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OCTOBER 30, 2013 N O R T H C A R O L I N A C E N T R A L U N I V E R S I T Y VOLUME 105, ISSUE 41801 FAYETTEVILLE STREETDURHAM, NC 27707
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BY ALEX SAMPSONECHO EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
The sensation of claustro-phobia, a cocoon of citynoises, and the swell of blis-ters from walking every-where.
When Beverly McIverarrived in New York, her
first thought was: “Whathave I done?”
Living in midtownManhattan on 34th Street,McIver constantly heard thesound of sirens outside herwindow which overlookedMacy’s.
When she lived inDurham, McIver could hop
in her SUV for errands.Here, she had to tote hergroceries in a cart for 12blocks — until she learnedto have things delivered.
But in adjusting to thehectic city life, McIverfound inspiration.
“Just being in New Yorkand walking a lot, and taking
public transportation, livingin a small apartment…all ofthose things affected myart,” McIver said.
McIver, N.C. CentralUniversity’s SuntrustEndowed Chair Professor ofArt, lived in Manhattan for ayear through a Marie WalshSharpe Foundation fellow-ship which provided herher own art studio inBrooklyn.
In the compressed spaceof the Foundation’s art stu-dio, McIver stepped intonew territory as an artist.
Her oil on canvas paint-ings with their thick brush-strokes of vivid colors — dis-played as “New YorkStories” at Craven AllenGallery in Durham — beginas self-portraits.
The self-explanatorypainting titled “Turning 50”depicts McIver ringing inthe milestone in a dottedbirthday hat.
In the nude work “MyNew Breasts,” McIverproudly displays her breastsafter breast-reduction sur-gery with 3 pounds taken offeach.
Campus momsconnect
BY JAMAR NEGRONECHO ASSISTANT EDITOR
Managing your own lifein college is hard enough.Imagine caring for two.
Suddenly, rations oframen noodles and cerealseem a lot smaller thanthey already were.
Welcome to the plight ofa campus mom.
The focus has shiftedfrom the self; a new lifemust take center stage.
At times the balancingact can be particularlysteep — especially on acollege campus.
Moms may feel alienat-ed in a setting where theirneeds are not a priority.
N.C. Central
University’s Cradle Me 3Project hopes to addressthis problem.
“What we’re really try-ing to do is offer supportand education to parents,”said public health educa-tion senior and Cradle Me3 Project peer educatorLindsay Averill.
Cradle Me 3 addressesthree aspects of mother-hood: pre-conception,pregnancy and planning.
The organization held ameet and greet onWednesday, Oct. 23 to initi-ate a campus supportgroup for mothers andmothers-to-be.
Cradle Me 3 is the only
In 1910, Dr. James E.Shepard — a guest of thechurch and one of the found-ing fathers of the HaytiDistrict — founded theNational Religious TrainingSchool and Chautauqua inthe neighborhood.
The church and the chau-taqua, now referred to as the
Hayti Heritage Center andN.C. Central University,have joined hands.
In order to strengthentheir cultural resources,NCCU’s College of Arts andSciences has created a long-term partnership with theHayti Center.
“It’s a rarity that you have
two very important histori-cal institutions in closeproximity,” said CarltonWilson, dean of the Collegeof Arts and Sciences.
Though the institutionshave frequently interactedin the past, they didn’t havea formal relationship.
Wilson said the College
hopes to formalize thatbond.
“I think this is a naturalpartnership we can pro-mote,” Wilson said.
The collaboration beganthis summer when LenoraHelm-Hammonds, commu-
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Hayti, NCCU partner upCollaboration will enhance cultural outreach to the community
NCCU’s Department of Theatre perform “Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope” at the Hayti Heritage Center, Oct. 23. ALEX SAMPSON/Echo editor-in-chief
STORY BY ALEX SAMPSONECHO EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
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Artist, teacher, guardianBeverly McIver fashions art out of life’s struggles
Beverly McIver returned to the Craven Allen Gallery for the third time with “New York Stories.”ALEX SAMPSON/Echo editor-in-chief
Spit that savesNeed exceeds supply with marrow, organ donations
Sophomore Sheldon Mba needs a bone marrow donor.INDIA WAGNER/Echo staff photographer
BY INDIA WAGNERECHO STAFF REPORTER
Somewhere on the N.C.Central University campusthere is a student whoneeds a bone marrow trans-plant. That student is soph-omore Sheldon Mba.
Mba suffers from severeaplastic anemia with parox-ysmal nocturnal hemoglo-
binuria. SAA is a disease that
prevents bone marrow fromproducing enough bloodcells for the body.
PNH causes white bloodcells to destroy red bloodcells.
Mba was diagnosed withSAA in May 2012. Before he
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Surveillanceriles allies
NSA ops described as ‘macabre’ BY MATTHEW SCHOFIELDMCCLATCHY FOREIGN STAFF (MCT)
BERLIN — In the recentGerman elections, AngelaMerkel was swept back intothe chancellor’s job with acampaign that focused onher as a “safe pair ofhands.”
To everyday Germans,the most common way tosee those hands was indaily images of her withher cellphone, texting,making calls or just holdingit.
So when allegationsemerged this week that theUnited States had beenmonitoring her phone, itwas unquestioningly per-sonal. In the words of aneditorial Thursday in the
Sueddeutsche Zeitungnewspaper, “An attack onher cellphone is an attackon her political heart.”
New details emergedThursday that suggestedthe United States had beenmonitoring Merkel’s cell-phone use since 2009.
The chancellor’s officedemanded a “no spyingagreement” between thenations, and the ForeignMinistry summoned theU.S. ambassador for adressing-down.
There was little mentionof the White House’s denialWednesday that Merkel’sphone is currently beingmonitored, even as theObama administration
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In one mile of each other stand two of Durham’s most historical sites. Situated on
Fayetteville Street near the Durham Expressway is what was formerly known as St.
Joseph’s African Methodist Episcopal Church. Built in 1891, the church played an inte-
gral part in the thriving African-American community of Hayti.
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Is it real or fake debate raises hairPanel discusses the division among natural, relaxed and weave
BY GREG WEAVERECHO STAFF REPORTER
It’s an ongoing conver-sation, one that sometimessets the black communityat odds with itself — lightskin/dark skin, kinky/straight hair.
This conversation wasexplored in an Oct. 21 pro-gram sponsored by AlphaPhi Alpha Fraternity Inc.,Kinky and Proud and 100Black Women.
The program was a con-tinuation of the “FedsWatching” and “NewSlaves” programs Alpha
Phi Alpha organized earli-er in the semester.
The program’s goal isboth to enlighten and toencourage unity despitedifferences.
SGA President StefanWeathers, who hosted theevent, said he set out tochange minds.
“We were trying to get toa deeper level with thisprogram versus ‘FedsWatching’ and ‘NewSlaves’,” said Weathers.
“Success was measuredby whether people left withsome type of mindsetchange.”
The program followed aquestion-and-answer for-mat.
A panel composed most-ly of women with differentstyles of hair (natural,relaxed, and those wearwear weaves) was posi-tioned at tables facing theaudience.
Another table, of threemen, was included to con-vey the male perspective.
Questions ranged frombroad and opinionated tospecific and analytical.
Topics included reasonsfor hair style choice, per-ceptions of black hair, the
history of social rejectionrelated to black hair, scien-tific dangers of relaxers,and natural hair in theworkplace.
The sensitivity surround-ing hair in the black com-munity was clear at the pro-gram. Tensions rose as par-ticular groups felt offendedby panel and audienceanswers to piercing ques-tions.
By the middle of the pro-gram, virtually everyrespondent preceded theiranswer with a disclaimer.
Many panel and audi-ence answers encourageddoing one’s hair as onewishes, and not lettingsocial strictures dictatewhat grows out of the body.
Many others discussedEuropean control of theimage and standard ofbeauty in America, andhow black women’sstraightening their hairbegan as a desire toachieve an “ideal” image ofwhite beauty.
