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Condoleezza? A question for history

by Wilbert A. Tatum

Ms. Riced*?"?s accomplishment in be-
Publisher Emeritus, & Chairman coming the second woman, and first
rdam News : Black woman, to become Secretary of
State, there are those of us who are much
Ms. Condoleezza Rice will soon be concerned, not only about the appoint-
confirmed 4 the Senate and become ment, but about the state of the nation,
Secretary of State for the United States as Ms. Rice awaits confirmation,
of America. She is aBlackwomanwho We had no way of telling how ef-
Will replace an outgoing of State fective Ms, Rice was as a presidential ad-
who also happens to be Black, Colin visor. There were no ways by which we
. As impressed as some maybeby could measure her, except the satisfac

Janet Jackson
gala of One Hundred

ees who expressed dismay over pre-
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senting an award to the 38-year-old

performer.
NEW YORK, NY - Some guests at- Victoria Andrews said that the or-
tending the One Hundred Black ganization 4*ceshould be ashamed of
Men's annual benefit last week chas- themselves for glorifying Jackson, who

less than a year ago exposed bear
breast on national television.4ee
jad Anthony Rivera pS
organizations sole purpose for recogniz-
ing Jackson was to sell tickets for the $375-
a-plate gala awards dinner, there are other
ebrities it could have tapped.
But Paul Willfams, the
organization's president, didn Tt seem
moved by the criticism. He said his
proup decided to honor Jackson for
er oartistic achievement ? and a ca- T
reer that has ogone from success to
greater success.

In addition to Jackson, Willie E.
Gary, the celebrated defense attorney,
was honored, along with baseball leg-
end Henry oHank ? Aaron and
Johnnetta B. Cole, president of
Bennett College for Women.

Despite the controversy over the
organization's decision to recognize
Jackson, a high point of the occasion
was a progress report given on the

tised the Organization for its decision

to salute op singer Janet Jackson with
an award.

One critic, Jeff Wilson, said that
Jackson has odone absolutely noth-
ing to deserve the honor ? and that

er selection sends a wron message
to young people, particularly to Afri-
can American youth.

Wilson wasn Tt alone.

There were a number of attend-

to turn off our emotions and put aside our
Patriotic concern for America and fall in
step with his failing polices.

The uniter, not a divider, promised
us four years ago that he would bring
honor to the White House. It has never
happened and already after this election
his so-called Christian friends are boast-
ing that good won over evil and are con-
demning Democrats, Liberals, and any-
one that doesn't hide behind the Bible
with them. You know, these are the
Christians that claim to be concerned
about the un-born but in fact don't give
yo» @.damn about the jiving, if you don t,

will bring America together? |
; ~ I doubt patriotic Americans can for-
get right away about the vicious lies that

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ewey Funkhouser (File Photo) .

the so-calld Swift Boat veterans
He and his friends (the so-called _ pounded the airwaves with, and the way
Christian Coalition) spent years spread- Bush exploited 9/11 and spread fear, to

ing lies about Democrats and liberals cover up his lack of honest leadership.

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COMMENTARY: oBush is amazing

_ ceeds; ten or twenty years down the road,

- nowin, I would guess

tion of President Bush by her perfor-
mance. He is the one, and. only one, to
whom Ms. Rice had to report, par-
ently, Mr. Bush was satisfied with her
panne over these last four years,
and future performances of the
same level. Otherwise, he would not
have hired her for such a difficult job at
such a difficult time in the history of
America.

While most of us have been led to

stirs controversy at annual
a Ter

roup Ts educational program by the
Rev. Pacques A. DeGraff, a One Hun-
dred Black Men board member.

DeGraff reported that the pro-
gram successfully opened an Eagle
Academy for Young Men, enrolling
118 young men to the 9th grade at
an inaugural ceremony hosted by Co-
lumbia University.

DeGraff recalled that when the
organization recruited students for the
Program, one young man filled in his
application and left the portion for
his address blank. Rev. DeGraff said
the young man Ts response when asked
why he left the space.blank was that
he was homeless and had no known
address except the shelter where he
often stayed. DeGraff said the orga-
nization made sure that the young
man was properly enrolled in the pro-
gram and pledged to work with him
as he strives to pursue his educational
dream, despite the impediments.

Meanwhile, last year the group
launched the Bronx School for Law,
Government and Justice, the only
school in America built within a judi-
cial complex. The school fae ee
students to careers in the law.

