemplated the risks of connecting to the Internet _ while also exploring new kinds of attacks it can launch.

Earlier this year, tests conducted by the Defense Department identified cybersecurity vulnerabilities in Apache helicopters, drones, Army radios and Navy ships.

Officials have declined to describe how they would undertake cyberattacks on machines.

“It is a big problem,” Deputy Defense Secretary Robert O. Work told a congressional panel in September.

“Many of the weapons systems that we have now were not built to withstand a concerted cyber threat.”

In the Tactical Network Solutions demo, Dunlap and his team analyzed the code that controls the camera and wrote their own code to launch an attack to retrieve the password.

Dunlap, managing partner at the company, estimated it

took his team about five hours.

He said a search on a website that seeks out devices connected to the Internet revealed thousands of cameras around the globe that likely had similar vulnerabilities.

The security camera that Dunlap attacked was an older model made by TRENDnet. The company said the camera has been discontinued and that it has updated code for existing cameras to improve security.

“Our security team tests all our products for possible vulnerabilities before they reach the market,” Sonny Su, the company’s technical director, said in a statement.

“We use TRENDnet products in our own homes, so we especially understand the importance of providing secure products to our customers.”

Harrington and his col-

leagues have long been interested in security weaknesses in devices connected to the Internet.

Frustrated by what they saw as a lack of attention to the problem, they gathered people from across the country this summer at Defcon, one of the nation’s top hacker conventions, to demonstrate how dire things had become.

In all, the hackers identified 66 security vulnerabilities at the four-day event.

The weaknesses were an especially potent kind known as zero-days, so called because the devices’ manufacturers are unaware of the problem and therefore have no time to devise a fix.

Security cameras, drones, door locks and a home automation system were found to have vulnerabilities.

Harrington’s conclusion: “Security issues in connected devices are systemic.”

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Models Danielle Davis and co-founder Dakota Vann in “Theater Heights” photoshoot

Danielle Davis modeling for “Olympic Couture”photoshoot

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Photo courtesy of J.Dot Digitals,”Olympic Couture” Feature from their website jdotdigitals.com

B Y T IA M ITCHELL ECHO A&E EDITOR

In the heart of Durham stands J.Dot Digitals, a multimedia production company founded by Jonathan Okafo.

A native of Durham and now a business sophomore at N.C. State University, Okafo realized the city didn’t have enough artistic platforms.

Okafo launched the company last year with the help of his cofounders, Dakota Vann and Jaquin Ellis.

After discovering the well-known company We Entertain on a recent Atlanta trip, his ideas about a business model began to gel.

J.Dot helps its clients shape their brand and portfolios with a variety of services, including fashion and choreography consulting, fashion photo shoots and other multimedia services.

“We’re all equal business partners,” said Okafo.

“They became closer

to me once I left some older friends of mine.

“They told me, ‘Jon, you have all these ideas and inspirations.

We can really do this.

We can really come together and make this happen.’

“I didn’t even want to think about it ... they were the ones that really motivated me and pushed me to start it. ” J.Dot has no permanent facility right now.

They hope to move into a permanent location soon, but this matters little because they can handle business on the Internet with clients as far away as Atlanta and New York.

“We can just pick up and take anything that we’ve been working on, since we don’t have a physical business yet,” said Okafo.

“We can travel to France, New York or wherever we want to go. We don’t have to worry about having people come to us. We have everything on our database and our computers.”

Okafo said he wants

Founder of J.Dot Digitals, Jonathan Okafo TIA MITCHELL/Echo A&E editor

“Whoever reads this: Follow your dreams.

Don’t let anybody tell you that you can’t do something. All my life I’ve had people tell me, ‘You can’t dance,’ ‘You can’t take pictures,’ and ‘You can’t model.’ The word ‘can’t’ doesn’t exist.”

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to create a friendly and supportive environment for J.Dot’s inexperienced clients, one that supports its clients’ passions.

“With the way we do it, we’re really relaxed, comfortable and inviting,” he said.

“We’re there to work with you and build your self-esteem, your portfolio, and build who you are to start your career.

“We don’t want to scare them away. A lot of models that we’ve worked with would be like, ‘I don’t know if I can model,’ or ‘I don’t know how I feel about it.’

“We don’t want to give that persona. We don’t want to make you feel like you can’t do something. We want to let you know you can do anything you want to do.”

N.C. Central University family and consumer sciences senior Taylor Freeman, a fashion blogger, says her experience working with J.Dot Digitals was rewarding.

She and Okafo’s team worked together on several photo shoots and have styled clothes together.

“Before, I was just used to doing stuff by myself,” said Freeman.

“I was dressing up and taking pictures of myself to blog about.

“This showed me that I could work with other people and still be creative. We can collaborate and work together.

“It taught me teamwork and how others will have different ideas than you but you have to learn how to work together.”

Okafo hopes for J.Dot Digitals to be a place where others can find support while following their dreams — just like he did.

“Whoever reads this: Follow your dreams.

Don’t let anybody tell you that you can’t do something,” said Okafo.

