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Marijuana Can Be Dangerous
A recent “Business
We<ek” special report has
pr edicted that there will be
a serious oversupply of col
lege graduates in the U.S.
in the 1970’s.
The report states the pro
blem as being a long-range
one. It also states that a
solution will require a re
adjustment in the educatio
nal thinking of the whole
country.
While the total unemploy
ment rate of the work force
in the U.S. is 5.6 percent,
the rate among recent col
lege graduates is almost
8 per cent. The jobless rate
among non-college gra
duates is about 15 er-
cent. Statistics show how
ever, that a degree is still
somewhat worthwhile.
One of the most over sup
plied fields is teaching,
which expanded by 53 per
cent in the 1960’s. Because
of the increasing trouble
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BLACK COALITION
A coalition of Black lea
ders from around the coun
try have announced a
“Spring Offensive” to pro
test the proposed outbacks
by President NIXON. Demon
strations will be held around
the country and later culmi
nate in Washington, D.C.
Clark
Spearheads
A unique pilot service
project which provides the
opportunity for fourteen
young female parolees to
take a course in personal
typing has been initiated by
the business education de
partment, Phi Beta Lam
bda Business Society and
the Fulton County Juvenile
Court.
The project, calledOpe-
ration Type, is being im
plemented by Clark stu
dents majoring in business
education.
Operation Type has a
two-fold purpose, andim-
plementation of the four-
day-a-week program will
service several social
needs as well. For the
“new” students, in addi
tion to developing a basic
skill, Clark hopes to pro
vide some direction to
wards career possibilities
as well as encourage so
cial identification and mo
tivation through inter-ac
tion with Clark students.
For Clark’s Business
education majors, Ope
ration Type will provide
initial teaching experience
which should prove bene
ficial to their career ob
jectives. Also, they will
receive course credit
for participating in the
project.
Awards will be given to
the most outstanding pa
rolee and the most pro
mising student-teacher.
All participants will re
ceive certificates from the
College.
in trying to keep schools
open and intergrated, there
will be virtually no expan
sion in the 1980’s. Accord
ing to a federal task force
on higher education, every
recognized profession will
have an oversupply of new
graduates by 1977.
It is predicted that col
leges will be forced to cut
back programs for budge
tary, if not for job market
reasons. The decline in col
lege enrollment has eased
the pressure in some fields.
The oversupply of engineers
has been particularly well
publicized, and the engi
neering enrollment dropped
17 per cent last year.
The report predicts that
massive job retraining will
begin for college graduates
whose field are over suppl
ied. It is also expected that
more people will start turn
ing to technical careers
instead of college.
CEP STUDENT
Clara Prevo, a Clark
student majoring in Econo
mics, was selected to par
ticipate in The Africa Bur
eau/Agency for Internatio
nal Development coopera
tive work-study program.
Miss Prevo, a junior from
Birmingham, Alabama,
along with nine other stu
dents from the United States,
will take part in a nine
month Cooperative Educa
tion Program (CEP) spon
sored by the U. S. Depart
ment of State.
The AFR/AID program
provides for a four-month
orientation/trainin g ses
sion at North Carolina A&T
University in Greensboro,
N.C.; a month at Howard
Universit y in Washington,
D. C., where the partici
pants will serve as interns
with the federal govern
ment; and finally spend a
four-month overseas assi
gnment in the African coun
ty of their choice. Miss Pre
vo plans to work in Ghana.
Clark College has been
involved in the AID pro
gram since 1970 and pre
sently six other students are
in training.
Mr. Larry T. May, Di
rector of the Cooperative
Education Program (CEP)
at Clark sees the program
as “an opportunity to ac
quire practical experience
while pursuing academic
students which gives a gra
duate a broader perpective
of the world as it relates
:o his area of discipline.”
education.
With the rising black con
sciousness however, many
black students have object
ed to the loss of racial
identity which occurs when
black colleges are absorb
ed into a predominantly
white university system.
One attorney for the Black
plaintiffs recently stated
that, in complying with
plaintiff wishes, he would
not press the court to re-
(We weren’t going to run
any dope stories this week,
but we couldn’t let this one
go by. . . .)
