The Register, 1984-08-28

              tant professor of education in october of 1980 the commit tee approved the recommenda mayfield was told in february that he would not be reappointed the unc president william friday a&t chancellor ed ward b fort vice chancellor nathan simms jr and the director of admissions clen ton blount jr the suit says the defendants ter minated mayfield's employment without following the policies and practices of a&t or the laws and statues governing the university according to the carolina peacemaker , the suit names the university of north carolina board of governors mayfield who was also an undergraduate and graduate education instructor was ap pointed assistant director by former chancellor lewis c dowdy and served from 1972-1984 the former assistant direc tor of admissions benny r mayfield is suing the universi ty and several school officials on the grounds of unlawful denial of tenure and sexual harrassment of another university official tion according to a greensboro news and record,\t was in august of 1981 that mayfield inquired about his recommen dation to simms who told him the trustees had not acted on the recommendation mayfield also said simms refused to explain why or take steps to see that the board did mayfield is asking that he be reappointed to the faculty with permanent tenure and that he receives back pay and damages of not less than 6000,000 it also said dowdy recom mended mayfield to the a&t trustees personnel committe for faculty tenure as an assis * construction to start soon on engineering building jackson supports mondale roii lawrence and grady hooker help terri butler(right and kasen branham with directions to their class buildings photo by jay hall a groundbreaking ceremony for an 8.5 million engineering building was held at a&t state university on wednesday august 8 on the campus hours after he received a ring ing endorsement from john anderson the former republican congressman who broke with his party in 1980 to wage an independent cam paign for president with mondale standing at his side jackson said he was satisfied that the nominee was brining blacks hispanics and women onto his campaign staff deep and intense said jackson who frequently has publicly chided mondale for not moving quickly enough to involve blacks hispanics and women in his campaign jackson added that we have a right to be unified without being uniform asked if he had agreed to stop attacking mondale jackson said i've not been attacking him i will always reserve the right to challenge and express myself i have not taken any vow of silence mondale's meeting with jackson took place a few at a joint news conference mondale and jackson after meeting for more than two hours at the democratic nominee's home announced that they would make several joint campaign appearances my support will be broad based my involvement will be north oaks minn ap - the rev jesse jackson on tuesday announced his deep and intense support for walter mondale's presidential campaign while reserving the right to disagree publicly with the democratic candidate the democratic nominee said jackson will be working closely with me we will be campaigning together funds for the new building which will be one of the most modern of its kind in the na tion were approved by the north carolina general assemble in july of 1983 thur newell chairman of the a&t board of trustees dr suresh chandra dean of the a&t school of engineering john maye jr president of the a&t student government association a&t student dies participating in the ceremony were dr william friday president of the university of north carolina ben ruffin special assistant to n.c governor james b hunt dr edward b fort a&t chancellor dr mcar * ! somethings never change like these students waiting in the the long registraton lines graham a&t student vanessa faye graham 21 of tarboro died june 13 . she was a 1981 graduate of southwest edgecombe high surviving are her parents mrs and mrs frank graham of the home three sisters marilyn and annie graham of the home and bernice nobles of tarboro six brothers george deloatch of lagrange frank graham jr of macclesfield roy graham of rocky mount and michael graham of fayetteville bob graham of alexandria va and lomond graham of hampton va school and a rising junior at a&t state university during her two years here miss graham resided in vanstory hall m complete awareness for complete commitment volume lvi number 1 north carolina agricultural and technical state university greensboro mayfield files tenure suit tuesday august 28 1984