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It was a year of champions. A hat trick and then some. Read all about it.

Man on a mission. Chris Barnett helps recovering addicts on Fayetteville Street.

We’re at it again. Three tear jerking bye-byes from Echo staff.

Something you should really read: Six students reveal their souls.

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Accreditation by May likely BY JEAN ROGERS ECHO STAFF WRITER

After projecting that 12-18 months would be needed to regain accreditation with the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs, N.C. Central University’s School of Business could possibly regain accreditation as early as the first week of May. According to Provost Beverly Jones, the school’s staff worked tirelessly to provide the required data to the ACBSP. “I want to take my hats off to Dr. Sahoo, [interim school of business dean] faculty, and students because they have really achieved a lot in a short time,” said Jones. The school lost its accreditation from the ACBSP Dec. 15 when former dean Benjamin Newhouse failed

City awaits lab results Nifong suggests that blood tests may show date rape drug. Other dancer speaks. Two lacrosse players charged. BY DENEESHA EDWARDS ECHO EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Newsweek reported in an April 10 story on their website that District Attorney Mike Nifong hinted to the magazine that a blood and urine test of the N.C. Central University student who was allegedly raped by three members of the Duke Lacrosse team, would reveal the presence of a date-rape drug. Sophomores Reade Seligmann, 20, of Essex Fells, N.J. and Collin Finnerty, 19, of Garden City, N.Y. turned themselves in to Durham police on the morning of April 18. Seligmann and Finnerty will will appear in court on charges of first-degree rape, sexual offense and kidnapping, May 15. In North Carolina, each offense carries a sentence of 12-30 years for offenders with no previous criminal record.

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800 Eagles to fly May 6

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BY SHINESE ANDERSON ECHO STAFF WRITER

Approximately 800 students are expected to graduate from N.C. Central University at 8 a.m. Sat., May 6 at O’Kelly-Riddick Stadium. According to Carlton, Wilson, chair and associate professor of the department of history, the number of graduating students always fluctuates. “This is ... one of our larger classes,” Wilson said. “We are now getting into a time where we have a larger amount of graduating students. We don’t expect for the

Grammy award winning jazz trumpeter Terell Stafford peforms a solo at the Grady Tate Jazz Festival in the B.N. Duke Auditorium April. 21 KHARI JACKSON/Echo Staff Photographer

HONORING TATE n evening of true music, American born and bread, better known as jazz was given its time in the spotlight at N.C. Central University, April 21-22. Trumpeter Terell Stafford and vocalist Kevin Mahogany were the distinguished guests performing with NCCU’s jazz department at the 16th Annual Grady Tate Jazz Festival hosted by NCCU Jazz Studies Program in the B.N. Duke Auditorium.

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Pantiel to head UNC student association

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The results are in. Students who voted for SGA leaders last month, now know who won. The results were announced April 17. “More students showed up than I’ve ever seen at an election,” said Mukhtar Raqib, whose term begins July 1. “I’m just ready to move forward,” said Raqib. However many students

Mukhtar Raqib SGA presidentelect

Tomasi Larry vice presidentelect

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Derek T. Pantiel, a N.C. Central University biology junior from Durham, is the newly elected president of the University of North Carolina Association of Student Government for the 2006-07 academic year. Pantiel, who made an unsuccessful bid for student body vice president at NCCU, was one of four contestants for the UNCASG

leadership position last weekend at the association’s meeting at East C a r o l i n a University in Greenville. Pantiel UNC As presiASG president - dent, Pantiel elect will play a large role allocating a $180,000 annual budget and sit on the UNC Board of Governors.

Duke lacrosse player Collin Finnerty at his preliminary hearing at the Durham County Judicial Building Tuesday morning, April 18. JEFF SINEER/Charlotte Observer/KRT

E-mail records rape responses BY WHITNEY BULL ECHO STAFF WRITER

One measure of how high feelings are running about the Duke lacrosse rape allegations is the number and content of emails about the case sent to the Campus Echo. Some of these e-mails support the allegations, others don’t. Some e-mailers provide accounts of their experiences as rape victims. Some accuse the Echo of taking sides. Others are critical of the black community as a whole. One sends research findings on the symptoms of date rape drugs. All have taken a stand on the question of whether the alleged rape occurred at all. And one even purports to be from one of

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Durham PD vet fills in BY SHEREKA LITTLEJOHN ECHO STAFF WRITER

N.C. Central University has turned to a retired 27year veteran of the Durham Police Department for its interim police chief. M a j o r G l e n d a Beard was the first female sergeant, lieutenant, captain and major in Durham’s Glenda p o l i c e Beard department. Beard, an NCCU alumna, taught middle school in Warren County, N.C., before turning to law enforcement. She retired from the Durham Police Department in July 2001. Beard was reluctant to come out of retirement, but many people in the department know her because she was administrative assistant to former NCCU Police Chief McDonald Vick for 4 years. Earlier this year the two started efforts to get accreditation for the police department at NCCU, which Beard says will hopefully be completed by winter. Beard plans to fill some vacancies in the department by hiring five new police officers and an investigator. “My main focus is to just maintain the department and keep the staff going,” Beard said. “It’s important to have a good relationship with everyone on campus.” Beard says she has no plans to apply for a permanent police chief position. Vick, an 18-year veteran of the Durham Police Department, resigned as police chief in February after 11 years of service to NCCU. He is now police chief at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

Christopher Barnett on the walkway to the halfway house he runs at 1608 Fayetteveille Street. KHARI JACKSON/Echo Staff Photographer

Just like Job Faith helps recovering addict help others BY KRISTIANA BENNETT ECHO STAFF WRITER

While N.C. Central University students are reading literature and studying microeconomics, the occupants of the New Way of Life Recovery House a few blocks away at 1608 Fayetteville St. are getting a different education: how to recover from drug and alcohol addiction. The crucial lessons at New Way of Life are taught by a man who didn’t even attend high school — Pastor Christopher Barnett. Barnett, a short, stocky man with softly graying hair and soulful dark eyes, knows the life of an addict. The Durham native started drinking and smoking marijuana when he was 12 years old. At 14, he was shooting speed, and by his 20s was a heroin and crack cocaine addict. And like those he helps, he was in and out prison for much of his life. But in 1989, he says, he had accepted Jesus Christ as his savior and started turning his life around. “God changed my life ... he sent me a vision of a halfway house to help lost and hurting people suffer-

ing from substance abuse,” said Barnett. Barnett has been drugfree since 1997. He started New Way of Life in 1999 when he took two recovering addicts into his home. Two quickly became 11. New Way of Life now has three houses and 32 recovering occupants. “In my judgment, God has given Chris a unique ability to go out and find hurting people and to bring them to a haven like this to inspire, motivate and comfort them,” said Pastor Milton Jordan, Sr., a member of St. Joseph’s Church, which provides financial support to Barnett’s efforts. “Not all people have this gift.” According to Jordan, saving an addict is a wise investment. He says the average crack addict spends upwards of $100 a day on his or her addiction. So 32 addicts freeing themselves from drugs keeps $3,200 a day from being involved in crime. Residents say they appreciation and admire Barnett. “I was hurting on the inside and this house is a godsend for me,” said Gerald Smith, a 41-year-old

recovering crack addict and a former NCCU student. “The doors were opened to give me an opportunity to get my life together and to build a personal relationship with God.” Barnett’s recovery plan is based on the Bible and Rick Warren’s “The Purpose-Driven Life.” It includes an education and training curriculum; participants commit to 3hour workshops for 40 weeks. The recovering addicts pay $90 a week for rent. Most work at Champion Wash on Wheels, Barnett’s mobile car wash. Funding and support comes from churches, including First Baptist Church and St. Joseph’s Church, and area businesses, including Wal-Mart and Food Lion. The Durham Food Bank donates $400 worth of food each month. Barnett is modest about his work helping recovering addicts. “I think I’m overworked and underpaid, but I feel successful,” said Barnett. “I keep on doing it because it feels good to be God’s instrument ... I enjoy seeing people’s lives change.”

wanted to know what the three week wait was for. “It’s not that there was anything shaky with the process,” said Renee Clark SGA president. “We couldn’t release an official slate until the grievance was met.” The grievance comes from a discrepancy in the constitution. Faith Allen, executive director of elections, said the SGA 2005 constitution was not ratified, so they used the 2003 constitution. The 2003 constitution states that election events can only be held on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. Voting took place on a Friday. An investigation was held after to determine whether or not the elections were unconstitutional — but the results had already been determined. Students have mixed feelings about the election and voting outcome.

