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THE PANTHER
November 12, 1968
Clarkite serve
as
MARC interns
From June 17 to August 15, 1968 Sandra Swans and Joseph
Wilson served as summer mterns with the Metropolitan
Applied Research Center in New York City.
The Center is a non-profit organization, under the lead
ership of Dr. Kenneth B. Clark, which attempts to “use
trained intelligence as a catalyst for aiding the powerless
in our society.” For the past two summers MARC has
attempted to expose college and high school students in
terested in urban problems to its varied programs. During
the nine week internship one attends seminars with various
guests. Among the seminar guests during the past summer
were Claude Brown, author of “Manchild In the Promised
Land;” Junious Williams organizer of the United Brothers
in Newark, New Jersey; Robert Rose, Political Scientist
at the University of Chicago; Vernon Jordan, Southern Re
gional Council attorney, and other interesting guests.
The thirty summer interns were allowed to affiliate them
selves with any one of the four departments of MARC, (Re
search, Urban Affairs, Legal Affairs, Community Affairs),
or other MARC related community organizations. Miss Swans
worked in the Community Affairs Division as a research
assistant under Dr. Kenneth Marshall. She conducted a com
munity analysis of nine cities in the United States through
reading daily newspapers and giving special reports. This
research was done in order to compile data for use in de
signing a National Black Leaders Training Institute.
Grapevine
Math Department Receives Grant
It’s Been Said That
The Clark College Mathematics Department has received
The Alpha probates have quite a $7,000 grant from the Christian A, Johnson Endeavor Foun-
a few admirers-at least the dation for an experimental program believed to be the only
sophomore girls think so. one of its kind in the country.
The abdominable snowman The program, involving the math course required of all
has come down a few pegs- Clark freshmen, utilizes closed-circuit television in a unique
who did it? “community” approach to teaching.
A Certain Campus Cutie and Unlike some closed-circuit TV teaching programs, the math
one of the SG’s fried a few department at Clark has all faculty members present in the
fish overnight. auditorium with the 300 students taking the course.
A certain (off-campus) Ju
nior and a certain sophomore
(on-campus) have something in
common—unknown to one of
them—a guy from across the
street.
A certain Kappa has chang
ed his mind about his first
lady.
Some of the big brothers
and sisters are being too rough
on their pledges—. Look for
ward to a faculty intervention.
Off-campus party-goers do
more than party.
In previous years, each instructor in the department had
several sections which met three times a week. Each section
had approximately 25 students.
Now all of the students taking the course meet at the same
time in the auditorium. One faculty member serves as a lectur
er while the other faculty members sit in the audience with
their classes.
Each class has a microphone and, at any time a particular
problem isn’t understood, a student can hold up his hand and
stop the lecture to ask a question. The faculty members, also
can stop the lecturer at any point they feel the lecture is con
fusing.
Many colleges now have closed-circuit courses, but there
is no communication between the lecturer and the students
and other faculty members.
Sandra also interviewed various heads of community
corporations in New York City and made reports on the
twenty-two poverty areas in New York.
Mr. Wilson was a research assistant in the Legal Af
fairs Department headed by Mr. George Dailey. His re
search was concerned with Legal Services available in New
York City with an analysis of its weak and strong points
and emphasis on community opinion. He spent two weeks
in the Harlem Legal Aid office as a lawyer’s assistant
and made regular visits to court to observe Legal Aid law
yers at work, He continued with an additional two weeks
at the Neighborhood Legal Services office on Staten Island,
where he interviewed community leaders and aided in the
formation of an educational office for CORE on the island.
Mr. Wilson also interviewed Legal Service experts from
various community and campus organizations such as Mo
bilization For Youth, and Community Action Legal Services.
His findings were presented in a written report to Mr. Dailey
and will be used in a more extensive report being drawn
up by the Legal Services Department (this report was also
shared with President Henderson).
During an interview Miss Swans commented, “Joe and
I are very appreciative of the efforts of President Hender
son and others to get us placed in such an exciting intern
program,” Mr. Wilson added, “I too am thankful and I
challenge the Clark College faculty to try and get more
Ciarkites involved in such outstanding programs.”
It is through experiences such as these that one is ex
posed to a new and exciting dimension in education. Let
it continue!
Ministers With
Dr. Abernathy
GREEN LADE, Wis.—More than 150 Negro ministers from
15 large cities 'are meeting with leaders of churches and the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) at the Amer
ican Baptist Assembly here this week.
A speech class put their honk-
ie teacher out of class for
calling one of the students a
jack-ass.
A coed was rushed to the
hospital for having some horse
meat clogged in one of the
oddest of places.
Young couple strolling down
Chestnut, he-black, she-white.
He stops to kick a black cat
with white stripes.
Three Morehouse students-
with the intent of helping a
Clark college faculty member
start his car, somehow sett
ing the motor afire, all beat
ing the flames while the teach
er is unaware of what is going
on.
A junior, in class, suddenly
falling out of her chair, asleep.
A Clarkite chasing a squir
rel with a sling shot around
the fountain.
