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THE PANTHER
Oct. 18, 1968
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 RONALD COLEMAN
WELCOME
- A DREAM
SPORTS EDITORS
LIZZETTE JONES,
RUFUS KtNNEBREW
FEATURE EDITORS DESDEMONTA JONES, HELEN BOYKINS
REPORTERS ERASTUS CULPEPPER, ROSE BRYAN,
LILLIAN ANDREWS
By
Ronald
Coleman
GREEK EDITOR
TYPISTS
ADVISORS
PHOTOGRAPHERS
GERALD SPANN
LINDA GASTON, JOYCE TURNER
MISS LONG, MR. OXNARD
CLIFF MEEKS, RONNIE BENTON
Upon my initial admittance to Clark College, a short
time over two years prior to this writing, I was told re
peatedly time and time again by various upper classmen
that “you can’t do anything constructive at Clark College
educationally, politically, or even religiously without some
means of hindrance.” You may be shaking your head ‘yes’,
but I still don’t believe it. Mcreso, I was a warmly receiv
ed freshman and was accepted to receive my responsi
bility as a man in this modern world.
PRESS
WHY, YOU ASK
BY ERASTUS CULPEPPER JR.
People generally criticize the doings of the younger gene
ration. The government calls us juvenile delinquents, our
parents call us disrespectful brats, and society calls us
nonconformists.
All of the people we come in contact with think we are
hippies. They ask, “why the long hair, L.S.D., pot, glue,
and alcohol? Why be involved in peace movements, love-
ins, sleep-ins, and the such? Why do we have to destroy
everything our parents have worked for? Why can’t we
be like everyone else, systematic and conformed? Why
not be satisfied with the right to vote at twenty-one, the
privilege of undertaking pleasures and habits of children?
How can we live in society as a minority group, and yet
try to dissolve every aspect of what they call freedom and
peace? Why can’t we just go to and from school or work
and come home and go to sleep. Why? Wny is it so hard
for us to live by the laws of tradition, and think no more
about it. Why all the protest and rebellion?
Well, my dear Quakers, I’ll tell you why. Our genera
tion, the generation who will have to inherit this war-torn,
illiterate, and poverty stricken world in which we were
born, will have to go on living the life of, do as everyone
else, ACT like You used to act. EAT what You used to eat.
Help fight YOUR battles. Suffer for the misunderstandings
among YOU. Be branded with guilt from knowing the reason
for orphans throughout the land resulting from the esca
pades of our fore-fathers. Go on through this land as whites,
blacks and reds, living as divided groups instead of one.
This my friend is the wall we intend to eradicate from
the face of the earth.
We feel that no more will be go-betweens in family quarrels,
sit quietly when matters pertaining to ourselves and our
prosperity arise. Give us the things you promised us in
the constitution, as well as those of the Declaration of In
dependence, and other documents of our inherent gifts.
We are just plain frustrated with going to die at age
eighteen for our country, and yet be kept from such estab
lishments as those limited for those twenty-one and over.
Or even the mere right to vote for what we believe in. Do
you know what you’re asking us to do? You’re asking us
to give our lives, for the benefit of keeping us in this man
made hell. Believe me if we have anything to do with it,
we are going to give to our children, what was merely pro
mised to us, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. If
getting you to see our needs and wants can only be obtained
through rebellious actions and protest, may God have mercy
on us we’re going to do it.
The population, two-thirds under thirty, I guarantee you
we’ll either make this world over or inherit it like it is
and I don’t think the majority of us will take the latter.
I beckon to you, the parents, lead this world into one peo
ple, rather than divided groups. If not believe me we will,
even if it kills. For we realize the shape this world is in,
it was this way before we got here, but it won’t be this
way for long, for our accomplishments will revolutionize
this world into one in which poverty will be eliminated,
illiteracy obliterated, and wars a thing of the past, with
peace on earth, goodwill toward men.
I ask of you before closing, show us the way for we have
the will. Show us your love by giving us a chance to love
and appreciate the life God giveth us. So we will be able
to look at tomorrow with a clear conscience and smiles
on our faces.
(Cont. on Page 6)
Rather, I believe, Clark has the potential of becoming
a model college within this Atlanta University Center, and
with the newly arrived freshmen, class of 72 prospective
ly, I have this dream. The dream: one institution where
every student, regardless of sex, station in life, or classi
fication, has the equal opportunity to the happiness of a
liberal education here within this institute of higher learn
ing. A place where we may institute a new and lively cul
ture of awareness among the students as college and cam
pus life tends to do elsewhere, yet retain a strong element
of our present ethnic culture, “self-imposed” groupings
and young language—within a realm of equality and campus
freedom.
One of the basic elements of this institutional dream
is that the men and women from all the various states and
cultures in our union, most with certain basics in common—
those being race and national origin, plus the strive for
a higher level of education—can, by choice, live here at
school together for mutual support and retain their specif
ic identities. And this dream is done when we are given
their freedom to do this, but simultaneously do not deny
any other student the opportunity to freely move about and
reasonably live as he or she pleases; for, we are one fami
ly here—the Clark College family, second to none, here
to do and seek culture for culture. Within the dream of
this institution, that is the surest reality.
