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The Panther
JANUARY - FEBRUARY, 1968
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AKA’s Elect
New Officers
The Alpha Pi Chapter of Al
pha Kappa Alpha Sorority
started the year off by electing
their new officers for this year.
The newly elected officers are:
Basileus
Soror Janie Durham
Anti-Basileus
Soror Lurma Rackley
Grammateus
Soror Gloria Thomas
Anti-Grammateus
Soror Joan Jackson
Epistoleus
Soror Martha Levingston
Tamiochus
Soror Shirley Walton
Dean of Pledges
Soror Ernestine Weaver
Soror Ann Tensley
Asst. Dean of Pledgees
Soror Ernestine Weaver
Reporter to Ivy Leaf
Soror Janeen Jones
Music Chairman
Soror Willadeane Clayton
Rush Chairman
Soror Brenda Myatt
Representatives to
Pan-Hellenic Council
Sorors Vicki Jones &
Nyralon Bobo
The prophytes of Alpha
Kappa Alpha Sorority are very
happy to welcome their new
sorors. The neophytes are: Wil
ladeane Clayton, Gwendolyn
Coleman, Patricia Hall, Joan
Jackson, Janeen Jones, Martha
Levingston, Doris Lunsford,
Lurma Rackley, Gail Ramsey,
Allie Ruth Robinson, Johnnie
Sawyer, Carolyn Smith, Ann
Tensley, Dorothy Walker, Shir
ley Walton, Ernestine Weaver,
Marilyn Wilson, and Maaza
Woldemusie.
News From
The Kappas
Gamma Kappa Chapter of
Kappa Alpha Psi boasts of 26
strong members. We are sure
that there is no reason to elabo
rate on our past line. Those
who saw the “Tantilizing Ten,”
know of their Kappa Spirit.
They are a group of men with
eager and diversified talents.
We would like to name the new
ly pinned Kappas. They are as
follows: Harold Washington,
Gregory Tisby, Paul Menefee,
George Roberts, William Van
Pelt, Harry Bronson, James
Patterson, Prentis Cook, Eric
Dawkins, and Henry Marsh.
Though all of our Neophytes
are not great scholars, they have
in some way contributed to the
progress of Clark College and
we are sure that they will help
the Kappa tradition and it’s
great purpose of achievement.
Our officers this year include:
Polemarch — Robert Strong,
Vice Polemarch—James Wells,
Greekdom
Reports
by
NORRIS ARNOLD
Editor
Keeper of Records—Larry May,
Keeper of Exchequer — Lewis
McClam, Dean of Pledges —
Reginald Diamond, Strategus—
Joe Cross Jr., Historian—Rich
ard Rose, and Reporter—Paul
Menefee, Jr.
The men of Gamma Kappa
Chapter brought the new year
in with a ceremony among the
Brothers and dinner together on
Friday, January 5, 1968, which
is our Founders Day. It was
on that day, 57 years ago that
Kappa Alpha Psi, Incorporated
had its official inception through
the ingenious vision of our most
honorable Brother, Elder Wat
son Diggs, at Indiana Univer
sity, Bloomington, Indiana.
DELTA SPOTLIGHT
In the continuing effort to
promote high scholastic ideals
and public service, the Sorors
of Sigma Chapter, Delta Sigma
Theta Sorority, Inc. sponsored
their Annual Honor’s Tea on
Sunday, November 19th. This
“gathering of the brains”, held
in Georgia Williams Brawley
Lounge, was composed of fresh
men who are at Clark on schol
arship and honor roll status up
perclassmen.
Sorors Patricia A. Hudson,
Mary Ann Reed and Patricia G.
Cobb have been selected as
1967-68 members of Who’s
Who Among Students in Ameri
can Universities and Colleges.
Presently there are twenty
members of the 1967 Pyramid
Club. These pledges are fol
lowing the service tradition.
They are initiating a project in
which they will give aid to less-
advantaged members of the
community.
