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The Panther A Voice for Student Sentiment Vol. XXXIII, No. 5 Clark College, Atlanta May, 1970 Poll shows many attitudes The wanton shooting of high school and college students is a trend which is still prevailing in the 197©’s. When the forces of protection in our nation begin silencing the voices which dis turb the majority toy crushing dis sent, by jailing or killing stu dents for what they perceive has already been done to them —the question arises, “what are the views of the nation’s people on the matter?” The Panther recently took a survey to find out the attitudes of the students at Clark about the Kent State murders. The most common attitudes are presented. Freshmen had some of the following opinions: “I have no emotions to donate to the Kent State Massacre. I have no time for sympathy towards that portion of American life because my body bleeds for the murder of the black people in Orangeburg, S. C., Birming ham, Ala., Augusta, Ga., and Jackson, Miss.” “I have no opinion on the sub ject. But I am wondering what is America going to do about those murders.” “The Kent State affair shows the wretchedness of white society. It appears that law and order has taken priority over human ism. This shows that the white power structure will eliminate anything or anyone including their own youth if they dissent over their father’s decisions.” Sophomores said: “They should have shot all of them because those students -had no business rioting or protesting in the first place.” “It was evident to me that one of the privileges -for which our country was founded has been violated. It’s a scary thing.” “I can’t sympathize with that tragedy. As soon as the sons and daughters of whitey are killed by their forces of power whitey wants investigations of the event to bring to justice the people re sponsible for the crime. But when those students were killed at Orangeburg they didn’t do a damn thing.” “Just four more honkies dead. I haven’t seen nobody protesting about the deaths in Augusta, Ga.” Juniors ventured: “The United States has another grim intimidation to show the world.” “I’m wondering why did the news, media give it so much cov erage when they didn’t give the Orangeburg Massacre half that amount of coverage. Three fourths of the people living in this country probably don’t know what hap pened in Orangeburg.” Seniors had the opinion that: “When the tragedy occurred in Orangeburg little or no opposi tion was miade over the brutality and impulsiveness iotf the police force. But as soon as some honk ies are shot, the entire nation is supposed to mourn and de mand justice for those students’ deaths. They must be crazy.” Play review Clark playhouse presents two BY BARBARA BOONE The Clark College Playhouse’s productions of “T.V.” and “A Soul Gone Home” marked the final curtain call for the season. “T.V.” A satire. Nothing more, nothing less. On the other hand, the less said about “A Soul Gone Home” the better. The production was quite good with Carol Morten being singled out for such delightful framing of the character. The play itself is the cause for audi ence disenchantment. The play was written by Langlston Hughes, a celebrated black poet and writer. It has added a new dimension to black womanhood. In ten minutes, Hughes reduced the strong and warm black matriach image to that of a real human being. A Movie review human being that would not be broken by the ruptured presence of death to her son’s life nor by the daily sting of fate in her own. Although the character is far from -being admirable, she is not quite the monster I’d like to think she is. The horror of it is she represents real elements of ithe black society. The beauty of it is not all elements of black wo manhood fit this particular mold. Black culture is a theme with the Clark College Playhouse. A broad and interesting selection of works can only enrich the black expedience. Here’s hope that in the coming seasons, the Playhouse continues to focus upon relevant issues and inter pretations of black life as they deal with the black commlunity. ‘The Liberation of L. B. Jones’ BY THEODORE GREENE The motion picture “The Lib eration of L. B. Jones” is cur rently playing at Loew’s Grand. The jive picture should not be playing anywhere. Let me ad monish everybody to save their $2J25. If anyone wants to -get sick they can read Pimp or Styron’s Nat Turner. “The Liberation of L. B. Jones” concerns the troubles of a black man (L. B. Jones) and his lus cious but Whorish wife. L. B. Jones is a well-to-do mortician who is the “biggest nigger” in town (a southern town, of course). He has the misfortune of being married to a broad who has a white lover, Willie Joe Worth. Dig the name! When L. B. Itires of his wife, Emma — who does her ow-n thing openly with Willie Joe — he seeks a divorce. This is Where the plot of the movie cotaes in. The idea is -for L. B. to get his divorce unoonteste-d so Ithat the good white folks (and espe cially Willie Joe’s wife) will not know Willie Joe -was getting over with a black woman. The city attorney advises Willie Joe to make sure Emma does not con test the divorce. Willie Joe first tries to per suade Emma to fire her lawyer but he fails, ostensibly because she is pregnant, and, because she knows the white, courts will' give her damn near all that L. B. owns if the divorce is granted. After Emma fails toi give in, Willie Joe fires on her until she “ropes like okra”. Finally Willie Joe decides to put the pressure on L. B. by warning him that he will kill hum if he doesn’t -call off the -divorce. This is where the plot thickens. Either L. B. gets brave at this point or