“Honestly, I wasn’t expecting anything. I am satisfied with those who did win,” said Kerry Atkinson, sophomore. “I wish that we could be as serious about national and state elections as we were about SGA elections,” said Crystal Douglas health education junior. “I thought it was a lot of mudslinging,” she continued. Mukhtar Raqib said his future plans include making sure students take an active role in the legislative process. “I want to make sure that students come out to meetings and become part of the SGA Senate,” he said. Tomasi Larry holds the same sentiment. “I think we have been called to a higher level of professionalism. I’m not discouraged. “Now we have something we need to take care of, and we’re going to get it done,” said Larry

GRADUATION CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 classes to be small anymore.” Wilson proclaimed this to be a distinguished graduating class. “We consider all of our students to be scholars and there are a good number of honor students,” he said. The keynote address will be given by Dennis P. Kimbro, author of “Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice” and “Daily Motivations for African–American Success.” Kimbro is an educator, public speaker and business consultant who has appeared on television shows like the “Today Show” and “Larry King Live.” “We chose Dr. Kimbro because he is a well-known national figure, because of his dynamic personality and because he is also familiar with the campus and its students,” said Wilson. Kimbro studied the methodology of Napoleon Hill, author of the 1960 bestseller “Think and Grow.” His research helped him update Hill’s book on the subject of black achievers.

Kimbro’s book conveys the secrets of success of achievers such as Spike Lee, Jesse Jackson, Selma Burke and Oprah Winfrey. He says he is still searching to discover how impoverished black Americans can pull themselves out of poverty and reach their full potential. “I feel that Dr. Kimbro will convey a positive message for the student body,” said Wilson. Kimbro received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Oklahoma. His doctorate is from Northwestern University, where he studied poverty and the creation of wealth in underdeveloped countries. He has been a visiting professor at Hampton University, Albany State University and Kansas State University. He lectures widely in the U.S. and abroad. Kimbro was the first director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Clark Atlanta University. Kimbro lives in Atlanta with his wife and three children.

taking steps to gain accreditation with AACSB, the accreditation that they were working on when they lost accreditation with ACBSP. The final draft of the selfevaluation has been finished and is ready for review by external consultants. George Stevens, who will be the consulting dean, has already made a visit during April 18-19 and met with fac-

ulty, AACSB accreditation committees, the dean, and provost Jones. Stevens will return in the fall to conduct a review. After the review, a site visit is expected sometime between September and November. “Everything we do with accreditation is to prepare students [to be] productive carriers and live noble lives.”

BUSINESS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 to apply for re-accreditation on time. In a University news release, Newhouse said in his defense that leadership in the School of Business was busy working toward another accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate and Schools of Business International and thus did not respond to the ACBSP requests for infor-

mation. Chancellor James H. Ammons replaced Newhouse with Assistant Provost Bijoy Sahoo on an interim basis. Since losing its accreditation, the University has quickly taken action to regain accreditation. The school completed its self study on Jan. 31, 2006. The self study was reviewed by a peer review

team, headed by Percy Vaughn, the former president of ACBSP. In February, the peer review team made a site visit and submitted the results to the accreditation board. A week later, the school received the report and addressed the issues cited in the report. Provided that the school meets all of the require-

ments to become re-accredited, it will be inducted June 16-19 at the annual ACBSP meeting in Chicago. “Maybe all this that we went through was a wake up call for all of us to rise to the occasion and showcase the talent and potential of [our] students,” said Sahoo. Along with working on the accreditation with ACBSP, the school is also

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“Who’s the real, true racists? I’m really getting tired of the colored people drawing the race card every time something happens to one of their own. Candlelight vigils, the media coverage, the outcry ….” E-MAIL FROM CALVIN@CISBEC.NET

E-MAIL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 the indicted lacrosse players, Collin Finnerty. “I hope you can tell the young lady under fire to hold her head up and take solace in the fact that this IS much more than a stripper,” writes “jydorsey,” a mother from Maine. “She is a person that deserves the same justice as anyone else.” “LilEye98” writes, “The citizens of Durham should fight this case until they decide to tell the truth and not push it under the rug. The cities of Memphis and Chattanooga, Tennessee are behind you all the way!” An e-mail from “BruceMcLean” announces that “there are many white people out there on your side and that believe every word of this poor lady’s accusations … Have faith in the court system, hold your head high and don’t lower yourself to their level.” One woman, who says she is a survivor of rape, writes, “Whether the victim is black or white, rich or poor, the stigma behind this crime MUST be shattered. … I hope that justice will for once be served.” Date rape drugs, writes one e-mail sender who asks to remain unnamed, deprive the victim of memory. “The survivor is plunged into an absence of knowledge, a dark unknown ... without being able to ‘see’ all the details, the survivor’s brain can never achieve the safe feeling of making sense of everything s/he experiences.” Other e-mails defend the accused and condemn the accuser and the Campus Echo’s reporting of the case. “People are too proud to admit at this point that they were wrong, but had no problem ‘convicting’ these boys before any evidence came,” writes “glos_havebeenexposed.” “How come no one from the University decried her job. A paid, unsexed, whore is all a stripper is.” “Who’s the real, true racists,” writes “calvin” in capital letters. “I’m really getting tired of the colored people drawing the race card every time something happens to one of their own. Candlelight vigils, the media coverage, the outcry ….” One e-mail, with the subject heading “Are you guys trying to fuel a mass riot? Where’s the balance?” claims to understand the motives of the Campus Echo staff: “The only reason you give a damn about that ‘stripper-with-a-crimi-

nal-record’ is because she’s black … You don’t give a damn about innocence or guilt, all you want is to sing to the choir.” Another writer, furious at the media’s response to the DNA results, asks, “Where are the apologies from the NAACP and the white, guilt-ridden liberals at Duke?” and adds, “shame on all of you.” One e-mail, which uses the e-mail address collin.finnerty@duke.edu and is signed Collin Finnerty, one of the indicted lacrosse players, was particularly problematic. The e-mail reads in its entirety: “Just to get things strait. A. I am innocent. B. I will be vindicated. C. Even in this day and age of political correctness it is hard to put a rich northeast white boy in jail. Just ask Ted Kennedy. D. After this is all over they will be calling me Collin ‘The Teflon Duke’ Finnerty. Or maybe just ‘Lucky 13.’ Collin Finnerty.” NCCU law professor Irving Joyner said the email could be “useful” for District Attorney Mike Nifong. “A valid interpretation would be that [Finnerty] is cocky and arrogant,” Joyner said. “[The e-mail] suggests that with [Finnerty’s] race and status, no one would find him guilty.” A call to Scott Myers, a technician at Duke University’s Office of Information Technology, initially led a Campus Echo reporter to think the e-mail was in fact from Finnerty. Myers typed collin.finnerty@duke.edu into Duke’s e-mail system and said that this address was an alias directly linked to Finnerty’s net ID. “He is the only person who has access to his net ID and his password,” said Myers. But discussions with NCCU’s Information Technology Services staff and with Chris Cramer, Duke University’s Information Technology Security Officer, along with an examination of the MIME header information embedded in the message source, showed that the email originated from a Internet service provider in New Zealand. In a phone interview with Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong, he stated that the email would not probably “impede the case.” A message left with Bill Cotter, one of Finnerty’s lawyers, was not returned. — Rony Camille contributed to this story

Flanked by his attorneys, Duke lacrosse player Collin Finnerty (center) leaves his preliminary hearing at the Durham County Judicial Building Tuesday morning, April 18, 2006, in Durham, North Carolina. Collin Finnerty along with teammate Reade Seligmann has been arrested on charges from a March 13, 2006 incident involving the alleged rape of an exotic dancer. JEFF SINEER/Charlotte Observer/KRT

RAPE ALLEGATIONS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The two players were booked and released on a $400,000 bail after an NCCU student said she was raped, beaten and sodomized at a party at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd, March 13. A third player remains under investigation and charges could follow, Nifong said in written statement. “Investigation into the identity of the third assailant will continue in the hope that he can also be identified with certainty,” the statement said. The 27-year-old student, former navy enlistee and mother of two, was hired through an escort company to dance at the party with another woman now identified as Kim Roberts. “I was there from the beginning to the end,” Roberts told The Associated Press on April 20, in her first on-the-record interview. “The only thing I did not see was the rape because I was not in the bathroom at that particular moment.” In the Newsweek story Roberts is reported as saying that she and the accuser were given mixed drinks at the party. She said she did not drink hers, but the accuser did after knocking over her own drink. Defense attorneys said Roberts told a member of the defense team that she did not believe the student was raped, and now she’s changing her story to gain favorable treatment in a criminal case against her. Roberts, 31, was arrested eight days after the party on a probations violation from a 2001 conviction for embezzling $25,000 from a photofinishing company in Durham where she was a payroll specialist, according to documents obtained by

the Associated Press. Roberts supported the accuser’s version of events that the women first left the party after one of the players taunted them about sodomizing them with a broomstick while they were dancing. She supported the accuser’s account that they returned to the party after one of the men apologized and asked then to return. And she supported the accuser’s version that they were then separated in the party. “In all honesty, I think they’re guilty,” she said. “And I can’t say which ones are guilty. Somebody did something besides underage drinking. That’s my honestto-God impression.” Roberts said the student was sober when they arrived at the party, but that when the party was over the student was incoherent. Roberts also confirmed that she was the woman who called 911 at 12:53 a.m. reporting racial slurs. “Don’t forget that they called me a damn nigger,” she said. “She (the student) was passed out in the car. She doesn’t know what she was called. I was called that. I can never forget that.” The defense lawyers maintain that no sex occurred at any time. Seligmann’s attorney said that his client has evidence he had left the party when the student says the alleged rape took place. Seligmann called for a taxi at 12:14 a.m. and was gone five minutes later. The defense said if the dancers performed around midnight, their client could not have participated in the assault alleged to have lasted 30minutes. The cab driver, Moez Mostafa, said he drove