“All my life I’ve had people tell me, ‘You can’t dance,’ ‘You can’t take pictures,’ and ‘You can’t model.’ The word ‘can’t’ doesn’t exist.”

Ti-Jean and His Brothers NCCU theatre performs West Indian folktale

BY A SHLYNN H AILEY ECHO STAFF REPORTER

N.C. Central University’s department of theatre opened its fall season with a play that was sure to be a hit – “Ti-Jean and His Brothers,” a rich and colorful play written in 1975 by Derek Walcott.

Nobel Prize-winning author Walcott explored the power of good versus evil and poor versus wealthy as well as the definition of humanity.

This West-Indian folk tale—told by the animals of the rainforest through dialogue, dance and song—tells of a poor widowed mother, her three sons and their bargain with the devil.

The tale is based on Walcott’s memories of folktales from his childhood in St. Lucia, a Carribean island.

“Ti-Jean and His Brothers” tells how three brothers — GrosJean, Mi-Jean, and TiJean — attempt to vex the devil.

When the three brothers go on a journey to discover their fortune, a demon challenges them to achieve the sympathy of the devil; if they show rage,

however, they will be killed.

“This show shows the struggle of young adults leaving home,” said theatre senior Sheldon Mba, dramaturg.

“It teaches us that good and evil will always be with you no matter where you go.”

The play was co-directed by Irving Truitt and Asabi Howard, assistant professors in the department of theatre.

“It is a play that will stretch the actors,” said Truitt.

“With its many dimensions, it will give the actors experience for a well-rounded performance.

“We are digging deep into each actor’s character development.

Since this show is a West-Indian folktale, we not only want strong accents, but the character’s manners and gestures to be believable as well.”

According to Howard, each character should be able to tell his or her story through movement and stage presence.

“I wanted to create an atmosphere in which the animals communicated with each other in a natural way, but also in a way that the audience could relate

Ti-Jean, played by Daniel Johnson, gives the devil’s messenger, Bolom, played by Yuri Brown, the gift of life during a rehearsal of “TiJean and His Brothers.” The play ran in the NCCU Theatre through Oct. 11.

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as well and it be believable,” said Howard.

Theatre freshman Daniel Johnson, who played Ti-Jean, is not a new face on the stage; he acted in several plays at Hillside High School, including “Dreamgirls,” “Shrek the Musical” and “Guys and Dolls.”

“It’s an honor to be playing the role of Ti-

Jean knowing,” Johnson said. … I appreciate that Dr. Asabi and her colleagues have entrusted me with this responsibility.

“I’m looking forward to carrying that weight and doing my very best with this role.”

Johnson described Ti-Jean, the youngest of the brothers, as meek, humble and curious.

“His humility is what keeps him from being as headstrong as his brothers and helps him to overcome the obstacles that he faces throughout the story,” Johnson said.

Other cast members included theatre juniors Malcom Green, Jonathan Able and Chase Rivers.

Green and Able

played Ti-Jean’s brothers Gros Jean and MiJean.

Rivers played the characters of Old Man and The Planter, both of whom are manifestations of the devil.

“Ti-Jean and His Brothers” was performed in NCCU’s University Theatre on Oct. 2-4 and Oct. 9-11.

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BY T IA MITCHELL ECHO A&E EDITOR

Since its modeling casting call on Sept. 21, campus organization Fashion Inc. has pulled out the thread, needles and pattern paper to plan for their upcoming fashion show on April 7.

Although they're in the early stages of the show, the students and their adviser, instructor Wadeeah Beyah, envision another great show.

However, there's still so much to do before they can make that happen.

Fashion Inc. members started making their layout for the event and picked out the theme “Era of Time.”

Each designer has picked an era as inspiration for their garments.

Experienced designers must make multiple garments; inexperienced designers make

only one.

For now, the designers are just in the planning stages.

Family and consumer sciences junior Alexus Ratliff, a student designer, said more than 20 people auditioned for the show.

The designers were focused on models who had a strong but creative and professional walk made for the runway.

Ratliff said too much movement distracts the audience from the garments.

“Just be subtle with not too much movement because you are showcasing the clothes, not the model,” said Ratliff.

“It's mostly about the clothes.

“If you have a subtle walk but still strong, that's always what we look for.”

Beyah has been the advisor for Fashion Inc. for 15 years and teaches the apparel design classes.

She guides the plan-

ning and implementation of the show while teaching students the skills they need to master for the show.

Although the fashion show is handled through Fashion Inc., apparel design students are required to design a line of clothing and present them in the show.

Throughout Beyah's 15 years of advising Fashion Inc., she has seen ups and downs the in organization.

At one point, the human sciences department chair canceled their shows because Beyah's first show with her students didn't turn out well.

“My very first show took place after I had been here one semester,” said Beyah.

“The plans were already in progress so I just took a backseat and let the students carry out the plans.

“That was a disaster. “ ... The department chair canceled our

shows until we traveled and students could actually see what a good show was supposed to look like.”

Since then, Beyah said the shows began to improve every year.

She said the best show was last year's “Fashion Meets Art.” Beyah hopes to take this year's show to the next level and that her students continue to grow their confidence.

