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DR. BENJAMIN CHAVIS JR: It’s time to end mass incarceration in the United States SEE PAGE 4

B-CU BASEBALL PLAYER EARNS ANOTHER MEAC HONOR SEE PAGE 7

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B-CU won’t let shooting taint image President defends university, criticizes media during prayer vigil on campus

BY ASHLEY D. THOMAS DAYTONA TIMES aysheldarcel@gmail.com

Following the April 3 shooting of four Bethune-Cookman University students at an off-campus party, local and national media are being criticized for incorrectly referring to the party as a school-sponsored event.

It was not.

B-CU President Edison O. Jackson expressed his displeasure Wednesday afternoon with headlines that indicated the party was a school event.

According to a Daytona Beach Police Department report, the April 3 party was held at 338 Henry Butts Drive. Internet mapping tool Mapquest shows the location is a 19-minute walk from the campus.

“No matter what they want to say about us as an institution, we are a quality university of higher education,” Jackson said Wednesday to those gathered on

the campus grounds for a prayer vigil. “We are greater than those who may try to work against us.”

Jackson: ‘Be fair’ Addressing students, faculty and community members, Jackson joined university leaders on Wednesday afternoon for a prayer vigil against violence.

“I was particularly concerned with how the media portrayed our institution,” Jackson articulated. “And the juxtaposition of where we are and the house party at Bethune-Cookman University. You have to take a long walk to

get to that place. But some would suggest that it is part of our campus or just around the corner.”

“We need to talk about if you are going to report, be fair about your reporting. If you are going to tarnish everyone, fine. But don’t be selective, and I’m saying this to the media. We as a people have been subjected to an unfair presentation of who we are. But young people, we don’t have to give them the ammunition to fulfill that. So I am saying I am anguished, I’m in despair, but I’m not giving up.”

“In your meditation hour, lift up all of our students. Help our

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young people understand they are on a journey called life and see it fulfilled and not snuffed out by someone randomly shooting a gun,” he stated.

Suspect in custody Vincent “Wu” Smith, 23, allegedly fired several rounds inside the house party on Henry Butts Drive late Friday night. Reports indicate that the shooting, where 50 or more people were gathered, was in retaliation for Smith being kicked out of a party at the address a month prior.

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Musician, broadcaster Jarvis L. Smith dies at 34

BY THE DAYTONA TIMES STAFF

Jarvis L. Smith, a well-known organist and broadcaster who spearheaded the construction of Daytona Beach’s latest FM radio station, died suddenly on April 6. He was 34. A determination of the cause of his death is pending.

Child entrepreneur Born July 15, 1980 in Daytona Beach, Smith is the great-grandson of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, the founder of BethuneCookman College (now University). Family members say that at 6 years old, Smith had a lemonade stand on his grandparents’ front porch. Even as a child, he loved working for himself.

A 1998 graduate of Seabreeze High School, Smith studied business administration at Keiser University in Daytona Beach.

Worked at WPUL-AM Smith was introduced to the inner workings of the radio industry while working at WPULAM 1590 in the 1990s.

“He filled for Daytona’s ‘First Lady of Gospel,’ Mattie Howard, and our other gospel DJs on the few times they couldn’t come in,” remembered Daytona Times Publisher Charles W. Cherry II. “I was surprised that Daddy (the late Charles W. Cherry, Sr.) would let such a young man on the air on a consistent basis.

But Jarvis was dependable, had a good radio voice, and was easy to work with. Eventually he had his own four-hour gospel music show.”

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Dressing up and going to church was a priority all over Daytona Beach’s Black community during last week’s Resurrection Sunday celebration. See a full page of pictures on Page 5.

But Smith was probably best known for his skills as an organist. He was nationally known as “the B3 Prophet” because of his gift for playing the Hammond B3 organ.

“If he could hear it, he could Please see SMITH, Page 2

Republicans win special elections sparked by Thrasher’s resignation

BY BRANDON LARRABEE THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA

TALLAHASSEE – Republicans easily won a trio of Northeast Florida legislative seats Tuesday during special elections triggered by the resignation last year of former Sen. John Thrasher, R-St. Augustine, to become president of Florida Travis State University.

Hutson Given the GOP’s dominance in the region and the

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significant fundraising edge of the Republican candidates, the results were expected.

In Thrasher’s former Senate District 6 seat, Rep. Travis Hutson, R-Elkton defeated Daytona Beach Democrat David Cox. Hutson had earlier defeated Rep. Ronald “Doc” Renuart of Ponte Vedra Beach in a GOP primary.

District includes part of Volusia The Senate Republican leadership quickly issued a statement welcoming Hutson to the chamber, where the GOP holds a 26-14

advantage.

“I know he plans to hit the ground running and am confident he will utilize the experience gained from his service in the Florida House as well as his perspective as a businessman raising a young family to maximize his contributions to the Senate during these final weeks of session,” said Senate President Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando.

Hutson’s new district includes St. Johns, Putnam and Flagler counties and the northeast corner of Volusia.

The decision by Hutson and Renuart to seek Thrasher’s seat

– which required them to resign from the House – also sparked elections in their districts.

Palm Coast’s Renner wins District 24 seat In Hutson’s House District 24, Palm Coast Republican Paul Renner defeated St. Augustine Democrat Adam Morley.

Renner ran unsuccessfully for a different Northeast Florida seat in last year’s elections. District 24 includes Flagler County and parts of St. Johns and Volusia counties.

And in House District 17, which includes the northern half of St.

Johns County, Republican Cyndi Stevenson easily carried Renuart’s old seat against no-party candidate Judy Stevens and write-in Mary Anne Boczek.