Nearly 200 peopleattended the event.Audience members werestanding up or sitting inthe lounge area of the stu-dent union to hear the con-versation.
Weathers said he hadexpected the large turnout.
“It was right after home-coming and people werewell situated into theirschedules,” Weathers said.
After the event, manypeople wondered whetherthe discussion wouldchange anything.
Biology freshmanChristian Wortham saidshe wonders what the nextstep is for the black com-munity.
“It doesn't matter abouthow someone wears theirhair,” said Wortham.
“We should be united asa race in the end.”
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Mass communication senior Sie Lyons with her 2-year-old sonat the Cradle Me 3 meet and greet on Oct. 23.
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grant-funded HBCU clubof its kind in the country.
Criminal justice sopho-more Margaret Harringtonwent to the meet and greetwith her 9-week-old sonAiden.
She said her pregnancywas not something she wasprepared for.
“At first I was a littleshocked,” she said, addingthat she did not want toend up as one of “thoseteenagers” whose lifetakes a turn for the worsebecause of an unplannedpregnancy.
She said a support sys-tem is essential for cam-pus moms, and seeing oth-ers grapple with their newcircumstances wasencouraging.
“It gives me comfortthat there are others likeme in this situation,” shesaid.
Public health educationsenior and Cradle Me 3president Ashley Cephassaid a support system isessential.
“It’s important to havesomeone to understand,”she said.
“Everybody wants to bea part of something.”
Cephas said moms andmoms-to-be are a silentgroup on campus thatneeds to have their voiceheard.
She also said collegecampuses aren’t especiallyaccommodating of preg-nant students or mothers.
“You don’t really putpregnancy or planningwith college,” she said.
Psychology junior andexpectant mother SabrinaHowie said being pregnant
in college can be an alien-ating experience.
“Being pregnant, youget treated like you’re ablack sheep,” she said.
She said that on top ofthat, young black mothers“are already slighted.”
Cephas said health maynot be a top concern in theblack community.
“As black women, wedon’t take our health seri-ously,” she said.
“Everything you do toyour body affects youlater.”
Cephas said blackwomen have the highestrate of infant mortality inthe United States andCradle Me 3 Project initia-tives like conception train-ing and pregnancy preven-tion are the organization’sway to cut these rates.
Shinel Stephens, CradleMe 3’s co-adviser, addedthat decreasing infantmortality is one of theorganization’s key objec-tives.
Mass communicationsenior and mother SieLyons said that althoughthere is room to improve,she is excited that organi-zations like Cradle Me 3are taking the initiative.
“It’s a big change,” shesaid, noting that in the twoyears since she’s had herson NCCU has made somesmall changes to benefitmothers.
Lyons also said moremothers and mothers-to-be need to have their voic-es heard.
“Come out and makefriends,” she said.
“We’re all going throughthis together.”
Ashanti Turner, Candace Gorham, and Ebony Murray represent the naturalistas at the Real or Fake program on Oct. 21.
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SAAS promotes unity, sisterhood Organization seeks to expand female students’ social circle
BY ALEXANDRIA GLENNECHO STAFF REPORTER
The Student AfricanAmerican Sisterhood hasbegun to create its nest atN.C. Central University.
The organization wasformed to promote unityamong young women atNCCU.
“Our organization is ded-icated to uniting AfricanAmerican women throughsisterhood,” said BrittanyJackson, a psychology jun-ior and SAAS’s president.
Michael Johnson, formerpresident of StudentAfrican AmericanBrothers, asked Johnson tohead SAAS.
Students have com-plained in the last year thatthere was an organizedbrotherhood on campus but
not an organized sister-hood.
SAAS’s goals includeeliminating the ideaaround campus that allyoung women have to be inthe same clique or group offriends.
Another goal is toincrease unity amongfemale students and givethem a chance to interactwith women from differentbackgrounds.
The organization isunder the advisement ofChutney Guyton, aUniversity College. aca-demic advisor
Organizers hope accom-plishing these goals willhelp members understandwhy some young womenbehave and conduct them-selves as they do.
SAAS was founded in
2006 at Indiana University-Purdue UniversityIndianapolis by KhalilahShahazz.
Its six core principlesare social unity, academicexcellence, culture enrich-ment, financial affairs,service learning and per-sonal development.
Both Jackson and SAABpresident KennethLampkin — a mass commu-nication junior — said bothorganizations look forwardto working together tobring unity to young womenand men on campus.
Collaborative eventsinclude “Arts Beats andEats” on Nov. 5.
Future events include afree HIV testing clinic inthe student union.
SAAS and SAAB recentlycollaborated with the
Centennial ScholarsProgram to host “NewSlaves,” in which a varietyof students discussed theongoing light skin versusdark skin problem in theAfrican-American commu-nity.
Jazmen Flagler, a psy-chology junior and SAAS’sdirector of public relations,is ready to begin workingwith her fellow Eagles.
“I’m excited aboutwomen working together,”Flagler said.
She plans to networkwith more young women oncampus from diverse back-grounds.
Flagler said she is excit-ed about working with acombined brotherhood andsisterhood, alongside closefriends.
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nity director for theCollege of Arts andSciences approachedAngela Lee, executivedirector of St. Joseph’sHistoric Foundation.
Helm-Hammonds saidthe College’s lack of visibil-ity outside campus encour-aged her to pursue a part-nership.
“We have an amazing artprogram that nobodyknows about outside ofNCCU,” Helm-Hammondssaid.
Once the first step wastaken, Helm-Hammondsstarted talking to profes-sors in the College.
She said she wasstunned to learn just howmany had worked with thecenter.
“Everybody was alreadydoing things but theyweren’t connected underone umbrella.”
The mutual goal of thecollaboration is to reachout to all of Durham, whichis more challenging whendone individually.
Helm-Hammonds saidwhile the community maybe unaware of the servicesprovided on campus,NCCU students and staffmay also be unaware of thecenter.
This is an issue the part-nership seeks to alleviate.
“It’s that old Africanprinciple of networking,”Helm-Hammonds said.
“It’s not what you can dofor me but what I can do foryou.”
Helm-Hammonds saidHayti Heritage Center alsoacts as an important seguefor art students.
Art students are typical-ly told that they won’t get asolid job.
Having their artwork
showcased at the centerand working in the center’soffices, will help artistsachieve entrepreneurialand professional experi-ence.
Nellie Riley, a boardmember with the founda-tion, also underscored theneed for student participa-tion at the center.
With three full-time andtwo part-time workers,staff is limited. Riley saidinternships are vital to thecenter.
“Being a nonprofit serv-ice, we need to continue tohave programs and staffbringing in resources,”Riley said.
Her priority, though, ispreserving black history.
“We also like to be surethat the larger communitybe exposed to and appre-ciate the work and contri-butions of the African-American communitywithout losing why weexist,” Riley said.
Riley noted that manyindividuals from “BlackWall Street” frequentedthe Hayti church in the olddays.
The church was notonly a religious center, butalso was a place whereblacks came for informa-tion.
The partnership’s firstofficial event took place atthe Hayti Heritage Centeron Oct. 23.
The program includedstudent art exhibits, a per-formance of “Don’t BotherMe, I Can’t Cope” by thedepartment of theatre anddance, a guitar duo byDavid Mills and JuliaPricex, and a vocal jazzensemble featuring Helm-Hammonds and ArnoldGeorge.
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was diagnosed, Mba saidthere were signs, but he did-n’t think it was serious.
“As an athlete or per-former, you’re like, ‘suck itup,’” said Mba.
Mba’s disease calls for abone marrow transplant,which replaces damaged ordestroyed bone marrowwith healthy bone marrowstem cells. Most often,donors are close familymembers like a brother orsister.
When family membersare not a match, as in Mba’scase, doctors look for amatched unrelated donor,or MUD.
Mba said the wait to finda MUD is nerve-wracking.
“To be honest, it’s kind ofmaking me impatient andanxious,” said Mba. “Peoplecan die from this disease ifthey don’t find a donor intime.”