T and devising issues that would divide the A couple years ago I heard Jerry
; American population to his selfish advan- Falwell on national brag about hav-
i tage. A aher the election he expectsall ing been a guest of Bush in the White

House a couple times and that the Evan-
gelical Christians were going to get Bush
re-elected and then they would get Jeb
elected for eight years and then Job's son
for eight years. Think it can't happen?
Well they have followed through on the
first step. Their movement for world
dominance is moving faster than one
might think. They are enlisting many
erable weak and lazy-minded . des-
perate people everyday; all done by us-
ing fear tactics. I understand they have a
big push to enlist Mexican people. There
is no doubt about how fast Hispanics
are populating the United States of
we i ' F i Suc-

if you don't believe the way your boss
wants you to believe, you will be out of
a job. With the condemnation of homo-
sexuals that the far right spew now, how
will they be treated? Are we to believe
that it will not be a lot worse?

We are on a very dangerous slope
now with religion mixed with govern-
ment. Each person should be free to be-
lieve as he chooses, without fear. If not,
we are heading in a Nazi-style direction.
If we keep going in the direction we are
that twenty years
from now we would be ohauled off ? with

for writing a letter like this.

I challenge each of you to research
and find out all you can about this evil
movement and expose those who are

| behind it and try to determine what

kinds of business they are in (besides the
religion business). What other income
do Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell have?
Do Bill Bennet and Gary Bauer have
ties with Jeb Bush? These people have
become wealthy from religion and pos-
sibly other businesses that might or
might not be legitimate. We need to stop
these people. America will not survive if
we don't.

Dewey Funkhouser

Greenville, NC

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Human beings are the only creatures
on earth that allow their children to come
back home.
-Bill Cosby

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believe that Ms. Rice is contentious, dif-
ficult to get along with, and as much a
right-wing hard-liner as Bush, she has
never been truly tested as to what she
would become under fire 4° ? especially
the kind of fire that one experiences as
the Secretary of State of the United
States.

We must operate from the premise
of knowing and understanding what
she has done before to assess the possi-
bility of how well she will do in this
newly. appointed position that the

Commander-in-Chief has entrusted .

her with, which is arguably one of the
most difficult diplomatic posts in the
world. A post which has diplomacy
attached as one of the requirements for
success in it seems a strange fit for Ms.
Rice. She is known in the State De-
partment as a contentious, hard-line
witch. No one in the international dip-
lomatic corps, yet interviewed, seems
to have a supporting thing to say about
her. Yet, Ms. Rice has been chosen. And
that is thar.

It has been said that she will suc-
ceed in areas where Colin Powell failed
because she refuses to accept namby-
pamby excuses from her staff: and will
react in the same manner to those dip-
lomats from other countries who refuse
to measure up to her standards or ex-
pectations, or who try to play her
cheap. True or not, none of us can say.

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Oct. 30 - Nov. 6, 2004 The Minority Voice Newspaper Page 5

What we do know is that she has a
reputation of being tough, officious,
smug, and smart as hell 4° ? with one

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Georg W. Bush. 7
hat is a tough rA@sumA® to
have as the incoming chief diplomat

in America, who has among other
things haunting her: a worldwide dip-
omatic corps who, with few excep-
tions, hate our guts; little experience
in the trenches of diplomacy 4° ? where
the ability to bargain is a requirement;
and a world full of racist white men
4° ? who have never seen a woman,
much less a Black woman, as anythin
other than a maid, a slave or a sexual
object (not necessarily in that order),
Ms. Rice has not done well in the
Black community for a number of rea-
sons. She has not related to Black men
particularly well. We must concede that
much of that could be due to jealousy.
Too, she has not related very well with

god, and one god only: and that is.

Black women. Bar of that could be due
to jealousy on her part. Perhaps more
than that is jealousy over her achieve-
ments, and ability to live her life and
have a career, without having to ¢

_ ona Black man for her survival. This is
g indeed hard to fathom, because in talk-

ing to her and reading what she is about _
and decisions that she has made, one
must first settle with the idea that she is

. aneni
oWhatever happens in this new ven-
~~ ture of hers will just add more glory to

tthe international accomplishments of
the Black woman in America. We wish
her well, and ask that she soften up a
bit, and begin to understand that there
are others out here who wish her well;
and are proud of this Black super-
woman, in spite of the fact that few
Blacks seem to wish to honor her for her
accomplishments with George Bush.

