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The Panther
FEBRUARY, 1967
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One For The Birds
(ACP)—Not too enthralled over the prospect of being labeled
either a hawk or a dove, one is faced with the possibility of being
called anything from a screaming eagle to a yellow-chested chicken,
comments the Colorado State University Collegian.
One humanoid bird that isn’t receiving his due recognition
these days, the Collegian says, is the owl. He needs more consider
ation not because he is a symbol of wisdom but because he runs
around asking “Who?” Also, “What and Why.”
The puzzled bird is asking many questions about everyone’s
favorite topic, the war in Vietnam. He starts out with the scholarly,
historical approach: “How the hell did we get there?” Reply:
“Well, we were sort of handed this seed and a few years of poor
tending turned it into a sick and ugly growth.” He asks, “Why
us? Why not let someone else look after it?” And he learns that
it is not only us, but also Australians, South Koreans, even South
Vietnamese. Asking when we are getting out, he receives only
grumbles and stares.
Puzzled by news reports, he asks about them. “Has there ever
been a time when American casualties were anything but light?
Is there any truth to the statements about bombing civilians?”
To both questions, one reply: “Incredible.”
He focuses his attention on the home front. Being an old bird,
he remembers better days. “Isn’t it customary here,” he asks,
“for a man to question national policy and politicians and to
raise a note of dissent without being branded cowardly or anti-
American? And isn’t it possible for another man to support, for
moral and legal reasons, military actions in another part of the
world without being called a guileless follower or a butcher of
children?”
His feathers are ruffled by a crossfire of shouts but he persists.
“Do you mean that a man is wrong if he feels he has a strong
obligation to oppose the draft and burns his draft card?”
“Right,” answers a 19-year-old Marine.
“Do you mean that a man is wrong if he is convinced that
this is the greatest nation in the world and he is privileged to
serve in her armed forces?”
“Right,” answers a 19-year-old pacifist.
Intrigue Intimacy
by Johnny Bruce
We know the conditions surrounding white men and black
women being the only free American. During slavery time the white
man ravished black women freely. White society considered these
black women to be low down trash. Yet white men slept with
many black women by using force, and by using congenial
persuasion. White women were kept on the shelves over a
Protestant fire place. Of course black men did not say anything.
For . they were castrated animals running around looking for
their stolen rights.
This brief historical account brings us to this point in my
psychological theory. Black men were afraid to approach white
women sexually. Tliey feared the outcome. White women were
cautious toward approaching black men for sex, because they
feared the outcome. Therefore, the outcome in this case was
white men’s brutality. Around this secret conflict of sexual desire
arose the myth of the century. That myth is black men are sex
ually superior to white men. While white men conceptually de
humanized black men, and turned them into beastly animals,
white women patiently watched these black men transform from
humans to super-human beings. White women knew that Negroes
were better laborers than any other ethnic group. So they assumed
that black should have more sexual output. White women sub
consciously thought of this a thousand times. At the same time
they knew they could not have black men because they were taboo.
Black men had lust for white women also. They were men too.
That want for the white woman was based naively on this idea.
White women were the pearls of the master’s house. Black men
said, if I could have these pearls then I will be a full man. Never
theless, white women and black men knew they could not satisfy
their wants for each other. They did not have the sexual freedom
that white men and black women had. Therefore, they carried
on secret love affairs of mental desire. In this case I am using
intrigue, to convey this love affair. This psychological condition
of want can be better illustrated with this example. When you tell
a child not to touch a stove because it is hot, the child has an
emotional drive that intensifies his wanting to touch the stove.
Although, you told him it was hot. The child will live under con
stant frustration until he touches the stove and sees that it’s really
hot. My point is this, when we tell white women not to sleep with
black men we only intensify white women’s desires to sleep with
black men. I am not saying that all people react in this manner.
However, the psychology of white women and black men relation
ship is an enormous problem in racist America.
To conclude, this intimate intrigue is ever present today. Can
you imagine how many white women want to have sex with black
men, vice versa.
President Henderson Honored
Dr. Vivian W. Henderson, president of Clark College, has
been elected a Gordon Hoover Fellow by Yale University. In this
capacity, he gave a series of lectures over a four-day period,
beginning February 12, on national economic trends and southern
economic development.
Inquiring Reporter
by Maryjo Clark
Due to the efforts and decisions of the Student Life Committee,
dark students for the first time were privileged to have a three-day
period of study.
QUESTION: Was the three-day reading period beneficial to you
and do you see a necessity to have this program continued through
out the years here at Clark College?
ANSWERS: Yes, the reading period was beneficial to me be
cause as a Freshman, I was not prepared in a sense, for the college
environment. And therefore, unable to adapt as quickly as I should
have been to the methods of teaching here. In most cases I was
far behind in my classes. I do feel that there should be a con
tinuance of this period for the purpose of the new Freshmen who
will inevitably face difficulties in adapting to the college environ
ment. Annie Washington
Yes, the three-day reading period gave me an opportunity to
carry on sincere and uninterrupted study. That is definitely an
advantage for me and all students to use this time wisely. It should
become an integral part of our college calendar. Alexander Brown
The students really studied and didn’t goof off. I think that
the faculty should take this into consideration and make this a part
of the program every semester. This also allows students to have
conferences with their instructors. Patricia Rogers
Yes. I think that the reading period was essential and I found
time to do a lot of reading I wouldn’t have done because the teach
ers would be giving lessons up until finals. I think that the program
should be continued. Bea Madison
I think that the reading period benefitted more students than
it hindered. In my opinion, the reading period should be continued.
