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Page Two PANTHER October, 1974
Clark Students 'disgusted’
With Ford’s Decision
By Barbara L.Massenburg
President Gerald Ford’s
decision to pardon Richard
Nixon from his involvement
in Watergate activities as
tonished and promoted con
troversy among Ameri
cans. In recent random in
terviews, Clark College
students reacted to the par
don issue like the average
American.
Disgusted with the scandal
and annoyance at the men
tioning of Watergate, sev
eral called the pardon a
. biased act and a contra
diction to the U.S.,Consti
tution because no equality
of law was administered
with the decision,
“Our system is built on
laws and rules. Ford’s par
don to Nixon is going
against what the system is
built upon,’’ Janet Smith,
a junior from Sumter, S.C.
said.
Sherri Garrett, a junior
English major from Cedar-
town, Georgia, said, “It was
unjustifiable that Ford took
into his own hands to par
don Nixon.’’
“The fact is that it should
be government for the peo
ple and by the people; not
government for Nixon and
by Ford,” she added.
Others saw the pardon
as an act of favortism and
misusage of power by those
in Americans upper class.
“Nixon was forgiven be
cause he just happened to
be in the right position at
the right time,” Marilyn
Janet Smith Sherri Garrett
McCray, a senior mass
communications maior
said.
“Other people do lesser
crimes than Nixon and get
an intolerable sentence,”
said Sherry Collier,, a
freshman. “For example,
someone might steal a
piece of candy and get
twenty years just for that
'• act/”
“I think Ford and Nixon
made an agreement. If I
make you vice president,
then I’ll resign and you’ll
pardon me,” Juanita Jones,
a 1974 Clark graduate and
. reading assistant, said.
“Another thing that aston
ishes me is that he still
has the nerve to allow him
to get his money.”
“Ford’s pardon is only
displaying my belief about
the American system,” Li-
via Saap, a junior from
Jacksonville, Florida, said.
“America has two laws,
one for the high and mighty
and one for the powerless,
poor and underprivileagea
persons,” she said.
“Nixon’s pardon should
be looked into by Con
gress,” Winfred Dixson,
a political science major,
said. He said Nixon’s com
plete involvement should
have been disclosed before
Ford made his decision.
A majority of the stu
dents. interviewed believed
Watergate participants al
ready convicted should be
released. If Congress de
cides to ignore Ford’s par
don and proceed with their
Thelma Sias James Agnew
hearings, then everyone
should suffer the con
sequences, equally, the stu
dents agreed.
“Since Nixon was par
doned, it is only fair to
pardon the others in
volved,” said freshman Ju
lius Dixon.
“The Father of the coun
try was pardoned, so why
not pardon his sons, bro
thers, and just put all of
them back into society,”
Thelma Sias said satiri
cally. Thelma, a junior from
Isequena, Mississippi, said
society no longer believes
in a justice system.
Surprisingly, others ad
mitted they no longer fol
lowed the issue daily be
cause it was an overex'-
ploited subject. They tune
out their newspapers and
television sets when Water
gate is mentioned.
“I don’t keep up with it
hardly, but I think if Nixon
has done something wrong,
then he should be punished
for it,” Jacqueline Alston,
a biology major, said.
Contrary to the majority
opinion, a senior psycho
logy major agreed with
Ford’s pardon. “Nixon has
suffered enough,” she said.
“His greatest loss was
leaving his presidential
position. Besides we don’t
know the whole story of his
involvement in the issue,”
she said.
“The subject Watergate
should be resolved imme
diately,” James Agnew
said. “What’s important
now is the possibility of
inflation in our society,”
he said.
WRC Makes Plans
By Barbara L. Massenburg
The Women Resource
Center of Clark College
held their annual luncheon
for student women leaders
on Wednesday, Sept. 25 in
Kresge Hall. The theme
was “Black Women Over
coming Banners.’
Dean Edith Thomas, di
rector of WRC, spoke on
the program of WRC and
the concern of college
women in laws.
