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PANTHER
MA Y 1969
Students Elect New Miss Clark
The Clark student body has elected Miss Peggy Noble, a junior
from Elberton, Georgia, to reign as Miss Clark, 1969-70. Miss
Noble is an active member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, and
as for her academic obligations is majoring in Biology with a
minor in Education. She is a member of the Clark College Choir
and is Secretary for the Co-operative General Science Program.
The Student Government Association sponsored a talent show for
the contestants in the Miss Clark Election. One of the most exciting
events of the show was by Peggy Noble who played a beautiful song
on the piano entitled “Moon River”. Peggy Noble not only possesses
beauty and poise, but also an enormous amount of talent. The first
attendant to Miss Clark is Lois Petty, a junior from Chicago,
Illinois. Lois dramatically acted out ‘God’s Creation’ taken from
Genesis. The second attendant to Miss Clark is Linda Bryant, a
junior from Tifton, Georgia. Linda did a magnificent dance routine
to the tune “Sophisticated Sissy” called the ‘sissy strut’. Joan
Jackson, a junior from Dublin, Georgia read a beautiful poem en
titled “To A Young Man”. Barbara Knight, a sophomore from At
lanta, did a modern dance routine to a boss jazz accompanyment.
All of the candidates, in the opinion of the audience, were great.
One of the 400 couples
enjoying the dance music
at the Centennial Ball
Ever fry Suicide? BLACK
by Lizzette Jones CAPITALISM
In 1910, Sigmund Freud con
vened the first symposium on
suicide in Vienna to discuss why
young students took their lives.
One committee member sug
gested that hostility was the
cause; he further stated that
“no one kills himself who has
not wished to kill another.”
Later Freud suggested the the
ory of the death wish; an in
stinctual desire,, of drive to self
destruction that views with the
will to survive. Recently psy
chiatrists and social scientists
convened the first National Con
ference on Suicidology in Chi
cago and speaker after speaker
evoked the thoughts and spirit of
Freud and his 1910 theories.
While there has been a great
deal of research in the years
since Freud, dependency and
hopelessness, for example, are
now considered motivation for
suicide as well as hostility;
suicidology is still in the early
stages of study.
Until the last few years, even
the Journal of the American
Medical Association never list
ed suicide as a cause of death.
Though there are now 63 local
suicide prevention centers in the
United States, the National In
stitute of Mental Health estab
lished its centers for* Studies
of Suicide Prevention only in
1966. And the first suicidol
ogy fellowships and curriculum
were set up last year through
a NIMM grant at John Hopkins
University.
The Brothers of Beta Psi
Chapter, Omega Psi Phi Fra
ternity guided by their four
glowing Stars of Manhood,
Scholarship, perseverance and
uplift plan to make the forth
coming year their best yet at
Clark.
Black Capitalism, which is
struggling for a foothold, just
may have the grounds on which
ro anchor nope for fulfillment
ctf its objectives. The Ripon
Society sees more than mere
accomodations of a long time
dream. It is in the consider
ed judgement of the society’s
members, a logical, though ex
perimental means of removing
the Negro burden from the
shoulders of the white man.
The Congress of Racial
Equality, which has been giving
much impetus to the idea; seem
ed to have not pleaded in vain
for its acceptance. Even though
the C. O. R. E. is considered
a militant organization, Richard
Ntxon, GOP Presidential hope
ful, shares the views of the
First Pennsylvania Banking and
Trust Company and General
Electric that black capitalism
as shown by C.O.R.E is pro
bably the quickest and surest
way of ending slum poverty.
John Chamberlain, a famous
syndicated columnist recently
referred to Richard Cornuelle,
author of "Reclaiming the
American Dream,” who works
up voluntary slum rehabilitat
ion projects for the National
Association of Manufacturer,
as saying that “if everyone in
America were to make them
selves responsible for creating
three jobs, it would wipe out
unemployment in America.”