Seligmann to an automated teller machine, the Cook Out restaurant, and then to his dorm on the West Campus. Mostafa said he then received another call to the same Buchanan address. This time he said men were outside and an angry woman walked to her car. “She looked ... like ... mad,” he said. “In her face, the way she walked, the way she talked, she looked mad.” He said he also overhead someone say, “She’s just a stripper. She’s going to call the police.” Defense attorneys say the photographs taken at the party show the student was already injured and impaired when she arrived. One photo, with a time stamp at 12:30 a.m., shows the student on the back porch with a wide grin on her face smiling at the camera. Another picture stamped at 12:37 a.m. showed the student lying on her side on the stoop with her ankle bleeding, her elbow scraped and blood on her thigh. Duke President Richard H. Brodhead released a statement on April 18 saying, “The emerging story has taken new twists and turns virtually everyday.” He also wrote that he has “emphasized the importance of not rushing to judgment and allowing the legal system to establish the truth.” After the contents of an email written by lacrosse team member Ryan McFadyen were released, Duke University suspended the student, cancelled the team’s season and the team’s coach, Mike Pressler, resigned. In the e-mail sent at 1:58 a.m. on March 14, McFadyen wrote that he wanted to invite

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strippers to his dorm room, kill them and skin them. A third of the team’s players have been cited for public intoxication and public urination. Finnerty, one of accused, was charged last year with simple assault on a gay man in Washington, D.C. A DNA test of 46 members of the lacrosse team done by the Raleigh SBI crime lab came back without a match to any of the lacrosse players on April 10. But Nifong said he will pursue the case. “My presence in this case is not over,” said Nifong at a community forum held at NCCU the next day. At the forum, Nifong said more DNA results would be coming from a private lab. These results are expected by May 15. Criminal justice senior Cory Daniels says the prosecution will have a difficult case to prove without any DNA matches. “It’s a very weak case for the prosecutors,” he said. “The defense team is very aggressive right now.” Daniels said the student’s and the players’ characters will come into play. “Both sides will have to prove their case,” he said. “Whether they did it or not, they’re going to get off. She’s up against all of Duke University and there’s nothing to prove members of the lacrosse team raped her.” Chancellor James H. Ammons released a statement on April 18 too, urging the student body and the community to be patient and let the judicial system resolve the matter. “Our hearts continue to go out to the young lady as she goes through this process,” he said. “We will continue to do everything that we can to support her.”

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NCCU reflects on storm Katrina effort focus of event BY CANDICE MITCHELL ECHO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

N.C. Central University students gathered at McLendon McDougald Gymnasium April 18 to reflect on the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe. Re-Visiting Katrina, a service learning information session, provided presentations, personal reflections, musical interludes and information on the Katrina catastrophe. The session was organized by English instructor Bill Gural and other faculty and staff of the Katrina Committee. Gural said the purpose of the event was to stimulate student interest in Katrina relief. During spring break, SGA President Renee Clark and about 80 other students went to Gulfport, Miss. and other areas devastated by Katrina to assist in cleanup and rebuilding efforts . Business administration sophomore Sha’Niece Simmons, who took part in the relief efforts, said the event was “life motivating.” She said she had become aware of the economic challenges of the areas devastated by hurricane Katrina. “We need to continue sending relief — we should go back down and save our [people],” she said. The professors commended the students’ proactive efforts. “NCCU students are interested, are concerned, are involved,” said Jarvis Hall, associate professor of political science. He added that their involvement encouraged other students to become engaged with serving those still needed help in the Gulf Coast region. The University will try to incorporate Katrina relief assistance into its learning curriculum, making it possible for students to learn from their service. This integration, Hall said, would open the eyes of people to be involved. SGA president Renee Clark said this is just the beginning: Students plan to establish Category Five Giving Foundation that will support victims of other natural disasters.

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Campus kid lab loses two The Director and a teacher retire from Child Development Laboratory School BY EBONY MCQUEEN ECHO STAFF WRITER

After many years of continuous service to N.C. Central University and the Durham community, Beverly Evans and Sarah Stroud will retire from the University’s Child Development Laboratory School. “They’ve done a wonderful job,” said parent Valita Holmes. Evans began her career at the NCCU Child Development Laboratory School in 1973, and was appointed director in 1992. During her tenure as director of the five star, licensed laboratory, the CDL has received national accreditation by the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Evans also teaches courses in the Human Sciences department. Parents with children in the laboratory say that the incoming director has big shoes to fill. “I don’t want anyone to fill my shoes,” said Evans. “I want them to come to the center and do what they love, to gain a name for themselves.” Stroud started at NCCU in 1979, commuting 35 miles from Chatham County. She holds the Child Development Associate credentials as well as Child Care Credentials.

Left:: Beverly Evans, director of the Child Development Laboratory School, helps preschooler Willard McKiver to learn his colors and shapes. Right: Teacher Sarah Stroud fingerpaints with Keith Mangum. WHITNEY BULL/Echo Staff Photographer

“I’m going to miss the children and the staff, they really have been excellent,” said Stroud, who teaches the three year old students. Stroud says that she plans to travel and fish

when she retires. “She’s like a grandmother to my son,” said NCCU student and parent, Patricia Worley. “We’re ... in the process of finding a new director.”

said Human Sciences chair Dr. Debra Parker. “I’ve always dreaded this day,” she said. Parker describes Evans as a “take no mess” teacher, and Stroud as a soft-spoken

woman who knows what’s best for children. “I know that both Dr. Parker and Mrs. Evans will find someone good to run the laboratory,” said Stroud Both Evans and Stroud have sent their grandchildren to the CDL. The CDL provides child care services for three and four year old children of faculty, staff, students, and community members. The program first opened its doors in 1941. “Sending my son to the CDL has been beneficial to me,” said Parker. “It felt good to have him right here where I would stop in on my lunch break and witness the quality care he was receiving.” Many other NCCU staff members enjoy the convenience of sending their children to the laboratory. “The CDL is Durham’s best kept secret,” said NCCU National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice manager, Wilma Nichols-Franco. “I’ve had two kids in the program, and it doesn’t get any better than this, unless you’re in the same exact building as your children.” “We’ve had many children come through the program every year,” said Evans. Evans said she plans to return in the near future to do both teaching and and assessments within the department.

Campus groups fight HIV/AIDS Project SAFE and other campus groups strive to spread gospel of safe-sex BY SHIRA REESE ECHO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Africans are not the only group affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The problem of HIV/AIDS is much closer — perhaps in our own backyard. The 2005 HIV/STD Surveillance Report, released by the North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services, states that, based on statisics averaged from 2003 2005, Durham ranked fourth of 85 North Carolina counties in the number of reported HIV/AIDS cases. However, at N.C. Central University many students refuse to stand idle and allow the numbers to rise. NCCU boasts at least four major awareness groups: Project Save a

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Fellow Eagle, Project Style, the Men’s Health Initiative and the Society for Public Health Education. All of these organizations are dedicated to student awareness and the prevention of HIV/AIDS. “The premise of this program is for the ‘popular opinion leaders’ to go within their respective groups and have a risk reduction conversation within their community,” said Randy Rogers, director of the Men’s Health Initiative. The NCCU chapter of the statewide Men’s Health Initiative, is one of the University’s only community-based intervention programs primarily dedicated to the African-American man and his role in the prevention of HIV/AIDS. “This program was primarily designed for male

students between the ages of 18 and 30 considered to be influential or popular,” said Rogers. Project SAFE strives to not only debunk myths, but also to educate students about importance of practicing safe and healthy sexual lifestyles. “The blind can’t lead the blind,” said Project SAFE President Tenisha White, a criminal justice senior. “A lot of people have a perception of what an HIVpositive person looks like, but a lot of times they look normal,” said White. “So that is why you have to treat every sexual partner as if they have HIV.” Project SAFE collaborates with the Durham County Health Department to give students the most factual information available.

