San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 14, 1998 Page: 1 of 10
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John Peace Library
University of Texas at San Antonio
6900 N. Loop 1604 West
San Antonio TX 78249
UTS A Library Serials
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Standing for Right, Justice and Equality Since 1931
May 714 1998 Vd. 66/47
Bank robbers from "Set It Off" movie convicted
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m Five women made off with
I $86,000, money not recovered
\Publisher’s
-•—► Point
: By Edwin N. Gtossort
27, Stephanie Graves, 25, and
Nebeidra Lewis, 22.
Sullivan, Graves and Smith, played
on the team, while Mitchell was the
assistant coach.
Lewis, who drove a getaway car for
the others, was not a team member
but knew the others through friends
Lewis, who now is married, preg-
nant and in college, said after the
verdict she is glad the truth is out.
"Everyone makes mistakes and I
have, but I have asked God and the
United States government to forgive
me and have mercy on me," she said.
The robbery took place on April 17,
1997 at the Bank of America, 2638
Northeast Loop 410. They made off
with $86,000. No money was ever
recovered.
Five friends, who will spend time
in jail for bank robbery, got the idea
from the movie "Set It Off."
A grand jury returned convictions
Friday against two members of a
women's midnight basketball team.
A federal grand jury deliberated
almost four hours before returning
guilty verdicts for Kimberlv Smith,
30, and Carmelita Mitchell, 34.
Smith was convicted of conspiracy
to commit armed bank robbery and
aiding and abetting armed bank
robbery.
Mitchell was found guilty of the
conspiracy, but not of aiding and
abetting the robbery.
Three others already pleaded guilty
to bank robbery, Talayah Sullivan,
Tourism If is good
for us too
Wa. at risk youth*.
Many of us hud a beautiful Mother’s Day. Lona Sance, her husband, Melvin, and daughter, Cheryl, enjoyed enuren
services at E. T. Dixon.
motion, she added.
The college is the largest in the ,
state with more than 60,000 stu-
dents and five campuses. ,
“To go from the eighth largest
college in the system to the largest
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biggest challenge will be learning
my way around the freeway sys-
tem.”
College faculty were not too sur-
prised by Wheelan’s offer. She was
one of two finalists for the presi-
dency of Austin Community
College in Texas in December
1996. In March of that same year,
she turned down the presidency of
Shelby State Community College
in Memphis to stay in Lynchburg.
Tom Barber, dean of instruction
at CVCC, said the college is feeling
a mixed reaction to the news.
“I’m both happy and disap-
pointed for myself,” he said. “Her
overall leadership and her enthu-
siasms for advancing the institu-
tion have been her major mark.”
The college will begin an imme-
diate search for a new president.
But the process could take as long
as nine months, Barber said. An
interim president will be
announced by the chancellor of
the Virginia Community College
system in the meantime.
Wheelan will take over at
Northern Virginia Community
College on July 1, following the
retirement of Richard J. Ernst,
who has held the position for 30
years. Wheelan took over at CVCC
after Johnnie Merritt, a more than
20-year veteran of the college,
retired in 1991.
Kenneth Vaughn II (c) plays Saxophone at Ed White Middle School, band
concert It was the last concert of the year in which the parents were the
Kenya Robinson, 4, celebrated her
birthday at Brown's Child Care.
! i;'? p:.oto by Doug Koonlz
w**4*-' *:« (leaded
»*ar!rh # pres*
’dent of Northern Virginia
'Cofrin'wnily College.
Former San Antonian
Wheel?
leaving
CVCC
stereotypes by some Black filmmak-
ers. rappers, and comedians, gen-
der attacks bv some Black feminists
on Black men, sclf-dcstnictive vio-
lence by some young Black males
and females, a profound leadership
gap, and conspiracy paranoia
These issues arc incessantly dis-
cussed and hotly debated within and
without the Black communities
In his new book The ('risis in
Black ami Black. Earl Ofari Hutch-
inson, Ph D , takes a deep probe of
Explosive New Book Exam-
ines Race and Class Conflict
Among African-Americans
The crisis in race relations in
America has taken many odd twists
and turns.
