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Had an omelette lately? Get to know the gentleman who cooked it for you
Robert E. Holmes collection, ‘Affirming a Legacy,’ is now in NCCU’s museum
Is romance dead? According to Gautam, it is for black men!
Cheerleaders set the house on fire on the CIAA Super Saturday
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Campus Echo World’s infants die by millions
KING HOLDS THE CROWN I #30 BREAKS RECORD
Simple efforts could save newborns’ lives, show studies that seek to spur global action BY DAVID BROWN WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON— Each year 4 million babies around the world die in the first month of life. More than half the deaths could be avoided with simple measures such as cutting umbilical cords with sterile blades, prescribing antibiotics for pneumonia and keeping newborns warm. Those are among the findings of a group of studies released Thursday that seek to direct the world’s attention to the large number of infants in poor countries who die soon after birth, usually at home and often unnamed. The high mortality arises from poverty, ignorance and disorganization in poor countries, and is exacerbat-
ed by fatalism on the part of many parents, a lack of political will in governments and the inattention of global health experts, the researchers concluded. “This disaster has to end,’’ Vinod Paul, an Indian physician and expert in the care of newborns, said Thursday at a launch of the initiative in Washington. “We believe the vast majority of these deaths can be prevented by the knowledge we have today. We do not need new knowledge.’’ “In West Africa, one of every three mothers will lose a newborn,’’ said Anne Tinker of the charity Save the Children, calling that evidence of “an unacceptable disparity between the haves and the have-nots.’’
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Student’s life on new course Cassie King broke a CIAA record when she scored 59 points in the Lady Eagle’s 84-7 79 victory over Bowie State. RODERICK HEATH/Staff Photographer
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Lady Eagle’s 59 points give NCCU something to smile about BY ASHA SUTTON
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he 2005 Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association tournament held at the RBC Center in Raleigh last week is one that N.C. Central University would like to forget soon. Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams bowed out of the tournament in the second round. But amidst all the despair, the Eagles can take solace in the individual feat of Lady Eagle Cassie King. King was the talk of the Triangle when she scored 59 points in the Eagles’ 84-79 victory over Bowie State. She broke the record set by Bowie’s Allyson Hardy, who scored 50 points against St. Augustine’s last season. King, a sophomore, may be the most well-rounded, versatile and explosive player among CIAA women and in NCCU history. Her impact may be as great as the one Amba Kongolo left in her time as a Lady Eagle. Kongolo, NCCU’s second all-time leading scorer and rebounder, was the first CIAA athlete to get drafted into the WNBA. Over her career she amassed 41 career double-doubles and was voted CIAA Player of the Year in 2001 and 2002. King is well on her way to achieving similar feats. In her 59-point game, she set the tone early by scoring within the first minute of the game to reach 1,000 points in her NCCU basketball career. She played 45 minutes in the game, which went into overtime. She
made 21 of 38 field goals and 17 of 18 free throws and also had a team-high of 13 rebounds. King is now the second Lady Eagle to score 600 points in a season, which has not been done since 1986. “This is going to be the talk of the town,” said NCCU junior point guard Porschia Holmes. But King, who averaged 22 points in the regular season, was more concerned with the performance of the whole team and bringing team glory. “I wasn’t really thinking about any records. I was just trying to help my team get to the next round,” King said. King, from Wendell, N.C., might have a sweet smile and disposition when she is outside the athletic arena, but give her a basketball and she turns into a different person. “We’ve had some good players come through here through the years,” said Assistant Coach Stephen Joyner. “She’s almost the best offensive player we’ve ever had.”
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Five month rehab ends An unexpected accident left an N.C. Central University football player paralyzed from the chest down, after a pick-up football game in November. Brant Daye returned home Saturday, March 5, after being at The Shepard Spinal Cord Rehabilitation Center in Atlanta. Daye has a cervical injury to six vertebrae. Doctors say it is unlikely he will ever walk again. But Daye’s mother, Eureka Daye-Todd, said she has hope for a different outcome. “God has the last word,”
Brant Daye in his room in the Hilton Hotel. Daye returned to Durham March 5. RODERICK HEATH/Staff Photographer
she said. Daye has learned to deal with the difficult situation placed before him. He is
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Provost search gets underway BY RONY CAMILLE ECHO STAFF REPORTER
Amba Kongolo, right, looks to shoot a basket against Winston-S Salem State. CAMPUS ECHO FILE PHOTO
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The search for a new provost continues. It has been more than three months since the departure of Lucy J. Reuben, former provost and vice chancellor of Academic Affairs at N.C. Central University. Since then, a search committee has been formed by Chancellor James H. Ammons to find a replacement. The 19 members search committee is led by Carlton
Wilson, chair of the department of history. The committee is made of both supporters and opponents of the former provost. The members say they have put their differences behind them and are working toward the future for the good of the University. “There is no animosity among the members,” Wilson said. According to Wilson, the University has advertised the position in many publications, including The
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NCCU instructor was first to integrate Stanly High School BY IHUOMA EZEH
Reality TV to land at NCCU
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“Congratulations. You are in the running to become America’s next top model.” Those are the words some N.C. Central University women would love to hear from supermodel Tyra Banks, the creator of “America’s Next Top Model.” “I would be totally excited,” said Auriel Young, criminal justice senior . Auditions for the show will be held March 19 in the Alfonso Elder Student Union. The auditions will provide an opportunity for lady Eagles and area women to show off their modeling skills. “This event is a great opportunity for the community and the University,” said Sharon Saunders, assistant to the Chancellor for public relations. “We thought it was great exposure for the University. This is why the chancellor approved the auditions on NCCU’s campus,” Saunders said. The auditions are open to women 18-27 years old, of any body shape, who meet the 5-foot-7-inch height requirement. “America’s Next Top Model” is one of the UPN highest-rated programs and one of the most popular reality television shows. “The show offers a diverse pool of reality stars,” said Heather Kuh, marketing director for WRDC UPN 28. “Other reality shows aren’t as diverse. I think it’s a positive show for everyone.” Theatre senior Chad Johnson is looking forward to the auditions. “I’m interested in seeing the potential models,” he said. “I hope they look as good as the past contestants on the show.” According to Kuh, 300500 women are expected to turn out for the auditions. “We are expecting women from all over the country,” Kuh said. But students and administrators said they hope the stars of the auditions will be local. “I think it’s great to give people in this area the opportunity to fulfill their dreams,” said Saniece Williams, a business administration freshman. “This puts our university in a positive light.” “We hope someone local gets it so we can blow it up with viewing parties,” Kuh said.