Mba is only one of thou-sands looking for organ andtissue donations. The issueis even more problematic inthe African- American com-munity.
According to the federalOffice of Minority Health, 14percent of AfricanAmericans waiting for anorgan transplant received atransplant last year.
Genetic and ethnic back-ground can affect the likeli-
hood of finding a donor. Thelow percentage of blackorgan donors doesn’t help.
In a study in the Journalof the National MedicalAssociation, 38 percent ofAfrican Americans statedthey would not be organdonors, compared to 10 per-cent of whites who refused.
When African Americanswere asked why not, theystated that they wouldn’t getthe right medical attentionif they were.
“I think it’s stupid andmore people need to step upand donate,” said DevontéSquire, a theatre sopho-more and friend of Mba.
“If you can, then do it.”The U.S. Department of
Health and Human Servicesand Be the Match, whichmanages the largest bonemarrow registry in theworld, are urging minori-ties, especially AfricanAmericans, to join bonemarrow and organ reg-istries.
NCCU held a Swab forSheldon Bone MarrowDrive on Oct. 18. Forty peo-ple were swabbed at thedrive.
That number amounts toless than 1 percent ofNCCU’s 8,000-plus students.
Mba said the turnoutshowed that NCCU shouldrecognize the low availabili-
ty of minority donors as anational crisis for theAfrican American commu-nity.
“I feel that it’s importantfor NCCU to bring aware-ness about a serious issue,”said Mba.
“These rare diseases arefound a lot in AfricanAmericans.”
Mba said he fears thatmany will associate a bonemarrow transplant withmovies like Seven Pounds,which depicted a painfuland daunting process.
In fact, donating bonemarrow involves anesthesiaand mild post-procedurediscomfort.
Mba encourages peopleto visit websites likedosomething.org for theGive a Spit Campaign,which hosts spit parties inorder to identify potentialmatches for waitingpatients.
“It’s really sad whenAfrican Americans arefaced with these life threat-ening diseases and we’rereaching out to our commu-nity for help and we don’thave it,” said Mba.
More information aboutdonating bone marrow isavailable atBeTheMatch.org. Becomingan organ donor requiresvisiting a local DMV office.
BY ROBERT LEWISECHO STAFF REPORTER
N.C. Central Universitymight have some new neigh-bors soon.
City officials are decidingwhether to build a new $46million Durham PoliceDepartment headquarters,or to renovate the existingbuilding.
Two of the three pro-posed new locations areclose to campus, at 600 EastMain Street or nearbyMerrick Street, where theFayette Place Apartmentsonce stood.
According to the News &Observer, SGA PresidentStefan Weathers and NCCUtrustees lobbied Mayor BillBell and the city council tochoose the Merrick Streetlocation, which is just one-half mile from campus.
Weathers and thetrustees argued that locat-ing the headquarters closeto campus would provide alearning opportunities forstudents in the departmentof criminal justice.
Sergeant David Buie ofthe NCCU police said hav-ing the headquarters at theMerrick Street site wouldalso have a positive effecton the community.
However, it would notsubstantially affect campus
police’s relationship withcity police.
“We already have a mutu-al aid agreement with theDPD,” said Buie.
“When they become over-whelmed they call us torespond to the area.”
Jesse Burwell, assistantchief of Durham PoliceOperations Support, saidthe site selection process isstill underway.
Burwell said the currentheadquarters was built asan insurance building in the1950s.
“It’s falling apart,” saidBurwell.
Burwell is on the commit-tee that will recommendsites to the city manager.
The city manager willthen propose suggestions tothe city council and themayor for a vote after hereviews them.
Burwell said financesand the site’s location inrelation to major thorough-fares are among the biggestfactors in selecting a site.
“I don’t have any data onwhether crime is loweraround a police headquar-ters,” he said.
“Crime is lowered basedon how resources aredeployed in the field.”
Matt Dudek, who haslived in Durham’sCleveland-Holloway neigh-
borhood for five years, saidhe has doubts about bothsites.
“The Main Street locationcould cause damage to theconnectivity between EastDurham and Downtown,”Dudek said.
He said he supports theFayette Place location aslong as the immediateneighbors are comfortablewith it.
Dudek said he wants thecurrent headquarters reno-vated. He doesn’t think resi-dents want to feel like theylive in “a military occupa-tion.”
For many years, EastDurham has had the reputa-tion of being a hotbed ofcrime.
In 2007, DPD startedOperation Bull’s Eye, whichaimed to reduce crime with-in two square miles in EastDurham.
The operation used fed-eral funds to pay officersovertime to work the area.
A report analyzing crimedata cited a 38.6 percentdecline in violent crime inDistrict One over a two-yearperiod as a result ofOperation Bull’s Eye.
Data from the beginningof 2013 to October showsthat the area in and aroundNCCU could use its ownOperation Bull’s Eye.
So far this year, DistrictFour — which encompassesNCCU — has had about1,000 reported cases of lar-ceny or theft, 750 reports ofburglaries or breaking andentering, 500 reports ofassault, 140 motor vehiclethefts and 6 homicides.
Burwell said Durham isdivided into five districtsand officers report for dutyin those districts, not atpolice headquarters.
“Headquarters is not anoperational entity,” Burwellsaid. “911 calls are directedto each district.”
Police HQ may move next doorNCCU trustees want new $46 million facility near campus
Site of the former Fayette Place Apartments may be Durham’s future police headquarters, a proposal supported by the NCCU trustees.
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Dispelling the mythsDating violence on college campuses a silent issue
Parade defies drizzleCrowds ignore weather to view Homecoming parade
BY BRANDI ARLEDGEECHO STAFF REPORTER
The weather during N.C.Central University’s home-coming parade was windywith drizzling rain but thatdidn’t stop the enormouscrowd waiting in anticipa-tion.
People arrived brightand early to watch theparade and to set up ven-dor booths for their busi-nesses.
Vendors set up alongFayetteville Street, by theAlfonso Elder StudentUnion and near the AlumniHouse gave away freebreakfast to alumni. Theparade started at 9 a.m.sharp.
“The groups, the prepa-ration from the audition,the organization and thegreat performances I lookforward to but mainly Icome to see the perform-ances,” said Irene WatsonFourgurean, an NCCUalumnus of the class of1968.
The parade started with
NCCU’s Royal Court floatfeaturing Miss and Mr.NCCU and the class queensand kings.
The Marching SoundMachine followed playing“Fine China” by ChrisBrown.
“I look forward to NCCUBand as well as the highschool bands. Their musicchoices and energy arealways on point,” saidNCCU alumna YolandaPryor.
Louise Weeks, an NCCUalumna and member ofDelta Sigma Theta Sorority,Inc., mentors young womenin the National Council ofNegro Women at NCCU andyoung girls in the Durhamcommunity.
“They’re young womenthat we mentor and I’mlooking forward to seeingboth of these groups in theparade and the Deltas,”said Weeks.
The Durham AlumnaeChapter of Delta SigmaTheta walked in the paradeshowing their colors andspirit. Their float featured
Miss Jabberwock 2012-2013,Janae Best.
Best said she enjoyedseeing how happy the littlegirls at the parade were.
She said she was alsopleased to bring awarenessof what Jabberwock is andothers interested.
Josephine DobbsClement Early CollegeHigh School PrincipalGloria Woods-Weeks drovethe convertible that ledtheir floats which featuredtheir Royal Court with Missand Mr. ECHS.
The final high schoolperformance was fromHillside High School’sband, the HillsideMarching Hornets.
The band gave an ener-getic performance withtheir flag girls marchingbehind them.
Shepherd Middle Schoolcheerleaders also partici-pated in the parade per-forming “Red Hot” andShepherd dancers per-forming to “2 Step” byCiara featuring MissyElliot.
BY A L E X SA M P S O NECHO EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
October is a prominentmonth for Breast CancerAwareness but it’s also syn-onymous with anothernational issue.
