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For more information, please contact [email protected]. -Limited Edition- VOL. 8, NO.1 MINORITY JOURNALISM WORKSHOP, WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY, BOWLING GREEN, KY. JUNE 27,1991 Minority retention too low at Western, CHE charges By LASHAFfA CUNNINGHAM Of the 554 faculty members at the Bosse High School university. only 14 are black. At one time blacks made up 10 LO II percent of Ihe Because of a lack of black faculty student lxxly. Now they comprise only 6.5 members and a low black student percent of the student population. enrollment, Western Kentucky University Alexander noted that as the school has has been criticized by the Council on grown over the years, the number of blacks Higher Education. on campus has not. CHE representatives, along with some Phyllis Gatewocxl.. black student retention legislators. visited Western two weeks ago coordinator, said, "We need to be more to tell university administrators they arc competitive in terms of scholarships to unhappy with the university 's progress hlack students." toward meeting affirmative action goals. Journalism department head Jo-Ann Albers, who attended one meeting with the delegation. said, ''The group was distressed thaI the numbers were poor and did nOI seem to be improving." We, as an" institution, The council c ited the university for retaining a smaller percentage of black are taking a rather students than while students. Annually. the council reviews each of distorted view of the __ -:K~c~n¥tucky's slate-supported institutions to problem. .... cv al~a te whether money provided for minority recruilment and retention programs is being properly used. Howard Bailey. dean of student life, said Howard Bailey. Dean" of Student Life the money has been used. but the commitment to retain minority students has to be moved farther up the budgetary Gatewood has devised several strategies priority list. to retain minority students. including ones "We. as an institution. arc taking a rather which involve o·utreac h . better By DeWayne Grant/DuPont Manual distorted view of the problem." recruitment and new plans for admissions. Foster grandmother Carrie Veals provides a helping hand for Shay Cox, 6, Finances, according to Dr. Livingston Bailey said administrators needed to at the Bowling Green Girls Club. A lexander, associate vice president for find ways to gel more money instead of academic affairs, arc the reason why black pointing the finger and trying to find enrollment is declining. someone to blame for the problem. Children receive love and hugs Alexander said college is expensive. and the rmancial aid is not really sufficient. SEE PROGRAMS, HACK PAGE from caring foster grandparents By LAKISHA GREEN kids. Some of the children have never Students anticipate little Whites Creek High School heard someone say 'I love you.'" Barnell said. The midday sunshine pours down on the Barnell has one child but has no change despite CHE visit dozens of children playing in the grass at grandchildren of her own. The program. the Girls Club of Bowling Green. she said, has given her the opportunity to Sounds of laughler and childhood have that experience. By ANNECIA DONlGAN that they have made." said Deanna Mills, a chattering and singing fill a typical day. She is regularly a foster grandmother at Hunters Lane High School public relations major from Glasgow. The energetic youngsters slow down just High Street Head Start, but works at the For Ihe last five years. CHE ha<; provided long enough to enjoy a game of bingo and Girls Club during the summer. Despite the fact that the Council on $190,000 annually to Western to improve a story reading. The foster grandparents often develop Higher Education came down hard on its percentages of black faculty and staff Foster grandparents Beatrice Barnett, special relationships with the children. Western for failing to meet affirmative and to recruit and retain black students. Carrie Veals and Elizabeth Dunn serve as "You can't keep from loving them," action guidelines, black student leaders "The CHE was a big help in our cause role models for the girls. Barnett said. expect little immediate change. because it is a large and important The program. sponsored by Southern Foster grandmother Carrie Veals, 65. has Council members visited Western about organization." said Shannon Floyd, a Community Action Agency, trains senior been in the program for a year. She is the two weeks ago and informed the university Louisville recreation major who helped citizens over 60 10 counsel and tutor grandmother of two boys in Shreveport, that its progress in recruiting black faculty organize a sit-in last spring to protest a lack youngsters. La. and staff and retaining black students was of progress in solving minority problems. Foster grandmother Barnett. 75. has been Veals said she believes that this program inadequate. " "The idea of having a sit-in came about in the program for 10 years and says it fills the void of not having her own "It seemed as though something was when students compared what was going gives her a sense of importance. Some of grandChildren living ncar her. "I've going 10 change when the CHE came, but I the children call her grandmother. can't really say that 1 can see any changes SEE STUDENTS, BACK PAGE 'The most rewarding thing is helping the SEE FOSTER, BACK PAGE 2 Minority Journalism Workshop, June 27. 199 1 Journalism family tradition for Merv, Eleska Aubespin By ANTRIECE SIMS Ihal story for 48 hours," Merv Waggener High School said. , He was commended on the story He graduated from Tuskegee and the publisher of the paper University when he was 18 years thought he would be o f more old. walked from Selma to value as a reponer, so he sent him Montgomery, Ala., wilh the Rev. 10 Columbia Univers ity to be Martin Luther King and was the trained as a journalist. He came only black reporter to cover the rac ial rialS in Louisville. She graduated from Western Kentucky University a little more tha n a year ago and is taking her " flfS t steps as a reporter at The Fort I was raised in Wayne (Ind.) Joumal·Gazelle. Merv Aubespi n, associate edi tor the news room. for development at The Courier Journal, remembers the obstacles That's all I knew he faced early in his writing and all I wanted. career a'i he watches his daughter. Eleska , achieve in journa lism wi tho ut facing those same , Jaban HIIVHume·t"ogg AcaaemlC OOrricrs. Although he concentrates on Cornelius Martin remembers where he came from and gives back to the community recruiting and supervising and she " because he cares about people who have helped him become successful. Eleska Aubespin. reponer works on news and has a strong background in features, they share a common bond in their work . Commitment, dedication, hard work .. It abSolutely delights me to see back to Ihe CJ as a reporter for the my daughter in her first ventures black communities on civil ri ghls. make automobile dealership successful of joumalism become successful," Eles.ka graduated wi th a degree way." he said. By KAREN D. BROWN dealership. And it is still growing. Eleska often seeks her father's in journalism and a mi nor in Bowling Green High School Soon Martin will open a Saturn Ronald E. Coxsom, an advice. He gladly offers it. English literature. dealership in Dayton. Ohio. employee of Martin AulOmotive, And Merv's experience' is " I was raised in the news Being brought up o n a farm To better his business, Martin said, "He puts money back into varied. room," she said. "That's all I teaches a perSO Il to work ha rd, said he foc uses on improving the com munity. and he cares He recalls goin g to visit his knew and all I wanted." says Comeli us Martin, owner of "people skills." He said yo u have aboul the people and the roomate's aunt, who was Martin Eleska is Creole, a combination Marti n O ldsmo bile, Cadillac, to train your personnel to improve community. your service. Along with being a successful L u th er Ki n g's secr etar y. of Indian. Black, French, White Subaru. Isuzu and Dodge car dealership in Bowling Green. "There is always someone who businessman, Martin said he tries " She made a good meal away and Spani sh, and she values her from campus:' Manin said he used this type of can run fa ster or jump hi gher," to display values to his employees black heritage. lifestyle to become one of Martin said. He said he keeps thi s and fa mily. Hi s values include She info rmed him and his " If the newspaper tends to lack roomate about the bus boycott Kentucky's most successful allilude to stay successful. But commitmenl. dedication, hard in informal ion about Ihe black going on in Montgomery, Ala.