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MARCH, 1969
THE PANTHER
Page 3
Band News
BLACKS contd p.2
Quality, Not Quantity
" C. C. got a Boss Band, C. C. got a Fly Band, C. C.’s not like your
band, ’cause your band’s a Rubber Band!!*
Yes, fellow Clarkites, after achieveing such wonderful acclaim as
precision marchers and “soul swingers’’, the Clark College March
ing Panther Band has already stored all of its marching apparel
until next school term. As you readers of the “Panther” already
know, the marching band was converted into an all male marching
unit in the fall of this school term. Eventhough the group was rela
tively small in number, it performed with the heart, soul, and
enthusiasm of two hundred bandsmen. The Band Director, Mr.
Marcus Rowland, is making an all out effort to secure a marching
unit of more than one hundred young men for next school term.
Plans have also been made to outfit the band in a totally new attire
for the ensuing school year. There will be at least one hundred and
fifteen uniforms.
On January 28, the Clark College Band Club was organized. The
officers are: George Tripp, President, Gerald Spann, Vice Presi
dent; Greta Marabale, Secretary; Gary Arnold, Treasurer; Charlie
McLendon, Reporter; Icy Johnson, Chairman of Concert Band attire
Committee; William Minnfield and Fred Magby, Functional Social
Committee; and Edna Murphy and Gail Stephens, Librarians. This
Club will serve as the central governing body for both the march
ing and concert bands.
The Concert Band is expected to make at least three appearances
this school term. The annual concert will be given Sunday, March 16,
in Davage Auditorium. Others will be announced later.
In trying to better the quality of music played and the calibre of the
instrumentalist of the band, Mr. Rowland has secured an assistant
band director. He is Mr. B. G. Jordan, a graduate of Florida A&M,
and presently a student at the University of Georgia. Mr. Jordan is
a brasswind specialist. With these great men to guide all of these
great musicians - what may we expect but superiority?
Love, publicize, advertize, and support YOUR band. The Clark
College Panther’s Band.
Red and Black Band Power!!
Clarkite Excells
In Math
Jeanette Turner, a 1968 gra
duate of Clark College ith a
B.S. Degree in Mathematics,
Cum Laude, has received the
top award in mathematics at
the National Beta Kappa Chi
Convention. Receiving the top
award in Biology was another
1968 graduate of Clark, Hewett
(Teddy) Matthews.
Jeanette’s paper was entitled
On the Addition Formulas for
the Jacobi Elliptic Functions,
Sn, U, Cn u, dn, u. Dr. Dennis,
head of the Math Department at
Clark College, said that the
judges felt that of all the United
States students presenting pap
ers, hers was the only of rele
vance.
While at Clark, Jeanette was
considered by her peers and in
structors as a young lady with
a pleasant personality, always
willing to help. She was the
secretary of the Math Depart
ment for two years and a top
student in Math.
Jeanette is presently attending
Southwestern University, work
ing on a Master’s Degree in
Computer Science. Inher spare
time, she is tutoring Math stu
dents.
Other recent graduates of
Clark who have excelled in the
field of Math are Olivia Eason,
working for Wall Street Brok
ers, Inc., Dallas Wingo, a Har
vard University student and
Elijah Solomon, working for L
B. M. in Texas.
1919 W. E. B. Dubois or
ganizes a Pan-African Con
gress in Paris,
1923 Garnett A. Morgan in
vents the automatic traffic light.
1925 A. Philip Randolph or
ganizes the Negro Pullman Por
ters’ Union.
1925 Dr. Ossian Sweet of
Detroit successfully defends his
home from hoodlums in a white
neighborhood.
1929 Oscar DePriest of Chi
cago becomes the first North
ern Negro elected to Congress,
ind the first of his race since
.901.
1934 Arthur Mitchell, first
Negro Democratic congress
man, elected from Chicago.
1937 Joe Louis, Detroit’s
Brown Bomber, wins heavy
weight crown from Braddock.
1939 Marian Anderson, denied
a Washington auditorium, sings
before 75,000 at the Lincoln
Memorial.
1941 Dr. Charles Drew de
velops the blood bank system.
1941 Sailor Dorie Miller be
comes first American hero of
World War II by bringing down
four Japanese planes at Pearl
Harbor.
JOURNALIST’S PRAYER
Lord, let me never tag a
moral to a tale. nor. tell a
story without a meaning.Make
me respect my material so
much that I dare not slight
my work.
Help me to deal very honest
ly with words and with people,
for they are both alive. Show
me that as in a river, so in
a writing, clearness is the best
quality, and a little that is pure
is worth more than much that
is mixed.
Teach me to see the local
color without being blind to see
the inner light.
Give me an ideal that will
stand the strain of weaving
into human stuff on the loom
of the real.
Keep me from caring more
for books than for folks, for
art than for life.
Steady me to do the full
stint of work as well as I
can; and when that is done,
stop me; pay what wages Thou
wilt, and help me to say, from
a quiet heart, a grateful Amen.
—Henry Van Dyke
Businesses
Businesses around Clark are
off to a good start; all of them
with the student body in mind.
But in order for them to con
tinue to grow, THEY NEED
YOUR SUPPORT!
Some of the businesses like
the Bank, Pom pom Shop, Da-
shiki Shop and Chicken Shack
are run by you and the heads
of the S.G.A. office. The pur
pose of these projects are main
ly to raise money so that we
can have more off campus ac
tivities, like the Red and Black
Ball. It seems as if we should
be getting tired of having ev
erything on campus.