One of her goals this year is to raise awareness on campus about the apparel design major and what majors do.

“There are a plethora of things you can do with this major,” Beyah said.

“We want them to know that we're here.

“It's a hard sell getting people to come to the fashion show because they're not familiar with the program.

“So that's been a hard sell for us every year.”

Released on September 18th, “Honeymoon” is Lana Del Rey’s fourth studio album.

Her previous album, “Ultaviolence,” was released in 2014.

In “Honeymoon,” Del Rey departs from the psychedelic sound of her 2014 work.

The title track deserves its place and its name.

This song overflows in diversity and texture. It begins with high romantic strings, enabling Del Rey to display her haunting and naked vocals.

Throughout the song, the swooning strings have an oldfashioned feel.

Midway, a light snare marches along.

“Music to Watch Boys To” is a playful track.

The opening lines feature the chorus, in which Del Rey sings, “Putting on my music while I’m watching the boys so I do what you want. Singing soft grunge just to soak up the noise…”

Although “High by the Beach” has a trap beat, it still flows with the album, thanks to Del Rey’s resonant voice.

This song is about calling it quits and letting go. It’s reminiscent of her early work, “Born to Die,” taking you back in time.

“Freak” marks the return of the saxophone, swing and playful.

“Freak” contains a rhythmic ticking and sultry yet innocent vocals. Instead of cutting off the ending, the song continues subtly into “Art Deco.”

The eighth track, “Burnt Norton,” has Del Rey reciting a section of the poem of the same name by T.S. Eliot, published in “Four Quartets.”

Del Rey recites: “Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future … if all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable.”

This poem is about man’s relationship with the universe, time and the divine.

It speaks on fate and our inability to control our experiences.

“Salvatore,” my favorite, has a strange carnival feel, with a faint repeated laugh in the back.

Here, Del Rey is crystal- and care-free.

Overall, “Honeymoon” album is solid.

The songs, while different, connect and maintain a baroque pop atmosphere.

The songs have overarching themes of romance, bitterness and lust.

“Honeymoon” is a quiet, soothing album that is sure to please fans, even with its change of atmosphere from “Ultraviolence.”

— Courtney Thompson

Instructor by day, punk by night Hooley’s band ‘The Bastages’ takes on social issues

BY T IA M ITCHELL ECHO A&E EDITOR

Mosh pits, crowd-surfing, and yelling out of a microphone backed by adrenalinerushing guitars and drums aren’t things expected from the average Joe. Somewhere in the midst of the Triangle area, a professor, an IT specialist and a nurse come out of their 9-to-5 jobs to rock the house and bring the crowd back to the hardcore punk era of the 1980s.

These not-so-average Joes are called The Bastages, a punk rock band created in 2010 by Durham musicians with their roots in punk and indie bands including the Ugly Americans and Superchunk from the 80s and 90s.

After going through member changes, the band is now composed of Danny Hooley, Christopher Horstman, Chuck Garrison and Chris Eubank.

On Nov. 4, they played at The Station in Carrboro, with bands Almost People and The Record Collection.

Although the members of Bastages are long-time punk fans, punk didn’t have deep roots in the Carolinas.

It was something they discovered on their own through magazines like “Hit Parader” and word-of-mouth.

“I saw a picture of the bass player from The Clash in a column in Creem magazine,” said N.C. Central University instructor and guitarist Hooley.

“The thing was, he was still a novice at playing the bass so he had the note names painted on the fret board of his bass so he knew where he was playing,” said Hooley.

“It’s like, ‘yeah I don’t play that well, so what? I’m up here.’ It was exciting and accessible. I was really into that idea.”

On stage, The Bastages’ music is loud, fast and wild.

Lead vocalist Horstman was having fun on stage. A microphone was swinging around his body and sang like he was Jello Biafra from the Dead Kennedys.

And much like the Dead Kennedys, The Bastages are not above mocking Fox News, speaking out on social issues or making fun of rude people in their own fun and chaotic way.

For instance, their song “Stand Your Ground” from their album “Scavanger Birdsongs” is a satirical take on how the law fails to sever the ends of social justice.

Performing shows has become more than a hobby for the members of Bastages.

“We like to play,” said Eubank. “We stay involved in

Guitarist Danny Hooley and vocalist Christopher Horstman, full of energy, performing on stage at The Station.

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things we like doing. It’s fun.

It’s more than a hobby but a little less than a career.”

For now, the band is thinking about taking a break from shows and plans to work on new material while building their fan-base.

“I don’t know if we'll be doing anymore recording and if we do, it’ll be a

smaller scale thing. Maybe some EPs or singles,” said Hooley.

“We've done everything ourselves so far. It would be nice if we were under the umbrella of some kind of label or some kind of collective, like Second Wife and other bands.”

The Bastages bring the

nostalgia of old hardcore punk back to the surface, showing that they’re as oldschool as it gets.

Their music isn’t soft or obscure. It’s in-your-face, it’s angry about the state of the world, while keeping it fun.

They show us that punk isn’t dead, it’s thriving.