Speaking to about 30
women, Dean Thomas em
phasized that WRC plans
to encourage women stu
dents by helping them
maintain personal identity,
expression of abilities, and
self assurance.
Patricia Odum, coordi
nator of WRC, and other
workers informed those
attending the luncheon of
some programs planned for
this semester. In progress
now is their Outreach
Program. This tutorial
session is for students
from a girl’s club, Grove
Park and Donnelly areas
in Atlanta.
Unity Must Override
Hostility Among Colleges
Violence, as well as learning, has characterized the
AUC complex traditionally. The concept of unity is yet
untried here.
Though Clark’s SGA president, Andrew Stephens, has
assured the student body that the violence accompanying
the proposed showing of a movie was more or less a re
sult of disorganization, history fails to bear him out.
. The Center schools all have a competitiveness that
makes each strive for individuality and superiority. Most
of the fervor during the football and basketball seasons is
directed to the intra-Center games. Violence usually
precedes, accompanies and follows the games.
To bring about Center unity is a gargantuan task.
There is no set solution, no panacea to effectively anni
hilate hostility between and among the colleges.
However, a more immediate concern is the housing of
Clark students on other campuses and those Clarkites
who attend classes on other campuses. These are the
students who may more acutely feel the painful sting of
hostility when the schools engage in “sports.”
Misplacement of Faculty
Leads to Coed Plight
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Eugenia Stubblefield
A 24-year-old Clark Col
lege senior, Eugenia Stub
blefield, enrolled in Intro
duction to Theatre at Clark
in an effort to fill her re
quirements for her Speech
Communications major.
Two weeks later her in
structor told her that the
class was going to be drop
ped because the school ad
ministration said she had to
teach a freshmen English
course.
Confused, Miss Stubble
field, asked her instructor
what could she do since
she needed the class to
graduate.
“Go to Dean Brown,”
the instructor said.
Before she went to Dean
Brown, Mrs. Stubblefield
said she went to talk to
Dr. Eunice Moore, her de
partment c h a i r w o man,
about her situation.
Dr. Moore told her to
go to Spelman and see if
she could take any courses
there.
“When I talked to Dr.
Mollette head of the Speech
and Drama Department, he
said he wasn’t teaching the
course and the class was
full, and anyway it was too
late to get in,” she said.
Even more confused and
becoming rather frustrat
ed, Mrs. Stubblefield, went
back to Dr. Moore for as
sistance.
“Dr Moore had told me
earlier about a possible
writing course that I could
get in, but then she told me
the instructor that was sup
posed to teach the class
didn’t get a contract from
Clark because the school
"couldn’t pay her enough
money,” Miss Stubblefield
said.
“Then Dr. Moore told
me to meet her at 11:30
the next day, but when I
got there she was in a
meeting and I didn’t get
a chance to talk to her all
day,” she said.
After making numerous
attempts to get in touch
with Dr. Moore, without
success, Miss Stubblefield
said she finally went to
see Dean Brown.
Dean Brown said that
there was nothing he could
do so he called Dr. Moore
and told me to go back
over there,” she said.
Frustrated and very mad
by now, Miss Stubblefield
said she went back to Dr.
Moore.
“Dr. Moore told me to
get into any class in the
schedule related to
Speech,” she said.
“At this point I am very
frustrated and I don’t know
how I am going to tackle
this semester,” she said.
According to Dr. Moore
a number of students fell
into the same academic
snare as Miss Stubblefield.
“The problem is and al
ways has been that we have
enough instructors but they
may not be well placed,”
Dr. Moore said.
Miss Stubblefield was the
victim of a reshuffling of
teaching personnel in an
effort to make up for a lack
of instructors in Freshmen
English, Dr. Moore said.
Three instructors, Betty
McNair, Linda Somers and
Elaine Lois Talley had to
be assigned to Freshmen
English classes to teach the
overload of 100 freshmen
students.