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Vol. XXXIV, No. 2 The Panther Clark College, Atlanta March, 1971 Rising costs to blame for college deficit President Vivian W. Henderson says that as a result of rising costs, Clark is facing another def- Charge 1967-1968 icit. Tuition $ 750 Henderson said that the col- Fees 115 lege’s operating deficit for last Room 180 year was $100,000. Board 423 “Clark is raising more money Laundry 38 now than it has in previous years,’ the president said, “but it Total: $1,506 is not enough to off-set the tre mendous rise in the cost of ope- ges ^ or tuition, room and board, rating a college.” The cost of operating the col- Henderson said that Clark is lege rises faster than our re trying to minimize last year’s ce ipts of revenue to meet them, deficit by: Moreover, while we must in- • increasing tuition. . crease charges to students, it is • making no expansion in a f ac 't that we are not able to staff. P ass costs on to students at a • cutting back the budget. ra t e that will allow us to re in October Henderson made his ce * ve additional revenue to meet fifth annual report to the Board higher costs.” of Trustees and said that some The report called for a charge sources of the institution’s to students , for 1971-1972 of money problems were: $2,390. This is a increase from • Clark’s support of the At- this year’s tuition, which is lanta Univerity Center. $2,164, or $226. The acompany- • less than expected funds ing chart details charges made from corporations, founda- to students. tions and donors. The Panther told the president • the college’s wish not to that many students have a'sked pass higher expenses onto why tuition increases each year, students in the form of Henderson responded, “It higher charges. simply costs more to instruct, Henderson’s report to the and we have to find some way Trustees said, in part, “It is ne- to pay for the cost of instruction, cessary that we increase char- Right now, we have to maintain (proposed 1971-1972) 1968-1969 1969-1970 1970-1971 increase $ 850 $1,000 $1,100 $1,225 (125) 125 155 192 220 ( 28) 189 216 243 270 ( 27) 478 530 575 620 ( 45) 47 53 54 55 ( 1) $1,689 -1,954 $2,164 $2,390 (226) the charge to students at a level mission, recently noted that one where they pay 40 per cent of of the gravest problems facing the cost of instruction.” black institutions has been fi- The other 60 per cent of the nancial. expenses needed for the college The newspaper noted that the is raised by the president. He report recommended that “the goes to foundations, corporations federal government triple its and individual philanthropists support to colleges and univer- and asks them to support the col- sities founded for blacks.’ lege in its endeavors. Henderson said that it is diffi- “Every time we increase tui- cult for Clark to take advantage tion, we have got to raise more of the $20 million the Nixon money—because we realize that Administration has set aside for more students aren’t able to low-cost construction loans to pay,” Henderson said. “Don’t black colleges, think that we are not fully a'ware “The period of time in which of this problem. It’s very seri- we have to apply for the use of ous, but colleges across the coun- the money is too short,” Hen- try face this problem of having derson said. “We were given to raise tuition in order to mini- about eight months to apply for mize the deficit that they have it, and it takes much longer than in instructional cost.’ that to get the papers prepared The Atlanta Journal and Con- for Washington. In other words, stitution reported that the Car- unless you had a program al- negie Commission on Higher ready on the drawing board it Education, an academic com- was difficult to take advantage of this money.” Many black colleges have not been able to take advantage of the money because of a lack of money. Clark is no exception. The problem is that the colleges are required to raise 30 per cent of the intended cost of construc tion on their own. Henderson said it ( will take “from six to eight months for the college to raise this amount. What president Nixon has proposed as aid > to our colleges really turns out not to be aid,” Henderson said. “It is simply another form of a loan which would burden us as much or more than we are at the present time.” Henderson said he wasn’t worried about the problem' of federal control over the college if it continued receiving money from the government. “When the federal government tried to introduce a law which said it would withdraw federal support from students who en gaged in various confrontations, the law was defeated,” he said. “It was defeated because pres idents and educators felt that this was not the way to deal with the problem. “The federal Turn to Page 4 — RISING Old problems exist in new library The Georgia Smith Keeney Li brary, situated in Clark’s new academic building, now houses 40,350 volumes, but mahy of the books are beginning to disappear. According to Mrs. Fannie B. Barnes, head librarian, “more volumes are missing from the li brary now than there were in the library’s previous location. I have been