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___EtCetera_ _ _ _ Wake Forest University seeks to [ remove scholarship restriction Associated Press WINSTON SaL£M — Wake Forest University lawyers have asked a court to strike a “whites-only ” clause from a scholarship established in 1961 to benefit medical stu dents. i “This is certainly an anachronism,” said Mark Wight, a spokesman for the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. The clause is part of 38-year-old agreement that es tablished the Dr. Hillory M. Wilder Scholarship Fund for “capable and earnest young men and women of the mkttn ro/*n ** The scholarship was funded by Kenneth and Ce leste Wilder Blake, who left part of their estate to Wtke Forest University for a scholarship to honor her father and help pay the way of medical students. The Blakes’ gift produces S18,000 to $26,000 a year for scholarships. School officials said no minority stu dent was ever denied money because of the restric tion in the Wilder scholarship. “There’s always been plenty of money for anybody, especially minorities,” Wight said. Lawyers for the school filed a petition in Forsyth Superior Court last week to release the race restriction, which was discovered recently by someone raising mon ey for the school. Wight said he hoped the court could make a decision “in a matter of weeks.” The petition says the racial restriction is “impos sible, inappropriate and impracticable” and would vi olate the Civil Rights Act. Removing the clause would not change the purposes of the scholarship, the school argues. Wake Forest officials, who were not aware of the clause until recently, have been unable to locate any of the Blake’s heirs in recent years, and have not tried to locate any as a result of the legal case, Wight said. Tuition at the medical school is $27,500 a year. About 430 students attend the school. The Blakes left a similar scholarship to Duke Uni versity’s medical school to honor Wilder, a Charlotte UUllUl. “We had that language in from the beginning. In 1979, the language was changed so that now the scholarship goes to Protestant residents of North Car olina,” said Richard Merritt, a spokesman for Duke Medical Center. He could not immediately say whether the change involved a court order. Lee Hampton, vice chancellor for university ad vancement at Winston-Salem State University, said race specific scholarships were not unusual in the 1960s. Many schools subsequently eliminated the clauses limiting the scholarships to whites, and some public uni versities recently have changed many scholarships that were set aside for minorities. Hampton has spent two years at WSSU removing requirements that certain scholarships be given only to blacks. “It goes both ways,” he said. “We can’t do that either.” In 1997, the University of North Carolina system began assessing its scholarship program to make sure it complied with a 1994 decisioij by the 4th U.S. Cir cuit Court of Appeals. The court struck down a state scholarship program for black students at the Univer sity of Maryland at College Park. But while the UNC system was reviewing the va lidity of its affirmative actio^programs, Duke Univer sity tripled the amount of its primary minority schol arship program for 1998. Duke’s Reginaldo Howard Scholars program, named for the first black person elected student body presi dent, offers annual scholarships to about five incom ing black freshmen each year. Mel Gibson gives to local charity shelter Associated Press Rock Hll—When Mel Gibson leaves South Carolina after film ing his latest movie, “The Patriot," he’ll be remembered here for playing a large part in expanding a local domestic violence shel ter. Gibson made a sizable contribution to the Safe Passage Inc. shelter this past week, Executive Director Peggy Payne said. She would not say how much Gibson donated, only that “it’ll go a long way toward our new facility we’re building.” Gibson’s publicist, Alan Nierob, confirmed the donation but said the actor does not like to comment on his philanthropic work and contributions. Gibson does not necessarily make contributions in areas where he is filming, Nierob said, but in this case the actor chose Safe Pas sage Inc. from a list of South Carolina charities compiled at his re quest. “He found a place he thought would benefit greatly,” the pub licist said. 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