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Color in Freedom shows the journey of the Underground Railroad

Chapman rewrites the record book with 410 assists

Expecting mothers navigate their way through college

SEEDS harvests community involvement from Durham locals

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More care or care less? BY ALEX SAMPSON ECHO EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

What with website glitches, political red herrings and vital information lost in an array of jargon, the public has been in a state of confusion about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act since its passage. Signed by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010, the federal statute aims to decrease the number of uninsured Americans by increasing the availability of highquality health insurance. The ACA, known as ObamaCare, is the first major healthcare reform since the passage of Medicaid and Medicare in 1965 under Lyndon B. Johnson. The complex legislation establishes health insurance exchanges that allow individuals, families and small businesses to get covered or choose a new coverage plan. During a government shutdown, with the ACA at

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the center of the chaos, the marketplace opened on Oct. 1. This small victory, however, proved to be another issue. The federal website was marred by massive web traffic, lengthy delays and numerous errors. According to an analysis by Millward Brown Digital, the launch’s first week saw 9.47 million unique visitors. Of that number, 196,000 began enrollment and 36,000 completed enrollment. The Obama administration is set to release national enrollment statistics sometime this week. “It is frustrating that it isn’t working consistently every day,” said Sorien Schmidt, North Carolina director of Enroll America. Schmidt said the website hasn’t been too much of a barrier so far. Applicants may fill out a paper application, apply by phone or get assistance from experts called navigators. While navigators don’t

Joseph Holston’s “Arrival in the Unknown”(above) and “Jubilation” (below) MONIQUE LEWIS/Echo Assistant Editor

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T Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, appears before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, to answer questions about problems with the launch of the government’s website for enrolling in healthcare plans based on the Affordable Care Act. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/MCT) OLIVIER DOULIERY/Abaca Press (MCT)

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he Underground Railroad was 19thcentury slaves’ pathway to freedom in the northern United States and Canada.

In 2008, the University of Maryland was mounting an exhibit on the lives of people who were taken from their native lands and sold into slavery. They asked Joseph Holston, a critically acclaimed artist who is best known for his vivid use of color, to bring to life the barbarism of slavery and the joy of freedom. Holston completed the 50 paintings, etchings and drawings of “Color in Freedom: Journey along the Underground Railroad” in less than a year. They are now on display in the N.C. Central

University Art Museum. Holston said he had to lock himself in his studio to come up with the concept. “I had to become a character in how this story would unfold,” Holston said. “Creating a body of work that’s so negative and dark … it was sort of a double-edged sword.” Kenneth Rodgers, NCCU Art Museum director, writes in a press release that Holston’s works “capture the essence of the courage and determination required to escape, enhance understanding of the

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NCCU remembers Chambers Former Chancellor Julius Chambers’ impact lives on

Oceans trapping global heat

BY BRANDI ARLEDGE ECHO STAFF REPORTER

N.C. Central University held the Julius Chambers Memorial on Nov. 6 in the B.N. Duke Auditorium. Chambers was a civil rights activist and lawyer who served as chancellor to NCCU from 1993-2001. The memorial was attended by Mayor Bill Bell and Congressman David Price, D- 4th District. “He’s the single person who is most responsible for the NCCU you see today,” said Rep. David Price, D-4th District. “He made a significant contribution as an educator. It’s not what he’s best known for, but it’s indicative of what his values were.” Chambers died of a heart attack on Aug. 2 in his home, after months of declining health. Chambers was 76. He was born in 1936 in Mount Gilead, N.C. where his father owned a garage. Chambers won all of the

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Julius Chambers’ children, Derrick and Judy, stand by their father’s image. JAMILA JOHNSON/Echo staff photographer

eight cases he took to the Supreme Court. Some say his most significant case was Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education. The 1971 case led to the Supreme

Court decision which granted federal courts the power to order bussing to force racial integration. But Chambers has said that his most important case was in 1965 when he sued to

integrate the annual high school Shrine Bowl. Eight days after he won the case, his house was bombed. At other times his

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LOS ANGELES — Scientists have struggled to explain a recent slowdown in the rise of global surface temperatures while skeptics have seized on the 15-year lull to cast doubt on the science of climate change. A new study offers one explanation of where much of the heat trapped by greenhouse gas emissions is going: the ocean. Scientists found that parts of the Pacific Ocean are absorbing heat faster than they have over the past 10,000 years. The results, published this past week in the journal Science, suggest seawater is capturing far more energy than previously thought, for now sparing land-dwellers some of the worst effects of climate change.

Researchers collected marine sediment off Indonesia to measure the mineral content in the shells of a species of singlecelled plankton that change their composition as waters warm. In the analysis, scientists reconstructed the temperature of the plankton’s habitat in the middle depths of the western Pacific going back 10,000 years. Those waters were cooling gradually until about 1600, when temperatures started inching back up, the study found. In recent decades, the rate of ocean warming has accelerated comparatively quickly, rising about onethird of a degree Fahrenheit in the last 60 years. “This is much faster than anything we’ve seen in the

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Flu shots not in season

Campus Echo WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 13, 2013

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N.C. Central University students see little value in immunizing

Downey Regional Medical Center RN Connie Meinke administers a flu vaccine on Jan. 17, 2013. The California facility is preparing for the flu onslaught. MARK BOSTER/Los Angeles Times (MCT)

BY JAMAR NEGRON ECHO ASSISTANT EDITOR

Flu season is here. As the weather gets colder, beverages get warmer and days get shorter, medical communities around the nation begin a months-long campaign to encourage Americans everywhere to protect themselves against influenza. According to the Center for Disease Control, flu season starts as early as October and can continue through May. The CDC recommends everyone over the age of six months receive a flu shot. The importance of the flu shot seemed to resonate well with Americans last flu season; the CDC recorded 56 percent of children between six months and 17 years were vaccinated, along with 41.5 percent immunized adults 18 years or older. North Carolina was a leader in the immunization push, vaccinating just over

half of its residents — five percent over the national average of 45 percent. Yet on college campuses like N.C. Central University, the push for flu vaccination often falls on deaf ears. NCCU students are avoiding the shot like the plague. “We’re not taking advantage of taking the flu shot,” said NCCU nursing supervisor Dolores Blue. “Why not get the flu shot, give yourself the immunity and protect yourself?” Students have their reasons. Early childhood education junior Breonna King said she didn’t get the shot mostly because she hates needles. She also said the idea of putting a flu virus — however diluted — in her body was a strong deterrent. In fact, according to the CDC, the flu virus vaccine administered is either ‘inactivated’ and cannot infect anyone or has no trace of the flu virus inside the shot and is simply a salt water solu-

tion. “I’m scared knowing that [the doctors] are prepping my body with the opposite,” she said. She said she used to get it in her younger years because her parents insisted but the rules have changed since then. “Now that I’m older I just don’t concern myself with it,” she said. She also said the idea of getting sick because of the flu shot scared her away as well. Political science freshman Taniqua Hanson echoed similar sentiments. “I feel like there’s other ways to prevent getting the flu,” she said. Within the medical community, the flu vaccine is seen as the single most effective way to prevent contracting the flu. Doctors dismiss the fears people have of the vaccine as myths. Michael Kaplan, medical director of the national urgent care organization

