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One-half of school board
members have no degree
White and black
school board
members are
poles apart in
formal education
and classroom
experience. Does
it matter?
By Tawana Lee
AUGUSTAFOCUS Staff Writer
AUGUSTA
As debate in the Gen
eral Assembly continues
about the qualifications
needed to be a superin
tendent of a school dis
trict, local school board
members are divided on
the merits of the type of
education needed to be
an effective policy maker.
Only five of the members
of the Richmond County
Board of Education have
college degrees or teach
ing certificates and only
four have any classroom
experience beyond substi
tute teaching.
Are Richmond County
parents and school chil
dren being shortchanged?
It depends on who’s an
swering that question.
According to the law,
there is no problem. The
only legal requirement to
hold the elected position
of school trusteeistobea
Richmond County resi
dent for two years and
reside in the district one
seeks to represent, ac
cording to Lynn Bailey,
director of the Richmond
County Board of Elec
tions.
Some education profes
sionals, however, feel that
meeting the residential
HEALTH ‘
Physical exercise is a form
of eating disorder for some
B Bulemics and
anorexics are adding
exercise to their cache
of weight-loss self
torture.
By ira Dreyfuss
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
WASHINGTOMN
Exercise can make a person thin
_ sometimes, dangerously thin.
“I pray there will be a day when I
won’t think about the food I eat or
the exercise I do,” said Marah
Bobilin. “I don’t know if there’s a
specific day or time when I will be
all better.”
For Bobilin and others like her,
burning calories is a symptom of an
\eating disorder. Bobilin was diag
nosed with anorexiz, a condition
she fed with obsessive aerobic exer
cise.
The term for it is “debting,” said
researcher Denise E. Wilfley of San
Diego State University and the
University h:: E:l:omm, San m
ego. She and
treating people withm and
bulimia.
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Serving Metropolitan Augusta, South Carolina and the Central Savannah River Area
requirements and paying
the SIOO qualifying fee
should be the beginning
and not the end of the
requirements for holding
such an important post.
“It seems like every
one is an armchair coach
during a professional
football game. Anyone
cansitbackandtalk back
to the television screen
and say what needs to
happen, what went
wrong—they areexperts
yet some of those by
standers have never
played football in their
lives. The same holds
true for the educational
system. Everyone knows
what the teachers should
be doing, but have never
set foot in a classroom —
outside of their own high
school days,” said Dr.
Yvonne Shaw, director of
the Education Depart
ment at Paine College.
Like most elected offi
cials, school board mem
bers are called on to set
policy and direct the ac
tions of professionals
who are often more edu
cationally prepared than
themselves. School board
members have differing
views on the importance
of formal educational
training and classrcom
instruction as qualifying
factors for board mem
bership.
“Whether you’ve gone
to college or taught
doesn’t help make a good
or bad board member.
Having gone through
high school, you can see
where things have gone
slack —soyoudon’t have
to be a teacher to be a
good board member. It is
See SCHOOL, 3A
Overexercise breaks
down the body
instead of building it
up, although an
obsessive exerciser
might not see this.
ries before they can eat,” Wilfley
said. “And it can be the converse. If
they overeat, they feel they have to
punish themselves because they
h'ave overdone the number of calo
ries.”
Although starvingisstill themain
weight-loss method for anorexics,
as bingeing and purging is for
bulemics, exercise seems to be grow
ing for both, according to Wilfley.
There are no good figures on how
many people with these disorders
use exercise for weight control, but
small, Wilfley said. However, the
trend seems to have become more
common as styles in beauty
changed, she added.
“I think x:l:‘gxe "80s, it was x
moved into the '9os, it became more
a thin, fit appearance.”
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Quality of life for biack men
deteriorating since the 1960 s
LOS ANGELES
(AP) Only unified efforts between government
agencies and communities will help improve the
quality of life for black men, which has steadily
deterivrated since the 19605, according to a state
report. ¥
When compared with white men, black men have
ashorter life expectancy, fewer educational opportu
nities, higher incarceration rates and lower income,
according to the California Commission on the Sta
tus of African American Males.
“This picture is not new,” state Sen. Barbara Lce,
For Bobilin, an 18-year-old
Florida State University freshman,
the condition began as a 15-year
old in her home town of Huntsville,
Ala. She responded to family prob
lems by working out in a gym.
