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PA NTHEK
MA V 1969
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
SPORTS EDITORS
RONALD COLEMAN
LIZZETTE JONES,
Rubye Jackson
FEATURE EDITORS DESDEMONIA JONES, HELEN BOYKINS
REPORTERS ERASTUS CULPEPPER, ROSE BRYAN,
LILLIAN ANDREWS
GREEK EDITOR
GERALD SPANN
TYPISTS
ADVISORS
PHOTOGRAPHERS
LINDA GASTON, JOYCE TURNER
AL Bussell Chris E ckl
Charles Smith
PRESS
Blacks Show
Character
BY RONALD COLEMAN
These past few weeks, I have encountered several situations
which have enriched my thoughts and dire concerns. This has
made me very proud of the new Black man and of our heritage.
Our new black man can now be trusted, and he can be relied
upon to deliver the goods and quality service in a given situa
tion. He now makes a mockery of the age-old image of the dis
trusted Black man. Even though the background of ours is the
same, our actions are all together opposite.
I feel that this is a positive sign of our definite personal change.
Yes, a change has most definitely taken place. A change which
cannot and will not be overlooked by anyone. This is our new
transformation of character.
It has caused the misinformed whiteman to see still another side
of the black man and has given him additional material upon which
he can attempt to ‘rap down on us.’ The only saddening thing
about this change that it is one change that some of us may not
be able to cope with, so, since we all cannot possibly‘hang’,
we all will not be able to make the transformation.
However, we are not at fault. The ‘Negro’ that the white man
has created to his personal liking has taunted him. This is his
own fault. It was his idea to deprive us both socially and eco
nomically. With such deprivation, it took such a strong people,
as ourselves, to endure. Yet somehow, through all of this,
wome of us were still taught the value of character.
It cannot be disputed that surely our various environments
would, and could, afford us the character-building influence
that we needed. Now that we have begun a definite change of
attitude and character, we can project our new image. The new
Blackman will be a man who is both respected and looked upon
as a man of trust.
That is why I feel tis strong conviction that from this time
henceforth, the Whiteman, and anyone else, will have to look
elsewhere for his ‘traditional scapegoat’. From now on, in
every opportunity that arises, I feel we will show the fruits of
our new character and thereby illuminate the prowess of the
new Blackman.
With this, the world will know the quality that effervesces in
the blood of us - the black people. So brothers and sisters... all
that I ask is that we ... STAY SOULFUL.
Brawley Comments On Clark History
President Emeritus, Dr.
James P. Brawley revealed
from memory that Clark has
a very rich and vivid past his
tory. He said “Clark has had
a rich history in the purpose
and zeal which the founders had
to minister to the newly freed
race.”
OLD INSTRUCTORS
Dr. Brawley also said “the
big problem teachers had at
Clark’s founding was to get the
students to master the elements
of writing and reading. In a
very short time, they were
teaching the students to teach
and preach. Then they went
through a period of trying to
get them to develop themselves
economically. Among the things
emphasized in the first 12-15
years were industrial trainings.
By 1900, Clark had one of the
best industrial training pro
grams anywhere in the country.
People from all over the coun
try came to participate in the
institutes.”
Further questions led to the
comment on Clark’s academic
side. Academic wise, he said
that the fine arts and classi
cal languages were emphasiz'd
along with science and the s j-
dents became very proficient.
So with this little revelation
of Clark’s vivid past, one can
begin to further realize why
Clark has always remained
‘second to none.’
THE PANTHER
STAFF CON
GRATULATE S
THE SENIOR
CENTENNIAL
CLASS OF 1969
UPON THEIR
G RADUATION.
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*7he Sdttvit (Z&uitn, • - '
A
Change
Has Come
BY RONALD COLEMAN
With black selling better on the market than ever before, there
is no reason for any one individual or any black group to allow
themselves to be exposed to the ill-digestible racial sufferage
they have been so long accustomed to.