N.C. Central University alumnus and reservist Marquis Jackson worked at Camp Bucca prison 300 miles from Baghdad and brought knowledge back from Iraq to share. DENEESHA EDWARDS/Staff Photographer
NCCU SOLDIER HOME AGAIN
An inside view of American prisons in Iraq BY LOVEMORE MASAKADZA ECHO EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Reservist Marquis Jackson was attending a faculty meeting Jan. 14 last year at Hillside High School, where he teaches, when his cell phone rang. It was his Unit Administrator informing him that he had been involuntarily transferred to another unit in Florida, which was preparing to go to Iraq. Jackson’s wife was eight months pregnant, but he had to leave for Florida to join his new unit before leaving for Iraq on Feb. 7. “To be in the military, you are a number,” Jackson said. They put you where they need you.” Jackson, who majored in political science at N.C. Central University from 1997 to 2001 and is expecting to finish a second degree in English education, was stationed at Camp Bucca prison for about 10 months. The camp is 300 miles southeast of Baghdad In the unknown world, he looked back at his days at NCCU and remembered many words of wisdom from his professors. “Dr. Ferebee told me to look at the world in a broader view and to be optimistic,” Jackson said. “Dr. Ware, HarringtonAustin and Bockting
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taught me to appreciate life. You never know when your education is going to be valuable to you.” After seeing the struggles that the people of Iraq face to make a living, Jackson said he came back “much wiser and grateful.” “The Americans don’t know poverty,” Jackson said. “The level of poverty blew my mind.” Jackson served as a processing non-commission officer — he ensured that new detainees at the camp had proper identification and that the right data were collected. He said at times he processed the data of 200 to 300 detainees a day and the camp had about 4,000 detainees. Their crimes included illegal possession of weapons, assault and rape. Some of the detainees were from countries such as Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. Jackson said the prisoners were rarely violent and he was inspired to see the prisoners face the same direction to bow down and pray. “They were some of the most sensible people I have ever encountered,” Jackson said. Jackson said he did not witness any ill treatment of the prisoners, but he said he heard about the prisoner abuse scandal by
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American soldiers at Abu Ghraib, another American run detainee camp in Iraq. At Abu Ghraib, some American soldiers were accused of inhumane treatment of Iraqi prisoners by putting them on leashes and piling them up naked, among other things. Jackson would not comment on the Abu Ghraib scandal. He said he treated detainees with respect and never received illegal orders from his superiors. Jackson said he cheated death one day when a missile landed 10 feet from him. He’s alive today, he said, because the missile didn’t detonate. “Had it detonated I would not be talking to you,” Jackson said. Jackson, who said he had to work between 12-18 hours a day during his stay in Iraq, said he thinks American soldiers have overstayed their welcome in Iraq. “I believe there was a time when the United States’ presence was needed in Iraq, but I believe we surpassed that time,” said Jackson. The long working hours did not deter Jackson from reading his books. He found some time to read books like Nelson Mandela’s “Long Walk to Freedom” and the “Autobiography of Malcolm X.”
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“Shalom” — The word is inscribed onto a finely knitted maroon and gray pillow in the tidy office. N.C. Central University’s Professor Pamela Allison said the word is Greek for peace. According to Allison, the word was a source of strength during her senior year at North Stanly High School in Stanly, N.C. In 1964, Allison was the first African-American student to integrate North Stanly High School, an allwhite school. She transferred in from Kingville High School. “I was apprehensive and nervous about my safety,” Allison said. “But I was more afraid of what would happen to me academically than physically.” According to Allison, her stay in Stanly High School was “a fierce challenge in the eye of the storm.” A few days later, another black student, Christine Connor, joined her at the high school Connor said she was terrified and nervous about being in a white school, but in the end, she had a wonderful time. On Feb. 25, Allison and Connor got to see each other for the first time in 20 years at a reunion sponsored by the North Stanly Octagon Club. The club designed the reunion to recognize the first black students to integrate in North Stanly, calling it, “Celebrating Trailblazers Past and Present: Jewels in the Crown.” At the reunion Allison and Connor read a news report about the event for the first time. Allison said she was astonished to read a news article that called her and Connor “two Negro girls.”
“There were no incidents and the other students apparently accepted the situation as normal,” the article read. The reporter never interviewed Allison to ask her if she viewed the situation as normal, she said. “They assumed that we were fine,” Allison said. Connor also said that she did not learn about the article until their reunion. “Discovering the article did not upset me,” Connor said. “It’s been more than 40 years, and we have already gone through the worst of it all.” Allison said one of her proudest moments was when she was the only student able to recite the prologue to Chaucer’s literary classic, “The Canterbury Tales.” “Many of my white instructors had a preconceived notion that I could not measure up academically,” Allison said. “It shocked them that a black student could recite the prologue by heart.” Both Allison and Connor said they heard racial slurs while in class. They also said they felt isolated at Stanly High School. But since they were prepared for the worst, they were able to get through it all, they said. “Graduating from Stanly High was a thing of gratification and accomplishment for me,” Allison said. “I would not trade the experience for anything.” During graduation, Connor was “thrilled to walk up on that stage realizing that we made it,” she said. “I learned that all whites are not bad, and that not all will mistreat you,” said Connor. At the reunion Allison and Connor spent much of their time sharing bittersweet memories and making up lost time.
English instructor Pam Allison in her office in the Farrison-N Newton Communication Building. In 1964 Allison was the first black student to integrate her high school in Stanly, N.C. IHUOMA EZEH/Staff Photographer
PROVOST CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Chronicle of Higher E d u c a t i o n , HigherEdJob.com and Black Issues in Higher Education. The committee has been looking over candidate applications every week. Wilson would not reveal the number of applicants in the pool, but said that a “considerable amount” of individuals had applied for the provost position. “We want to get this resolved as soon as we can, but we are not rushing because we do not want to compromise the process,” Wilson said. Beverly WashingtonJones, former dean of University College, has been acting as interim provost since Jan. 1. Several committee mem-
bers and other faculty have remarked that WashingtonJones is handling the position professionally. According to Achameleh Debela, president of the Faculty Senate, WashingtonJones has been doing an excellent job and has developed a good rapport with faculty members. “She’s honest, transparent and practical,” Debela said. “This has been accepted very well.” Branislav Vlahovic, chair of the Department of Physics, has a similar assessement of WashingtonJones peformance. “She’s proven and shown excellence and performance,” he said. “I think she’s qualified for the job.”