NextCare, said these myths are a major roadblock for getting people vaccinated. “There’s always going to be some concern with medicine,” he said. “That’s something that we as medical professionals have to educate our patients on.” NCCU medical director Letitia Hazel said it is those myths that keep campus flu clinics short of students. “We have our work cut out for us trying to dispel those myths,” Hazel said. Blue said AfricanAmerican students at large are not used to getting flu shots. King said many AfricanAmerican college students might not consider the severity of the flu. According to the CDC, one-third of the entire world population was infected with the 1918 flu epidemic and between 50100 million died – many of them healthy adults. “A lot of us don’t consider the risks that we’re taking,” she said. Blue said many students don’t get immunized because no one in their family was ever immunized, so they don’t see the value in it. Blue, Hazel and Kaplan said properly informing the public is the key to getting them mobilized to immunize. “I think you just have to have the info out there,” Hazel said. Kaplan said his organization spends a lot of time making sure people are vaccinated by asking people if they’ve been immunized when they walk into a clinic and hosting offsite vaccination clinics. Blue said the flu shot needs to be seen as “positive rather than punitive” for successful flu immunization to occur on NCCU’s campus. Hazel said that dispelling the myths and having a dialogue about the flu would bring about positive steps for campus-wide immunization. “Flu happens on college campuses,” she said. “Once you get the flu, you’ll go ‘I never want it again’.”

CHAMBERS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 office and car were bombed. During the 1960s Chambers handled over 50 desegregation and anti-discrimination cases. Chambers graduated summa cum laud with a history from NCCU in 1958. At NCCU Chambers was the senior class president, a quarterback on the football team, president of the fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha. He then earned a master’s degree in history from the University of Michigan and a law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where, despite being first in his class of 100 and serving as the editor-in-chief of the

school’s law review, he was barred from the end-of-year banquet at the segregated Chapel Hill Country Club. After earning a master’s degree in law at the Columbia Law School he was selected by Thurgood Marshall to intern with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Later in private practice his firm litigated cases social justice, including education, voting rights, capital punishment, employment, housing and prisons. In 1984 Chambers returned to lead the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Freddie Parker, a history professor at NCCU recalled

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that at the age of 16 yearsold, he and 17 others decided to protest on the streets of Orange County when a teacher was fired for having her students read a novel with explicit language which white parents didn’t approve of this. Parker said they were arrested because there was a parade going on at that time. Chambers took on their case had it overturned. Chambers was the first alumnus to serve as an NCCU chancellor. While he was chancellor established a $50 million fundraising campaign, resolved a number of financial problems I the athletic and public administra-

tion departments, and for the first time a decade construction on campus came to life. Chambers biggest dream the Julius L. Chambers Biomedical/ Biotechnology research Institute opened in 1999. In a 2004 interview with North Carolina Now he said “The major thing to me is that people appreciate that you’ve got to think of advancing the cause of others, rather than yourself.” Asked how he wanted to be remembered he said: “As a poor little country boy from the rural area of North Carolina … who dreamed.”

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Eagle escort changes gears

The Eagle Escort service has been offered at NCCU since the 1990s. MONIQUE LEWIS/Echo assistant editor

BY MONIQUE LEWIS ECHO ASSISTANT EDITOR

N.C. Central University’s Police Department has provided the campus the Eagle Escort service since the early 1990s. A service that only three other colleges in the UNC system provides. According to a September 2012 NCCU Police Escort Report prepared by Lieutenant Charles Simpson, Jr., escort services were used for “cash runs to banks, person with disabilities, transports to pick up towed vehicles, transports to and from hospitals and point-to-point transports for claimed safety purposes.” The report also states that over the past twenty years there has been an addition of sworn and nonsworn officers and the purchase of golf carts, but the pressure from the demand was still heavy. The police department was overwhelmed with disability escort service calls preventing officers from patrolling the campus to keep it safe. University police officers completed an average of 33 escorts a day for persons who were registered through the University office of student disability services. “We were transporting to residence halls, to classroom to classroom and everywhere else the person needed to go,” said

Timothy Bellamy, director of police and public safety. “We realized we were expending all of our time doing transports all day to a certain point where all our resources were being used for transport and we weren’t proving the security that we needed for the campus during the day time.” Bellamy met with Kesha Lee, director of student disability services, and representatives from the legal affairs department to negotiate a way to alleviate some of the calls for transportation. As a result, students with disabilities will no longer be transported under the police department. Instead, they will be transported under student and disability services and the Department of Transportation for the division of Student Affairs. “We have to look at the safety of the University and persons with disabilities fall more under [Ms. Lee’s] department than police,” said Bellamy. NCCU’s police department is now able to focus their attention on keeping the campus safe during the daytime and to do building and security checks. Eagle Escort services for safety are still under the police department and are available at night. To receive an escort students, faculty, or staff must contact the Department at 919-530-6106.