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At “safer sex parties,” Project SAFE members hand out small bags containing condoms, dental dams, and brochures about STDs. “Everyone in Project SAFE has condoms on them to give out at all times, so there is no excuse not to practice safer sex on this campus,” said White. According to White, programs like Project SAFE are often are misjudged by concerned parents or students. Many people are concerned or shocked by the group’s outspoken attitudes and to the point tactics to get their message out. “We are not there not to promote sex, but to educate NCCU students,” said White. NCCU is not directly fac-

ing a HIV/AIDS epidemic on campus, students should know that a large number of African Americans throughout the United States are infected each year. The Center for Disease Control reports that in 2004, African Americans, who comprise only about 13 percent of the U.S. population, accounted for 50 percent of all new HIV/AIDS diagnoses. “AIDS is a human crisis, no matter where you live,” said the late Coretta Scott King, speaking to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. “Anyone who sincerely cares about the future of black America had better be speaking out about AIDS, calling for preventive measures and increased funding for research and treatment.”

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Bill targets loan rates Student loan rates climbing BY SHATOYA CANTRELL ECHO STAFF WRITER

Student loan interest rates are set to increase to as much as 56 percent this year, but U.S. Representative George Miller (D-CA) and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) have plans to do something about it — it’s called the Reverse the Raid Act of 2006. The legislative bill aims to cut interest rates in half on college loans for student borrowers with the most financial need. “The Bush Administration and the Republican Congress decided that the cost of interest rates is going to go up 20-25 percent,” said Durbin in a April 13 conference call with college students from across the country. “Miller and I are making it our responsibility to undo it and undo it quickly.” Rising college tuitions are forcing many students to finance their education with student loans and the average student borrower graduates $17,500 in debt. “I need the loans to pay for my education,” said Malcolm Kincaid, a sports management sophomore. If the bill passes it will decrease interest rates from 6.8 percent to 3.4 percent for students with subsidized loans and from 8.5 percent to 4.25 percent for parents. This will save the average student borrower $5,600 over the life of his or her student loans. “I think that it is going to be great because it will make it a lot easier for me to pay off my loans when I graduate,” said criminal justice senior Tiffany Kimbroch. Miller and Durbin are working with Campaign for America’s Future to promote the legislation and convince the Republicanled Congress to pass their bill before July 1. In the conference call Robert Borosage, co-director of Campaign for America’s Future, said the organization has sent emails to students across the country to get them to sign a petition to call on House majority leader John Boehner to support the bill. “It is imperative that we reverse this raid so students can further their education with as little debt as possible after graduation,” Miller said. To sign the petition and support the Miller-Durbin Reverse the Raid Act of 2006 go to http://ga3.org/campaign/ReverseTheRaid.

Bishop John Bennett preaches to his congregation in B.N. Duke Auditorium. The Church of the Apostolic Revival International is renting the auditorium while building a $1.8 million facility at 1212 E. Main Street in Durham. CHRIS WOOTEN/Staff Photographer

B.N. Duke gets spiritual Former NCCU student has a growing congregation BY SHELBIA BROWN ECHO STAFF WRITER

The audience stood at attention and welcomed the speaker as he approached the platform at the B.N. Duke Auditorium. But the audience was not there for a lyceum forum or a school function. They were there as the congregation of the The Church of the Apostolic Revival International, a church established by former N.C. Central University student Bishop John Bennett. The congregation, which rents B.N. Duke Auditorium from the University for a rate of $300 per five hours, has been holding services there since Feb. 26 because Bennett’s church is expanding its current facility. The Church of the

Apostolic Revival International teaches the principles of Christ’s apostles. “We believe that Jesus Christ was God manifest and that he died for the sins of the world,” Bennett said. “We want to bring the word of God to life. It should be demonstrated and practiced to non-believers to change and transform lives.” Bennett, 38, a native of Potomac Gardens, a harsh southeast neighborhood in Washington, D.C., received his ministerial license in 1985 before coming to study political science at NCCU. He stopped school in his junior year to work at the State Department and pursue his career as a minister in Washington, D.C. “I was focused,” Bennett said. “Ministry was the essen-

tial thing for me to do.” Bennett says the church helped him survive the murder, drugs and violence that ran rampant in Potomac Gardens. “The church was like a bridge that could point me to other things,” he said. Bennett returned from Washington, D.C. in 1990 and rented a small storefront building on Mangum Street to serve as a temporary church. At that time the church’s membership was about 60 people, but it has grown steadily. In 1996, at the age of 27, Bennett and his congregation purchased an existing church located at 1212 E. Main Street. In 2000 Bennett became a Bishop and in 2004 church membership had grown to 430 forcing Bennett to hold two Sunday morning church

services to accommodate his parishioners. Bennett began preparing for expansion in August 2005 when he and his members bought the entire block, bordered by East Main St., Holmon St. and Angier Ave., on which the church currently sits. Bennett is adding a new sanctuary at the location and keeping the existing church, a designated historical site, to use as a youth facility. The new sanctuary, begun in January, will hold 1,200 worshippers. The $1.8 million expansion will almost double the existing square footage of the church to 50,000 square feet. Once completed, the new facility will house a job training center, a food pantry to feed the hungry, a dining space for 250 people,

ministry outreach offices, an unwed mother program, and a program for reformed gang members One reason Bennett feels that church membership is growing rapidly is because he and his members tackle problems in the community instead of ignoring them. “We dealt with the people and got to know them,” Bennett said. Bennett said that when he first moved into the East Main Street location prostitution and drugs ruled the community. “We did not want to isolate ourselves from the community,” Bennett said. “Their concerns were our concerns, and we want to contribute back to the community.” Bennett says the project should be finished by the end of the year.

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Student joins Democratic execs Kristi Scott is first NCCU student elected to party position BY ROSA BROWN ECHO STAFF WRITER

History was made on Tuesday, March 21, when Kristi Scott, a 21 year-old physical education junior at N.C. Central University, was elected to the N.C. State Democratic Party executive committee. Scott is well known in Democratic Party circles and attends local and state meetings. Kristi Scott Scott, a Charlotte native, graduated from Olympic High School. As a volunteer with Project Excellence for the past two and a half years, Scott has been a classroom assistant at Burton and Y. E. Smith Elementary Schools. She is a member of the political committee of the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black Peoples well as

chair of precinct 49, located on the NCCU campus. Harris Johnson, a long-time civil rights and political activist, nominated Scott for the executive committee position. Johnson has advised Scott for more than three years on the project excellence program. “Kristi always showed excellent performance when working with the program,” Johnson said. “She was already attending local and state meetings, although at the time she couldn’t even vote.” Scott’s nomination came at a county convention, surprising many people, including prestigious politicians. “When Kristi is given an opportunity she will always excel,” said Johnson, “I wish I could meet more students with her willpower and determination.” Scott was a committee member for two years prior to being elected chairperson of precinct 49 in 2005. She also

had been active with the American Voters Education Registration Project on campus and in the community. “It’s been a learning experience in the real world where you can learn survival skills and realize that you can compete with others,” said Scott. “It also provided me with an opportunity to participate in the decision-making process.” As the first undergraduate student at NCCU ever to have been elected to Democratic Party top-level policymaking body, Scott has opened doors for all students interested in politics. “There are some students who don’t know that they can participate in political parties, attend meetings, and be a force to be reckoned with by moving outside of the ‘box’ on campus,” Scott said. “Students should remember that Durham is your home for at least four years. Make a difference while you are here.”

Phyllis Lotchin, associate professor of English, came to NCCU in 1967 KARI JACKSON/Staff Photographer

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After teaching at N.C. Central University for 39 years, Associate Professor of English Phyllis Lotchin will retire this spring. The composition and literature teacher says she has seen many changes over the years, including five chairpersons and a big increase in the size of the department, requiring a move from the Edmonds Classroom Building to FarrisonNewton Communications Building in the 1970s. “I have seen students’ aspirations climb steadily,” she said. “Today’s students really think about more varied careers and professions and have a more global view.” She has also seen campus life also change dramatically. “In the sixties, campus life was in loco parentis, meaning the school was more of a parent to the kids,” she said. “The students were more protected. There were no coed dorms. On weekdays the girls had to be in by 10:30 p.m., and on weekends by midnight.” According to Lotchin the University in the past felt it had more of an obligation to keep its students safe, a duty which she believes should be more of a priority today. “It is our job to teach them and also to keep them safe,” she said. Lotchin says it’s “the kids” that have been the highlight of her 39 years at NCCU. “I’ve had so many, many wonderful students — and loved them all. I will miss my students terribly. It has been a privilege to know them over the years.” Especially poignant moments for Lotchin have been when former students return to visits. “I’m happy when students come back and tell me about their successful lives,” she said. “That is the joy of being a teacher.” Lotchin grew up as the eldest of three girls in Auburn, Ill., a town of 2,000 on the Illinois prairie. She said that her eighth grade English teacher, Lucy Wright, was an inspiration. After high school, Lotchin entered Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois. “My father thought girls didn’t need to go to college,” she said, so she worked and paid her college tuition herself. In college, she met her husband Roger Lotchin. She