_ Many of us believe that she has
done the Black nation harm. Yet, we
wish to hope that before her tenure
with Mr. Bush and the government
of the United States ends, she will have
found a way to reach out to the Black
community from whence she came, in
order for our children and their chil-
dren to understand what she did dur-
ing these years with Mr. Bush, and
why she decided that she had to do it
in the way in which we now perceive.

_ Black people want nothing more
than to be able to honor her, rather
than include her on whatever enemies
list that is now being prepared.

BUSH IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE RIGHTWARD DRIFT
CONTINUES FROM PAGE?

the Black vote, he doesn't seek the Black
vote and he doesn Tt seek any su port
from Black leaders. It Ts sad to think, but
that Ts where we are. ? .

When T first campaigning for the
White House in 2000, Bush addressed
delegates to the NAACP annual con-
vention. However, he has refused to speak
at a convention while in office, the only
sitting president in modern history to
refuse an invitation. He has spoken to
the National Urban League twice, where
he felt he might get a warmer reception.
Each time he was received polite y, but
not enthusiastically. Unlike his Demo-
cratic opponent, John Kerry, Bush also
refused to be interviewed by the Na-
tional Newspaper Publishers Association
News Service, a federation of more than
200 Black newspapers, and Black En-
tertainment Television.

With authorized war and rebuild-

ing appropriations for Iraq and Afghani-

Butterfield Wants

Buyout Payments

WASHINGTON - Congressman G.K.
Butterfield is urging the U.S. Departs
ment of Agriculture to get tobacco quota
ayments to farmers as soon as possible.
Many tobacco farmers are facing ex-
treme financial distress, ? Butterfield said.
oAfter meeting with many tobacco farm-
ers in ny district I blow that they simply
cannot wait until the end of 2005 to
receive the first buyout payment. ?

Butterfield said that one of the pro-
visions of the new law eliminates al re-

ining Phase II yments that were part
of the Master Seclement Agreement,
beginning with the payment that would
have obeen tendered in December 2004.
The new law replaces these payments
with the buyout, but only specifies that
they are paid sometime during 2005.
Butterfield said that he has written to
USDA Secretary Ann Veneman to urge
the department to spéed tlie payment
process.

oTobacco farmers have, understand-
ably, come to rely on these payments and
reasonably expected this money to be
paid in December 2004. ? Butterfield
said. oShould there be a long delay in
the buyout payments, this will create a

T very difficult financial situation for many

mers, ?

Without a timely payment,
Butterfield said many farmers will be
forced to begin selling future payments
for immediate lump sum amounts -
funds that most fanners would other-
wise use to pay off debts, fund future
operations and to live on in retirement.
ke would be a tremendous failure on
the part of the federal government if the

.., Payments farmers have so

sought for so long ts nar ata

stan now exceeding $200 billion,
coupled with a federal budget that went
from a $256 billion surplus when Bush
en to a projected $422 bil-
lion in fiscal 2004 and rising to $2.7
trillion in 10 years, budget officials say
domestic spending will dwindle during
ush Ts second term. On top of those fig.
ures, his tax cuts, that primarily benefit
the wealthy, are expected to cost the USS,
treasury $1.9 trillion over 10 years.
The Washington Post obtained a
White House Office of ent and
Budget memo earlier this year that
warned all federal agencies in charge of
domestic programs to expect budget cuts,
oBut the cuts are politically sensi-
tive, targeting popular programs that
n touting on the campaign
trail, ? the Post reported. oThe Educa-
tion Department; a nutritional program
for women, infants and children; Head
Start; and homeownership, job-training,
medical research and science programs
all face cuts in 2006. ?

to Speed Tobacco

Washington, D.C *

desperately

deep discount, ? Butterfield said. The
Pliase IT payments were negotiated when
the four major cigarette-makers settled
the states T tobacco lawsuits in 1998, and
were intended to compensate growers
over 12 years for any losses they might
suffer as a result of higher cigarette prices.
The latest and final checks were sched-
uled to go out Dec. 30. The $10.1 bil-
lion buyout deal was part of a $136 bil-
lion corporate tax package approved by
Congress and signed into law by Presi-
dént Bush late last month. With about
76.000 tobacco farmers and quota hold-
ers. North Carolina will receive the larg-
est portion of the buy out. The buyout
ends the Depression-era quota system
that kept prices artificially high and put
U.S. growers at a disadvantage. Under
the quota system, a quota was needed to
be able to grow a specific number of
pounds of hee Overall U.S. produc-
tion lias been limited to what domestic
cigar cite makers intended to buy. with
unsold tobacco going into reserve. Un-
der the new law, the government will
pay $10 for each pound of quota - $7
per pound for the quota holder and $3
t pound for the farmer. Payments will
Ee made over 10 vears and funded by a
fee on will be based on 2002 product.
Those who quit farming before 2002
will receive nothing,

Wtih the quota system, growers will
be able to freely contract with cigarette
companies to grow as much tobacco as
they have land io sustain.