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All in a day’s work Dr. Yang’s research may change how cancer is detected

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Baby on board Cradle Me 3 supports current, soon-to-be moms

Zykira Batten (far left), Sabrina Howie (in Aero shirt) and Destinee Miller (far right) at the Campus Moms Connect meet and greet held by Cradle Me 3 on Oct. 23. CHELSEE POMPEY/Echo staff reporter

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Dr. Yang looks on as her student Eric McCoy injects bacteria into vials. JAMA NEGRON/Echo assistant editor

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Within the walls of the Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise (BRITE) building, one university scientist’s work is advancing the school’s penchant for making history. Dr. Liju Yang, an assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences, moved to the United States from China in 2000. Yang got her PhD in biological and agricultural engineering from the University of Arkansas. There, she worked in the bioengineering department developing biosensors. She worked at Purdue University in Indiana for two years before coming to NCCU in 2006. It’s the research she is conducting on NCCU’s campus that is causing a buzz in the scientific community. In laymen’s terms, Dr. Yang’s research focuses on the early detection of cancer cells in the body. By growing cancer cells on electrodes and looking at a cell’s electrical signal, doctors may be able to tell which cells are cancerous earlier than with standard methods of detection,

which are not sensitive enough to diagnose cancer in its earliest stages. Yang said she is excited about the future of her work. “I feel it’s very useful and it has the potential to be a method for the diagnosis of cancer,” Yang said. She also said much more research must be done before the method she is developing is a viable method of cancer detection. “It’s promising but it still has a long way to go,” Yang said. Yang said her students are enthusiastic about the potential of the research. Pharmaceutical science and chemistry senior Eric McCoy works with Yang on a U.S. Army-sponsored initiative to find out how to neutralize anthrax spores with nanoparticles. He said working with Yang is a pleasure. “She doesn’t really hold your hand,” McCoy said, adding that Yang, despite her busy research schedule, has an open door policy and is always available to help students. Graduate student Rasheena Edmondson works with Yang to grow cells in 3-D matrices to ana-

lyze the effects of treatment on cancer cells. “She’s very understanding,” she said. Yang said giving her students opportunities to work in the lab and assist in scientific publications gives them confidence and experience. McCoy said going with Yang to conferences and doing scientific poster presentations helped with his nervousness at public speaking. “She helps me get out of [fear of] that spotlight,” McCoy said. Yang said that regardless of her groundbreaking research and other works, she is just doing her job as a science professor. “I would think this is what our job is,” Yang said. “I like science. I want to figure out some problems.” She said NCCU has a good environment and people with different experiences in all aspects of science come together to work together successfully. Yang said although some universities have more resources for conducting research, she is happy with the output of NCCU’s scientific community. “We are doing a good job here,” she said.

Studying, meeting deadlines and preparing for exams are some of everyday tasks college students face. Now imagine doing it all with a baby on board. Feet swellings, vomiting and heartburn are a few of the symptoms that currently face three NCCU students. Sabrina Howie lives in Chidley Residence Hall, which many NCCU students refer to as Africa because of how remote it is from the rest of campus. “Walking around campus is getting harder because I’m getting bigger,” said Howie, a psychology junior, who now uses the campus shuttle regularly. Zykira Batten, a nursing sophomore, also lives in Chidley. Batten says although she has swelling feet it does not make her daily routines more difficult. “The hardest challenge that I am facing is finances,” said Batten. “I have to keep reminding myself that I have to provide for someone else other than myself.” Destinee Miller, a criminal justice senior, lives in Eagle Landing. “During my pregnancy, so far I have experienced swelling feet, back pains, vomiting, hot flashes, and the list goes on,” said Miller. Miller also says she has trouble sleeping at night. “I

tend to wake up at various times of the night,” said Miller. None of these students are working, but they all say they have a great support systems from family and friends. Miller is a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. and shares her living space on campus with her line sisters. “We all know each other pretty well so we really don’t have any problems.” Howie said she had issues with her roommate’s friends visiting at all hours of the night, over staying their welcome, and making noise. Howie says that being pregnant makes it more difficult to tolerate roommate issues. One thing pregnant students say takes a little getting used to: the stares and comments. “I feel like people do stare and make negative remarks,” said Batten. “I’ve heard a guy say ‘Dang! That’s like the third pregnant girl I seen today’.” Batten says the negative comments offend her because there isn’t anything wrong with being pregnant while in college. Miller says she hasn’t had this issue. But Howie said she has received negative comments from other students. “People think they can just walk up to me and say anything,” said Howie. “People stare so hard… a stare of shock.” Howie says people tell her

that she is too young to be having a baby. “I’m 22, you don’t know me,” said Howie. “For all you know I can be married.” NCCU has an organization that provides mothers on campus with support and parenthood education. The Cradle Me 3 Project focuses on three aspects of motherhood: pre-conception, pregnancy and planning. Cradle Me 3 held a meet and greet on Oct. 23 where campus moms and moms-to-be had the opportunity to connect with each other. “I wasn’t aware of this project before I was pregnant,” said Miller. “I think this program is excellent for mommies-to-be on campus. It’s always good to have outside support from others.” Guest speaker, Christina Adams, who has both bachelor’s and a master’s degrees in social work, had her first child when she was 13. “If I can do it, I KNOW you all can do it,” said Adams. Adams shared resources with mothers-to-be that provide baby supplies, including diapers, cribs and car seats. Cradle Me 3 Project also raffled off some gift cards. Although Cradle Me 3 builds a support team, there are some things it couldn’t quite help out with … partying at this year’s Homecoming.

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Culture of the clothesline “Clothesline Muse” celebrates work, experience of washerwomen

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Wash the clothes, wring them, and hang them out to dry. For award-winning visual artist Maya Freelon Asante, this laundry request was a theatrical collaboration and the laundry was made up of Asante’s tissue paper sculptural art. The collaboration produced a five-minute dance called “The Clothesline Muse.” “My mother-in-law, Kariamu Welsh, came to me and she asked if we could use my art in a theater setting,” said Asante. “I thought my art would be drab in the dark box, but when lit with light, it has really turned into something beautiful.” Asante’s mother, six-time Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist Nneena Freelon, is the writer and producer of what has grown into a multimedia theatrical production. Asante said the play is about “telling a common story through different vantage points.” Each woman brings her own experience to the project. “Mama K’s [Welsh’s] story is more urban, from the tenements, looking out the window at your neighbor’s clothes,” said Asante. “My mom’s relationship was more of a Southern story.” The Great Migration, which lasted from the 1930s to the late 1960s, moved blacks out of the South. The conversations that took place around the clothesline often focused on escaping segregation

and poor economic conditions in the South. Asante said her first experience with the clothesline was around age 8, when her mother sent Asante and her younger brother to Cambridge, Mass., where they lived with their grandmother. One of the first things their grandmother made them do was hang a clothesline in the backyard. “All me and my brother wanted to do with it was play limbo,” Asante said. Her memories of clothesline limbo are now a part of the production. Welsh, Asante and Freelon’s company, Aion Productions LLC, will present an excerpt from the 75minute play at the Durham Arts Council Nov. 21st. The performance will feature a talk back session at the closing. “It’s more than just a performance; it’s really an audience engagement,” said DAC executive director Sherry DeVries. “I think it is a unique approach and a very powerful one.” Freelon was one of the earliest recipients of the DAC Emerging Artist Grant in 1989. “It’s special that these creative professionals are coming back to DAC to rehearse this new collaborative work,” DeVries said. Bringing a new meaning to “triple threat,” Freelon, Welsh and Asante continue to inspire other artists in the process. A friend of Freelon’s, award-winning executive producer Lana Garland was introduced to the project in the early stages of the play’s production. Garland recalled sitting

