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The Panther, Clark College, Atlanta, Georgia
April, 1961
- EDITORIALS -
Turn Loose the Apron Strings
BY REBECCA BROWN
{Most of the students here are
rapidly approaching late adoles
cence and early adulthood. For
us this is not an easy process,
although we may tend to lessen
its imoprtance.
Many problems confront us;
we must find solutions and in
finding our solutions we run the
risk of hurting sometone dear to
us
Dr. Joyce Br o’hers u-'s noted
tnat this is the time when par
ental - child relations are very
snakey, because of the effort of
the young adult to pull away in
opposition to the effort of the
parents to keep him under
their wings.
The break must come we; will
become aidlults regardless of all
efforts to halt the process.
Therefore it is important that
we know the worth of our lives
to society. If we are to be call
ed adults we must make deci
sions after we have given them
a sufficient amount of thought
divorced from any childhood no
tions we may desire to hold onto.
And in the same light we must
be ready to face the consequ
ences of our decisions and accet
the shookks that our adult world
will dteal to us.
It is most important that we
‘turn loose the apron strings’
but it is of equal importance
that we realize that those
strings are still there for us to
reach back to when we need
them.
Panther Is for ALL Students
By Ruby Hamilton
Do not feel that because you
are not a member of the jour
nalism club your articles for
The Panther would not be ac
cepted and appreciated.
You can help to make the
school paper a much better one
by voicing and submitting your
ideas, opinions, etc., for pub
lication.
Are you creative? Can you
draw cartoons, write poetry,
construct a short story? Do
you have anything on your
mind that you would like to
share with your fellow stu
dents, instructors, or with the
administration? If you have
anything worthy of expression,
and I am sure there are many
who do, why not write about
it.
I urge you to take advantage
of yur right to “freedom of
speech.” If you do not learn
while in college to exercise
your “rights” and to exhibit
your talents, in all probability
you will not at a later time.,
We complain about being
denied this and that privilege
and opportunity, but how
many of us really appreciate
or use the ones we do have.
You knew, it is an odd thing
with many Negroes—|we are
denied so much by our “white”
brethern, and yet, we insist
upon further purseeuting our
selves by not intelligently
grasping and exercising the
powers we have. The best way
to lose anything is to stack it
away and forget about it. Don’t
let this happen to you.
Why not sit down right now
and write an article for your
paper? I invite you to send in
your reactions to this brief
statement. Drop by the Pub
licity Office (Koom 307), Ad
ministration Building - make
your contribution to The Pan
ther today.
Disposal of Radioactive Waste
Still a Problem to Scientists
By Wesley Memeger
One of the by-products of the
atomic era and the use of atom
ic energy for peaceful use is
the problem of disposal of leth
al ardio-aetive waste.
During the past decade or
so, while one arm of the Atom
ic Energy Commission has
been conducting bomb tests,
spreading radio-active mater
ials the world over, another
arm has been transporting per-
cisely the same kind of radio
active material to isolated
areas and entombing it in un
derground steellined reinforced
concrete tombs. Although
these tanks may last for about
50 years, the hope that some
permanent means of disposal
will eventually be developed.
One suggestion is to pump
high-level liquid wastes into
deep, mined-out rock salt de
posits.
This technique, however,
could be very dangerous, prin
cipally because of the possibil
ity of contaminating waters
that supply surface streams.
It is possible also that heat
generated while jumping
wastes into mined-out rock
will producee radioactcive gey
sers.
There are at present two
possible approaches for the
disposal of radioactive waste.
They are to concecntrate and
contain or dilute and desperse.
The Ato.mic ' Energy Commis
sion will continue to concen
trate and contain the hottest
waste. Only low-level radioac
tive waste is released into the
environment. This is the rea
son why most people believe
that low-level waste constitutes
the greatest present health ha
zard. i r j ,,
The Columbus, the Mohawk
and many other rivers are cur
rently beinng used to dispose
of low-level wastes; within a
few months, it is said that the
Hudson river will be used for
such disposal. The radioactive
material may be transferred
from fish in waters to human
beings through eating.