“I’m proud to welcome Representatives Renner and Stevenson to the Florida House,” said House Speaker Steve Crisafulli, R-Merritt Island. “I look forward to the addition of their voices to our already strong Republican majority.”

The two wins allow the House GOP to retain its 80-39 majority, pending another special election in House District 64 scheduled for April 21.

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Summer camp scholarships available Summer camp scholarships are available to income-eligible children and children with special needs through Volusia County’s Community Assistance Division.

Families with children ages 5 to 12 who meet residency and income requirements are encouraged to apply for scholarships. To be eligible, 5-year-old children must have completed kindergarten. Children must be entering first through sixth grade.

Scholarship awards are based on income-eligibility and will be awarded according to funding availability.

Scholarship applications are available at all Volusia County public libraries; Parks, Recreation and Culture offices; and the Human Services offices at 123 W. Indiana Ave., DeLand; 250 N. Beach St., Daytona Beach; 107 E. Canal St., New Smyrna Beach; and 775 Harley Strickland Blvd., Orange City.

Applications also are posted at www.volusia.org/community_ assistance/applications.htm.

Completed applications will be accepted at these times and locations: • 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, April 10, in the first-floor training room of the Thomas C. Kelly Administration Center, 123 W. Indiana Ave., DeLand • 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday, April 17, at the New Smyrna Beach Regional Library, 1001 S. Dixie Freeway, New Smyrna Beach • 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, April

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28, at the Deltona Regional Library, 2150 Eustace Ave., Deltona • 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 30, at the Daytona Beach Regional Library at City Island, 105 E. Magnolia Ave., Daytona Beach After April 30, applications may be submitted in person or by mail to the Volusia County Community Assistance Division, 110 W. Rich Ave., DeLand, FL 32720.

Faxed applications will not be accepted. Incomplete applications and applications mailed before April 30 will not be considered.

Applications for eligible clients will be placed on a waiting list until an opening becomes available.

For more information, call Brittany Scott at 386-736-5955.

Deltona to educate residents on housing rights In recognition of Fair Housing Month, the City of Deltona’s Housing and Community Development Office is planning a Fair Housing Open House to educate residents about their housing rights and responsibilities. The open house is 4 to 7 p.m., April 14, at Deltona City Hall, 2345 Providence Blvd.

Residents will be able to explore why they may have been turned away from renting or purchasing a home, explore which housing option is best for their families, understand their credit score and how to repair and maintain it and understand fair housing rights.

Residents also will have the

opportunity to engage a wide range of professionals on various housing topics. Attorneys, realtors, bankers and more will be on hand, providing credit information, legal advice and financial information.

City staff will explain current owner-occupied repair programs and the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. Fifth Third Bank is bringing its Financial Empowerment Mobile or “eBus” which will allow residents access to professional financial advice and guidance.

Free hot dogs, snacks and beverages will be provided.

The event is sponsored by TD Bank, Fairwinds Credit Union, Southern Title, Fifth Third Bank, Walmart and Publix.

Junior League to host Kids in the Kitchen event The Junior League of Daytona Beach has scheduled its annual Kids in the Kitchen event at the Jackie Robinson Ballpark on Saturday, April 11 at 9 a.m. This free event focuses on healthy eating and exercise for kids and for the entire family and will feature live cooking demonstrations, healthy eating ideas, delicious food samples, fun activities and prizes.

Celebrity Chef George Stella from the Food Network will host an Iron-Chef-style cooking competition for the kids. Crossfit 386 will be providing fun games and activities. DJ Kaylee from 103.3 the Vibe will be doing a live remote broadcast. Halifax Health

is the presenting sponsor of the event.

For more information, send an email to juniorleaguedbnews@ gmail.com.

Black Clergy Alliance conference takes place April 17-18 The Daytona Beach Black Clergy Alliance will present its annual ministerial two-day conference April 17 and 18 in association with Bethune-Cookman University.

The conference, at B-CU’s chapel, will include a youth session on April 17 at 7 p.m. by Pastor Derrick L. McRae of The Experience Christian Center in Orlando.

A Women Senior Pastors’ panel discussion is April 18 at 9:30 a.m. to noon at B-CU’s Center for Civic Engagement. Dr. Bewana Bostic of Cocoa Beach will be the featured speaker.

A general session at the Center for Civic Engagement is 1 to 3 p.m. April 18 with Dr. C.E. Glover from Mt. Bethel Baptist Church in Fort Lauderdale as the speaker.

For more information, call 386-585-5484.

Allen Chapel to sponsor workshop on domestic abuse The Men’s Fellowship of Allen Chapel AME Church is sponsoring a workshop on “Domestic

SMITH

Wife, kids, business As a younger man, Smith held a series of jobs as a school bus driver, a sales marketing manager in the auto industry, and a call

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Jarvis Smith leaves his son, Amari, his daughter, Ayanna, and his wife, Andrea behind. center operator before finally starting his own business.

In his personal life, he moved to Orlando and married the former Andrea Miller in 2004, and they started a family. In 2009,

Smith founded Rhema Media, Inc., and began broadcasting Joy Gospel Radio on the Internet.

In 2013, he formed a nonprofit corporation, Rhema Broadcasting, Inc., with the goal of establishing a low-

The April 3 shooting follows a Feb. 23 shooting near the university’s music building. Ladell Pleasure, a 21-year-old B-CU student was charged in that shooting that left three students injured.

“The enemy is always out there,” said Jackson.