and her husband, an Illinois Basketball Hall of Famer, have been married 48 years. Lotchin earned her B.A. in English in 1958 and started teaching at a small high school in Central Illinois. She studied at the University of Chicago and taught high school in Illinois and California. In 1966, Lotchin’s husband began a teaching position at UNC-Chapel Hill in the Department of History. She finished her master’s and doctorate degrees at UNC and began teaching English at NCCU in 1967. At the time, she said, she’d never heard of an HBCU, but she liked what it offered — the opportunity to put her energy into teaching. “I knew I didn’t want to be a researcher and I wanted to teach,” said Lotchin. In the beginning most of her students came from segregated high schools. Lotchin says that race has never been an issue. “I’ve always looked at the underneath of a person and not the surface,” she said. Michele Ware, a friend and neighbor of Lotchin who also teaches in the Department of English and Mass Communications, says she will miss working with Lotchin. “She has been a dear friend and a wonderful mentor to me,” said Ware. “Her many years of experience have given her wisdom, and I have benefited from that. [She] is one of the most generous and loving teachers I have ever met.” Lovemore Masakadza, a former student of Lotchin’s said she went the extra mile to help students cope with the challenges they face in life. “She was like a mother to me,” Masakadza said. “She could tell when her students were going through a difficult time in their lives and she offered priceless advice.” Lotchin says she is ready to move on to Act III, but she doesn’t plan to be inactive. She said she wants to sit in on English classes at UNC and she looks forward to writing. Her advice to professors: “Find out who the students are. Find out the individuals they want to be [and] nurture that.” Her advice to students: “Be the individual within you. Don’t be a phony.” Students and faculty wishing to stop by and bid Lotchin farewell will find her in the Farrison-Newton Communication Building,

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A Community of One

For the past few weeks, Durham has been shaken by allegations arising from the incident of March 13. While feelings of pain, anger, and confusion are understandable in times like these, let us remember that justice is served in the courtroom, not in the media or at the hands of individuals. We are proud of the response of students at North Carolina Central University and Duke University who are organizing events to educate each other about sexual violence, racism, and why our system of law presumes innocence until guilt is established. We are grateful for the work of clergy and other leaders who are using this time to urge healing, peace, and truth. The three of us are engaged in regular dialogue with people throughout Durham. We are providing updates on our progress and seeking counsel, with the goal of overcoming the tensions that have arisen. Durham has so much more to offer than what recent events or simplistic national media portrayals of our community have shown. Our universities and our city have worked together over the years to build a community that is known for tolerance, education, business opportunity, and medical and technological excellence. We pledge to all of our fellow citizens that we will continue to work together to strengthen the bonds that unite us. We all must work to be a community of one.

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War costs outpace Vietnam war War in Iraq and Afganistan costing nearly $10 billion per month BY JONATHAN WEISMAN WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — With the expected passage this spring of the largest emergency spending bill in history, annual war expenditures in Iraq will have nearly doubled since the U.S. invasion, as the military confronts the rapidly escalating cost of repairing, rebuilding and replacing equipment chewed up by three years of combat. The cost of the war in U.S. fatalities has declined this year, but the cost in treasure continues to rise, from $48 billion in 2003 to $59 billion in 2004 to $81 billion in 2005 to an anticipated $94 billion in 2006, according to the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. The U.S. government is now spending nearly $10 billion a month in Iraq and Afghanistan, up from $8.2 billion a year ago, a new Congressional Research Service report found. Annual war costs in Iraq are easily outpacing the $61 billion a year that the United States spent in Vietnam between 1964 and 1972, in today’s dollars. The invasion’s “shock and awe” of high-tech laser-guided bombs, cruise missiles and stealth aircraft has long faded, but the costs of even those early months are just coming into view as the military confronts equipment repair and rebuilding costs it has avoided and procurement costs it never expected. “We did not predict early on that we would have the number of electronic jammers that we’ve got. We did not predict we’d have as many (heavily) armored vehicles that we have, nor did we have a good prediction about what our battle losses would be,” Army Chief of Staff Peter Schoomaker recently told the Senate Armed Services Committee. “If you look at the earlier estimates of anticipated

A Black Hawk medevac helicopter lands in Balad, Iraq. U.S. Army air ambulance companies keep three helicopters and crews ready at all times. The crews of four people, including a medic, usually lift off in response to a distress call within eight to 10 minutes. RICK LOOMIS/Los Angeles Times

costs, this war is a lot more expensive than it should be based on past conflicts,” said Steven Kosiak, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments’ director of budget studies. The issue will be hotly debated next week when the Senate takes up a record $106.5 billion emergency spending bill that includes $72.4 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The House passed a $92 billion version of the bill last month that included $68 billion in war funding. That funding comes on top of $50 billion already allocated for the war this fiscal year. The bill is the fifth emergency defense request since

the Iraq invasion in March 2003. Senate Democrats say that, in the end, they will vote for the measure, which congressional leaders plan to deliver to President Bush by Memorial Day. But the upcoming debate will offer opponents of the war ample opportunity to question the Bush administration's funding priorities. Defense officials and budget analysts point to a simple, unavoidable driver of the escalating costs. At roughly $15 billion, personnel costs will actually drop 14 percent this year. But the cost of repairing and replacing equipment and developing new war-fighting materiel has exploded. In

the first year of the invasion, such costs totaled $2.4 billion, then rose to $5.2 billion in 2004. This year, they will hit $26 billion, and could go as high as $30 billion, Kosiak said. Total operations and maintenance budgets will rise 33 percent this year, while investment in new technologies will climb 25 percent, according to the Congressional Research Service. The helicopters, tanks, personnel carriers and even small arms “have required more maintenance than we planned for,” said Gary Motsek, director of support operations at the Army Materiel Command. “We're

working them to death.” In the first years of the war, Army and Marine units rotating out of Iraq left behind usable equipment for the next units rolling in. But even the working equipment is now being shipped back to the Army’s five depots to be refurbished and upgraded. Last year, the depots repaired and upgraded 600 helicopter engines. This year, they will see 700, Motsek said. A total of 318 Bradley Fighting Vehicles went through the depots in 2005; 600 will be cycled through in 2006. Last year, depot workers upgraded 5,000 Humvees with new engines and new transmissions to support

ever-heavier armor. This year they will see close to 9,000. They will also have to patch up 7,000 more machine guns, 5,000 more tank tracks and 100 more M1A1 Abrams tanks. In 2001, the depots logged 11 million labor hours. Last year, that reached 20 million and this year it will total 24 million, Motsek said. Depot officials had hoped to work 27 million hours, but funding delays actually forced them to cut back. And that is only the work being done in the United States. In and around Iraq, 53,000 people — 52,000 of them contractors — are maintaining and rebuilding lightly damaged equipment, a senior Senate defense aide said. Indian workers are refurbishing U.S. Humvees for $6 an hour. “The equipment is wearing out five times faster than normal operations,'' said Jeremiah Gertler, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former House Armed Services Committee procurement aide. What cannot be repaired has to be replaced. Procurement costs were a fraction of the initial emergency war requests, Kosiak said. This year, new equipment purchases will consume 20 percent of the war funding. That has led to what some critics see as wasteful expenditures. The Senate bill includes $230 million to replace CH-46E Sea Knight helicopters lost in battle with three V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. In other words, senators plan to replace a Marine Corps workhorse with an experimental aircraft that critics say will never be useful in combat. Such costs were always there, Gertler said, but Bush administration officials and members of Congress put off maintenance and procurement expenditures to keep the war price tag down.

Sorority on probation for ‘blackest member’ award BY CAROL BILICZKY KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS (KRT)

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Kent State University officials have placed the Chi Omega sorority on probation for giving a “blackest member’’ award to a white woman. The sorority will not be able to hold social functions while officials investigate the incident, which occurred at a formal dinnerdance at the Student Center Ballroom on Saturday. The president of Chi Omega’s KSU chapter, marketing major Marisa Stroud, released a written statement to the media apologizing

for the award. She declined to comment further or answer questions. On April 13, three sorority members met with black students and KSU administrators for an hour, according to Sasha Parker, president of Black United Students. Parker said the Chi Omega members told the group that the award — one of many bestowed that night — was a joke among friends, not a slap at black students. Parker said she could accept that explanation, noting that the student who received the award brought a black date to the event. “We don’t believe they’re racist,’’ she said. “We just think it’s

an insensitivity issue.’’ Parker, who is studying magazine journalism, said she was “shocked that something like that happened. “I thought it was blatantly stupid of them to do that.’’ The chapter could face disciplinary action as a result of the college administration’s investigation, which could take a couple of days. Greg Jarvie, dean of students and ombudsman, said the chapter could be suspended or lose its charter. A spokeswoman for the national Chi Omega sorority, which is headquartered in Memphis, Tenn., said

it is developing an ‘’action plan’’ to prevent future incidents. “The award was a poor decision by a few individuals and was not chapter-sanctioned,’’ spokeswoman Jessica de Graffenreid said. “We don’t tolerate anything like this.’’ A second meeting between the university’s Chi Omega chapter, which reportedly has no black members, and other student groups has been scheduled. The 60-member chapter is the oldest national Greek organization for women at KSU. Nationwide, Chi Omega is the largest Greek organization for women.