Perhaps the biggest twist is that
the issue of race and racism which
divides Blacks and whites has been
nearly overshadowed by an implod-
ing ensis in relations that divides
many African-Americans from one
By Brenda Edson
The News & Advance
Belle Wheelan, president of
Central Virginia Community
She said she plans to make her
another.
college announced Thursday she
crisis in Black and wlutc has now
become the modern-day ensis in
Black and Black, and what can be
done about it
(Middle Passage Press, April I99S)
own mark at the Northern Virginia
college. “The college is in excel-
lent shape,” she said. “I don’t think
anybody expects me to try and
keep up or match what’s been
done I think they expect me to cre-
ate my own mark."
One of the things that attracted
her to the college was its interna-
tional program. One of its campus-
es boasts 55 percent minority and
international enrollment
She also expects the college to
lead the way in training students
for the competitive job market of
information systems. “It will be a
challenge to meet the needs of
those businesses," she said.
will be leaving the college.
Wheelan will become the new
president of Northern Virginia
Community College.
“I’m a little shocked,” said
Wheelan Thursday. She learned of
the appointment at 11 a.m.
Thursday.
“This has been a marvelous
community, and it will be hard as
nails to leave it.” she said.
Wheelan came to CVCC in 1901
from Tidewater Community
College, where she was provost
Wheelan has worked in the
Virginia Community College sys-
tem for more than 10 years. She
joined the system as dean of stu-
dent development services for
Thomas Nelson Community
College in Hampton. Prior to that
4 she was director of academic sup-
port services for San Antonio
College in Alamo Community
College District in Texas. She
received a doctorate in education-
al administration from University
of Texas in 1904.
She became the first black and
first woman president at Central
Virginia Community College.
During her presidency, the college
has provided computers and
Internet service to all faculty, ren-
ovated the student center and
• added a new building. .
“I’ve been here seven years,”
Wheelan said. ’*The average length
of tenure for a community college
president is five years.”
The new job is definitely a pro-
Thc changing racial dynamic of I / w
the past decade is now marked by . y w^9^K\
schism and conflict between the L
Black middle-class and poor. Black t J^9
women and men. the Black intel- B"***■
lectual elite and Black rappers and M ^ 9
gang leaders, Black politicians and Jr M l
the politically-alienated Black urban *
poor, and Black conservatives and CARL OFARI HUTCHINSON
Black liberal/radicals. It has gener-
ated differing reactions to racism,
affirmative action, the commercial
exploitation and reinforcement of
(Earl ()Jari Hutchinson is author of
Tltc Assassination of tlic Black Male
Image and numerous scholarly
aricles on the Black experience.)
For Information or to ordor Dr. Hutchinson's book, The
Crisis In Black and Black, e-mail: ohutchi344@aol.com
Library named after Rosa Parks, mother of civil rights movement
State University is providing us with
today. God bless you.”
the first African-American to have a
museum-library named in their honor
by any university in the United States.
“In 1955 when I was arrested in
from of the Empire Theatre. I had no
way of knowing what the ftiture held."
Mrs. Parks arid "I warn to thank Ms.
Elaine Eason Steele, Dr. Curry. Gre-
gory Reed, and all of my volunteer
teams in Detroit who have worked
with me through the years to bring us
to this point. The students of the fu-
ture-and all of us are students-will
benefit from the opportunity that Troy
DETROIT-Mrs Rosa Parks the facts, writings, intellectual properties,
beloved Mother of the Civil Rights copyright matters, etc., in the museum
Movement, is being honored by Tray The structure will be built on the site
State University of Montgomery, Ala- where Mrs Parks was arrested in 1955
bama with a $7.5 million dollar project after refosing to give up her seat on a
composed of a library and a museum, bus to a white man-thc incident that
After nearly a year of negotiation sparked the Civil Rights Movement
with Mrs. Parks’ attorney. Gregory J. and launched Dr. Martin Luther King.
Reed, who it co-founder of Mr* Parks Jr. to national prominence.
ofganizalion-r7fc PaHa Legacy, Troy Troy Stale trustees voted to name
State's legal counsel attorney, Elaine a 40,000 sq.fl liwaiy and a 7,000 sq.fl
Sleek; and, TTOy Stale ’s president. Dr. museum loidl Mrs Parks’«ory and
Glenda Curry, an agreement was coo- those of lesser known personages in
summaied to house Mrs Parks’ arti- the civil rights struggle. Mrs Parks is
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