Three washer women wring out laundry in a performance of Aion Production’s “The Clothesline Muse.” Courtesy of Durham Arts Council

“But even in the midst of the struggle, there is a coping mechanism — one that causes us to celebrate ourselves.” LANA GARLAND LIVING OFF THE LINE DOCUMENTARIAN in on the early auditions caused her to remember childhood experiences. “I saw the hand games and the double dutch,” Garland said. Her growing interest in the play developed into her current documentary, “Living off the Line: Stories of The Clothesline Muse.” Her film follows the sto-

ries behind the play and uncovers the historical, economic and social issues that surround the clothesline. The stories go beyond women using the clothesline for their own laundry, exploring what it meant to do someone else’s laundry for a living. “I don’t want to romanti-

cize the story of the washer woman,” Garland said. “It was hard work, but women taking in the wash was the number one means of income. “But even in the midst of the struggle, there is a coping mechanism — one that causes us to celebrate ourselves.” The documentary

extends the dialogue about the struggle of the washer woman’s work and the history woven throughout. “We have to honor their sacrifice,” Asante said. “We wouldn’t be able to go to college. We wouldn’t be able to take a career in the creative arts without that sacrifice.”

OBAMACARE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 have to be licensed insurance agents or brokers, they have to meet certain guidelines to ensure their impartiality. Lincoln Community Health Center in Durham has six navigators. With 1.3 million North Carolinians uninsured, Schmidt said the ACA finally provides an opportunity to get a large amount of those people covered. It’s just a matter of reaching out to them. In Feb. 2013, North Carolina opted out of a state-based exchange or state-federal partnership. Even though “ObamaCare” is based off Mitt Romney’s health care insurance reform law for Massachusetts – a law that was initially applauded by Republicans – many states with Republican governors also defaulted to a federally ran marketplace. “It’s sort of an irony that it happened that way,” Shmidt said. North Carolina also rejected a $27 million federal grant for ACA outreach. In order to ease the difficulty of an already convoluted situation, organizations such as Enroll America have taken on the responsibility of educating the public.

David Jolly, associate professor and chair of Public Health Education at N.C. Central University, is a member of Durham’s Access to Care Committee which advocates for changes in healthcare and particpates in Enroll America’s campaign, Get Covered America. Jolly said he was initially shocked at the amount of people who didn’t know much about the ACA. “People are busy and so they don’t pay any attention until the feel like it’s actually going to affect them,” Jolly said. Jolly said one of the most important changes the ACA accomplished was banning companies from discriminating against those with preexisting conditions. Prior to the law’s passage, insurance companies could legally reject sick individuals or charge them at expensive rates. The reform also overhauls Medicare, expands Medicaid (which NC also opted out of) and allows young people to stay on their parent’s plan until they turn 26. As of Jan. 1, 2014, those who aren’t insured may face a penalty. The fee for not getting covered is $95 for adults and $47.50 for

children or 1 percent of family income depending on which is higher. Fees will increase in the following years. Under certain circumstances, however, exemptions are allowed. The mandate is one of many factors people have taken issue with. Specifically among those are young and healthy, the contention is that they’re being forced into the healthcare system. Jolly said the rational of requiring everyone to get covered and penalizing them if they don’t is to keep the system up and running. If only sick people are buying into the system, it would go bust. “They [young, healthy people] will in fact will be providing the extra money that is be needed to provide care for people who have health problems,” Jolly said. Jolly said those saying it’s unfair that they have to subsidize the healthcare of others will one day be sick and need the favor returned. “Someday you’re going to need healthcare as well,” Jolly said. “You’re going to need other people paying into the system to pay for your care.”

BABY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 “I feel like I’m missing out on everything,” said Batten. “There are times that I wish I was going out with my friends, especially during Homecoming,” said Miller, adding that she gets over it soon enough. Howie said she was never a party person anyway but she did have to quit House Arrest, an NCCU dance organization. All three expectant mothers said they plan to return

home and take online classes in the fall semester. Howie is on a full scholarship, but she worries that her pregnancy may jeopardize her scholarship. She isn’t sure if she’ll be able to keep her scholarship while taking online courses and living off campus. Miller’s pregnancy has delayed her expected graduation date. “I was supposed to graduate in May with a degree in Criminal Justice,” said

Miller. “But since I’m having my baby girl in February … I will be graduating next fall.” Although their pregnancies are bringing big changes Batten, Howie and Miller are determined to stay focused and finish school. Batten is expecting a baby boy on Jan. 2. Howie is expecting a baby girl, Emori, on Jan. 2. Miller is also expecting a baby girl, Kassidy Noel, on Feb. 6.

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The continuing revelations about National Security Agency spying on sensitive data kept by Silicon Valley companies are feeding fears that U.S. Internet companies could suffer billions of dollars in lost business. Following disclosures earlier this year that the National Security Agency’s Prism program had spied on Apple Inc., Google Inc., Facebook and Yahoo Inc., an industry group put the potential cost at up to $35 billion a year by 2016, while an influential tech research firm estimated the damage at a staggering $180 billion a year. Any economic fallout is likely to add to the growing tensions between Silicon Valley and the U.S. intelligence community, with major tech companies joining a growing chorus of critics who want to limit the NSA’s extensive data-gathering. And lost revenue could hurt one of the country’s most dynamic industries as it continues to recover fully from the Great Recession. The level of anxiety is especially high in Europe, where the NSA’s reported activities have prompted a governmental investigation and a widespread view that it’s unsafe to do business with U.S. “cloud companies,” which offer software products over the Internet. “In Europe there is very much a notion of, ‘Hey, can I even deal with this American company, especially with cloud providers?’ “ said Andreas Baumhof, chief technology officer at ThreatMetrix, a cybersecurity services firm.

