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Cultur I
o et Mk - Dr. Ken
Durga , Olivet College'
new multi-cultural service
dep rtment director, wor
to e e tensions created by
a racial brawl that involved
70 tudents I t April.
Durgan' po i tion i to
upport and coun el
minority studen , sponsor
racially diverse speakers
and films on campus, and
create a erne ter exchange
programs with blac col
lege. The college ha
taken th other steps to
improve the racial climate:
It has worked closely
with the U.S. Department
of Justice's Community
Relations Division to find
ways to eliminate tensions
between Black and white
students, college poke
man, Jerry Rashid aid.
Five minority faculty
members were hired.
Three are African
American, one is Hispanic
and one' is Native
American, Ra hid said.
The school previously had
no full-time 'minority
PI'9
ou
gUilds crpat
the campus and three dor
mitories frornd p.m. to 8
a.m., seven days a week.
One guard· patrolled the
campus last year.
Gretchen von Loewe
Kreuter was named presI
dent of the COllege and ex
pressed commitment to
improving the college's at
mosphere during a recent
speech. She replaced
Donald Morris, who
resigned Aug. 15.
Despite the absence of
seven Blacks students who
chose not to return to Olivet
after last spring's racial
conflict, the school has 72
minority students com
pared to 68 minorities last
fall.
"Running away from the
problem doesn't solve any
thing," says Ladora Smith,
a 19-year-old sophomore,
"If no one comes back and
tries to change things, then
things will just remain as
they are."
t Naw Bahamian
I adar
After 25 years in office,
the Prime Minister of the
Bahamas, Sir Lynden O.
Pindling an d his Progres
sive Liberal Party, who
. 'led this Caribbean island
nation to independence
from Britain and in recent
years have quarreled with
the United States, have
been swept from pow�r in
a Parliamentary election.
Plagued since the early
1980's by persistent ac
cusations that he has
taken bribes from cocaine
and marijuana traffickers
and saddled more recen!
ly with an economrc
decline that has left
thousands without jo�s,
Sir Lynden's Progressive.
Liberal Party was
resoundingly defeated by
Hubert Ingr aham, a
former Pindling protege
who broke with the party
and now heads the Free
National Movement.
By ES S THO PSON
'IT P G for him
would be pre umptuous wh n th re
h been no communication" from
Clinton aid .
"I'm doing what' important,
challenging people to do th ir t. I
reall y m not focu ing on the
trategy of the camp ign, I'm urging
people to vote for who inspires th m.
I would tell people to make tough
choices and vote your conscience
and vote your hope." During the
rally, Jac on urged tudents at the
historically Blac college to
remember acrifices made during
the civil rights movement of the
19608.
"No one can walk on this campus
unregistered and even pretend to be
intelligent," he said. "It's a matter
of dignity. It's a matter of hope."
A Wake County registrar's table
was et up in the hallway outside the
gymna ium where J ckson spoke to
a student assembly. After the
assembly, attended by several
hundred, stud ts mobbed the tables
to register.
Jackson planned another voter
registration rally Thwsday at North
Carolina A&T State University in
Marker for first Africans
in English America
Gre boro. er th t h planned to
pe t church rvice
commemoratin th de 0 25
chic en plant wor I
Hamlet.
"For the right to vote, the price
on portrayed romantically, J c on
aid, but tudents bould understand
that they &C re inheriting the
victorie made po ible by the blood
and pain of th martyrs."
GD (AP) - Bill Clinton'
pre idential campaign has di tanced
itself from traditional Democratic
supporters while it trie to win party
member who have voted for
Republican president , the Rev.
Je se J c on said Wedne day.
As he has before, Jac on warned
that the trategy could hurt Clinton at
the poll .
"The impact of that di tancing .
to discourage voter participation,"
he aid during a .�w conference
after a voter registration rally at S1.
Augustine's College. "I would hope
the campaign would choo e in tim
a big tent trategy in which
everybody fits under a big tent,"
Jackson said "urban America,
organized labor and the Rainbow
Coalition" had been excluded from
the Clinton campaign as it sought to
win the votes of Democrats who
voted in the past for Republican
presidents.
ackso said be hadn't been asked
to work for Clinton although he
upports him.
v
approximately 20 Africans from the
Spanish who had enslaved them.
HISTORIANS STILL debate
whether 'the English colonists
enslaved them or treated them like
indentured ervants and freed them
after their periods of servitude
expired.
From this early beginning, the
institution of slavery evolved during
the 17th century as the Virginia
colonis ts extended the length of
ervice for Africans from a fixed .
term to life.
Voter registration
1 he Detroit cOllllion Club will
sponsor a Wayne, Oakland, and
Macomb Counties Voter Registra
tion Day, WedneCj�ay, September "
23, from 10:00 a.£. to 8:00 p.m. at
The Cotillion Cub 13221 Puritan
Ave. at Cheyenne in Detroit.
W GTO (AP) - Jesse Jac on, who
criticized presidential candidate Bill Clinton for
neglecting BI ks and other minoritie , w named
Monday to lead a Democratic gr roots voter
registration drive.
Democratic Party Chairman Ron Brown, in
announcing th appointment, aid the effort will be
aimed at "people who have been traditionally hut
out of the political process."
