Fifth-Ranked Winston-Salem State Rolls Pass Bowie State

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Defending Central Interscholastic Athletic Association (CIAA) and 2011 NCAA semifinalist Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) scored 21 points in the second half and rolled to a 35-3 victory over Bowie State University (BSU) on Saturday Sept. 29 in Bowie, Md.

The Bulldogs fell to 3-2 overall on the season and 0-2 in CIAA play, while Winston-Salem State improves to 5-0 overall and 2-0 in the CIAA.

The Rams struck first on their very first possession of the game, going 64 yards in five plays before junior quarterback Kameron Smith threw a 41-yard touchdown pass to senior receiver Jahaunn Butler. Kicker Alejandro Suarez, a sophomore, added the extra point for a 7-0 lead.

Bowie State wasted no time cutting into the early first quarter Rams lead, taking the second possession 63 yards in six plays, but only managed three points on a 28-yard field goal by redshirt sophomore kicker Mario Diaz-Aviles at the 8:54 mark. Unfortunately, those would be the only points the Bulldogs would score for the rest of the game.

Winston-Salem State’s Smith tossed his second touchdown pass of the game, this time from 25 yards out to junior receiver Tehvyn Brantley early in the second quarter. Suarez converted the PAT to make the score 14-3 which is where the score stood going into halftime. read more…

Big Blues nab regional tennis tourney championships

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The men’s tennis team from Bluefield State College was tested by some of the region’s top individuals — and in some cases, by each other — and came out winners at the Atlantic Region Championship of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) on Sunday.

The three-day competition began Friday at Pennbriar Athletic Club in Erie, hosted by Mercyhurst University.

For the third consecutive year a BSC athlete has won the regional championship. Newcomer Vishwesh Sinha defeated teammate Jacob Carey 6-4, 6-1 for the singles championship.

Pitor Kruk and Carey combined to win the doubles. In the championship match, it was a three-set thriller against Sinha and Shikhar Kapur, the 2010 Atlantic Regional champion, but Kruk and Carey pulled it out by scores of 6-4, 4-6, 10-5.

It was the Big Blues’ second consecutive year winning the doubles title.

Sinha came into the tournament seeded no. 1 in the championship bracket and did not disappoint. Carey advanced to the finals as the no. 2 seed.

The Big Blues also saw success in the “B” bracket as Guatam Sreeram and Conner Pickering won the “B” doubles championship after defeating Gabe Seymour and Rico Williams from University of Charleston 8-3.

“Three out of the four semifinalists in singles were our players,” said BSC tennis coach Louis Belt. “I think it showed how deep our team is this year.” read more…

Bishop State Community College enrollment dips slightly

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Following a local trend of college enrollments, Bishop State Community College’s numbers slightly decreased this fall.

The two-year community college’s numbers went from 3,984 last fall to 3,708 students this fall.

Until this year Bishop State’s numbers had steadily increased over the past few years.

“All of our colleges are experiencing a downward trend,” said James Lowe, president of Bishop State.

While the economy is playing a role for some of the decreases, Lowe said changes in Title IV requirements are also contributing to the lower number of students. Title IV establishes rules involving student financial assistance programs.

Lowe said the school is already promoting spring enrollment, getting information out on Facebook and Twitter and other social media sources.

“What has helped us over time has been TV advertisements, radio and billboards.

“We’re getting a lot more inquiries on our Website,” said Bishop State spokesman Herb Jordan. Just from the Website alone, he said, the school is getting five to six inquiries a day. read more…

Aggies’ starting RB Drake to miss Bethune-Cookman game due to lower leg injury

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N.C. A&T starting running back Dominique Drake will be one of “three or four” Aggies players not making the trip to play Bethune-Cookman on Saturday due to injury, A&T head coach Rod Broadway said Monday.

Drake left last Thursday’s loss to Morgan State with an injury to his left lower leg, after landing awkwardly on a tackle in the third quarter.

The junior from Mount Gilead was helped off the field and could not put any pressure on his left foot. He spent the rest of the game on the sideline with crutches and a wrap around his left ankle.

Broadway said Thursday night that the initial prognosis for Drake was a sprain. He said Monday that the team didn’t yet know how long Drake would be out.

