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Lewis recalls King as hero By BECKY YOUNG The Chronicle
Addressing a Chapel nearly filled with people
joined to celebrate and honor the life of Martin
Luther King Jr., Rep. John Lewis, DGa., delivered a serious, inspiring speech Sunday. A man introduced by professor emeritus of history John Hope Franklin as one who finds “nothing more important than seeking the realizatipn of the goal of equality,” Lewis focused on remembering the importance of King’s life while at the same time continuing his efforts Beginning with a light-hearted John Lewis anecdote of his Pike County, Ala. childhood, Lewis set the tone for his reverent, challenging and uplifting speech. .Reflecting on his 10-year personal relationship with “the moral leader of this nation,”
Lewis explained that he “regarded [King] as a brother, friend, colleague, prophet, spiritual leader and hero.” During his celebration of King’s life, Lewis found it important to focus both on King’s message and on his methods. “The concept of nonviolent resistance was a ray of hope.... King spoke to the hearts and conscience of all of those who believed nonviolence is the way [to create social change],” he said. Lewis, a long-time activist and cofounder and former chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, recounted multiple stories of the racism and abuse he and others encountered during their youth, including a concussion he suffered during the attempted march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. Explaining that King valued the creation of See LEWIS on page 18 'P-
Community marks MLK Day By MATT ATWOOD The Chronicle
As the Duke community celebrated Martin Luther King’s life this weekend, the themes of unity in the midst of diversity and the equality of all people were on the minds ofmany participants. The University has dedicated a full week to commemorate King, and the events began last Friday at noon with a candlelight vigil in his honor. The majority of events took place yesterday, on the federal and University holiday set aside to honor King. They included a “Yam Jam” community service project, a cultural extravaganza led by student groups, a speakout on the Chapel steps, a panel discussion on race and a movie, Follow Me Home. Dr. Brenda Armstrong, a pediatric cardiologist and director of admissions at the School of
Medicine, spoke at Friday’s vigil about her personal experiences with racism, concluding that the struggle for racial equality was far from over. “We remember civil rights struggles of the ’sos and ’6os as the past,” Armstrong said. “Yet these issues that Dr. King gave his life to are far from settled.” Many at Monday afternoon’s speakout voiced similar sentiments, identifying problems ranging from the lack of minority social space at Duke to the more universal issue of stereotyping that remain concerns today. “Coming from an all-black high school, I didn’t expect to see the many stares when I enter a classroom,” said Trinity sophomore Dorian Bolden, who also related how he is often watched in stores or taken for an employee rather than a See
Cultural Extravaganza! Trinity sophomore Meghan Townsend and' Dance Black perform to the song “Freedom” in Monday afternoon’s MartinLuther King Day cultural extravaganza. The song and corresponding dance were inspired by the Black Panthers. For more coverage of the MLK celebration, see pages 4, 5 and 6. Events will continue throughout the week.
HOLIDAY on page 17
Most juniors returning from abroad avoid spring in Trent Many fall study abroad students moved off campus, while others received reassignment to West or Central that he could have given u5...,” she said. I expected there to be a room saved for me on West. Although the Housing Assignments Office originally placed 48 returning juniors in Trent Dormitory this But there’s nothing I can do semester, no more than 11 of those coming back from about it now.” abroad will likely live there. There were significantly Of the juniors, all 19 who applied for reassignment fewer bedspaces available on West and Central campus this received housing on West or Central campuses. Another 18 canceled, deciding to move off campus. year; only 68 were open when The number of Trent assignments far surpassed Burig made assignments, as that of previous years, said Assistant Dean of Student compared to 175 last year, acDevelopment Bill Burig, who is in charge of housing cording to the fall 1998 and 1999 Bill Burig assignments. He said the phenomenon stems from an semester housing statistics. Burig explained that the discrepancy was caused increase in the number ofreturning students requesting on-campus space and a decrease in available West by policy changes that came after many students Campus bedspaces. failed to fill out the housing survey last year. When Trinity junior Abby Rubinson was surprised to hear making housing assignments each spring, Burig’s ofthat she was assigned to Trent because she lived there fice usually fills each West and Central campus bedlast year. When she returned from South Africa, she space and then keeps open all those that become and her roommate applied for reassignment, but were available as students move off campus or choose to told they would have to split up when they moved out leave the University. of Trent, so they decided to move to the nearby Bel“This summer, we made an exception to that procemont apartment complex. dure...,” Burig said. “Last spring, there was lots of disAs upset as I was, it was not like [Burig] had rooms cussion about some sophomores who did not complete By GREG PESSIN The Chronicle
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the housing survey. A decision by senior administrators allowed some of them to be placed back in selective houses mostly.” Then, because most of the students who benefited from this exception were selective house members, Burig allowed a similar number of non-selective house members to move from Trent into West Campus bedspaces as they opened to correct for any unfairness in the previous decision. Bung also said that the space crunch stemmed from a decrease in the number of students vacating their rooms to go abroad in the spring. But Dean of Study Abroad Christa Johns said 118 students went abroad this spring, a number commensurate with previous trends. The underlying problem, however, is that so many more students study abroad in the fall semester than in the spring. Although the number of fall study abroad students dropped slightly this year—39o down from 415 last year—-Johns said many University students are still intent on going away in the fall. ‘There are a variety of reasons students want to be See
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