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8 MAY, 1965
The Panther
Student Travel Made Easier By New Coed Club
Champions shown presenting trophy and basketball to President Brawley in chapel
program.
Panthers Roll Up Championship
Clark College's 62-61 victory over Bethune-Cookman in the
finals of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Basket
ball Tournament at Tuskegee this year climaxed a series of tour
nament efforts in which the Panthers made five consecutive near
misses at the championship in five consecutive years.
The Clarkites have probably
played more tournament games
since 1960 than any other
SIAC team. In 1960, 1961 and
1962 they took third places at
the tournament. In 1963 they
placed second. Last year they
came back to Atlanta with
fourth place and this year cham
pionship.
These are by no means the
only years of prominence for
Clark in basketball, however,
for it is seldom that Clark teams
fail to bring home a trophy
from the tournament. The last
time they won the top trophy
was in 1955, and they won a
visitation crown in 1952. In
1950 the Clarkites won third
place, and in 1951 they won
second place at the tournament.
This year Clark missed out
on the Visitation championship
by a single game, nosed out by
Bethune-Cookman whom they
later met and defeated in the
tournament finals.
Clark rode to the tournament
championship on victories over
Benedict and South Carolina
State. They overcame a Beth
une-Cookman lead in the final
six minutes of the tournament
finals to win the championship.
Craig Morgan, a three year vet
eran, cinched the game for
Clark with two free-throws.
Clark’s Ronald Jackson and
Sam Brown were named to the
All Tournament team. Jackson
is from Chicago and Brown is
one of seven New Yorkers on
the Clark team. Their coach is
L. S. Epps, who has piloted
Clark's basketball team since
1950.
A new organization to revo
lutionize coed student travel has
been launched from New York
City. It is the Trans-Atlantic
Student Association with offices
at 387 Park Avenue South.
The Trans-Atlantic Student
Association (TRASA) was
formed by a group of recent col
lege graduates to remove the
frustrations of student travel and
to bring overseas travel within
the budget of every student in
the United States.
Special features of the
TRASA plan include financing
for vacations, air transport ar
rangements, group tours and
accommodation in major Euro
pean cities for TRASA mem
bers. In addition, the organiza
tion will operate a student
nightclub in New York City and
will provide students with a
wide variety of travel services,
advice and publications. It has
reciprocal club facilities in
major European cities where its
members can meet European
students and take part in genu
ine European student life. In
this way, TRASA’s organizers
believe a European visit will be
come more enjoyable and more
worthwhile. The aim is to
achieve integration with Euro
pean student activities and not
to make gawking tourists out of
American students.
The organization will publish
The Free Thinkers Organize
It has been a year now since an overwhelming enthusiasm and
fervor besieged a small group of people on this campus. That is
to say, it has been a year since the Freethinkers society was born.
The Freethinkers were originated as a method of protest
against the sleepy and complacent atmosphere on the campus. It
was a protest against the shal
lowness of student values and
the general anti-intellectualism
permeating Clark.
For the few originators, con
structing a group of this sort
seemed to be an incredibly dif
ficult task. However, we were
delirious to find so many stu
dents and instructors interested.
The general aims of the
group are to destroy the pro
vincial narrowness of our in
tellectual range. We encourage
self expression and objective
thinking. We have attempted
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twelve travel guides this sum
mer and plans to arrange travel
for some twenty thousand stu
dents to Europe, the Caribbean
and Israel between June and
August this year.
A representative of TRASA
described its functions this way:
"More and more, travel is an
integral part of the college cur
riculum and any student who
does not venture abroad finds
himself not only having missed
the pleasure and excitement of
a vacation overseas, but also
is at a decided disadvantage in
his studies."
The spokesman went on to
explain that TRASA would be
able to achieve uniquely low
travel prices because of its large
membership and comprehensive
approach to the problems of
students when traveling.
Clark Observes Religious Emphasis Week
On March 24, Dr. Kenneth I.
Brown spoke at Clark. During
the morning chapel period, Dr.
Brown addressed students on
“Who Is a Christian College.”
In the afternoon, he spoke to
the faculty members on “The
Nature of A Christian Col
lege.” Dr. Brown was a form
er director of the Danforth
Foundation in Saint Louis, Mis
souri.
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The Religious Life Program
featured Dr. Tilman C. Coth
ran at one of its Sunday Morn
ing Discussion periods. Dr.
Cothran spoke on the Anti-
Poverty Program, and followed
his talk with a stimulating
group discussion. Dr. Cothran
is Professor of Sociology at At
lanta University, and is serving
as Associate Director of the
Anti-Poverty Program in At
lanta.
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The Clark College Philoi
Club is engaged presently in a
community action program.
Members work at the Bethle
hem Center two hours a week,
giving instruction and help to
retarded children.
The Sunday Morning Dis
cussion groups which meet
twice a month on the campus
represent another attempt of
the Religious Life Program to
make religion revelant to the
total campus life.
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During the recent March
from Selma to Montgomery,
Alabama, one of the Clark Col
lege faculty members repre
sented the school in Selma.
Reverend William Charland
travelled to Selma to join min
isters and leaders from all over
the country. He reported on his
experiences in Selma.
A Bit of Wit
Like a Westwardly. yet pre
vailing wind
I rush on, only to be going.
Do I know where?
How should I know!
How could I know?
“1 know.”
“Don't rub it in."
Submitted by
Dallas Roland Wingo, Esq.
Sophomore
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to accomplish these goals by
discussing a wide range of sub
jects. A sampling of our past
programs have included The
Lord of Flies, Abortion and
Sterilization, The effects of
radiation and weightlessness on
man, Existentialism, Ayn Rand,
Malcolm X, and etc. We want
to encompass the arts, sciences,
social sciences and humanities.
The group is not chartered;
using this status as one method
of insuring a great deal of free
dom and spontaneity.
Any one who has an unend
ing and sincere quest for learn
ing is Welcome!
We hope that this group or
other groups like this one can
find a permanent and vivid
place on this campus.
We want this group to be a
stimulus to bigger and better
things for Clark!
—Lois Benjamin
Paradox
People come into and go
Out of the vast
Nothingness as though
They had nothing to do:
To sit alone complaining
Of misfortunes, fleeing
From life as though it
were a violent rooster
With brazen feet. But
Life is more—is but
A land to quest, an
Adventure to be lived.
Much is to be done.
Submitted by
Dallas Roland Wingo. Esq.
Sophomore
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or different activities is a hard and tedious job, but if you put all of them
together you will come up with a nice and well planned Year Book.
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