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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
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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.
Safe Passage plans to start building a bigger shelter in Rock
Hill in November or December.
It will have six bedrooms and bathrooms and offices, as well
as play, dining and laundry areas for as many as 25 people.
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