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4 APRIL, 1967
The Panther
Finally, An Explanation of the New College Breed
“Is there something really wrong with today s crop of college
kids?” So began a recent editorial in the Peoria (Ill.) Journal Star,
notes the University of Nebraska Daily Nebraskan.
Compelled to comment on the editorial, the Daily Nebraskan
continued:
So you say college students
aren't strange? Well, then, the
Journal Star asks, why is it that
a group of University of Illinois
students wanted to meet with
the dean of students to confront
him with questions like these:
Why does the university have
the authority to tell you where
to live until you’re 23 years
old? Why is the university an
accomplice in deciding which
students ‘qualify’ to be sent to
Vietnam (i.e., reporting stu
dents’ grades)? Why can the
Navy, Marines, etc., use the
"Student” Union and not an
unrecognized student group, the
W.E.Br DuBois Club? What is
(are) the established chan
nel (s) for voicing student griev
ances and obtaining meaningful
action?
The Journal Star said it
doesn’t know how the dean
consoled “these youngsters” but
it hopes he told them to bury
their sorrow by hitting the
books a little harder. “What
ever, the fact remains that these
college kids are a different
breed.”
And what’s responsible for
corrupting these “youngsters”
— for making them a different
breed? The Commies? Fluori
dation? No, the Journal Star
said, it’s television.
Because Mickey Mouse made
kids into young adult Mouske-
teers who think society exists
to entertain them. Because chil
dren raised in the electronic
world of “white hats” and
“black hats” can’t be expected
to conclude that anything counts
but a fast draw.
Because kids who watched
news programs showing South
American students spitting on
Nixon automatically conclude
it's okay to spit on college deans
and disregard university rules.
Because kids “who saw inde
pendence and chaos go hand
and hand in the Congo” think
“the mob scene was the highest
expression of liberty.”
Looking back on these fool
ish student protests, it is hard
to imagine that students ever
thought they should be con
cerned with where and how
they live, whether they have to
spend several years in military
service, pay fee money for ri
diculous buildings, or have an
established channel for voicing
grievances.
Not even the staunchest critic
of the dean could ever claim
that, his mind addled by tele
vision, he ever thought of pay
ing attention to these kids who
object to things that are none
of their business.
This is good to know.
Clark in AAUW
Clark College has been
placed on the qualified list of
the American Association of
University Women and elected
to corporate membership by the
association’s board of trustees.
Women graduates of Clark,
including those who graduated
prior to AAUW listing, are now
eligible for individual member
ship in the association.
The AAUW was founded in
1882 to further the advance
ment of women and eliminate
discrimination on the basis of
sex. Among its activities in the
area of education is an experi
mental program, begun in the
Southeast but now extended to
other regions of the country, to
encourage women to qualify for
college teaching careers after
age 35.
The association also awards
about 100 fellowships annually
to women scholars for graduate
study.
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“Oops- -sorry about that!”
Are You
What's Happening?
Campus Communications is
interested in expanding its pres
ent corps of representatives on
campus. Our activities range
from promotional services to
market research. Recent proj
ects have included Sounds &
Fury magazine and Intercol
legiate Music Festivals; a proj
ect in the works right now is
the Sounds On Campus radio
show.
We are looking for a limited
number of representatives who
are on top of what’s happening
on campus. Money will be paid
for services performed. Those
interested please write immedi
ately about yourself and your
campus activities:
Miss Brenner
Rep Director
Campus Communications
6 East 46th Street
New York. New York 10017
Reckless, Unbridled,
Challenging Youth
Almost daily, the press and
other forms of mass media voice
a condemnation of America’s
youth for their movements of
protest and rebellion, comments
the College Heights Herald,
Western Kentucky University.
The “older” generation of
any given period of time almost
gleefully flails away at youth
for its recklessness and irre
sponsibility. A psychologist may
well have penetrating theories
concerning this phenomenon of
man.
Reckless, inquisitive youth is
the backbone of human prog
ress. It is the spine and cap
stone of all worth having. It
pays its own way no matter
how dear the price of its time.
Reckless youth sat before the
frozen fires of Valley Forge. It
clamored up the slopes of Get
tysburg. It anguished in the
trenches of Meuse-Argonne. It
vaulted the steel and concrete
of Hitler’s Festung Europe to
free a generation of middle-
aged shopkeepers.