The disposal of wastes is
carefully guarded by max
imum permissible levels for
human exposure set up by
various national and interna
tional bodies. The so-called
“maximum permissible level”
is by no means a safe level.
It is impossible to have a com
pletely safe level of radiation.
These are the facts, so now
what will be our ultimate re
section toward this serious
problem?
Festival of
Music And Art
Begins
April 25
Reading - A Very
Fine Pastime
“There is no frigate like a
ibook
To take us lands away,
Nor any courses like a page
otf prancing poetry.
Emily Dickinson
The above is very true, but
not as far as the Clark Col
lege stutcDent body is concerned.
How many times have you
come into the “dorm” from
dinner, tired of listeing to the
same records over and over
again, and bored to death of
playing cards (two of Clark’s
most famous outlets), and not
being able to do anything amus
ing or mischievious to do to
your roomate, fallen off into
slumber land to pass the time?
I’m sure most of us are guilty
of this, but I think I have a
solution, or at least an attempt
at one.
The Clark student has at his
disposal several libraries con
taining books, upon books. No,
this time I’m not referring to
text books but plain, old-fashion-
ad novels, biographies or poetry
books.
To read a text - book and get
something out of it as far as
facts are concerned is one thing,
but to read a novel and enjoy it,
to see through it your life and
still get something out of it is
another. There is such a wealth
of learning in books. Biographies
make you idealistic, encourage
you to reach goals once thought
to be unattainable, adventure
stories take you to far off some
what romantic lands, and love
stories, well love stories are just
plain enjoyable.
Now that your curiousity has
been arrounsed (I hope), and
you are preparing to rush right
down to the Hunter Street Li
brary, let me add this though:
choose some books written by
Negr authors and poets. Wheth
er you realize it or not, we have
a great heritage behind us. Our
peopie have written works des
tined to become classics. Such
names as Langston Hughes,
Countee Cullen, Janies Weldon
Johnson, Richard Wright, and
Paul Lawrence Dunibar are im
mortal.
Negro Protest Changes
Old Stereotype View
By Eugene Strozier
Never before in the history
of the South or of the Nation
has the Negro initiated a more
effective protest in attempts to
eradicate the existing discrim-
atry practices as is now rev-
olutioninzing the entire south-
east.
What does this mean in re
lation to so-called tradition? It
simply means that the Negro
oof today is rapidly emerging
as a “new” Negro completely
different from his stereotyped
ancestors of the past. I furth
er is an indication that the
Negro has come to realize that
no longer is he satisfied with
his status in a form of govern
ment whose basic principle is
“Equality for all regardless of
race, color, or creed.” It is for
these reasons, therefore, that
the Negro must no longer be
regarded as a mere automation
who must respond to his mas
ter’s orders, but as one who is
capble of reflecting for him
self.
This is why certain mem
bers of the White race are ter
ribly disturbed. They can no
longer devise ways, through
legal means nor by force, to
prevent the shift toward an
integrated society. The Negro
has presented such a problem
Clarkites Roll Merrily
Along with New Bus
Standing proudly on its six
new wheels, a shining mobile-
unit came to a screeching halt
in the center of our campus sev
eral months ago. Those who had
not anticipated this arrival were
held spell-bound. While beaming
in the sun, it attracted curious
stares, a collection of oh’s and
ah’s and several committees who
appointed themselves to inspect
or investigate its arrival and all
it had to offer.
Right away it was christened
the “new Doodle-bug”, daughter
of the old Doodle-bug. She pos
sessed her mother’s air of dign
ity—which never faltered even
in her old age, or with the in
sults of time. Her exterior com
plexion is a deep rose and a dull
black in contrast to her immedi
ate ancestor’s fading red and de
teriorating black. Inside she is
luxuriouslq furnished with red
and white seats—that reclines!
She is definitely a product of her
heredity in as much as they have
the same shape and form—the
huge nose and large eyes and
the stubby appearance. How
ever, she has outgrown her elder
in height and size.
This youthful vehicle seats 24
persons and a driver in contrast
to the elder’s capacity to seat 12
and a driver.
She has the same size win
dows even though there is an
expansion of them. The rear
door is stall in the rear fr the
same purpose. (Once humorous
ly stated to be used as an es
cape hatch if fire breaks out in
the middle of the but or to throw
out trash—or basketball play
ers who make bum showings.
