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2 MAY, 1967 The Panther The Clark Panther PURPOSE A journal of college life published from September to June by students. To fill the vacuum of lack and effective communication be tween students and administration; students and students. An instrument for fostering constructive criticism of activi ties pertaining to college life. Carrell Smith William Hammond Robert Allen Jerry Allen William Hammond Wardell Smith Clarence Carter Paulette McKinney Reporters: Gail Jordan Jonathan Pointer Maryjo Clark Staff Editorial Writers Editor-in-Chief Assistant Editor News Editor Copy Editor Feature Editor Sports Editor PRESS Proofreader Harold Craig, Bernice Little Photographer Charles Smith Social Editor: Marie Banks Exchange Editor: Eddie Embry Fashion Editor: Jerrilyn McGhee Advisors Mr. George McMillan, Miss Ellen Magby, Mr. Black, Miss D'Souza ... On The Cost of Education Vivian W. Henderson President, Clark College Like the large majority of students in private and public colleges and universities, students at Clark College pay for only a limited proportion of the cost of their education. In a sense, maybe, this is the way it should be. Investing in human potential is the best investment a society can make for the future. Indeed, no other reason need be set forth to justify the strain and stress involved in underwriting from sources other than student payments costs of educating young men and young women. Students at Clark College pay from 45 to 51 percent of the cost of instruction they receive. The variation results from yearly differences in emphases and priorities . . . i.e., variations from one year to another in cost of underwriting scholar ships and grants, or increasing faculty salaries; bidding for new faculty mem bers; buying books for the library; pro viding instructional supplies or pro viding instructional equipment. Prices of these items increase each year. Many private colleges, including Clark and other schools in the Atlanta University Center, have relatively small endowments; therefore, they must depend heavily upon gifts and grants to underwrite differences between total cost of instruction and tuition payments by students. For the year 1967-1968, tuition at Clark College will be $750 for two semesters. This represents a $100 increase in the cost of tuition over the year 1966-1967. Five points should be made regarding the $100 increase in tuition and the cost of tuition in general. 1. Most of the increase in tuition, 80 percent, is for faculty salaries; the remaining 20 percent is for scholarships and grants for students. This allocation was voted by the Execu tive Committee of the Board of Trustees of Clark College at its meeting on January 20, 1967. That part which goes for scholarships will be used to increase existing scholarship commitments where warranted and to offer scholarships in larger amounts as well. 2. Faculty salaries at Clark College are only fairly competitive. Improvement in this position is mandatory if the College is to continue to strengthen faculty. We must not only hold onto Ph.D.’s, we must atract more and do so quickly. In crease in tuition is a necessary step to accomplishing this dual purpose. 3. Tuition payments by students, as implied above, are not used for buildings, grounds, maintenance, board and room. Tuition payments are used for curriculum, instruction and financial aid only. Construction of new facilities at Clark College is not covered by tuition payments. 4. I learned just recently that most students at Clark College as well as many members of the faculty, alumni and parents do not know that tuition cost is the same in all six schools i nthe Atlanta University Center. (There may be a slight variation for the graduate and professional schools, Atlanta University and Interdenominational Theological Center.) This, in essence, is what makes it possible for students to cross instructional lines to attend classes and pursue in struction. Students registered in any one school in the Cen ter can take classes in any other school without further bookkeeping. 5. A fifth point involves increased financial assistance for worthy students. Only a few years ago, perhaps four or “7ke £dit&T4. (Zwuten . . . What about Atheletics And Clark? by Carrell Smith With the recent negative trend toward athletics around Clark I can visualize a gradual collapse of sports activities altogether. The Athletic Department suffers economically and from the lack of student support. First of all the athletic department at Clark has probably the most limited budget in the SI AC (Southern Inter-Collegiate Athletic Conference). The coaching staff for the most part is underpaid for the amount of time given to sports. The average duties of Coach Epps includes the following: 1. Scheduling dates of sports events 2. Making training programs for track, basketball, tennis and football 3. Trying to bring more good athletes in with small scholarships 4. Making himself present at most of the practice sessions 5. Traveling with his team. These are just a very few of the obliga tions Coach Epps experiences during the span of a day. However, an industrial supervisor probably earns more money than Coach Epps in a year’s time. This to me is something to think about. Coach Epps produced a SI AC Championship basketball team. There have been All Americans from Clark. Just within the last two years a professional basketball and football player signed with major