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CLARK COLLEGE, Atlanta, Ga. MARCH, 1969 VOL. XXXI, NO. 3 A.U. CENTER RECEIVES TRUST The first major educational attempt to place the Negro in the center of America’s technologically based society received a $265,000 boost Wednesday from the Olin Mathieson Charitable Trust. Speaking in Atlanta, Mr. Gordon Grand, president and chief executive officer of the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation, announced the grant to the Atlanta University Center for support of a newly inaugurated five-year, dual degree program which allows students from four Atlanta University Center colleges to obtain engineering degrees from Georgia Tech as well as degrees from their own institutions. The Trust funds will be used to support approximately 85 students in the program over the next three years as well as to initiate an extensive search for potential engineering talent among the South’s lower income groups. The dual degree pro gram joins the resources of two Atlanta educational complexes - one with the world’s largest private cluster-college black student enrollment and the other with the third largest undergraduate engineering enrollment in the country. Under the dual degree program, scheduled to begin this week, students will attend one of the undergraduate schools at the Atlanta University Center - Clark College, Morehouse College, Morris Brown College or Spelman College - for three years and then transfer to Georgia Tech for an additional two years. Upon successfully completing the program at both institutions, the.student will simultaneously receive two degrees-a Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts degree awarded by the Atlanta Uni versity Center-affiliated college attended and one of the bachelor’s degrees in engineering awarded by Georgia Tech. In announcing the $265,000 grant, Mr. Grand said: “We view this program as a particularly appropriate way to achieve three major objectives: It will enable Negro students to receive their technical training at one of the nation’s finest engineering schools without severing their relationships with their undergraduate colleges; it will bring the white and Negro institutions of higher learning into much closer collaboration, to the advantage of both; and it will significantly increase the number of highly qualified Negro engineers available to industry.” Tech has had a similar arrangement with other liberal arts institutions in the South since 1954. The institutions presently associated with Georgia Tech in the so-called 3-2 program are the University of the South, Davidson College, the University of Chatta nooga, Southwestern at Memphis and the University of Georgia. The primary difference between Tech’s previously established programs and the new one with Atlanta University Center is the fact that it is the first one to put emphasis on placing the Negro in an engineering environment. Another important difference is that the institutions involved in the program are located within a mile and a half of each other and the dual degree program students at the first three grade levels may be jointly enrolled at Georgia Tech as special students taking pre-engineering courses not offered by the University Center colleges. The Olin Mathieson Trust grant will be used in two ways. First it will support an adequate administrative staff at both Atlanta University Center and at Tech to the end that every high school student from the low socio-economic areas of the region will learn of the opportunities of engineering, and that those students with basic abilities for engineering will be sought out and en couraged to plan for engineering careers. Adequate time for undergraduate student guidance toward engineering on the part of the Atlanta University Center coordinator will be essential to sustaining the students’ interest developed at the high school level. The second area of use for the Trust funds will lie to provide scholarships to qualified students. The scholarships will be part of a financial aid package which will allow students who can qualify for state and federal aid programs to do so. Then the funds from Olin Mathieson Trust can be used to supplement governmental aid, or replace it when the students who do need aid cannot qualify' under governmental programs. contd p. 10 Religious Emphasis Observance Week Sunday, March 2,1969, marked the beginning of Religious Em phasis Observance Week at Clark College. The many pos ters displayed around campus suggested a week of both in teresting and inspiring events. Clark again extended a welcome to one of its favorite people, Dr. C. Eric Lincoln. Dr. Lin coln served at Clark from 1964 to 1964 in various academic and administrative posts. Pre sently he is profossor of so ciology and religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He is also the author of the international best seller, THE BLACK MUSLIMS IN AM ERICA and four other books on the Black experience. Monday, a film, “Nothing But a Man”, which stars two of our greatest Black actors, Ivan Dixon and Abbey Lincoln, will be shown in the lower lounge of Kresge Hall at 7:30 p.m. The film is a moving drama of the personal struggle of a south ern Black man and his wife in a hostile society. Tuesday, inDavage Auditorium, at 11:00 a.m., Dr. Evans Craw ford, dean of the chapel at Howard University will deliver a message. Much in demand as a speaker, Dr. Crawford has appeared at many of the leading colleges around the country. He is a close observer of the chang ing Negro church..an interest which is reflected in his re search and articles. Wednesday, in the lower lounge of Kresge Hall at 7:30 p.m., Rev. Marvin Chandler will open his recital, billed as “A Night of Soul,” with spirituals and close with contemporary protest songs. Rev. Chandler, who en tered the ministry after a car eer in vaudeville, radioand tele vision, is the associate direc tor of the Rochester, N.Y.Area Council of Churches. The student body is encour aged to attend as many of these intellectually stimulating ac- tivities as possible. Campus Spotlight ‘69 Series Collegiate Broadcasting Group, producers of educational and informational programs for radio, has announced that the four undergraduate schools in the Atlanta University Center have agreed to participate in the ‘69 “Campus Spotlight” se ries. The colleges are Clark, Morehouse, Spelman, and Mor ris Brown. DR. VIVIAN HENDERSON Speaking before a group of students, faculty and staff Monday night at a Clark College Free Thinkers’ meeting, school Pre sident Dr. Vivian Henderson told them, “If white capitalism hasn’t solved white problems what makes us think that Black capitalism will solve Black problems? I think someone is trying to throw us a curve.” Dr. Henderson told the group that Black capitalism was not the panacea or cure-all for all the problems of the Black ghetto and that “If you think starting a few Black businesses is going to correct our problem, you’re wrong.” The group heard Dr. Henderson say, “We talk about Black capitalism as if it were magic. Mr. Nixon talks about it as if it will change the lives of millions, when, in reality, we must realize that Black capitalists will exploit you the same way white ones will.” Instead of concentrating our entire energies on Black capitalism, Dr. Henderson suggested that the true answer to many of the problems of the Black ghetto lay in public policy is the quickest way to get to this.” In the way of answers to ghetto problems, Dr. Henderson said that new forms of development might include guaranteed demand, guaranteed jobs and community development agencies. Guaranteed demand, he said, is a system in which the government or other agencies guarantee or promise that a certain business will per iodically receive orders from them for a certain amount of goods. This insures that the business will be able to continue to function. In speaking about the market for Black businesses, Dr. Hender son remarked, “Frankly, it is very evident that today there is only one market place. Years ago when Black people were only allowed to go a few places, the wall of segregation produced the few capitalists among Black people.” The President said that he thought that Black people thought “toosmall.” We need new forms of business ownership,” he said, “not only in the ghetto, but also down on Forsyth Street.” In summary, Dr. Henderson said that Black people should be cautious of the term “Black Capitalism” and people’s sudden willingness to help the Black businessman. “People who didn’t even want you to have peanuts a few years ago, all of a sudden want us to have businesses. This appears to be diversionary to me. Someone is throwing us a curve.”