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VOL. VIII
NOVEMBER 9, 1951, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
NO. I
The Clark Panther
GALA HOMECOMING UNDERWAY
Student Council
Constitution
Rejected
The Cl,ark College student body
in chapel session on October 30th
unanimously rejected the proposed
Student Council Constitution on the
grounds that it was not inclusive
(enough and did not provide for a
clear denfinition of Student Coun
cil, powers.
The proposed Constitution, drawn
up in 1949 during Neamiah Cooper’s
administration, drew special criti
cism on articles one and six. Arti
cle one states that “The powers of
the legislative body of the students
shall not exceed those of the Admi
nistrative Staff.” The student dis
cussion of this was pointed at clear
ly defining what power is in the
hands of Student Council officers.
Article six concerns classification
of Student Council officers. In the
proposed constitution a candidate
for presidency must be a junior at
the time of election; the candidate
for vice-president must be' a soph
omore; and the secretariat candi
date must be a sophomore; or a
junior. *
The changes proposed to these
articles called for junior president
ial and vice-presidential candidates
who would be seniors upon entering
office, and a candidate for secretary,
who would be a junior upon enter
ing office.
The Proposed Constitution was
discussed by the student body and
a vote for ratification resulted in its
rejection.
To speed the adoption of a con
stitution the Liberals have planned
to present a panel discussion of the
two articles which caused its re
jection and afterwards a vote is to
be taken by ballot with students
voting not for the entire constitu-
Join the N. A. A. C. P.
Eppsmen To Meet Fisk U.
Bulldogs 2:30 Saturday
A record crowd is expected to be on hand tomorrow when
the Clark Panthers meet Fisk University’s Bulldogs at Hern
don Stadium at 2:30. The Panthers, not accustomed to losing
at Homecoming will be out to redeem themselves of the loss
to Xavier last year, the first time in many years that Clark
Gridders lost a Homecoming game.
The record of the current Clark-
First Dramatics
Club Presentation
Announced
Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer
Night’s Dream” will open the dra
matics season at Clark College on
November 23 and 24, according to an
Pound-for-pound the two teams announcement by Esther M. Jack-
son, director of the College Play
house.
This monument to Shakespeare’s
greatness is a delightful comedy
built on four plots deftly interwov
en and producing a superbly amus
ing effect.
In the “Theseus-Hippolyta plot,”
Theseus, Duke of Athens, is in love
with Hippolyta, but wrongly ad
ministered love potions by the mis
chievous Puck runs this love a-
gVound.
The major plot, the “plot of the
lovers,” is highly complicated. Be
fore the play opens Demetrius loves
Helena and Lysander loves Hermia,
but when the play opens matters
different; Demetrius loves
Fisk series now stands at 1-1. The
Panthers defeated Fisk in 1949 at
Herndon Stadium 25-0, until that
time Fisk had been unbeaten in
conference play. Last year, at the
Fisk Homecoming, the -Bulldogs
turned the tables and took the game
from Clark at Sulphur Dell, 26-0.
will be about evenly matched to
morrow.
Turmon, Cannon, Jackson, Odum,
Edwards, Lewis, and Hobbs will
probable be linesmen afield at the
kickoff. Johnson, Mudrow, Harts-
field, and Solmon are possible con
tenders for the starting backfield.
Martha Lee will be crowned “Miss Clark” of 1951-’52 at the corona
tion ceremonies to be held in Davage Auditorium at 7 p. m. Tomorrow
she will be “Queen” of the Homecoming festivities.
Back the Panthers
tion but for each article separately
The date for discussion and voting are
has not yet been set.
The constitution presented the
students on October 30 Is the work
of the 1949 People’s Party under
Neamiah Cooper’s administration.
Hermia and Lysander also loves
Hermia and Helena is forsaken.
With further administering of the
love potion it turns out that Ly
sander and Demetrius love Helena
and Hermia is forsaken. Then comes
the corrective change which repro-
Members of the Student Council duces the first situation, and in
cabinet at that time were Nathaniel Puck’s words, “Jack shall have his
m _ , ir , . „. Jill; Naught shall go ill; The man
Thomas, Rose Ward, Aaron Kim- . , ,,
shall have his mare again and all
brough, Ethel Watkins and Mary
Long.
Most of the proposed constitution
was the work of the 1949 adminis
tration with the exception of a pro
vision for the creation of the office
of vice president, and a new system
of electing “Miss Clark”.
Captain Clarence Lewis, Co-Captain Larkin Bell.
