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) 9 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.