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»age3 - PANTHER - April 1976
Poole Seeks SGA Victory
Real Problems Attacked
E. Bailey
“Where the earth and the
sky meet, there is an horizon;
where the students and the
S.G.A. meet, there is con
solidation.”
Michael Poole has planned
his political strategy to
correspond with that analogy.
Roole, an accounting major and
basileus of Omega Psi Phi, is a
candidate for S.G.A. president.
Poole heads ‘‘The
Reemerging Horizon,” a party
he shares with candidates
.Arthur Evans (v. president)
Shelia Jones (corr. secretary)
Bedez Easton (rec. secretary)
Clarence Griffin (bus. manager)
and Vivian Chester (treasurer).
Poole, who is admittedly
“new in politicking,” says he
wants to put student govern
ment in the hands of the entire
student body.
“People say students are
apathetic; I disagree,” said
Ibole, “our so-called student
leaders do not ask students
what they want. Many students
are genuinely concerned but
they cannot direct their interest
to the S.G.A.
“I believe students have
good ideas and creative
talents,” said Poole. “Too often
they are afraid to express them
because they aren’t sure their
ideas will be accepted.”
However, if elected, Poole
says he will welcome and
consider every proposal he is
presented.
According to Poole, he and
Horizon party members
developed their platform from
guidelines for student gover
nment printed in the Clark
College Handbook.
The handbook specifies the
establishment of five standing
committees which incoporated
various aspects of student life.
Teh reemerging Horizon
proposes these committee
fruitions:
Academic Improvement -
Chief function would be to
improve student-teacher
relations, Committee would
investigate complaints con
cerning academic matters.
Religious Life - Committee
would work with college min
ster to coordinate religious
activities and invite speakers
from various religious
organizations.
Health and Recreation -
committee would establish and
jromote intramural sports, and
see that males and females have
equal assess to gym.
Dormitory Life - members
of committee would investigate
and attempt to solve problems
facing on-campus students.
Social and Cultural - com
mittee would plan on and off-
campus socials and invite guest
speakers on various occasions.
“These ideas are not new,”
said Poole. “They are already
structured in the ,student
handbook. The emphasis here is
tomakethe structure work.”
Community involvement is
dso a vital part of Poole’s
platform. He plans to initiate a
community and student voter
registration drive and provide
rides to the polls for those who
need them.Also a part of the
community involvement plank is
a plan to extend the West Fair
bust route to downtown bus
stations.
“We have many students
who travel by bus and have no
way of getting their luggage to
the Greyhound or Trailways
station,” Poole said.
“Of course we will present
this proposal to MARTA of
ficials,” he said.
Though Poole says that
Clark is in dire need of financial
support, he does not propose
that the S.G.A. solicit funds
from corporations.
“Any amateurish efforts to
d> so might hurt the plans of the
college development office,” he
said.
“However, we as students
can sell ourselves to cor
porations and foundations by
inviting representatives to
seminars and tours so they can
see what career potential Clark
students possess,” Poole said.
He sugggests that each
department chairman invite
representatives to examine their
department’s curriculum.
Poole says his goal is to
make the student-S.G. A.
consolidation a reality.
“In order to do so, we all
mist believe in Clark,” he said.
“We need to start thinking of
ways to instill pride and honor in
everyone associated with the
school.”
Go To
The Poll
— Vote
By Joseph Fuggett
Campus Living, the sub
committee of the Student Life
Committee, met recently to
discuss students' problems at
Qark College.
The committee, headed by
Mrs. Katie Ramsey, centered
itself around three major issues:
residence halls', the bookstore,
and student responsibility.
Dean Curtis D. Gillespie, Dean
of Students and member of the
committee, asked what the real
problems at Clark are. He also
suggested students need to
come to the meetings so that
they can get both sides of the
story.
Dean Gillespie announced
some changes in the dor
mitories. Each dormitory has
two janitors, and room in
spection has been started. He
said that a new employee has
been hired to supervise all the
workers. He added that the
stairwells and corridors are
being painted.
Dr. Melvin R. Webb, com
mittee member, said the
condition of Brawley Hall should
be improved. Dr. Webb
suggested that dormitories
should be closed to the public
while undergoing summer
repairs.