The Deltas extend to every
member of the Clark College
Family wishes for a HAPPY
HOLIDAY SEASON. May you
return in January with the zest
and zeal the Sorors of Sigma
Chapter will definitely have dur
ing the continued school year.
Sigma Observers
Founders Day
January 11, 1914 marks a
very important day in the heart
of any Sigma man. On this par
ticular day Phi Beta Sigma was
founded by three men who
thought it time for a fraternity
with high values and good men.
On January 11, 1968 Phi Beta
Sigma observed it’s fifty-fourth
year of existence.
To start things rolling, bro
ther Walter Burden gave the
purpose of theh program and a
briefing of he frats history Bro
ther Raymond Buffin hen intro
duced, wih all gratndeur, our
speaker who was Rev. Julius
Simmons, Dean of Men a Fort
Valley State College. Rev. Sim
mons spoke on the subject of
“GREAT EXPECTATIONS”
concerning the deeds past and
present of the Sigma Fraternity.
He enraptured the audience with
his manner of delivery precise
statements and timely humor.
According o the audience re
sponse and their cooperation we
were sure everyone enjoyed the
program.
Brother Norris Arnold then
came forward and brought to us
in words of precious stones, the
jewels of Sigma. They are:
Queen Ruby Blake
1 st Attendant
Miss Yvonne Boston
2nd Attendant
Miss Arvis Brown
Miss Crescent
Miss Yvonne Brantley
In preparation for the second
semester, we have planned our
activities will be social as well
as cultural events.
Alpha Phi Alpha
On December 8, 1967, the
brothers of the Alpha Phi Chap
ter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fra
ternity Inc. initiated eleven
more members into their bro
therhood. These new members
are Brother Sir Donald Quack
Quack Wheat, a sophomore
from Atlanta, Georgia; Brother
Charles Singleton, a sophomore
from Atlanta, Georgia; Brother
Sammie Daniel, a junior from
Atlanta, Georgia; Brother Na
than Hill, a junior from Boston,
Georgia; Brother Charlie Mc
Lendon, a junior from Rentz,
Georgia; Brother James King a
junior from Alabama; Brother
Gary Arnold, a junior from
Newnan, Georgia; Brother Ron-
nel Shaw a junior from Atlanta,
Georgia; Brother Willie Minni-
field a sophomore from Atlanta,
Georgia; Brother William Gor
don, a sophomore from South
Carolina; and Brother Morris
Wyatt, a junior from Los An
geles, California. A Phi A hap
pily accepts these new brothers
into the frat. The next event on
the Alpha’s calendar of events
will be a dance given on Feb
ruary 14, 1968. Information
concerning this dance will be
posted later.
Delta Spotlight
Shaped to its purpose
The seed is planted
The sapling grows
Flings wide its branches
The roots are secure
... By yielding its fruits
In multiple harvest
The tree can endure.
On January 13, 1968 Delta
Sigma Theta celebrates fifty-five
years of service and sisterhood.
The history o fthe first fifty
years commends the spirit and
imagination of the twenty-two
college women who founded the
sorority.
The analogy of the tree por
trays the idea, the evolution,
the contributions and the con
victions of the sorority. The
development during five decades
is characteristic of the changing
needs of the organization, the
community, and the times. Sus
tained by the bonds of sister
hood, the challenges and suc
cesses of the first fifty-five years
inspire over thirty-three thou
sand members today, and as
sure us that the three shall en
dure.
Sigma Chapter on December
8, 1967 widened it branches to
include nineteen (19) new mem-
Preventive Discovers
For Pregnancy And Ignorance
by Omega Gail Tucker
The Pill will be making way for “The Injection” soon. This
injection, injected once a month, is preventing pregnancy in some
7,000 women on whom it is now being tested.
About sixty researchers have been evaluating the new injec
tion clinically for some time. One of the first to report his findings
on the new drug is Dr. W. F. Bernell James, chairman of the de
partment of obsterics and gynecology at Meharry Medical College,
Nashville, Tennessee. The injection consists of one cubic centi
meter of a drug called “Oeladroxate,” which was developed by a
New Brunswick, New Jersey pharmaceuti
cal firm. “Deladroxate” is a combination
of two drugs, dihydrooxyprogesterone ace-
tophenide and estradiol enanthate. The
once-a-month injection appears to be safe,
reliable, and well tolerated.