Noting that he just returned from a European trip, he added, “This is at the top of everyone’s minds.” In surveying its members this summer about the NSA disclosures, the Cloud Security Alliance — which develops security standards for Internet firms — found that 10 percent of the 207 foreign respondents had “canceled a project to use U.S.based cloud providers” and 56 percent were “less likely” to use U.S. cloud providers in the future. Such attitudes could prove expensive for companies here, according to the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, an industry research group. Declaring that “Europeans in particular are trying to edge out their American competitors” in Internet services, it estimated in August that the NSA revelations could cost U.S. cloud providers up to $35 billion in 2016. That estimate was deemed “too low” by James Staten, an analyst with Forrester Research, which studies business trends. He predicted the potential cost to U.S. cloud providers could reach $180 billion, noting that the NSA disclosures could derail business from potential customers in this country as well as overseas. Some industry observers have dismissed those reports, arguing that there is little evidence so far of a drop-off of business for U.S. cloud providers. Officials at Google, Twitter, Yahoo, Oracle, Dropbox and Salesforce didn’t immediately respond to a San Jose Mercury News query about the impact of the NSA revelations. But David Castro, a senior

analyst who wrote the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation study, said he’s heard from overseas companies that their “sales are definitely up” because of the NSA news. Another group — the Information Technology Industry Council — last week warned that “many U.S. tech companies are experiencing troubling repercussions in the global marketplace.” Several cybersecurity experts said foreigners are especially worried because U.S. data networks often aren’t encrypted to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive information. Just this week it was revealed that the NSA had accessed information from fiber-optic networks used by Google and Yahoo. That prompted Google to say it was encrypting more of its network. Yahoo said it had no announced plans to encrypt its data-center links. “It is clear that any such traffic must be encrypted if any kind of confidentiality is expected,” said Tatu Ylonen, CEO of Finland-based SSH Communications Security. Indeed, several experts said one benefit that could result from the NSA disclosures is that cybersecurity firms could see increased business, as Internet companies shore up their networks from prying eyes. “Absolutely, our business is growing very rapidly,” said Jeff Hudson, CEO of Venafi, a Utah security company with an office in Palo Alto, Calif. Referring to the repeated revelations about NSA spying, he added, “People are starting to wake up because this keeps happening over and over again.”

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A Goose Point Oyster Co. employee harvests fresh oysters in Willapa Bay, April 24, 2014. The Nisbets struggled to make ends meet in recent years as ocean acidiﬁcation wiped out oyster reproduction in the bay and along the coast. STEVE RINGMAN/Seattle Times (MCT)

long term,” said Yair Rosenthal, a professor of earth sciences at Rutgers University and lead author of the study, published Friday. The timing could be fortuitous, because we may be pumping the atmosphere full of carbon after a naturally-occurring cooldown, just when the oceans are most prepared to absorb the heat, Rosenthal said. “There may be some hope,” he said, “because maybe the ocean will be able to store more heat than we were estimating before.” It could also spell trouble. While temperatures in the atmosphere go up and down pretty quickly, seawater can absorb a lot of heat before its temperature rises. So even if carbon emissions are reduced, it could take years or even

centuries for the ocean to respond, a lag that could have consequences far into the future. The ocean’s heat content, which has been measured since the 1960s with buoys and instruments lowered from ships, accounts for about 90 percent of the earth’s warming, the study says, making it a more reliable indicator of climate change than surface temperatures. “The ocean has a tremendous amount of heat capacity. It’s very slow and ponderous in responding to climate change and it’s always trying to catch up to changes that are occurring at the surface,” said Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research who was not involved in the research. Trenberth and others

have expressed reservations about the pace of warming reported in the study, saying it may be unique to the Western Pacific and fails to account for the cooling and warming of naturally occurring climate patterns like El Nino and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. “Is this really rapid warming really reflective of the global values when you’ve only got sites in the Indonesian region?” Trenberth said. Rosenthal acknowledged the results may not be representative of oceans globally, but said they should raise key questions for other researchers to tackle. One of those, he said, is just how long can the ocean persist as a reservoir for heat, buffering the effects of a warming planet.

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Photos and story by Jade Jackson eciprocation. Vegetation. Education. SEEDS is a Durham community garden designed around the concept of giving and taking. The abundant gardens filled with rows of lettuce, fruits, vegetables, herbs and all sorts of garden life are a welcome oasis from the realities of barbed wire

fences next door that protect neighboring businesses. SEEDS volunteer Willie L. Dupree is a major proponent of community gardens and their community value. He particularly notes how gardening can help build character. “You see that? She’s teaching her baby,” Dupree said, watch-

ing Arin Lowe walk hand-in-hand with her 21-month-old daughter Ellie to pick some fresh greens. She and her daughter learn about the varieties of gardening from Dupree as he waves to the young people, who shout “Hey, Mr. Dupree” as they pass. Nilisha McPhaul (pictured below) is a high school student

who grew up on the block where SEEDS is located. She volunteers at SEEDS with some of her family and friends. They work to maintain the greenery for other Durham dwellers. “Not enough are willing to do anything as it concerns their main health in the black commu-

nity, so it’s good when I see these kids volunteering around here,” said Dupree. The community values the example Dupree’s volunteerism sets. “He’s one of our best and favorite gardeners here,” said SEEDS youth educator Thadeus Bennet.

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Director and producer Steve McQueen’s latest film, “12 Years a Slave,” gives a real and graphic depiction of slave life in the South. Solomon Northup, (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free man with a wife and two children living in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., has become well-known for his fiddleplaying. His talent earns him a spot in a traveling music trio. While discussing business plans over dinner, he is drugged and sold into slavery.

McQueen executes the scene changes matter-offactly, leaving the audience just as startled and confused as Northup. Northup wakes up in darkness, his hands and feet chained. At his first attempt to explain himself to his captors, they tell him: “You ain’t a free man. You’re a Georgia runaway.” Suddenly, Northup finds himself being bludgeoned upon his hands and knees, and forced into a life not his own. His first slave master is William Ford. Northup writes of Ford: "There never was a more kind, noble, candid, Christian man than William Ford."

