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January, 1970
The Panther
Page 3
Scope seminar
meets at Clark
Scope is not only the name of a
well-known mouthwash dedicated to
the eradication of bad breath but also
the name of a new student committee
dedicated to the eradication of bad
water.
The Student Committee On Pollu
tion Environment was the result of a
student seminar sponsored by the Fed
eral Water Pollution Control Adminis
tration to alert and involve the youth
of the nation to the ever increasing
pollution problem.
The agency publicized the seminar
and extended an invitation to the AU
Center. Some 50 posters were hand-
carried to the deans of the various
schools to be placed in strategic spots
around the Center. The AU Center
was represented by a Morehouse stu
dent. From his discussion group he was
elected chairman and later represented
his group in a panel discussion design
ed to acquaint the audience with issues
and possible solutions brought out in
the various groups.
Approximately 125 students attend
ed the seminar. They came from Ala
bama, Florida and a few other southern
states. Of the 125 students, approxi
mately 15 were black and of the 15
only 2 were college students.
The SCOPE Committee was formed
through student action alone. They
nominated 10 students of which 3 were
black and elected a 5-member com
mittee of which 1 was black. The 5-
member SCOPE Committee will advise
the Southeast Regional Director in.
every aspect of pollution abatement.
The SCOPE Committee will elect one
from their group to represent them in
Washington as 1 of 8 regional advisors
to the Secretary of the Interior, Walter
J. Hickel.
“SCOPE is just the beginning,” says
Ralph V. Duncan. Duncan works close
ly with the Southeast Regional Director
and invites any person or group to
contact him or their Pubilc Information
Office for brochures or other pollution
materials. The Agency welcomes the
opportunity to meet with any group
from any school at anytime and will
provide speakers who are experts in
the fields of sanitary engineering, biolo
gy, chemistry and other related fields.
They will also arrange for groups to
visit pollution plants in the area to
observe abatement techniques now em
ployed. Interested persons or groups
are asked to call, write or visit their
Atlanta Office—Suite 300, 1421 Peach
tree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia
30309.
Southern white
writes soul book
A new era of writing has appeared
among many white writers who have
been inspired by the black movement.
Among these is Grace Halstead, author
of Soul Sister, a book of the experi
ences of a southern white woman who
through the use of drugs and various
medications, lives a black life such as
John Howard Griffin did in his writing
of Black Like Me.
Miss Halstead lives and works as a
black woman in Harlem and Missis
sippi. Her book presents her experi
ences as shocking, agonizing, and un
like she had imagined any life to be.
Born in Texas, Miss Halstead pre
sents the picture of the treatment that
white men have shown toward black
women since slavery. Her book has
prompted Charles Evers, civil rights
leader and brother of slain Medgar
Evers, to say that he feels that white
Clark pioneers science course
Campus shares trio
of band directors
Clark has three part time band di
rectors this year.
They are Bobby Jordan, a graduate
of Florida A&M University; James
Patterson, a Clark graduate; and Alfred
Wyatt, a Clark graduate and former
drum major.
All three are full-time band directors
at local high schools. Jordan is the
band director at Booker T. Washington
High; Patterson is band director at Eva
Thomas High; and Wyatt is the direc
tor at Luther J. Price High.
Clark’s last full-time band director,
Marcus Rowland, is presently employ
ed at Tennessee State University.
Internship
begins at Clark
The Internship Program at Clark
begins each spring semester as many
juniors and seniors start work for local
companies. The program is coordinated
each year by Mrs. Jenny Harland, an
instructor in the business education
department. She acts as an intermediary
between the student and the company.
The program provides the intern
with 4—and sometimes up to 8 hours
of working in his area of interest. Each
week sessions are held so that all par
ticipants may get the chance to tell
what he had been doing and what he
has learned with the company. Officials
of the company sometimes accompany
their charge and answer questions from
the audience that the intern would
otherwise have difficulty handling
alone.
The intern is graded according to
his reaction to the company and the
work he did there. The company also
presents its personal observance of
him on the job. The student hands in
for grading a thesis that he has pre
pared concerning some aspect of his
company.
The student internes for about five
months, ending his employment with
an offer of summer, part-time or perma
nent position from the company.
The program ends in May with a
gala banquet for the interns and their
employers. The other interns get the
chance to meet and entertain com
panies such as: Coca-Cola, IBM, Pure
Oil, U. S. Gypsum, Lockheed aircraft,
C&S Bank, General Electric and others.
King’s name
(Continued from page 2)
though his name is on their lips per
sonal gain is in their mind. Some per
sons have spring-boarded from NBC
to CBS to ABC and occasionally grace
smaller television networks with their
presence.
Martydom is big business. Every
body is getting in on this bonanza and
the end isn’t in sight. The martyr has
been dead for sometime but the cash
register rings louder than ever. Who
is promoting what? To find the answer
to that question call your nearest martyr
office and you will get nothing.
men are afraid that black men will
treat white women such as white men
have done black women.
