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Page Ten 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! i 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. f that time you were pregnant ^(for pearl) l if your breasts were black mountains ki’d still step over them volcanoes ^erupting in my ears ► the gray milk-lava uhe nipples I open [ smoking hot around the edges |i’ll cover the openings with my mouth sacrificing my tongue burning down my cheek &&S&2gtsmsfXSf3!SfX)f3 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.