“I thought if I lost weight, every
thing would be better,” Bobilin said.
This purpose of exercise is not
the same for someone with an eat
ing disorder as it is for an athlete
training hard for an event, Wilfley
said. People with eating disorders
are doing it to be thin, and any
competition would be secondary,
she said.
Solitary running tends to be the
exercise of choice, Wilfley said. It
can burn a lot of calories, and the
only limit on it is the time or the
distance that the runner can in
vest. But it is not the only exercise.
Bobilin recalls running six miles a
day when she could not get to the
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Also, overexercise breaks down
the body instead of building it up,
although an obsessive exerciser
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D-Oakland, chairwoman of the commission, said in
a statement Wednesday.
“What is new that the commission uncovered a
clear pattern of practices which, when taken as a
whole, seem to be interwoven into a mosaic of insti
tutional injury, presenting California with a prob
lem of crisis proportions,” Lee said.
The commission found, among other things, that
black men:
* Comprise 3.7 percent of the state’s population
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GEORGIA NEWSPARER
LAW LINF UINULIVIEN 1
Document
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reveals police
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broke law in
&
failed drug bust
B When police raided a Hephzibah
household searching for crack :
cocaine, they conducted an illegal
search of a vehicle, destroyed '
property and removed documents
which they did not report.
By Tawana Lee
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
AUGUSTA
Richmond County police, already stung by nega
tive publicity in the wake of a botched drugbust, may
have to contend with legal problems stemming from
that action. ; ; 2
A copy of the search
warrant authorizing the
raid revealed that police
probably conducted an il
legal search, raising ques
tions as to the profession
alism and training of Rich
mond County officers.
Tony Green, the target
of the March 7 raid, told
Augusta Focus police
searchsd and tore apart
his vehicle, despite the fact
that they were required
by law to confine their
search to the areas stipu
lated in the search war
rant. Only Mr. Green'’s
residence at 3040
Thornhill Drive was
named in the warrant.
Police, however, unable to
find the crack cocaine for
which they searched, apparently turned their atten
tion to Mr. Green’s vehicle, damaging it signifi
cantly.
“First of all, they popped the snaps off my truck’s
bed lining and pulled up the carpet on the inside.
When they looked under my hood, they threw my oil
cap into the woods. I had to go out and buy a new one.
They also took my title, and nobody down there
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After 26 years,
fwo men seek so
prove frame-up
LINCOLN, Neb.
(AP) Twoblack men con
victed 26 years ago in the
bormbing death of an
Omabha police officer want
congressional hearings on
their case, charging they
were framed as part of a
national effort to silence
the Blank Panthers.
Lincoln’s branch of the
National Association for
the Advancement of Col
ored People hasasked fora
hearing before the Senate
Intelligence Committee for
David Rice and Ed
Poindexter. They were con
victed in 1971 of murder
ing police Officer Larry
picking up a suitcase filled
with dynamite at a re
ported domestic distur
bance in 1970. Poindexter
andmßieo were sentenced
to life in prison. :
The Lincoln NAACP
contends that the FBI tar
geted Rice and Poindéxter
“First of all, they
popped the snaps
off my truck’s bed
lining and pulled
up the carpeton
the inside. When
they looked under
my hood, they ‘
threw my oil cap
into the woods. |
had to go out and
buy a new one.
They also took my -
title, and nobody -
down there knows:
where it is.” :
— Tony Green,
Hephzibah resident.
aspartofanational coun
terintelligence effort by
dJ. Edgar Hoover tosilence
theßlack Panther party.
The pair may have been
framed for Minard’s
death, the Lincoln
NAACP said in a letter to
the Congressional Black
Congress.
The letter asked Con
gress to “open the FBA
files, investigate the FBl's
‘cointelpro’ operation
and, in essence, help cor
rect an injustice that has
now lasted over 26 years.”
The Lincoln NAACP
also asked the national
NAACP board to aid in
itsefforts for a hearingon
FBI activities that may
have led to the frarhing of
the two men.
New information not
available at the trial indiy
cates that collaboration
between the FBI and the
‘Omaha Police Depart:
See CONVICTED, page 2