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November 12,1968
THE PANTHER
Page 7
Democrats
And
Republicans
BY BENJAMIN E. MAYS
The Republicans had a more orderly convention, But I am
not so sure that it was a better convention. Miami had some
disturbances in the Negro communities. In Chicago, it was
not the Negroes but war demonstrators, mostly white.
It seems that the Negroes in Chicago just about ignored
the convention. The demonstration in Chicago cannot be blamed
on Negroes. Whatever the reason, it is good that the demon
strations were not led by Negroes. Both parties have been
talking about law and order. They meant that Negroes in'the
ghettos and slums were largely responsible for disorder. I
heard an interesting remark about Chicago. I think it was a
cartoon with the Negro saying to the whites: “Welcome to
the club brother, you know now what it means to have your
heads cracked”.
There seems to be little difference between Nixon and Hum
phrey on the Vietnam war. What the difference will be between
now and November, nobody knows. I think there is a whale of
a difference between Nixon and Agnew and Humphrey and Muskie
on law and order. Nixon and Agnew seem to emphasize: “law
and order” more than Justice. I get the impression that Hum
phrey and Muskie want law and order too, but they are deeply
concerned about removing injustice so that disorder will be
reduced to the minimum. It was unfortunate for Nixon to threat
en to fire the Attorney General as one way to get law and order.
I fear that under the Republican Regime the appopriations
for welfare and anti-poverty progress will be greatly reduced
and perhaps some of them will be cut out altogether. There
is more of the rugged individualism in the Republicans party
than there is in the Democratic party. A staunch Republican
said to me the other day, that many people are on welfare
because they do not want to work.
The Republicans have critized the Democrats for the waste
there is in the various welfare and anti-poverty programs.
I am sure there has been waste but that is one reason for cutt
ing out the program. Tiie solution is, "get rid of the waste”.
The greatest waste, believe, is in government. It would stagger
the imagination if we knew the billions that are wasted in our
conduct of the war. Who knows how many millions are wasted
because a machine becomes obsolete before it is finished.
We don’t hear anything about that. We don’t call it waste when
the rich gets richer because they are paid tens of thousands
of dollars for not planting their crops, And yet we Republi
cans and not yet we Republicans and Democrats to cry or be
cause there is waste in the anti-poverty program. I really be
lieve that by and' large the Democrats are more concerned
about helping the poor.
The Republican leadership, Nixon, is wooing the South and
we’d better be careful for the Republican party in the South
may be worse than the Democratic party. Strom Thurmond
is a big Republican and he is the kind of a Republican that
Maddox is a Democrat.
22 NEW FACULTY NOW AT COLLEGE
Twenty-two new faculty members have joined the staff of
Clark College for the academic year 1968-69.
The total number of instructional faculty members at the
college is now 108. Seven members of the faculty are on leave-
of-absence this year.
The faculty will be teaching some 1,000 students this year,
including approximately 300 freshmen who are enrolled at
the College. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Clark.
The new faculty members, their departments and highest
degrees are as follows:
Art: Joseph Hopkins, assistant professor, M.F.A., Yale Uni
versity; Donald A. Brown, instructor, M.A., University of Mary
land; John White Jr., associate professor, B.S., Morgan State
College.
Biology: Alfred Dietz, professor, Ph. D., University of Min
nesota; William Larson, associate professor, Ph. D., Hlinois
Institute of Technology; Robert Miller, professor Ph.D., Penn
sylvania State University.
Chemistry: Rajender K. Chawla, assistant professor, M.S.,
Georgia Institution of Technology; Dorothy A. Jackson, instruc
tor, M.S., Atlanta University.
Economics and Business Administration: Jane Dawkins, as
sistant professor, M.A., New York University.
English: Robert Kronley, instructor, J.D., New York Uni
versity; Blanton Miller, instructor, M.A., University of Min
nesota; Hubert W, Thompson, instructor, M.A., Atlanta Uni
versity; Harry J. Vincent, instructor, M.A., Indiana Univer
sity.
Foreign Languages: Thomas A. Hollweck, instructor, M.A.,
University of Munich; Robert L. Pitts, assistant professor,
M.A., Kent State.
Physics: Kenneth Kiang, instructor, M.S., Georgia Institu
tion of Technology; Charles Prince, instructor B.S., Univer
sity of Maine; Henry Rogers, professor, Ph.D„, Pennsylvania
State University. ( Cont . on Column 4)
NEGRO
TEACH
ERS
WANT
EQUAL
ITY
Over fourteen years ago,
after an indepth study of socio
logical studies along with the
judicial aspects of rampant
racism in America, the United
States Supreme Court handed
down the landmark school de
cision outlawing segregation of
the races in the public schools.
Tiie consequenses of that de
cision have tended to reshape
the nation’s thinking about the
Negro’s question.
In some cases the Negro
himself has had to be awakened
to the fact of the need for the
assertion of his own rights in
an area in which there had not
been here before any agitation
for readiness at all. Since May
7, 1954 and due to the fact much
has been said and done through
an aroused public conscious
ness backed by district courts’
decisions toward implementa
tion of the Supreme Courts’
order.
The logical aspect of school
integration has finally been ac
cepted by the majority of the
nation, though with reluctance in
some instances. Trie principle
cause has been shown and esta
blished beyond a shadow of a
doubt. Now a new matter has
arisen in the issue. Negro
teachers who have been among
the victims of school inbalance,
are organizing across the nation
to demand separate but equal
power in running schools in the
larger towns and cities.