Clark, as the new members of the family will find, has
the overwhelming potential, I feel, for miking this dream
a reality rather than any college in the realm of AU Center.
Clark has its minor differences, but any family does, but
it does not have the vast chasms of difference that many
larger colleges and universities have, thus keeping this
dream a dream rather than a reality—the reality of a hard
ship we cannot overcome. No, Clark tends to dwell and
function within the regime of a middleclass community,
or to coin a phrase “an American dream.” Though we’re
all ‘hip’ on some students being a trifle more well off fi
nancially, the majority thrives at the middle level. Besides
this, the people at Clark and throughout the center are
decent and concerned people. There is not as much dissen-
tion or apathy as once witnessed before. Of course there
are exceptions to nearly everything. It is time, however,
that we stop concentrating on our exceptions and empha
size our assets. There is no reason in the world that we
all cannot work together with those about us and strive
for a prosperous college and center that manifests elements
of that dream rather than the nightmare that seems to be
engulfing so many college and university campuses and cen
ters today.
We must make note, however, of one drawback. Many
of us residing throughout Clark and the center, especially
the newer residents such as freshman, may have com';
from smaller cities, We have come then, out of the prob
lems of our own domain into what for us is a piece of that
dream. And we don’t want anything to upset that dream,
When the dream is threatened, we react out of past ex
periences. But, here, in the big city, we are centered among
various ethnic groups, races, and religions, and therefore
meet friction. When we, as young adults, move out of our
towns and suburbs into our “dream”, we remember not
so much the benefits we receive from one another while
here, but rather moreso the friction. For this reason, I
feel, we react when we believe or feel that our dream is
being threatened. We need to stop so much the reacting
and continue to dream the dream and continue to give our
selves to its fulfillment so that a means can be procured
to make it a reality for all of us here, especially the new
students. They come seeking guidance and inspiration con
cerning education and will readily tend to find it in us, the
so-called “veteran upperclassmen.” We need to venture
out in faith in the areas of their needs and to make them
all feel a needed welcome, just as we sought upon our en
trances. Even though the orientation period has been over,
I offer a belated welcome to all the freshmen, prospective
class of 72.
Let’s begin to the scholars and people that we aspire
to be, and really are, and give of ourselves to the fresh
men and the dream so that this year it will be a reality.
There is not a place on the face of the globe that has more
potential in the fulfilling of this dream than here at Clark
College. We can, in fact, become the model of the center.
Great realities and truths begin small somewhere, so let’s
continue to keep the ball rolling and start by offering that
‘CC soulful welcome.’ How about it?
BLACK
AND WHITE
IN COLOR
You’ll see color on your black
and white televisions this win
ter. It won’t really be there
but you’ll see it anyway.
This coast to coast optical
illusion will call for no changes
in your present set. Not so
much as a scrap of wire or
the turn of a screw driver is
required at the receiving end.
At the studio end, a filter
disk and a smooth motor to turn
it at exactly five revolutions
per second is mounted behind
the camera’s lens.
Tiie system was named
Color-Tel by its inventor, a
California engineer named
James F. Butterfield. It is the
fruit of the 16 years of study
and experiment aimed at crack
ing the brain’s color code.
It is easier to understand
how the system works than it
is to grasp why it works, for
it is based upon a mystery.
For some reason never satis
factorily explained, some se
quences of flashing white light
are interpreted in the brain
as colors.
“When we normally see
color, light is striking the eye,
which sends an electronic sig
nal over the optic nerve to
the brain,” Butterfield ex
plains.
“This electronic signal tells
how much light is striking the
eye. We feel that in this
signal there is also a little
pulse, or “blip” that indicates
the color.”
“It looks like a little clump
on the signal tracing.”
“The big electronic signal on
the optic nerve has been known
about and measured for the
past fifty years, and these little
“blips” have been studied for
the past ten years.”
“We analyzed these blips
very carefully and came to the
conclusion that they are arrang
ed in a code that is different
from each color.”
“We found we could repro
duce this code by taking white
light and pulsing it, that is,
turning it on and off in a par
ticular way.”
“This causes the eye to arti
ficially send the code of the
various colors along the optic
nerve to the brain.”
Tiie viewer sees color, al
though the television picture
tube is only showing white
light flashing on and off.
The colors are not as bright
as those on conventional color
T.V., but they are bright enough
to give the black and white tele
vision viewer a big surprise.
Some sixty million television
sets in the United States; ser
ving four out of five viewers;
are black and white.
Some viewers will not be
able to see the color in Color-
Tel. Their eyes just will not
pick it up. Oddly though some
color blind people will be able
to see Color-Tel color even
though they can not normally
see colors.
“Almost every timeldamon-
strate the process, somebody
will come up to me afterwards
and say “wasn’t that green?
I really saw it. I never saw
green before in my life”!
Butterfield explains that the
reason is that Color-Tel by
passes their eye’s defective
coding mechanism.