Arlington, Texas (CPS)--
People who smoke mari
juana and think they are
enjoying themselves are
wrong, according to a so
ciologist at the University
of Texas.
Dr. Jess Lord, associate
professor of sociology,
came to that conclusion
while doing research for
his book, Marijuana and
Personality Change. Mari
juana users, according to
Lord, usually describe their
experience as pleasurable,
but psychology tests of sub
jects while under the in
fluence of the drug did
not bear out their conten
tions.
“The experience isn’t like
the user thinks it is,” he
said in a recent interview,
“I’m convinced of that.”
Lord believes the ap
parent deception isn’t con
scious or deliberate and
“bears a lot more investi
gation.” He can offer lit
tle explanation for the seem
ing paradox.
Lord has also come to the
conclusion that marijuana
is more dangerous than he
previously believed.
As I went through re
search, I became more
quire full merger of black
and white colleges in the
same area.
One of the university sys
tems most likely to be af
fected by the desegrega
tion plans is the Old Do
minion University system
in Norfolk, Virginia. Old
Dominion University is a
predominantly white uni
versity only fifteen miles
from Norfolk State College,
impressed with the damag
ing aspects of marijuana
My impression of the drug
shifted, believing it to be
more dangerous than I had
thought originally.”
Three and a half years
ago, Lord began research
on his book with funds
from a University of Tulsa
grant. Since then he has
supervised extensive test
ing of 37 marijuana users,
both male and female, rang
ing in age from 17 to 23
years of age.
According to Lord, the 37
users had personality pro
blems even when they
weren’t stoned.
“As a group,” he laments,
“they were poorly adjust
ed. They were conside
rably more maladjust-
He obtained “very de
finite reactions” from test
subjects in five areas: con
tact with reality, overt
anxiety, social adjustment,
excitement and personal
adequacy.
His studies indicated
that as the amount of ma
rijuana increase, res
ponse rose accordingly,
Lord also determined that
females tended to show a
“higher level of negative
reaction” while males were
more strongly influenced by
the drug.
an all black college. Both
are state schools.
A student from Old Do
minion University, com
menting on the possibility
of a merger, stated that
there was no general feel
ing on campus about the
potential merger. “They’re
in another world over there
(at Norfolk State),” he ex
plained, “there is no com
munication at all.”
Clark
Appoints
McNair
Asso. Dean
In its continuing effort to
reform curriculum and
strengthen the quality of
academic life for its stu
dents, Clark College has
appointed Mrs. Betty Mc
Nair to the position f
“Associate Dean of Faculty
and Instruction.”
As Associate Dean, Mrs.
McNair will exercise lea
dership in the formation of
academic policy pertinent
to General Education and
provide management and
supervision of curricula and
instruction in the general
education program. Mrs.
McNair will also be res
ponsible for the develop
ment and implementation of
a freshman studies curricu
lum at Clark.
Prior to her appointment
as Associate Dean, Mrs.
McNair was an assistant
professor of speech in the
English department at
Clark. She served as co
ordinator of workshops for
African Studies for the At
lanta University Center
Corporation. She also serv
ed as an assistant profes
sor at Spelman College and
Atlanta University.
Mrs. McNair, a native of
Savannah, Ga., attended
Clark College and Wash
ington University of St.
Louis, Missouri, where she
received the B. S. degree
in Speech and Hearing The
rapy. She received the M.
Ed. in Speech Pathology and
Deaf Education at Emory
University.
Mrs. McNair holds pro
fessionals memberships in
the American Speech and
Hearing Association; the
Speech - Communications
Association of America;
the Southern Speech As
sociation; the Internatio
nal Communications As
sociates; the American As
sociation of University Pro
fessors, and Delta Sigma
Theta sorority. She is a
faculty representative to
the Clark College Board of
Trustees.
Mrs. McNair is married
to David McNair, Sr., Di
rector of Relocation for
the Metropolitan Atlanta
Rapid Transit Association
(MARTA), and they have
three children.
ed than the ‘normal’ col
lege age group.”