“The enemy attempts to consume our young people wherever they live. Some of the conditions that some of our young people come out of are not by their work, or lack thereof, but the truth of the matter is we can

power FM station in Daytona Beach that would play gospel music 24 hours a day.

That dream was realized on Dec. 8, 2014 when the Federal Communications Commission granted Rhe-

BethuneCookman University President Dr. Edison O. Jackson addresses faculty, students and community members at a prayer vigil on Wednesday in response to recent violence in the area.

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‘Something in the atmosphere’

Nonprofit organizations can learn how to use the Foundation Center database to apply for grants at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 22, at the Daytona Beach Regional Library at City Island, 105 E. Magnolia Ave. Reference librarian Lorri Davis will explain what nonprofits need to have in place before seeking a grant, what they need to know about grant makers and how nonprofits are supported, how to identify funding partners, and how to use the Foundation Center database.

Library cardholders can access the database without charge online or at any Volusia County public library branch.

The free presentation is offered as part of Money Smart Week, which is sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the American Library Association to help consumers better manage their personal finances.

Reservations are not required.

For more information, call Davis at 386-257-6036, ext. 16154.

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Four university students were injured in the shooting. Reginald Graham, 20, was shot in his left side; a bullet pierced Vintonisha Smith, 19, on her right side, Frank Thomas, 21, was shot in his right hand, and Darian Baker, 21, sustained a gunshot wound in his right hand. A bullet also grazed his left knee. All injuries are considered non life-threatening.

Smith has been charged with four counts of aggravated battery with a firearm and one count of discharging a firearm in public.

He was booked into the Volusia County Branch Jail where he was being held on a $100,000 bail.

Librarian to explain basics on seeking grants

ma Broadcasting a construction permit to build the station and put it on the air.

WAIG, known as Joy 106.3 FM, began broadcast operations in Daytona Beach in January 2015.

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play it,” said his aunt, Dr. Evelyn Bethune.

Smith also played for nationally known gospel artists, including Marvin Sapp and John P. Kee, among many others. He served as an organist or minister of music for a number of Central Florida churches, including Tubman-King, Hope Fellowship, Mount Carmel Baptist, Revival Temple, Calvary Temple of Praise, New Bethel AME, and Greater Trinity Baptist.

At the time of his death, Smith was a member of Fresh Breath International Worship Center in Orlando, where he served as minister of music under Pastor Daniel Ings.

Abuse” April 18 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. The church is located at 580 George W. Engram Blvd.

The workshop includes a free breakfast and is open to the community.

For more information, contact the church office at 386-2551195.

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change things. We meaning not just Bethune-Cookman University, but we, as a society.”

“So that young people can have hope,” he continued. “They come to Bethune-Cookman University so they can have a better life. That is what we are about. Transforming the lives of our young people.

We are going to continue to do that, no matter what the opposition may try to do.”

Jackson led the prayer at the vigil followed by other university and student leaders. Gold and white balloons were released to signify the release of violence that has recently plagued the community and the nation.

“It is a spiritual warfare.

There is something in the

atmosphere that works and tries to destroy our young people. But we are going to win,” said Jackson.

“I said, we are going to win!”

“We’ve come too far for God to leave us now and we shall overcome. Not tomorrow, but today,” the president continued. “There was a Negro spiritual that they sung during the Civil Rights Movement that said we will overcome tomorrow, someday. We’ve already overcome. We are the mighty Wildcats. Every young person that we educate is one person less in a lesser place in our society.”

More campus activities B-CU student Jasmine Bourney spoke with the

Daytona Times following the vigil.

“This incident,” she began. “Being that it is a second incident related to the campus I feel like it is an eye-opener. This is serious and affects our school campus wide.”

During the vigil, Jackson told students that he will implement more recreational activities available for students on campus so they won’t have to find entertainment elsewhere.

He said the school will begin hosting alcohol-free parties on campus and a 24-hour eatery soon will open so students won’t have to leave campus to get a late-night meal.

The school also will begin showing movies.

“I feel like the initiatives

“This is such a tragically huge loss for his family, especially his wife and children,” Cherry II acknowledged. “It’s a great loss for the community, too. Jarvis had the experience and the work ethic necessary to make a 24-hour, community-oriented gospel station a success. I hope the community will rally around the family, and that the station’s leadership works to make WAIG the success Jarvis knew it could be.”

Smith is survived by his wife of almost 11 years, Andrea Miller Smith; daughter Ayanna, age 8, and son Amari, age 5; his mother, Sara Bethune Smith and father Andy Barron; brothers Le’Nard and Christopher Harold; sister Julia Barron White (Gaston); mother in-

law Carolyn Miller and father in-law Roosevelt Miller; aunt Dr. Evelyn Bethune; uncles Hobson Bethune (Muriel) and Robert Bethune (Terrie); and a host of other in-laws, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

A wake will be held Friday at 6 p.m. at The Hope Church of Orlando, 3032 Monte Carlo Trail, Orlando.

Homegoing service is at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Gertrude Hotchkiss Heyn Chapel in White Hall on the campus of BethuneCookman University, 640 Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, Daytona Beach.

Gail & Wynn’s Mortuary, Inc., 1300 Bruton Blvd., Orlando, is in charge of arrangements.

An online donation fund has been established for Smith’s wife and children.

Go to http://www.gofundme.com/r8ea2d8 or go to http://www.gofundme.com and search “Jarvis Smith” to give.

Crime to be topic of April 18 meeting at Daytona State The public is invited to join renowned criminologists and community leaders on April 18 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., to discuss law enforcement and community relations.