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Group plans women’s center Giving females a place to go BY KENYA SEARCY ECHO STAFF WRITER
Next fall students will have an important resource on campus: the N.C. Central Women’s Center. A task force has been exploring ways to use the new center since June 2004. The panel was made up of 15 students, faculty and staff members. It was headed by Frances Graham, associate vice chancellor of student affairs, and Yolanda Tibbs, assistant director of residential life. “When I took on the responsibility of the Women’s Center, I suggested we have a task force to get information about the campus, student needs and the staff ’s perception,” said Graham, co-chair of the task force. According to Graham, 67 percent of NCCU’s students are women. The Women’s Center was the vision of Roland Gaines, vice chancellor of student affairs. “With so many female students we need to concentrate on women’s issues,” Gaines said. “I think it would be great for women to have a venue and opportunity to discuss their issues.” The task force has been meeting monthly to decide what the center should look like, how it should be staffed and what programs it should offer, Graham said. According to Tibbs, the task force co-chair, the group has visited other college women’s centers for ideas. “We liked the women’s center at N.C. State University,” Tibbs said. “We liked the services it held and its atmosphere. “Their center primarily focused on the needs of students,” she added. “We want ours to focus on
the needs of not only students, but faculty and staff.” The group plans to offer a library with books about women’s issues, meeting spaces and classrooms. They also plan to have a changing station, kitchen and even a breast pump for students and faculty with children. They also plan to hold seminars and forums to educate students about gender issues. “The possibilities to enjoy the space will be endless,” said Graham, who added that the center will also be open to men. “Men who have women in their lives — mothers, sisters, girlfriends, etc. — and single fathers can gain a great deal from the Women’s Center,” Graham said. The task force has already sponsored programs on campus. Their first program was in September, when Lori Robinson, a rape survivor, shared her experiences with students. “The program was very successful and well attended,” Graham said. The task force will also bring the poet Mona Daye to campus during the week of March 28. The group plans to post an online survey this month for students to offer suggestions. Graham said a women’s center is just what NCCU needs. “The center will bring a lot of attention to women’s needs and will give women a chance to have their voices heard.” “There is a lack of women in leadership positions,” Graham said. “They arxe often behind the scene. Young women need role models to allow them to build leadership positions and the Women’s Center will allow us to build the skills for women to become great leaders.”
Frances Graham co-cchairman of the NCCU Women’s Center Task Force in her office in the Student Services Building.
Dr. William Turner puts up praying hands during his March 3 lecture. RODERICK
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Church has deep roots Church has played historic role shaping black society BY STEPHANIE CARR ECHO STAFF WRITER
According to Duke University associate professor William Turner, you do not know where you are going unless you know where you have been. During a March 3 lecture sponsored by the N.C. Central University department of sociology, Turner, a student of the art of preaching, spoke about the role of the black church in contemporary society. With an audience of about 40 students and faculty members, Turner discussed how the church affected the black community from the
days of slavery. Turner described the transformation of the church over the last two centuries from small, family-based settings, to cathedrals with massive congregations. Turner said he feels material possessions, such as money and fancy clothes and cars, have shaped the development of the church. He also addressed the notion that slaves were only the objects of free labor. Slaves were the backbone of early society and were instrumental in building the first Baptist church in America. According to Turner, African American religious practices can be traced back
to the African past. Forms of this relationship to African culture include dancing and up-tempo music. Another example is the way a preacher will place his hand on the head of a congregant seeking a heavenly blessing or a connection to God, according to Turner. This form of prayer has its roots in an African ceremonial tradition called “laying hands,” that involved marking the face and forehead. He also said slave owners used the Bible to keep Africans in the clutch of servitude. One simple Bible verse, “Slaves obey your masters,
for your reward will be given,” was used by early slave masters to keep slaves submissive. “His historical references were so profound,” said sociology professor Michelle Laws. “The past is so important, but, young people know so little about their own origins,” Turner said. It is one thing to teach young people about black history, but the environment around them should also reflect on black history Turner said. It’s important to their own self-worth, he said. “This was a great way to end Black History Month,” Laws said. “We have to bring him back.”
DAYE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 learning how to use his back muscles and he plans to participate in some sports activities for wheelchair users. “I have to look forward and not back,” Daye said. “I try not to think about it.” Daye’s stepfather Thomas Todd said it is exciting for him to be back in Durham. “It’s good that he’s back, but it will be better when he gets to come home,” Todd said. Daye is currently staying at the Durham Hilton Hotel because his house has to be modified to accommodate
him. Daye’s mother said it is a blessing that family, friends and the community are helping. “The community is my family,” Daye-Todd said. “Everyone pulls together and looks out for each other.” Daye-Todd also said that she appreciates the help given by NCCU. She said she talks frequently with head football coach, Rod Broadway and George “Bulldog” Smith, assistant athletic director for student-
athlete development. Members of the StudentAthlete Advisory Committee raised funds at the NCCU vs. Winston-Salem State University basketball game. The Division of Student Affairs is collecting taxdeductible gifts. “We as a community wanted to contribute to get the home ready for Brant,” said Vickie McNeil, special assistant to the vice chancellor of student affairs. Daye, a transfer from East Carolina University, is a junior studying sports soci-
ology at NCCU. Daye chose NCCU because he knew it was an up and coming school. “Central wasn’t too big or too small,” Daye said. “It was just right.” He plans to start taking courses again in the summer. Daye’s home church, Orange Grove Missionary Baptist Church, is having a benefit concert at 4 p.m. on April 2. For more information call (919) 596-8088. “God has a plan for me. I need to find it out and make it happen,” Daye said.
