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Page 2 Clarkgate VS Watergate When one hears the term Watergate, images of in competency, confusion, and inefficiency come to mind. It has been charged that in the Watergate episode H R. Haldeman and John Erlichman had an excess of power and used it unwisely. They have been accused of treating individuals who expressed disenchantment with the Nixon Administration unprofessionally and inhumanely. A general analogy can be made between the bungling activities of Haldeman and Erlichman and Clark’s Busi ness office, Registrar’s office, Admission office, and its security system. Freshmen, as well as other students unfamiliar with the tedious task of college registration, are subjected to uncongenial and unprofessional attitudes which have no place on this earth, not to mention at Clark. The Business Office is supposed to keep accurate fin ancial records of each student’s account, but most of the time this does not happen. And when students approach business officials about incomplete or erroneous financial record keeping, they are treated in a hostile manner. The Registrar’s Office has the dubious distinction of maintaining inaccurate and inefficient student academic reports. Students must wait weeks before they receive grades and sometimes the grades are not recorded cor rectly. Moreover, senior evaluations for 1974 class members have not been sent out at the time this article is being written. This leaves many seniors guessing about the course requirements they need for graduation. the Admissions umce is similarly crippled with in- competency. This year their disorganization was illustrat ed when they accepted more students than they had rooms to accommodate. This suggests that the offices of the Dean of Students and Admissions have uncoordi nated and incoherent admission policies. As the slang around the dormitories goes, ‘‘they did the ‘max’ when it comes to inefficiency.” The Security guards are not concerned with student welfare and protection. Students contend that they are more concerned with hampering students rather than helping them. For example: Clark SGA planned a weiner roast for students in early September. Our diligent security guards temporarily disrupted this student gala on the lawn be cause the students did not have a requisition from the Dean’s Office and also because outsiders might invade the campus. These reasons are pure malarky. It is amazing that they became so alarmed at such an inopportune time because more non-Clark or At lanta University students can be found at most Clark College functions. These “outsiders” can sometimes be found wandering around the campus at night when the security force is allegedly keeping vigilance on cam pus. Perhaps the expressions in this article will bring some insight to those in charge of these operations and set them about rectifying their errors. President Richard Nixon alleges he “slept” through the Watergate activities. President Henderson, if you are similarly sleeping through the present inefficient systems in these offices, we urge you to wake up. Continuation of these practices could constitute a mortal wound despite the many other commendable actions you are taking. THE PANTHER Clark College The Panther is printed monthly by a host of students interested in disseminating information to the Clark student body, faculty, and staff. We welcome letters to the editor and any otner information of value to the Clark family. All material submitted must be typed and accompanied by the writ er’s name. The staff reserves final rights to print and/or edit material. Please send all material to “The Panther,” P.O. Box 154, Clark College. All materials should be in by the third week of each month. Co-Editors: Ronald Harris, Herbert Lewis Copy editors: Brenda L. Camp, Robert Cook, Katherine Hughey, Demetria Montgomery, Catria Sharpe, Janet Smith Layout editors: Lenora Davis, Patricia Freeman, Linda Hunt, Theresa Jackson, Barbara Massenburg Photographers: Gregory Spencer Typists: Diane Arnold, Sylvia Hardy The following is a guest editorial from Dorris W right , president of the SGA What are the real issues that confront Morris Brown, our neighboring educatio nal institution, in its strug gle to rejoin the Atlanta University complex? Is it a power play by men who are insecure in their roles as leaders? Do we still have people today who would sacrifice their own Black people for per sonal gain? Or are the people we look to for lea dership caught up in a per sonality struggle? Is the role the Ford Foundation plays in the development of the center schools so complex that some leaders find it impos sible to understand? t hope the leadership suggested inthese questions is not the leadership we have in our colleges. We, as students, look to our administration, faculty and staff for guidance. We have put our educational lives in the hands of these people. As I see it, there is a need for financial resour ces to promote programs for the schools in com munications, religion, edu cation and other areas. We need people in adminis trative positions who can bring these resources in to our colleges. We also need the leaders of our colleges to work around the concept of ope rational unity--bringing everybody together, not in uniformity, but in coopera tion. Our college presidents within the center may be far apart in their rhetoric. But when it comes down to the real projects, goals and directions, we expect them to become more practical and realistic. We Black folks had a strong “mouth” revolution going for the last decade. We have sold “wolf” tickets all over America and some people are beginning to buy them at an alarming rate. The time has come for us to move out of the rhetoric program. There have always been some so-called leaders among us who were coun ter - revolutionaries in every sense of the word- willing to jeopardize an institution because of their own insatiable hunger for C, om m u n i t ^fyenen Js On 'll This year, we, as students at Clark College, will be in an educational process which will have a major effect on our lives and the lives of others in the years to come. As is usually the case each of us originates from diverse backgrounds and of various sections of America. Although varied personal experiences seperate us as individuals, we are bound together by one trait that is characteristic to us all; we represent the intellegensia of the Black community. As the intelligensia of the Black community we repre sent the future leaders of the liberation struggle. As leaders we must evalute our responsibilities and role at Clark College, and in the larger society upon our de parture. What is the purpose of our education at Clark College? Are we here to “get a degree” so we can “make it” in dog eat dog society called America. Should we turn our backs on the community in our endeavor to get rich quick. I should think not. Too many Black people have struggled and died to insure our opportunity to a quality education. The sit-ins, boycotts, beatings and murders, all symbolize the struggle that enables us to be here today. It is our responsibility to insure that previous victo ries have not been in vain. It is our responsibility to take the knowledge that we receive at Clark College back to the Black community. We must always remember that we are Black people first. Our professions are only nomeclature for our particular skills. We must become lawyers, doctors, chemist, scientist, teachers, and tech nicians who are Black instead of lawyers, doctors, teachers, etc., who happen to be Black. We must ask ourselves how we can channel our skills to serve the community. If this is our goal, the question we must ask is, What can we, as student expect from Clark College. The an swer is relatively simple. We can expect the output of Clark College to be equivalent to student input. The fac tors that will determine the productivity of Clark College will be student, faculty, and administration, partici pation and determination. These three factors will deter mine whether Clark College will be a progressive edu cation institution or one of inadequacy and backward ness. As a major force in a coalition with faculty and ad ministration, the students must take it upon themselves to check inadequacies in the functions of faculty and administration that hinder our education. We have the responsibility to help define the direc tion of educational and social processes at Clark College. We have the responsibility to enforce students rights for clean, sanitary campus housing. We have the res ponsibility to initiate the types of curriculum changes that will push Clark out of a medieval past and into a progressive future that would best, serve community interest. In essence, we have the responsibility to determine whether Clark College will be an institution of correc tive custody, or one of collective community. We must address ourselves to the question of whether Clark College will be an institution which indoctrinates the student body with elitist, middle-class values of phony bourgeois individualism and fantasy Americanism, or whether it will be an institution whose programs are designed to educate the student body as to those things which are beneficial to and necessary for national liberation of the Black community. These are the alternatives to which the student body at Clark must- address itself. If Clark College is to be a viable institution for community development, we must work together with faculty and administration to bring about needed changes. The buildings are not Clark College. The people are Clark College. We must not fail to bring about the up lift of this institution. The community is depending on us. power and publicity. In our quest for educa tional excellence, we do not need to be guided by such superficial, egotistic, para sitic thinkers or leaders. Education is our basic aim, and that aim should not be jeopardized by any one or two persons. I hope all concerned will work in good faith to bring Morris Brown back into the Atlanta University Center so that the students there can reap all the benefits that this great complex has to offer. The PANTHER Needs: Cartoonists and Writers