nCJCalGel
�llHUceI form lit a
her Incandeacent
nee, but DODe of grace
n L
at erlne .Dunham, th
arancte dame 0 Afro.Cadb­
bean dance, recently con­
cluded a 47-day liquid t 10
pro t and call attention to tile
Buab admlniltratlon'a
houli b decision to return
of tho of Hald
rel\lJlteea to tbC blood-eoated
W t IDdian 1aIaDd.
MI. Dunham, who
criticized the Haitian ex­
CIUiloDi aa -raciat- and a
aymptom of U.S.
-dlvilioniam, onee lived and
taupt in the lunny Mdc le,
AI a c�oreoJ1'lPber, abe
drew beavily from AfrIcan art
forma to iDapire IDd inform
bel dance, and did 10, In an
a ,tbe • 401 and • SOl, ben It
far from popular to rt
cultural Africaniama In the
1111.
AT 82 YEARS, lbe can­
DOt, of coune, pirouette with
qui tile leFodary pace 0
yore. but ber prlDcfpled ac-
In flltina to plO t U.s.
burien to Haidan imml .... -
don. reYella a WODdro pace
of the heart that time canoever
dull.
Her bail twiated down tile
de 0 ber face rana In paylah
bl'lida a la cornrow atylo, -
t 10 ber peat IDd ber
endUrlnl love of thlD"
Weatcan
bOllt 0 0 ebulllcnt an
African preaoilce u Haiti;
where tile anerec1 To
led a B RevolutiOll auc­
c:eafully aplDat a Buropean
Imperial force; where the
DIIDCI and pcraoaa of lDdent
AfrIcan JOdI. the OdD, lie
&d1y Inwbcl; where tbe tIDy
Impeuiooed pdCII" Pore Jean..
BcI1raDd AHatIde. pIvIDizcd
tile power oftbe poor. to __
control of the power � the
atate, If only brieOy. .
Hald baa a apccIal place In
tile bcartI of tbe world 'a Black .
peoples, and the ababby belt­
ment of Haitian refupca IeCk­
Ing seccor from DuvaUerlat
terroriam, w. lite a atab of
raciat hatred into thole bearta.
Madame DUDbam, aloDe.
Uling the liDplar aymbol of
ber will, for 47 daya. provided
a boalin8 balm of love to tile
wouDd, by uain her
preeminence to plOt�t the
brutal barriem impoaed upon
Afrlcanl neelnl Haitian
, repreaaion.
IN 1984, MI. Dunham wu
given the Ufetime Atbeive­
ment In the Arts boDOll by tile
Kennedy Center for ber trial­
blazing efforta to brlDa the
w.orld the primal rbytbml of
bel IDCeltod, duo. daDce.
In But St. Louil, the lnIpir­
lUI wonwi aat in ICI'CDC atiU­
nea, and u in the daya offlukl
movement on the ltage, cap­
tured the attention of the
world, u sbe fasted for justice.
Her letter to U.s. President
G.H. BUlh seeking an eod to
U.s. barriers to Haitian im­
migration. netted" a �
from NatioDll �ty Coun­
cil Chief Brent Scowcroft,
which mentioned Dunham'a
aJobal COYCf8F, b pvc DO
JIOUDd on Haidan lmmlpa­
tIon. T
AT THE URGING of
deposed President Arti tide,
MI. Dunham ended her fut at
47 deys, c muming brot
and jello to strengthen her luf-
. ficiently for a planoed joint
trip to Haiti for the two.
QuOth Artisti4e, "We come
to aay bo we lo� Katherine
Dunbam."
Tbat lendment could U
be ec� y Africana and
lovell of freedom rld .
jury
on ,- -I daoce,"
-coJDlti - and more.
But the mere aniVll at the YCl'dict
of-inDocent' by 01 ibly rational
d concemiDl
the flagWty IDd pliability of tile
humanmiDd.
VIEWS/OPINIONS
On reliJion: "
the cburdl for al,tertl1Drl�
than for WOrship. Tbcircbo,u. Uil�
in ro aDd do the boogie-woogie
or the funky chic nor ythiDg
for telev· Ion came . Tbey are
clowning. They remiDd me of our
10 0 bite holy ro and
snake ers."
Are aid j lied?
Samplin about 30 whites
produced repetition of the same
items listed 100Ye. Do !bey s t
that Blacks need corporal
punishmen from police oflicaa?1
do not think so.
WONDERING WHETHER
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• ALSO strongly encourage, not
only educators, but all parents,
Itudents, professi,onals,
entrepreneurs and community
leaders to become active in at leut
four pro ODII tiona.