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Rat brains tell a story Brain images show drug effects BY TIANA ROBINSON ECHO STAFF WRITER
N.C. Central University’s Neuroscience and Drug Abuse Program will recognize Brain Awareness Week with a lecture by L i n d a Porrino at 4 p.m. today at the Julius L. Chambers Biomedical/ Biotechnol o g y BBRI Research Researcher Institute. Alynn Howlett Porrino is on the board of directors at the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, a consortium of researchers, and on the faculty in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Wake Forest University. In her lecture, “Marihuana: From Mice to Men,” Porrino will explain her research on the effects of marijuana on the brain. Porrino looks at the brains of live mice using magnetic resonance imaging, after the mice have been injected with marijuana compounds. “The work she’s done helps us understand the long and short term effects of marijuana,” said Howlett, an NCCU biology professor. Brain Awareness Week is an international effort organized by the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, a non-profit organization of 250 neuroscientists.
The week is designed to advance public awareness about progress in brain research. NCCU’s Neuroscience/ Drug Abuse Research Program is funded by grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. In all, five researchers are exploring different facets of how drugs affect the brain. Howlett’s work examines the way cells respond to the active substances in marijuana. Associate professor Steve Franklin examines the way stress hormones affect the body’s ability to make its own opiodes. Research scientist Somnath Mukhopadhyay is examining how the body’s own chemicals, ones similar to the active ingredients in marijuana, work on blood pressure and blood vessel formation. University veterinarian Derek Norford examines the way drugs change the shape of the brain’s cells. And researcher John Shim is creating molecular models of the brain’s drug receptors. According to Howlett, “students need to remember their goals and should not let something as crazy as drugs get in the way.” “A lot of people in our culture don’t believe that marijuana can actually change the brain.” Staff writer Tameka Stephenson contributed to this story.
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I just love working with people. I like seeing the day go well. I like being a part of that. STANLEY FOGLER, NCCU LINE CHEF
‘MR. OMELETTE’ Onetime cosmetologist becomes NCCU’s ‘omletteologist’ BY CHRISTINA GARRETT ECHO STAFF WRITER
Before he ever flipped an omelet, Stanley Fogler, N.C. Central University’s omelette cook, was a world traveler. At 14, he went with his uncle to see historical sights. “We went to D.C., the FBI building, the Smithsonian Institute, and various monuments,” said Fogler. His uncle even let him pick where they were going to live. Fogler decided to live in New York, right around the corner from the Apollo Theatre. There, he met all kinds of interesting people who talked to him about their travels. Inspired by their adventurous spirits, he joined the U.S Marine Corps. Fogler enjoys traveling and trying new foods. “My time in the military … I loved it,” said Fogler. “I’ve done desert training in the Mojave Desert, climbed mountains in California, and trapped monkeys in the rain forest in Central America,” said Fogler. “I’ve been to Puerto Rico, spent 13 months in Vietnam in South East Asia, and nine months in the Mediterranean in an air craft carrier.” Fogler has also traveled
NCCU’s omelette chef Stanley Fogler whips up breakfast in the W.G. Pearson Cafeteria on an early Tuesday morning. RODERICK HEATH/Staff Photographer
to Europe. “My first passion was working with hair,” said Fogler.
Fogler was a cosmetologist for 18 years. In the Marines they made him the company barber.
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“That was the first job in my life I was enthusiastic about,” said Fogler. According to Fogler he cut everyone’s hair — blacks and whites. Fogler was successful in cosmetology — even after the military. “I opened the first salon in Roxboro that did black, white, and Asian hair,” said Fogler. “It was called the Holiday Hair Fashion.” Fogler and his wife had the business for 9 years. After he sold the business, he heard that NCCU was hiring and applied. He was hired as the omelette cook. “He’s a wonderful worker,” said Princess Dickson, the cafe’s safety coordinator. “His personality is good because he knows what he wants. He’s a people person. He has a lot of respect for people. He’s always smiling.” Business administration sophomore Rasheed Hicks has nothing but praise for Fogler’s work. “I eat omelettes everyday at the cafe,” said Hicks. “Stanley’s kind and generous. His food portrays his personality. It nurtures me.” Fogler works on the clock from 6:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., but he often stays until 2 p.m. or so. “I just love working with people,” said Fogler, “I like seeing the day go well. I like being a part of that.”
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HIV-infected teens don’t halt risky behavior BY JAMIE TALAN NEWSDAY
Teens infected with HIV are engaging in risky sexual behavior twice as often as young people did in the years before the availability of drug treatment that postpones the onset of AIDS, a new study has found. Today’s HIV-infected teens are also twice as likely to abuse drugs and alcohol as their counterparts a decade ago, the study found. “Despite the drug treatments, kids today are doing worse,” said Marguerita Lightfoot, a research psychologist at the University of California-Los Angeles’ David Geffen School of Medicine who conducted the study. “Young people think they are invulnerable,” said
Robert Klitzman, co-director of the Center for Bioethics at Columbia University. “Young people think that HIV is no big deal.” Highly active therapies, known as HAART, were introduced in 1996. The drugs have successfully lowered virus levels and prolonged lives, but their availability has given patients more opportunities to transmit the virus to others, Lightfoot said. “Evidence suggests that many people living with HIV believe that sexual behaviors that could lead to the transmission of HIV, like unprotected sex, are less risky if viral levels are low,” she said. One-third of the young people in the survey lived in New York. The rest were in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Miami.
Only half the teenagers were taking the drug treatment “cocktail,” which Bruce Schackman of Weill Cornell Medical College’s department of public health said has been simplified in recent years. His group has been designing behavioral interventions to prevent HIV infection. The constant medical care patients receive when they are taking HAART provides a good opportunity to provide counseling, he said. The study began in 1994, when Lightfoot and her colleagues tracked high-risk behavior in 351 young people, ages 13 to 24, two years before HAART became available. The next survey was conducted in 1999-2000, when researchers interviewed another 175 teenagers and compared the level of
high-risk drug, alcohol and sexual activity. The 1999 group had been infected a year longer than those in the earlier groups, a finding that Lightfoot said suggests that people are becoming infected earlier. “Today’s teenagers reported feeling more emotionally distressed and felt they had a poorer quality of life than young people interviewed over a decade ago,” she said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 36,299 adolescents and young adults in the United States have been lost to AIDS through 2002. In that year, teenagers accounted for 11 percent of newly diagnosed HIV cases. The majority are Hispanic or black. “The message just isn’t getting through,” Lightfoot said.
