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2 MARCH-APRIL, 1968
The Panther
The Clark Panther
PURPOSE
A journal of college life published from September to June
by students.
To fill the vacuum of lack and effective communication be
tween students and administration; students and students.
An instrument for fostering constructive criticism of activi
ties pertaining to college life.
Editor-In-Chief — — . Carrell Smith
Assistant Editor ... Jerry Allen
Executive Editorialist Harold Craig, E. Robert Price,
Roger Porter, Robert Allen
Associate Editorialist Ronald Coleman, Eddie Embry
Jonathan Pointer
Feature Editors Hattie Grimes, Marcia Jackson
Roger Porter, Harold Craig,
E. Robert Price, Jonathan
Pointer, Eddie Embry
Managing Editors Jerry Allen
Greek Editor — „ Norris Arnold
Social Editors Helen Boykin, Debbie Jones,
Gerald Spann
Sports Editors Dwight Ellison, Rubye Jackson
Cartoonists — Lizzette Jones, Ronald Coleman
Columnists Omega Tucker, Debbie Jones,
Annie Washington, Gerald Spann,
Isaac Von Cleveland
Photographer Charles Smith
Advisors Mr. Baker and Miss Long
Mass Corruption
by Jerry R. Allen
In reference to the predominately Black colleges and univer
sities in the United States, there is something distinctively different
about the undergraduate student of today in comparison to the
undergraduate student of the past generations. This distinct differ
ence can be depicted in everything from the student’s attire to his
actual beliefs (religious and otherwise).
As a result, this difference has caused
widespread corruption in colleges and uni
versities throughout the United States.
The undergraduate student of the past
was one who had little to say against what
he was being taught; how he was being
taught; or, why he was taught certain
selected stubjects instead of others. His
main concern was to obtain a good edu
cation in order to get a job as an instruc
tor. This same individual was usually very
religious. While, at the same time, he
adopted an attitude of satisfaction. That
is, satisfaction to his inferior environment.
On the other hand, however, the undergraduate student of
today is very much alert, concerned, and aware of the happenings
of the world. He is aware of the fact that his education is a sophis
ticated form of indoctrination. He is aware of the fact that he has
an identity. And identity of which he is destined to retain regard
less of the many counteractions taken against him. He is concerned
about the war in Viet Nam. He is concerned about his ghetto con
ditions. And, he is desperately in search of solutions. He is alert to
many of the escape routes the government has devised. For in
stance, the school system.
In conclusion, one may ask the question, “Why are we having
so much corruption in colleges and universities all over the United
Etates?” Actually, the answer is quite simple. Note, we have in
structors who are of older generations teaching students of the
present generation. The instructors refuse to give up their old ways
and the students refuse to adopt their old ways. As a result, wt
have mass corruption.
*7he ScUtwib (Z&uten, . . .
"Sexual Revolution in
The A. U. Center"
by Carrell Smith
A young man watches tentatively on the corner while a young
lady from Spelman or Clark College proceeds to Yates and Milton
drugstore (Yates & Milton is the local college inn) the young man
is attracted immensely by the great physical attributes that the
young lady has and almost immediately starts wondering what
strategy he must use on the young lady to formulate a conversa
tion and secure a date to really “see what she is doing”. This is
a slang phrase to designate whether or not the girl is engaging in
sexual intercourse.
Sometimes on the very first date there
are attempts made by the males to achieve
actual copulation. Usually because of the
uncertainty and unwillingness on the part
of the female, actual sexual intercourse
does not take place. When no indulgence
of sex becomes prevalent on the first date
this period is called “bulljiving around”.
On other dates and situations where com
plete copulation occurs, this is called
“getting over the hump."
Girls in the Atlanta University Center
for some reason or another seem to want
to impress the public, friends, home peo
ple and acquaintances that they are good,
naive, Christian hearted people. A majority of the girls of the cen
ter consider the girl that indulges in sex as being immoral or
indecent person, while at the same time many of these same
critics are often seen going off campus to motels, hotels and other
places “to make a run” (this terminology means to go somewhere
to have sex).
There is a greater appreciation for the young ladies (on the
part of the men) that will admit that they are “open minded”
about the subject of sex and that the question of morality should
be left to the individual.