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N.C. Central University faculty member Joshua Nadel’s “Fútbol!: Why Soccer Matters in Latin America” takes soccer seriously.

Nadel is assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean history, and associate director of the Global Studies Program at NCCU. The book argues that soccer has the capacity to forge national unity by engaging people across traditional collective boundaries.

In 2014, “Fútbol!” was awarded the Zócalo Public Square's 10 Best Books We Read This Year Award.

Nadel says that what started as a simple game played an important role in the expansion of Latin American countries in the twentieth century.

“The main idea of the book is that everybody perceives soccer as being the most important sport in Latin America, including me,” Nadel said.

“The question I wanted to answer is what are the reasons historically and why they think that, since I’m an historian.”

His book talks about how soccer affects racial issues, the media, gender stereotypes, and even politics.

Nadel grew up in New Jersey, playing soccer from age 6

until high school as a striker.

Nadel said soccer was a way for non-Americans to connect to their homeland.

People live for soccer around the world.

In fact, they kill for it. Soccer has thus become a source of hope and a reason for suicide.

It offers a way out of poverty and misery for a very limited number of people and an intangible escape for millions more.

“What I want people to get out of this book is that sports isn’t just about sports,” Nadel said.

“When you find a personal connection to the game, you realize sports is always a way to talk about a different issue.

Sports is more than just a game.

“It affects the way Latin Americans see the questions of race or see questions of gender.

“The way soccer reflects racial attitudes.

“For a long time, Brazil tried to present itself as a white nation, but through soccer that begins to change, and through soccer, Brazilians begin to accept the African heritage of their country.

“There’s a lot of problems with the way that it’s done, and it still suggests a lot of sub-surface racism in Brazil, but soc-

Assistant professor of history Joshua Nadel describes his award-winning book.

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cer is one of the things that helps to promote the idea of a multi-racial country and a multi-racial society.”

Nadel laments that NCCU does not have a soccer team.

“HBCU’s should have soccer teams as a whole,”he said.

“There are actually more

people interested in the game of futbol than people think.”

Nadel said he values teaching at NCCU. “I think the students of NCCU should know I appreciate them and I wouldn’t want to be elsewhere,” h said.

Nadel’s work has appeared

in the Washington Post, the Monkey Cage, the Weekly Wonk, Zócalo Public Square, and the Telegraph (London).

He is at work on a book with Brenda Elsey, entitled “Futbolera: The History of Women and Sports in Latin America.”

Football’s secret silent sideline language Coaches use their hands to signal players their next play BY

ERIC O’NEAL

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You’re at a football game watching the action between plays. You spot several on-field coaches on the sidelines.

One is patting his belly, while another is making a slicing motion across his chest.

Another is tugging at his nose. A second later the one who was patting his belly is tugging at his ear.

The one who was making the slicing motion across his chest is now tapping his head.

You notice that the players are eyeing one of the sideline coaches

carefully.

The other coaches are, in fact, just decoys.

The players nod their heads as if to say “we got it.”

“What on earth is going on here?” you wonder. You’d almost think the coach was warning the players that he has a stomach virus, or that a game of charades was underway … or maybe they’re speaking a secret silent sideline language designed to exclude you.

What if you were indeed right?

The objective of all this signaling is to convey information to the offensive or defensive players, while keeping that information hidden from the

other team.

A very interesting -and often unnoticed — fact is that most colleges don’t even huddle before their plays.

According to head coach and co-offensive coordinator Jerry Mack , the no-huddle system is popular with colleges because it allows for a faster-paced game than professional football.

So what are field coaches “saying” with those strange hand signals?

Each part has a meaning specific to each position, explains Mack.

For example, one gesture may be telling the running backs to run a certain route. Another

may be telling offensive linemen to open a hole between the center and left guard.

These movements combine to form the choreography of a larger play composed of many individual tasks, all embodying the essence of “teamwork making the dream work.”

But with all that said, this secret silent sideline language, is liable to change at the flip of a coin. For instance, it depending on the formation of the opposing team.

Mack explained that when the quarterback calls his audibles, he may be relaying missed signals.

“If an offensive line-

man says to the quarterback, ‘Hey, I missed the play call,’ the quarterback can relay it again to him,” Mack said.

Mack said that the quarterback may very well be shouting, “Granite 15” to confirm the play signaled by the secret silent sideline language called by the coach, or something like “Toyota 33” to advise that a different play is about to be called.

This would happen, for example, if the quarterback sees a blocked route or impending blitz.

The secret sign language, along with lastminute audibles and play changes, also happen when the team is on de-

fense.

Each team has worked out its own secret sideline language, Mack explained.

According to one NCCU player, the team spends upward of 10 hours each week during the season learning plays and play signals.

The next time you are at a football game and you spot the coach make a cutting motion across his nose and the quarterback sees and repeats said action, you'll be in the dark as to the specifics.

But you'll understand the structure, and at least you won’t think everyone’s catching a cold.

NCCU football’s silent sideline language is a special code that tells players what to do on the next play.