INFANTS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Four studies reviewing the magnitude of “neonatal” mortality worldwide, strategies for reducing it, a road map for improving newborn care in poor countries and an estimate of costs were published online Thursday by the Lancet, a European medical journal. Much of the data have appeared elsewhere in recent years. What is new is gathering in one place the “evidence base” for action by donor nations, charities and the developing countries themselves. Among the new information was the calculation that at least 41 percent of the 4 million deaths, and possibly as much as 72 percent, could be prevented if current knowledge was put to use. The Lancet Neonatal Survival Steering Team, composed of researchers at many universities and charitable organizations, also estimated that to cut neonatal deaths in half would cost $4.1 billion per year on top of the $2 billion now being spent on the problem by poor countries and outsiders. The 4 million deaths occur among the 130 million babies born worldwide each year. Deaths in industrialized countries account for 1 per-
cent of the total. Two-thirds occur in 10 countries: India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Congo, Indonesia, Afghanistan and Tanzania. Programs to improve health in developing countries traditionally target pregnant women and young children. Newborns have been relatively overlooked, even though they are the most vulnerable — especially in the first few days of life. Of children who die before age 5, 38 percent die in their first month. Of them, three-quarters die in the first week. One cheap intervention that could eliminate the 7 percent of deaths caused by tetanus is giving pregnant women two tetanus shots, if they have not had any. The mothers pass their immunity to their babies, who can become infected if the umbilical cord is cut with a contaminated instrument. Teaching mothers and health workers to recognize infection in very young babies—and get them to a doctor or provide antibiotics themselves if that is impossible—could reduce the 26 percent of deaths caused by pneumonia and sepsis (bloodstream infections). Making those improvements,
however, will require training many more midwives and other health care workers—a huge undertaking. In south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, only about one-third of women deliver with the aid of a “skilled birth attendant.’’ But some interventions cost nothing. One author of the Lancet series, Gary Darmstadt, described success by a team of U.S. and Indian researchers to change behavior in 300 villages and 100,000 people in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Traditionally, women who have just delivered consult a Hindu holy man, called a pandit, on when to start breast feeding. After checking astrological tables and other sources, the pandit generally advises that feeding begin two or three days after birth. Until then, the baby is given tea or sugar water. Many new mothers also squeeze out of their breasts and discard the thick, antibody-filled, disease-preventing first milk, known as colostrum, because it is mistakenly considered old and dirty. One pandit in the area was a physician. After gain-
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ing his trust, the researchers asked him to consider changing his advice. “We just leveled with him and said: You’re a medically trained person; you know that breast feeding is critically important,’’ recounted Darmstadt, of the Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health. The man agreed and persuaded five other local pandits to change their advice, too. “I think, in essence, he took an evidence-based approach,’’ Darmstadt said.
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hat little baby with a genuine smile flashing on its lovely face. That little baby who does not know how to hate or how to kill. That little baby who thinks everything and everyone is a friend. Oh, how sweet little babies are. Reports GLOBAL recently showed OUTLOOK that four million of these lovely children are perishing in their first month of life as citizens of the world. LOVEMORE Let that MASAKADZA sink in for a second or two: four million. That’s almost half the population of North Carolina. It’s more than the combined population of South Dakota, North Dakota, Vermont, Alaska, Delaware, Montana and Wyoming. These poor babies are not dying in the First World countries, but the Third World. The report cites poverty, ignorance and the lack of commitment to health, due to the government and global organizations, as the contributing factors. The report calculates that up to 72 percent of these infant deaths could be prevented, if current knowledge was put to use. The solution to this devastating problem is there. However, the world must
make saving the lives of these babies a priority. Has the human race accepted defeat? Or is the world a victim of a “Why-worry? It’s-theirproblem,-not-ours” attitude? There’s a problem when the world ignores the existence of countries like Bangladesh, Tanzania, Congo and Indonesia just because everything is fine where they live. Surely, something can be done to help those who do not have the health facilities found in the First World countries. Those who have few concerns should at least soften their hearts for these newborn babies. Add the deaths of these children to the mounting numbers of those dying of AIDS, and see where the world is going. Most of those people would really appreciate any form of help that they can get, particularly education and medication. There are people out there who walk barefoot, have no clothes other than what they are wearing, live in shacks, use bushes as their bathrooms and have no clean water to drink. When one of them gets sick, he or she is usually in great danger of dying. And four million newly born babies are dying every year, before learning to say, “Papa” or “Mama.” They are only babies, and they deserve better. They never chose to be born of poor parents, or in the Third World.
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o many observers cheerleading is just a side act to the main event -- the basketball or football game. A group of pretty girls with no brains dancing on the sidelines. But their impression of cheerleading is completely inaccurate. To be a cheerleader means that you’ve mastered more than 100 different cheers. It means that you’ve managed to juggle your classes, your school work, and your job with the training demands of being a cheerleader. To be a cheerleader means that you’ve been creative enough to develop a routine that draws the attention of the crowd. However, cheerleaders are athletes. They practice everyday. They train their bodies for the rigors of their routines. They run. They do crunches. They do lunges and jumping jacks. They run the gym steps and around their campus. Their athleticism was on display at the cheerleading exhibition on Super Saturday during the CIAA. It was a show of precision, timing, technique and skills. The routines were intense and bold. It was a show to behold. Good job ladies (and gentleman). A W i n s t o n -S Salem State University cheerleader in motion at the CIAA Super Saturday cheerleading exhibition.
Champagne, N.C. Central University’s cheerleading squad, combined school spirit with a bootcamp routine.
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‘Legacy’ beats oppression NCCU Art Museum meets Holmes BY LARRY LEATHERS ECHO STAFF WRITER
Okayplayer artist, Jaguar Wright, sang her debut album, ‘Denials, Delusions and Decisions,’ Feb. 28 in the Frank Porter Graham Studion Union. Her songs of love and domestic violence awakened new fans and old victims to past-ttime mistakes. She rocked the house, y’all. For real. Wright will drop her next album in the summer of 2005. CARLA AARON-LOPEZ/Staff Photographer
Sam Jackson is ‘In my Country’ BY JULIUS JONES ECHO STAFF WRITER
“I don’t need to fly 5,000 miles to interview some white cop killing black folk,” said Langston Whitfield, played by Samuel L Jackson, in the new film “In My Country.” “In My Country,” a film that examines the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, shows the effort of Nelson Mandela to mend scars acquired during the South
African Apartheid. The TRC hearings, which began in 1996, were open sessions where people who committed murder were invited to come forward and confront their victims. “It is amazing that through the hearings South Africa, which has suffered so terribly through racism, was now able to teach the world a lesson,” said Jackson, in a press release from Roz Stevenson Public
Relations. “I hope that this film will engender conversation and debate after people have seen it.” But did this film yield good conversation from the critics world? Early reviews suggest that the film “follows hard on the heels of Hotel Rwanda” according to reeltalkreviews.com. Grapevineculture.com, suggests there are “too many scenes of the media
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pack departing buses over and over again.” “In My Country,” directed by John Boorman, director of “Deliverance,” brings together actors including Brenda Gleeson (De Jagar) from “Troy” and Menzi “Ngubs” Mgubane (Dumi) from “Mission Impossible II” and “Lake Placid” “In My Country,” based on the book, “Country of My Skull” by Antjie Krong, is scheduled to debut worldwide March 11.
