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Page Five PANTHER October, 1974 Clarkite “checks out” instructional media lab. Checkmate! Sunny day is a winner. AROUND CAMPUS Workers are busy completing the new counseling offices in basement of Merner Hall. By Kenneth Hodges Henderson Fights Cutbacks in Services for Poor By Barbara Jackson Dr. Vivian W. Hender son, at the invitation of President Gerald Ford, at tended the recent Eco nomic Summit meeting, aimed at curtailing infla tion, held in Washington, D.C. According to President Henderson, the summit was divided into several sec tions with each section holding a “mini-eco nomic” conference. The sections included Health, Education and Wel fare (HEW), Labor, Busi ness, Transportation and Housing. Dr. Henderson, a noted economist, was particular ly interested in HEW. “I was interested in government policy regard ing social services that meet the needs of blacks and other minorities as well as poor people in general,” he said. “I wanted to involve my self on the impact of eco nomic conditions and infla tion on higher institutions, particularly Clark.” Henderson said that a- mong the people attending the HEW conference were welfare recipients, health care people, elderly peo ple and consumer groups. In addition to presenting his ideas in the White House summit meeting, Henderson attended the Black Economic Summit meeting. He was the only black college president there. This meeting, called by civil rights activists, “was oriented toward trying to say to the White House we are not going to stand by and let the federal govern ment cut off services to blacks and poor people as a means of fighting inf la- ion,” President Hender son explained. “Rather, it should ex pand services to these groups through measures as tax reform to fight in flation.” Approximately 60 blacks attended the meeting, called “A Call for Ac tion.” They made recommen dations to the President which included: full em ployment, housing and community development, lower interest rates, price controls, replacement of food stamps by cash, eco nomic development and aid to minority business and participation in decision making. Dr. Henderson said that the blacks who attended the meeting, along with others, did not believe that government spending was the major source of in flation. “It is my view then and right now that the first thing that should be done is to impose strict eco nomic controls to get at prices, wages, interest, profits, dividends and rent,” he said. “The problem is in the market place where arbi trary decisions are made on prices and wage in creases. I think this is where we have got to go.” “The problem is that Clark College and institu tions and people like Clark and the poor are victims of policies and procedures by big business, big labor and big governments. We have little power with which to combat policies and practices which fail to correct the economic dis locations we face,” Dr. Henderson said. “Thus, the victimized members of the population --poor, elderly, unemploy ed, welfare recipients, blacks and other minori ties--share disproportion ately the burdens of high price, high interest and other kinds of dislocations. “This is extraordinarily so in the case of institu tions such as Clark,” President Henderson said.