A Kappa bursting a bottle
of Scotch against the adminis
tration building.
A Clark faculty member com
ing to class with bleeding mouth
and swollen eyes.
A Clark coed, fishing down
in the street mailbox; she has
just realized that she has put
a letter to her main man in
an envelope addressed to her
parents.
An entire class hiding from
their teacher in the Rec.
It is the second nationwide meeting of the year for the Mini
sters Leadership Training Program, a program organized and
directed by SCLC and funded by the Ford Foundation.
Ten ministers for each of the 15 cities are being trained
as leaders of their communities, with emphasis on black peo
ple’s needs in the urban society.
A couple horsing around, she-
leaning to push him off the
steep side of the steps in front
of the administration building-
but falling off herself.
A Brownite with a Clark ban
ner.
In the week-long sessions the ministers will hear distin
guished leaders and experts on urban affairs, and engage in
intensive discussions on developing local leadership and pro
grams for the black community.
Major speakers include Rev. Dr. Ralph David Abernathy,
SCLC President and successor to Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr., (who addressed the first assembly of the group last Feb
ruary) Rev. T, Y, Rogers, Jr., a member of the SCLC Exe
cutive Staff who is directing the Ministers Leadership Train
ing Program; and SCLC and other specialists on urban mat
ters, including poverty, employment, housing, government, poli
tics, and religion.
After the meetings last February, the ministers returned
home to begin organizing local development programs. At Great
Lake this week, they are bringing progress reports and con
sidering ways to improve and expand the activities begun with
the aid of the SCLC program.
The ministers are from Atlanta, Baltimore, Birmingham,
Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Memphis,
New York, Newark, Philadelphia, St. Louis, San Francisco
and Washington.
A guy holding the door of
a moving car that his girl
is in, running up Chestnut, yell
ing “Let me in!”
Clarkite Makes Expert
Ft. Benning, Ga. — Army
Private Ronald H. Hampton,
24, son of Hr. and Mrs. Wen
dell H. Hampton, 876 McDan
iel St., Atlanta, Ga., fired ex
pert with the M-14 rifle near
the completion of basic combat
training at Ft. Benning, Ga.,
July 26.
The expert rating is the
highest mark a soldier can
achieve on his weapons quali
fication test.
Clark’s program, which in the words of one math professor
“humanizes” the course while at the same time teaching large
numbers of students more efficiently, allows the maximum amount
of communication between faculty and students.
The experimental program, now in its second year, has a
cost of approximately $21,000. The $7,000 grant from the
Johnson Foundation, which is based in New York, is the first
outside support for the program.
Dr. Joseph J. Dennis is chairman of the Clark Mathematics
Department.
Black (Cont. from Page 3)
The trustees, who have first and last word in all matters
of finance, are the powers behind the presidential thrones
in the Center. Most of them only visit the Center once or twice
a year. They are virtually unknown to the students and faculty.
Most of the trustees are wealthy white businessmen from the
north. Almost all of them are rich and conservative. They
definitely don’t identify with the black revolution, and there
is a great deal of evidence to support the contention that they
know little or nothing about the unique problems and aspira
tions of the students in the Center.
A check of the Morehouse, Spelman and Atlanta University
catalogues indicate that the three institutions are in the hands
of a small group of white trustees serving on the Boards of
all three. This clique controls the Financial and Executive
Committees of all three schools. And they also hold most
of the offices on the Boards.
One of the long range goals of the AD HOC Committee for
a Black University is to get ultimate control of the Center
into “black hands.” This means that they have to challenge
their Negro administrators and white trustees on a number
of sensitive areas. Both sides seem determined to call the
shots.
What happens from here is anybody’s guess.
Uncle Tom (cont. from Page a)
even federal troops, the machine kicked back. Our desperation
is now complete. We are saying to this country, “Cancel the
flight.” We are going to dismantle this American machine piece
Society’s (Cont. from Page 2)
student plots to over-run the administrations, or so much
the respect due based on one individual’s conception of law
and order. They would be occupying themselves instead with
a sober and sympathetic inquiry into why so many young peo
ple—who are not their enemies but their own beloved’sons
and daughters—are so angry at the society that they are about
to inherit, and into whether, and if so, how, they can help re
concile us to it or to them. Everyone can agree that recon
ciliation with two expedients that they have tried so far that
failed are: throwing the copybook of rules at us and whacking
us about. Being lectured at and being whacked seems to make
us even angrier than we were trom the beginning, which seems
odd only to those who dig being whacked or lectured at.
In a final phrase of caution, let the sleepers awake to what’s
happening. Let no one take comfort in the fact that investiga
tions confirm young protestors to be a minority. For that mi
nority contains a disproportionate number, perhaps in some
cases—a majority, of the brightest, most imaginative, talented,
most sensitive young men and women; the young men and wo
men whom their contemporaries listen to, admire and often
follow; the young people whom government, business, and pro
fessions (one word, the Establishment) need desperately as
future leaders. Their disaffection is not only a moral reproach
to America, but, if it continues, will be an irreparable loss.
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