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In ing his party's nomination,
Bush offer a Sais of pra rograms that he
wants enacted during his second term.
However, the $3 billion price tag makes
it unlikely that many of them will be
enacted.

Bush, the first president since
Herbert Hoover to end a term with fewer
people working than when he started,
will be pressure to create more jobs.
The U.S. has 585,000 fewer jobs now
than when Bush took office. _

oI think by the end of his term,
cause he has not generated job
the effect of this weak labor market will
be that the economy will collapse back
on itself, ? says Bill Spriggs, an economist.
oWe will continue to see incomes stag-
nate and then start to fall. I think its
realistic because he doesn't think he Ts
done anything wrong. ?
Democratic National Committee
Chairman Terry McAuliffe is already
looking past Bush's second term,
oPhis party i tro r than it Ts ever
been. We're in the best nancial shape, ?
he says. oWe now have, unlike four years
ago, millions and millions of new su
porters of this party., We're debt-free for
¢ first time ever and we're beginning
to build towards 2008. ?

ce sworn in

y Ron Jenkins

OKLAHOMA CITY - A racially mixed

overflow crowd cheered as Tom Colbert

of Tulsa was sworn in Thursday and took

his seat as the first black member of the
klahoma Supreme Court.

Colbert, 54, had been chief judge
of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Ap-
peals,

After Chief Justice Joe Watt swore
him in, Colbert traced the history of
the civil rights movement, thanking
leaders whom he said paved the way
for his appointment.

They included one in attendance
- Clara Luper, who began the restau-
rant sit-in movement in the 1950s in
Oklahoma City.

Colbert spoke of Ada Lois Sipuel
Fisher, who broke the racial barrier at the
University of Oklahoma in the late 1940s.

Fisher refused to attend a special
law school set up for her in the base-
ment of the Capitol and eventually
got her law degree at OU. Supreme
Court Justice Thurgood Marshall was
one of her attorneys.

Colbert joked that oit took us over
50 years to make it from the basement
of the state Capitol to the second floor, ?
where the Supreme Court is located.

He said the Brown versus Board
of Education case, which ended the
oseparate-but-equal ? doctrine, brought
him to the door of the Oklahoma Su-
preme Court, but it took Gov. Brad
Henry to open the door.

He called the Democratic gover-
nor a visionary leader who believes
government should reflect the people
It serves,

oThere are so many people across
this country of all races and national-
ity that never thought they would live
to see this day, ? Colbert told Henry.
oWe all owe you a debt of gratitude. ?

He also thanked former Gov.
Frank Keating, who first appointed
him to the bench, and his many col-
including his 80-
Edith, who was in

He vowed to serve
and fairness.

Henry said the new justice had
oincredible credentials ? and was a man
of high intellect and fairness,
klahoma is absolutely blessed to
have a man of this character to serve on
its highest court, ? the governor said.

efore becoming a judge, Colbert
had served as a) counsel for the
Department of Human Services, assis-
tant district attorney in Oklahoma
County and assistant law school dean at
Marquette University Law School in
Milwaukee.

He was oppeinted to the state

high court to fill the vacancy created
y the retirement of Justice Daniel

Boudreau.

Ron Jenkins writes for AP

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Roger¢ of Durham and Margaret
©. Townes was honored for her contri-
utions to the university. She began her
pao
University in 1950. Duri years
Foe Doe Townes served sch of

Diperimen rement of Biology years,
* dean of Graduate Students for seven '
- and dean ofthe College of Arts and So-

July 1994.
In 1981, Dr. Townes began her
legacy of giving to NCCU and since then
has contributed a total of $1 million,
~ $700,000 of which was bequeathed to
the University after her death. funds
| have been used to fund scholarship en-
dowments for students.

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Career as an

Chancellor James H. Ammons (right) presents the
Achievement Award to Ernie Barre he isti

/ DURHAM, N.C "North Carolina Com
tral University alumni, including artist
Ernie Barnes, were honored during the
University Ts first annual Legacy Gala along
with several corporations.

