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VOL XXXVII NO. 2
Clark College
November 1973
Students Demand
24 Hour Security
By ROBERT COOK
BARBARA MASSENBURG
The latest in a series
of rapes and assaults on
students in the Atlanta
University Center repor
tedly occurred on Sunday
October 14. The incident set
off a flurry of activity in
cluding meetings and pro
tests by students on seve
ral of the campuses, and
a request by college offi
cials that the Atlanta city
police provide more protec
tion for the area.
All of the rapes occur
red outside of the A. U.
campus grounds and under
similar circumstances, ac
cording to A. U. Security
Chief William Briscoe. The
girls were with a boyfriend
or a male companion when
they were accosted by their
assailants in most of the
incidents. The boy was bea
ten or held at gun point
while the girl was taken
away and raped, according
to reports.
About 200 Clark College
students meet with the Board
of Trustees on Thursday,
October 25, 1973, to dis
cuss obtaining efficient se
curity for the campus stu
dents.
Andrew Stephess, chair
man of the group presented
the board with five propo
sals that the student body
wanted fulfilled in order to
prevent more violence
against Clark students.
The demands included a
request that security for
ces guard each dormitory
nightly after 10 p.m.
The students also re
quested more professional
security force, increased
surveilance of the campus
and surrounding communi
ty, and increased lighting
for the area.
A petition circulating in
the dorms on Clark’s cam
pus asserts “We need 24
hour protection. We cannot
let these incidents (rapes
and assaults) continue.
Speaking in behalf of the
board, President Vivian
Henderson, informed the
students of actions that have
been taken on some of the
proposals. He informed stu
dents that their parents, the
trustee board, and each
student will receive a let
ter with the stated ac
tions. He presented the
following.
* The campus security
can be improved by facul
ty, students and staff co
operating and putting forth
an effort.
* An anti-drug program
is being organized with the
city policemen.
*The center has reques
ted and obtained additional
police force on campus.
The person, or persons,
committing these rapes and
assaults are not believed
to be from the campus com
munity, Briscoe said.
Several young men from
outside the A. U. Center
were arrested last week in
connection with the rapes
and assaults.
All of the incidents are
still under investigation,
Briscoe said.
Briscoe reported thai
the Atlanta Police and the
A. U. Security Force have
stepped up foot and crui
ser patrols in and around
the campuses.
Chief Briscoe warns fe
male students to avoid dark
streets and uninhabited
areas.
Women who must travel
at night should try to stay
on lighted streets, travel
in groups, avoid strangers
and don’t hitchhike, he said.
Brisoce said that the safe
ty of the students is the first
priority of the A. Y. secu
rity forcebut that the force
needs the full cooperation
of the studentsin the center
in order to succeed.
Dr. Jacquelyn Jackson (1) shakes hands with students following the second annual Wo
men’s Symposium on which she was a panelist.
Black Women Need Arrogance,
Jackson Tells Clark Audience
By FANNIE FLONO
An “interdependent, be
autiful, arrogant bitch”--
that’s the Black woman or
at least that’s how she
was described at a sym
posium at Clark College
last week.
Speaking to approxima
tely 200 people, mostly wo
men, at the second annual
Black Woman’s Symposium
on Oct. 18, Dr. Jacquelyn
Jackson, a medical socio
logist at Duke University
and one of five panelists on
the symposium, said that
there are certain basic
characteristics that women
need in order to succeed,
t one of which is arrogance.
“Black women must be
arrogant in such a way that
you know that although you
may not always be right,
you are never wrong,” said
Dr. Jackson.
According to Dr. Jack-
son, ever since the 60’s,
women have been left out
of the rights struggle.
“In the 60’s, the civil
rights movement left out
women, and the women’s
movement of today left out
Blacks,f" she said.
Dr. Jackson cautioned
Black women to be concern
ed about more than racial
and sexual discrimination.
Referring to the low fer
tility rate among career
women, she said, “We must
also be concerned with in
creasing the population so
there will be some more
bodies like us to replace
us.”
Other panelists, natio
nally known singer-actress
Melba Moore; Ed Lewis,
publisher of the Black wo
man’s magazine, Essence,
Mrs. Evelyn Cunningham,
special assistant to New
York Governor Nelson K.
Rockefeller, and Jack La-
Sonde, an Atlanta attorney,
seemed to agree with Dr.
Jackson.
Mrs. Cunningham, spea
king from a political point
of view, said that what
Black women want is “equal
shots at jobs, equal pay
for equal work, universal
day care, and freedom of
choice with their lives as
well as their bodies
Attorney Jack La Sonde,
however, reminded Black
women that most profess
ional jobs are still consi
dered in the male dominion
and that making it in a
“male field” such as law,
will be very difficult.
La Sonde said that while
20 per cent of the people
in law schools today are
jwomen, only two per cent
bf them are Black.
; This symposium, the
theme of which was “Black
Woman-All Around,” was
sponsored by Clark’s
Women’s Resource Center
and the Student Government
Association.
Brawley Hall Proposed
As Model Coed Visitation Site
By HERBERT LEWIS
President Vivian W. Hen
derson announced Monday
that coed visitation will be
permitted in Brawley Hall
on a trial basis. The open
visitation will begin in Bra
wley within two weeks, he
said.
The announcement came
in response to a proposal
submitted last year by Bra
wley Hall and the Clark
College Men’s Association
for coed visitation in that
dorm.
No decision was made on
the proposal last year, which
outlined in detail how coed
visitation would be imple
mented, and students began
raising the issue again this
year soon after school be
gan.
President Henderson said
that coed visitation will be
limited to. the weekends for
Brawley.
He said that other dorms
could also have coed visit
ation after they submit a
proposal similar to the Bra
wley Hall proposal and it
meets his approval.
In interviews made prior
to ■ President Henderson’s
announcement students exp
ressed an overwhelming
preference for coed visit
ation on Clark’s campus.
“Clark College is 105
years old, and so is the
practice of some of its
administrators,” stress
ed Arnold Smith, a fresh
man from Bay City, Michi
gan.
“There is a definite need
for coed visitation,” Smith
said. “Students need res
ponsibility to achieve full
maturity. If the school can
change the curriculum to
meet students’ need, then
it should also consider the
other aspects of the stu
dents’ life during his ma
triculation at Clark,” Smith
added.
Augustus Jones, a senior,
and President of Alpha
Kappa Mu honor society,
states that, “During my
four years at Clark I have
mixed with a great variety
of students, and I feel that
Clark students are willing
and able to accept the extra
responsibility of coed visi
tation.”
“There is no real objec
tive in not having coed vi
sitation on an experimen
tal basis,” said Mrs. Katie
Ramsey, a counselor at
Clark. “This can prove in
strumental in seeing ’f stu
dents are as mature or in-
mature as we say they
are,” stressed Mrs. Ram
sey.
The 1972 proposal states
that, “Brawley Hall could
serve as a model example*
to guage the feasibility of
coed visitation at that faci
lity on permanentbasis.
There are several
reasons for this which in
clude:
1) The rooms are the
most spacious of all forms
on campus and thus, crow
ding would be at a mini
mum.
2) There are only two
occupants per room thus
lessening the potential for
conflict between room
mates during visitation* \
3) The clear majority
of residents here mutually
and enthusiastically favor
this proposal.”