'pr rm r ' chool I ppm
tion te m t. ult downtown
coece . She . d � una are of the orth
Central findings.
The orth Central Report . ued after
evaluation team of 23 educato spent three days at the
school in April, 1991.
"RenaiS-WlCC is not given special co ideration by
area or central dministration a school with a pedal
purpose and pedal needs," the
report sta . "In many respec ,
the school does no live up to its
claims 0 reputatio "
The report then goes into detail
chapter by chapter 9f tho e
deficienci .
"At the present time there .
h little evidence that the school .
chieving its goals of being the
top, academic high school in the
city. Given the high caliber of
tudents and the expected high scores, the gap between
present perfotmaDCC (including programs, faciliti ,
expectations, instructional materials, library and
media access) and wb:'t is perhaps possible seems to
RENAISSANCE, A-5
D orr-Renaissance High School, co dercd
by many in and ou . de the Detroit Public School
system, to be the city' premiere high school is in
trouble.
Paren t nding the September 18 meeting of· the
R.CDaiSSalDCC Local School Community OIpDization
ere informerl that for the fitst
time in the chool' 12-year
history, the combined math and
reacling sco for the SAT college
entrance exams fell below the
tate average.
In addition, angered by a
one-inch report issued by the
North Central Accreditation
Association highly critical of the
school, parent voted
unanimously to invite School
Superintendent Dr. Deborah McGriff and Area C
Superintendent Dr. Randolph-Cooke to the next
ISCO meeting.
SupL McGriff said Thursday, she will meet with the
parelUS if tbere is no scbeduliDg conflict to hear their
Sheriff harassing
registrars
By ALLISON JONES
COf'1'espottd.",
BENTON HARBOR -The
people may have won their day in
federal court. but they still have to
fight the power.
A federal judge in Grand
Rapids sided with the people I t
week when he ordered the
Department of Social Services
(OSS) to allow voter regi tration
in its Berrien County office
lobby. but the people are now
subject to harassment, intimida­
tion and even arrest.
Attorney Tat Pari h, repre­
senting the Neighborhood Infor­
mation Sharing Exchange
(NISE), said his group i inve­
tigating whether DSS i in con­
tempt of court.
"It appears the authoriti are
running lien check on
regi trars," Pari h said in a phone
interview Thursday. "Thi i a
form of harassment. One registrar
was arrested on a minor traffic
warrant."
Ron Id Walters,. political
science chairman of Howard
University. .
He aid the finding wa "
devastating blow" to the notion
that racism is on the wane in the
United State. .
The Census Bureau pre ented
these average e rnings figure in
1989 for people 25 and older with
four or more years of college:
- Black men, $31,380; white
men, $41,090.
- Black women, $26,730;
white women, $27,440.
A �,ust, th8:t found a. "glas
ceding" stalling promotions for
minorities and women in nine
. large corporation .
The labor report said the bias
wa often unintentional. and
resulted from sueh practices as
word-of-mouth recruiting, lack
of access to management
development and -training and
the failure of executives to foster
advancement of minorities and
When Blacks reach the mid­
range of the corporate ladder,
promotions begin to run dry.
"They languish in jobs that are
b their qualification, or
they are iphoned out of the com­
pany to new entry into the
Bl ck po ition of another firm,"
Walter said.
"Racism, I would think, ac­
counts for some of this," he said.
WASJIINOTON - A college­
educated Black man can expect
to earn about $10,000 year les
than a white man with an equal
edu . , a government study
.
That finding, rele sed
Thursday by the Censu Bureau,
run counter to the notion that if
the level of education is the
same, young Blacks can compete
in the work force on an equal
footing with young whites, said
THE <;ENSUS study provided women.
broad confirmation of a Labor
Department report, released in
C·olonial·pow
invade Zaire
plans to scm more.
Reports indicate that looting
spread from the cities into the
country side and to the copper belt
town of Kolwezi. French troops
responded immediately to thr threat
to the copper mines with two
companies of soldiers.
worst seen since Zaire won its
independence from Belgium 30
yem ago.
Mobutu aid the oldiers'
insurrection over low wages has
"destroyed the economic, industrial
and commercial infrastructures of
Kinshasa for a long time."
The troubles began when soldiers
mutinied Sept. 23 over . government
failure to pay back wages. Others
joined in, according to reports.
In Kinshasa, food stores,
pharmacie , car dealerships,
THE ARREST TOOK place
while the registrar -a Black
male - was signing up OSS
French and Belgian troops
invaded their former colony Zaire
Sept. 25, in an effort to "restore calm
to the capital."
Historically, troop deploymen
by the colonial powers have been
made to prop up their partner in
exploitation, dictator President
Mobutu Sese Sem.
As a result of widespread looting
and rebelling, foreigners are fleeing
Zaire by the thousands, Reuters
reported last week.
By week's end, France had
deployed 700 paratroopers while
Belgium sent 500 oldiers, with
IT IS UNCLEAR whether the
troubles have shaken Mobutu's grip
on power,
In a televised address Wednesday,
announcing an overnight curfew,
Mobutu, ho.bas ruled the country
since 1966, Said tbe unrest w the
See NVADE, A-5
See COURT, A·5
YVONNE PARKS: "Open up
more Black businesses th:.t
go to educate and encourage
(because) you are dealing with a
ptejudiced ystem."
�E CARSON: "Need a bet­
ter lDlderstanding between tbe
two parties. Have meetin
mote iDteraction." .
activitie between Blac and
whites and over time that will
help."
'In
bl
,
cu
clients to vote, a member of NISE
Id, requesting anonymity.
"They (heriff' deputies)
. seem not to bother the women
registrars, just the men."
NISE ued in federal court to
force DSS to allow voter registra­
tion activity in the OSS lobby
where thousand of Benton Har­
bor residents p through month­
ly.
OSS h d banned the vote
drive, saying the poor could go to
the Secretary ofSta�ets office and
ign up to vote.
On September 23, U.S. Dis­
trict Judge Robert Holmes Bell
i ued a temporary restraining
order to remain in effect until Oc­
tober 4, the deadline for register­
ing to vote in the November
Benton Harbor city election.
A, TRIAL WILL proceed,
sometime in the future on a per­
manent olution to the question of
whether or not voter sign-up ac-
. tivity is permissible in the Berrien
County office, Parish said.
If the court at that time again
finds in favor of NISE, the ruling
could et a precedent for other
DSS offices around the tate.
"The uit is filed against not
