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8 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1967
The Panther
Science Is "Hot" On A
Drug That "Cools"
by Omega Gail Tucker
A chemical way of warming the body when it is cool and
cooling it when it is hot is almost within reach of researchers at
Purdue University, West Lafayett, Indiana. The hope is that in
a hot, humid place like Vietnam, a soldier might be able to take
a pill and tolerate the conditions more easily. The same trooper
taking a different pill in the
Antarctic would suffer no dis
comfort from the cold.
In the last five years, re
searchers at Purdue discovered
that by injecting an amine called
norepinephrine into the brain of
cats, they were abie to abolish
fever brought on in the cats.
Simultaneously, they found that
brain injections of a second
amine, serotonin, could bring on
a fever in normal cats. Nore
pinephrine was found to reduce
the same fever induced by sero
tonin.
The chemical cooling and
warming technique has not yet
been tried on humans, but so
promising has it looked in ex
periments with rhesus monkeys,
say physiologists at Purdue’s
laboratory of neuropsychology
that trials with people could be
as close as one year away. Be
fore the technique can be ap
plied to man, two problems
must be overcome. The first is
the necessity of injecting the
amines directly into the brain
instead of through the veins.
This is because a barrier called
the blood-brain barrier normal
ly isolates the amines in the
brain. There could be a more
serious problem, the one of side
effects from the drugs. One
monkey was observed to grow
very warm and affectionate after
injection of one drug, while an
other became very hostile and
aggressive after injection of the
other.
To overcome these obstacles
will take probably another year
or two but, the cooling method
is the more promising of the
two, say researchers, since it
offers the hope of substituting
a cooling chemical for anesthet
ics in surgery.
Our New Teachers
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son was granted her B.A. degree
from Knoxville College. Mr.
Grayson Walker earned his
B.A. degree from the University
of North Carolina, his M.A.
from the University of Illinois
and is a doctoral candidate at
Georgia Institute of Technology
in Physics.
The three additions to the
Social Science Department are
Mr. Eddie Collins, part-time in
structor, with his B.S. from
A&T College and further study
at Atlanta University; Mrs.
Alexa B. Henderson with a B.S.
from Fort Valley State College,
and a M.A. degree from Atlanta
University; and Mr. Leon Wil
liams holding a B.S. and M.Ed.
from Alabama State College
and M.Ed. from the University
of Toledo.
In the Mathematics Depart
ment we have Mr. Laj Pat Rai
Batra, with possession of a
B.A. and M.S.C. from Punjab
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
With a variety of such highly
qualified and well-versed pro
fessors and instructors, it is a
certainty they will enrich our
“Culture for Service.”
TRADITIONAL
by Gerald L. Spann
The time was 12:01 Sunday
morning and the date was Oc
tober twenty-eighth. This time
and date marked the beginning
of an old tradition known to
students as “Hell Week.” It is
a tradition which has existed
since only heaven knows when.
It takes place each year, the
week of the Morehouse-Clark
football game. The students at
each college find it taboo to be
found on the other’s campus.
They are enemies at war for the
whole week.
“Hell Week” officially starts
on the Monday before the game.
This year on the Monday begin
ning the tradition, students ar
rived and found M’s written on
the front door of the school.
This is to say nothing of those
found burnt on the campus
lawn.
This year the enemy ventured
across the border of no man’s
land into Panther territory in
the middle of the day. They
were cornered and met their
“Waterloo” at the “aBttle of
the Reck.” Order was restored
and the bloody battle ground
became the scene of peace and
tranquility. In order to assure
peace and tranquility intermedi
ate sources entered.
There was a tenseness in the
air that Saturday as the stu
dents walked along side of the
two school bands. However, af
ter deflating the swollen ego
of Morehouse 28-12 Clarkites
floated happily back to their
campus. They gathered around
the fountain for the traditional
singing of the alma mater.
This is how “Hell Week”
was brought to a climax. It is
now time to tuck away in the
basements of our minds until it
rises again next year.
Way Out of Vietnam
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CPS)
—In a recent speech at Yale
University Gilbert Harrison, ed
itor of the New Republic maga
zine, proposed a simple solution
for the Vietnam problem, all
the while keeping his tongue-in-
cheek.
He said that, as a first step,
the U. S. should allow the NLF
to take over the government of
South Vietnam. If it did so, ac
cording to Harrison, our present
allies in that country would be
forced to take to the jungles and
swamps.
When Ky and his supporters
were forced into the wilds, Har
rison hypothesized, they would
become guerillas while the NLF
was turning into an ordinary,
ineffectual military force like
the present South Vietnamese
army.
Since most experts agree that
conventional forces need a 10-1
advantage over guerillas to de
feat them, the NLF would
probably find itself under
manned, Harrison suggested,
and would eventually be over
come. Then Ky and company
could take over for good.
More
Fashions
by Helen Boykin
On October 29, 1967 the
Ebony presented their Tenth
Annual Fashion Fair here in
Atlanta at the Palladium. The
producer and director of the
Fashion Fair was Mr. John H.
Johnson. Also participating
were Mrs. Johnson, eleven
Ebony models, the commentat
or and music director.
Many of the fashions shown
were designed in California,
New York, London, Florence,
Rome, and Paris. There were
many different ideas in design
and fabric, waist and dress
lengths have become both fall
and winter styles.