Represented by the colorpurple, Domestic ViolenceAwareness Month addressesthe aggression that plagueswomen, men and children.
On Oct. 22, N.C. CentralUniversity did its part ingenerating a conversationabout the subject.
Students gathered in theTurner Law Building for apanel discussion about dat-ing violence on college cam-puses. The discussioninvolved a live feed withNCCU, Fayetteville StateUniversity and NorthCarolina A&T StateUniversity.
The panel consisted ofAssistant Director forInterpersonal ViolenceKrystal George, AssistantClinical Professor of Lawand Supervising AttorneyDeria Hayes, andOmbudsperson of StudentRight and ResponsibilitiesBelinda Simmons.
George kicked off the dis-cussion by breaking a popu-lar myth about dating vio-lence.
People typically thinkabout domestic violence as itrelates to older, marriedcouples. George said this isnot necessarily the case.
“Domestic violence…ithas no face, it has no age,”she said.
George said a lot of theabuse begins prior to col-lege.
According to the CDC,22.4 percent of women and15 percent of men experi-enced some form of datingviolence between the ages of11-17.
George drew attention tothe fact that dating violenceplagues same-sex couples.According to the Center forAmerican Progress, 1 of 4same-sex relationships isaffected by domestic vio-lence.
“As long as there is powerand control in a relationshipagainst the other party in therelationship, you havedomestic violence.”
Hayes said when studentscome to campus as freshmenand sophomores theybecome so consumed bytheir newfound independ-ence that they begin to toler-ate certain behavior.
“Sometimes college stu-dents…if they think they’redealing with abuse, theydeal with it in silence,”Hayes said.
Hayes mentioned that thesocial hierarchy of collegecan play into that silence.Hayes said sometimes peo-ple of popularity on campussuch as Greeks or athletesabuse their power.
If incidents of domesticviolence are reported, theOffice of Student Rights andResponsibilities steps in.
The victim has the optionof deciding whether toreport it to the police or pur-sue criminal actions againstthe aggressor. However, theuniversity is obligated toinvestigate under Title IX ofthe Education Amendments.
Enforcing the code of con-duct specifically in cases ofdomestic violence includessanctions such as expulsion,suspension, separation fromhousing and communityservice requirements. Theperpetrator would have toundergo counseling ifallowed to stay on campusand attend educational pro-grams on dating violence.
Hayes urged domesticviolence to tell campuspolice and the universityabout their situation espe-cially if the aggressor isanother student.
“The university needs tobe aware,” Hayes said.“They can intervene, makesure they get counseling orkick the person out.”
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N O R T H C A R O L I N A C E N T R A L U N I V E R S I T Y
Scientists rethink human family tree
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BY MONTE MORIN
LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT)
In the humid foothills ofthe Caucasus Mountains,deep within a carnivore’sbloody lair, an early humanancestor fought a life-or-death struggle, and lost.
He had entered the denon a scavenging mission,possibly with several others.Their plan: Use a stone toscrape meat from the bonesof freshly killed prey, thenflee before a saber-tooth cator other giant predatorcaught him in the act.
“It seems that they werefighting for the carcasses,and unfortunately ... theywere not always successful,”said David Lordkipanidze, apaleoanthropologist anddirector of the GeorgianNational Museum in Tbilisi.
Now, almost 2 millionyears later, the stunninglyintact remains of that failedforaging mission are caus-ing researchers to questionthe shape of our ancestralfamily tree.
Most notable among thefossilized relics are a crani-um and jaw of an adult malethat together comprise“Skull 5.”
In a paper publishedThursday in the journalScience, Lordkipanidze andcolleagues say that skull andfour other fossil craniumsrecovered at the site containfeatures previously ascribedto three different species ofhuman ancestor: Homohabilis, Homo rudolfensisand Homo erectus.
The explanation for thisis clear, they say: All threespecies must be one and thesame. Differences once per-ceived to be the mark of sep-arate species are in fact the
result of normal variation inphysical features, age andgender, they say.
The assertion has strucka nerve in a field wheresome paleoanthropologistscomplain that peers are alltoo quick to classify small orbadly crushed fossil finds asevidence of new species.
“It’s a little like theEmperor’s New Clothes,”study co-author ChristophZollikofer, a neurobiologistat the AnthropologicalInstitute and Museum inZurich, Switzerland, toldreporters. “At some pointyou have to step out of agiven perspective and take anew one.”
Reaction to the paper hasbeen strong.
“This is significant,” saidTim White, a University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, pale-oanthropologist who was notinvolved in the study.
“I think that years, evendecades from now, this willbe seen as a classic turningpoint. It’s not going to bereceived well by those whoclaim our family tree ismore like a creosote bushthan a saguaro cactus.”
Others say that while thediscovery of Skull 5 is aspectacular fossil find, theauthors have failed to con-vince them that it applies tofossils recovered in Africa.
Fred Spoor, a professor ofevolutionary anatomy at theMax Planck Institute forEvolutionary Anthropologyin Leipzig, Germany, saidhe’s not about to “say good-bye to Homo habilis andHomo rudolfensis.”
Though the authorsfocused on the shape of thefossil craniums, that is notthe sole indication of aspecies. Newly evolved fea-
tures, however, were.“Whether you’re talking
about hominids, ants orfrogs, you don’t make aspecies solely on the basis ofoverall cranium shape,”Spoor said.
Ironically, Lordkipanidzeand his team initially classi-fied their fossil discoveriesas a separate species —Homo Georgicus — in 2002.
After further analysis,they retracted that classifi-cation and now describe thefossils as belonging to Homoerectus. All of the fossilswere found in Dmanisi,Georgia.
The Dmanisi hominidsare the oldest ever discov-ered outside Africa, andresearchers say they wereprobably among the firstmembers of Homo erectusto begin migrating through-out the Old World. Evidenceof Homo erectus has beenfound from Spain toIndonesia to China.
It’s unlikely the Dmanisihominids had much in theway of travel plans whenthey first arrived in Eurasia,researchers said.
“People in Africa didn’tjust pack their suitcases ...and leave for Dmanisi,”Zollikofer said. “It was dis-persal. There was no aim.”
Each of the recentlyfound skulls is notable forits large face, heavy browand protruding jaw, as wellas a very small brain case _about one-third the size ofmodern humans’.
“This is a strange combi-nation of features that wedidn’t know before in earlyHomo,” said co-authorMarcia Ponce de Leon, apaleoanthropologist. “Thebrain is much smaller thanexpected.”
The brain size came as ashock to many anthropolo-gists. Previously, manybelieved that our ancestorsrequired larger brains inorder to survive beyondAfrica.
In addition to Skull 5’sfinal foraging mission,researchers said they coulddecipher other details fromhis life.
At some point, he suf-fered a terrific impact to hishead, which broke his mas-sive right cheekbone. Thewound healed and he sur-vived, but the cheek was leftpermanently dented, like acar fender. It also appearsthat the left side of his jawhad suffered deformationfrom degenerative arthritis.
These details and others,however, would not be use-ful to researchers unlessthey could compare theskull with others found atthe site.
“It’s the package that’simportant as opposed to anyone piece,” White said.“What’s often missed in anannouncement like this,when the focus becomes theskull or the names appliedto the skull, it’s the largercontext. ... This is the veryfirst evidence of thehominid expansion out ofAfrica.”
The four other hominidremains found in the area ofSkull 5 include a toothlesssenior, who researchers saymay have been cared for byhis peers; an adolescentgirl; and two other adults.
Lordkipanidze said it waspossible that members ofthe group knew one another,but it was also possible thatthey ventured into the denseparately and died at dif-ferent times.
sought again Thursday tocalm the anger.
White House press secre-tary Jay Carney saidPresident Barack Obama was“obviously aware” that priva-cy was an especially sensitiveissue in Germany, given thehistory of the Stasi, EastGermany’s secret policeforce. Merkel grew up in EastGermany.
“This is something that heknows from discussions withthe chancellor, with whom hehas a long and strong rela-tionship, and he is certainlyaware of her past and he’saware of Germany’s past andEast Germany’s past,”Carney said.