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Photo essay by Carla Aaron-Lopez et me tell you a quick story about us. I came to school in fall 2001. Brandon “Redd” Brown started school in fall 2002. I remember seeing him for the first time in the game room of the A.E. Student Union during his freshman Week-ofWelcome. He had on a white V-neck Tshirt, baggy khaki pants and a strange contraption for a belt and buckle. His hair was long and twisted and bright red. After I got to know him, he started locking his hair. Later, I found out how much he loved and looked up to his granddad. I remember thinking that first day, “What a strange-looking boy.” But then again, I was a strange-looking girl when I started school. I came as a true old school punk with half-black and half-fireengine red hair, purposefully tattered clothes, and no shoes. I still wear no shoes today. I have deep roots in Los Angeles and that city infects my soul and body like the true California girl I can be. It makes me who I am. We, together, run the same lives. I’m not saying we are star-crossed lovers in some kooky and cracked-out black romance novel, but here we are — ready to leave with these massive reputations built around us because outsiders to our world have labeled us with these estranging words: Wild. Crazy. Intelligent. Weird. And my favorite to hate — Different. We created our worlds and we inhabit them. He’s here with me because, unlike others, he’s felt the same pain I’ve felt. He’s been in love like I’ve been in love. We’ve rejected society and grown in a short matter of years to truly be ourselves. My last stand is only this, he lies here because he is Redd and I am Carla. I love being a little strange and he loves being vivacious. We compliment each other like family and I’m going to miss him and everyone that I have dubbed as a family member instead of a friend at this school. He was never afraid to be himself and that I admire. Those same words I’ve heard time and time again about myself. But this is it. This is the end. I’m flying away on my zypher and graduating. Only leaving a few pictures, wise words and lasting impressions, forever.

Left: This is the first picture in a long time I’ve actually liked of myself. It displays a cheekiness I’m known for when you get to know me. It’s part of my natural character to be a little strange and rebellious. Center: Redd has so many thoughts in one day. Lately, he’s been a little down and he let me catch that in him one night while helping me get better from alcohol poisoning. Bottom: He loves that damn Vagina T-shirt. I do too, but Redd has a fun, sexy, dirty South quality to him that makes him rather attractive to young women. I never saw it, but I understand why. Same as the kid.

I’m finally content with myself, mentally and physically. I know that is not my real hair but the aviators sunglasses and strawberry blond wig compliment my long lost California heart.

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Annual jazz festival brings out the best Jazz recording artist Kevin Mahogany sang in the B.N. Duke Auditorium Saturday night. CHRISTOPHER WOOTEN/Echo Staff Photographer

BY CHARLES MESSICK ECHO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Music junior, Jonah Vincent performs at festival. KHARI JACKSON/Echo Staff Photographer

The 16th Annual Grady Tate Jazz festival was held on April 21-22 at N.C. Central University in the B.N. Duke Auditorium. The festival which was held over a two day span featured two Grammy Award winning jazz performers. Friday night jazz musician Terell Stafford performed with trumpet in hand and wowed the audience. “He was a cool and exciting guest,” said music junior Jonah Vincent. Also performing that night was NCCU’s jazz band and vocal ensamble.

Jazz vocalist Kevin Mahogany was the featured performer for Saturday evening along with the NCCU faculty jazz band. The audience consisted of the community and N.C. Central University students. Not only was the music friendly to the ears it was family friendly as well. “The event was somthing you could bring the family to,” said Vincent. Each night was filled with great music and the audience found themselves very satisfied with the grammy award winning performers. “It was very influential and inspiring to me Terell Stafford and

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Kevin Mahogany’s performances inspired as well as influenced me, the evenings had great energy,” said Cliff Wallace a music junior. Prior to their performances Stafford and Mahogany gave master classes to the NCCU jazz band and Jazz vocal ensamble and one on one coaching sessions with instrumentalist and vocalist in the music department. Stafford and Mahogany’s support and presence changed the outcome of the student and faculty performances entirely. “I think the students performed very well, it was the best performance of the year and the students gave their all,” said Ira Wiggins director of Jazz Studies.

Just in case you get bored this summer... t’s been quite a school year eagles, and I must admit its also been a learning experience and because this was a year of discovery for me, I feel the need to “put you on.” Of course I say that with a huge smile on my face, but if you know me I’m sure you figured that. But seriously, I discovered a lot of knowledge in music this year. Let me JOANNA start with HERNANDEZ J.R. Writer. He is a member of The Diplomats and for those of you who aren’t familiar with the “dips”: he basically is with Cam’ron , Juelz and them. But despite those heavyweights, in my opinion, he will be the best Dip ever. He’s even better than Cam’ron. Yes, I said it. He rides the beat crazily and he is lyrically insane. If you have Writers Block 3 his latest mixtape, then

you already know the talent his undeniable. It wasn’t until I heard J.R. that I began to respect The Diplomats and what they do, they just have a way with words and oh yeah: they get money. Next on my list is Remy Ma. Why hasn’t she gone platinum yet? Remy is an excellent lyricist. Basically she spits like a dude named Remy Ma so go get the album already. What are you waiting for? Also look out for Brooklyn native, rapper Papoose, he is a conceptual genius. His magic with concepts has been effortlessly displayed on tracks like “Alphabetical Slaughter,” or even by him using his five fingers to personify the five boroughs of New York in the “Touch It” remix with Busta Rhymes. He’s talented check him out. So, if you find yourself bored this summer, holla at JR, Remy, or Papoose. They’ll have something for you, or might I suggest you get employed so you can get fresh and get money.

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Lupe Fiasco Food and Liquor Atlantic Records out of on the 4 5 black hand side The South continues to dominate the radio; New York is looking for a new king; and the Midwest gives us a new edition to Atlantic Records: Chicago-born LUPE rap artist FIASCO Lupe Fiasco. A very modest guy, Fiasco just wants to contribute what he can to hip-hop. An artist since 8th grade, Fiasco is now the vice president of his own label, 1st And 15th Records. Despite two prior record deals, people are just getting to hear the talent he has to offer. You may have caught Fiasco featured in the third verse of Kanye West’s “Touch The Sky.” If you were fortunate enough you may have even heard the “Diamonds From Sierra Leone Remix” by

him which inspired Kanye to make a remix of his own. Fiasco has a unique style. The cadence of his verses change with each track and the subject matter can go over the heads of many listeners. On the first of his threepart mixtape series, Fahrenheit 1/15, Fiasco offers a track called “Twilight Zone” in which he personifies everyday objects. The mixtape offers radio freestyles, unreleased tracks, a diss to a former friend-turned-traitor and a welcome back for Chilly Mack, his business partner in the label. Fiasco’s growth in the game has come faster than he may have expected as his new album, “Food And Liquor,” has already been leaked. He has just debuted a video for “Kick Push,” a song about a boy and his skateboard. While disappointed because the project took five years of his life, he is honored that he does have listeners. And though the album leaked, everybody should definitely go cop this album after years of hard work. It deserves sales and four out of five on the black hand side. — Yung Wyse

Comedian Joe Torry speaks about a very interesting visit to the doctors, for a prostate exam . RODERICK HEATH/Echo Photo Editor

BY LARISHA STONE ECHO STAFF WRITER

Not too many students can say that they have never heard of the three comedians that visited N.C. Central University’s McLendon McDougald Gymnasium on Friday, April 21. Joe Torry, Rob Stapleton, and DeRay Davis brought down the house. All three had students in pain that evening. Whether you were laughing so hard that your stomach hurt, or got your feelings hurt from being the object of ridicule, the gym was the hot spot that evening. Joe Torry introduced the other two comedians and made the audience laugh between the sets. A true, professional master of ceremonies knows how to keep the audience

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interested in the time it takes for the next act to come. And he didn’t have to steal the show to keep the audience alert. Some people think that comedians are actors who have a knack for making people laugh. The reverse is true- comedians are people who take painful life experiences and crack jokes on themselves. The comedians also cracked jokes on audience members just for laughs. Julius Jones, host of the comedy show and former NCCU student, was not spared. “He look like a young old man,” said Rob Stapleton. “He look 43 and 14 at the same time.” Comedian Joe Torry poked fun at a man in a corner between the DJ booth and the bleachers, saying he looked stuck between the two places.