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Quarterback breaks record in Homecoming game

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NCCU football is on a three-game winning streak after last Saturday’s win.

On Oct. 24 the Eagles hosted Morgan State University in O'KellyRiddick Stadium for a MEAC showdown.

After a devastating one-point loss last season against the Bears, the Eagles were in full control Saturday, beating Morgan State 20-17.

This win boosts the Eagles into third place in the MEAC, after winning three straight MEAC games over the course of the season.

NCCU demonstrated that offense wins games and defense wins championships. The Eagles defense held Morgan State to negative 11 rushing yards.

The Eagles defense contributed 14 tackles for a loss, including four sacks. Cornerback Ryan Smith made a huge impact in the game with a late-fourth quarter interception to help the Eagles close out the game for the win.

Redshirt freshman running back Dorrel McClain rushed for 113 yards and two rushing touchdowns.

McClain was named the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference football Rookie of the Week for his rushing display.

This is McClain’s second straight 100-yard performance and the third of his college season.

“The offensive line had a big impact on the game along with the defensive line,” Quarterback Malcolm Bell said.

“Everyone really stepped up to the challenge. Ryan Smith and JaQuan Smith came up with clutch plays on the defensive end and Dor-

NCCU football’s head coach Jerry Mack leads Eagles onto the field in O’Kelly Riddick Stadium.

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ECHO SPORTS EDITOR

N.C. Central University kept its MEAC championship hopes alive Saturday, beating Norfolk State 24-16 in front of a Homecoming crowd of 11,965 at O'Kelly-Riddick Stadium.

Quarterback Malcolm Bell completed 13 of 26 passes for 193 yards, including a 77yard touchdown connection to wide receiver Armani Lanier which broke a 7-7 tie and gave the Eagles a lead they never looked back from.

That touchdown pass was NCCU’s longest passing touchdown since Oct. 30, 1999.

Bell also ran the ball for 88 yards. Running back Dorrel McClain led NCCU with 93 yards rushing and two touchdowns.

The players were hyped by the enthusiastic, sellout crowd. Bell said there’s “nothing like an HBCU homecoming.”

“The atmosphere was one of a kind,” Bell added.

“We appreciate the support as always. You guys motivate us to come out and put on a good show each and every week.”

“Saturday was amazing with the atmosphere on the field,” Lanier said.

“Just seeing the stadium filled with all the students and the alumni was something special.

We couldn’t do any of this without the fans.

rel McClain always runs the ball hard.”

Last week’s MEAC Offensive Lineman of the Week Clevonne Davis said, “Morgan State game was very nerve-wracking but we practice for situations like that all the time.

Ever since we started conference play we've been fighting through adversity so we knew how to overcome it.”

Clevonne Davis already has been awarded the Preseason AllMEAC First Team honoree and received two MEAC Offensive Lineman of the Week awards this season.

“This season I really became a student of the game as far as watching film and playing with more technique,” said Davis.

“This season I also learned how to better my leadership role and to play more with confidence.”

This game featured both MEAC teams with only one loss in the conference, giving the two teams and the fans high hopes.

“It was a game with a championship feel to it,” Malcolm Bell said.

“Both teams knew that a loss would kill all hopes of winning the championship, so the game reflected that. It was a hard-fought battle in the trenches. I’m just glad we were on the winning side of things. We have one goal and that’s to finish the season strong and to get to the MEAC championship.”

The Eagles are sitting at a 4-3 record but are 3-1 in the conference. The Eagles are now third place in the MEAC. The Eagles will host Norfolk State University for the Homecoming game Oct. 31 at 2 p.m.

NCCU’s wide receiver LaVontis Smith seeks touchdown after catch.

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They fill the stadium and shake it on third downs, and we can’t thank you guys enough for that.”

By taking a firstquarter lead by the Spartans, Norfolk State gave the Eagles a Halloween scare early in the game until Lanier’s touchdown pass changed the momentum of the game in the fourth quarter.

“After the catch I couldn’t even hear myself think," Lanier said.

“I honestly just

wanted to make a big play for my team, and that 77-yard play was amazing. It was a great throw by my quarterback Malcolm Bell.”

Bell also gave credit to Lanier for making the catch.

“Armani continues to get better and more confident each and every week,” Bell said.

“He stepped in up big-time this game.”

The Eagles have won four consecutive games after starting the season 1-3.

“Going into next game our main focus is to clean up the little things we’re doing wrong and making sure we don’t make the same mistakes,” Lanier said.

The Eagles are 5-3 overall and 4-1 in the conference.

They are in 3rd place in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.

The Eagles will host Delaware State on Nov. 7 at O’Kelly-Riddick Stadium for a MEAC showdown at 2 p.m.

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Why watch when you can participate?

Campus recreation offers activity programs for non-athletes BY

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The sports world is a busy one at the moment. The professional basketball season looms on the horizon, as well as the collegiate basketball season, and football season is coming to a close.

As a sports fan, sometimes the urge to want to actually participate in these sports lacks a viable outlet.

New additions to the L.T. Walker Complex recreation staff might help bridge that gap.