The community meeting will be at Daytona State College, 1200 W. International Speedway Blvd., in the main ballroom of the Hosseini Building. There is no charge to attend and a continental breakfast and lunch are included.

Dr. Randy Nelson, a nationally recognized criminal justice professor, will be the featured speaker and facilitator. Nelson recently led a training session titled “Community Engagement and Diversity Training’’ with officers at the Daytona Beach Police Department.

Dr. Michael Humphreys, who is the associate professor of ethics at Bethune-Cookman University, will also address participants. Other speakers will include Daytona Beach Mayor Derrick Henry, Police Chief Mike Chitwood and the Rev. Victor Gooden.

RSVP to Johnnie Ponder by calling 386-252-1866 or jponder56@yahoo.com.

President Jackson stated will be implemented on campus will help to avoid any other incidents such as this,” Bourney added.

New code of conduct Jackson also noted a new code of conduct that would be distributed to students.

Violations of the conduct will result in immediate dismissal from the school.

Guns are not allowed on campus, drugs are not allowed on campus, and

fighting is not allowed,” he stressed.

“We will hold high the banner of Bethune-Cookman University.”

He added, “We have to protect the brand. We cannot allow the senseless acts of violence to determine our future. We cannot afford the actions of a few people to be the face of our university. I ask you to stand in solidarity as we eradicate violence against our community.”

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Revival, Maundy service among Holy Week highlights in Flagler Two events celebrating the resurrection of Christ were fantastic and are highlighted as a revival at Palm Coast United Methodist Church (PCUMC), the pastoral ministry of the Rev. Dr. Kevin M. James Sr.; and a Maundy Thursday Service at First Church under the leadership of the Rev. Dr. Gillard S. Glover.

The Rev. Dr. Harold D. Lewis Sr. and several guests were welcomed for the second day of a revival, showcasing Ryan Davis, the PCUMC Praise Team and Band, Marva Jones, Blanche London, Lidia Carr, and the BethuneCookman University Praise Team.

Maundy Thursday took in the purpose of the gathering, offered a hymn, a prayer of pardon, choral response, scripture readings, and the Rev. Karl N. Flagg delivering the ministry of proclamation.

Moreover, the service provided an invitation to discipleship, a Seder meal, petitioning through the Lord’s Prayer, and a second hymn and dismissal.

The greatest sacrifice Rev. Lewis preached the homiletic headline, “It is Finished,” which he noted was the sixth utterance of Christ on the cross and signified Christ’s cry of jubilation in that the debt of sin has been paid in full, and that Christ was going home to sit at the right hand of the Father. Rev. Lewis exhorted that even greater works remain for us to do.

Rev. Flagg preached that Maundy Thursday can also be known as Mandate Thursday or Commandment Thursday inasmuch as Christ commanded his disciples to love one another, overriding adversity, betrayal, denial – even while we do not know what tomorrow holds, but know who holds tomorrow.

Rev. Flagg recounted Jesus’ pain and anguish during the process of redemption, but Jesus Christ still gave the greatest sacrifice of dying on the cross for our

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sin and rendered the example of genuine love.

Rev. Lewis, a native of Greenwood, Miss., is an elder in the United Methodist Church. He holds a doctorate of Sacred Theology from the Reformed Methodist Church in Toledo, Ohio. He’s a gifted turnaround church pastor, successfully turning around various dying churches. He has ministered to former President George W. and First Lady Laura Bush, while serving as senior pastor of Lincoln Park United Methodist Church on Capitol Hill.

Rev. Flagg’s field of study was pastoral studies at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He is chair of the Putnam County Commission, CEO and president of Karl N. Flagg Serenity Memorial Chapel, and the senior pastor of Mount Tabor First Baptist Church of Palatka. He also is the former mayor of Palatka.

Both the revival and the Maundy Thursday service showed that because God got Jesus up from the grave, we too have a God who can get us up no matter how rough the challenges are.

Maya Angelou tribute at Golden center With a lot of things going on and endless opportunities for enriching experiences, why not kickstart the adventure with “A Tribute to Maya Angelou”?

The iconic poems and stories

by Maya Angelou have enabled local artists to create different mediums for the closing reception of the Second Annual Juried Art Exhibition. This is a free exhibit on April 10, 6:30 p.m., at the Yvonne Scarlett Golden Cultural & Edu-

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Among the participants in the revival were the Bethune-Cookman University Praise Team and the Palm Coast United Methodist Church Praise Team and Band.

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cational Center, 1000 Vine Street, Daytona Beach. VITAS Healthcare is the sponsor of the exhibition.

Entertainer Stanley Alston will take the stage. Refreshments will be served.

The competition boasts of cash prizes of first, second and third place, including four honorable mentions.

Any further details should be directed to Betty Covington at 386-671-8331, or c2ysgexhibit@ gmail.com.

Eagles Golf Tournament takes place April 18 Save the date for the Eagles Golf Tournament, which plays out a

low-net stroke play with a closest-to-the-pin competition. The Eagles Activities Committee has announced that the tourney will take place on April 18 with an 8 a.m. shotgun start in Palm Coast at the Palm Harbor Golf Course.

If you have not signed up, contact the committee by April 13 to be included in the pairings, which will be developed on April 14.

The committee members are Bill Gorham, president; Vicky Arthur, Jim Dupuy, Bill Pickett, and Dave Pokigo.

To sign up for the tourney, contact the committee at 386-4469982.

Young authors sought for April 23 workshop Calling all authors 35 and under to present and sell their books publicly. This is the opportunity for the books to hit the streets and to tell the adventure of becoming a published author.

