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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 ■ # 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.