Drake, a backup running back for the past two years, won the starting job from two-time 1,000-yard rusher Mike Mayhew before the season and carried 43 times for 185 yards and four scores over the Aggies’ first four games. read more…

Bethune-Cookman University convenes first Board of Trustees meeting

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After a productive three day session, the Bethune-Cookman University Board of Trustees concluded its first meeting of the year under the leadership of John W. Harrington.  The 32 member board gathered on the Daytona Beach Campus to discuss the university’s strategic direction. Concluding its proceedings on Friday, September 28, the board was able to address critical issues regarding: institutional advancement; buildings and grounds; governance; finance; athletics; educational policies; and, student life. While engaged in the business of the university, the Board also welcomed new members, including Mrs. Michelle Carter-Scott; Rev. Annette Pendergrass; Bishop Kenneth Carter, Jr.; Mr. Russ Graves; Dr. La-Doris McClaney; and, Dr. Patrick David Roberts.

The Thursday session focused much of its attention on the selection of the presidential search firm. Trustees also discussed the role of the interim president is to heal the university from previous experiences; and, views the role of the new president as one who will lift the university to new heights. This includes evolving the student body, develop faculty, and build the endowment by locating funding sources outside of tuition costs. Trustee Hogan, Chair of the Search Committee, commented, “It is our desire to have a new President by the Spring 2013 commencement. However, we are in search of the best person to serve as President. Our timeline is flexible, and we will not let it constrain us in our pursuit of quality leadership.” read more…

Suspects accused in Five Points beating dismissed from Benedict College

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The three students accused of being involved in a recorded brawl in Five Points on September 23 have been dismissed by Benedict College.

Michael Jermel Kendrix, 22, John Cornelius Sumner, 22, and Stanley McBride, 22, are all charged with second degree assault and battery.

A spokesperson for Benedict College says the men have been administratively withdrawn from the school. In a statement, Assistant Vice President for Communications and Marketing Kymm Hunter wrote: “Students may be withdrawn administratively from the College at any time by the administration for the good of the College.”

She would not comment further.

Police believe that all three men were involved in a physical altercation with another male at approximately 2 a.m. outside of Pop’s NY Pizza at 707 Harden Street.

The suspects are accused of kicking the man and using their fists to repeatedly punch him in the head area causing lacerations and a broken jaw.

Incomplete cell phone video of the fight that surfaced on Facebook the next day shows a white male throw a punch before getting hit by at least three black men. It is unclear how or why the fight started. read more…

Romney’s message may be losing its luster in NH

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Mitt Romney is a part-time resident of this tiny state, and his fiscally conservative, socially moderate tenure as governor of neighboring Massachusetts once seemed a good match for New Hampshire’s independent and libertarian-leaning electorate.

Yet, Romney trails President Barack Obama in polls here, as he does in most other presidential battlegrounds, despite spending considerable time and money to lock up the state’s four Electoral College votes. Some New Hampshire voters say they are turned off by his shift to the right on issues like abortion, while others have absorbed the message from Obama campaign ads depicting Romney as a wealthy corporate titan who doesn’t understand the concerns of ordinary people.

“He’s just another rich, arrogant son of a gun,” said Norm Small, 61, a registered independent who runs a bowling alley in Berlin in northern New Hampshire. The town is home to many of the working-class white voters who have never embraced Obama, but interviews found many residents deeply skeptical of Romney’s fiscal policies and aura of privilege.

Small said he was offended by comments Romney made at a secretly videotaped Florida fundraiser suggesting that 47 percent of people see themselves as “victims” entitled to public assistance and are unwilling to take responsibility for their own lives. The Obama campaign is running a tough new ad in New Hampshire drawing attention to those remarks.

“The people who are getting help probably really need it,” Small said. “Romney says 47 percent of people are living off the dole? He should realize that lot of them are struggling.”

Polls until recently had shown Romney giving strong chase to Obama in a state Obama carried by nearly 10 percentage points over Republican John McCain four years ago. But a University of New Hampshire poll released Monday found Obama leading Romney by 52-37 percent among likely New Hampshire voters. read more…

Late night Savannah State shooting injures one student , Man Charged Nicholas Rashad Cox

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One student has been treated for a minor abrasion following a Savannah State shooting just after 1 am on Sunday.

At approximately 1:22 am, two campus police officers on foot patrol heard a loud commotion in the University Village.

According to an email alert to all students from the SSU Department of Public Safety, a black male discharged a handgun near two pedestrians. An officer challenged the armed man at gunpoint and the gunman fled north behind building 10 of the University Village.

One student received a minor abrasion on his leg from the gunshot and was treated at the scene by EMS without emergency transport.

The campus was immediately placed on lockdown as officers searched for the shooter.

UPDATE!!

A 23-year-old man was arrested after a shooting at Savannah State University on Friday night.

