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NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1967 9
Student of Progress
by J. C. Pointer
Last summer Prentis Cook
was an exchange student at the
Institute for Political Education,
Morgan State College, Balti
more, Maryland. The Institute
was founded as a result of a
Ford Foundation grant of some
three million dollars and from
this Foundation he received all
expenses paid. The Institute was
designed to teach practical poli
tics and to instill within the
minds of the students some type
of political awareness. It con
sisted of several workshops in
political education where Pren
tis and other students heard lec
tures by various politicians
throughout the country. He par
ticipated in several political ac
tion campaigns such as: Voter
registration drives and commu
nity organizational projects.
As a result of his association
with the Institute at Morgan
he was able to obtain his
summer job in the office of the
United States Representative
Charles Mathais as a Congres
sional assistant. According to
Prentis this was one of the most
fascinating jobs that he had ever
had. He got a chance to see
while working for Congressman
Mathais the operation of our
United States Congress in ses
sion. He also had a chance to
do research on the Washington,
D. C. summer programs which
consisted of finding recreation
areas ,summer jobs, and guid
ance facilities for the youngsters
in Washington. He also did re
search on the Headstart Pro
gram in Washington, in trying
to get it set up on a year-round
basis from the Office of Eco
nomic Opportunities. Prentis al
so met such top politicians as
Senators Bobby and Edward
Kennedy, Percy, Brooke, and
Mr. Thurgood Marshall when
his qualifications were being ap
proved by Congress.
Since Prentis returned to
Clark, he has become coordi
nating chairman of PRIDE.. He
is the President of the senior
class and he is a political edu
cation major and an econom
ics minor.
Ladies Too Are Clowns
How lost they look
Beseeching in a world that has
no ears
Crying in a World unmoved by
tears
Dressed in the baggy pants and
too big shoes of society’s
demand
She moves awkwardly and
slowly round the stands of
laughing faces throwing
Peanuts at her droopy too large
mouth
Mouthing sorry invectives at a
world
She ‘love-hates’
The lady clown
How sad she is
Juanita Hall
Europe for 10% Less
Switzerland — The Interna
tional Discount Service, a Euro
pean discount company, is now
accepting Americans for its suc
cessful discount card. The IDS
discount card allows the bearer
a 10% discount whenever he
pays cash at any of the affiliated
establishments listed in the
100-page directory which comes
with the card.
The system is rapidly gaining
acceptance throughout Europe
due in part to its simple,
straightforward approach for
both the customer and establish
ment. The entire business be
gins and ends when the card
holder presents his card, pays
his bill in cash and receives a
10% discount. No special book
keeping procedures are neces
sary and there are no hidden
interest or other charges.
In return for an agreement
from the establishment to grant
IDS card holders the discount,
IDS advertises for the establish
ment.
The new directory contains
more than 1000 establishments
plus an additional 5000 hotels
in more than 200 cities through
out Europe, from Ireland to Is
rael. Most establishments are
in the major cities such as Lon
don, Paris and Rome, although
many are scattered through the
countryside.
IDS affiliated establishments
include hotels, restaurants,
shops, stores, snack bars, rental
services, private clubs and other
services ranging from luxury
class to pizzerias and bistros and
encompass such diversified serv
ices as medical service, boat
rentals, tire recapping, scuba
diving instruction and a service
giving takers balloon rides over
the Swiss Alps.
The card and pocket size di
rectory cost only $10 (but stu
dents and teachers in America
and Europe are given a 20%
discount) which means the pur
chaser will be reimbursed with
the expenditure of his first few
overnights, meals, etc. An added
advantage is that the directory
also serves as a recommended
guide.
The cards are the durable,
laminated plastic CR-80 type
made by the Addressograph-
Multigraph Co. and used by
major credit card companies.
The purchaser’s name and ad
dress are heat embossed on his
card.
Students and teachers inter
ested in obtaining a personal
discount card should write,
sending their full name and ad
dress and $8 to IDS Business
Offices, 48 Haupstrasse, Vaduz,
Liechtenstein.
HIGHLIGHTS
Induction services of organizational
officers
Officers of P.R.I.D.E.
Student of Progress
by J. C. Pointer
Last summer James Mays
worked through the Neighbor
hood Youth Corp for MCDA,
Man Power and Career Devel
opment Agency, Manhattan,
New York. MCDA is one of
the government agencies set up
to allocate funds to different
segments of the poverty pro
gram. Its job is to determine
all the possible types of poverty
programs that would be most
beneficial, most efficient, and
longest lasting. After doing htis
it gives to those agencies certain
amounts of money to operate.
TheNYC is one of the agencies
of the MCDA sponsors.
The NYC this past summer
set up a program where college
students both black and white
could serve as interns in their
poverty program. The job of
the interns was to administer
and supervise low income high
school students. Recruiters from
New York came down to At
lanta and other Southern cities
to recruit black college students.
James was one of the students
selected.
James worked in the program
DA. They took program pro
evaluation section of the MC-
posals from various poverty
programs operating in New
York, evaluated them and then
decided which programs should
and should not be continued.
“The job was an opportunity
to experience at close hand how
our government is treating the
problem of poverty in this coun
try,” James stated.
In comparison to other areas,
its effect was quite negative. In
other words, the poverty pro
gram is not living up to its
prescribed standards.