The latest from Paris is the
Cardinauts. The ensemble is
a black ribbed turtleneck and
white wool dress cut out at
sides, short and flaring over
jacquard wool stockings. The
plastic spring hat and cuffs on
black patent boots add more
flash. For the boys the color is
red also wool, epauletted and
turtlenecked with a flash belt
that just rests on the hips. The
cocktail dresses are more dif
ferent this year than ever, they
are long sweater tunic look with
long sleeves and encrusted
beaded cuffs to match. Along
with the tunic dress are the
high-fit coats, high-belted suits,
and the return of flare. Some of
the fashions that are returning
are capes, culotte suits and lots
of fur trimming for daytime as
well as evening wear.
There seem to be at that
season of year where everything
is fashionable. All colors are in
ranging from very rich shades
to black. This season is bringing
back many contrasts with the
belted and unbelted, the sleeves
and the sleeveless, the mini
(short) and the midi (long) the
high turtleneck, and the deep
plunge.
OPEN HOUSE
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Open house Brawley Hall
Open house Kresge Hall
Open house Pfeiffer Hall
Revisiting Equality
by Ulysses G. Comer, Jr.
It is the contention of this discourse to reevaluate the meaning
of becoming socially “equal.” In doing this, bigotry and other
forms of egotism, or racial unrest and racial identity will be
taken into account with only enough detail to give a sufficient
lucidation of this thesis. Hopefully, an incentive is being offered
for further discourses and dis
cussions by whom it may con
cern.
“Why bite the hand that
feedeth you?” Intuitively, this
quote is an anachronism of
“Uncle Toms”; yet, it offers an
obvious inapplicability of a
slave-master situation existing
today in a literal sense. Es
sentially, the illustration con
tains my basic ideology which
this writing asserts. That is, do
Black Power advocates or the
present generation of Negro
(or P.R.T.D.E.’s “black”)
American college students aim
to aggravate a social order which
is alreadv fested with racism?
Or, do they anticipate this ag
gravation to produce an un
conditional racial compatibility,
i.e., no racial claims to super
iority with an all-men-are-equal-
in-talent-and-individualism co
existence? Surelv, the latter im
presses one as mere fantasv but
its probability in reality should
be viewed.
As has been mentioned, the
ideologv being asserted here
completelv rests upon the con
troversial equality conception
manifesting itself in America or,
in fact, anywhere in the world.
First, let us consider what it is
not, for it is verv difficult to
understand or define explicitly
such an abstract concept, equali
ty. Equality is not a recognition
of separate but equal ethnic
groups, each imposing a cultur
al heritage dispute. It is not,
after having recognized these
cultures, a privilege to what each
has established as “his,” (if so,
the proprietor is permitted to
restrict the usage of “his”).
Equality is not having at
tained the right to sit in the
front of the bus, but rather to
occupy any available position in
a racially unconscious and par
tial manner. If these negations
were to be approached in a posi
tive respect, equality surges de
fined. Equality is, then, coex
istence on a world level with no
awareness of differentiated liv
ing localities thriving relatively
for race. Equality is a mani-
festated world existentialism.
Hence, equality is unique in it
self, for it does not exist; it may
paradoxically take form in a
socialistic ideology which does
not really “practice what it
preaches.”
Roland Teaches ESP?
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means Effort, Spirit and Pride.
“We must put effort behind
everything we attempt to
achieve. In order to do this
we need spirit to back it up.
We than must have pride in
the spirit we have shown,” says
Mr. Rowland.
Mr. Rowland stated that he
was very pleased with the coop
erative spirit of the band mem
bers. “I was new and I came
with new ideas. They accepted
my ideas wiht enthusiasm.” He
also said that during the first
few weeks of band rehearsal
there were days of discourage
ment, but thanks to his “faith
ful few” he made it through.
The officers of the Clark
College Band are: President,
Larry Rowe; Vice president,
Pless Dickerson; Secretary,
Gloria Jenkins; Reporter, Char
lie Martin; and Treasurer, Ger
ald Spann.
VIETNAM: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
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It is simply a tragic fact of American life that erstwhile friends
now no longer communicate, or if so only circumspectly; that the
country devotes its energies to accusations of bad faith and to the
most unconstructive discussion; and that a cleavage exists par
ticularly among those most qualified to offer intelligent leadership
to the country, a cleavage which will not easily be healed should
the war come to an end. Political community presupposes a true
community for politics, and that community presupposes human
relations which may be carried on without dissembling and with
basic agreement on social policies. These relationships are not
subject to being flicked on and off like a light switch. It takes
time — it has taken America centuries — to build a sense of
political community into the society. It takes much less time to
destroy such a fabric as this. The turning away from public affairs
by people of intelligence and the division of opinion among the
people who remain contributes more to the destruction of the
political fabric than has any issue in American politics in decades.
A less noticeable but equally significant effect of the Vietnam
involvement on American life concerns the character and quality
of political discussion. Freedom of political expression in this
country is based on an 18th-century concept, not always valid
in the modern world, that government policies secured through the
application of reason are the best that can be obtained. It is diffi
cult to believe in today’s debate — carried out on the basis of
empithet (“nervous nellies”), slogans (“Hell, no, we won’t go”), or
euphemism (“pacification”) — that reason has much value at all.
A non-reasoning style of politics not only reaches poor decisions,
but spreads from one area to the next. The carefree creation or re
working of statistics, facts, and the English language, with which
the official explanations (and some of the dissent) concerning the
American position abound, can only encourage the belief that
politics is no more significant than advertising; that freedom of
expression is related solely to persuasion and unrelated to truth;
and that words are the playthings of the mind without any referent
in reality. If this is the case, it will ultimately make no difference
that billions of dollars are spent for war instead of peace or that
our intellectual and spiritual energies are persistently sapped and
directed away from pressing national needs.