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PANTHER October, 1974
Alt Faculty Opens Multi-Media Show
Lev Mills
The faculty of the Art
Department of Clark Col
lege opened a five-week
art show in Marquis
Harris Library on cam
pus Wednesday, Oct. 16.
The show will include
paintings, sculpture,
prints and photographs
by Lev Mills, assistant
professor of Art, Dr. Em
manuel V. Asihene,
chairman of the Art Dept.,
and Edmund Marshall,
photography instructor.
Mills has studied,
lectured and exhibited his
works throughout the U.
S., Europe and much of
Africa. He has also pub
lished a book of etchings
with poems. Mills holds
the M.A. and M.F.A. de
grees from the University
of Wisconsin-Madison.
Asihene belongs to a
proud family of popular
Ghanaian (West Africa)
artists. He has had
several exhibitions in
Ohio where he received
a Ph. D. in Art from
Ohio State University.
A graduate of the New
York Institute of Photo
graphy, Marshall studied
and worked in Paris,
France for nearly two
years. His works have
been published in several
magazines and exhibited
in Paris, Massachusetts
and Georgia.
The exhibit is open to
the public on weekdays
from 9 a.m. - 10 p.m.,
Saturdays, 9 a.m. - 8 p.
m., and Sundays, 2 p.m.
- 10 p.m.
a
Book Review
Songs To Sassy Sisters!
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fBy Janice D. Smith
“Spend Sad Sundays Singing Songs To Sassy Sisters” '
is a pamphlet of poems written by Chester Fuller, Jr.'
Fuller, a native of Atlanta, is presently employed as a!
news reporter here in the city. His poetry has also ap-
peared in “Prospects,” “Hanging Loose,” ‘-Liberator I
and Black World.”
In this collection of poems, Fuller puts great em
phasis on the Black woman. His use of descriptive,
colorful words protrays the Black Woman as a beauti
ful, delicate individual. Through his poetry, he deals
realistically, but in a rather unique way, with the
Black man’s plight to freedom.
Fuller’s style varies a great deal from poem to
poem. He may use two lines to express an idea, and
then again he may use ten lines.
I feel that the longer his poems are the more con
fusing they tend to be because of their wordiness and
indepthness.
Although Chester Fuller has not yet developed the
finesse of Niki Giovanni or Don L. Lee, he does
have the ability to capture his reader and relate his
thoughts.
“Sad songs...” can be purchased at Kuumba book
shop on Hunter St.
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Sports Department Must Open For Women, HEW Rules
By Diane Arnold
Clark College will have
to increase the athletic op
portunities available to its
female students. This
comes as the result of the
Office of Civil Rights of
the Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare
proposal to effectuate Title
IX of the Education Amend
ments of 1972. Title IX
provides that “no person
in the United States shall
on the basis of sex, be ex
cluded from participation
in, be denied the benefits
of, or be subjected to dis
crimination under any
Federal financial assist
ance,” with certain limi
tations.
Athletic opportunities
for Clark College women
are “very limited at pre
sent”, cited Coach Epps,
Clark Athletic Director
and Basketball Coach. “\^e
do not have the staff or
facilities for a more in
tensive program,” said
the coach. But’in order to
comply with Title IX.
Clark must by 1976 “make
available for women what
ever women want” said
Coach Epps.
According to Title IX,
a “recipient (of federal
funds) which operates or
sponsors athletics shall
make affirmative efforts
to provide athletic op
portunities in such sports
and through such teams
as will most effectively
equalize such opportuni
ties for members of both
sexes. The proposal pro
vides that athletic spon
sors should on an annual
basis determine what
sports members of each
sex would desire to com
pete in.
Coach Epps said that a
campus survey would be
done to determine what the
athletic interests are of
the student body. The sur
vey will be sone probably
'before the second semes
ter". according to Coach
Epps. The survey must
meet the approval of the
Civil Rights Office.
"We know of the in
terests of women students
in basketball”, commented
Coach Epps. But the Coach
added that funds are not a-
vailable at the present
time to field teams for
women. “There are no
funds for women's basket
ball uniforms, travel, ana
other expenses”, added the
coach.
According to Coach
Epps, this year’s athletic
budget did not include
funds for women competi
tive sports'. If the athletic
department can secure the
minimum funds needed,
then a women’s basketball
team will be established.
However Coach Epps added
that such a team would
play a limited schedule.
The women's basketball
team would be coached by
Ms Clemons, Assistant
Prof. Physical Education.
“This is the first time we
have had someone in
terested in coaching a
women’s team”, said
Coach Epps. Ms. Clemons
has been in contact with
several female Clarkites
who are interested in
forming a basketball team,
acknowledged Coach Epps.
Last year there was a
women’s basketball team,
but it was not a part of
the collegiate athletic pro
gram remarked Coach
Epps.
Under Title IX, seperate
teams for members of
each sex can be provided
"where selection for such
teams is Dased upon com
petitive skill. It has been
Coach Epps’ and the ath
letic departments’at-Clark
policy to allow women to
participate on the same
team with men “whenever
they can participate on an
equal basis”. “Clark is
the first school in the SIAC
to allow women to play on
a varsity team”, ex
claimed Epps. “Women
have been on the tennis
team for four or five
years”, beamed Coach
Epps. The women have
done very well in competi
tion with men, the coach
added.
Although any competitive
team is open to Clark
women, the Coach firmly
asserted that women
should be on teams with
men where “they can par
ticipate on an equal
basis.” Coach Epps per
sonally feels that tennis is
one sport where “they
(women) can play without
undo injury”. No female
student has ever tried out
for any other varsity team.
Even with seperate
teams, Clark could not
discriminate against the
teams in provision of e
quipment or supplies. Ac
cording to IX, sponsors
“shall not discriminate on
the basis of sex therein in
the provision of necessary
equipment or supplies for
each team, or in any other
manner.”
Title IX also provides
that sponsors of federally
supported athletic pro
grams provide support and
training activities geared
toward improving and ex
panding capabilities and
interests to participate in
athletic opportunities made
available by that sponsor.
The Clark College Phys
ical Education program is
geared toward this, cited
Coach Epps. During the
freshman year, the student
ohoses the particular sport
he or she is interested in
to fulfill a physical edu
cation requirement. One;
course in particular is;
the football appreciation
class. “Approximately 50
female students are en
rolled in this course”,
said Epps. Another course
would be Fundamentals of
Coaching, the coach in
jected.