tires of kissing behinds (white) and decides to take a stand. He later died for that stand. L. B. decided that too many nig gers had run from the Man and wanted to find out exactly what the Man would do when push really came to shove. Near the end of the movie Willie Joe and his pig -partner Bumtpas stop L. B. in his “hog” -and beat him -half to death. L. B. jumps out of the car but suddenly remembers that he is not going to run -from the Man. After some more pleading by Willie Joe, L. B. is shot in the head and sadistically castrated. For all practical purposes the movie ended here, although Bumpas was pushed into some sort of heavy farm machinery by a black who lacked the guts to rip Bumpas off with his .38 which the black carried around in a ci gar box all the time. Bumpas had supposedly mauled this brooding black when the black wias a Child. At the very end -of the movie, one is left wondering what hap pened to poor Emma. Personally, I hoped that she swallowed 5,000 razor blades. In conclusion, I would like to, say that this poor movie is an affront to any (black man who has any sense at all. This movie is about the past (at least we hope so) and not relevant to the present (black generation who will not stand for such foolish ness. Clearly, this movie was before the time of Malcolm X and Huey Campus fee to rise The fee for campus students will show a-n increase for the coming year. Instead of $25.00, it will be $45.-00. The additional $20.0-0 covers $5.00 for room) reservation fee, and $16.00 for' property damage deposit. The remaining $25.00 is for the continuing fee required of all students returning for an other year. The St5.00 damage deposit will be returned if there are no charges against it such as marks, paint jobs, broken furniture, doors, etc. The $25.0-0 and the $5.00 will be applied to tuition. If the fee is paid between May 1 and May 21, a student is assured of housing for the fall semester. After that date rooms will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Student Council votes for reform At most colleges across the country open elections are held for the selection of newspaper and yearbook editors. Clark Col lege has always let the staffs of these two groups select their own editors. The Clark College Student Council melt in May to come up with a better method of select ing these editors (because the old method has worked out poorly in Ithe past several years. The 'Student Council voted to have open elections of the year book and newspaper editor after candidates pass a screening -board composed of Student Coun cil representatives. This proce dure will take effect beginning with the SGA elections in May of 197-1. The Student Council voted for the 1970-71 newspaper editor. Tethel White, -a freshman ma joring in political science, Was se lected. Miss White was on the 1970 newspaper staff, and is from Jacksonville, Florida. Angela Wilson was selected as 1970-7(1 yearbook editor. Miss Wilson is a 'sociology major from Atlanta and has served two previous years on the yearbook staff. P. Newton to name only a cou ple. Finally, if it takes movies of this kind for Lola Falana and Roscoe Lee Browne to become “stars”, then they are -better off in o-bscurity. We don’t need any more Sidney Potiers, do we? If you -are wondering why I -bothered to tell the entire story, I’mi trying very hard to dissuade anyone from spending money foolishly by going to see “The Liberation of L. -B. Jones” and then leave mad. New SGA has task to do By TETHEL WHITE I -have been told that this year’s election of SGA officers was the most exciting campaign that -the student body has seen in a long time. There were many proposals of change presented by both parties, -and the student body will be looking for the in coming -administration to put into effect somie of those proposed changes. The newly elected officers sh-oul-d keep in mind several things while serving: * the new administration m-ust not forget or overlook the fact that the outgoing admini stration served in a year marked by an ever widening gap be tween the students and the SGA office. * the new administration must establish programs for the pur pose of bettering communica tions to close the -gap -between the students and the SGA. * the new administration must -become aware of the extent of the -apathy that exists on our campus among the students and deal with it. It must inform, en courage and promote student par ticipation on issues and in activi ties. It must find out what the feelings of the students are and remember that its purpose is to serve the students. * the new administration must keep in (mind the responsibility of (following through with pro jects that are presented to the student body. Scheduled activi ties were presented to the stu dents this year, many of which did not materialize and no for mal explanation was given to the student body. * the new administration must be responsive to -the needs of the students and work with all elements of the campus. It must deal with campus problems as well as national issues and take a -stand on them. * the newly elected officers must not forget their purpose. They are placed in office to serve the student body. The student -body elected the party (because i-t realized that a fundamental change was necessary in the SGA office in order to improve the student’s lot. * the new administration must not overlook or forget the trust that the students have placed in its hands; it must uphold that trust and work with, and if it becomes necessary, it must go against the administration to see that the institution fulfills the educational and social needs of the student -body: Best wishes, seniors