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The Panther MAY, 1965 7 Dr. J. C. Evans Speaks Dr. J. Claude Evans, Chap lain of Southern Methodist Uni versity, Dallas, Texas, was the Religious Emphasis Week speaker March 7 through 10. Dr. Evans brought several in teresting speeches that was challenging to the sudent body as well as faculty. He held conferences and dis cussions with the student body and faculty. His visit to Clark was inspirational. Dr. Evans became chaplain of Southern Methodist Univer sity in September 1957. He is author of The Word, The World and the Sacrament, a paperback book published by the Board of Education of the Methodist Church, and has contributed articles to Pulpit, Christian Ad vocate, and other journals. Dr. Evans’ Topics for dis cussion during this week were: 1. “What We Need Less of —Religion’’ 2. On Doing the Truth 3. A Contemporary Christian Style of Life. AKA's Celebrate Sisterhood Week April 2, marked the begin ning of the annual Sisterhood Week celebration for Alpha Pi Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. In conjunction with this celebration, the sorors of Alpha Pi chose as their theme, “Extending Our Bonds of Sis terhood.” The week was highlighted by a series of activities including a chapel program, an apprecia tion tea for the faculty and staff, a fashionetta, a seranade, a mid-week prayer service, a freshman shindig, an all-greek ball, and an Easter egg hunt for third graders at John Hope Ele mentary School. This year’s celebration was marked by an innovation in ac tivities, an appreciation tea for the faculty and staff. In an ex pression of gratitude and ap preciation, the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorors entertained the faculty and staff at an afternoon tea held in the Georgia Williams Brawley Lounge. The annual fashionetta proved to be an outstanding success, as young ladies paraded to the music of the Billy Mit chell Trio. Models for this af fair were from Clark and Spel- man. The program also featured guest models from the House of Dior Wig Salon and hats by Dunson. The moderator for the fashionetta was Miss Dorothy Moore. During Sisterhood Week, all sorors rededicated themselves to one idea — “Greater laurels to win, greater tasks to begin.” WE THANK YOU . . . CLARK CDLLEGE OFFICE Of fuiuciTY April 2 6, 1965 The Panther Staff Clark College Atlanta, Georgia 30314 Dear Staff: We would like to thank you for your cooperation and help in making our school paper "The Panther'' a success this school year. We also extend our thanks to the Yearbook Staff for the splendid job done in helping meet the deadline for publication. We are sure that you will be proud of your work as well as the products you have produced. May all of you have a pleasant summer. Truly yours, Ivan P. Hakeem Advisors — NOTICE— The Business Office Would Like to Help You Each year upon registration, the lines are held up because of some small item left undone by you. It can be avoided if you would only follow a few instructions. In their efforts to be of assistance to you in meeting your fi nancial responsibilities for matriculation at Clark College for the 1965-66 school year, The Business Office has provided you with the following information: (1) If you are planning to enroll at Clark College for the 1965- 66 school year, you are required to pay an advanced de posit of $25.00 (which will be credited to your account but is not refundable nor can it be credited to another regis tration period). This deposit must be made not later than August 1, 1965, by a student entering the second semester, not later than January 15. If you do not indicate which semester you wish to enroll by paying the advanced de posit, a late fee of $10.00 will be assessed which will neither be credited to the account nor refunded. (2) Boarding students should register with a minimum credit to their account of $484.50 and off-campus students with $327.50. IN RARE INSTANCES MAY NOT BE ABLE TO MEET THE TOTAL ENTRANCE PAYMENT AT THE TIME OF REGISTRATION, in such event it is his responsibility to consult with the Business Manager well in advance of registration with regard to the possibility of working out a satisfactory plan of payment. This may be the answer to the long hours of registration. ALL PAYMENTS ON STUDENTS’ ACCOUNTS SHOULD BE MADE BY CERTIFIED CHECK, MONEY ORDER OR CASHIER’S CHECK, AND SHOULD BE MADE PAYABLE TO CLARK COLLEGE. DO NOT MAKE CHECKS OR MONEY ORDERS PAYABLE TO INDIVIDUALS. PERSONAL CHECKS WILL NEITHER BE ACCEPTED FOR APPLICATION ON STUDENTS’ ACCOUNTS OR CASHED FOR STUDENTS. (3) Registration period for the first semester is September 13- 14 for advanced students. Students registering after Septem ber 14 will be charged a late registration fee of $5.00 for the first day and $2.00 per day thereafter. (4) The following scholarships, grants-in-aid and loans are available for students who are in need of financial assist ance and who meet the academic requirements where appli- able. The Aids Are As Follows: Scholarships and Grants-in-Aid The National Defense Student Loan Program Part-time Employment National Methodist Scholarships Methodist Student Loan Fund Georgia Conference, The Methodist Church United Student Aid Fund Funds from Other Sources. Please contact the Business Office, President's