Chamberlain agrees with that
assumption and says, “if every
Negro congregation could invest
$10.00 a month per person for
thirty-six months in some new
business enterprise, think of the
productivity that would result
and if every big corporation in
America would imitate General
Electric and underwrite a Ejegro
business by giving it an impor
tant contract it would change
the words of the song, “We shall
Overcome” to “We have Over
come!”
(Centennial contd. from page one)
On the morrow, in some of your classes you will have the plea
sure of meeting Clarkites who left this illustrious institution and
are presently representing Alma Mater in glorious fashion. Let
their presence and their career stimulate you to make yourselves
and Clark College a greater college during the second 100 years.
Even though you may reach a level where you are up tight, all-
right, and out of sight, remember Clark College is where it start
ed, and you left your heart here, and not in San Francisco.
I would like to recite for you the second verse of the Clark Col
lege Alma Mater, its found in the 1948 yearbook on reserve in the
Alumni Office.
“Now we come to C.C.
Christian knowledge to learn
For true understanding and knowledge we yearn!
And fondly we know How tis given to all;
then all for old C. C.,
We stand or we fall.”
For one hundred years young men and women have come to
Clark College with the yearning to learn. It was given to all. You
hold the destiny whether Clark College stands or falls. So, at the
end of the second century of Clark’s existence, where will you
be, — will you have fallen by the wayside, will you have left your
heart, not here but in San Francisco, or will you be a loyal Clark-
ite, up-tight, all-right, and out of sight.
A co-ed Freshman Sociology major said, “I notice it hap
pens all the time, and I believe the guys feel it’s o.k. if both
people concerned are mature enough to handle it, the same way
we girls feel. Personally, I feel it’s all right, but would limit
myself to my own man and my own business.”
A male Junior Chemistry major said, “I think it is very
common - in fact, done as an everyday thing in a number of
cases. Basically, I believe the women feel it’s just a part of the
social life here at Clark and go along with it. As far as I’m
concerned, there’s nothing wrong with it.”
A co-ed Freshman Home-Economics major said, “I feel
it’s moderately common and a guy feels that the girl’s action in
this case shows him just how much she cares for him and then
he is more aware of the seriousness of their relationship. On the
other hand it may cause him to lose respect for her too. Personal
ly, I think it’s all right as long as it’s the person you really care
for and you feel cares for you. Then you can be sure your busi
ness is safe.”
A Sophomore male History major said, “Yes, I think its
common, but pin-pointing the people involved is rather hard to
do right now, but I still think that it is definitely common. Mo
derately speaking, I think the women feel it is morally wrong. But
in order to please their main man and be accepted socially -
they give up the love. Basically, it’s all right with me.”
So one can see that the Moral code around Clark has become
more pliable. It is far newer than the old standards once here.
It is simply a product of the changing times. The college au
thorities have finally become aware of the changes. We have
freedoms and liberties to exercise now that students of the past
only dreamed of becoming stark realities. They thought it would
remain the mystical illusion it had been for years. THis is the new
power-structure and life-fibre of society for now - the new
morality. Let the authorities, as well as the uninformed, under
stand why students go sleep out and use the principles formulated
by the newly ‘elasticized’ morality.
The authorities have a passive attitude toward the new morality
and have not made their convictions known. They have not said
if the school has gone down because of the moral change or whe
ther if they are trying to curtail and control it. If they are trying to
control it, they are doing a poor job. One instructor here summed
it up by saying “the administration is aware of the change - which
is not so new, but just more open and exhibitive. The students
keep it secretive no longer because they are making it aware that
they are doing their own thing. The administration, however,
does not hold 'themselves responsible for these actions, but they
should because they have not clarified or typified their position
on the moral code of ethics of this institution.
Finally, I say let truth be the light. If you are involved with a
person you are sure is for real - accept what happens as true
and consider yourself fortunate. If you are the co-ed who gets
involved in a sleep-out with someone you are barely familiar
with or concerned about - walk up to the nearest student and
politely ask him or her to shake hands with a fool! Realize that
there are people out to get what they can, when they can, where
they can, however they can, as well as the men existing who are
real and sincere, despite all these changes with the morality.