The F.R.E.S.H. Book Festival Workshop Series will swing into action on April 23, 6 p.m., at the Midtown Cultural and Educational Center, 925 George W. Engram Boulevard, Daytona Beach. The workshop titled “Young, Gifted

and Published” is free and open to the public.

Donna M. Gray-Banks signs off on the workshop as the director of the F.R.E.S.H. Book Festival, emanated in 2012 in Daytona Beach.

Gray-Banks is the author of “Ila’s Diamonds” and the co-anchor of the radio show, “Sweet Tea With a Chaser.”

Twelve free tables are available to the generation of published authors 35 and younger.

The 12 free tables will be available on a first-come basis so email today at Freshbookfestivals@ gmail.com. Feel free to call at 386627-4353.

A table set up will begin at 5:30 p.m. on April 23 to be completed by 6 p.m.

••• As always, remember our prayers for the sick, afflicted and bereaved.

Celebrations Birthday wishes to Julius Hicks, Carla D. Price, Joan Robinson, April 11; Louise Reid, Ronald L. Smith, St. Hellen Mitchell, April 13; Breadon Phillip Robinson, April 14; Jillian Elizabeth Glover, and Frank Quarterman Sr., April 15.

Bethune-Cookman University & Fifth Third Bank Present the

40th Annual Spring Concert Featuring: The Concert Chorale & The Symphonic Band

Sunday, April 12, 2015 - 4pm Free to the public Mary McLeod Bethune Performing Arts Center Bethune-Cookman University 698 West International Speedway Blvd, Daytona Beach, FL.

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Jailing educators for ‘cheating to the test’ Eleven Atlanta teachers have been convicted of altering student test scores on standardized tests. They are charged with racketeering and conspiracy. The much-celebrated Superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools Beverly L. Hall was among the indicted but was too ill to stand trial. She died March 2.

Another group of teachers, principals and administrators took plea bargains. A total of 178 people were accused of taking part in the cheating “scam” and in 2011 Hall reminded observers that “we have over 3,000 teachers in Atlanta,” and just a few were part of the cheating scandal. She also denied having any knowledge of the cheating. Until her illness, she insisted that she wanted to stand trial and clear her name.

Educators not spared In what was described as the largest cheating scandal in the nation’s history, District Attorney Paul L. Howard Jr. prosecuted the educators under a law originally designed to snare organized crime figures. Of the 12 defendants, 11 were convicted of racketeering, a felony punishable up to 20 years. One defendant, Dessa Curb, a former elementary school teacher, was acquitted.

Those 11 convicted were taken straight from the courtroom to jail. Sentencing should take place this week. On top of the 20 years maximum sentence for racketeering, they could be convicted on

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other charges including making false statements. It is interesting to note that most of these teachers are African American.

You can serve as few as 15 years for second-degree murder in Georgia, and as little as a year for involuntary manslaughter. Further, most convicted offenders get a day or even months to go home and straighten out their affairs before reporting to prison. But not this group of educators.

‘Teaching to the test’ These Atlanta teachers aren’t the only teachers involved in similar cheating scams. A year ago, 130 Philadelphia educators were accused of cheating. In September, several were ordered to stand trial.

Why have those who chose a low-paid and little-regarded profession stooped to cheating on standardized tests? Are they judged by the number of students who pass these flawed tests, and the number who fail? Is there a culture of cheating in too many of our nation’s schools? Is there a culture of “teaching to the test”?

There is no excuse for the cheating in Atlanta, or Philadelphia, or in El Paso, where the school su-

perintendent was imprisoned for reporting faulty test scores. While there is no excuse, it would be foolhardy to ignore the pressure that many face when federal laws mandate the use of standardized tests to “prove” that teachers and schools are doing their jobs.

Who’s being cheated?

When teachers spend too much time focused on standardized testing and not enough on course content, are they cheating students? In teaching to the test, are they cheating to the test? I’m not referring to the multiple erasures that investigators found on some of the Atlanta tests, or schemes that excluded poor-performing students from testing so average grades could be higher. I’m referring to teachers who choose to teach content that they know will show up on the test, or those who spend tens of hours in “practice sessions” with old copies of tests used as drills. From my perspective students are being cheated when there is too much emphasis placed on standardized testing.

While teaching to the test is not against the law, isn’t it cheating our students nearly as much as the scams?

Julianne Malveaux is an economist, writer and president emerita of Bennett College. She can be reached at juliannemalveaux. com. Click on this article at www. daytonatimes.com to write your own response.

Walk away from bad customer service After 19 years, most of them as a satisfied customer, I am closing my personal checking account this week at Citibank. I am closing my account not because I was lured away with an incredibly attractive offer from one of its competitors. Rather, I am walking away from Citi because of bad customer service. When a business loses customers who want to stay, it’s a sure sign of trouble.

My issue was a simple one.

Throughout 2014, whenever I made a deposit to my personal Citi account from my business account at a rival national bank, the full amount was immediately made available upon deposit in the ATM. Beginning this year, however, the full amount was no longer being honored and no one would tell me why.

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to me from Padron, dated March 4, that “Citi is committed to providing our client’s [SIC] with world class service that is efficient, responsive and dependable,” the service was neither world class, efficient, nor responsive.