(Continued On Page Four)
Seniors Win
Loyalty Drive
The Senior Class of 1951-52, with a
tremendous percentage of tickets
sold, walked away with the annual
“Miss Loyalty” contest, which reach
ed its climax in chapel on Monday
morning, October 29, thereby giv
ing the seniors the right to name
their candidate and class the most
loyal of all Clark students.
Miss Willie Maude Knowles, can
didate for “Miss Loyalty” from the
Senior Class, watched as her fellow
classmates paraded $135.00 to the
table for,a 500 percentage, taking
their third out of four “Miss Lolal-
ty” contests since arriving at Clark
as freshmen in 1948.
Miss Knowles hails from Emer
son. Ga. She is majoring in home
economics and minoring in educa
tion.
No class offered any competition
at all to the highly-touted seniors.
The freshmen had a goal of $68.75
and turned in $83.00, for a per
centage of 120 which placed them
second. The juniors were third,
having a goal of $30.00 and report
ing $34.00 for a percentage of 116.4.
The sophomores were the only
class to fall under the 100% goal.
They had a goal of $45.00 and raised
$11.46 for a percentage of 26.
The total raised was $246.40. Dr.
J. J. Dennis, chairman of the Home
coming committee was in charge of
the program.
Pfeiffer Library
To Open Nov. 12
Librarian Margaret Hunton an
nounced recently that John C. Set-
tlemayer, Director of Atlanta Pub
lic Libraries, will speak at the open
ing of the Pfeiffer Hall Library on
November 12.
The new library is the second res
idence library on the campus and
its opening will be in celebration of
National Book Week and American
Education Week which is to be a
joint observance November 11
through 17.
The first dormitory library was
opened on November 12, 1950, and
was the first stage of the library-in
-every-dormitory plan. Mrs. Charl-
iemae Rollins of the Chicago Public
Library System spoke at the dedica
tion.
Margaret Hunton, supervisor of
the library program, said that the
open shelf system is to be used, and
Pfeiffer Librarian Walter Knox will
serve only as a receiver of material
and overseer. Knox volunteered to
give his service to the library.
Contributions by Alumni, faculty,
and students have provided 130
volumes of fiction, biography, and
travel. Zachry’s men’s store has al
ready begun its subscription of Es
quire. The Men’s Administrative
Council has promised subscriptions
of two magazines. Mrs. Ruth Coch
ran of the University Homes Li
brary, Mrs. A. A. McPheeters, Dr.
Brawley, and Alumni have contri
buted to the library and there are
several student contributions.
Presently the men’s dormitory is
receiving subscriptions of “Ebony”,
“Esqiuire”, “Time”, “Negro Digest”,
“The Atlanta World”, “The Atlanta
Constitution”, “Look”, “Life”, “Pop
ular Mechanics”, “Fortune”, and
other magazines.
Former Editor
Heads Publicity At
Bethune-Cookman
Former editor of “The Clark Pan
ther” and a 1950 Clark graduate,
David Charles Collington of Fort
Lauderdale, Florida, is now Director
of Publicity at Bethune-Cookman
College at Daytona Beach, Florida.
Collington entered the School of
Journalism at Syracuse University
in the fall of 1950, and in the fall of
1951 was appointed Publicity Di
rector of Bethune-Cookman College.
Physics Instructor
Completes
Research Project
“Discharge Phenomena in Geiger-
Mueller Counters” is the name of a
research project recently completed
by Professor George A. Ferguson,
Chairman of the joint Physics De
partment of Clark and Morehouse
Colleges in Atlanta, Georgia. This
research enterprise investigated
methods of improving the Geiger-
Mueller counter—an instrument us
ed to detect radiation from active
substances. Expansion of research
in this area by governmental and
private scientific organizations sug
gest that this study might have far-
reaching effects.
Concern for the safety of work
ers exposed to active substances
(such as radium) led Professor
Ferguson to initiate the project—
which is actually an extension of
two years graduate study at the Un
iversity of Pennsylvania. The Car
negie Grant-in-Aids Program of
the Atlanta University Center pro
vided the necessary financial as
sistance.
In discussing the nature of the in
vestigation, the physicist said; “This
study was made to extend the un
derstanding of the discharges oc
curring in Geiger-Mueller counters
with the ultimate hope that more
reliable instruments may result.”
Collington served as Sports Edi
tor of the “Panther” during his jun- Vesper Speaker
ior year and in his senior year he
became Editor-in-Chief. He is a
member of the Omega Psi Phi Fra
ternity, and served as basileus of
the Clark College chapter in *49-’50.
Reverend L. Scott Allen, Pastor
Central Methodist Church will
the evening minister at Vesper sei
ice in Davage Auditorium on Su
day, November 11.