This will be evident in both cases, not just on the guy’s behalf.
Ask the co-ed who is typically ‘wined and dined’ steadily by one
suitor, but like clock-work is out giving another man the op
portunity to sleep out with her and share her love. Ask her if
she does this to him in the fairness of his being on a “competi
tive basis”. Listen to what she says, then ask yourself, atypi
cal rp .orj ; . ‘‘Why am I treated so bad?”
Abortion Becomes Revolution
by Lizzette Jones
Slowly but surely state laws
in the United States prohib
iting abortion except where the
pregnant mother’s life is in dan
ger are yielding to a more per
missive code.
A month ago in Maryland, the
state became the fourth state
in less than a year’s time
(after California, North Caro
lina, and Colorado) to pass a
liberalized abortion law, and
it was passed by an overwhelm
ing vote of the State House of
Delegates. The new legislation,
replacing an 1868 law, is sim
ilar to that of other states of
reform. Abortion will be per
mitted now when a continuing
pregnancy threatens the phys
ical or mental health of the mo
ther, if a child might be born
with physical or mental defects,
or if the pregnancy resulted
from rape. Abortion of this
nature must be approved by a
hospital abortion review board.
Fears that abortions reform
would crowd the hospitals with
these types of cases have proved
to be false in Colorado and Cal
ifornia, and now no fewer than
2 5 states are considering re
form. With this reform in ac
tion it would be left up to the
mother’s personal dissertion
and her own doctor’s medical
opinion.
'Mother’s Day’
Is Greek Tradition
by Lizzette Jones
Special tributes of love to
mother were reflected by the
ancient Greeks in the ceremony
worshiping Cybele, the mother
of the gods. They honored her
with rites in woods and caves.
Later, around the year 250
B.C., the Romans in their three
day festival of Halarie on the
Ides of March honored Cybele.
We note centuries later in
the Christina era, that sons
and daughters bound out as ap
prentices and servants, re
turned home to mother with
gifts on the mid-Sunday in Lent.
It* was in West Virginia, a
small town of Pruntytown, fol
lowing the Civil War, that Mo
ther’s Day was originated. A
gentle mother, Mrs. Anna
Reeves Jarvis, was worried
about the flaming hatred of
families against families, and
brothers against brothers over
the war between the ‘blues’
and the ‘grays’. Love was
lacking in the hearts of the
people, so Mrs. Jarvis organ
ized a Mother’s Friendship Day
in which an invitation was ex
tended to all Union and Con
federate soldiers and their fam
ilies. Pruntytown, that special
erased its memories of north
and south soldiers and became
just sons of mothers.
After the death of Mrs. Jarvis
in 1905, her daughter Anna be
gan intensive work to establish
a National Mother’s Day. A
Sunday in May seemed to her
to be appropriate because flow
ers began to bloom forth and
she remembered her own mo
ther’s favorite flower, beau
tiful white pinks, planted in the
front garden of their home. She
selected the carnation as a
Mother’s Day Emblem.
Anna Jarvis’ tireless efforts
were rewarded when Congress
passed a joint resolution on
February 4, 1914 proclaiming
Mother’s Day a national flag
holiday to be observed the sec
ond Sunday in May of each year.
(Contd. from page one)
President Woodrow Wilson ap
proved it and William Jen
nings Bryan, then Secretary of
State, proclaimed it.
Sports Quiz
1. Who holds the Major League
record for hits in a season?
a. Ty Cobb
b. George Sisler
c. Roger Hornsby
2. Who won the pole vault event
in the 1964 Olympics?
a. John Pennell
b. John Uelses
c. Bobby Hall
3. In 1968, he broke the A.L.
record for being hit by a pitch.
a. Tony Oliva
b. Bill Friehan
c. Brooks Robinson
ANSWERS: l.-B 2.-C 3.-B