told that students are throwing the books out of the windows.” Mrs. Barnes said the library is trying to solve that problem. The library now has a check out station students must pass through before leaving the li brary. The station was set up to prevent books from being taken out of the library illegally. “The system is working to the extent that if we didn’t have it, we would lose more books than we have already lost,” Mrs. Barnes said. “Since students also aren’t returning the books they Spelman has ivorks of black artist The works of Benny Andrews, black al-tist of New York City, are on display in the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Fine Arts build ing on Spelman’s campus. The exhibit is being presented by the Coordinated Art program of the Atlanta University Center. The exhibit will be on display until March 26. check out, we have started charg ing them for overdue books.” Georgia Smith Keeney has more books than any other un dergraduate college in the At lanta University Center (AUC). Morehouse has no library but its Turn to Page 3) — LIBRARY Planned Parenthood offers counseling The Planned Parenthood Asso ciation of Atlanta has opened a youth clinic which offers family planning information, contracept ives, infertility and abortion counseling and referral. “Services of the clinic are free for those who cannot go to a private doctor,” said Mrs. Julian D. Freeman, executive director of the association. The Clinic is located at 118 Ma rietta Street. Fewer Clark teachers to return next fall Clark’s financial problems will reduce the number of in structors the college has return ing next year, says President Vivian W. Henderson. “I’d rather not say at this time who or how many instructors will be leaving,” Henderson said. “We are still working on the list, and all of the instructors Clark plans 3 new buildings Three building plans will be presented to Clark’s Board of Trustees in April, says President Vivian W. Henderson. According to Henderson, the plans, in order of priority, call for a gymnasium, a communica tions building and a dormitory. The president said Clark needs to a’dd more buildings. “Clark has no place for in struction in health and physical education, and we need a gym nasium,” Henderson said. “I don’t like to call it a gym be cause it will really be a Health a.hd Physical Education Center with a gymnasium, swimming pool, bowling alley, handball courts and classrooms. It will be situated on Clark’s athletic field.” Clark’s athletic field is located on Fair Street across from the University Plaza Apartments. Henderson said Clark needs dormitories to keep pace with enrollment. “The problem is we must de cide if we want to increase our enrollment with a 50-50 balance* of campus and off-campus stu dents,” he said. The president said he doesn’t know where the dormitory and communications buildings will be but says Mildred Street is one of the sites being considered. “It will take at least $6 million to construct the buildings,” Hen derson said, “ahd that’s not easy to raise. I have to develop a pro gram whereby we can get the money well layed out before we actually start breaking ground for the buildings. “It is very difficult to raise money for builldings. We have to have a' very carefully develop ed plan, and then we will take our plan to foundations, corpor ations and individual philanthro pists to iask them to support us in raising money for the build ings. “If we are lucky with raising money for the Health and Phys ical Education Center, we could begin on it in two months or maybe two years after its ap proval,” the president said. “It all depends on how soon we can raise the money.” Henderson staid there are sev eral possible financial sources for the buildings: • Health and Physical Educa tion Center: government pro- grains, the Methodist Church and private donors. • Dormitory: Department of Housing and Urban Development. • Communications Building: the college will plan a major ca pital campaign. Edward C. Miller, architect of Clark’s new academic building, is drawing preliminary plans for the buildings, Henderson said. Asked if he thought the Trus tees would approve the building plans, Henderson said, “We nev er know what the Trustees will say. All we can do is make the arguments; they know we need them.” have not been notified.” Henderson did say that 10 faculty positions vacated by res ignations or retirements would not be replaced. He said the va cant positions “will not affect Clark’s curriculum.” The president gave several reasons for instructors leaving the college, including “the cost of the college’s operations out running the amount of money coming in.” “Some instructors came to Clark as replacements for in structors who were on leaves of absence. Some of those on leaves will be returning next year. In the past we would have kept the replacement instructors on our faculty, but we won’t be able to do it this year,” he said. Henderson said this was the first time since he came to Clark that the college has had to let some of its instructors go because of financial problems. 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