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Page 2 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. *7Ae £cUto>i& . . . 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 (Cont. on Page 6) 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.