Youth is a pure force. It
is freedom, questions, experi
ments, and the ultimate debtor
of its patriarch.
It is the tempered, sane, real
istic, aged man who snarls at
his neighbor. It is the gnarled,
impotent hand of age which
draws the odious sword of leg
islated hats and presses it upon
youth to carry.
America is blessed with an
abundance of reckless youth.
Its erratic, swallow-flight in
search of truth is an asset of
immeasurable degree. Seeming
ly, the generation of restraint
will never understand its junior,
for like a wrinkled, hoary voy
ager standing on the bank of a
frothy mountain river, he curses
it for its violence and thus
damns the valley it feeds.
"Fallen Leaves"
Drifting, softly and lazily along,
Whispering cries of a lonely
song;
Reaching a destiny of pain.
Touching the earth’s rugged
stain;
Fading then into nothingness.
Never again to sec happiness.
Christine Coleman
RELIGIOUS EMPHASIS WEEK
Pictured above with Clark's choir are the two-folk singers during Religious
Emphasis Week.
Clark College had its annual
religious emphasis observance
Sunday (March 5). Drama,
folk singing, and the spoken
word are included in the four-
day program.
A communion service at
9:30 a.m. opened the observ
ance. At 3:30 p.m. Dr. Robert
McAfee Brown, professor of re
ligion at Stanford University,
addressed students of all the
colleges of the Atlanta Univer
sity Center in Sisters Chapel on
the Spelman College campus.
Dr. Brown is one of the lead
ing figures in the Protestant-
Catholic dialogue in America
and was an accredited Protes
tant observer at Vatican Coun
cil II. He had held academic
posts at Union Theological
Seminary. Macalester College,
and Amherst College, in addi
tion to Stanford.
On Monday, a student cast
of 35 from Scarritt College of
Nashvlile, Tenn., presented an
avant-garde religious drama by
Don Wrenn, entitled “Fire On
the Earth.” The play, which
has been called “a religious
‘Hellzapoppin’,” was performed
at 7:30 p.m. in Davage Audi
torium on the Clark campus.
On Tuesday, Dr. Ira Zepp,
dean of the chapel at Western
Maryland College, spoke at 11
a.m. and again at 7 p.m. in
Davage Auditorium.
Dr. Zcpp received a Tipple
Fellowship for study at the
Universities of Edinburgh and
Gottingen after his graduation
from Drew Theological Semi
nary in 1956. He also has done
graduate work on a Jackson
Honors Scholarship at Harvard
Divinity School. He has written
for the Christian Century, the
Christian Advocate, the Pulpit,
and other religious journals. He
is an assistant professor of re
ligion at Western Maryland
College, in addition to serving
as dean of its chapel.
A concert featuring the, Clark
College Philharmonic Society
and Jerry Meredith, a folk
singer, was the closing event on
Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in
Davage Auditorium. Mr. Mere
dith, who is preparing for the
ministry at Candler School of
Theology of Emory University,
had his first record released last
month.
All of the events of Clark’s
religious emphasis observance
are open to the public.
Alumni Has Outstanding Young Men
Five alumni of Clark College have been selected for listing in
the 1967 edition of “Outstanding Young Men of America,” an
annual biographical compilation by the U. S. Jaycees of men under
35 who have “distinguished themselves in one or more fields of
endeavor to the point of being outstanding."
Clark alumni found outstanding this year by the 14-man board
of editors are:
Benjamin Brown of Atlanta, a member of the Georgia House
of Representatives;
Arthur Danner, a native of Atlanta now living in Montgomery,
Ala., who is business manager of Alabama State College;
Dr. Gerald Hood, formerly of Griffin. Ga., now on the staff
of the Orange County General Hospital, Orange, Calif.;
Frank Odum of Atlanta, a field representative of the Gulf Oil
Co., and
Louis Nevett of Atlanta, instructor of social science at Booker
T. Washington High School here and a part-time football coach
at Clark.
The book is scheduled for publication May 15.
This Is Basically True
Would you believe the students of Clark College have
coming a chance of a lifetime? A chance for you to say what
you honestly think about your instructors.
The S.G.A. is presently preparing the ballots which will
be given to the sophomores, juniors, and seniors sometime
during the latter part of April. Freshmen will be unable to
participate in the balloting — sorry about that. The ballots
will be kept confidential. Therefore, you can give your can
did opinion without fear of suspension.