Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 2001 — Page 9

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2001

THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER

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More whites are attending historical Black colleges

I,: By KEITH PARSONS FORT VALLEY, Ga. (AP) — Georgia's historically Black public colleges have always had a spattering of white students, but that h^s increased in recent years as rflpre youngsters choose to attend school close to home. V| More than 500 white students intend Fort Valley State, Savannah State and Albany State. Although ipost are still nontraditional students, more and more are traditipnal college age. Alisha Hall went to Fort Valley Sfate because it is one of only two cpjleges in Georgia — the other is the University of Georgia in Athens — to offer a degree in family education science. •, "I wanted to come to a small school in a small town," said Hall, fr.om the south Georgia town of lyjoultrie. "I’ve always thought it was better to be a big fish in a little pond than a small fish in a big ppnd." j .Of course, it's still surprising to sep white faces on this campus, where Blacks from middle Georgia have been educated for more man a century. "When I first walked in last fall, iLgot very quiet,” she said. "But now everybody is real nice." Still, Hall never really felt like sfje was fully a part of the campus

life. She lived off campus and never attended any school functions — no sporting events, no fraternity or sorority parties. She was involved with just one extracurricular activity, the Family Consumer Science Club, made up of students in her major. “It’s helped grade-wise, though. I’ve had much better grades now that I don’t have a social life,” said Hall. 22. "The minority students on campus really don't become part of the college experience," said Walter Kimbrough, vice president for student affairs at Albany State. “They're not involved with oncampus activities, and that’s a shame.” "At any school, whether it be an historically Black college or a typical state school with low AfricanAmerican enrollment, the minority student needs to totally immerse themselves in that culture,” Kimbrough said. “They have to or they’re not going to survive." April Collins, a senior at Fort Valley, says she sees white students in class, but most of them don’t take part in many activities. “I think if they go to school here, then everyone should participate in school activities,” she said. Debbie Faccento. director of minority recruitment at the col-

lege, says it takes time to change racial attitudes, especially in a town like Fort Valley, where the school is literally on the wrong side of the tracks. “For many years, those railroad tracks were the division of the town," said Faccento, who is white. "I don't see it that much anymore. We have a lot of integrated neighborhoods, and things are getting better." Faccento took her current job in 1995, and she says the school becomes more integrated every year. Still, when she attends college fairs as a Fort Valley State representative. the reaction is sometimes comical. “When I’d go to big college fairs. I’d put a yearbook out on the front of my table,” Faccento said. "And the high school students would walk by and start looking through the yearbook, and they see all these African-American faces. "They look up at me, and then back down at the book, and they just can't figure it out. Eventually, they’ll ask if Fort Valley State is a historically Black college." But now she’s gained the trust of the students, staff and alumni. It's like I had to prove my loyalty to the school at first," Faccento said. “But now I’m just Debbie from Fort Valley.”

WINDOWS and DOORS

The first time * Dear God. of love and shout, “I love you." •'■This won’t be the first time I’ve walked through Dear God. it will be the first time I open my eyes thVs snow. and realize how blessed I truly am. It won’t be the first time my hands and lips grow I will no longer listen to others before listening to nUmb from the cold. my heart. ' It won't be the first time I cried. I will no longer allow love to break a bruised heart ' It won’t the first time I hated so much I wished that or run away from my problems and mistakes, a persdn would die. I will no longer lie before telling the truth. 'It won't be the first time my heart ached from the This will be the last time I sit and wait for someone htirt and pain it carried inside. else to pull me out of this abuse — the last time I judge Itwon'tbethefirsttimelmadeamistake.actedout without knowing, of hate or gave up hope. It will be the last time I feel guilty for making the It will be the first time I accepted responsibility for right choice, my actions and wiped my tears to press on. DearGod, this will be the last time I will ever doubt It will be the first time I replaced hate with love and you. death with life. — Simply Phillip Brown It will be the first time I told the truth and acted out

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