Office or Regis trar's Office for information regarding these aids. In the truest service the consciousness of self is for gotten—you help because you cannot do other than help. Hats off for Miss Magby for her services ren dered to 'Panther’ and made its publication a suc cess this school year. THE VALUE OF VALUES- (Continued from Page 2) ideal state described in Plato’s The Republic. Plato's ideal republic incorporates a type of caste system of workers, warriors, and philoso pher-kings reminiscent of the ideal beehive, in which there is no desire for self-realization, no freedom, but only a blind devotion to the prescribed task. Plato’s paramount concern is not the happiness of individuals but the stability of the state. Combining with the Greek ideal is the Christian ethical ideal found in the teachings of Jesus. In the hierarchy of the ethical teachings of Jesus, the value of self stands supreme. Jesus places greater value on man than anything else; Jesus teaches that man is the end and all other things are means. Jesus does not reject the principles of liberty and equality, tacitly denying the value and human dignity of the individual, which brutal dictators condoned. Kant, Mill, Bentham, Jesus and the Greek ideal ... is an indivi dual to find his standard of values among these ethical teachings? Presumably yes, but only if the individual prudently selects those that are conducive in satisfying motives, human actions and attitudes, conforming to his needs. Attempting to adopt all five ideals with the purpose of correlating them is to invite enigma. About two decades ago Mussolini used the heinous technique of deliberately lying to the common people in his totalitarian state. He anticipated the dangers of a malcontent people; hence, he lied to them and assured himself of a happy people. Each lie, regardless how small, compounded the big lie, the penult in moral chicanery. Coeval with Mussolini was Hitler, half-mad savant and egomaniac, who started with book burning. He had all the published volumes authored by two of Germany’s triumvirate of quintessential poets — Schiller and Heine — burned because they were Jews. Private as well as public collections were consigned to consuming flame. Not content with his adult vandalism, Hitler pushed the diabolic book burning beyond the limit of the common dignity of man when he initiated the Naza pogrom hat would eventually include genocide. Mass extermination of the Jews, complete and callously contrived! The mind that gave birth to these evils was morally depraved, dehumanized, desensitized to any values. Several years ago a newspaper headline caught the attention of many readers. Former Premier Khrushchev had bitterly denounced ex-dictator Joseph Stalin as a “murderer and instigator of mass repres sion against Communist and army leaders." Paradoxically, Khrushchev is an apt choice to receive similar indignation because he himself has been ankle deep in blood baths of his own making. Is he not responsible for the purging of Beria? How many others were sent to their deaths ... the obscure, the anonymous, the helpless? Again the little lie, minuscule yet compounding another lie. During the latter part of the eighteenth and early fourteenth centuries, the university student (some prefer scholar) sought knowl edge and wisdom — the only true goal in the education process. Today the student, even though he goes through the motions of investigating into truth or reasoning upon truths supposed to be discovered, finds his knowledge restricted to a small segment of life. This is the age of the tidy package. Knowledge comes in a special package too. The mind is compartmented to accept only those segments of knowledge that apply to a particular area of study. Incidental knowledge is pigeon-holed in the “unrelated information section," stultifying from little use or non-use, and never organized into any consistent whole. Today’s student has no time to integrate knowledge. Many educational institutions see to it that he does not. They place too much emphasis upon stipulated hours, grades, and the passing of examinations at prearranged times during the school year. Examinations impel the ill-prepared student to cheat. He passes only because he illegally solicits assistance from a prepared colleague, or he passes because he resorts to the equally abhorrent technique of the clandestine note. In reality this is the simplest way to promote and attain standards and values — false standards and values, that is. Some persons cheat all their lives. One may well ponder his willingness to have a medical doctor prescribe a cure for him, knowing in advance the doctor cheated his way through medical school. Motivation is lacking, or worse, misplaced. The medieval student was motivated by a religious interest. The university student today, if he is motivated, attends for one of three reasons — economic status, social status, and that rarity of rarities, the love of learning. Winning the degree is a passport into the already replete society of aesthetes. The degree is mere embellishment, the filigree of good taste in an approving society lacking moral values. The degree does not make the holder a scholar, nor does the degree guarantee the holder prescient powers to recognize and appreciate beauty, truth, goodness and values.