Jim Lamar, a Tallahassee native and graduate of Florida A&M University, becomes sports editor of the Tallahassee Democrat, effective Monday.
"Jim grew up wanting to be the sports editor of this newspaper. He loves the community and he knows it well. He understands our need to play at a high-level in covering our big-time programs at Tallahassee Community College, Florida A&M and national powerhouse Florida State," said Executive Editor Bob Gabordi in announcing Lamar's appointment.
Continue reading: Rattler takes over Democrat sports pages
I will be watching the slant his editing takes.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations. Let us keep rising to the top and fighting to keep our HBCUs alive. We need them...
ReplyDeleteBlacks, Hispanics rebound from death of preferences
BERKELEY, CALIF. | Enrollment back up - with a catch
May 7, 2007
BY MICHELLE LOCKE
BERKELEY, Calif. -- A fit of spring-cleaning led Eric Brooks to a box of old newspaper clippings from 1997. That's when he was the lone black student enrolled in the incoming law school class at the University of California, Berkeley, following the end of affirmative action.
He didn't read them. That box doesn't hold pleasant memories.
''I felt bad for myself at the time because of my situation, but worse for the people who were denied admission,'' said Brooks.
Ten years later, the numbers of underrepresented minorities at UC have rebounded at the under- graduate level, although they haven't kept pace with high school graduation rates. But more blacks and Hispanics are also going to lesser-known branches of the 10-campus system and fewer to the flagships of Berkeley and UCLA.
Meanwhile, the movement toward race-blind admissions is spreading. Florida, Texas and Michigan have rewritten their admissions rules.
Ward Connerly, the UC regent who started it all, is taking his campaign for race-blind admissions to as many as five more states next year, including Colorado, Missouri, Oklahoma and Arizona.
''If things unfold the way I am predicting they will unfold,'' Connerly said, ''I think we are witnessing the end of an era.''
The year Brooks enrolled, 14 black students were admitted to UC's Boalt Hall School of Law, but none attended. He had been admitted the year before and deferred a year.
Last fall, 13 black students enrolled, a big increase from 1997 but still below the mid-'90s totals of 20 or more.
And with more blacks and Hispanics graduating from high schools now than 10 years ago, the gap between those numbers and UC enrollment has widened.
''The bottom line on Proposition 209, from where I sit, is it has continued to suppress enrollment,'' said Ed Tom, director of Boalt admissions.
But does it matter if the numbers of black students dip at elite campuses?
''Not to me it doesn't,'' said Connerly. ''As long as all of our kids have an equal chance to get an education.''
AP
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Not to change the topic— but it seems that FAMU has cut off international calls and faxes. Anyone know if this is the start of something bigger?
ReplyDelete10:35- You're right on point with my concrens. It's strange how the people here alphabetize, even the phonebook and street information signs are wrong. I'd rathr no coverage,than overlook coverage.
ReplyDeleteGive me a break dat nig** is a puppet remember both Gainous and Bryant were FAMU Alum and for what it is worth I wish they were not! Having said that, only time will tell if they are about serving FAMU!!!
ReplyDeletehe is a white guy by the way and believes that hbucs should recruit more minorities and create more diversity.
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