Four dark-skinned men are hanging from four different trees with flames burning beneath them. This is not a picture from the problematic Middle East. Nor is it picture from American history. However, it is an image in the Robert E. Holmes Collection: “Affirming a Legacy” currently on display at the NCCU Art Museum from February 6 through March 27. The depiction of the four men hanging from trees with flames is a piece by Jose Clemente Orozco, a Mexican muralist. The picture is a called “Hanged Men.” Orozco greatly emphasizes human figures by using strong lines, dramatic angles, and brownish colors. Orozco is best known for expressing his reaction to the struggles of the common man through his paintings. The Robert E. Holmes Collection is an exhibit that is on display for the first time in Durham. There are 40 paintings out of 400 works of art being shown at NCCU. The Holmes collection is not only comprised of African-American artists, but also includes the works of Mexican artists. Works by the artists depict the common theme of oppression. Included in the display is the well-known painting by Beauford Delaney, “SelfPortrait as a Crouching Man.” The self-portrait is a large scale painting of
Delaney, circa 1970 with harsh brushstrokes and offbeat color pairings. Delaney was called a “genius” during his time as an artist for his extensive selection of color and ability to capture raw images of humanity. He has been praised for having the ability to show great human strength in some of his paintings. In some of his other paintings, Delaney showed human frailty. During his career, critics have said that Delaney could paint as though he was looking through someone else’s eyes. The Holmes exhibit supports the NCCU purpose of being a Liberal Arts Institution which informs the community about oppression and about overcoming oppression. Robert E. Holmes started his collection while working as an associate counsel at Motown Records from 19711977. While working at Motown Records, Holmes structured record deals for Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder. In addition to working at Motown, he worked as vice president of business affairs and publishing for Columbia Pictures and Television. He also organized major soundtrack deals for films such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, La Bamba, Philadelphia, and Men in Black. Holmes also oversaw the large music publishing interests of Columbia Pictures and Television throughout the world.
all greased up and big time. Now don’t get me wrong, I still love “Get Rich or Die Trying” but “The Massacre” sounds like a repeat of your first mainstream album. ‘Disco Inferno’ is hot. ‘Piggy Bank’ is hot. Even ‘Candy Shop,’ when I’m having a good day and the sun is out, is hot. But the entire album as a whole honestly bores me and makes me wish you were still on the corner, pushing out a hardcore
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grind with mixtapes in your hand promoting yourself endlessly. You let me down brother. Maybe I need to listen to the album more often but I can’t get past the first three songs or listen to more than 45 seconds of the other songs on the album without having to hear about how great you are or how great G-Unit is becoming.
Honestly, I prefer DBlock and my battle between who the king of New York will always bounce between Nas and Jay-Z. Taking shots at heavyweights like Nas and Jadakiss and promoting beef aren’t helping your style. It’s actually cramping your style. Your album is good but not the best. Mixtapes you’ve dropped are better than this. Give me the grime again. electric barbarella
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“I read somewhere I’m homophobic/S**t/ Go through the hood/ it’s mad ni**as on my d**k.” — 50 Cent from “Ryder Music” off ‘The Massacre.’ Once again, hell naw. I can’t get down with ol’ Five Dimes sometimes. I just want everyone to know he said that. It ain’t me, it’s him. I just thought the line sounded a little strange. I already have my suspicions but I’m going to say nothing further. Watch for 50, y’all. He looking for beef from everyone now. electric barbarella, the A&E editor
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Dickerson looks ahead Coach hopes to nab CIAA title BY LOVEMORE MASAKADZA ECHO EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
When men’s basketball Coach Henry Dickerson was hired by N.C. Central University last year, it was no secret that he wanted to win a CIAA tournament. His first CIAA safari came last week, but the Eagles were forced out of the tournament in their second game after going down to Johnson C. Smith 69-79. T h i n g s seemed to be off to a great start when the Dickerson Eagles walloped Virginia State 72-55 in the team’s first game. “My goal was to win it,” Dickerson said. Dickerson was disappointed, but he said that one day the Eagles will win the tournament they last won 55 years ago. “The goal is still to win the championship,” Dickerson said. When asked when NCCU would win the tournament Dickerson joked: “Yesterday,” adding that there’s no way to put a time on winning it. Dickerson, who has a 1612 record in his first season at NCCU, said he has had to make some tactical adjustment “based on the team he inherited.” He said he hopes to recruit players who will suit his system of play. “Recruiting is the bloodline of any athletics program,” Dickerson said, adding that the players need to have the “right chemistry.” It’s also important, according to Dickerson, that the
players stay eligible and stay injury free. Having a bit of luck is also important. Dickerson attributed the early exit of the Eagles from this year’s CIAA to the player’s inexperience. But all in all he was impressed with the team’s effort. “They never quit,” Dickerson said. “They played hard all the time” NCCU has only one player from last year’s starting line up to play in this year’s CIAA. Under Coach Phil Spence the team reached the CIAA final game, but lost 72-80 to Virginia Union. Spence’s contract was not renewed in 2004. Dickerson is the former head coach at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He has over 20 years of collegiate coaching experience. Dickerson said the support from NCCU students was important. “I really truly appreciate the students,” Dickerson said. “Win or lose they were cheering.” Among this year’s Eagles, Dickerson was particularly impressed with Jonathan Moore, a player who he sees as having a chance to play in the NBA. “He is a special player. They don’t come so often,” Dickerson said. But Dickerson said his best moment at NCCU will be when he sees his players “walking up and getting a diploma.” He said all the other things may come and go but, “the diploma will always be there.” Dickerson also remains optimistic that one day the Eagles will win the CIAA. “If it’s not under me it will, it will be someone else.”