“The hunter has now become the hunted; fore, the rabbit has
the gun and the hunter has to run.” This could very well sum
marize the general situation in this controversial black versus
white thing. It seems that through a natural evolution, plus
through vast literary enlightenment, as well as the new black
attitude toward the denial of the many enriching resources long
desired by the little man, the black man has at last begun to show
some signs of a vast individual determination to materiallis-
tically construct, instead of verbally phrasing his concept of
‘black power. ’
Everywhere you turn today, youth is on the move. More and more
one can find the antiquated individuals and individual techniques
adhering to a more modernistic viewpoint, or else folding up in
the shadows of our new more dominate youthful concepts.
So it is thus with the new breed of black leaders, entertainers,
businessmen, politicians, athletes, and everyday man in general
Everyone wants a piece of the action. More and more the black
man is learning t work, plan, demand, or to insidiously devise
a particular method of fulfilling a specific goal. The white man
has finally taken an interest and entered into the black ghetto
-- also trying to avert a riot reoccurrence throughout the
nation. What he doesn’trealize is the fact that the black man is
really not that anxious to blow Ms own cool by getting busted be
hind a T. V., a stereo, or some choice selection of rare whiskies.
The white man does not realize that once the average Black man
gets into a little sometMng, he’ll do almost anything to protect
his cool and magnify his particular standing as a result of his
own tMng. Just like the type - cast individual has always shined
his new car, pressed his new suit, and combed out Ms natural,
he is beginning to desire the taste for Ms own business and is
eager to participate in his tMng that may tend to enhance his
being comparable to the white man.
The word has been passed around so long and so strongly that
the many black leaders as well as the black men all over the
nation believes that black is truly beautiful and is to be not con
sidered a fighting word when someone calls you that. Now it is
a pass-word of fellow identification to a mightier order.
The determination is showing in the masses, as the many Black
leaders arise to organize and lead the people, the black race as
a whole will continually step up its’ rate of black progress, and
as the progress takes place, so will the unity of the race as a
whole, and believe me, on every front, the white man will be
right there to lend a helping hand, knee-deep in the meadow grass
called the ghetto, that HE HAS FINALLY ENTERED; fore, he is no
fool.
Dear Lillian:
For the last edition of the
PANTHER, you wrote an arti
cle entitled “What Can A Girl
Do?”, where you made the fol
lowing statement - “don’t tell
the freshmen girl about the fel
low who told Ms buddy he didn’t
know she could spread her legs
so wide when she did a split
at the basketball game.”
“I’m sure this is only one
among many things he didn’t
know about her. However, the
purpose of this short passage
is not to tell you this, but to
inform you of the fact that the
only way to properly do a full
split is to open your legs wide
ly. In the picture below, notice
how the legs are spread. If
you need more information on
the subject, check with any
cheerleader for a memograph
sheet. Even better still, notice
YOURS the next time you hap
pen to spread them, WHILE
SPLITTING.
Yours truly,
THE CHEERLEADERS
TO PASS, OR
NOT TO PASS ....
by Arnetia Abercrombie
As one walks down the halls,
many times he hears bits of
conversation similar to this:
“I didn’t pass the test?” “Don’t
you give points for oral reci
tation?” “I’m the teacher and I
should know..” Statements like
these are heard all over cam
pus whenever grade reports are
due. There are obviously some
reasons for tMs sudden concern
about grades. The answer prob
ably lies in some phase of our
educational system.
At times, I feel that educators
today are trying to embed in
the minds of students the idea
that the important factor is not
the grade on the report card,
but how much knowledge one has
managed to accumulate in a giv
en period of time. Yet, these
same educators will qualify one
by the very grades that are not
to be considered important.
Many high school students know
how it feels to be turned down
by a college because of grade
averages. Somewhere, some
one is forgetting the criteria
of the semi-Utopian world, that
what one knows as an individ
ual is sufficient. The contrast
is much too great. Therefore,
I feel that the only realistic
thing to do is “to pass or not
to pass.”
I- V> ■"l f 1 I
are over, and our fun-filled days
are gone, we’re back to the old
grind - the hectic routine of
studying and writing term pa
pers.
Final exams were around the
corner but are now gone. Some
of the students were so eager
to see exam time draw near,
that they actually wept when
they were over. Poor things,
someone should tell them not
to be upset; next year they will
have the opportunity to take them
all over again.