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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.”