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THE PANTHER
November 12, 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
SPORTS EDITORS LIZZETTE JONES,
RUFUS KINNEBREW
FEATURE EDITORS DESDEMONTA JONES, HELEN BOYKINS
REPORTERS ERASTUS CULPEPPER, ROSE BRYAN,
LILLIAN ANDREWS
GREEK EDITOR
TYPISTS
ADVISORS
PHOTOGRAPHERS
GERALD SPANN
LINDA GASTON, JOYCE TURNER
MISS LONG, MR. OXNARD
CLIFF MEEKS, Charles Smith
Don’t Cop Out
BLACK STUDENT RECRUIT
On Nov. 7 and 8, from 9:00-5:00, Dr. Sterling Schoen and
Mr. Wallace Jones, of the Consortium for Graduate Study
in Business for Negroes, were at the Atlanta University
Center to interview black male students who are interested
in obtaining a Master of Business Administration degree. The
Consortium is a program designed to hasten the entry of black
men into managerial positions in business, and is sponsored
by the graduate schools of business of Indiana University,
University of Rochester, Washington University, and Univer
sity of Wisconsin.
The M.B.A. program of study will normally require two
academic years and two summers. The first summer, which
immediately precedes entry into the M.B.A. program, is de
signed to provide the student with an opportunity to obtain
work experience or commence his graduate studies or en
hance his skills, depending upon the recommendation of the
school to which he has been admitted. Each student will nor
mally spend the second summer between the two academic
years participating in a Summer Business Internship in the
employ of one of the more than 60 corporations which help
support the 'Consortium program. Each man admitted to the
program will receive a fellowship of $2,500 a year for living
and personal expenses, plus paid tuition. Fellowship, plus tui
tion costs, will also be awarded to all candidates attending
the first summer program.
An applicant must hold a Bachelor’s degree from an ac
credited college or receive the degree prior to entry into
the M.B.A. program. Prior study in the field of business or
economics is not necessary for admission to this program.
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First Day Blues
BY VICTORIA SMITH
Society’s Rebels
By
Ronald
Coleman
It may be comforting to think of what we young people are
up to today as a kind of natural catastrophe for what the adult
society bears no responsibility, but it is neither helpful nor
accurate. The non-youths should remind themselves that they
bear a great deal of the responsibility. Why? Because the
youth of today in their revolutions is not foreordained natural
phenomenon, but a human response to a given set of condi
tions that their generation helped to initiate; our revolution
is not inspired by abstract ideological dislikes of the “es
tablishments” in general, but rather based on the concrete
dislike of a specific set of existing institutions that their gene
ration helped to build.
The society asks “what are they angry at?” First, we are
angry at what we consider to be the “sike” we see everywhere
we look, and hear everytime we listen: the “sike” that fight
ing a war is the way to achieve peace; the sike that life is gett
ing better everyday in a country whose greatest cities are
falling to delapidation overnight; a country that permits 20
million black men and women to be undermined citizens in
a country merely animated by the spirit of liberty and dedi
cated to the proposition of equality, not thoroughly immersed
in it.
When I first arrived at Clark,
I was wondered and scared
as to what would be. All kinds
of thoughts ran through my
head. Here I am in a strange
city, not knowing anyone. Will
I meet people who will accept
me, or will I be a loner most
of the time? I wondered how
I would adjust to being around
strangers who I knew would
not be friendly. Since this was
my first time away from home,
every step that I took towards
Clark College made me want
to run back the other way.
But while taking these steps
forward, I passed people whom
I had never known, and they
greeted me like we were old
friends. At first I thought that
I was dreaming, but then a cool
breeze hit me and I knew that
this was the real thing.
When I finally arrived at
Clark everyone was nice tome.
Then I knew that I was not
the only one who had this un
comfortable and unexplainable
feeling. I know now that almost
everyone of the new students
had the same thoughts as I
had been having, and by all
of us having mutual feelings
we all try to show the better
side of us.