Cylert, a brownish-yellow, aspirin
size tablet is the newest and most sensa
tional discovery of brain researchers. It
was announced at the annual meeting of
the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science in Berkeley, Cali
fornia that this learning and memory drug
will actually smarten people. The drug is
so promising that three separate investi
gations on human subjects are underway in major centers through
out the United States. Dr. D. Ewen Cameron, research professor
at Albany Medical Center and a distinguished psychiatrist, has
been conducting tests on elderly persons at the Veterans Admini
stration Hospital in Albany for several months. A spokesman for
Abbott Laboratories of Chicago, sponsors of the drug, said that
two other studies are presently in progress, one in the East and the
other in the Mid-West. Reports thus far show that Cylert does
indeed improve human memory and the drug apparently has no
undesirable side effects.
Cylert apparently increases the production of a key chemical
found in the brain as well as in all living cells—RNA or ribonucleic
acid—which is believed to play a vital part of role in memory and
learning. Scientists have labeled RNA the memory molecule. Cy
lert contains a brain stimulant called magnesium pemoline, which
boosts the production of RNA in the cells. The drug has been
used in Europe for the past several years as a mild central-nervous-
system stimulant. It is not related chemically to the notorious pep
pills or amphetamines.
Doctors are not sure how RNA manages to improve brain
performance but the theory is that RNA molecules carry thoughts
in coded form. When a particular event or thought occurs to you
in its code upon an RNA molecule, or a protein created by RNA,
and stored in one of the billions of nerve cells of your brain. It
remains there until, ready to come to the forefront of your mind
whenever you want to call it up.
Cylert is classified as an experimental drug at present. Ac
cording to the revised and tightened Food and Drug Laws, the
manufacturer must present adequate evidence of safety and ef
fectiveness to government authorities before permission to market
the medication is granted.
Hippies Hopeful But Not Hip
The Hippies are an interesting lot, but not as unique as they
would like to be. “Free people” banded together in idealic lives
with love as the nucleus is what they represent themselves as but
is there something rare to the Hippie movement; something under
lying and connotative to the extent thai it is unconsciously accepted
throughout the United States.
The Hippies claim that the
hate in the world is their enemy
and that the racism in this coun-
rty is their enemy but what
many of the Hippies fail to
realize is that they are the vic
tims of the cruelest form of
racist hate. The ideas and gen
erally practiced assumptions of
the racist whites that had led to
the degradation of dark-skinned
men serves now as the vehicle to
allow for dropping out of the
white society.
The hippie technique of in
stilling world love is simple. To
bers. The neophytes are: Wil
lie Ruth Akins, Ruth Boykins,
Eva Bridges, Maryjo Clark,
Margaret Graham, Marjorie
Hobson, Marcia Jackson, Sher-
ald Jackson, Ava Johnson, Dor
othy Lee, Inez Lockett, Carole
Moten, Rita Nielly, Peggy No
ble, Lexine Royal, Sarah Bell
Sims, Vera Thurmond, Eilene
Tindle, and Barbara Woods.
drop out of their place in socie
ty, become objects of controver
sy and through exhibitions of
love under any conditions prove
that love is possible in today’s
world.
The denotations of their en
deavor are very good but the
conotations are wrong.
Has it not been in the past
and still generally accepted that
the white man’s mental associa
tion with the Negroes has been
one of inferiority, laziness, dir
tiness and of animal like smells?
The Negroes, then, by being
connected with characteristics,
by the white minds, along with
his position outside the social
systems of America, provide for
the Hippie the perfect example
to pattern himself after to af
fect his withdrawal from society.
Naturally since the white Hip
pie cannot alter the color of his
skin, his only realistic identifica
tion with the Negroes is through
the taking on of his alleged ra-
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