Besides Evers, the book has been
commended by other noted black lead
ers and writers in all circles. The book
leaves non-black readers with a kind
of emphathy toward the “problems” of
being black, especially in the south,
and instills in blacks the knowledge
that their cries have not been shots in
the dark with no one hearing.
Clark’s Cooperative General Science
Program (CGSP) has gained national
recognition.
A number of textbook firms are
interested in publishing a book con
cerning the program, according to Dr.
O. P. Puri, Clark physicist who helped
develop the project. Puri, who origi
nated the CGSP idea, worked with a
committee of scholars to put the project
to work.
Currently some 1,000 non-science
majors at Clark, Morehouse, Morris
Brown and Spelman take courses in
the CGSP. The courses are designed
to relate everyday experiences of liberal
arts majors to the sciences.
Courses in the CGSP consist of in
struction in chemistry, physics and
biology. A student may receive up to
six hours of credit for CGSP course
work.
Clark was the first school to institute
the program. Recently the program was
introduced at the University of Tampa
by one of the CGSP’s original instruc
tors who is currently on leave.
Ford Foundation
awards grants
Two grants, one for $100,000 to
support research related activities at
the M. L. King Memorial Center, and
the other $46,000 to underwrite Afro-
American courses in the Atlanta Uni
versity complex, were announced in
late December by the Ford Foundation
committee.
The M. L. King Memorial Center’s.
Library Documentation Project will re
ceive part of the $100,000 grant for
use in its work to maintain the papers
of Dr. King and other civil rights
leaders.
The remaining portion will be used
to support the efforts of the Institute
of the Black World located on Chest
nut Street.
The $46,000 grant will be used to
supplement the Afro-American studies
program in the Atlanta University com
plex.
The curriculum presently offers a
major and minor in Afro-American
studies. The grant will be used to help
foot the administrative cost of the pro
gram.
Grad praises
alma mater
A 1969 graduate is glad he chose
Clark as the school in which to do his
undergraduate work.
Badru Jaden is presently working
toward his MS degree in physics at the
University of Georgia. He feels Clark
prepared him adequately. He feels his
preparation taught him to excel—rather
than just to make good grades.
Jaden conducts a tutoring lab at the'
university to earn spending money. He
feels a similar job at Clark prepared
him to give the needed instructions to
his present lab students.
Jaden feels the academic structure
of the University of Georgia is quite
comparable to Clark’s, although Clark
is about eight times smaller.
The University of Georgia is about
98V2 per cent white, Jaden said.
According to Jaden, a Ugandian,
Negroes and Africans are treated dif
ferently socially. He said, “I am wel
come among the whites there because
they feel I am only a temporary nui
sance. They feel I won’t pose a great
problem to them because my stay will
be short.”
The university has a few hundred
blacks, some of them former Clarkites
who have expressed views similar to
Jaden’s.
Ur. O. P. Puri
Coordinator
Puri said some 300 colleges, mostly
non-black, are asking for materials and
advice on starting similar programs.
The CGSP has been at Clark for four
years and has received some $700,000
in grant support from the U. S. Depart
ment of Health, Education and Wel
fare. Recently Puri received another
grant of $31,300 for a project to teach
physics to high school instructors.
Employers seeking
new talent here
During this month and February
some of the nation’s top firms and
institutions will be recruiting Atlanta
University Center students.
Interviews will be held at the Central
Placement Office on Greensferry Ave
nue.
“Many educational institutions and
business firms are looking for all kinds
of majors and undecided majors,” said
Mrs. Georgia Jones, Clark placement
director. “Quite a few are looking for
students interested in summer jobs.
Several want people for part-time em
ployment during the school year.”
Mrs. Jones can supply interested
students with interview schedules, bro
chures and other job information.
Clark students
lack current news
Although Clark College may repre
sent the world to some Clark students
—it isn’t—and the lack of student in
terest in international, national and
local affairs deeply concerns the teach
ers. One teacher was heard to say,
“Very few of my students know what
is happening in the world.”
What is it that makes Clark stu
dents so apathetic that the adjective
apathetic needs an adjective to describe
it.
Is it the act of going to college? No
—because the act of going to college
usually stimulates awareness of current
affairs.
Is it the extra-curricular activities
around Clark’s campus? No—because
pot parties take up only 23 hours of
the students’ day and the rest of the
day could be used for looking out at
the world.
Is it the caliber of work being taught
here at Clark? Probably not—because
Clark students visit the George Smith
Keeney Mortuary only out of mortifi
cation.
Is it because Clark represents an
“Ivory Tower” to our numerous schol
ars? Negative — Because everybody
keeps their “ivory tower” clean.
Is it because Clark students are de
voting too much time to their studies?
Hardly . . . but if they are the mice
they are accusing the wrong people for
their cheese-famine.
The Case against Clark students and
current events needs a ruling. The stu
dents themselves must render the de
cision and each individual student will
have to enter a plea. With your per
mission I’ll start—guilty as charged.