It i especially audal that some
of these organizations be education
oriented becauIe of the intcmadODll
and natioDal need to develop firm
cdocadODll iDfmatruchlrel.
The followlDl are jUit a fe
OIpDizatloDl to explore. Some are
pdmadly Atdcan Amerlcan. IC"P
in miDd that tbere are huodreds of
excellent organizations to choose
from. Tbe main thiDa to become
iDYolvecL
If there are other educational
otpnlzatioDl that you would like to
see lilted or DOted, p drop me a
note or call.
The Academic Canon
Commiaaion (ACC), ACU-I
(AaIodaUon of Collcp UniODI -
International), the American
AIsociation for H1pa Education
(AAHB), CCAP (Capital Colle
for A&:IdemicPolldes).
TB BU ANITA IAN
Special Student Services, Upward Many easoned profeasionals'
Bound, Talent Scardl and EOC. recommend that school workers
belong to organizations on fo"
I I..A.TER SERVED as Ne levels: international, nationaf,
York State Chapter President to regional and· local. These
AEEE organizations may be related to
�networksandfrlendship' that . one's program, department, gender
we.re establi bed with tbe folks in and culture.
Jmey and New York are till solid I �uggest that you take this
ones proce s one step further. Seek
Membership in ABBE, by the leadership �itio� in one or more
way, i I)ot limited to TRIO oftheseorgamzations.
personnel. In fact at the time, I
not directly oddng with any TRIO
abop, although prior to New York, I
had acned director of a plOgram
at a college in VirginiL
In the 1990 , I am still an
advocate of professional
orpuizations aya for educators
to stay abreast of i ues impacting
departmen , tudcn aod careers.
Tbc war beln& waplln Croatia
and Bosnia is unequalled In death
and destruction aiDee wwn. Sioce
tile start of hoIdUd ,over one mIl- "
lion people, boUl ChrIadana and
Mua1lma ba� become refupca with
DO home, DO place 10 ." IDd DO end
to tile war In lipt. TbeIo people
Deed our help.
Since tbere II only limited local
����������
of
Bcwnian II bclq iabored by QIOI
tbc world, it'a up to UlIO do IOme­
till ••
Deapite the fact that the UN iJ
belpln& in tbe city of Sarajevo, that
city II only a mall part (300,000
people) of the a1mOlt 1,SOO,000
refupca and tile S,ooo,OOO people
that live in the war zone in Bosnia
IDd Croatia.
Tbcre ire several churcbea and
other DOll profit orpntudoaa that
lie coordiDatina tbIa relicf effort.
Anythlna. from baby food and cloth­
Ing to adult food and elothlnl,
medIdne and moDeyare needed. To
fIDd out bow and wbore you canlCDd
your contribution. call SteYe at 7S1-
6890. Helen at 268-3666, Mmja at
�761 or Snjezana at tr19-f1747.
8tJepan Balog
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accepts ........
from Its reacJ81'8
Sign and mall to:
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P.o. 03580',
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KElTHO.
tLTON'
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EDUCATION
In 1981, my second year in New
York, I rece.iYCCla haDdwrlt1en leHer
from a cOlleague at nearby Baruch
College invitin me to join the
National Al1iaDce of B1� School
E4uca1Ora. Tbla meant a lot 10 this
DCW kid on the blGCL
NABSE, fouDded in 1970,
orlgiDally the National Alliance of
Black School Superintendents.
Today it is open to all African
American educators. .
Also duriD& that same year, I w
invited to join another regional
education lIIOdatiOD called AEEE
- the Aasodation for Equality and
&cellence In Education.
ABBE (A-triple-E) conaists
primarily of African American,
LatiDo' and Afro Latino college
plO in N� York IDd New
J in TRIO proarams;
Common Market (HCM), the
liberal Alta FInancial AIsodatiOD
(LIFA), NAPEO (the National
AsaodaUOD for Equal Opportunity .
in Higher Education, NASPA - the
National Assocaition of Student
Penonoel AdminIsttalOn.
The National AIIociation of
University Women (NAUW), the
Pedantic World Direcdon (PWD, the
Senior Scbolm Society (SSS).
HILTON: HIGHER
EDUCATION b ded,lted 10
dU:Jlope willi collq aIIIl worW
reotIen. EtkcrdtM II 0ftI0btI1INl
cet1llbt1y 1tOI llMltaI ttl cltusrooM
slIMly. Let's UIIA; (714) 899-06SO.