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’ Trinity
Is A Failure’ -Lawson
By Tethal White
Recently the creator of
the Trinity government at
Clark asserted and then re
fused to explain that the
kind of governmental struc
ture he conceived is not
working.
“Trinity is a failure,”
Marc Lawson, one of the.
three leaders of the go
vernment Clark’s adminis
tration is not recognizing,
asserted emphatically.
Lawson’s impulsive asser
tion came after a Panther
interview concerning the
reasons behind the almost
total inactivity of the un
precedented student govern
ment association now re-
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presenting students. Trinity'
is composed of three lea
ders and a Board of six
students who coperate as
asvisors to the leaders.
Basically, Trinity lea
ders, Ronald Jones, Law-
son and Bruce Merchant, the
only government head re
cognized by the college’s
administration, maintain
that the biggest problems
they have encountered in
implementing any programs
stem from their inability
to maintain cooperation with
their staff and the student
body.
“The members of our
Board and also the repre
sentatives to the Student
Council just don’t seem to
have the time to deal with
us,” said Jones, a city stu
dents and the lesser known
Trinity leader. “I’m not
placing all of the blame on
them, because I suppose they
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THE PANTHER
VOL.XXXVI NO. 3
Clark College
April,1973
Mass Communications students and instructor Willis Perry.
STUDENTS TO HAVE
KNOWLEDGE OF SELF
by Stan Washington
In realizing the fact that
communications play an im
portant part in the survival
of black people, Clark Col
lege has taken the steps to
create a unique mass com
munications program for
the Atlanta University Cen
ter.
Clark does not intend for
its program to be an imita
tion of other established
programs of major univer-
sies or a “black-face ver
sion of historically white
journalism schools.” The
program will be an under
graduate program, parti
cularly suited to the needs of
the students in the Atlanta
University Center.
Clark does not plan just to
train the student in technical
skills and release him out
into the world. The student
who comes out of the mass
communication program
will be one with a sense
of his Afro-American heri
tage. He will have know
ledge of the new routes
in which the mass media
are moving. The student will
understand this country and
its politics, economy
science, traditions and his
tory.
The school feels the stu
dent must broaden his know
ledge of the liberal arts.
The student must be aware
of the literature and drama
of his heritage. The stu
dent will be a “new kind
of black renaissance media
person with both technical
skills and self-understand
ing. ’ ’
In seeking a qualified
black man to head the mass
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NETC Honor
Alumna
Mrs. Myrtle J. Jones,
a Clark College alumna is
presently assistant profes
sor of English at Floyd
Junior College. She was re
cently honored at the Na
tional Council of Teachers
of English convention in
Minneapolis.
Mrs. Jones is co-author
of a recently published an
thology: “English in Li
terature.”
The textbook is design
ed for 12th grade students.
It is available in two hard
back editions and also in
paperback divisions of two
separate parts by periods.
Mrs. Jones, a native of
Rome, Georgia, earned her
AB degree in English Edu
cation from Clark College
and MN degree in Reading
Education from Atlanta Uni
versity and New York Uni
versity. She has also stu
died at Colorado College
and at New York Universi
ty. In 1964, she was a re
cipient of a John Hay Fel
lowship for outstanding per
formance in teaching.
CLARK CAMPAIGNS
FOR $35 MILLION
Clark administrators are
now busy tackling' the har
dest part of implementing
one of the college’s most
innovative curriculum ex
pansion plan.
Titled “Increasing The
Opr ions: The Expanding
Role of the Black College
in America,” the plan pro
poses to raise a projected
$35 million in the next ten
years to support curricu
lum programs.
The programs are in the
areas of mass communica
tions, health professions
and piblic policy, and are
said to be the college’s
response to the changing
needs of students and the
nation, according to one col
lege official.
Clark formally announc
ed their fund-raising cam
paign with a unique four-
day program earlier this
month in New York City.
An estimated crowd of 3,000
nationally known educators
government officials, re
presentatives of corpora
tions and foundations and
private individuals heard
discussions on new career
opportunities for black stu
dents.
The college’s director of
development told The Pan
ther that college adminis
trators selected New York
City as the kick-off cite,
and decided to attach a
four-day convocation ses
sion to the event in an ef
fort to dramatically focus
national attention on Clark’s
needs.
In a recent interview Mar
tin Lehfeldt said:
“If we had simply gone
to prospective contributors
and said, ‘we are a small
liberal arts college, and we
need money.’ We would have
never gotten into many of the
doors we’ve been in, be
cause there could be 2,000
liberal arts colleges in this
in this country that need
money-black, white and
Indian.
“We had to select some
thing different to sell up
front, which is why we be
gan developing these pro
grams,” Lehfeldt said, ad
ding, “we didn’t invent the
programs, Clark was work
ing on them before the
campaign got started. But
these were the ones that
really got people excited.”
The developing programs
will benefit not only Clark
students but also the addi
tional students in the At
lanta University Center
(AUC), according to Leh--
feldt, who also mentioned
that such a condition is en
hancing the college’s chan
ces of getting more do
nors’ support.
“When we present our
plans to prospective donors
we walk in and say‘we aren’t
asking you to give to a col
lege of 1,200 students. We
are asking you to give to a
program that’s being run for
7,000 studentsin the largest
private black Center of high
er education in the world.
That’s an exciting story
for somebody to hear,” he
reemphasized.
Lehfeldt said college ad
ministrators began develop
ing the strategy for a capi
tal campaign almost four
years ago. During this time
he said officials in his of
fice i along with President
V. ,W. Henderson and others
began putting together an
argument for a special cam
paign to expand new pro
grams.
A feasibility study was
made where $35 million
worth of capital needs were
identified among other
things, to support pro
grams, underwrite faculty
facilities. Advice from
fund-raising experts was al
so solicited and, in short,
the results along with a ge
neral case for a campaign
was presented to the col
lege’s Board of Trustees.
“They basically accept
ed the plan wholehearted
ly,” Lehfeldt said smil
ing. “In fact one trustee
member said that we didn’t
need to raise $35 million,
we needed to raise $50
million.
“Right now things look
damn good,” Lehfeldt en
thusiastically asserted.
“And I think that if you
pinpointed the basic reason
for this, aside from the fact
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James Felder
Clark STUDENTS never
wonder about the fountain
that decorates the center of
the far end of the quar-
drangle. The fountain was
a gift from the widow of,
J.W. E. Bowen, a Clark
College Board of Trustee
chairman.
Bishop Bowen died in 1962
and the fountain was donat
ed shortly afterwards. The
chapel located on the main
floor of Holmes Hall was
given to Clark by the same
donor.
Graduate
Selected
James Felder, a Clark
College graduate and Co
lumbia attorney has been
named to the staff of the
Fifth Judicial Circuit So
licitor’s Office in Colum
bia. A former State Legis
lation, Felder is the first
Black assistant solocitor
in the state since recons
truction days.
He was the first black
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