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Page 2 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.