Coordinators Donnae Ward Laughinghouse and Jonathan Childress are at the reins of this turnover of staff and subsequent department changes.

Laughinghouse joins on as the new Coordinator of Fitness, while Childress joins as Coordinator of Competitive Sports. Both came on board this fall semester.

Childress and Laughinghouse plan to rejuvenate the intramural sports and fitness programs by adding programs and activities.

Both say that student participation will be the determining factors in the success of their programs.

“Students come in, see what we’re doing, and are interested,” said Childress.

“Every night, we’ve got something going on,” said Laughinghouse.

Campus Recreation activities include Aqua Zumba, Power Step, Kickboxing drills, and more. A schedule

of programs is available at the Walker Complex front desk.

Operating hours at the Walker Complex are now extended to include weekends, according to Willie Thomas, L.T. Walker Complex building supervisor.

According to Laughinghouse a new personal trainer program had been launched.

“Instead of just going in the gym and being lost, students could have guidance by personal training,” she said.

Thomas said the personal training program would have certified trainers to help trainees avoid strains and injury.

Building the intramural program is also a new focus of Campus Recreation.

Students interested in

participating can register online at IMLeagues, a website which coordinates intramural programs for various colleges.

There is no fee for students merely participating in intramural sports. Students can join a team or sign up individually and be invited to a team as a free agent.

Students looking to create their own teams can follow the outlined instructions provided on the online Intramural Sports page.

Intramural sports sponsored by Campus Recreation & Wellness include: Men and Women’s basketball, flag football, volleyball, and more to be implemented soon.

Campus Recreation doesn’t just serve students and faculty, according to

Thomas.

There are also annual memberships available to NCCU alumni and to the community.

The L.T. Walker Complex has different hours for its various departments. Its Wellness center hours of operation are: Monday-Thursday 6 a.m.-11p.m., Friday 6a.m.-9p.m., Saturday 10am3pm, and 1p.m.-5p.m. on Sundays.

The Complex’s pool is open Monday to Friday from 5p.m. to 8p.m., while the second floor gym is open Monday through Thursday from 3p.m.11p.m., 3p.m.-9p.m. on Fridays.

Both the complex’s 2nd floor gym and wellness center are open from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturdays and 1pm-5pm on Sundays.

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Accept me for who I am

Your name doesn’t determine your character or if you’re wellmannered. Your integrity and values determine your character.

The name Elizabeth does not make you a queen.

I have the right to ask ‘what’s tea?’ instead of asking ‘what’s good bruh? These choices do not dishonor my character; my choices have driven me to become brave. There’s no man in this world who could criticize me for my own choices because I’ve already accepted my true self.

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n October, on the talk show “The View,” the co-host Raven Symone announced to the world that she would not hire someone with a “ghetto” name.

“I am very discriminatory against words like the ones that they were saying in those names,” Raven said, referring to Amanda a viral Holmes video, “Top Ten List of Ghetto Names.”

“I’m not about to hire you if your name is ‘Watermelondrea.’

“It’s just not gonna happen, I’m not gonna hire you.”

Symone is not the only one who thinks that way.

Studies have shown that employers are less likely to call a person back for an interview if his or her name sounds stereotypically black.

Specifically, applicants with white names got a call-back once per ten resumes, while black, “ghetto” names got a call-back once per fifteen resumes.

Name discrimination is nothing new.

It is no secret that names carry connotations that can determine whether you get a call-back.

Admit it or not, names like “LaQuisha” and DeShawn” are perceived differently than names like “Heather” and “Ryan.”

For example, name discrimination logic determines that “LaQuisha” sounds like

a black woman and “Heather” sounds like a white woman.

The study also determined that Heather is more “responsible” than LaQuisha because, after all, who wants a “ratchet neckrolling angry black woman” working in their business, scaring away all the customers?

The scariest part of name discrimination is that “ghetto” names are only tied to blacks.

Before the 1970s, black children had names indistinguishable from whites, like Thomas and Mary.

But in the 1970s, an enormous sociocultural shift occurred.

The shift highlighted individuality within the black culture, brought along by the Black Power movement supporting black identity.

Those who lived in segregated black neighborhoods were more likely to give their children unique first names that included punctuation in their spelling.

Those names were given to resist uniformity, to combat European influence, and to establish an image for blacks that was separate from the white-biased framework.

And many people are fine with the fact that their names aren’t “proper.”

Either way, it’s wrong for someone to judge you based on your name.

Your name doesn’t determine your character or your manners.

Your integrity and values determine your character.

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The name Elizabeth does not make you a queen.

Obviously, no one can choose his or her names.

Sure, you can change your name when you are at legal age.

But why should you have to?

Why should you have to change a part of your identity to please someone?

There are hardworking people with names that are considered “ghetto,” and freeloaders with names we consider “proper.”

Despite the connotation their name carries, every person should be given an equal chance to prove they are wonderful people.

After all, how would you like it if someone discriminated against you based on what color socks you wore?

Discriminating against someone because of their name is just as stupid.

Name discrimination started when blacks decided to resist conformity with whites.

Thus, it is imperative that we reject name discrimination.