Jeff Easterling was verbally attacked by DeRay Davis toward the end of the show. “What is that a purse?” Davis asked when Easterling dropped his bookbag. When asked what his future plans are, Torry said that he plans on producing and directing film, television, and music videos. DeRay Davis wants to stay afloat. “Consistency is my thing. I want to keep going in the direction I’m going.” Rob Stapleton is going in the direction he wishes to go with a film slated to be released this summer. His future plans include producing films of all genres, not just comedy. “I don’t have no jokes- this is my life,” said DeRay Davis at the beginning of his set.

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A YEAR IN SPORTS: TAKING IT BACK

Where’s my Eagle?

Text by Sasha Vann ife’s ups and downs may come and go, but once a team gets a championship, they’re a champion forever. The 2005-2006 athletic seasons for N.C. Central University proved to be a great opportunity for Eagle athletics to show their worthiness of moving up in rank. As sports editor, I have watched each team go through the extremes of winning and los-

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ing, pride and humbleness, great starts and sad endings. My team of reporters kept the campus alert with up-to-date information on all the games and almost anything pertaining to Eagle Athletics. Well here it is, the end of the year. And boy, do we have a story to tell. Four championship stories to be exact. Check this out.

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Ever had spiked punch? Well the Lady Eagles volleyball team served a lot of it in their 2005 season. Remaining undefeated at home, the women took their second championship in two years against Eastern Division rival Virginia Union. Surprisingly, VUU ‘s plan of action was entirely different from that of last year, loosing to the Lady Eagles in a three game set. Seniors Brenda Brown, Ariel Germain, Dorian Mills and Danielle Johnson-Webb set themselves as the foundation for the team. This group of women set records for school history in the categories of hits, sets, digs, and blocks. Next year’s team will be one to watch as new recruits and returning players push for a third championship under the instruction of new head coach , Georgette Crawford.

NCCU’s Latisha Judd likes using her hips more than her feet to get to the next base as she slides safely past Bowie State’s waiting defense. CHRISTOPHER WOOTEN/Echo Staff Photographer

Tiffani Turrentine (left) and Brenda Brown (right) stand tall at the net.

I have to admit. I wasn’t able to attend a single softball game the entire season. I told myself “I’m going to be at that championship game to support these girls, even if it means getting up early to go to Virginia. So I went, all the way to Virginia State University to watch the grand finale. And then it rained. But that rainy Saturday provided a

victorious Sunday for the Lady Eagles softball team. N.C. Central University finished the championship, 7-4 against Bowie State, remaining undefeated all the way to gain the conference crown These women took all the awards. Not only were five Lady Eagles granted conference honors, but one outstanding player was voted as CIAA Softball Rookie of the Year.

Sophia Blue, a freshman from Hope Mills NC, helped lead NCCU to the most wins in school history and a CIAA Western Division title. Others who gained honors were pitcher Clarisse Steans, catcher Francheska Pittman, shortstop Asha Sutton, first baseman Casey Rodiquez, and pitcher Stacey Greene. The Lady Eagles knew how to hit them where it hurt. Congrats!

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The runaround Who would have ever thought that just plain ol’ running would be an actual sport? I can tell you one thing — running for long distances is only for the strong. And it’s the women who represented this time. For fall ‘04, the men took up arms against seven-time defending champs St. Augustine’s College to take the CIAA Championship in cross country, the first ever in school history. I watched Yolanda Barber, a freshman then, capture the women’s individual conference title. Again she took the individual title. But now she had a conference championship to hold her down Three other Lady Eagles finished in the top 10. Now for fall ‘06, can I get an encore?

3 seconds left: Whatcha gonna do? My nerves were shot as I sat in the press box, looking down on the field. One field goal was all we needed to give the Eagles the title that they had their eyes on for quite sometime For NCCU, it was the first championship in 25 years. For the Bulldogs of Bowie State, it was a punch to the throat. For sophomore Brandon Gilbert, the thrill was all in the toe. To tie the game, wide receiver Julius McClellan caught a 60-yard pass from quaterback Adrian Warren The only option for victory was to take the thirty yard field goal, sealing the lid on what seemed like an unpromising game. The bout itself was one of sheer determination. Coming back from a 17-0 deficit, the Eagles dropped a bomb on the Bulldogs in the second half. These guys really pushed for the gold, being the first team in NCCU’s 82gridiron history to win 10 games in a season. In the words of DJ Michael Watts of Swishahouse Records: “If you don’t grind, you won’t shine!” And believe me, those rings will hurt your eyes.

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Even though he didn’t get any ground time, Chancellor Ammons (center) had a chance to grip the hardware this past November. RODERICK HEATH/Echo Photo Editor

G o o d b y e t o ’ 06 Even though I only reigned as sports editor for one year, I have thoroughly enjoyed being a spectator of the people that I care for dearly. I had a chance to be a fan instead of the athlete, the onlooker instead of the looked upon. To the teams who did not get a chance to get that title, don’t worry about the woulda, shoulda or coulda. Worry about what you’re gonna do next. From this point on, that’s all that matters. Through it all, NCCU put on a great show during the fall, then delivered again in the spring. Much is to be attributed to the coaches, athletic trainers, directors and most importantly the fans. No, wait a minute, even more importantly: the players. If it wasn’t for y’all, what would Eagle athletics be?

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Alumni finds home in NBDL BY JARELL DAWSON ECHO STAFF WRITER

Standing six feet eight inches tall, Jonathan Moore was a hard person to miss on the courts of N.C. Central University. Where is he now? Moore is currently playing for the Florida Flame of the National Basketball Developmental League based in Fort Meyers, Fl. “I’m a rookie and I am only one of two guys on the team who didn’t come out of Division I basketball, so it get frustrating not being able to play the minutes I want,” Moore stated. “I am going to sit and wait my turn. I have learned a lot since I have been here.” After Moore’s graduation in the spring of 2005, he eagerly waited upon June’s NBA draft. After working out for teams such as the Detroit Pistons, L.A. Lakers, and Charlotte Bobcats, Moore had high hopes. But at the end of the 2005 draft, his name was not called. “I knew it was just the beginning for me,” says the 23-year old Moore. “I just kept my head up and kept working.” Moore worked through a tough, two-week training camp to make the NBA’s L.A. Clippers summer league team. The Las Vegas summer league involved many of the NBA’s newest talent. “It was fun to play in the summer league,” Moore said. “To step on the floor against guys who played in the NBA and at other Division I institutions didn’t intimidate me.” Moore only spent two years in the maroon and grey, but he left a big impact on his former teammates. “Jonathan was determined to make it as a basketball player,” said senior business major Jason Hervey. He says Moore has what it takes to get to the next level. “He brings such a good combination of grace, strength and athleticism to the court,” Hervey said. “I really do look to him for support so I can get to the same level [or better.]”

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If it ain’t broke ... But I’m sorry; I forgot that at NCCU decisions are too often made irregardless of what is in the best interest of the students.

s it just me or does this campus seem to be buzzing louder than ever with people protesting, preaching and projecting about their views and beliefs? I am proud and inspired by the wave of passion and activism I have seen exhibited by my fellow Eagles in the past weeks. Who can call us complacent now? However, I think that there is some other mendacious activity that I must bring to light. Tarryn Lael Here at NCCU everySimmons one has someone who has their best interest at heart — Athletic Departments, Greek letter organizations, The Sound Machine, The Student Government Association. All these wonderful facets of college life have substantial administrative support. But considering that NCCU is supposed to be an institution of academic advancement, shouldn’t one of the most highly esteemed departments be that of the University Honors Program — a division of our great university that is supposed to harbor, nurture and galvanize the best and brightest at NCCU? The UHP has allowed me to go to a number of cultural events, receive graduate school preparation and provided me with information on how to maximize and utilize my potential. But I must bring up the fact that behind every great program are great people.

The director of the UHP, Leon Hardy, was one of the first administrators on this campus that really tried to get to know me and aid in my quest of higher learning. He always has the honor students best interest at heart. I know that he goes past the call of duty to provide honor students with academic, leadership and cultural experiences — even aiding in search for financial support for these endeavors. According to Janice Harper, assistant vice chancellor for University Programs, this great person behind this great program is being replaced. On Wednesday, April 5th, Harper spoke to my honors seminar class (composed of 37 University Honors Students) to discuss his dismissal – in a very ambiguous way. The decision to replace Hardy was made hastily and evadingly. No one even bothered to ask any honors students if we were pleased with the quality of service we were receiving under Hardy’s direction or inform us of why he was being removed. But I’m sorry; I forgot that at NCCU decisions are too often made irregardless of what is in the best interest of the students. On behalf of the University Honors Students I would like to let Chancellor James H. Ammons, Provost Beverly Jones, and Vice Chancellor Janice Harper (the individuals ultimately responsible for our director’s termination) know that Hardy is dedicated the foundations of this University — Truth and Service. Why try to fix something that is not broken?