After sending five emails to the online services department and not getting a reply that was “responsive,” I decided to approach the branch manager near my home. He promised to look into the matter and to call me back within several days. He kept his Not efficient word and when he called, he said I started with the Customer Ser- he could find no reason why the vice Department. Instead of be- change had been made. ing responsive to my complaint, five different representatives – Sa- Take it to the top brina Padron, Rene Torres, ChrisFinally, I emailed a letter to tine Flanders, Priscilla Chaires CEO Michael Corbat on April 2. and Christine Naranjo – felt the At press time, I had not received need to send me form letters es- a reply, which is not surprising sentially stating Citibank’s poli- given the volume of corresponcy of spreading funds availability dence he probably receives. In above a certain amount over five the meantime, I have opened business days. a personal account at the bank Despite assurance in an email where I do my business check-

ing and ignored the last email I received from Christine Naranjo asserting that “…Citi is committed to providing our client’s [SIC] with world class service that is efficient, responsive and dependable.” (Surely, someone at a bank that purports to provide “world class service” should know that “clients” is not spelled with an apostrophe.)

Less than six months ago, I had to walk away from a Merchant’s shop that not only misdiagnosed the problem, but incorrectly installed the wrong part on a vehicle. I had been using the business for more than a decade, but no more.

When service is bad, I have decided to not simply walk away in silence. Instead, when I leave now, I let them know why I am leaving. If they are serious about customer service, they will fix the problem that prompted me to leave. If they continue to ignore those problems, they might not be in business long, anyway.

George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA) and BlackPressUsa.com. Click on this article at www.daytonatimes.com to write your own response.

Progress in baseball came with a cost Anyone who has followed my columns knows that about this time of the year I normally write something about the commencement of the baseball season. More often than not, I write about the late Curt Flood and the late Marvin Miller. Well, guess what? It is the beginning of the baseball season and, yes, you guessed it, a little something about two heroes, but from a different angle.

One of the most disturbing features of modern baseball is that most fans have no sense of the history of struggle contained in the game. If you have had the opportunity to watch Ken Burns’ awardwinning documentary, “Baseball,” you get a better sense of not only the evolution of the sport, but the struggles that unfolded within it, many of which reflected larger changes in US society.

‘Reserve clause’ Two of the struggles in Major League Baseball were represented by Curt Flood and, separately (and together) Marvin Miller. Curt Flood resisted being traded to the Philadelphia Phillies and, in so doing, stood up to a form of baseball indentured servitude known as the “reserve clause.” Under the reserve clause a player was, for all intents and purposes, owned by the team. Flood battled for what

they so cherished.

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became known as “free agency,” which was introduced through a combination of the struggle that Flood unleashed and the organizing and collective bargaining that the Major League Baseball Players Association, under Marvin Miller, conducted. Miller led in the construction of a labor union of baseball players and through that organization, transformed the sport, defying the greedy and myopic owners.

Despite the key historical importance of these two men, over the years the recognition of their significance has diminished. Many of the current members of the Major League Baseball Players Association have no sense of the key role of Curt Flood and the battle that he led for free agency, a battle without which today’s players would never have been able to conceive of their current salaries.

Marvin Miller has been equally ignored, though one could go further and suggest that the late Marvin Miller remains hated by the lords of baseball for ruining the plantation environment that

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A cost for everything What is lost with our failure to remember and reflect upon the work of individuals such as Flood and Miller, is that progress and justice come with a cost. Flood lost his promising career in baseball not because of greed but because of principle. He was prepared to take the risk and make the sacrifice, knowing full well that he might not, himself, benefit from such a step. Miller threw himself into the building of an organization of a workforce that had been so beaten down over the years that many people believed that a labor union of baseball players was nothing more than a pipe dream.

For these reasons we must not only remember Flood and Miller but must insist that they receive the special recognition that would come from their placement in the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. Their significance arises not from their stats but from the fact that they led in the renovation of baseball.

Bill Fletcher, Jr. is the host of The Global African on Telesur-English. He is a racial justice, labor and global justice writer and activist. Click on this article at www.daytonatimes. com to write your own response.

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Time to end mass incarceration Mass incarceration in the United States is counterproductive and disproportionately causes a long-term injury to Black Americans and others who remain trapped in poverty and disillusionment. How is it that the richest nation on earth and the most technologically advanced society now has the largest prison population in the world?

Michelle Alexander’s brilliant best-selling book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, provides a classic analysis of the twin problems of race and injustice. Alexander revealed how the so-called criminal justice system reinforces racial discrimination and bigotry aimed particularly against Black Americans and other people of color. Whether it is an “old” or “new” Jim Crow, the impact of decades of massive unjust imprisonment on the Black American community continues to be devastating.

‘War on Black America’ The “war on drugs” launched by the Reagan administration in devolved into a “war on Black America” where the courts and prisons became institutions to expand the racial oppression of more than 1 million Black Americans. Incarceration rates in the U.S. quadrupled over this period.

According to Alexander, mass incarceration in America targeted Black Americans and maintained by a “racial caste” system of laws, policies and institutions. Alexander explained, “The term mass incarceration refers not only to the criminal justice system, but also to a larger web of laws, rules, policies and customs that control those labeled criminals both in and out of prison. Once released, former prisoners enter a hidden underworld of legalized discrimination and permanent social exclusion. They are members of America’s new undercaste.”

National priority I agree with Michelle Alexander that this caste system needs to be successfully challenged.

The challenge is how to end the mass incarceration caste phenomenon. What strategies will be effective to end this injustice?

This is an important question today. Yet, there appears to be

DR. BENJAMIN F. CHAVIS, JR. NNPA COLUMNIST

some reluctance in the current public discourse to address this issue forthrightly.

There are some who state correctly that we have made considerable progress in America toward a more just and equitable society over the past 60 years.

However, that’s only half the story. The reality in 2015 is that the issue of over-incarceration and the lingering debilitating impact of the system of injustice that continues to negatively impact millions of Black American families should be a national priority.