Barnes received the University Ts Life-
time Achievement Award and Dr. Mary
M. Townes was honored with the Dr.
James E. § Legacy Award posthu-

Wa ae hr tne the stage
of Ed Wilson, the chairman of the art

~ noted sculptor William Zorack and Will
iam B. Fletcher, the co-chairman. 8 :
i From Wikon in particular, Bames said |

pe racned.Tfyoute going tobe an aris,
u've got to work from your experienc
Tara Wise

the field, check out what's going on

around you in that muggy conflict. Feel
the solidity ofthoee burst pay ancien
to what you're going through, then tell

1970s hit sitcom oGood Times. ? His piece
titled oSugar Shack ? was on the cover of
Marvin Gaye's dassic album oI Want You ?
in 1976.

His specific portrayals of African
American themes Pove rd him one of
the most renowned and visible African
American artists of the 20th century.

Stevenson, along with the other
alumni Awards of Excellence recipients,
were honored for their service to their alrina
mater. Stevenson, who is director of Catho-
lic Social Services Host Homes, has served

as president of chapters in Adanta,

two terms and served on the executive
council for three different terms includ-
ing the present. She has worked on nu-
merous national ggmmittees and is cur-
ing as the national membership
chair. In 2002, she won the title of Ms.

Yett worked for the City of Detroit

, deer cithe Pileidghia iladelphia Chapter and also
a oa served as treasurer, She was Miss Alumnj

for 1] years asa .recreation instructor
29 years as an attendance a :
came actively involved with the Detroit

Chapter in 1975 and has worked con-

tinuously with the chapter as president
for six years and secretary for four years.
She was elected as Region II vice president
and served for six years. When the Region
began to falter, she assumed the position
of assistant vice president and again served
as Region vice president for three more

eae Yerthas served on several committees
at the national level including the Straws
resurrection and the committee for select-
rcs adler year. She
has worked with the chapter to make the
touring choir visits to the city very success-

: served Region Il vi president

B { di of; ** . n for
the Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs
Coalition, joined the Philadelphia chap.
ter of the National Alumni Association in
the early 1970s. She has chaired or co.
chaired various functions and chapter
fundraisers. She served two terms as presi.

in 1980, Barbee served as Region I secre-
tary and as a member at large of the Na.

ional Alumni Association. She has coor.
dinated undergraduate Admissions Office
rectuiting activities and currently serves as
vice president and membership chair of

_ the Philadelphia ter. She is co-chai
e ip olden ly

for|the chapter's anniversary cel.

ory, who is assistant to
the pease at NCCU, was employed
as the Director of Alumni Relations fo;
the university, serving as the chief liaison
between NCCU and the 25,000 plus

White students at black colleges: a course of a different color

Thomas friend. Word spread, she said, and now ting quotas. : .

i : Another hurdle? i from her town have attended rivate universities, such as Ham
VASHING OE - Just after noon eke, e udencatthe once a Other activists and students, though, oThe focus is on us. ? tichiconcly black college. ton in Virginia and Howard, face no co
on the Howard University yard. mem- a are not all black, and . said this influx of white students is cost- Most of the influx has come at pub- Lubrano said she never could have mandates to attract white students and
bers of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity broke classrooms shouldn't be either, ? said Lee iAfrican Americans slots and scholar- lic institutions, which receive fundi gone toa U.S. university without the full _ generally have less diverse student bodies,
into an impromptu step show, bobbing y, adminionsdimerear Noche ships and could change the mission of from federal and state governments. S scholarship Alcorn State offered. At Howard, | percent, or about 100

anting as stomped in unison lina ART University, which activ historically black colleges and universities, are pressured to increase their white Alvin Chambliss, the attorney who _ of the 11,000 students are white. Its aca-
had Bishop watched from adi. quigchin ene actigaly te- considered more nurturing than most Sis ive-action re- argued the Mississippi tion case, ic reputation or its music and athletic
tance. In his three years on the campus, om His T school Ts i : populari other institutions. quirements at some other universities are said the focus at histori lack cam- programs generally draw those who do
he has become fully immersed in co: eunehieineee 1:30 oT fee! like it will change the struc- waning. puses should be on providing a quality " enroll .
life: student-body treasurer, sports an- - ee Me gl oTt is an odd and dubious | ity ion, not on drawing white students. Ti to fit in
nhouncer, newspaper board member, resi- * hh that institutions that have not eta oThey are going all the way to Russia Bishop - a native of Shreveport, la.-
dent adviser in a dorm. anyone ? are now forced to recruit white to give away scholarships when they are whittled his college choice to Howard or