But the story wouldn’t be complete without Northrup’s second master, the psychotic and sinister Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender). On Edwin’s plantation, Northup meets Patsey (Lupita Nyong’o). Although she begs Northup to take her life, in the end it is her strength and ability to survive that speaks volumes to Northup. The pettiness and brutality of slavery is captured in a scene in which Northup is forced to whip Patsey for leaving the plantation for a bar of soap. When Epps’ jealous wife insists that Northup isn’t hitting Patsey hard enough, Epps lights into Patsey.

As Frank Rich writes in New York Magazine, “All that’s missing in the extended lashing scenes is 3-D.” Northup eventually makes headway by sending letters home notifying his family of his situation, with the help of Bass (Brad Pitt), an abolitionist. Through a series of coincidences and with the right support, Northup is once again a free man, and returns home. The film will have its audience gripping their seats and squeezing their eyes shut as McQueen takes them on a powerful, horrific, and tear-jerking trip.

Friday, Nov. 15, will mark the opening night for The Best Man Holiday, the long-awaited sequel to the 1999 hit romantic comedy, The Best Man. This flirty film explores the realities of love, friendship, trust and forgiveness. Actors like Taye Diggs, Morris Chestnut, Sanaa Lathan and Monica Calhoun take viewers on an emotion-filled trip down memory lane. The Best Man was filmed around 15 years ago hitting theaters October 22, 1999. The film picks up 15 years after the events in The Best Man. The main characters have become husbands, wives, parents and friends. The movie begins with an invitation from Lance

and Mia Sullivan (Chestnut and Calhoun) opening their home to their long-time friends Harper and Robyn Stewart (Diggs and Lathan), Julian and Candace Murch (Harold Perrrineau and Regina Hall), Quentin Spivey (Terrence Howard), and Shelby (Melissa De Sousa), Jordan Armstrong (Nia Long) and Brian (Eddie Cibrian). Director Malcolm D. Lee doesn’t hesitate to remind viewers of the temptations and hard feelings of the past, and leaves those wounds open. “There was an underlying sexual tension with Jordan,” said Diggs in a Skype interview with the cast. “We stepped dangerously close to experimenting with that tension in the first movie. But we have matured; I’m married, expecting a

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the condition of slavery and explore the powerful instinct toward freedom.” “Color in Freedom” consists of four parts that

show the flow of events in the lives of the slaves who traveled along the Underground Railroad: “Arrival in the Unknown,”

“Living in Bondage,” “The Journey of Escape,” and “Color in Freedom.” “The Unknown World” depicts slaves’ arrival and their harsh adjustment to life in America. Holston’s dark colors capture the sadness of the time, pulling at the viewer’s emotions. “Living in Bondage” also uses dark colors to illustrate slaves’ lives and their unhappiness with their treatment and conditions. In “Journey of Escape,” Holston uses light colors to depict the hope of freedom. Holston said he had to go to a dark place in order to person reflect on the that journey.

He said he became depressed when he delved into character as a slave. “The only way I could justify it was to say, ‘okay, now this is how you’re supposed to feel,” said Holston. “You’re supposed to get into character and take the journey for other people to understand what you are going through, you have to feel this.” “Color in Freedom,” the final part of the series, depicts music and dance, symbolizing the beginning of a life in freedom. The paintings are filled with bright purples and yellows. “In [Holston’s] pictures, everything becomes brighter and I just think there’s a lot of symbolism in his work and I love his work for that reason,” said Christine Perry, an art production specialist at the museum. “I love that the entire collection tells a story and he uses colors to pull out emotions and helps you understand the time period,” Perry said. “Color in Freedom” is on view at NCCU from Oct. 13 through Dec. 13.

child and there are different values.” How do viewers know that tension is resolved in Jordan’s eyes? Possibly because of her hauntingly handsome new boyfriend, Brian (Eddie Cibrian). “How could she not [get over her feelings for Harper],” said Long, pointing at Cibrian. “The dimples! I mean have you seen the dimples? She dove into the dimples and fell in love.” Cibrian spoke about his first day on set. He said it wasn’t his being the only white cast member on an all-black set that scared. Instead, he pointed to the cast’s prestige and strong connection. “The first day I was very intimidated,” Cibrian said. “They had a certain camaraderie. I’ve worked with a handful of the actors on this movie. Everyone made me feel welcome.”

In the film, the holiday festivities continue when the four amigos (Howard, Chestnut, Diggs, and Perrineau) burst into a choreographed song and dance to Boyz 2 Men's "Can You Stand the Rain.” Despite these positive holiday vibes, the excitement quickly turns to chaos as the friends realize a dark and disheartening truth. “You really go through [the] life experience of friendship, lost friendship, dealing with loss, what’s important in life, what’s silly, what’s petty, [and] forgiveness,” said Cibrian. And if you didn’t see the first Best Man? “You don’t need to see the first Best Man to see this movie because this movie stands alone,” said Lathan. However, he said, “It is fun homework to check out the first one because it gives more perspective to the film.”

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Taylor Freeman, a N.C. Central University textiles and apparel sophomore, strives to become a successful young woman in the high fashion industry. Growing up, Freeman’s parents had a great deal of influence on her and her sisters’ sense of fashion. Freeman said her mother’s love for fashion instilled that love in Freeman over the years. “When I was a little girl, my mother would constantly dress me and my sister up in fashionable attire, teaching us about how to dress and what looks right. She always made sure our jewelry and accessories matched with whatever we were wearing for that day,” said Freeman. Freeman’s father was a member of the Black Panther party. The party known for their fashionable attire with the platform shoes, black trench coats, and hats — also influenced her fashion sense. Freeman started out taking pictures on her iPod with a tripod. Freeman said this is how she kept a record of all of her outfits for when she published them on social networks. “In the beginning, it was just me and my tripod,” said Freeman. “Taylor inspired me to become a photographer,” said Kenneth Lampkin, a mass communication junior. “I already had an interest in fashion and

photography and she showed me how becoming a photographer is not that hard.” Over time, she developed different pages on websites such as Facebook, Instagram, Lookbook, Tumblr and Twitter. Freeman said one of her most popular sites is her blogspot theskinnyfashionista.blogspot.com. Amadou Bah, a computer information systems senior and photographer, said he was so intrigued the first time he saw Freeman that immediately wanted to set up a photo shoot. “When I shot her, I was very impressed with her experience,” said Bah. “It caught me by surprise and I was very pleased with the outcome of the photo shoot.” Networking and meeting different people has gained Freeman an array opportunities and accomplishments. Mass communication junior Timothy Williams had the opportunity to do a photo shoot with Freeman after meeting her through mutual friends. “As I was shooting with her, I felt like I was working with a professional and I really enjoyed myself,” said Williams. Various websites where young women shop online have contacted Freeman. Freeman said she receives apparel in exchange for pictures and promos to be displayed on their sites. She has been featured on sites like GO Jane and