No room for regrets Last but not least, to my Eagle family, what can I say, if I could do it all again I would still have an eagle on my back!

ell, what can I say? It’s almost time to graduate and my life as an undergraduate student will be over sooner than I can imagine. You know, when people say that the four years of college will fly by, trust me they were right. Ya’ll it’s over. And I feel like crying. I’m just starting to really enjoy life here on the lovely campus of N.C. Central University. I don’t want to get all emotional in the newsStephanie paper, but it’s hard to Carr resist when I know this will be the last time I will ever write in this award-winning newspaper. Well, since I put it out there, let me start by giving respect to all of the seventh floor gangstas of Eagleson Hall. They know who they are, and all the secret missions that we’ve carried out freshman year. I have to laugh at that. Those were some crazy days. Sophomore year, better known as the year of the mold, was for many the first feel for off-campus, on-campus housing. So for all the first-time Campus Crossing residents: You ain’t seen nothing until you lived in a hotel for a year. On to my junior year, that year was pretty much a blur. One thing in particular that sticks out, would be becoming a member of the Order of Eastern Star, which is a great accomplishment, if I may say so myself. It not only taught me self discipline, it taught me that I was stronger than I could ever imagine. To all my Si-Stars: I love you and thanks for all the support. Thanks for being a part of my joys, pains, and sometimes being the cause of my pains, lol. Now it’s senior year. This year has been

filled with blessings — blessings in the form of new lifelong friends and opportunities that I never imagined would be available to me. I can’t give anyone on earth the credit for this. I know it was God, though I couldn’t see it at the time. Bernice, Ranita, Candace, and Alicia, four of the original seventh floor gangstas. Though we have come into our majors and branched out to others, my love for you will never change. Despite the attitudes and arguments, the laughs we shared, the “secret missions,” and straight clowning, these are things that I will always remember. Believe me, my children will hear all the stories and trust me, there are plenty to pass on. To the ladies of 100 Black Women, I am so glad to have met you. Toya, Tatiana, Ebony, Dana, Jamie, Tracy just to name a few — I wish we would have met earlier. Just knowing you is something that I will always treasure. Being a staff member at the Campus Echo has been an experience I would not take back for anything in the world. My heart will always be with the staff members: Neesh, “Woo Daddy,” Roderick, Rony, Sasha, Larisha, Khari, Joanna, Carla, Carolyn, DP and everyone else. Mr. Chambers thanks for helping me to think differently. To all my influential professors, Dr. Carl, you’re the best, Ms. Forte, Ms. Collins, Dr. Ellis and Dr. Maynor — you have looked out for me so much. I am so grateful. I could go on forever, but I don’t have the space. Thank you to everyone who has taught me and elevated my mind. Mommie, your black China doll did it. I’m glad to have made you proud. Last but not least, to my Eagle family — What can I say? — if I could do it all again, I would still have an Eagle on my back! I’m out, Muah!

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Editor bids Echo farewell oming from a small town named Concord, I didn’t know what to expect when I came to NCCU. I had three goals: have fun, make my mother proud and become a journalist. I can honestly say that I have reached all three goals. I have to first give honor and glory to God for giving me Deneesha the opportuEdwards nity to come to college and graduate. Nothing is impossible with the help of God. I am so blessed to have a wonderful family that has always supported me, no matter what. They were there when I needed them the most. My mother and grandmother

are my inspirations in life. Nana, no matter where I end up, I will never forget where I came from. To my mother, I promise to continue to make you proud.

knowing where it would take me. When I became editor With the help in the last fall, I strived of D.P., I am the journalist I to continue our legacy am today. of excellence. I wanted Thank you for to tell stories about our your guidance and teachings. University and You are the Durham, as well as to best faculty This is not the adviser in the inform anyone who end, it’s just the world. There reads our paper. beginning. would be no I have had Campus Echo some of my best without you. times as an Eagle. When I became editor in the NCCU has taught me so much last fall, I strived to continue over the years and I can say I our legacy of excellence. I have had some of the best prowanted to tell stories about our fessors here, who truly do care. University and Durham, as I matured over the years well as to inform anyone who and like many I have made reads our paper. mistakes. But I learned that To the Campus Echo family, that’s OK, as long as you learn I love each and every one of from your mistakes and don’t you. I couldn’t have done this repeat them. without you. I joined the staff of the Even though I wanted to Campus Echo in 2004, not hurt some of y’all at times, I

really appreciate everything you all have done. I wish you all the best next year. Keep up the good work and continue to add to the family. Candice, thank you for being my roommate these past four years and for helping me to get over hard times. I will miss the late-night talks. To all of my sisters — Carla, Shelbia, Carolyn, Sasha, Stephanie and anybody else I hang with who I forgot: thank you for being there for me. I love all of y’all. To Sho-Off Entertainment thanks for the laughter, cookouts and parties. To anybody I forgot, do what you do and don’t let anybody or anything stress you out. Keep your heads up. Congratulations to the class of 2006. I have had so much fun in the last four years. Good luck in life and remember to have faith and always keep God first.

Guilty until proven innocent? was upset when I learned that a young woman was allegedly raped. I am still upset about it. But I am not upset about the amount of time that has passed since the investigation began because I think that it probably takes a while to gather evidence, talk with everyone who might have Margaret information, Bockting reflect on the significance of what is known, determine what other questions need to be addressed and figure out how to obtain answers. Given that the alleged victim has accused members of the Duke lacrosse team, people have reason to regard them as suspects. And given other complaints that have surfaced, people have

reason not to Should these regard them (or things be at least some of regarded as them) as nice, evidence that Some or all of them responsible, conany of them may be guilty of siderate young committed the men. alleged crime? racism and sexism. But recently I Do suspicions Should these things be about what have begun to regarded as evidence reflect on the would have tenor of converhappened in a that any of them comsations about hypothetical mitted the alleged the alleged case (if somecrime? crime. It seems one had that the accused accused NCCU are guilty of athletes) bias being white us against the male athletes at a prestigious, accused? expensive university. Most of us are aware of past Perhaps they are also guilty injustices. of being born into wealthy or I have not read enough hisprivileged families. tory to know whether there are Should preconceived notions few or many examples of cases or stereotypes of such groups in which the less privileged make us believe that they have found justice when raped a young woman? charges have been brought Some or all of the Duke against those who had less lacrosse players may be guilty melanin or more power or of drinking too much and wealth or influence than they. annoying their neighbors. I have read enough history Some or all of them may be to know that there are examguilty of racism and sexism. ples of white men not being

convicted of or punished for crimes they had committed. But should those examples of injustice make me assume that these white male lacrosse players are guilty of rape? Perhaps race, class, membership on the Duke lacrosse team, abuse of alcohol, and creating public disturbance constitute sufficient grounds for suspecting them. I’m not sure. But do those things constitute sufficient grounds for moving from suspicion to belief that they are guilty? They may be guilty. But shouldn’t we presume them innocent until they are proven beyond a reasonable doubt to be guilty? I hope that investigators spend as much time as necessary finding out exactly what happened. Like Kai Christopher (see April 5 issue of The Campus Echo), I hope that the public, the press, and the investigators will focus on learning facts, and learning the truth.

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Question: “What was the problem with spring fling week this year?” “The timing was a major problem. My money is very low and things cost too much to go to anyway. Plus it is the end of the year and people are studying for finals.” — Janey Jones “There was a problem with the promotion, there was none. I should have saw flyers everywhere and people passing them out. Hard work pays off ” —Kev in Jordan

“Spring fling was not promoted like homecoming was. The students didn’t really know about it. When they did find out about it, it was probably too late.” — Shauntae Bowers

Bye, y’all he girl straight out of Charlotte’s country club-dotted south side is all grown up now. I know many of you were wondering when reality would hit me. Well, it has. And it was a hard slap from left field. My time at N.C. Central University has taken me through more realness than I think I could have ever been prepared for, but I wouldn’t trade any of my experiences for the world. Carolyn McGill To my family here at Central — I will miss you. Laura, thank you for your all love and guidance. Rashad, I know I’m older, but you’ve been like an older brother to me. Vinegar and baking soda will spontaneously combust in the future, Carla. So, please take note. Kaboom! Sundays won’t be the same without “blackburry mer-lot,” Sasha’s cooking, Khari’s commentaries and Larisha’s

squeaky laugh. Neesh: I will pause for your cause every time. The 312-323 connection will live on forever. Kemi: You’ll always be my favorite S.O.F.F. Vicki: We gon’ make it, like Rashad when he fell off your car that night at Time Out. Dorian: I love your silly ass. Take that. Chris: I’ll support you always. Those of you who know me know that my family is nearest to my heart. I would never have come so far without the love and support of my own Too Live Crew. So to them: I love you most and always. Mommy, Daddy: I know I’m not finished yet, but your Bee has made it past the first, founding step of independence with honors. Warren: Keep your head up, bro and trust that I’m always here for you. Aarren: You’re growing up too fast, baby brother. Cut it out! Carryn: Keep that fire you’ve got little sister. Tell them where to go. And to dear old NCC: Thanks. It’s been a nice ride. This is my stop.

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