Meanwhile, the uproarover National SecurityAgency surveillance pro-grams spread, with Italy join-ing a now-sizable list ofnations that are demandingto know exactly whom andwhat the United States hasspied on, and complainingthat confidences were shat-tered when the NSA report-edly swept up the communi-cations of top leaders.
The Guardian newspaper,which has broken many sto-ries about the NSA surveil-lance based on documents itobtained from former NSAcontractor Edward Snowden,reported late Thursday thatone of the documentsdescribed how U.S. officialshad turned over hundreds oftelephone numbers that thenwere used for surveillancepurposes.
“The document notes thatone unnamed U.S. officialhanded over 200 numbers,including those of 35 worldleaders, none of whom isnamed,” The Guardian said.The numbers were immedi-ately “tasked” for monitoringby the NSA, the news outletsaid.
By Thursday evening, theburgeoning scandal had
taken over a regularly sched-uled European Council meet-ing in Brussels, where manyof the 28 heads of statevoiced dismay.
“Spying among friends issimply not done,” Merkelsaid before walking into whatlooked to be a stormy meet-ing.
“I told President Obamathat during his visit in June,then again in July and yester-day during our phone conver-sation.”
Others angrily denouncedwhat they saw as U.S. mis-conduct. Italian PrimeMinister Enrico Letta calledthe news “inconceivable andunacceptable.”
Dutch Prime MinisterMark Rutte said he backedMerkel: “I will support hercompletely in her complaintand say that this is notacceptable.”
Finland’s Prime MinisterJyrki Katainen demanded “aguarantee that this will neverhappen again.”
The news broke hard inGermany, where Merkel andher phone affinity are a com-monplace sight in newspa-pers and news shows. Thewebsite of the newspaperBild ran a series of photos ofMerkel with her phonesthrough the years. ThomasOppermann, a SocialDemocratic member ofParliament and the head ofthe parliamentary committeeon intelligence, called thealleged monitoring of thechancellor’s phone an out-rage.
“Who spies on the chan-cellor spies on the citizens,”he said.
“What terrorists did theNSA hope to find on thechancellor’s cellphone?”Hans-Christian Stroebele,another member ofParliament, asked during anappearance on ARD televi-sion.
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HOMECOMING 2013W E D N E S D A Y , O C T O B E R 3 0 , 2 0 1 3
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Alumni along with currentand future Eagles flooded N.C.Central University’s streets andauditoriums for a week ofhomecoming events.
Among the festivities was“Rip the Runway” featuringPusha T, the homecomingparade and the step show.
Even NCCU alumni likeAtlanta Journal-Constitutionpolitical reporter and formerCampus Echo editor-in-chief
Ernie Suggs lent a hand, con-ducting motivational speechesacross campus.
The “Rip the Runway” fashioncompetition awarded a $1,000prize to Virginia StateUniversity’s visiting modeltroupe Kerojo.
Following the runway showRapper Pusha T performednumerous songs from his lat-est album “My Name is MyName.”
The step show, which isalways a Homecoming hit,drew a crowd as fraternity andsorority heavyweights battled itout for first place braggingrights.
On Saturday, theHomecoming Parade featureda variety of floats and march-ing bands before NCCU’s foot-ball game against MorganState.
— Jade Jackson
TOP: Alpha Phi Alpha‘s “AlphaAirlines” crash the stage withtheir step show performance.
LEAH MONTGOMERY/Echo A&E editor
ABOVE: Najah Radford, TierraLeGrande and Jasmine Arline —
futuristic robots of AlphaKappa Alpha — transport theaudience to the year 2108
for NCCU’s Annual Step Show.
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LEFT: Former Campus Echoeditor-in-chief Ernie Suggs
returned to NCCU to encourageand empower students withthe Motivational Task Force.Suggs is a political reporter
with the Atlanta-JournalConstitution.
ALEX SAMPSON/Echo editor-in-chief
Rip the Runway fashion competition first place winners Kerojo Modeling Agency Ltd. get crazy in their straight jacket inspired fashions. JADE JACKSON/Echo staff photographer
ABOVE: Hillside High School’s marching band shows up and shows out.
JAMAR NEGRON/Echo assistant editor
LEFT: GeColby Youngblood shows his Eagle pride on the Centennial Scholars Programfloat at the Homecoming parade.
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LEFT: Rap artistPusha T per-
forms to an inti-mate audiencefollowing per-formances by
modelingtroupes at Ripthe Runway.JADE JACKSON/
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TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroductionChapter One ~ GenealogyChapter Two ~The Prodigal Son, 1875-1907Chapter Three ~ The National Religious Training School and Chautauqua, 1907-1912Chapter Four ~ On a Fixed Road to Destiny: Education and Politics, 1912-1916Chapter Five ~ War, Politics, and Race, 1916-1923Chapter Six ~ The Rise of Durham State Normal and the Ascendancy of North Carolina College, 1923-1930Chapter Seven ~ North Carolina College and the Great Depression, 1930-1940 (in progress)Chapter Eight ~ World War II and Beyond, 1940-1947Conclusion
ABOUT THE AUTHORHenry Lewis Suggs
Henry Lewis Suggs is a distinguished and published scholar ofAmerican history. His academic concentrations are the AmericanSouth, African American history, and African American journal-ism.He earned his Ph.D. in American history from the University ofVirginia in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1976. At Virginia, he wasawarded the Martin Luther King, Jr. Woodrow WilsonFellowship. His first teaching assignment was at Western CarolinaUniversity, Cullowhee, North Carolina. He was WCU's firstAfrican American faculty member. An academic scholarship waslater named in his honor. He taught at Howard University,Washington, D.C., for a number of years, and was selected forthe faculty of Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina, inAugust 1983. In 1992 he became the second African Americanfaculty member at Clemson to be promoted to the rank of fullprofessor.At Clemson, he taught American history, the American South,and African American history. In February 1994, he was selectedas the first Dupont Endowed Visiting Chair at LynchburgCollege in Lynchburg, Virginia. Also during his career atClemson, he was selected for a twelve-week summer fellowshipat the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. In 1997 he wasselected as a W.E.B. Du Bois Scholar at Harvard University inCambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Suggs retired as ProfessorEmeritus of American History from Clemson University in2003. In August 2003, Chancellor James H. Ammons of NorthCarolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina, appoint-ed Dr. Suggs scholar in residence at NCCU. His assigned dutywas to write the history of NCCU.Dr. Suggs has edited and authored numerous books on AfricanAmerican journalism, and his scholarly articles have appeared injournals such as The Harvard University Business Review, TheJournal of Southern History, The American Historical Review,The Journal of Negro History, The Virginia Historical Review,and many others.
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James E. Shepard
In this tour de force and inspirational account you’ll
read about the genealogy of the Shepard family,
Shepard’s early years in Raleigh and at Shaw, his trip to
Rome to attend the the International Sunday School
Association’s international conference.
You’ll read about the birth of the National Religious
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You’ll read about war years, Shepard’s role in
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as N.C. Mutual and the Scarborough Funeral Home,
played in the growth of NCCU. And much, much more.
In tribute to NCCU’s Centennial. A portion of funds frombook sales will be used to fund merit scholarships in historyand journalism and a proposed Shepard Research Center.
BY JADE JACKSONECHO STAFF REPORTER
Rap stars, high heels andeven higher skirts crushedthe catwalk Oct. 17 for the“Rip the Runway” fashioncompetition.
The show featured sevenmodeling troupes and fin-ished with a performance byhip-hop artist Pusha T.
The crowd was pumped toexperience each modelingtroupe’s show, an array ofhair, makeup, fashions, and
choreography all critiqued bya panel of judges.
The judges scored basedon uniqueness, creativity,runway skills, choreography,appropriate clothing andmusical content.
“The winning troupe wasamazing,” said mass commu-nication senior Naomi Marin-Rosario.
“I could not take my eyesoff them ... and neither couldthe audience ... everybodywas watching them.”
