Newspaper Page Text
Page 12 • THE MAROON TIGER November, 1986
Task Force Announces Plans
For “Drug Free” Week
by Less Smith
A new organization has been
formed to fight the war
against drug abuse in the
Metro Atlanta area. Its name
is the Task force Against Drug
Abuse (TADA) and its main
goal is two fold: 1) to turn
public opinion against drug use
and abuse and 2) to mobilize
various segments of our com
munity in the fight against
drugs.
“Task force Against Drug
Abuse (TADA), formed in
September of this year, was
born out of need for local
citizens, grassroot people to
deal with the growing problem
of drug use and abuse in our
community” says TADA
Chairman, Roy Patterson.
TADA has been forming over
the past several weeks and has
been trying to build support
for their group and to try to
get suggestions for their “drug
free” week which will be held
in November.
“We purposefully have
Stillwell from page 6
have been proven on the field,
professional scouts have been
looking at his speed and agili
ty. According to Head Coach
Maurice Hunt, “If Michael
does go pro, one advantage
that he will have over many
other players is his ability to
play more than one position.”
Coach Hunt says that
Stillwell is the most premiere
player in the SIAC. “Michael
Health from page 3
1985, 55,000 cases of tuber
culosis were reported among
black South Africans, com
pared to only 299 experienced
by whites.
• Alcohol and suicide seem
to be the only releases for the
misery imparted by the
frustration of life under the
apartheid system of govern
ment. Lonliness and isolation
of workers manifest
themselves in an astounding
22% of black men who are ad
dicted to alcohol. The suicide
rate among black South
Africans more than doubled
when the ruling Nationalist
Party came to power in 1948.
Clearly the high rate of
disease is disproportionate
among blacks, and that is
directly related to the health
.ili-riJ J. 'i- j.' '-.fiitii *.f.)
sought to communicate with
every conceivable element of
our community. Today, TADA
is represented by and
represents parents and the
PTA, school teachers and
students, the young and the
elderly, law enforcement and
elected officials, Drug preven
tion educators and drug treat
ment personnel, business
leaders and religious leaders.”
The “drug free” week will
commence Sunday, November
9th with a pray-in at churches
throughout the Metro Atlanta
area. A special litany, which
was prepared by TADA’s
religious committee which has
been circulated to pastors and
their congregations will be
read at the function. Other ac
tivities for “drug free” week
are as follows:
Monday, November 10th: a
rally and news conference will
be held at noon in Woodruff
Park.
Tuesday, November 11th: a
panel discussin focusing on
prevention will be held at noon
in the Phyllis Wheatley
YWCA: the rest of that day
is one of the most feared
players in the conference,”
said Coach Hunt.
“If the scouts offer me a
good deal, then I will have
two choices,” said the running
back, “I will either work in a
managerial position or go pro.
For the most part, Stillwell
claims that the job outlook is
pretty good at this point and
that the decision will boil down
to money.
system which is integrated in
to apartheid.
It is unfortunate that the
statistics will only get worse
without extreme pressure
from the international medical
community as well as political
groups who are working
toward the eradication of the
racist system of government.
Heart from page 3
and substituting polyun
saturated for saturated fat.
You also should follow other
senible steps—regular exer
cise, no smoking and weight
control.
will feature activities spon
sored by TADA’s AUC stu
dent committee.
Wednesday, November 12:
emphasis will be placed on
treatment at noon in the five
points plaza area at Five
Points MARTA station: a
dramatization will be held
while different treatment
centers will have tables set up
to discuss their programs.
Thursday, November 13:
The Atlanta International Air
port will be the sight of the law
enforcement aspect and some
law enforcement officials will
be on hand to explain some
aspects of their jobs at 6:00
p.m.
Friday, November 14th:
this is community day where
communities who are working
with TADA will sponsor their
own programs.
Saturday, November 15th:
the week will end with a
motorcade through Atlanta
neighborhoods enroute to the
Atlanta Civic Center for a con
cluding rally and grassroots
talent show.
Adam Lorenzo Smith, has
been selected by the Young
Men’s Christian Association to
participate in their Overseas
Study/Work/and Travel
Fellowship Program. The pro
gram awards all expenses plus
a monthly stipend. After a two
month orientation in Honolulu,
Hawaii, he will spend the dura
tion of the year examining the
health care programs, pro
gramming and facilitating ac
tivities and directing specific
project in the Northern
Mariana Island of the Pacific
on the Island of Saipan.
Smith, the son of Mr. C.
Larkin Smith and the late Mrs.
Maggie C. Smith, graduated
from Maplewood High School
in 1982, where he served as
' president of the student body.
He is also a recent Cum Laude
Bachelor of Arts degree reci
pient from Atlanta’s
presigious Morehouse College.
Smith also served as president
of the college’s student body
and many other clubs and
organizations including serv
ing as Dean of Pledges for the
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity,
Incorporated, Alpha Rho
Chapter.
Young from page 11
news is dominated by what we
see and hear around the San-
dinistas and the Contras,” he
added. He continued by say
ing, the economy of Mexico
should be the concern of
America because if it collapses
it could drag down with it the
whole banking system of the
free world.
“What could you do to put
an end to poverty there?” ask
ed Young, “one practical idea
is to build a new Panama
Canal.” He said a project that
vast would cost approximate
ly 20 billion dollars, and in do
ing so, this would employ
almost every able-bodied man
in Central America. “This
would put almost every
American back to work pro
ducing the tractors and
machinery needed for such a
project,” he said.
“This would do essentially
for Central America what the
New Plan did for the South,
and what the Marshall Plan
did for Europe and Japan,” he
continued.
He has served on several na
tional committees for the
American Red Cross including
the National Advisory Com
mittee on Youth, the Interna
tional Health Services Com
mittee and presently the Ad
Hoc Committee for the Na
tional Youth Study. Smith
represented the Youth Divi
sion in an International Youth
Camp in Jamaica, West Indies
in 1981, and the only youth
delegate with Red Cross mis
sion team to Africa in 1984,
visiting drought and famine
stricken areas. Smith also
studied and worked in the
Ivory Coast, West Africa in
1983 as a participant in the
Operation Crossroads Africa
Program.
Smith has made over one
hundred presentations to
schools, churches, clubs and
organizations throughout the
United States and in the
Bahamas on his visit to the
drought sticken areas in Africa
in 1984. A nominee for Presi
dent Reagan’s 1985
“Volunteer Action Award,” he
was recognized by
Washington’s American
“We have been much more
concerned about death and
destruction than life and
development,” said Young. He
said if we build a pipeline from
Nigeria to Cameroon to carry
natural gas it would assist in
the development of the coun
try, and reduce the cost of the
product.” Every where you
placed a pipeline you would
have to build a road, and this
would give rise to the con
struction of cement factories,
and utilities such as water and
electricity,” said Young. He
said putting a pipeline across
the Sahara desert would in
crease employment, and pro
vide irrigation needed for
crops.
In conclusion, the mayor
asked students to make a com
mitment to be part of some
grand strategy to make this
world make sense. “Jesse
Jackson says, ‘if the mind can
conceive it and the heart can
believe it; we can achieve it,”
Young said.
Association World Health
Organization as a recipient of
its 1985 “Youth Achievement
in Health Award.”
Upon returning from
Saipan, Smith plans to enter
Harvard University School of
Public Health Program in
Health Policy and Manage
ment. He plans to pursue a
career in International
Medicine concentrating on
Health Care Management.
Smith Chosen for YMCA
Study Abroad Fellowship