Muncie Times, Muncie, Delaware County, 2 January 1992 — Page 1

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Voi. i Number 16 - Jan. 2, 1992 “Whatever you do, strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.”

Greenwoods Defy Racism; Move Into White Community

January is Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. Birthday and Holiday Month.

It was a sneak attack that got her and her family into their dream northeast Muncie neighborhood, after 4 years of living in student quarters at Ball State University’s Anthony Apartments. Attempts to rent, buy or build the kind of home they wanted had repeatedly been thwarted by racism. In 1965, a Jewish family secretly sold them a house in northwest Muncie. They secretly moved into the house. Some of the neighbors regarded her as a maid, because this was the

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first African American family to move in. Some of them were upset. ‘‘Once some of them saw we were black, they didn’t want us here. Some of them were actually horrified. It was a very difficult introduction to Muncie,” said Dr. Theresa M. Winfrey Greenwood, “when all we wanted was just a nice home, like everyone else. But there were also some white friends who helped us.” Even now, more than 26 years later, Greenwood is tickled by the experience. “Sometimes when I don’t want to be bothered by the salesmen who come to the house, I just tell them that I am the maid. They believe it,” she said. Diet Slowly, Carefully New Year’s Day means starting back on a diet for many Americans. However, new research reveals that dieters need to take it slow and seriously. A new study found that people who lose and then regain weight often, called weight cycling, no matter what their average weight, are at a greater risk of developing frart disease and suffering a heart-re-lated death than those whose weight remains relatively constant. (cont. on pg. 4)

“The neighborhood has changed a lot. Many of those who didn’t want us here are gone. More faculty have moved into the area. A number of other blacks have also moved into this area.” She requested that the neighborhood should not be identified, to prevent “reopening old wounds.” Facing discrimination is nothing new to Greenwood, a Ball State assistant professor of elementary education who teaches in the gifted program at Burris Laboratory School. During a recent conversation in her living room, she recounted her numerous but winning confrontations with racial discrimination. She was born in Cairo, (cont. on pg. 3)

Dr. Theresa M. Winfrey Greenwood

AZT Also Combats AIDS Among Blacks. Other Minorities.Women

The benefits of AZT, in delaying disease progression AIDS among the HIV-in-fected population, also apply to HIV-infected African-Americans,Hispa-nics, women, and former users of injection drugs, according to research supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The report was published in the Nov. 20 Journal of

the American Medical Association. Previously, the benefits of AZT-for early intervention in the overall HIV-infected population--were demonstrated in two NIAID-sup-ported studies, A further examination of the data from these studies suggests that the benefits overall also apply to these four subpopulations. “This analvtiral study is

especially important in light of the changing demographics of the AIDS epidemic,” said Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of NIAID. “More and more, people of color, women, and injection drug users are being infected, and we need to know whether the treatments we prescribe are equally effective for all persons with HIV.” (cont. on pg. 7)