Forever21. She has also been featured in a Triangle area magazine, U magazine, and will go on to be featured in a UK magazine in this winter. Freeman has been accepted to Teen Vogue College University as a style ambassador and was chosen out of 20,000 people as a runner up to be featured in People Magazine. Representatives from People Magazine called and interviewed Freeman asking how she got into fashion. They inquired about what influences her fashion. Her response included different cultures outside the state and country. Freeman said some of her other inspirations comes from music and art. She is also greatly inspired by Andre Leon Talley, a NCCU alumnus and former editor-at-large for Vogue magazine. The most influential icon that has had the greatest impact on Freeman's fashion is Grace Jones. Freeman described Jones as woman who was unafraid to be daring and edgy with her fashion. Jones influenced unisex fashion and sent a message to her fans saying: “you do not have to dress feminine to be fashionable.” Freeman said that there are not many African Americans or nonCaucasian models or stylists present in the high fashion industry and she would love to change that.

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COMMENTARY Jordan Reid For the past several decades N.C. Central University was competing in Division II. Since 2010 the Eagles have competed in Division I. The transition to Division I means the athletic departments receives more money and scholarships per year. Although the athletic department has been receiving more scholarships and funding, over the past few years the purpose of attending athletic events has steadily shifted. At almost every historically black college/university and predominately white institution the two most popular sports are basketball and football. Basketball and football also happen to be the two most popular sports in the entire United States. The trend has switched over the years at HBCUs; the purpose of actually attending football or basketball games has changed for all the wrong reasosn. Presently, it seems like students at HBCUs only go to the athletic events to showcase their new outfits and shoes instead of actually cheering their team on. I had a chance to take a look at some old sports videos from the 1990s and early 2000s, given to me by previous NCCU athletes. Being a current athlete,

of course I was paying attention to what was happening on the field. But what really caught my attention was the students and the crowd. I was amazed at how into the game the crowd was. The game that really caught my attention was the 2006 CIAA football championship game between NCCU and Elizabeth City State University. The game was held at O’Kelly-Riddick Stadium and aired on ESPN. There were over 14,000 fans in attendance which is still one of the biggest crowds ever to attend a game at O’Kelly Riddick Stadium. The crowd was involved in the game the entire time. NCCU won the game 17-14 on a last second field goal. Almost every person in O’Kelly-Riddick Stadium rushed the field to celebrate with the football team. It was a once in a lifetime site, one that I’ve never seen before during my time as a student-athlete Times have changed and the overall purpose of attending athletic events is not the same. The purpose could be shifted but it will take time. — Jordan Reid is a quarteback

Head coach LeVelle Moton and Emanuel Chapman pose holding the game ball after Chapman recorded his 410 assist as an Eagle. Courtesy NCCU Athletics

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Coming out of high school Emanuel Chapman wasn’t a highly touted recruit. As a senior at Enloe High School in Raleigh, N.C., Chapman didn’t receive any scholarship offers. That all changed when N.C. Central University head coach LeVelle Moton took a chance on Chapman and offered him a full ride to NCCU. “I knew the guy since he was born,” said Moton. “Although he never wowed you athletically, he always won and knew how to deliver the ball.” Four years later and just two games into his senior season Chapman is now the all-time assists leader in NCCU history.

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Coming into the 2013-2014 season Chapman was only 10 assists from breaking the record. After connecting with teammates on four assists against Cincinnati University on November 8, Chapman only needed six assists to reach the top of the NCCU assists mountain. Breaking the assists record was always on the mind of Chapman but he never imagined that he would actually reach that goal. “When you look at assists you can’t really get threes, you have to get them one at a time so its a slow process.” said Chapman With 6:07 remaining in the second half Chapman reached that mountain when redshirt junior Jay

Copeland slashed to the basket and converted a seemingly wide open layup. Chapman said out of all his assists that is the one he will remember forever. After Chapman realized he broke the record he immediately found his family who was seated just behind the Eagles bench and embraced his mother with a hug. Moments later a crowd of 1,332 embraced Chapman with a standing ovation. “Anything could’ve happened, I could’ve got injured and never broke the record,” said Chapman “I’m glad I got it and seeing all my peers and people I go to school with applaud me was a great feeling.” In his history breaking game to go along with his six assists Chapman also added seven points and

three steals to help his team to 98-47 victory over visiting Johnson & Wales. On the receiving end of a number of assists from Chapman was junior transfer Jordan Parks. Parks recorded a season high 22 points for the Eagles. Parks recalls on his visit to NCCU that the first thing he heard was that Chapman was 10 assist from breaking the record and he wanted to help make sure he reached that goal. “I told him he could have broken that his junior year if they would have made the tournament,” said Parks “That day I let him know that if he threw the ball to me I was going to catch it, that’s how we connect, I don’t drop his passes.”