Karla Gamble, member of the 2005 Women’s CIAA All-R Rookie Team, defends Shaw guard Jessica Hawkins in NCCU’s semifinals loss. CARLA AARON-LOPEZ/Staff Photographer
Season comes to harsh end BY SHEENA JOHNSON ECHO SPORTS EDITOR
Jonathan Moore attempts to maneuver around a VSU defender in the Eagles first round tournament victory. AARON DAYE/Photo Editor
An optimistic Lady Eagles basketball team entered 30th annual Women's CIAA Tournament. They went in hoping for the best and in their first day of play, they ended going down in history. N.C. Central University's Cassie King set an NCCU record along with a CIAA tournament record and NCAA record scoring 59 points and leading the Lady Eagles to an 84-79 overtime victory over Bowie State. With such a dynamic and promising start in the tournament, all eyes were on NCCU to see if they could pull an upset against powerhouse Shaw. Unfortunately, just like the tournament left for Charlotte, so did their hopes of winning a CIAA title in Raleigh. Shaw's Lady Bears demolished the Lady
Eagles 86-44 in the semifinals. King's star-quality performance two days before, fizzled into a less than average showing, only scoring 14 points. "We came into the game trying to run the same game plan but we couldn't," said Head Coach Joli Robinson. "We couldn't get into the game mentally and we had too many mistakes. We can't afford to have mistakes." The Lady Eagles’ lackluster performance was filled with multiple turnovers and effortless offense. “By no means is this game going to destroy us,” Robinson said. “We just have to prepare for next year. This team is very young and they played their hearts out this season,” she said The Lady Eagles have much to build on for next season. Robinson’s contract was renewed and there are no seniors on the team.
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We’ve had some good players come through here ... she’s almost the best offensive player we’ve had. STEPHEN JOYNER ASSISTANT WOMEN’S BASKETBALL COACH SPEAKING OF CASSIE KING
King, left, scored her 1,000th point in the CIAA Tournament. CARLA AARON-LOPEZ/Staff Photographer
Joyner has coached girls’ basketball since 2002, Kongolo’s last season. But King is not just a solid basketball player, according to her teammates, she’s also a natural leader. “I think she sets a good example for us but, she’s not the flamboyant type,” said teammate Sasha Vann. “She
goes out and does what she needs to do in practice and games and the rest of us follow suit.” Unfortunately, King was not able to parade her scoring prowess in the CIAA final as the Lady Eagles were beaten in the second round by the tournament winners, Shaw University.
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he Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association tournament is one of the most anticipated college events of the year. Fans come from miles around to come to witness black college basketball at its best and to cheer on their favorite team. N.C. Central fans haven’t had much to cheer about at the CIAA. The last EAGLE for the ATHLETICS title men was won in 1950. So why hasn’t NCCU won a basketball championship lately? No coach SHEENA has a chance JOHNSON to build a program. The fact of the matter is, you can’t become a dynasty overnight. It has become a trend here at NCCU to get rid of coaches when they have less than stellar seasons or don’t live up to the standards of those higher on the totem pole. Only a few coaches had the chance to cultivate a winning team. The basketball coach with the best winning percentage was the legendary John McLendon, who coached NCCU for 12 years. Under his tenure, the University won its only two CIAA tournament championships in 1946 and 1950. Floyd Brown, who coached NCCU for 18 seasons, was able to advance his Eagles to the second round of the NCAA playoffs. Get this: Michael Bernard took the NCCU all the way to a NCAA Division II National Championship title in his fourth season. He was the coach for six seasons.
Gregory Jackson who coached from 1991-2000 made it to the NCAA Regionals twice and to the quarterfinals once. Along comes Phil Spence. In his third season with NCCU, he won the Western Division title and named Coach of the Year. In his last season he was runner-up in the CIAA tourny. Two days after the tournament, he was fired. After achieving so much, why wasn’t he given the chance to build on what he had already begun? Honestly, I have no clue, and we will never know for sure what he could have done. The potential was there and everyone knew it. Now, NCCU basketball has entered a new era with Henry Dickerson who has high expectations for his tenure. But Ammons and Hayes’ expectations are even higher. When Dickerson got here he said his expectations have been laid out for him and that he should win the CIAA. Well, he fell a little short of that goal. So, with three years left on his four-year contract, will he have the opportunity to lead the Eagles to a much desired championship? Nobody knows. But what I know is that if we continue to play musical chairs with the coaching staff, NCCU will be one step behind the rest when it comes to athletics, especially since the University is dancing around the idea of moving to Division I. Without coaching stability, the program is destined for continued mediocrity. If we can’t dominate the CIAA, then moving to Division I should definitely be out of the question. If you can’t pass English Composition I then there is no need to sign up for II.
Lady Eagles shortstop Asha Sutton was assisted on the field by Coach Larry Keen, Athletic Trainer Lori Vazquez and teammate Lakeshia Sheppard after an injury during Sunday’s game. Injuries have been a problem for the Lady Eagles. RODERICK HEATH/Staff Photographer
Slow start for softball Lady Eagles’ team faces obstacles early in season BY JEAN ROGERS ECHO STAFF WRITER
N.C. Central University’s women’s softball team has been plagued with injuries for the 2004-2005 season, which has resulted in a slow start for the Lady Eagles. “This season has been frustrating,” said head softball coach Larry Keen. “Overall they work well, but they are not at the level where I want them to be, but they are coming along.” Last season, the team finished third in the spring sports CIAA tournament, losing just one run away
from the championship game. NCCU won back-toback CIAA championships in 1998 and 1999. . The Lady Eagles are a relatively young team. They have no seniors this season with a majority of the team being sophomores. The Lady Eagles have played 12 games so far this season, however only two of those games ended in victory. Keen blames injuries and sickness on the team’s lack of success. On Sunday’s doubleheader against Bloomsburg University, the Lady Eagles went scoreless with a final
score of 0-11 and 0-7. The lady Eagles struggled with only five total hits in 40 at bats. and they struck out 10 times. “The only thing we did well was pitch,” Keen said. The lady Eagles suffered two key injuries. Lady Eagle’s shortstop Asha Sutton and pitcher Clarisse Steans were injured. Steans, who was last years CIAA Rookie of the Year, was hurt in the first game when she was hit in the mouth by the ball. She quickly recovered from her injury; however this was not the case for Sutton. Sutton received an
injury to the elbow while attempting to hit the ball. The injury put her out for the rest of the game,but Keen was hopeful for her return by Tuesday. “Hopefully she will be able to play on Tuesday, Keen said. “We will have her re-evaluated and see.” With more that half of the season to go, the Lady Eagles look to bounce back and capture a CIAA title that they were so close to last year. The Lady Eagles’ next game is today at 3 p.m. at Hillside High School against cross town rival Shaw University.
