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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- (Continued on Page 6)