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North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship NCAT Student Newspapers Digital Collections 2-20-1987 The Register, 1987-02-20 North Carolina Agricutural and Technical State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.library.ncat.edu/atregister Recommended Citation North Carolina Agricutural and Technical State University, "The Register, 1987-02-20" (1987). NCAT Student Newspapers. 1067. https://digital.library.ncat.edu/atregister/1067 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Digital Collections at Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in NCAT Student Newspapers by an authorized administrator of Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 4& ■liiifia "COMPLETE AWARENESS FOR COMPLETE COMMITMENT" VOLUMELVIII NUMBER 18 NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY, GREENSBORO FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20.1987 A&T's crowded parking conditions increases WADE MEACHAM more than one car registered Special to the Register on campus Despite crowded parking The university has 17 park- conditions around classroom ing areas for cars with "A" buildings, parking at A&T is stickers, 12 for "B" stickers not a major problem this year, and 7 for "C" stickers. Cars according to Marvin H. with "A" stickers can also be Watkins, chairperson of the parked in "B" and "C" areas Traffic and Parking Commit- and cars with "B" stickers can be parked in "C" lots. "Our parking situation here During peak class hours on is not acute at all," Watkins Mondays and Wednesdays, said. "We have some minor the "A" parking areas around parking situations that need to classroom buildings are full be resolved and I think they and are parked in tow-away will be resolved by the addi- zones against the curbs. tion of the new parking areas At the same time, rarely are in 1987." more than 10 cars parked in These areas will become the "C" lot off East Market available in June when Ronald Street next to the A&T tennis McNair Hall, the new courts engineering building, opens. If students would park their It is surrounded by more than cars and walk from one 200 parking spaces available classroom building to another for cars with A, B, or C park- rather than drive, much of the ing permits parking problem around the According to University classroom building would be Police statistics, about 3,265 resolved, Watkins said. parking permits have been When students are willing to issued this year, including walk, plenty of parking spaces Photo by Wade Nash are available, he said, adding those issued to evening A&T's parking conditions continue to get worst causing students and teachers to receive parking that another underused stu- students and individuals with tickets. (continued on page 8) Engineering building has new features MARCELYN BLAKELY will increase the university's Staff Writer well known posture in the high The new $8.5 million tech arena engineering building is ex- The new features and pected to be completed by the facilities within the building end of the Spring semester, will be a big asset to teachers said Dr. Suresh Chandra, dean as well as students. of the school of engineering. "With regard to the "This will be the first major building it has such innovative allocation from the state of features as a solar laboratory, North Carolina," Chandra teleconferences, 350-seat said. auditorium, computer laboratory, broad band The facility was built to ac- televideo data coaxial net- commodate increased enroll- work, 100-seat lecture rooms, ment in the engineering sanitary enviromental and department construction material labor- "The building is six stories tory for civil engineering,' high and 94,000 square feet. Fort said. Construction of the building He said the building will consists of a covered walkway also have other accommoda- to Cherry and Graham Hall," tions including special he said Photo by J. Hall assimulation laboratory for According to Chancellor the department of chemical building be completed by the end of the Spring semester The new $8.5 million engineering will Edward B. Fort, the building engineering Black cabbie dies after arrest NEW YORK (UPI)- A unavailable for comment determined by Tuesday raised the ireof the black up •part-time com- this week. cabbie who died "We stand by our state- Independent cocaine tests munity, already angry after police hogtied over "They took him to an all- him had ment. They are making allega- were not conducted because Bumpurs' killing by been involved in a dispute with a white tions and we're going to do St. John's doctors failed to officer during an eviction and a customer and was begging an our best to dispel them," said forward enough blood to a lab Stewart's death after he was white precinct and they elderly couple to call police for Francine Cariti, spokeswoman to run a battery of drug tests, hogtied by white officers. murdered him," Sonny Car- help when he was arrested, a for Gross. Reiner said. Only tests for son, head of Black Men lawyer said Monday. In a statement issued last aspirin and barbituates were "How Police is it that a black man week, Gross said he found "a taken and both showed in the Stewart case no were acquitted finds himself in trouble and high level" of cocaine and in- trace of the drugs. The re- and the Against Crack, said of after desperate manslaughter a cry for help, dications other drugs were pre- maining blood was given to trial of Officer Salaam. "It's going to be a Stephen finds himself dead in the sent in Salaam's blood. Cariti Gross, Reiner said. Sullivan, who shot long, hot summer. You (white Bumpurs, hands dead in the hands of the siad the cause of death may be The Salaam case has further is expected to wrap New Yorkers) pushed us." New York City police?" C. Vernon Mason, a lawyer for the family of Wajid Abdul Salaam, asked at a new con- ference Mason disputed the results of preliminary medical tests that showed Salaam had high levels of cocaine in his blood. He demanded an investigation of the city's controversial medical examiner, Dr. Elliot Gross Mason, who successfully demanded that Special Pro- secutor Charles Hynes handle the case ofa racially motivated killing in Howard Beach in New York City's Borough of Queens, also called for Hynes to take charge of the Salaam case and have the eight of- ficers involved arrested. But Mason said Salaam was driving his taxi in the area and was involved in a dispute with a customer when he rushed to the home for help. "He went to the door asking for the police," Mason said. But when two uniformed of- ficers arrived in a cruiser, Salaam did not believe they were legitimate police officers and continued to pound on the door, eventually breaking a window in the storm door, Mason said. Police said they called for help from five more officers and a sergeant after Salaam shouted incoherently and bit an officer on the hand. Gross examined Salaam after he was pronounced dead on arrival at St. John's-Queens Hospital and said he found "no significant injuries." The dead man's wife, Khalimah, a city corrections officer, said she saw fresh bruises on his face and Dr. Steven Reiner, the emergency room director at St. John's, said he also had cuts and bruises on his body. Gross, cleared by Hynes last May of misconduct charges stemming from autopsies he performed on Eleanor Bum- purs and Michael Stewart, two blacks whose deaths sparked controversy, left the state for a meeting Monday and was Hymen's release gets attention Hyman desperate for compa- interesting interpretation of a likes of Whitney Houston and BRANDON M. BOWMAN The most popular cut from this Lp is "Old Friends." This nionship, and "First Time cut that was originally aPeabo Anita Baker. Special to the Register Together" which reveals the Bryson/Natalie Cole duet. Especially the Inthe movies, a "sleeper" is song was written by the late Linda Creed Epstein who singers's anticipation of her Hyman's performance pro- Greensboro area, record stores a film that is highly acclaimed reason that this have realized that the unex- wrote, among others, "The first date with a certain beau. ves to be real and received, but has been pected is Greatest Love of All (with "Slow Dancin' is one of sleeper recorder has finally popularity of what mostly overlooked by the " deep, year which Michael Masser)" a song that the catchiest tunes and could found its audience. Her almost a old release general public. If this term rich, nothing makes it difficult keep the is nominated for -a Grammy be a successful single. sensual voice is to also refers to albums, Phyllis Hyman this year. Hyman closes her ex- short of a joy to listen to. Phyllis album in Hyman's "Living All Alone" cruciatingly short nine-song She is a welcomed addition stock. But, no matter how dif- is sleeper. This song tells a melancholy definitely a set with a cover of "What You to the resurgence of real soul ficult it is to find, "Living All Hyman's latest release on story of a woman who invites Won't Do For Love." It is an singing brought back by the Alone" shouldn't be missed. Capitol's Manhattan Records an old lover back into her life. is a collection ofsmooth, sexy, This maybe one of the most and undeniably soulful beautiful songs to come along sounds. This artist, however in a very long time.

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