BLACK
And of all the “sikes” we young people resent, are the ones
most obvious - the ones perpetrated by American colleges
and universities: the sike that these institutions of higher learn-
/ing are independent, inner-directed institutions when, in reality,
many of them are in some or most ways, manipulated some
how by some religious obligation, businesses, or even the
government; the sike that they exist totally for the benefit
of students, when, in sober fact one inviolable principle on
which many institutions conduct their affairs is the comfort
and profit of their senior faculty members; the “sike” that
they “prepare young men and women for life,” when truly
they are more often than not indifferent to or at odds with
the communities physically surrounding them; the “sike” that
they provide the best education possible, which many young
people are beginning to feel is the biggest sike of all.
That may sound like a bold statement to make, but to any
one who has been connected with education as long as some
of the instructors around Clark and throughout Atlanta Uni
versity Center have been and have seen the changes as to
the students “Sheeping” on their half of the educational pro
cesses as well as some of the instructors “sheeping” on their
half, you’ll know what the young people mean, as well as I
have related with them.
I go on not to pat colleges and universities on the back for
its training programs - or to heap coals of fire upon academia
- although now it seems that youth has given it a hotfoot -
but to suggest that when students rebel against their alma
maters they are likely to have more on their minds than add
ed dormitory privileges or freedom of speech. If I hear them
rightly, they are saying that they want a voice in how insti
tutions are run because they don’t believe that when it comes
to the schools’ main job, education, they are run well enough.
Since that’s what we say, I agree.
Which brings me to the acknowledgement of the second griev
ance that youth has today: not being treated fairly as young
adults - the so-called leaders of the future. Again the point
is strongest in the colleges, because it is within these insti
tutions that physically and emotionally mature men and women,
rather than duly developed, are kept in the childish conditions
of intellectual, psychological, and economic dependence. They
are not given the responsibility they are fit for and entitled
to; they are not given the sense that they too are participating
significantly in the world’s work. The most significant single
step that could be taken to the aid this situation seems to be,
in order to make the young people - or at least students - feel
more a part of the society they live in, is to give them a far
greater voice than they have with the management of the col
leges, and to integrate college activities far more fully than
they are now.
In an interview that appeared in the New York Times the
other day, Charles Abrams, a research psychologist and so
ciologist, said that a college should have three functions: edu
cation, research, and service. I agree, and I say in addition
that if education is a function, all colleges do not perform
all too well and often for the benefit of special political or
commercial interests, and if service to the community is
a function, they perform hardly at all. Let me quote Mr. Abrams,
“Unless the college involves itself in service, eventually it
will be ignored. . . If it does involve itself, it will help settle
the student problem. The student wants to be involved. The
students are activists. They want to be of service.”
These facts are really quite obvious, and if the non-youths
reminded themselves of them more often, they might find them
selves less frequently discussing the chaos on campus or mass
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TRADITIONAL
by Gerald L. Spann
The time was 12:01 Sunday
morning and the date was Oc
tober twenty- sixth . This time
and date marked the beginning
of an old tradition known to
students as “Hell Week.” It is
a tradition which has existed
since only heaven knows when.
It takes place each year, the
week of the Morehouse-Clark
football game. The students at
each college find it taboo to be
found on the other’s campus.
They are enemies at war for the
whole week.
“Hell Week” officially starts
on the Monday before the game.
This year on the Monday begin
ning the tradition, students ar
rived and found M’s written on
the front door of the school.
This is to say nothing of those
found burnt on the campus
lawn.
This year the enemy ventured
across the border of no man’s
land into Panther territory in
the middle of the day. They
were cornered and met their
“Waterloo” at the “ Battle of
the Reck.” Order was restored
and the bloody battle ground
became the scene of peace and
tranquility. In order to assure
peace and tranquility intermedi
ate sources entered.
There was a tenseness in the
air that Saturday as the stu
dents walked along side of the
two school bands. However, af
ter deflating the swollen ego
of Morehouse 10-7 Clarkites
floated happily back to their
campus. They gathered around
the fountain for the traditional
singing of the alma mater.
This is how “Hell Week”
was brought to a climax. It is
now time to tuck away in the
basements of our minds until it
rises again next year.