But Bishop, one of the few white students, said Lezli Baskerville of the Na- sitting in the poorest state in thiscountry the University o: Michigan. He said he
students at this historically black univer- tional Association for Equal Opportunity and there are many poor black kids right chose Howard obecause of the tradition ? -
sity, said he has never felt quite comfort- in Education, there who could use those scholarships, ? the red brick buildings, the faculty's im.
able enough to join a fraternity. | Tennessee State University, for in- | Chambliss said. oThey should be focus- _ pressive resumes, the Prestigious reputa-

oYou know, I started to ledge, but - stance, was at one point under court order __ing on improving facilities and adding _ tion.
then I thought I shouldn't, ? Bish 24, to increase its non-black enrollment to 50 professional programs so that it will make Heis aware, though, that some people
said. oI wasn't suze how people would fg . - percent. The court even dropped _ all students want to go to these schools. ? think he doesnt belong.
about it with the history and i that requirement, and the school has Morgan State University President . He hasbeen called racist names, He
I wasnt sure if people would understand _ | __ to earmark $924,000 a year for scholar- Earl Richardson agreed. He said the ky has been in classes where instructors have
why I wanted to doit. ? ships to white students. to diversifying student populations is of- referred to othe white man T and made gen-

Increasingly, white students are en- universities in Mississippi - fering quality programs. The Baltimore _ eralizations about white people that would
rolling at the nation Ts 120 historically black "Jackson State, Mississippi Valley Stateand school offers no race-based scholarships, have drawn fire if a white professor said
colleges and universities, changing the ° rm State - must increase white enroll- but has unique pro in architecture the same about African Americans, he said
landscape of institutions created when ments to at least 10 percentand maintain and city r nd planning that bring in oI wasin the administration building and
African Americans were barred from at- that level for three years before receivi a__ students offal races. About 8 percent of I had had a problem with something ...
tending most colleges. portion of $524 million in state funds Be its undergraduates and 20 percent of its and this lady who worked there said to

In the past quarter-century, the num-
ber of white students at these campuses _
has risen 65 percent, from 21,000 to
nearly 35,000 - an increase driven partly

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by court orders aimed at desegregation

and Partly by interest in programs these

schools oO

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oSome, such a8 West Viginia State ? WER RUdERRT oF Fraces, Young wid, sin" Mire Or
University and Lincoln University of Mis- many ways a measure of its success.» gimp
souri, are now majority-white. Others, t does it say about thevalueof "_nior telecommunications major at
struggling to meet court mandates for more your institution that people who didnt "_Baltimore Ts Morgan State University.
white students, use scant scholarship come before are how coming in droves to oNow, wecan freely. We learn about
money to lure students from as far away get in? It means that your institution has how things are different for us as black

as Russia. transcended color and now it is viewed as people ..- In English class, we study black
Many educators said the changing _ an institution of higher learning of im- _ literature. In my media criticism class, we
demographics will enrich the educationdl peccable choice. ? . talked about how blacks are portrayed in

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hool improvements provided in a fed-

eral court settlement, officials said. An ef.

fort to overturn that settlement reached in

Ayers v. Fordice, a landmark desoprege

tion case for colleges, was rej .18

by the U.S. Supreme Court. .
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enough eligible white students from Mis-
sissippi to attend, so officials began recruit-
ing overseas.

Eugenia Merculova Lubrano, 24, of
Veronezh, Russia, a 2001 graduate who
works as an Alcorn recruiter for

multicultural students, said she heard
about the T collége from the mother of a

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graduate students are white, Asian or
Latino.

oMy goal here is to create an institu-
tion that is comparable to any of the ma-
jority-white universities, ? Richardson said.

Morgan State and Maryland Ts other
historically black institutions - Bowie State,

in State

accord with the U.S, ent of Edu-
cation that sets no quotas for enrolling
white students. The agreement encour.
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academic programs at Norfolk State and
Virginia State universities rather than set-

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me: oWhy are you here? This is for black

The hardest gazes come when he
walks across campus with black female
friends. oIt Ts like, What is she doing with
him? T o he said. But he has enjoyed
Howard. oI wish I could do it over again, ?
he said. oThis is a beautiful experience.
oThe people who are nice tome are penu-
inely nice. ...

oNot only did I get an academicedu-
cation, I gota cultural education 1 dont
believe I would have gotten that some-
place else. ?

Avis Thomas-Lester writes for Wash-
ington Post

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