Gloria Jenkins
Yes, I think it is beneficial because for students to be studying
for finals and attending class is tedious and is too much of a load.
I think that it should be continued throughout the years.
Frederick Crowell
The purpose of the final exams is to give a true and accurate
account of what the student has learned. I think that this goal
could more adequately be achieved if we had a five day reading
period as large universities have. I think that it should be con
tinued. In my own taste the reading period really helped me out.
Hendrix Crowell
Yes. It allowed me to devote more time to reviewing for all
of my classes. If I were not given the three-day period I would
have had to attend classes and try to review at the same time.
Well, I think that I made better grades as a result of the reading
period. If the three days have to be made up, I don’t mind.
Augusta Clark
Yes, because I had an opportunity to catch up on all of my
studies. I could budget my time and didn’t have to study for five
courses in one single night. I think that it should be continued
based on the opinion stated above. Rosella Walker
Yes, I think that it was beneficial because it gave me enough
time to study each subject thoroughly and un-hurriedly. I think
that it should be continued because of its effectiveness.
Joyce Ann Moore
I think that it proved to be beneficial especially to the Fresh
men because they didn’t know exactly how the tests were going to
be given. It gave them a chance to prepare themselves for it.
It took away worry of rushing to class and studying in between
class periods and staying in the library all night. I definitely
think that it should be continued. Inez Lockett
The reading period clearly showed that the administration is
concerned with the progress of Clark Colleke. The reading period
not only was effective as a means of study but also gave the
student time to relax before the final blow. Michael Smith
I think the three-day reading period is a progressive step in
academic freedom at Clark College. Johnny B. Bruce,
President of Freshman Class
Clark Participates
In Exchange Program
Student exchange between Clark College and three Midwestern
colleges began this week with the registration of four new students
at the Atlanta institution and the departure of three Clark students.
The institutions participating in he exchange with Clark are
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; Depauw University, Greencastle,
Indiana, and Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa.
This is the first time Clark has taken part in a full-fledged
exchange program, although there have been short-term student
exchanges in the past. The agreement between the participating
colleges provides for semester-long exchanges and the transfer
of credits.
Dr. John D. Withers, coordinator of the program at Clark,
said that the primary purpose of the exchange is academic. “It
will allow students to benefit from new class situations, new teach
ers, and a different environment,” he explained.
The exchange students from Depauw University are Elaine
Dunbar of West Lafayette, Indiana, and Frank A. Hester of
Pittsburgh. Both are sophomores. Miami University exchange
students are Judith Ellen Brophy of Cobleskill, New York, a
junior, and Marilyn Lou Held of South Euclid, Ohio, a senior.
Clark’s exchange students are Ella Alexander, a junior from
Atlanta, and Mary Reed, a junior from Jacksonville, Florida, both
attending Depauw, and Catherine Rayant, a junior from Fort
Pierce, Florida, attending Simpson College.
Win Money
In Poetry Contest
COLLEGE ARTS magazine
is sponsoring a $2000 poetry
contest, open to all poets. The
first four grand prize winners
will have their own book of
poetry edited and published by
the JTC Publishing Co., while
every entrant will receive an
anthology of the top 100 prize
winning poems. Write for de
tails: Poetry Contest, Box 314,
West Sacramento, California
95691.
Professors Advocate
Fairer Grading System
(ACP) —While college stu
dents across the country are
advocating abolition of the let
ter-grade system in favor of a
pass-fail or satisfactory-unsatis
factory system, 15 members of
the Michigan State history facul
ty are urging revision of the cur
rent system to make it fairer and
more meaningful, reports the
State News.
The 15 men, ranging in rank
from instructor to full professor,
are co-signers of a letter to the
State News protesting the
straight letter-grade system used
at Michigan State. They pro
pose the addition of plus and
minus grades on official tran
scripts.
“There is no reason why this
cannot be done here,” the letter
stated, “yet the appropriate
agencies have resisted, not to
say ignored, any such sugges
tions from segments of the
faculty.” The letter urged stu
dents “to take a good, hard look
at grading, and express its
wishes, individually and col
lectively.”
Prof. Norman Rich, one of
the signers, said ’’there is no
ideal way of having a grading
system, anyway” but that the
plus-minus system “gives a lit
tle more chance to be fair.”
The author of the letter, Asst.
Prof. Paul J. Hauben, said, how
ever, that “unless there’s a lot of
student reaction, nothing is go
ing to happen. The faculty does
not get a lot of attention in this
area.”
A subcommittee of the Edu
cational Policy Committee is
discussing the grading system. In
1963, when the subcommittee
also studied the system, it made
four recommendations, among
them the addition of a C-plus
grade “to give the middle stu
dent a break.”
Finding as many as 40 to
60 students falling in the C
range, the subcommittee specu
lated that a C-plus grade would
separate students who just
missed B’s from those who just
missed D’s. The C-plus recom
mendation was the most contro
versial, Chairman Willard War
rington said, probably because
of its inconsistency, since the
plus and minus were not pro
posed for other grade levels.
All four recommendations
were tabled by the Academic
Senate and returned to the Aca
demic Council, where no further
action was taken.
A Bit of Humor
A Clark College freshman
walked into a restaurant and
said quickly, “Do you serve
Crabs here?”
The waiter looked at him and
replied, “Sure, we serve anyone.
Sit down.”