Fashion and textile junior
Ciera Franklin said, “I thinkit was amazing.”
Franklin was event coordi-nator for the fashion compe-tition.
Franklin wore a littleblack dress and a modesthair style, both edgy enoughto make it clear that she wasthere as a fashion authority.
“There are a lot of person-alities to work with whenputting together this kind ofevent, especially when aprize is involved,” Franklinsaid.
The first prize of $1,000was awarded to KerojoModeling Agency LTD. ofVirginia State University.
The winning troupe alsogot to walk the stage duringPusha T’s performance.
Evelesco of N.C. CentralUniversity received secondplace.
Third place went toDeHaute Allure, also ofNCCU.
While NCCU’s Bon Vivantand East CarolinaUniversity’s F.A.M.E were nottop contenders, the crowdshowed plenty of excitementduring their performances.
Long-standing inter-trouperivalries were said to havecaused drama in the daysleading up to the event, butFranklin was confident thateveryone could work togetherto make this show a positiveexperience for Central’sHomecoming.
“I had to be very consider-ate of everyone’s needs andexpectations,” she said, “butat the same time I did have tomake sure that everyoneknew their [troupe’s] busi-ness is their [troupe’s] busi-ness.”
And that, Franklin said,was the best way to keep ten-sions between competingtroupes to a minimum.
“There was a tempertantrum here and there,” shesaid.
“But everyone really didgreat overall.”
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With her adjustment toher new environment, thesubjects shift.
McIver said she becamefascinated with subways dur-ing her stay.
“Subways are alwayscrowded,” McIver said.
“Nobody stares at any-one.”
In order to satiate her fas-cination, McIver pretendedto play games on her iPhonewhile surreptitiously takingphotos of subway riders.
McIver makes use of thesubway's compressed spacein the painting "New YorkSubway."
The piece shows ahunched-over woman sittingalmost underneath a malepassenger.
It’s unclear what kind ofrelationship the pair has orwhether they’re completestrangers, but McIver suc-cessfully captures the feel ofNew York’s subways.
Quintin Neal is one of fivestudents who visited McIverin New York.
Neal said loves not onlyher technique but the emo-tion behind her works.
“If she had a full biogra-phy for each painting, Iwould sit there and readevery last one,” Neal said.
Tight Spaces, Big StepsMcIver is no stranger to
enclosed areas.Born in 1962, McIver lived
in a housing project inGreensboro. The youngest ofthree daughters, McIver saidshe had to share a bed withher mother, Ethel, until shewas teenager.
With racial tensions stir-ring and the prominentthreat of violence, McIversaid her mother shelteredher daughters.
The sisters didn’t have thefreedom to run around andplay outside.
And for good reason.On Nov. 3, 1979, the
Greensboro Massacreoccurred in McIver’s neigh-borhood.
An anti-racism paradeand rally, “Death to theKlanwas scheduled for theMorning-side Heights hous-ing project.
When the Ku Klux Klanand American Nazi Partymembers learned about themarch from police, tensionscame to a head.
With the assistance of theGreensboro PoliceDepartment, the whitesupremacists fired on thedemonstrators.
Five people were killed.McIver said she was work-
ing at McDonald’s that day.Her mother witnessed the
massacre from their kitchen
window.“It was hard growing up,”
McIver said.She gained some freedom
when she was accepted intoNCCU. She earned her bach-elor’s degree in art in 1987.
Though McIver drew as achild, she said she didn’tstart painting until she cameto NCCU.
Despite her love of art,psychology was her firstmajor. McIver said she onlytook art as electives until aprofessor encouraged her topursue it. She switched hermajor during her sophomoreyear.
McIver said she doesn’tregret it.
“I’m very happy to be anartist,” she said.
Sister’s KeeperMcIver’s sister Renee is
the eldest of the three girlsbut because of a mental dis-ability she has the mentalcapacity of a 3rd grader.
McIver promised hermother that if anything hap-pened to her, she’d take careof Renee.
In 2004, she made good onthat promise when theirmother died of cancer.
McIver took Renee inwhile she was teaching atArizona State University.
McIver said becoming hersister’s legal guardian was
difficult. On top of that responsibil-
ity, McIver was still trying tomake a career as an artist.
The sisters survived thehardship, though.
In 2009, McIver discov-ered a silver lining. Whilelooking for an appropriateplace for Renee to live,McIver came across a newassisted living apartmentcomplex in Greensboro.
It once seemed impossi-ble but Renee now has herown apartment. She lives acouple doors down from hercousin and her other sisterRoni lives nearby.
“She has more supportaround her now,” McIversaid.
McIver said she speakswith Renee almost every dayand sleeps over sometimes.
Moving ForwardMcIver recently moved to a3-bedroom, 3,000 square feetspace in Durham.
“I overcompensate for nothaving space when I was ateenager,” McIver said.
McIver said she wouldlove to live off the sale ofher artwork and paint full-time someday.
“I’m living the dream,”McIver said.
“The only thing that’smissing is a Porsche and ahusband.”
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Two years later, on theheels of that line, itseems he wasn’t lying.
Earlier this monthDrake released his thirdstudio album, “NothingWas The Same,” a collec-tion of some of his mostaggressive tracks yet.
It’s not hard to seewhere Drake’s aggres-sion comes from—whatwith him becoming aposter child and chiefscapegoat for the massclowning of “light-skinn*ggas.”
But the bundle of ragehe’s packaged for hisfans seems to come fromleft field.
It’s almost as if Drakeis trying so hard to con-vince everyone—includ-ing himself—that he has
what it takes to survivein the rap game, that hedeserves to be there.
Drake expresses hisanger well in somesongs: tracks like“Tuscan Leather” andthe anthemic “StartedFrom the Bottom” arewell-crafted.
But most of the albumcomes across as jarring,fractured and abstract—even the album coverbetrays the contentinside.
While airy emotionalruminations like “FromTime” and “The Motion”would usually gel seam-lessly with Drake’s othersongs, on this album theyseem to be puzzle piecesplaced awkwardly in aset of songs in whichDrake strains too hard tobroadcast his machismo.
(I know “WorstBehavior” is a popularsong but come on, hescreams out “HOLD MYPHONE”… really Drake,really?)
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Catwalk competitorsPusha T and Rip the Runway kick off Homecoming events
East Carolina modeling troupe F.A.M.E. member at the conclusion of the group’s performance.JADE JACKSON/Echo staff reporter
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The reign continuesPhi Beta Sigma and Alpha Kappa Alpha hold fast to their bragging rights
On Friday, Oct. 18, McDougalGymnasium was filled with audi-ence members anxious to watchwhat would be a surprise.
Traditionally, all of the divinenine fraternities and sororitiesparticipate in N.C. CentralUniversity’s National Pan-Hellenic Council Step Show.
This year, however, many view-ers were disappointed to see onlysix.
“I felt as if the competitionwasn’t as exciting as it should’vebeen,” said Asyia White, mass
communication junior. “Therivalry just wasn’t there.”
The excitement surged regard-less of the “lack of competition,”and organizations that did partic-ipate offered such themes as the“Egyptian”-themed performanceof Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.,the “Lost” theme of Alpha PhiAlpha Fraternity, Inc., and the“Futuristic Robot” theme ofAlpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
“The Zetas did good [to me].They outstepped the competi-tion,” said mass communication
junior RavenWilliams on the performance.
“I thought they should’vewon.”
However, Williams was provenwrong by the board of judges whovoted Alpha Kappa AlphaSorority, Inc. and Phi Beta SigmaFraternity, Inc. as step show win-ners
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity,Incorporated displayed not onlytheir skills of precision and bal-ance in their stepping, but alsoin their pre-show video.
“There were a lot of the-atrics,” said Jerome Flournoy, aDurham resident, regarding theSigma’s video quality.
“Although it is a step show, theSigmas brought the performanceto life by using lighting, soundeffects, and stunts.”
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority’swin made it the second of a pos-sible streak.