No doubt many unforgettable
trips waM be taken in our latest
“pride and joy” and it will live
ito survive in 'this struggle for
existence. Surely it will have
served its purpose well just as
her mother when time comes to (
hang up her wheels and a new
generation of Doodle-bug, III
will come on the scene.
DO THE BEST
JAMES BRIDGES
Wait not until tomorrow, to
day is the time to act. Who
knows what tomorrow may
bring? There may never be a
chance as the one we have now,
so work, take advantage of our
opportunities. Competition is get
ting very keen and frankly, if
we are not prepared to do our
best, quality will eliminate us
from climhbing stairs of success.
We must as Socrates said:
‘Know thyself.” We must develop
ourselves to our highest abilities
and work more than desire in
order to accomplish the best
that life can give that is con
tentment after finding a place
in the world sincerely derided.
Then as novelist, Betty Smith
said, “Tomonon will be bet
ter.”
II——III ■! !!■——ill !!■■■■■—■lonTumirn
SENIORS!
Come to the alumni
office at your earliest
convenience
to them until they find it im
possible to obtain a solution.
And inn detecting this impos
sibility, many are forced to ad
mit defeat.
Yes, the Negro has forced
himself through stone walls of
imprisonment, and having
found himself released, he has
demanded that he be regarded
as a human being with all the
rights in which God Almighty
has seen ift to endow.
IS YOUR FUTURE
MAPPED?
Robert Benchley, the Ameri
can humorist, once said of his
college education, “Mye colleg
education was no haphazard af
fair. My courses were all select
ed with a very definite aim in
view, with a serious purpose in
mind—no classes before eleven
in the morning or after two-
thirty in the afternoon, and
nothing on Saturidlay at all. That
was my slogan. On that rock
was my education bulit.” Bench-
ley went on to say, “My system
of studying was very strict. In
lecture courses I had my note
books so arranged that one half
of the page could be devoted to
drawing five-pointed stars, girls’
heads, and tick-tack-toe. Some
of the drawings in my economics
notebook in the course on Early
English Trade Winds were the
finest things I have ever done.
One of them was a whole tree
with every leaf in perfect detail.
"These notes I would take
home after the lecture, together
with whatever supplementary
reading the course called for.
Notes and textbooks would
then be placed on a table under
a strong Lamplight.
“At this point it was neces
sary to light a pipe, which in
volved going to the table where
the tobacco was.
“As it happened, on the same
table was a poker hand, all
dealt, lying in front of a vacant
chair. Three other chairs were
oddly enough occupied by stu
dents, also preparing to study. It
therefore resolved into some
thing of a siminar, or group con
ference, on the courses under
discussion. For example the first
student would say: ‘ I can’t
open.’ The second student would
perhaps say the same thing.
The third student would say:
‘I’ll open for fifty cents.’ And
the seminar would be opei.
“At the end of the sem nar I
(Continued on page 3)
Dr. Lincoln’s Book
Soon to Appear
The Black Muslins in Amer
ica, a book written by Dr. C.
Eric Lincoln, is the first ex
tended study of the Black
Muslins—a movement of near
ly 100,000 Negroes, who preach
hatred of the white man and
foresee a future of complete
autonomy.
It is praised by the famous
pstcliologist, Gordonn W. All
port, as “one of the best tech
nical case studies in the whole
literature of social science.”
The Black Muslins in America
provides an index to the state
of racial tension in the United
States today!
Although the movement,
with its attack on Christianity
and its array of symbols,
myths and rituals, is extrem
ist in its reaction to discrim
ination in America, the author
feels that it reflects the dis
content and disillusionment of
all Negroes, who find that the
pattern of desegregation has
been slow and painful.
Written in a crisp, vivid
style, thoroughly reasearohed
and intelligently organized,
this book will be eagerly re
ceived by all who desire an
improved understanding of
race relations.
Dr. Lincoln visited Muslin
temples along the Eastern Sea
board, in the South and in the
Midwest. He includes here
some of his conversations with
Muslim members and clergy.
In addition to his training in
social psychology,