NCCU tennis teams courting success BY JSHONTISTA VANN ECHO STAFF WRITER
NCCU’s number one women’s player Johnelle Ligons prepares to return the ball to her opponent. AARON DAYE/Photo Editor
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It’s tennis season once again at N.C. Central University and the women’s and men’s teams are off to a decent start. The women are currently 2-4 in the overall season and 2-3 in the CIAA. The men have not been very successful and have yet to earn a victory. Head men’s and women’s tennis coach David Nass said that he hopes both the men and women will finish in the top tier of the conference. “Both teams are clearly working hard in both practice and the games,” said Nass. “That’s what a coach looks for and really needs to see in the players.” Johnson C. Smith University, which won the men’s conference last year, and Fayetteville State, which won the women’s
title, are the two teams they want to beat this year. As of right now, Nass said that it is too early to tell how the season will wrap up because a few of the matches were cancelled due to bad weather. “There will not be any easy victories this year,” said Nass. “Most of the teams we play against will be pretty close in scores.” Nass has several players that have stepped up their game and can be major contributors to the team. Nass said seniors Joseph Headen and Dennis Wilson are already looking strong playing number one doubles. “Hopefully we can give Johnson C. Smith and Fayetteville State some competition this year,” said Wilson. “They are first and second in the CIAA.” Nass also said that senior Chelsea Ray, who plays at the number three position
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am writing this editorial in response to “Sex, love ... then marriage?” and because both Black History Month and Valentine’s Day were celebrated in Feb. This month I learned the biggest thing slavery destroyed for African Americans Gautam was the concept of love Mohapatra and romance. I came to this conclusion after reading numerous books on slavery, African American culture, and meeting someone who is very special to me. I also wondered why I did not see people being romantic with each other at N.C. Central University. Then I discovered two-thirds
of the students picked each at NCCU are other as husfemale. This band or wife. The shortage of men imbalance has The love startcreated an envied with combined with the ronment of bruromance. perverting of African tal gender capiEven the American culture from threat of sepatalism. Since there is ration or havfamily to “bling” has one male for ing their childestroyed romance ... every two dren sold did females, NCCU not stop the women will fight discovery of each other for a love. man that might be low quality. Now many African Americans Unfortunately, because of do not want romance. 50 cent the low population most NCCU and Ludacris have replaced women will not end up with an the Temptations and Stevie African American man. This Wonder. brutal environment has caused The shortage of men commany students to give into lust bined with the perverting of and forget romance. African American culture from If you read slave journals family to “bling” has destroyed you find out that family was the romance in the African most important possession of American community. every African American. As I read about the experiThough they were “properences of today’s African ty” of white men, African American female, I realize not Americans freely fell in love only have many of them never
been exposed to true romance, but many have been abused by men who pervert romance just to score with them. True men are willing to work to earn time with a woman. African American women need to be treated like they are made of platinum and African American males need to stop being boys and learn to be men. Unfortunately, many NCCU women will not find romance because they spend time looking for the opposite. Therefore, they end up abused, sad and hurt. I know from experience. No woman should believe they are meant to be alone and can not be loved. If this issue is not taken care of now within 50 years there will be no African American culture or community. To the woman who means the world to me I did everything for you because you deserve it.
drawing by Rashaun Rucker
Question: What do you think about the stereotypes of black women?
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n behalf of the N.C. Central University cheerleaders, also known as Champagne, we would like to say thank you to the entire Eagle family for your support this year. We have worked extremely hard, and it seems that the crowd enjoyed our appearances. As a new member of Champagne, I have watched Courtnee these young Rascoe ladies perform to the highest degree of excellence. So many people want to overlook cheerleading as a sport, but “it’s hard work being a Central cheerleader.” We spent many long nights in practice. We exercised, ran through our list of 150+ cheers,
and choreographed and pracThis year there were more ticed our exhibition routine. fans there than ever before. Champagne is not just a group It brought us so much joy to of girls who look see how many cute in their people got up out uniforms. of their beds We are early on a So, we are estatic that female athletes, Saturday morning so many people recogand we are to see us. ecstatic that so We are thankful nized us as much more many people to have the supthan ‘shirt shakers’.” recognized us as port that the much more than Eagles have ‘skirt shakers.’ shown us. This year, the Please continue girl’s basketball team, the crowd to support Champagne as well as and the band did an outstanding the JV cheerleaders. job in cheering on the team as We know that each year gets well as joining in on our cheers, better and better. Next year, we especially “Do it!” know that our support will We were so impressed with increase even more, right? the number of fans who traveled Thank you again to the girl’s this season. The games in basketball team, the Sound Winston-Salem, Charlotte, and Machine, Eagle fans and alumni. the CIAA were hype thanks to We would like to extend a very you guys. special thanks to the team we In addition, the cheerleading support, Coach Dickerson and exhibition was the highlight of the boy’s basketball team along our season. with the entire coaching staff.
– Patrice Mobley “Make some noise for the boys!” Thank you all for the recognition we have received. Good luck to all teams next year. We would also like to thank our bus drivers and all others who have played a part in assisting Champagne. To our coach, Mrs. LuAnn Edmonds-Harris, thank you for your motherly love and guidance and everything you do for your squads. WE LOVE YOU! Thank you to Mrs. Dot and Mrs. Free, our other mothers. Finally, I would just like to say thanks to Champagne for the opportunity to be a part of the squad. I’m going to miss you ladies. I will take all of my experiences and memories with me wherever I go. I wish you all the best for the seasons to come and in your academics. Junior varsity, keep up the good work. Peace and EAGLE PRIDE, AMPLIFIED.
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