“I didn’t think that their themewas that exciting from the begin-ning,” commented BernattaPalmer, mass communication
senior, about the AKAs. “I didn’t think that they were
one sound.”Prior to last year’s step show,
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.held a ten-year streak. However,the sorority was among the threeorganizations (including OmegaPsi Phi Fraternity, Inc. and IotaPhi Theta Fraternity, Inc.) thatdid not participate this year.
In 2010, Alpha Phi AlphaFraternity, Inc. was at the end ofa four-year streak that was bro-ken by the Sigmas in 2011.
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, IncorporatedLEAH MONTGOMERY/Echo A&E Editor
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, IncorporatedLEAH MONTGOMERY/Echo A&E Editor
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BY AVERY YOUNGECHO SPORTS REPORTER
David Nass found waysto renovate the campus ofN.C. Central University inways that no one couldhave imagined.
Nass is not only a fitnessinstructor at NCCU, butalso head coach of thewomen’s tennis team.
He started working atNCCU in January of 1998as a temporary instructorand tennis coach while theUniversity searched for apermanent coach.
Before this gig, Nass wasa general manager for alarge private tennis club.
“I did everything I coulddo there and the time hadcome for me to try some-thing else,” said Nass.
He decided to make ajob change and come out ofthe managing scene for ayear to help friends withtheir work.
Then the opportunity atNCCU came along. Nassjumped at the opportunityto coach at the collegelevel. He also saw teachingas a chance to make a dif-ference.
As a coach, there isalways something to learnfrom other coaches aroundthe world; Nass did exactlythat.
He noticed thatHampton University’swomen’s head coach,Robert Screen, wasrecruiting internationalplayers.
“Dr. Screen was scornedand ridiculed in theRichmond Times newspa-per and Hampton Press forgiving American money toforeign students,” saidNass.
Hampton went on to win13 MEAC championships.Evidently Screen wasdoing something right.
Following Screen’s lead,Nass brought internationalathletes to NCCU.
“Rather than try toinvent something, let’s justtake a footprint that existsand see if we can make itwork,” said Nass.
Rebecca Wood, a physi-cal education junior fromNottinghamshire, England,is one of Nass’s recruits.
Wood said Nass hashelped her improve on thecourt as well as in theclassroom.
“Coach says to us that ‘Ifyou train hard at tennisyou will also find the bene-fits on and off the court,’”said Wood.
Before becoming thewomen’s tennis headcoach, Nass coachedNCCU’s men’s team. In1998, he won conferencechampionship in DivisionII CIAA with help from for-mer players Robert Rusherand Jason Hampton.
But it is not his players’accomplishments on thecourt that makes Nassproud. It’s what his playersdo after they graduate.
A prime example is
Robert Rusher, now anM.D. and cancerresearcher at JohnsHopkins University.
“The highlights I will betalking about forever, but Iam looking to where thestudents have gone,” saidNass
Nass has high hopes ofwinning a MEAC confer-ence championship thisyear and in the future.
“We set that as a goalfive years ago and hypo-thetically worked a way toachieving it,” said Nass.
The women’s tennisteam has been eliminatedfrom the MEAC ConferenceTournament twice andNass believes they areknocking at the door to winit.
“We just have to be per-sistent and consistent,” hesaid.
Wood compared Nass to
a father figure for theteam, always pushing themto do their best.
“He is always there onthe side of the court, tryingto encourage you to win thenext point,” said Wood.
But more important toNass and his team is theteam’s academic success.
His team has won theteam academic awardthree years running.
Nass’s role model hasnothing to do with tennisor any sport.
He admires Bach. Notjust Johann Sebastian, butthe entire Bach family.
“That family line isalways something thatinspired me because theywould never go away,” saidNass
“And that is the way Ilike to see myself -- as I’mnot going away.”
Head women’s tennis coach Davis Nass encourages his players to be successful on and off the court.
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BY JOHN JEANSONNENEWSDAY (MCT()
It is a metaphoric, sopho-moric pretense to continuearguing, as NCAA presidentMark Emmert did recently,that paying big-time collegeathletes would destroy thepurity of the enterprise.
On the contrary, any hon-est evaluation of the billion-dollar business mustacknowledge what severalstudies have concluded foryears: That major collegefootball and men’s basket-ball players essentiallyfunction in high-tech sweatshops.
They are the masses ofemployees, working longhours for their company,expected to go to school full-time but whose priority is todeliver the product thatbrings in millions of dollarsfor their employers.Every day, it seems, anotherstory emerges.
On Saturday, the playersfrom Georgia and GeorgiaTech took the field in sepa-rate games with gearmarked “APU” (All PlayersUnited) to protest theNCAA’s treatment of ath-letes on several issues,including concussions andcompensation.
Earlier in the day, Texansrunning back Arian Fosterwas quoted by SportsIllustrated as saying he tookmoney during his senioryear at Tennessee.Oklahoma State came underfire for alleged payouts toathletes in an SI report, andwho can forget the uproarand half-game suspensionthat arose from Texas A&Mquarterback JohnnyManziel’s signature?
The old argument, thatthey are adequately com-pensated by a full scholar-ship, no longer passes thesmell test.
It is typical — in the mostsuccessful “programs,” ascollege teams have come tobe known — that the headcoach wields the power tocancel a scholarship after asingle school year, withoutregard to the athlete’s aca-demic progress.
Furthermore, researchhas shown that scholarshipmoney rarely covers all ofthe athlete’s expenses. Anda proposal to give schoolsthe option of offering $2,000stipends beyond tuition,room and board, books andfees has been put on hold bymember institutions.
Given that major collegefootball coaches averagemore than $1.5 million inannual salaries, and that thefootball profits at the likesof Texas and Michigan arein the vicinity of $80 millionand $62 million, respective-ly, the calls to give star jocksa cut of the revenues aregetting louder.Ellen Staurowsky, a DrexelUniversity professor ofsport management and
author of the book, “CollegeAthletes for Hire: TheEvolution and Legacy of theNCAA Amateur Myth,” hasnoted the “moral dilemmathat everyone associatedwith college sport is con-fronted with on a dailybasis.”
While the athletes pro-vide the show for free, col-leges in the top conferencesshare multi-year, billion-dollar television contracts,and football weekends incollege towns sustain cot-tage industries such ashotels, restaurants and bars,ticket sellers and stadiumworkers.
Staurowsky further citesthe layers of competing con-flicts of interest: the corpo-rate sector, gambling inter-ests, fans and media.
In declaring that NCAAathletes will not be paid,Emmert appears intent onriding the hobbyhorse of“student-athlete” hypocrisy,telling a MarquetteUniversity forum on Mondaythat “one of the guidingprinciples (of the NCAA) hasbeen that this is about stu-dents who play sports.”
This, in the face of moun-tains of evidence that itreally is about athletes whooften only dabble in beingstudents, the most obviousexample being those routine“one-and-done” college bas-ketball players’ path to theNBA, in which some barelyspend a semester on cam-pus. Mostly in the gym.
As Emmert noted, this“enormous tension that’sgrowing between the colle-giate model and the com-mercial model” is “nothingnew.”
But the whole Manzielepisode, in which theHeisman Trophy winnerwas investigated and ulti-mately suspended for half ofTexas A&M’s opening gameafter being accused ofaccepting money for signingautographs, has brought thediscussion to the Sept. 16cover of Time Magazine.
In a blog post, sportsauthor and commentatorJohn Feinstein this weekcalled for a trust fund, fromwhich a player, after gradu-ation, can draw a share ofthe school’s profit in thatplayer’s sport.
Staurowsky’s modelwould be to simply split rev-enue-generating sports fromthe amateur, educationalprocess.
The players still could goto classes if they’d like, butthe universities would betaken away from the role ofpromoters and brokers ofathletic talent and of masssports entertainment.
The odds of any reason-able, thoroughly virtuoussystem appears long. ButFeinstein’s warning that“the NCAA is going down inflames,” doesn’t seementirely remote anymore.
