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Newspaper Page TextJackson wants summit to discuss minority concerns in intercollegiate sports By Sonya Ross ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER WASHINGTON Citing college athletics as “maybe the only multimillion dollar business where labor is not paid,” Jesse Jackson an nounced plans to hold a national summit onracein intercollegiate sports. “Students should just not go to school and generate revenue and fame and ... make a lot of other people money,” Jackson said. “That’s exploitative. That’s not right.” Jackson’s announcement of the Georgia Academy of Science meets at AC More than 200 scientists will converge on the campus of Au gusta College Friday and Satur day, April 28-29, for the annual meeting of the Georgia Academy of Science, announces Dr. H. Fred Bowshers, professor of physics at Augusta College and local ar rangements chairman. Activities will range from lec tures and demonstrations, open to the public, to more than 100 scientists presenting results of their research in a number of areas. Friday, 1-3 p.m. A variety of hands-on science demonstra tions will be held in the Class room Office Building (COB), Room 2 and Room 1086. Friday, 7 p.m. A sympo sium on “Telemedicine in Geor gia” will be conducted by Dr. Jay Sanders and Dr. Robert Macura in the Lecture Room of Butler Hall. Both are on the faculty at the Medical College of Georgia. Saturday, 10 a.m.-noon. A session in the Lecture Room of Butler Hall will be devoted to science demonstrations of par ticular interest to area students and science teachers, according to Dr. Bowsher. With the theme, “It’s Not Magic — It’s Science,” the following demonstrations will » o : Student receives : o 0 . recognition for - illustrated book p T : : P Catrina Anderson ¢ Catrina Anderson, a second : grade honorstudent at Copeland : Elementary School, received a : merit rating for her illustrated : booklet at the Georgia Student : Media Festivalin Douglas, Geor : gia. Catrina wrote and illustrat . ed the booklet, “Different.” i The festival is sponsored by ¢ the Georgia Association for In : structional Technology and the . Georgia Library Media Associa : tion. ¢ Festival activities progress ¢ through four levels: local, sys : tem, district, and state. Entries : must be evaluated at each level : and receive a merit rating in ¢ order to proceed to the next. i Last year, Catrina’s booklet, : “The Dog and Cat” received par i ticipation recognition at the State : Media Festival. : Catrina is the daughter of Ms. ¢ Pamela Anderson and Sergeant : Freddie Anderson. Sheis a mem : ber of the Girl Scouts, Sunday : School and the children’s choir ¢ at the Good Shepherd Baptist i Church. : Jazz Quiz Answers : 1. Cheatham or Severinsen : 2. Harry Edison ¢ 3. Louis Armstrong ¢ 4. Joseph Phillip ¢ 5. Fletcher Henderson ¢ 6. James Johnson : 7. Coleman Hawkins i 8. Charlie Parker i 9. John Birks Gillespie : 10. Theodore Navarro : 11. Roy Eldridge i 12. Gene Ammons i 13. Stitt, Rollins or Fortune : 14. John Coltrane' : 15. Joe Nanton : 16. Coleman Hawkins t 17. Joe Oliver 18. Lester Young 19. Eddie Davis 20. Charles Williams National Rainbow Summit on Minority Concerns came three months after a black coaches’ group said it had given up trying to get the NCAA to address the issue, The meeting will be held June 23-24 at Howard University in Washington, The goal is to eval uate the concerns of coaches and athletes, such as minority hiring and the impact of academic stan dards on black athletes, and de velop recommendations to deal with them. Jackson’s National Rainbow Coalition also plans to compile a “fairness index” of NCAA Divi sion I schools including gradua tion rates and the proportion of black athletes, coaches, students, be conducted: * The Basics of Acids, by Dr. Donna S. Hobbs, AC faculty. * Unusual Physical Properties of Fluids, by Dr. Thomas M. Colbert, AC faculty, and Bill Dunwoody, AC student. * Hydrogen Peroxide — It’s Not Just for Hair Anymore, by Dr. William R. Wellnitz, AC fac ulty. * Unusual Electrochemical Cells — Food for Thought and Human Potential, by Dr. Gary G. Stroebel, AC faculty. Paine Upward Bounders regional champs Six participants from the Paine College Upward Bound Project Scholars Bowl Team recently out