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Wednesday • November 2, 1994
The Battalion • Page 5
Despite drastic layoffs, NAACP
employees agree to work unpaid
BALTIMORE (AP) — The NAACP is laying off
most of its 100 employees because of a $3.5 million
deficit it blames on former executive director Ben
jamin Chavis, a board member said Tuesday.
Many of the staffers are planning to work with
out pay, so the nation’s oldest civil rights group
won’t shut down, said the board member, Joseph
Madison, a Washington radio personality.
Calls to the NAACP’s national headquarters in
Baltimore were not immediately returned.
NAACP board members have accused Chavis of
running up the deficit. Chavis has said he inherit
ed the debt from his predecessor, Benjamin Hooks.
Hooks has denied that.
Chavis was ousted in August after it was dis
closed that he had agreed, without the board’s
knowldge, to pay $332,000 in NAACP money to
settle sexual discrimination allegations brought by
a former employee.
Board member Hazel Dukes said she was not
informed of any layoffs. A staffer at NAACP head
quarters told her she got a call at home Sunday
and learned she had been laid off.
“This is a very drastic move,” Madison said.
“This isn’t a move anybody would take lightly.”
The layoffs will affect at least 80 employees in
the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People’s national headquarters in Balti
more and seven regional offices throughout the
country, Madison said.
The NAACP has regional offices in Atlanta,
Baltimore, Dallas, Detroit, Lqs Angeles, New York
arid St. Louis.
Several calls to Earl Shinhoster, the NAACP’s
interim administrator, weren’t immediately re
turned. A receptionist in NAACP chairman
William Gibson’s South Carolina dental office said
Gibson couldn’t be reached for comment.
Calls to eight board members weren’t returned.
Board member Leroy Warren said he was told by
a member of the executive committee late Saturday
that the staff would be furloughed for a week.
“I don’t think the money is coming in like it
was,” Warren said. “It’s like anything. When you
have money problems, you furlough.”
Madison said an executive committee member
told him that the committee made the decision
during a telephone conference over the weekend.
The board recently ordered an audit of spend
ing by its officers, including Chavis and Gibson,
since 1989. Madison said a preliminary review of
the NAACP’s finances probably led to the layoffs.
Gay shooting represents minute
portion of gay harassment cases
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Just blocks from the
Castro district, the very center of San Francisco’s
gay community, Victor Rohana was pinned to a
wall with a four-wheel-drive vehicle and shot in
the chest, apparently because he was holding
hands with his boyfriend.
Civil rights advocates said the shooting was
an example of the growing ferocity of attacks on
homosexuals.
“Whereas in 1992, sbmebody may have just
yelled, ‘Faggot, ! now they’re yelling, ‘Faggot’ and
clubbing you or raping you,” said Leslie Addison of
Community United Against Violence.
Police developed a composite sketch of the sus
pects, young men in their late teens or early 20s,
and Mayor Frank Jordan offered a $10,000 reward
for information leading to the arrest arid convic
tion of the person responsible.
“It is dismaying to think that in a city that is
known for acceptance of individual freedom that
this senseless act of violence still occurs,” he said.
On Sunday, 24-year-old Victor Rohana and
Steven Damron were walking to their car after
dining in a neighborhood restaurant. Just after 10
p.m,, two men in a white Suzuki Samurai drove by
and yelled at them, Damron said.
Rohana said something to the men before turn
ing to catch up with his friend, Damron recalled.
The driver backed up about 100 feet to block their
path, jumped the curb onto the sidewalk and
pinned Rohana against a wall.
Damron said the passenger stuck a pistol out
a window and shot Rohana, who was in satisfac
tory condition Tuesday. The bullet pierced Ro-
hana’s lung, missing his heart by about an inch,
Damron said.
“Maybe they just thought it was macho to shoot
a gay guy,” Damron said. “They made a judgment
that being gay was bad and their way of express
ing that was to shoot Victor.”
Officer Sandy Bargioni of the police Hate
Crimes Unit spent Monday stuffing fliers and the
drawing of the attackep into mailboxes near where
the attack occurred.
Rohana wasn’t the type to look for a fight, said
a friend, Steven Underhill. “He’s very quiet and
shy, certainly one of the most sweet, kind individ
uals I’ve ever met,” he said.
Last year there were 366 anti-gay attacks and
incidents of harassment reported in San Francis
co, said Lester Olmstead-Rose, executive director
of Community United Against Violence. The group
believes that only-about 10 percent of harassment
is actually reported to police.
“People come in from outside the city to attack
people. A group of kids get in a car in Walnut
Creek and decide to drive into the Castro to get
some fags,” Addison said. “It’s not like someone’s
walking down the street and sees a gay person
and gets upset,”
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