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Behind some sturdy defense and surprising offensive efforts of junior Jordan Parks, N.C. Central University managed to start hot and stay hot en route to a 98-47 massacre of the Wildcats of Johnson & Wales (NC). NCCU head coach LeVelle Moten was caught off guard by Parks’ performance but hopes that this was a coming out performance for him and that he continues to play with that same effort. Parks, a transfer from the College of Central Florida, finished the contest with 22 points on 10-14 shooting. En route to a double-double night Parks also managed to bring down 15 boards. “It was somewhat shocking

because he struggled through that transitional phase that all transfer students go through,” said Moten. “We really need him to grow up and mature fast and he came and played with energy and effort, and when you do that you can really display your talent.” The Eagles managed to impose their will on the Wildcats from the opening tip-off, outrebounding the Wildcats 30 to 10 in the opening half and scoring 15 points on seven Wildcat turnovers. “We came out and we wanted to show the crowd that this year is going to be our year,” said Parks. “We want them to support us and keep coming to the games because were going to need them this year.” Johnson & Wales came out in

the second half with what seemed to be a lot more energy. Behind two deep threes by Hursel Forbes and Joshua Cohen, the Wildcats started the half on a 8-2 run but two free-throws by Ingram seemed to settle the team and reignite the Eagles. The Eagles went on a 10-0 run of their own, stretching the score to 68-30. From there the Eagles never looked back. A part of the victory for the home team was their productivity in the paint. The Eagles managed to outscore the Wildcats 60-28 on points in the paint, half of which came off second chance points. Although the game was never close Parks made sure the fans stayed until the final buzzer, energizing the crowd with a number of thunderous dunks including a

fast-break windmill slam that brought the Eagles faithful to their feet. “They tell me to play my game, do the little things like run the floor and just complete every play on the floor,” said Parks. All-MEAC first team selection Jeremy Ingram finished the contest with 21 points on 6 of 9 shooting from the field and also recorded two steals and two blocks. Other key contributors for the Eagles were redshirt senior Ebuka Anyaorah who scored 16 points, Jay Copeland who dropped in 15 points to go along with 10 rebounds, and Alonzo Houston who added 12 points of his own. Although to those watching the Eagles may have seemed to be at mid-season form, coach Moten was not satisfied with his team’s

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t’s pretty simple, Eagles; this black generation was bred not to like the police. The music we listened to told us that they were “suckers,” only there to stop your grind. The movies told us they were crooks trying to steal drugs from dealers for their own use. The news showed us how India they kill and Wagner prosecute our young men and then get off. A study by Yolander G. Hurst suggests that juvenile attitudes toward police were generally less positive than those of their adult counterparts. That is definitely a formula for disaster between the police and the black adolescents that we are. Yet it’s unfair to blame only the media for how this 16-24 age group feels about the police. Throughout my time on this Earth, I have seen police prosecute many times. Sometimes

“A study by Yolander G. Hurst, research suggests that juvenile attitudes toward police were generally less positive than those of their adult counterparts. That is definitely a formula for disaster between the police and the black adolescents that we are.”

it’s right, sometimes it’s wrong. Furthermore, I have hardly ever seen the police protect anyone outside the realm of USA TV’s Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. Now this is a dilemma because it is mainly the job of the police to “Protect and Serve.” It even says that on the side of the police car. I know my Eagles know what I am talking about. Think about the many police reports about crimes, even violent ones, that you received after the fact. The police were not there to stop or deter the situation, but were only there to report about it for their knowledge

and that of the campus. Well, if they are only there to report, then there should be a lot of starving journalists in the police department. NCCU students are more afraid to park on campus than in the throes of “the hood” because they’re afraid NCCU police will prosecute their pockets by giving them a ticket. This is the big issue at hand. With the police’s main job is to protect, but their prominent goal is to prosecute, this black generation will not be able to trust their local police departments. Movies, music, television and the news can trigger dislike, but real world experi-

ence can prolong such distaste. Of course the police have protected us numerous times. I know that in order to protect us there needs to be order and rules. That is all understood, but we still need to be able to trust the people who are here to protect us. It’s up to the police to show their true purpose or no one is going to feel safe or trusting of them. Yet it doesn’t seem as if law enforcement is worried about changing attitudes. With recent events like the Trayvon Martin case, and even more locally the Jonathan Ferrell incident in Charlotte, attitudes are far from changing. The Every 28 Hours report by Kali Akuno states that every 28 hours in 2012, someone employed or protected by the U.S. government killed a black man, woman, or child. These are scary numbers for scary times, and who knows when change is coming. For now, I’m going to send my writing samples to my local police department and try to get a job.

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s it just me or does our campus seem less than secure? Since my arrival at Central this summer, each week there has been an average of one or two Public Services Crime Alert emails about muggings, shootings in and around campus and various other crimes. At first, I didn’t really pay much attention Joseph to it: just anothFalzone er email from the college to be glanced at, ignored and deleted. As their frequency increased and I learned of the shooting that took place over Homecoming weekend, I realized that we are in grave danger here. One of the hardest things to do is to know how to survive daily beyond the confines of your usual comfort zone. For a number of students, that’s the case as they begin their journey from freshman to senior year, having left the security of home in search of higher education. However, with the rigmarole of daily classes spread across multiple locations,

“It’s all too easy to assume that most people are decent enough folks and that campus security will notice the dangerous ones.”

acclimation to dorm life and the pressures of acquiring and maintaining an active social life, students tend to forget the third most important key to survival out of the nest after food and shelter – personal safety. That’s not to say that campus security and the Durham Police Department don’t have the situation in hand. I applaud their efforts to make us feel safe. Unfortunately, campus security and the police cannot be everywhere all at once. We students expect to be able to walk around campus without fearing for our lives and property or having to look over our shoulders every few feet. Campus Police Chief Tim Bellamy, in an interview with WRAL after a shooting in September, is quoted as saying, “We want our students to have the freedom to go and come on campus, and if we put barriers up, fences up,

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gates up, then we become (less of) a university, and we’ll look more like a penitentiary.” I came to Central to obtain an education, not to feel like I’m incarcerated here. The issue becomes that sometimes we students are not always paying attention to our surroundings. It’s all too easy to assume that most people are decent enough folks and that campus security will notice the dangerous ones. So the average student tends not to worry about staying alert. All too often, the lure of handheld technology prevents the average student from maintaining the heightened sense of awareness required today to go from Point A to Point B. This obliviousness could be the downfall of the generation. The information age offers instant entertainment, instant gratification and even instant

messaging, which allows the less-savory element of society to capitalize on a massive lack of attention and terrorize and victimize an unsuspecting populace. Even more unfortunate are the times when even the most vigilant students fall prey to the dregs of society, losing all manner of valuables and shattering the illusion of security on campus. In the worst cases, they lose something even more valuable – their lives. Therefore, just as the entertainment industry has taken up the banner of “Don’t Text and Drive.” I’m asking the students of North Carolina Central University to take up a similar banner – Pocket the Phone and Open Your Eyes. Is a text message or status update really worth a traumatic experience? Let’s change the movie of our lives from a horror movie to the feel-good hit of the year. Lives can change in an instant. Those few extra seconds of preparation and alertness could mean the difference between happily ever after and six feet under.

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