So lets support the efforts
of our S.G.A. by buying the
pompoms, dashikis and order
ing chicken that the govern
ment is selling. I’m sure that
they would appreciate your sup
port.
What Can
A Girl Do?
LILLIAN ANDREWS
Almost every girl in Atlanta University Center is faced with (or
has already faced) the problem of the double standard which she,
invariably, is the victim, that being the role of a student and sexual
gratification outlet. The existing double standard on the sex campuses
is one hundred per cent unfair, yet nothing can alleviate the strain
put on a co-ed. If she indulges frequently - and at random - she is
called a “Whore”. If she does not indulge - she is called a “Bitch”.
Nothing can match the conversation or “rap” a guy gives a girl
which is supposed to get her to bed with him. The psyche he uses
tends to tell her that “either you sleep with this hunk of man or
you will surely miss out.” Many a girl has found out (afterwards)
that there is a bet among the guys about who will so - called “lay”
her. All too often a guy will say he has when he hasn’t. He might
even believe he has, not willing to admit his conversation wasn’t
as strong as he thought it to be.
Among the prevailing notions on campus, most guys think sex is to be
given and gotten freely - no strings attached. The girl is responsi
ble for his and her actions - she faces the consequences all too of
ten - ALONE! She is responsible if the relationship goes wrong -
it is her fault if the fellow strays; “She didn’t treat me right” -
he says. If the girl sleeps with the man (who has either inferred or
said he cares deeply for her) he moves on to greener pastures -
claiming he feels the relationship has gotten too involved.
Usually the first time a girl dates a college guy, he drills her on
being “a woman who has needs and desires that only a man (he)
can understand and meet.” He tells her about her bodily attrac
tions “such big, beautiful breasts”); he tells her how she causes
him to feel so virile - and then he tells her how he can make her
feel. He is intelligent enough to know that most women shy away
from men who indulge in the sex act selfishly, so he convinces her
that he wants to satisfy her - “I want to make you feel good”. At
this point, the girl should knock the words out of his lying mouth.
In the course of an hour, a guy sitting in the “Rec” said of girls
walking by: (1) “She’s a whore,” (2) “she’s real odd,” (3) “she is
not a real girl,” (4) “She goes with a guy in the eleventh grade,”
(5) “She likes attention,” He elaborated on each label he threw out
but when asked if he had dated all of them - he had dated only one
- label (4). She said her young beau’s 11th grade program is more
together than this college junior’s. He doesn’t believe that.
A good per centage of the male population in the center teeis
that the majority of the female population is there to “trick me into
marriage.” He plays around like he is God’s gift to women. In
conducting a question and answer survey around the three under
grad schools with males - a senior at MBC had this to say:
— A woman is supposed to be manipulated by a man. If he is in a
mood, it is her responsibility to get him out. If he wants to move
on - she is not to hinder him from doing so, if he wants to get
serious - she leaves other guys alone. She is to help him socially,
physically, and emotionally. She is to be somewhat like the guar
dian of his well being.
When asked if he thought women were incapable of feeling and/or
if he felt women should be satisfied with the role of plaything he
replied:
“It does boil down to her being a plaything but that’s the role she
has to play in order that the male maintain his role as the leader.
If women had another role they would be the strong instead of the
weak. That’s why it’s important that we guys put a girl through all
these changes. A woman has feelings sure, but she must within -
stand and it will be better for her.”
Sometimes a guy comes to a girl that he knows is hung up on him.
He says he and his steady are through; he’s never going back. He
deliberately and purposely complicates the second girls existence
by making her feel that the reason he and his steady quit was so
he could have her. He wines her, dines her, he sleeps with her, he
leaves her, he’s back with his steady again and says “well you
should have known that we would go back together.” Sometimes
he’s not around long enough to say anything. He “lays” and leaves.
There are girls naive enough to believe that guys don’t tell each
other. Ask the girl who slept out with a fellow and found out it was
like she slept with his whole frat. Don’t tell the freshman girl about
the fellow telling his buddies he didn’t know she could open her
legs so wide when she did a split at a basketball game. And wonder
about the girl whose “steady” tells the whole college where they
spend their nights out - “she’s like a cave.”
A guy puts a girl in a position so that she doesn’t know whether
she’s coming or going. If she calls him her boyfriend - he informs
her she’s “too possessive;” if she acts as if he doesn’t exist, he
tells her she’s his; if she asks him to go out with her or if she
phones him “she’s pushing too hard”. If she goes out alone-
“she’s looking for some man, any man.” If she walks down the
street, mutely passing a street full of guys, “she’s acting stuck-
up.” if she speaks “she’s flirting.” If she stands on the corner
waiting for a bus, “she’s working the block;” if she gets a ride
downtown, “she’s gas - happy.” If she’s gay and carefree - she’s
“easy to get to” if she’s quiet and serious, “those still waters
run deep.” If she doesn’t trust guys and has no part of them, “she
hasn’t decided what she is.”
Girls either don’t know what to do or are looking for a chance to
do it. Non-college men say co-eds are ‘hot’ and will go to great
means to prove it. College men use the girls at hand, while their
girls (and sometimes wives) are at home. There is no place for the
young college woman to turn. One thing is for sure - she must
make some decision about what she will do or the male population
will decide for her and she won’t win for trying.