professional teams. The many achievements coach has made could go on indefinitely, however. The amount of money that Philander Smith College receives for the track team alone, excells the complete athletic budget of Clark College. The same is true with Florida A & M. At the annual Thanksgiving games Clark’s student body attendance is very low with the addition of absence of school spirit. The attendance at track meets is even worse, not to mention tennis matches. The athlete at Clark is now beginning to doubt whether or not the student body appreciates his heartaches, sweat, self-sacri fices, turmoil and injuries when the students only congratulate him when he has won. After a track meet, football or basketball game and Clark has won, the expression heard by students is “nice game man” or “nice run man,” but let us lose and the only thing the athlete receives is an unwanted stare. “Everybody loves a winner, but when you lose you lose alone.” A few things that would help remedy some of these problems are as follows: 1. Attend more games where possible even it it means paying 75 0 sometimes instead of buying three hamburgers. 2. Show some type of spirit for those men that are out there to win for you. 3. Support the SGA in trying to promote programs that will help athletes. 4. Excellerate. There are numerous ways to enhance your sports at Clark, because sports unlike apathy has been a long and prosperous tradition at Clark. After finishing Clark designate some money to the Athletic department so that you too will be proud when returning to attend the homecoming football games. five, Clark College had to underwrite small student financial assistance program from tuition and grants received from a few individuals and agencies, including The Methodist Church, private foundations and a small proportion of alumni. For the year 1967-1968, approximately $370,000 of our total operating funds will be budgeted for student financial assistance, including: $67,188, Federal-College work study; $47,000, NDEA Loans; $67,500, Educational Opportunity Grants; $160,000, Clark College grants and scholarships, and so on. There is every evidence that with these and other sources of finacial aid available to students in increasing amounts, increased cost of tuition should not impede orderly process of matriculation of a single student at Clark College. On the other hand, to exploit these resources, students must be re sourceful, studious, inquiring and continually trying to put together the best package of personal and other resource to meet financial ends to start and complete their college education — and above all, they must maintain academic averages that justify financial support. (I would suggest that students obtain from the Registrar’s Office a copy of “Financial Planning for a College Education — Clark Col lege.” These lines set forth basic considerations entering decisions regarding increases in tuition associated with attending Clark College. They are fundamental and not unlike those associated with other institutions in the Atlanta University Center and else where. I think students, faculty and parents are entitled to this kind of summation regarding cost. TIME TO SPEAK OUT by Edward T. Johnson Future Peace Corps V olunteer—1967-69 Ever since I entered Clark College, in 1963, I have never felt a need to rhapsodize about my feelings and beliefs in an article submitted to the college newspaper. Nor have I felt it necessary to write about my be liefs and feelings in an article of reply, submitted to the Pan ther. But now, the time has come to stand up for what I believe, thus casting reflections on an article submitted to the Panther, which questions the right of the Negro to participate in Peace Corps projects. First of all, if anyone thinks that only Negroes in the U.S.A. are poverty stricken, he should join the Peace Corps in order to travel and work in countries, other than Africa, where Ne groes live. A good example of a country in which Negroes are living is Peru; these people live in barriadas, which are worse than American ghettos. Second, why be selfish about going to another country to help your own people? There are thousands of capable Negroes in the United States who are in terested, and participate in, the Domestic Peace Corps, Vista; they can help to solve the social and economic problems in the United States. Finally, not all Negro leaders of tomorrow will join the Peace Corps; this, in my opinion, is an obvious truth. Furthermore, Negro Peace Corps volunteers, future leaders to be, will not ignore the dire needs of their people as a result of serving two years overseas. On the con trary, the returned Negro volun teers, of today and tomorrow, are, and will be, leaders who are well-tested, experienced, ener getic and, more than ever be fore, capable of dealing with the needs of people in their own country. "Something Is" Oh dynamic creature, whirling, soaring. Touch me and be tamed, folding, diving. Eternity reaches out for thee, the end knocks, sweeping, sailing, unconcerned. Be thou a thing of God? wild, unmolested. Be thou a thing of man? warlike, inconsiderate. What a life on wing, beseechingly on the prey. Sought after for the good of man, unprotected, weak. Original pilot of the sky, something is, as death lurks. Dwight D. Ellison Epitaph For An Alumni Director After years at my task I am done, Tracing persons by letter and phone. When you lay me to rest I have one last request: A mail box instead of a Stone!