But it isn’t.

List of issues Even as many of our national civil rights organizations add mass incarceration to a long list of other issues of serious consequence, there is not yet a national consensus that it should rank at the top of that list. The truth is that poverty, unemployment, internecine violence within our communities, poor health care, economic inequity, and inadequate education can all be traced to the short- and long-term suffering that mass incarceration continues to have on Black American families.

There needs to be a stronger and more effective national coalition established to end mass incarceration in America. Ironically, and this is good news, there appears to be a convergence of commitments from both liberals and conservatives to stand together to tackle this social, political and economic contradiction that stands in the way of the U.S. becoming a more perfected union of democracy, freedom, justice and equality. The time to end mass incarceration is now!

Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. is the president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA). Click on this article at www.daytonatimes.com to write your own response.

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was the Mid-Winter Sports Association (MWSA), organizers of the popular football and basketball Sugar Bowls.

That group prodded Gov. Earl Long to veto the legislation. But the son of populist politician Huey Long refused.

“My mail,” he told reporters, “is running 4-to-1 in favor of the legislation.”

Next, Sugar Bowl organizers sought to water down the bill, proposing an exemption for New Orleans.

When lawmakers rejected that, the group devised a failed plan that essentially would have created tiny integrated islands within an otherwise segregated arena and stadium.

Racial restrictions in college sports were loosening slowly in the 1950s, but not in the South. The region’s three largest conferences — the Atlantic Coast, Southeastern and Southwest — remained segregated and would be for another decade.

Adolph Rupp is shown with Kentucky players during the 1958-1959 season.

Teams withdraw

History lesson: 1956 Sugar Bowl another collision of civil rights and basketball

The 1956 Sugar Bowl field was comprised of three Catholic schools — Dayton, St. Louis and Notre Dame — and the most dominant team in college basketball, Adolph Rupp’s Kentucky.

When action to invalidate or weaken the Louisiana law failed, Notre Dame and St. Louis, each of whom had Black players, withdrew. Dayton, though it had no Blacks at the time, did the same.

“If we went to the tournament as it now stands,” said Dayton athletic director Harry Baujan, “we’d be condoning the law.”

Kentucky Gov. Happy Chandler, assuming the event would be canceled, hastily made plans for a new Christmas tournament in Louisville, the Blue Grass Classic, that would feature the Wildcats.

Rupp’s Kentucky team was all-White. He wouldn’t add his first Black player, Tom Payne, until the 197071 season, well after most

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The national controversy that clouded the run-up to a Final Four that concluded Monday night in Indianapolis wasn’t the first collision between basketball and civil-rights politics.

In Louisiana in 1956, as in Indiana 59 years later, a four-team basketball tournament involving a favored Kentucky team was engulfed in a political storm, though the divisive issue then was race and not sexual preference.

And as in Indiana, where a recent religious-freedom

law was widely seen as discriminatory against homosexuals, the Louisiana dispute involved changing cultural mores, a conservative legislature, worried civic and business leaders and, ultimately, government intervention that saved the event.

The turmoil surrounding the 1956 Sugar Bowl, a Christmas basketball tournament run by the organizers of the better-known New Year’s football game, had been triggered two years earlier by the Supreme Court’s historic ruling outlawing segregation.

Athletic Events Bill In the tumultuous southern reaction to Brown v.

Board of Education, many cities and states responded by transforming longstanding Jim Crow customs into hardened law.

Louisiana’s legislature passed a flurry of such bills in 1956. One, Act 579, widely known as the Athletic Events Bill, outlawed all public interaction between Blacks and Whites.

“All persons, firms and corporations,” it read, “are prohibited from sponsoring, arranging, participating in, or permitting on

premises under their control any dancing, social functions, entertainments, athletic training, games, sports or contests and other such activities involving personal and social contacts, in which the participants or contestants are members of the white and negro races.”

Failed plan in New Orleans Powerful interests in New Orleans immediately foresaw financial consequences though the only civic entity initially willing to speak out in opposition

SEC teams had integrated.

Contractual excuse Some Kentucky alumni saw the Sugar Bowl controversy as a chance for the border-state school with national ambitions to make a positive statement on race. They urged UK to join the other schools in withdrawing.

“Here is a situation where the University of Kentucky could courageously show that principle is more important to it than the ‘sugar’ in the Sugar Bowl,” Herschel Weil, a 1922 grad, wrote to UK president Frank Dickey.

But as Rupp himself had done so often when questioned about racial issues, Dickey used contractual obligations as an excuse.

The school had promised the organizers it would appear, Dickey said, and it intended to honor that commitment.

“I agree with you that the problem of the religious and moral implications in this situation is a difficult one,” wrote Dickey in response to Weil. “However [I] feel that the moral values of integrity and honesty are also involved.”

Replacement schools Rupp’s influence on the decision can’t be determined but he and Kentucky helped round up three southern schools — Houston, Virginia Tech and Alabama — as replacements and the 1956 Sugar Bowl, which the Wildcats won easily, went on.

Asked for his reaction to Act 579’s impact on what had been one of the nation’s premier holiday tournaments, MWSA president Paul DeBlanc said: “That’s the law and we will try to live under it.”

Three years later, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that law unconstitutional.

But the Sugar Bowl, perhaps a little gun-shy given its 1956 experience, would not include another northern team until Xavier of Ohio in 1962.

Baseball’s Cummings named MEAC’s Rookie of the Week NORFOLK, Va. – Bethune-Cookman Baseball third baseman Mijon Cummings has been selected as this week’s MidEastern Athletic Conference Rookie of the Week.