Reaping the benefits Players look to coach as a father figure
COMMENTARY
College football's payissue steep incontradictions
Students flock to wellness centerBY ALEXANDRIA GLENN
ECHO SPORTS REPORTER
The wellness center ofN.C. Central University hasgrown tremendously overthe past decade.
The wellness center wasshut down in May 2011 andall the equipment wasmoved to the weight room.
During that process,Erica Dixon, director ofcampus recreation andwellness, and with her staffhad inventoried the equip-ment.
A year later, NCCU’srecreation centerreopened, with a biggerworkout area and up to 80machines.
Wellness center hourswere extended from 9 p.m.Monday through Friday to
11 p.m. Monday throughThursday and 9 p.m. onFriday.
“Since January, a total of43,634 faculty members andstudents have passedthrough the sign-in system,”said Reva Adams-Bell,administrative associatespecialist.
Dixon said she is pleasedwith the renovations andwith the increase in thenumber of students and fac-ulty who visit the wellnesscenter since they reopened.
“Not only does the newwellness center providestate-of-the-art equipmentfor the students but it pro-vides more variety,” saidDixon.
The increase in atten-dance has been accreditedto an increase in the num-ber of students living on
campus, as well as the well-ness center providing moreweights and equipment.
Business junior ShaheedBaxter is excited about theextended hours becausethey allow him to fit a goodworkout into his busyschedule.
“The extended hoursmake it easier for me towork out whenever I want,without it conflicting withmy class and work sched-ule,” said Baxter.
The remodeling effortalso has helped keep anaccurate count of studentsand faculty members com-ing to the wellness centerevery day.
According to Adams-Bell,before the center wasremodeled there were noaccurate attendancerecords.
It would be periodswhere they did head countsbut they were not consis-tent.
To help keep an accuratecount, the center developeda sign-in system thatrequires all faculty and stu-dents to swipe their IDcards at the front desk.
Criminal justice seniorTravis Sydney believes thewellness center is a greatalternative to working outoutside or a montly bill for agym membership.
“The wellness center ispeople friendly,” saidSydney.
“Compared to workingout outdoors in the cold Icould just workout inside,and there is also a bettervariety of useful equipmentnow.”
A scary topic in theworkplace, but usual-ly a liberating topicon an HBCU campus,
black hair has taken on a lotof attention bythe media.News sources
like theHuffingtonPost, New YorkTimes and CNNall have dis-cussed the phe-nomenon ofnatural hairamong African-American menand women.
Recently, 7-year-old Tianawas dismissed from DeborahBrown Community School inTulsa, Oklahoma because theadministration did not allowher dreds.
The school later changedits natural hair policy, butTiana did not return to theschool.
Other K-12 schools also arebanning natural styles, callingthem unacceptable and poten-tial health hazards.
Even Hampton Universityhas banned cornrows anddredlocks for men in their
MBA program due to negativeattitudes toward natural hairin the business world.
“All we’re trying to do ismake sure our students getinto the job,” said Dean SidCredle in an article in theHuffington Post.
Credle set the dredlock andcornrow policy ban in 2001.
Many have experiencedcorporate America’s distastefor African American naturalstyles.
There aren’t many writtenmandates against them, butmany people are not hiredbecause of their natural hair.
As natural styles becomemore popular, the question is,why is black hair so scary?
Wearing your hair the wayit grows from your scalpshouldn’t be the basis of youremployment or your place-ment in school.
I believe the debate aboutblack hair has stemmed froma long history of racism andcultural intolerance.
Even this long after slavery,African Americans continueto conform to their whitecounterparts.
An article in EbonyMagazine argues that theissue of natural hair in corpo-rate America is about con-formity to the ways of “whitefolks.”
Relaxing one’s hair into astraight style is just anotherway for African Americans toperpetuate their conformity toAmerica’s predominatelywhite culture.
Our hair is just anotherthing that makes AfricanAmericans different fromother cultures.
Our hair is a part of ourculture, something that many
African American women arejust recently starting tobecome proud of.
However, this isn’t true forall African Americans.
Deborah Brown CommunitySchool is a predominantlyblack school founded by ablack woman.
Still, even black people arediscouraging black peoplefrom being their naturalselves.
W.E.B Du Bois said it bestwhen he spoke about doubleconsciousness among AfricanAmericans.
To this day, AfricanAmericans like me fight withthe idea of our natural cul-ture, and the culture we wereforced into.
I am a proud member of thenatural hair family.
I have joined in the debateabout natural hair because Irefuse to become a part of thecycle of racial intolerance.
As college students, weshould join debates like thisas well — this is the societyand economy we will lead.
With the government shut-down, global warming andlooming war in the MiddleEast, kinky hair shouldn’t be abig issue.
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M y fellow Eagles, Iam sending out anEagle cry. I havefinally, FINALLY
reached my senior year and Ihave never felt like quitting
more than now. I’ve consid-
ered quittingnumerous timesthis semester.Not because Iam lazy, butbecause thestress level is sohigh I could useit to bench pressat the gym.
I am writingthis article to plead with thegreat professors of NCCU. Notall of your students are slack-ers or lazy.
This is not by any means aneffort to beg for a pat on theback or to ask you to ease upon the work you assign us.
But please know when toback off. You never know whatyour students are goingthrough at home.
I know a lot of our profswill say, “Tough? You don’tknow what tough is, lady!”
This campus isn’t full ofwhiny, privileged rich kids.
Many of the students herehave to work. Some are par-ents. Some do not receivefinancial aid. We might lack
transportation, among numer-ous other issues things thatcould make our academic ven-ture rough.
I speak from experience. Ihave been through almosteverything you can think offinancially while pursuing mydegree.
I’ve been homeless, jobless,carless/gasless and foodless.
Most are unaware of thisbecause it’s not something Ilike to share.
But for the sake of any stu-dent who is struggling rightnow, who feels that he or shewill have to choose betweengetting a second job andschool, I will speak up foryou.
Please don’t give up. Everything you go through
is for a reason. Hopefully toinspire you, I’ll share some ofmy misfortunes.
At the end of the spring2012 semester, my car brokedown.
I had to take a taxi, bugpeople for rides and take the
bus to finish the last fewweeks.
A few weeks later, I had togo to Charlotte to complete asummer internship with CBSRadio with no solid trans-portation. I was able to staywith two friends, whichhelped alleviate housingexpenses.
With the help of my friendsand a taxi, I managed to get toCBS Radio every day I wasscheduled and volunteer atevents.
Eventually I got my carfixed, thanks to God andfinancial aid. However, thesame week I found out that Igot my internship I also lostmy job.
Did the misfortunes ofAngel Brown end there? NO.
This year I had to com-mute between Greenville andRaleigh this summer until thefirst few weeks of school.
I pressed forward andwent to work with a positiveattitude and smiling and onceagain God blessed me with a
new place. That 2-hour drive took a
toll on me and I really was notable to afford the gas for thecommute.
I smile through a lot, andjoke through a lot even,regardless of what’s going on.
I realize that I am close tothe end and I need a full-timejob before I stroll across thestage in May 2014.
I cannot accept failure. Iam human and sometimes Iwill mess up.
My financial woes arenever-ending. Yet I will not letthem stop me.
I start my days early, exer-cise, try to meet my deadlines,meet with influential figuresweekly, help with events, lookfor opportunities and am con-stantly equipping myself to bewell-rounded in the mediaworld.
A lot of students on thiscampus are like me. Thatbeing said:
Dear professors please,PLEASE know when toCHILL. Barking at us likeparental figures is not neces-sary.
We’re at the point now thatwe know when we are messingup.
Offer words of encourage-ment instead of criticism. I’mjust saying.
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India Wagner
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“Wearing your hair the way it grows from your scalpshouldn’t be the basis of your employment
or your placement in school.”
Don’t assume I’m lazy...“I have been through almost everything you can think
of financially while pursuing my degree. I’ve beenhomeless, jobless, carless/gasless and foodless.”
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