Nicholas Rashad Cox is charged with carrying a weapon on school property, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, possession of a firearm in committing a crime and criminal damage to property in the second degree, all felonies.

The investigation by Savannah State police began after a security officer witnessed three men coming out of a University Commons apartment around 11:15 p.m., two of them holding the other up. One of the men yelled to the officer that the man they were holding up had been shot, according to an incident report.

The wounded man was placed in the back seat of a white vehicle, which then left out of University Commons, and the officer radioed the incident in to dispatch, according to the report.

Two officers attempted to intercept the vehicle at the LaRoche Avenue gate, but it had already departed campus.

After officers and a detective responded and questioned residents of University Commons, police determined that Cox was the suspected shooter.

According to the report, Cox returned to his home off East Victory Drive and called Savannah-Chatham police to report he was robbed by two men at the university, and that he discharged his handgun and hit one of them.

Cox was escorted back to Savannah State and arrested early Saturday morning. He was then booked in the Chatham County Jail.

Savannah State spokeswoman Loretta Heyward said the person who was shot was not a student at the university. She said she believed he was taken to the hospital and underwent surgery, but that his injuries were not life-threatening.

Cox, she said, was a student at the university last year, but he was not enrolled in summer classes.

The case is still under investigation.

 

 

Miles defeats Benedict College, 50-7

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The Benedict College Tigers knew it would be hard to keep the explosive offense of Miles College contained. The Tigers were successful in the first half, holding the defending SIAC champions to 17 points before the Golden Bears erupted for 33 second-half points to take a 50-7 victory on Saturday.

The loss drops the Tigers to 0-5 on the season and 0-2 in the SIAC. Miles improves to 4-1 overall and 2-0 in the SIAC.

The Golden Bears gained 602 yards of total offense, including 309 yards on the ground, more than double their season average of 123. Their 293 passing yards was only slightly above their season average of 275.

“They’re a very, very good football team. They’re the strongest team in our conference and probably one of the strongest teams in the country in the NCAA DII football,” said Benedict coach James Woody. “We knew it was going to be a fast-paced game. I thought we played them good for three quarters at some times. In the first half, we were actually in the game, but we kind of ran out of gas late in the third quarter and the turnovers started taking place.”

Benedict had three fumbles in the second half, and all three led to scores for the Golden Bears.

Benedict’s sole score came on a 12-yard pass from Marcus Graham to Mujahid Assad, which cut Miles’ lead to 24-7 with 5:15 left in the third quarter.

The Golden Bears jumped out to a 14-0 lead in the first quarter, and put together a long drive at the start of the second quarter and opted to go for the touchdown on fourth-and-goal from the 2-yard line. Simeon Kelley snuffed Devonta Parker-Johnson short of the goal line. read more…

Founding church pulls funding from Barber-Scotia

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When 2012 ends, the Presbyterian group that helped start Barber-Scotia College will no longer provide the school with $200,000 in annual funding.

This month, the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board voted unanimously to stop providing the Christmas Joy Offering it gives Barber-Scotia College.

“There are guidelines for the granting of funds for that offering, and Barber-Scotia has been out of compliance for a number of years,” said Jerry L. Van Marter, coordinator of Presbyterian News Service, on Friday. “Primarily, it’s not accredited.”

Barber-Scotia, which was established as Scotia Seminary in 1867 by Rev. Luke Dorland, who was commissioned by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), lost its accreditation in 2004.

Earlier last year, Barber-Scotia’s President David Olah told the Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners that the school has worked hard to pay off its debts and was working to regain accreditation. Olah was not available for comment at press time.

The school has started two $10 million fundraising campaigns in the last three years, and the most recent was launched last year as a two-year campaign. The Faithful Promise campaign, which began in 2009, did not meet its goal, Olah said last year.

Barber-Scotia has been one of several racial-ethnic schools that have received the Christmas Joy Offering in the past, Van Marter said. Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) receives the offering every year at Christmastime, and each of the schools receives about $200,000, he said. read more…

Update: Little Rock Police Identify College Student Killed, Another Injured in Shooting

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Little Rock Police have released the names of the two college students who were victims of a Thursday night shooting that left one dead and another injured.

Both attended Arkansas Baptist College (ABC). The shooting happened around 7:15 right next to the campus at 16th & Bishop streets..

Police say Derek Olivier, 19, died after being taken to the hospital. He is reported to have suffered more than one gunshot wound. The other victim, Courtney Henry, 21, was grazed by a bullet and his injuries were not life-threatening, police said.