ROMNEY
HANOVER, N. H. (CPS)—
There are ad hoc committees
and ad hoc committees, but one
of the ad hoccest in recent mem
ory is one formed by a group of
Dartmouth College students this
week to deal with George Rom
ney’s arrival on campus.
The committee on George
Romney’s arrival (COGRA)
greeted the gray-haired, presi
dential aspirant with a small
picket line when he arrived on
campus Monday.
Among the COGRA signs
were, “God Is Alive and Thinks
He’s George Romney,” and
“Down With Dirty Words, Up
with George Romney.” Rom
ney read some of the signs out
loud as he saw them, but balked
at the sight of the “Down Deep
He’s Shallow.”
Later, ■ when the jut-jawed
politician asked girls participat
ing in a Smith-Mt. Holyoke
touch fotball game at Dartmouth
to give him the ball, COGRA
members reportedly chanted,
“Dirty old man.”
Assault At
San Francisco State
(On Monday, November 6,
a group of about 20 Negroes
assaulted the editor of the San
Francisco State Gater in his of
fice. The editor, Jim Vasco,
was hospitalized as a result.
CPS’s Berkeley correspondent,
David Berson, talked to an eye
witness.)
SAN FRANCISCO (CPS)—
On Monday, John Keen, sports
editor of the San Francisco State
Gater, was checking the pro
football scores and trying to
figure out what pictures to run
in the next day’s sports section.
There was a stir in the city
room. As Keen looked up from
his work he saw about 20 young
men, all of them Negroes filing
past his desk toward the office
of Gater editor Jim Vasco.
“It was hard to tell what was
going on at first,” says Keen.
“These guys seemed to be mid
dle-class—they were all well-
dressed—and they came in as
quietly as any 20 guys could.
“The thing was very well-
planned. About seven of the
guys guarded the door and the
rest went into Jim’s office.
“We saw them beating him
up and went to help him, but
we couldn’t get past the guys
at the door. There was a lot of
scuffling, typewriters and chairs
were smashed, and all of a sud
den they left just like they
came.”
Keen says the Gater has given
the black organization at San
Francisco State good press cov
erage, and can’t think of any
reason why it happened.
The Black Students’ Union at
SFS has denied any involve
ment in the beating, but one of
its leaders has been identified
as having been in the group that
assaulted Vasco, according to
Keen.
AKA’s Hot Line
Flash! The Freshmen young
ladies were introduced to the
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
and the sorors of Alpha Pi
Chapter at the annual rush party
on October 20 in the “rec.” This
year the theme was “A Mass
Meeting with the Advocates of
Pink and Green Power.”
Flash! Nineteen young ladies
were presented to the Clark Col
lege faculty and student body at
the sorority’s Annual Ivy Leaf
Pageant on November 6 in
Davage Auditorium. The Ivies
are Willadene Clayton, Gwen
dolyn Coleman, Patricia Hall,
Joan Jackson, Janeen Jones,
Martha Levingston, Doris Luns
ford, Lurma Rackley, Gail
Rarnsel, Allie Robinson, John
nie Sawyer, Carolyn Smith,
Freida Stone, Ann Tinsley,
Dorothy Walker, Shirley Wal
ton, Ernestine Weaver, Marylin
Wilson and Maaza Woldemusie.
Flash! On November 11, im
mediately following the corona
tion, Alpha Pi Chapter honored
Miss Clark and her Court with
a reception in the Georgia Wil
liams Brawley Lounge.
Flash! In the Homecoming
Parade, the AkA Sweethearts-
Sorors Brenda Myatt and Nyra-
lon Bobo—drove away with an
honorable mention while sitting
upon pink and green dots. Well,
that’s the way things are in this
“Mod, mod, mod, mod World!”
—Soror Janie Durham
Student of Progress
by J. C. Pointer
Last school term beginning in
October, 1966, Leroy Slade was
a student at the University of
Paris. The program that spon
sored this was the Special Jun
ior Year Program. He studied
various subjects such as: gram
mar, phonetics, vocabulary,
composition, and conversation
all under the area of French.
There are five levels in this
language school. A student
spends three months in each
level. Each student has to take
an entrance examaination first,
the results determines the level
the student will begin his stud
ies. Leroy took the entrance ex
amination and was placed into
the second level. When he left
in July 1967, Leroy had almost
reached the fifth level.
Leroy also participated in a
movie and danced on a special
television show. In the areas of
recreation he had a chance to
take in all the sights of Paris
under all aspects.
He returned to the States in
July of 1967. He recommends
to everyone who has a chance
to travel abroad, to see Paris.
“The educational and social and
cultural experiences are beyond
words.”
Incidentally, Leroy Slade is a
senior majoring in French and
minoring in Education.
“Mother”
Mother is a person beyond
compare,
She comforts you with love
that seems so rare.
On her, her children always
depend,
She dries their eyes and their
hearts she mends.
Early in the morning when the
clouds roll away,
She is up and around and
in the bed you lay.
A mother worries when her
child won’t come home,
She sits there wondering “Where
did my child roam?”
If she only knew where he or
she could be,
She would be there before you
can count one, two, three.
When dear mother is gone,
her memory will stay,
You think of the time when life
was so happy and gay.
You know in your heart there
will never be another,
Like that wonderful person
that you call “mother.”
Juanita H. M. Bridges
Memories
The bittersweet taste of
memories
Like copper pennies on the
tongue
The haunting, wistful melodies
Of songs once sung
Lament for praise unsaid
And tears unshed
The subtle tug of moments
that have fled.
.. . Juanita Hall