Jackson "inspires millions of Americans,"
Brown said. 'I Hi record in working for progressive
change and empowering and mobilizing people i
unmatched.' ,
J ckson' ppointment was expected, despite the
tensions between him and Clinton.
La t week, Jac son aid "ur{,an America,
organized labor and the Rainoow Coalition" he
heads were being excluded from the Clinton
campaign as it targets mainly middle-clas whites
who have voted Republican in recent national
elections.
Jac on aid in a statement Monday, "I will be
working bard to elect Bill Clinton and AI Gore" and
Democratic congressional, state and local candidates.
"Democrats must win from the bottom up," he aid.
NABJ Di cusses Athletes As Role Models
One of the highlights of the 17th annual National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Conv�ntion held r�ently in ,?etroit, was a
symposium entitled ·Should Athletes ae Role Models?· which was sponsored by Reebok International Ltd. Wit� a sta�dlng �oom 0�1y
crowd of more ,than 1',000 looking on, NABJ sports task force chairman Leon H. Carter (far left) moderated a lIVely olscusslon which
included comments from panelists (I to r): Brenda Gatlin, assistant principal of Cass Technical High School in Detroit; former NBA standout
Spencer Haywood; Reggie Williams, former linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals and Cinci�nati.City Councilman now general m8:nage�
of the World Football League's Ne� York/New Jersey Knights; Charles Grantham, executive director o� the �BA Players Assocla�on,
Stedman Graham, formet professional basketball player in the European league and founder and excutive director of Athlete� A�aanst
Drugs, and Wor1d Heavyweight Boxing Champion Evander Holyfield. ·The general feeling was that p,arents should be their kids primary
role' models,· said Carter in summing up the session. ·Athletes do, however, have a responsibility to the Black community and to
themselves to project positive Images: ..
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GA mayor, with
pistol in pants,
meets with angry
Black residen - .. � ...
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• 1tL� NTON, *. (AP) - he
� e \' . dI -Georgia town I
wore a .22-caliber pistol in his pants
to a confrontation with about 50
Black residents caUing for his resig
nation.
• • When you 've got an uprising •
like that. you need to show some
kind of defense," Ellenton �yor :
EI�in Hart ¥id, adding he had a per- :
mit to carry. the weapon. :
But Assistant District Attorney :
Charles Stines of Southern Judicial :
Circuit aid it is a misdemeanor to •
carry a weapon to a public gathering. •
Monday night's meeting of the all:
white Ellenton City Council was
called in response to a petition
presented tel the mayor and council
1 t week.
The 25-signature' petition says
"The Black community would like •
to retain the good relations always
enjoyed by the two races in the past.
We would like for the mayor to
resign ... to avoid the conflict of a
recall election."
A new historical marker noting
the coming of the first Africans to
English North America in August
1619 was dedicated near Jamestown.
The historical marker joins 'the
1,500 markers across the
Commonwealth of Virginia that
present some of the most notable
events in Virginia's history.
The marker is being sponsored
and funded by the Harriett Tubman
Historical Society, Inc. of
Wilmington, Delaware, an
organization dedicated to telling the
story of the underground railroad and
to pre erving African-American
historical sites.
The marker explains that the first
documented Africans in English
AIDerica landed near Jame town in
August, 1619.
A Dutch ship captured
CAREY�CKSON, a spokes
man for the petitioners, 'aid the
meeting served no purpose.
The petitioners accuse the mayor
of withholding city services from
Black members of the community.
holding secret meetings with council
members and failing to properly bi<J
city projects. The mayor has denied
the allegations. . .•
Ellenton is in Colquitt County t
about 25 miles southeast of Albany. \
rol.e
Author to di
of minoritie
cu
in
roles and need and rights of minorities in our ociety.
She is an ideal speaker to open this year's erninar
eries."
. MO.UNT PL S NT-Outspoken author and
lecturer bell hooks, who purposely lowercases her
name, will speak on "A Revolution of Values:
Ending Domination" Sept. 16 in Central Michigan
University's Warriner Auditorium.
A reception in the Bovee University Center
Ballrooms will follow the 7 p.m. lecture. The events
are free and open to the public.
The lecture i part of Provost Robert Franke's
Seminar Serie 2000, which deals with the
problems-and po ible olutions-thatsociety faces
as it approaches the year 2 . The 1992-93 theme,
"A Changing Society," will include lectures on
politics, education and family.
"She i a fine cholar, n excellent peaker and a
courageous advocate ofth right of minorities in this
country," said Franke of hook. "She i
spokeswoman who has a great deal to say about the
TH AUTHOR OF numerous essays and five
books, bell hooks i the pen name of Gloria Watkins,
an associate professor of American literature and
women's studies at Oberlin College in Ohio. Her
books include "Yearning: Race, Gender and Cui tural
Politic," "Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black
Intellectual Life," "Talking Back: Thinking
Femini t, Thinking Blac " and "Ain't 1 a Woman:
Black Women and Feminism."
'She ha a bachelor's degree from Stanford
University, a master' degree from the University of
Wisconsin and a Ph.D. from the .Univcrsity of
California.
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