The A. U. center is a part of a sexual revolution that has swept
the nation. Females are reading more sexual orientated novels,
watching the same types of movies, dancing with more sexual
inferences, wearing dresses just as short as the imagination will
permit one to think and there are millions of other sexual impli
cations that young ladies are constantly involved in, but only a few
level headed girls will admit that sex is a major part of their lives
and that their very existence is sexually orientated.
Many objectives are to be obtained in college but one main
objective and desire of normal people in college is to have a happy
sex life as well as academic success.
Stop for a moment and observe your surrounding and it should
be very vivid that there truly is a sexual revolution going on about
you. It must also be pointed out that the revolution in manners
and morals has produced a climate of candor is very real and un-
likeyl to reverse itself.
This month in the A. U. center many girls will be wondering
whether their “period” will come. Some are wondering if they
should take part in sex and are still undecided but the idea is be
coming more appealing, there is a doubt generally found in girls
of whether or not a guy is “going with a girl” for sex or love.
Dormitory conversations reveal that sex is becoming just as free
for many young ladies as it is with young men. It must be stated
that in order for the view of sex tobecome more real (people and
especially girls) must start to relieving themselves of old stereo
ideas and really become sensible about the subject matter. Can
you really be truthful in your conversation about sex or can you
go on pretending because of what people might think of you?
White Students in the Ghetto
by Richard Anthony
An organization of which students belong is called PACT
—Program to Activate Community Talent. It began three years
ago as a project run by Columbia students to provide tutoring
and recreation programs for children in the slum area south of the
university that is called the strip. Now the organization has
changed. The tutoring and recreation programs are still part of
PACT, but it is increasingly involved in political action. Further
more, the students find that what they had aimed for from the
beginning—the take-over of PACT by members of the community
—is actually happening. And they wonder what they as students
can do that will be meaningful when black people are beginning
not to wait, and when arbitrary decisions taken in a Washington
office or a Columbia University conference room convince more of
the poor that they must fight for themselves the best way they can.
Disagreement about PACT’S political methods is only one of
the organization’s current problems. The minister who once per
mitted PACT to use his church for its recreational programs has
kicked them out. They have no space now. The OEO money is
gone, though Gonzalez is hoping for another government grant
and for aid from a faculty civil rights group at Columbia.
Can We Pay the Price?
To maintain a good culture
for education, many of our col
leges increase students’ tuitions.
Clark College is no different,
we want to maintain the best
faculty members and school fa
cilities. This year we have sev
eral new faculty members. Next
year we will probably have
more. The student body has no
objections to our yearly faculty
and facility additions. We wel
come the opportunity to be ex
posed to the best tools a college
education can provide. The op
position comes in terms of fi
nance.
For students from middle-
class families, that have scholar
ships, savings, and other secured
sources of funds, the yearly tui
tion increment slightly affects
them. They accept it with little
concern, they pay the price.
What happens to those mem
bers of our student body who
do not come from middle-class
families, have no scholarships,
or savings? How does yearly
tuition increments affect them?
Financial and academic pres
sures were the general replies.
A great number of the student
body is self-supporting. When
ever expenses increase, they
find a need of another job and
more hours to get enough
money to settle their expenses.
To have a need to acquire
more means of finance, relative
ly numerous students find it
arduous to keep required hours
for desired classification. They
discover themselves spending
more hours on a tedious job
than at school. School becomes
secondary and they rarely con
sume the required work in their
chosen field of study.
Many of thses diligent stu
dents come through and survive
their financial responsibilities
another year. There are other
diligent students that do not
earn quite enough, though they
worked more hours on a job
and fewer hours at school. How
many Clarkites this year will
not earn quite enough and say,
“I couldn’t pay the price?”
by Hattie Grimes
Civil Rights Workers
NEEDED
In Alabama
Mississippi
and Georgia
Many black people are starv
ing by malnutrition in these
areas. The Southern Rural Re
search Project has a massive
direct action program planned
to fight the discrimination in
Federal agriculture and welfare
programs which causes much of
this suffering. Medical students,
law students and college stu
dents are needed to work in the
field for two or three weeks or
fo rthe entire summer.
For further information con
tact:
Floyd Coleman
Giles Hall
Spelman College
Home — 523-1848
Office — 524-6886
or
Don Jelinek
Southern Rural Research
Project
802 - 1st Ave., Box 956
Selma, Alabama
872-5562