answered teams from Upward Bound Programs in Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, North Caro lina, South Carolina and Ten nessee on questions from the cat egories of mathematics, science, social studies, language arts, current events and miscella neous. The competition took place at the Castlegate Hotel in Atlan ta, Ga. Students on the Paine College team are Jacqueline Dye, , f 96,9 @\Z YOU CAN WIN A FANTASY VACATION - FOR TWO! Listen to WAKB 96.9 The Touch for Details! Tom Joyner—Mornings Glen Cosby—Middays Nancy Johnson—Afternoons Local Updates: | Lance—Mornings Chris Jordan—Afternoons | STAY TUNED AND WIN! S faculty and administrators. “We know there are support mechanisms to help them run, jump high,” Jackson said. “We must be able to have opportuni ties that extend beyond the play ing field.” The Black Coaches Association opposes using performance on standardized college entrance examinationssuch asthe ACT or SAT as part of eligibility stan dards, contending the tests are culturally biased. In January 1993, the coaches association threatened to boy cott college basketball games af ter National Collegiate Athletic Association convention delegates refused to restore a scholarship * The Chemical Detective, by Dr. Stephanie A. Myers, AC fac ulty. * Chemistry — It’s a Blast!, by Dr. Thomas D. Crute, AC facul ty. Saturday, noon. Banquet. Afterward, Dr. Larry Martell, president of Integrative Learn ing Systems, Inc., Hilton Head, S.C., will speak on “New Para digms in Education” in the Col lege Activity Center Cafeteria. The results of research con ducted in nine areas will be pre Shenika Johnson, Helena Mar tin, John Sharpe, Ernest Terry and Candi Young. These stu dents are presently enrolled in the Richmond County public schools. Mr. Saul T. Hill, the pro gram’s associate director, serves as advisor to the team. Before participating in the Regional competition, the Paine College team won the state com petition, which included teams from the Upward Bound pro grams at Atlanta Metropolitan College, Fort Valley State Col lege, Georgia Southern Univer sity, Georgia Southwestern Col sl g’ s vonl e il for men’s basketball. The associ ation withdrew that threat after NCAA officials agreed to discuss their concerns. The NCAA, meanwhile, has scheduled a May 30 meeting with black coaches in Baltimore to continue discussions that have gone on for more than a year, said Stan Johnson, NCAA direc tor of professional development. Despite those talks, the black coaches turned to Jackson and three other groups because it felt the NCAA has ignored them and that the talks had not led to sub stantive action from member schools. The NCAA will have rep resentatives at Jackson’s confer ence, sented by more than 100 scien tists at the meeting. The areas of research include Biological Sci ences; Chemistry; Earth and At mospheric Sciences; Physics, Mathematics and Computer Sci ences; Biomedical Sciences; Phi losophy and History of Science; Science Education; Anthropolo gy; and Engineering and Tech nology. The Georgia Academy of Sci ence was organized in 1922 and currently hasapproximately 400 members. lege, Mercer University, Morehouse College, Morris Brown College and Savannah State College. The Upward Bound Program is funded by the U.S. Depart ment of Education and designed to generate skills and motiva tion necessary for success in ed ucation beyond high school. The program is funded at 534 colleg es nationally and serves 45,835 high school students. Mrs. Earnestine H. Bell is Director of the Paine College Upward Bound Program. AUGUSTA FOCUS April 27, 1995 U M 5 CLIA vk % “Official Travel Agency For The Cruise Lines" ' CRUISES TOURS & PACKAGES HOTELS AIRLINES ORGANIZE A GROUP FIIE] IZXNIM CRUISE FREE! CALL THE TRAVEL SPECIALISTS DICK OR DINAH FRANK (706) 736-8700 S.C. 1-800-621-2472 3203 Wrightsboro Road Augusta, Georgia 30909 LUCY CRAFT LANEY MUSEUM OF BLACK HISTORY 1116 Phillips Street Augusta, Georgia 30901 (706) 724-3576 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS April, 1995 ONGOING EXHIBITS: THE AUGUSTA LEGACY THE ALICE DAVIS COLLECTION Black & White Photography Karla Horton 3-D Photography Arthur Clark HOURS OF OPERATION: 9a.m.-1 p.m. Mon.-Fri. By Appt. Sat. & Sun. 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