If we don’t, we are accepting a system designed to discriminate against us.

We cannot accept discrimination based on someone’s name.

We must resist it when other do it.

A name is one’s identity, alongside one’s race, religion and sexuality.

Accept it, claim it, and love it.

It’s who you are.

Reject name discrimination.

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ou and I were born into this cold world of sin.

The blood pumping through your veins is red, and so is mine.

You’ve faced challenges in life, and I am still facing them today.

The only thing that separates us is our sexual orientation, and our sexual orientations are separating a true Melquan brotherhood.

Ganzy, I am Opinions not concerned Editor about the things you don’t approve of.

I am more intrigued to know why you can’t accept me for the person I am.

I have the right to watch fashion models come down a runway during New York Fashion week rather than a Sunday NFL football game.

I have the right to be a Beyoncé fan — although I don’t truly live for her.

I have the right not to be pressed for every girl who walks by with a juicy booty, but to find Keith Carlos amazingly attractive.

I have the right to ask, “What’s tea?” instead of, “What’s good, bruh?”

These choices do not dishonor my character; my choices

have driven me to become brave.

No man in this world can criticize me for my choices because I’ve already accepted my true self.

I believe that individuality is the key to living for one’s true self.

And you have to be true to yourself before making a commitment to another.

For instance, as a sophomore, I wanted to become a member of a fraternity.

I revealed that I was gay, but that my sexuality didn’t define me.

I didn’t get in, I believe because of my sexual orientation.

The hardships I’ve faced have allowed me to provide guidance to younger people.

These hardships have made me a man.

For instance, I’ve encouraged my younger cousins, who are growing up like I did, in the ‘hood, to go to college.

I wanted them to avoid becoming that stereotypical black statistic — “every black man sells drugs.”

Since I stepped foot on North Carolina Central’s campus I’ve been no one other than myself.

Now, I can’t imagine hiding my identity to contribute to any organization.

I don’t wake up every morning with “gay” being the word of the day; instead, my word is “success.”

Some people don’t believe gay people

can have a commanding presence. I work just as hard as the next black man, fighting to be commanding.

Gay black men have a lot to offer.

We could start by comparing resumes, but that would just divide us even more.

For example, Langston Hughes, a gay poet, activist, novelist and playwright, was the leader of the Harlem Renaissance.

Hughes was known for his writing style, as well as his 15 books of poetry.

He published novels and nonfiction books such as “A Pictorial History of the Negro in America.”

Hughes influenced many rappers, from 2Pac to Mos Def. Not only are gay black men a part of black legacies, they’re also trendsetters.

If you haven’t heard the term “vogue,” it’s an artful dance that originated in Harlem.

Gay black men created it.

Madonna brought vogue into the mainstream in 1990.

Today, vogue is a worldwide form of dance.

Why can’t some people accept me for who I am?

If it’s hard to accept me because of our differences, get to know me and discover the things we both value.

You can’t judge this book by its cover.

My story is more intriguing than my appearance.

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t seems as if professors are dumbfounded when a student doesn’t get an assignment done.

Most classes aren’t too difficult.

A student can have maybe two or three assignments a week, and an occasional quiz.

However, some professors view their class as the center of the universe, which is understandable.

Professors work hard to make a syllabus, with aspirations to stick with it for the semester.

But the problem is that one class can never be the sole focus of a student’s efforts.

Most students have at least Evan three to Owens five other classes.

They also might be involved in student organizations, working a part-time job, and/or playing a sport, each of which demands an enormous amount of their time and focus.

As a college student, you want to network and socialize by joining organizations.

These extracurricular activities, as well as internships, will enhance your resume.

But they add even more responsibility.

If we have to focus on one class, how can we manage to sacrifice more time?

With fees and charges lurking behind every corner, it’s not cheap being a college student at all.

Another time-guzzler for many students is having a job.

It’s not uncommon for students to work full-time jobs.

So many students have to work at least part-time to help pay for tuition, to purchase books, food, gas, parking passes, and trust me, there’s more!

With most of their day devoted to work, students are left with little time to get assignments completed, let alone to study.

Let’s not forget student athletes.

Often, athletes are forced to choose between eating and going to class.

Student athletes are forced to live a double life, and never really allowed to fully be a student or an athlete.

On top of all this, students have to attempt to maintain some type of social life.

We know how essential human interaction is in keeping a healthy mind.

Students find themselves in a tough spot when they must choose between their assignments, friends and loved ones.

Ultimately, these aren’t excuses for giving students a free pass on assignments.

We understand the importance of a solid education, and that hard work pays off.

But as students and professors interact, it’s important for professors to keep in mind just how busy life can be for a college student.

A little understanding can go a long way.

he Ultimate Homecoming Experience was amazing!

I honestly didn’t expect to have so much fun.

I have experienced three homecomings prior to the UHE. And the UHE has been the best Homecoming, hands down.

But unfortuMelquan nately, we lack Ganzy, someOpinions thing as a promiEditor nent institution.

N.C. Central University lacked pride at the homecoming football game.