Dr. Webb spoke of a personal
experience where visitors come
down to inspect Clark and the
dormitories were open for
repair. He said the prospective
student and his parents never
returned. Dr. Gillespie agreed
that the dormitories should be
closed to the public while un
dergoing repair.
On another issue, Mrs.
Ramsey stated that a student
complaint is that they cannot get
the books they need from the
bookstore. According to her
sources, she said, instructors
aren’t ordering books on time
and once the books get in, the
instructors don’t use them.
Students also said that the
bookstore is not open when they
go to get their books. Mrs.
Ramsey said that the bookstore
is closed from 12:30-1:30 only
because the manager of the
bookstore does not have an
assistant. Mrs. Ramsey did say
that the bookstore manager did
not feel that her work-study
students could handle the
responsibility.
All three committee members
agreed to seek out the
possibilities of making the
bookstore more convenient in
the future.
In response to concern about
the fights the college has been
experiencing after basketball
games, Dr. Webb said that
there seems to be a “nucleus of
students at Clark who just don’t
give a hoot.” He said that
students need to be leaders.
Since there has been no
feedback from the students, Dr.
Webb said that “elitist” groups
on campus, such as the social
and academic fraternities and
sororities seem, not to be of
fering any input.
Dean Gillespie added that the
Admissions Office has a new
formula for who can succeed at
Qark College.
Dean Gillespie said "the
responsibility will have to fall
back on the students.”
Clark Hosts
Workshop
By Charlotte A. Allen
Students interested in
writing are invited to attend th
dark College English
Department’s Seventh Annual
Writer’s Workshop and con
ference on the 26th, 27th and
2Bth of April at Clark’s Davage
Auditorium and Kresge Hall’s
bwer lounge.
Speakers include such
dstinguised artists as Gwen
dolyn brooks, a Pulitzer Prize
winning poet, on Monday the
26th. Ernest Gaines, author of
th e“Autobiography of Miss
Jane Pittman,” on Tuesday the
27th. The highlight of the
conference is Ruby Dee and
Cfesie Davis, on Wednesday the
28th.
Mrs. A. Hawks, Assistant
Professor of Speech and
member of the steering com
mittee, urges students to submit
their brief typewritten writings
of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and
ckama to the English Depart
ment, Room 218B, Haven-
Warren Hall, Qark College.
ISO - Calls For Internation Student’s Unity
By Charlotte Allen
The support of foreign born
students is desperately needed
for the effective continuance of
Clark College’s International
Student Organization (ISO).
“One purpose of the ISO is
to bring Qark’s international
students together in order for us
to get to know and help each
other during our stay at Clark,”
said ISO’s secretary general
Ade Adesanya.
According to Adesanya,
“Most of the foreign students
a-e aware oi the organization,
but attendance is very low and
membership dues are still
unpaid. And with the co
operation of everyone we can
move mountains.”
For those students who
may be unaware, meetings are
held twice a month on Saturday
at 11 a.m. in Room 102 Haven-
Warren.
Some of ISO’s aims and
gjals ar* to have at least one
foreign bom representative
seated in the Student Gover
nment Association (SGA). To
concern themselves with any
international meetings or
policies on behalf of Clark
College. To serve as a channel
for allocating work-study jobs to
Qark’s foreign students. And to
hold annual send-off parties for
graduating foreign student as
well as welcome party for en
tering foreign students.
At the present ISO is
planning a send-off party for
Qark’s outgoing foreign
student advisor, Moloum O.
Kosoko. “In record time
KOSOKO RECEIVED HSI B.A.
in Business Administration and
finisehed his graduate studies at
Manta University ,” said
Adesanya. “Now he is going
back home after his completion
of his ambition,”
Another activity student
support is neede d is the May
L cultural dance and fashion
show, spear-headed by ISO’s
former vice-presiaent, Ayo
Ipaye and former secretary
laide Babalola. The receipts
from this affair will go into the
late Dr. Vivian Henderson’s
Scholarship Fund.
Everyone is cordially in
vited to attend this affair.
African, Jamacian and Brazilian
dishes will be served after the
show and foreign films
depicting modem Africa will be
diown. VIP’s from all over the
country have been invited.