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Vol. XXX. No. 4
CLARK COLLEGE - ATLANTA, GEORGIA
March-April, 1968
TUITION INCREASE IN '68-69
Clark Attends Press Institute
by Eddie L. Embry
Members of the PANTHER
staff of both the newspaper and
yearbook at Clark College at
tended the Seventeenth Annual
Southern Regional School Press
Institute on February 15 and 16
in Savannah, Georgia. Savannah
State College is the hosting in
stitution for the Press Institute
each year, and this year, for the
first time, Southern Universities
Student jGovernment Associa
tion (SUSGA) held its publica
tions workshop in Savannah
with the Press Institute. The
Georgia College Press Associa
tion was also present for its
third annual meeting.
The Institute’s meeting com
menced with the keynote gen
eral assembly on February 15th
in Meldrium Auditorium at
Savannah State College with
Dr. James W. Frick, Vice Pres
ident, Public Relations and De
velopment, University of Notre
Dame, Indiana, as keynote
speaker. Speaking to represen
tatives of more than 30 high
schools and 35 southern col
leges and universities, Dr. Frick
adressed his audience to the
theme of the Institute: “A True
Democracy Is An Asset For
Free Expression”. The PACE
MAKER, the official publica
tion of the Southern Regional
School Press Institute quoted
Dr. Frick as saying: Unless we
encourage free competition
among ideas in the same way
that we encourage free eco
nomic competition, we shall get
shoddy thoughts in the intel
lectual Forum as we get shoddy
goods in the market place.”
Following the keynote j as
sembly, Clark College students
spent several hours in two of the
five workshops of the Press In
stitute: College Newspapers and
College Yearbooks Workshops.
On February 16th, the last of
the general assemblies was held
in Wiley Gymnasium at Savan
nah State with Dr. H. L. Mar
tin, Director of Auxiliary Serv
ices, Sanford University, Bir
mingham, Alabama, as the
principal speaker.
The highlight of the Press In
stitute was the Institute’s
Awards Luncheon at the Savan
nah Inn and Country Club. The
keynote speaker was Mr. Den
nis Askey of the United States
Information Agency, Washing
ton, D. C.. The culminating fea
ture was the presentation of
awards. Meritorious service
plaques were presented to Dr.
Frick, Mr. Askey, and Mr.
Marion Jackson, sports editor,
Atlanta Daily World. In the
newspaper competition at the
college level, The Cobbler of
William Carey College, Hatties
burg, Mississippi; and The Con
traband of McNeese State Col
lege, Lake Charles, La. received
first and second place awards,
respectively. The Clark College
PANTHER received a certifi
cate with a rating of good. In
the yearbook competition, The
Potpourri of Northwestern State
College, Natchitoches, La., and
The Blueprint of Georgia Insti
tute of Technology, Atlanta,
Georgia received first and sec
ond place awards, respectively.
The Clark College PANTHER
was rated very good.
Along with the ratings that
the PANTHER received, [the
members of the newspaper and
yearbook staffs of Clark College
received encouragement to keep
striving to make their publica
tions Second to None.
Who Said It Didn't Snow in Atlanta?
Five REAL BEAUTIES and two beasts.
Curriculum Reform
by Jerry R. Allen
P.R.I.D.E. has recently presented a curriculum proposal to the
Academic Council asking for some additions to be made and also
some changes in the present curriculum as it stands. At the time
of this writing very few people outside of the members of P.R.I.D.E.
knew what the proposal was and what it is asking for.
In an exclusive interview with James Mays, Chairman of
P.R.I.D.E., I quoted him as saying, “Many of us are seeking
changes in the curriculum because we feel that Black people have
systematically been omitted from practically all that we learn at
Clark. We want to know much more about who we are and what
we have contributed to this great ball of turmoil called Earth.”
Chairman Mays went on to say, “When the proposal is pre
sented to the Academic Council, we feel that it will be dismissed
as just another of the practical jokes that students play. We feel
that it will get little attention because since when have students
been intelligent enough to suggest that they would like to study
things that are of interest to them. Since when have Black students
dared to suggest that they would like to know something about
their own people and their own way of life. And since when have
students had the nerve to ask what we are going to ask in our
proposal.” A condensed copy of the proposal can be found in this
edition of the Panther. Chairman Mays continued, “We would like
to have the Academic Council deliver its decision not to a messen
ger to be brought back to P.R.I.D.E., but to the entire student
body We believe that it is the right of every student on this campus
to know why the Council will or will not accept the suggestions as
they have been presented. We are tired of being treated as children
who are not sophisticated enough to know what they want and
what they do not want. We are tired of being dictated to. We want
answers. “That’s the way it’s always been here” will not be ac
cepted by students as an answer any longer. We demand that we
start being treated like tuition paying adults with interests which
may differ from those of the faculty.
Chairman Mays concluded, “One final question to the Aca
demic Council. Will you dare to sit with your students and discuss
what may be the most important question in their lives or will you
continue the ancient policy that students are not intelligent enough
to know what they want?”
On The Cost
Of Education
Vivian W. Henderson
President, Clark College
For the school year 1968-
1969, tuition charges by schools
in the Atlanta University Cen
ter will be increased by $100.
Cost of tuition will be $850 for
two semesters. Fees at Clark
College will be increased by
$10. This means that tuition and
fees at Clark College for the
year 1968-1969 will total $975
for the year.
Last year at about this time,
I wrote a statement, “On the
Cost of Education.” This state
ment was carried in THE PAN
THER and was distributed to
each student. The statement set
forth as clearly as I know how
basic considerations governing
charges for tuition artd fees as
well as relationships between
payment by students and actual
costs of instruction. I have been
asked by members of the PAN
THER staff to restate those con
siderations for this issue of the
newspaper. This I have done.
In several places, I have inter
spersed information that helps
to bring the statement up to
date.
II
Like the large majority of
students in private and public
colleges and universities, stu
dents 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 fu
ture. Indeed, no other reason
need be set forth to justify the
strain and stress involved in un
derwriting 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 . . . ie., variatoins
from one year to another in cost
of underwriting scholarships and
grants, or increasing faculty sal
aries; bidding for new faculty
members; buying books for the
library; providing instructional
supplies or providing instruc
tional equipment. Prices of
these items increase each year.
Many private colleges, in
cluding Clark and other schools
in the Atlanta University Cen
ter, have relatively small endow
ments; therefore, they must de-
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