The militant African-Ameri
can Teacher Association of New
York took under advisement
the possibility of severing ties
with the United Federation of
Teachers. While Negro teach
ers are organizing in their own
societies and affiliations, the
National Educational Associa
tion is trying to merge white
and black affiliates in the south;
basically Georgia.
A committee has already been
formed and started to work to
ward forming a National organi
zation of Negro teachers. How
ever, leaders of other groups
are reluctant in making a final
decision as to whether or not
to become affiliated with the
NCA.
In using the knowledge obtain
ed through this mass movement
to build this new Negro Teach
ers organiz ation is denied,
there are grounds to believe
that dissatisfaction with the
manner in which Negroes are
assigned to Administrative
posts will eventually lead to an
individual organization for Ne
groes, unless the NEA would
fight for an equitable share of
the power-control for Negroes.
Sports Quiz
Of the Month
Question: What school final
ly won a football game?
Answer: Right-o, Morehouse.
Congratulations from the
Panthers.
Satirical Disorientation
The first week at any college is known as “orientation.”
“Orientation” is an old Greek word taken from the prefix
“orient” which means Chinese. Similarly, the word is taken
from and old Chinese word, “orienta”, which means, “its
all Greek to me.” In any case, orientation is a difficult and
confusing experience for most freshmen.
Your first move at any 'college should be to acquaint your
self with the department heads. This doesn’t mean brown
nosing the head of the English department. It simply means
learning where all the bathrooms are. Believe me, after 6
hours in confusion, it will be wise to know where every head
in the place is.
Your next problem will be your parents. After you have un
packed your luggage from your car and dragged it up to your
third floor room, your mother, no doubt, will burst into tears,
throw her arms around you, beg you to be good, not to stay
out late, and to eat all your vegetables. The freshmen should
expect this reaction and try to sympathize with the parent.
You can imagine how I felt when my mother went through these
changes, especially since I commute from home.
During orientation you were introduced to a guide whose
function was to show you the ropes. This means you will know
exactly where to go to hang yourself when things go bad. The
big brother guide performs many other functions. He’ll tell
you how much (how little) you will need to shady, how much
you can drink without getting sick, and how to ea': free at Tasty
Dog.
A major part of fi ashmen orientation takes place in the
auditorium looking at speeches. I say “looking” because it
is very difficult to hear anything when 200 freshmen girls
are talking to 100 freshmen boys.
The first speaker is usually the dean of men (in charge of
men), the dean of women (in charge of women), than the dean
of faculty (in charge of faculty), the director of student relations,
and finally the most important job of all—the Dean of Housing.
His job is to find a place for all the Deans to live'. By the way,
the speeches are sometimes boring, and anyone who applauds
is considered a hypocrite.
It is about this time that you finally meet your roommate.
Don’t be misled by first impressions. It is absolutely impossi
ble for you to get along.
Your first problem is always the bathroom. For example,
you want to take a shower and so does he. If this happens you
can consider yourself quite lucky. Most freshmen find that
when they want to take a shower their roommate doesn’t.. .
(ever).
If your roommate is not very clean, it may be wise to drop
a few subtle hints, like nailing his socks to the floor so they
won’t walk away. If after three months, he still doesn’t know
which toothbrush is his, I suggest a quick change.
It is during this orientation period that college freshmen
meet many members of the opposite sex. Many of you will
look at these weirdies and wonder how they got to be members.
The fact is, however, that freshmen can’t be choosey, &nd the
boys especially must often settle for girls who played goalie
on their dart team.
Once you have a date, the problem is to find a “together”
place to take her. Here is where the freshmen becomes con
fused. On most campuses there is a particular place where
everybody hangs out. This presents a problem. If the fresh
man has a real ugly date, he doesn’t want to be seen with her,
so he takes her to some second-rate picture, like “ANDY
HARDY GETS A GIRL IN TROUBLE.” If, however, the fresh
man has a “fine” date, he is afraid if he goes to the “hang
out,” all his friends will try and get her phone number. In
that case, he usually takes his date to some second-rate Horror
Show picture like “THE JODY THAT RANSACKED ATLANTA.”
After a while the movie gets real crowed, the cycle switches,
and everyone heads for the Hangout.
And so, Orientation comes to a close, but freshmen across
the country will face more problems as the weeks pass. Many
freshmen come to the fraternity brothers early in the year
and ask if they should join a fraternity or a sorority? The
response is usually “if you’re a male join a fraternity, if
you’re a female join a sorority.” This doesn’t help Freshmen
much, but it cuts down on the amount of questions.
(Cont. from Column 1)
Religion and Philosophy: James G. Corum, instructor, M.T.S.,
Harvard University; Benjamin Jordan, Jr., instructor. B.D..
Yale University.
Social Science: Michael Chanin, assistant professor, J.D.,
Emory University; Hubert B. Ross, professor (part-time) Ph.D.,
Columbia University.
The following faculty members are on leaves-of-absence
during this school year: Floyd W. Coleman, Art Department,
Sylvia Plutchok, Arts Department; William H. McCray, Che
mistry Department; Wiley S. Bolden, Education and Psycholo
gy Department; Henri Armand, Foreign Languages Depart
ment; Calvin Clifton, Mathematics Department; and Robert
Fishman. Social Science Department.
WELCOME