It was announced Monday from the conference office in Norfolk, Va. Cummings, a 5-11, freshman from Lutz near Tampa, is collecting his second MEAC Rookie of the Week award for the 2015 campaign.

In helping the Wildcats to a 3-2 record last week – which included wins over Florida International University (FIU) and rival Florida A&M University (FAMU), Cummings registered a team-leading .462 batting average. He hit his first career home run in a loss at No. 12 Miami, while going 6-for-13 overall on the week. He drove in three runs while crossing once on the solo shot to left at Mark Light Field in Coral Gables.

In the series against FAMU, Cummings batted .400, including two hits and a RBI. In the win at FIU, he finished 2-for-5 with three putouts and an assist from his third base position on the field.

Norfolk State’s Roger Hall was named Player of the Week by the MEAC while teammate Matt Outman picked up Pitcher of the Week accolades.

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Busy track and field weekend for Wildcats Two Barry Kimbrough victories, two wins from the women’s relay teams and a solid representation at the Pepsi Florida Relays

B-CU ROUNDUP highlighted a busy weekend for Bethune-Cookman track.

Kimbrough, a senior from Waukegan, Ill, won the shot put (15.31m) and discus (47.47m) last Saturday at the Embry-Riddle Spikes Classic while the women’s 4x100 and 4x400 relays paced the Lady Wildcat contingent with victories, also at EmbryRiddle.

The 4x100 team of Carlecia Spivey, Summer Brown, Shalaneya Bryant and Tineisha Mallory clocked a 47.44 to win that event while Brown, Jessica Ceide, Julia Mills and Tristie Johnson ran a 3.52.81 to win the 4x400.

Kimbrough’s discus victory was his second of the season in that event and also was a season-best. His shot put was the second longest of his career.

B-CU finished second to Embry-Riddle in both the men’s and women’s team standings.

Florida Relays Up in Gainesville, sophomore Kenneth Fisher finished fourth in the invitational long jump on April 3 at the Pepsi Florida Relays at the University of Florida.

Fisher, the defending Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference champion who won the event in last year’s UF relays, posted a seasonbest leap of 7.53 meters (24’8 1/2). James McLachlan of Loyola (Ill.) won the event with a jump of 7.67 meters. (25’2).

Other top results from the Florida relays were Angelo Cabrera (10.68, 35th place), Kareem Faur

(10.72, 41st) and Treymane Banks (10.75, 47th) (in the 100-meter dash and Banks clocking a 14.02 in his 24th place finish in the 110 meter hurdles. Christopher Jackson (1:52.45) was 51st in the 100 meters.

At the Embry-Riddle Spikes Classic, top finishes included: Chris Collins, second in the javelin (53.74 meters) Jhomo Gordon (7.18 meters) and Dario Delieces, Dario second and seventh in the long jump Fisher fourth (14.1 meters) in the triple jump.

Malik Lewis fourth (15.14) in the 110 hurdles The men’s 4x100 meter relay team of Jamel Davis, Gordon, Marquis Drayton and Kevin Johnson finishing third in 42.17.

The men’s 4x400 meter relay team of Davis, Donavan Frater, Brent Heholt and Tyler Lambert took third in 3:32.47, Nmandi Davis was fourth in the decathlon with 5,498 points.

For the women, Keyoshia Harris (3.05 meters) and Shantell Townsend (2.75) were fourth and fifth in the pole vault.

Freshmen Carlecia Spivey (5.44 meters) and Jalilissa Marcus (5.16) were fourth and seventh in the long jump.

Nyajock Pan (12:13.31) was third in the steeplechase.

Shalaneya Bryant (12.4) was fourth in the 100-meter dash and the 200-meter dash (25.03).

Tristie Johnson’s 57.74 led a 5-6-7-8 B-CU finish in the 400 meter, along with Julia Mills (57.8), Jessica Ceide (58.77) and Tineisha Mallory (58.96).

B-CU will compete at the North Florida Twilight in

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Mijon Cummings received his second MEAC honor this week.

Jacksonville Friday and the Hurricane Alumni Invitational at the University of Miami Saturday.

Senior leads women’s golfers ORGANTON, N.C. – Jennifer Hide fired a final round 78 on Monday, leading all Bethune-Cookman women’s golfers in the final round of the Mimosa Hills Intercollegiate at Mimosa Hills Country Club.

The annual event was hosted by Appalachian State in Morganton, North Carolina.

Hide, a senior from Norfolk, England, fired backto-back rounds of 78, allowing her to finish 28th overall with a 156 (+12) scorecard.

Andrea Orozco (8179=160, +16), a senior from Cancun, Mexico, finished with a final round 7-overpar 79, placing her in a tie for 35th overall. She lowered her scorecard by two strokes from Sunday to Monday.

Meanwhile, freshman Mackenzie Butzer (79-

Jennifer Hide leads her team at North Carolina golfing event.

86=165, +21) shot a final round 86, dropping 21 spots in the final round.

She would end up tied for 48th in the tournament.

Senior Patrizia Trevisan (83-82=165, +21) of Leopoldsdorf, Austria matched Butzer in a tie for 48th, as she dropped a stroke from Sunday’s round of 83. She fired an 82 in Monday’s final 18 holes.

The final golfer for Bethune-Cookman was sophomore Alice Plumb, placing 69th overall.

As a team, BethuneCookman placed ninth with a two-round total of 645.

B-CU Women’s Golf is back in action April 27-28, taking part in the annual Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Showcase. This year’s showcase will be hosted by Savannah State in Savannah, Ga.

These stories are courtesy of B-CU Athletics.

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