And it’s nothing new; this happens almost every football game.

My friends and I were chanting, but we didn’t get responses from either alumni or students.

Everyone looked at us as if we were speaking a different language.

We were yelling so loud you would think we were on the Champagne or the Black Eagles cheerleading squads.

We were losing in the first half, but the team

Campus Echo WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Amplified It’s not just about wearing maroon and grey, but also about stepping outside your comfort zone and supporting each athletic team, organization, and individual. was not to blame.

We were losing because the NCCU crowd was not uttering a sound.

The stadium should’ve been shaking: “Defense, defense! –“ ….

“Let’s go Eagles, Let’s go! --“ ….

“I said, Eagle Pride! –“ …

We wear NCCU shirts across the yard.

Our parents, who aren’t alumni, wear NCCU shirts.

Some students are paying up to $20,000 a year for tuition.

And you’re telling me you can’t yell “Amplified!”?

I don’t get it.

Football players are getting injured because they sacrifice themselves to win for our University.

And no, there’s no one forcing them to do what they love.

At Homecoming, We wanted the football team to score, but they weren’t because NCCU

was not backing them up.

When someone has support, they’re capable of doing anything.

If you don’t have support, you feel as though you can’t reach beyond people’s expectations.

I don’t like to make comparisons, because it can start conflict instead of bringing people together.

But at an HBCU, pride should be taken very seriously.

Other HBCU’s value their pride.

Let’s look at our biggest rival, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, or our old CIAA rival, Winston Salem State University, for example.

If you have ever attended one of their football games, their crowds are thrilled.

You can feel the electrifying roars through your body; they chill you to the bone.

Why don’t we cherish Eagle pride?

Many individuals before us not only fought

for better education, but also challenged white supremacy.

For instance, on Feb. 8, 1960, during the civil rights movement, Lacy Streeter, Callis Brown and Robert Kornegay led 17 black students from N.C. College at Durham, and three students from Duke University as they united at Woolworth’s lunch counter.

The students sat in the vacant seats and asked to be served.

The protest caught the attention of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Rev. David Abernathy.

This is one of the many reasons we should carry our University with the highest dignity.

NCCU has a rich history, just as every other HBCU does.

It’s not just about wearing maroon and grey, but also about stepping outside your comfort zone and supporting each athletic team, organization and individual.

With support, our pride will evolve and our University will emerge, welcome new students, and give alumni a reason to come home.

Let’s try this again:

Illustration by Krystal Porter

Sound Off Some at NCCU say we lack school pride, what can we do to enhance our school value?

“We need to have events more often. Events are limited; most of the time you have to be in an organization. We have W.O.W. every three months -- why not every month?”

— Jasmine Holeman, Senior

“EAGLE PRIDE!”

Romance over Netflix and chill

R

omance. Does it sound familiar?

Romance is a feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love.

It’s no secret that romance and chivalry are no longer required to bag a lady.

But Diamond why is that?

Gwynn Is it because guys today are just lazy when it comes to courting a woman?

Or is it because we sell ourselves short and settle for less?

When did “Netflix and chill” become the new dinner and a movie?

Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with cuddling with your significant other

and just chilling.

But if you’re just getting to know someone and that’s all you require, don’t be disappointed if that’s all you get!

Ladies, we must hold ourselves to a certain standard in order to be treated the way we deserve.

If you don’t believe you’re worth more than an invitation to his dorm room, then he won’t either.

Men will treat you the way you treat yourself.

Men, I totally understand if you’re not trying to cash out on a girl you just met, or because your wallet won’t allow you to.

However, there are other ways to woo or get to know a woman without spending a boatload of cash on dinner, shoes and clothes.

I’m not sure whether

you’ve ever taken a woman on a date or attempted to impress a one, but I can school you.

First, have a wellthought-out plan. Be creative, not lazy. Don’t ask her, “What do you want to do tonight?”

Simplicity is best.

The purpose of dates is to get to know someone by conversing, not to show how much money you’re banking.

And if you’re running low on dough, go to a museum or take her to the park and have a simple picnic.

On the date, when talking to her, make eye contact.

Avoid looking at your phone.

Last, but certainly not least, make sure you set a time you’ll be there to pick her up so that she’s ready.

Most women love getting dressed up, but we can’t do that if your

plans are to be locked in a room watching Netflix.

But if you too are only looking for someone to cuddle and be intimate with, just know that will only lead to — in the words of Fabolous — a “situationship.”

You know what a situationship involves: sex — perhaps good, perhaps lousy — and a bad relationship.

When settling for just a trip to a man’s room to let Netflix watch you, you will eventually find yourself in a situationship.

Instead, find yourself some dignity.

Excuse me for another Fabolous reference: “Know your worth.

“Ain’t no discounts!”

Romance isn’t dead.

Romance requires more in a world of social media, reality TV and trap kings.

“We need to have more interactive and social events so that people can get comfortable with our University.

— Lydia Wright, Junior

“We should express our pride outside of HC. It doesn't require a "turn up", we can unite, and value those who've made it possible to attend NCCU.” — Mikella Townsend, Senior