The men were reported to have been changing a flat tire when the suspect walked up to them and started shooting. That car belonged to a third ABC student, according to the police report. He was not injured.

The suspect is described by police as being a black man, 18 to 21 years old, 5’10”-6’0″ tall with a slender build, and weighing about 150-160 pounds. Police say he was armed with a semi-automatic handgun. read more…

Arkansas Baptist College Reacts After Student Gunned Down

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Even though there have been strides in the area near Arkansas Baptist College, the neighborhood took a tough step backwards Thursday night when a shooting claimed the life a young student.

Arkansas Baptist President Fitz Hill talked to the media Friday about this homicide, saying it’s driving him now to dig even deeper into his mission to improve this area. But he noted that he can’t do it without the community behind him.

It’s some father-daughter time on the stoop Friday evening for Connie and Earl Williams. They’ve lived in this house at 17th and Pulaski for more than 40 years, remembering the past fondly.

“There was Soul Brothers Record shop and Uncle T’s Grocery,” Connie Williams.

But current memories worry them.

“I heard gun shots and it sounded like it’s coming from that direction,” Connie Williams said.

Her father heard them too following a homicide near Arkansas Baptist College Thursday night, leaving a first-year student dead and college leaders fuming. read more…

Arkansas Baptist College supports Derek Olivier’s family after death

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Arkansas Baptist College has released a statement on the death of one of their students.

Arkansas Baptist College statement:

“On Thursday, September 27th, an Arkansas Baptist College (ABC) student was the victim of a shooting by an unknown assailant. Derek Olivier, a 19-year old freshman from New Iberia, Louisiana was standing around with a couple of other students who were changing a car tire on the corner of 16th & Bishop Street. Around 7:15 pm, an unknown assailant walked into the College’s neighborhood and opened fire, striking Olivier. The perpetrator fled out of sight on foot. Olivier was taken by ambulance to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences where he later died from his wounds.

“The Little Rock Police Department is working closely with ABC Campus Security to determine the cause and circumstances surrounding the shooting; however, no suspects are in custody at this time. read more…

Alcorn State celebrates Founders Day

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Alcorn State University celebrated 141 years and more at the 2012 Founders Day Convocation Thursday on the Lorman campus.

President Christopher Brown presented the annual Founders Day awards.

Ambassador of the Republic of Liberia to the United States of America Jeremiah C. Sulunteh served as the keynote speaker.

President Brown also shared his plans for establishing a partnership between the university z and Institutions of Higher Learning in the Republic of Liberia, and funding at least two students from Liberia to study at Alcorn. more info…

Streaking ASU Volleyball team beats Benedict

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Not many people may be paying attention, but the Albany State volleyball team is on some kind of winning streak. 12 straight match victories, all against conference competition, it’s safe to say the Lady Rams are on a roll.

Albany State dropped Benedict College Sunday at HPER gym in four sets: 14-25, 26-24, 25-17, 25-16.

After the two teams split the first two sets, ASU went to work thanks to Ashley Johnson and Jillian Anderson. Back and forth through the third set, The Lady Rams never relinquished the lead after their 16th point. read more…

Xavier University’s new St. Katharine Drexel Chapel designed with mystery in mind

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Xavier University’s new St. Katharine Drexel Chapel is designed with mystery in mind. The new $10 million dollar chapel juts like the Rock of Gibraltar toward the Pontchartrain Expressway. Thousands of commuters have watched it grow at the northeast edge of the campus for the past two years. The gem-like, faceted design is the work of César Pelli, a Connecticut-based international architecture star.

For several years Pelli’s Petronas Towers, a pair of 88-story art deco buildings in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, were the world’s tallest buildings. The sky-scraping scalloped columns, conjoined by an aerial bridge, remain an international architectural icon.

The Drexel Chapel, which is Pelli’s first-ever church design, is scheduled to be dedicated on Oct. 6 with an invitation-only Mass celebrated by Archbishop Gregory Aymond, followed by a week of Masses, tours and concerts that are open to the public.

On a recent visit to the almost-complete structure, a squad of landscapers swarmed around the chapel, quilting together squares of sod. Elsewhere, inscriptions were being sandblasted into the chapel’s stone exterior and melodies soared from the church organ as it was tested for sound. Despite the last-minute bustle, David Coon, the member of Pelli’s architectural team responsible for the construction of the chapel, found time to lead a tour.

At every step, Coon revealed elements of the logic behind the design that, he said, was guided largely by Pelli’s associate Mitchell Hirsch. read more…