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A Look At Cbrk’s Now Piosidont
BLAKE - A MAN WITH
pledge to continue the tradition of quality education which the in
stitution has established.
By Deborah Lipscomb
And Thomas Torrence
The first semester at Clark
has always been full of
headaches and disap
pointments. If it wasn’t long
lines, it was cancelled classes. It
is one of the most dreaded times
of the year.
This scene remained
virtually unchanged this year-
with one notable exception. A
tall, lean, soft-spoke * man
arrived on the scene Aug. 1
with new ideas and with ex
periences that might change
some of these confusing
situations.
Dr.Elias Blake, Jr., who
became Qark’s 19th President,
said he plan to resolve the ills of
registration and many other
problems on the campus.
Coming from the Institute
for Services to Education (ISE),
Dr. Blake has a vast knowledge
of the problems of Black
Colleges. He is familiar with
Clark and was a fairly close
professional and personal
associate of the late President
Vivian W. Henderson.
“I have had the experience
of being nvolved with almost all
the black colleges,” he said.
“There are not vry many of the
schools that I don’t havea fairly
good fix on, in terms of how
they’ve been developing, and
Clark was one snhool that was
very aggressive in dealing with
the new press res on a liberal
arts college.”
Blane held several
positions at IS. His most recent
position was as chief executive.
Other position held during his
tenure were .. Director oi
Evaluation (1967-69) and
Southeast Regional Director of
Upward Bounds in ISE (1966-
67).
Blood Benefits Lukemia Patients
Suleiman Abdul- Azeez
Leukemia patients
between the ages of 10 and
12 will benefit from a blood
drive October 12 on the
Atlanta University Center
campuses.
The drive is being
conducted by the Clark
College Peer Counselors,
under the direction of Mrs.
Katie Ramsey, director of
Counseling, and the Atlanta
University Chapter of Phi
Beta Sigma Fraternity.
The blood will be
collected from 10 a.m. to 3:30
p.m. at the Marquis L.
Harris Library in
McPheeters-Dennis Hall.
Peer Counselors and Sigma
members are now collecting
pledges of one pint of blood
for the leukemia victims.
Leukemia is a cancer of
the white blood cells.
Leukemia patients need
almost constant injections of
blood.
The two student groups
hope to collect donations of
several hundred pints of
blood from the students,
faculties, and staffs of all six
institutions in the AUC.
Mrs. Mae Marion of the
American National Red
Cross’ Atlanta Women’s
Auxiliary has been working
with the two student groups.
She said Atlanta needs 700
pints of blood donated daily
to meet the needs of patients
in Atlanta hospitals, in
cluding leukemia patients.
Sigma Henry Diggs
explained that by donating
blood members of the AUC
community help to insure
some will be available should
any of them get sick and
need blood.
“Today it’s somebody
else,” Diggs said.
“Tomorrow it could be you.
So please give.”
The drive is part of a
comprehensive program
developed during the
summer for freshmen by the
15 member of the Peer
Counseling Program.
Peer Counselor s
Charles Dunn and Reginald
Jenkins are spearheading the
drive.
“It’s a great opportunity
for the AUC community to
get behind a worthwhile
cause,” said Dunn. “I an
ticipate a generous response
, for the leukemia victims.”
For further information
on the drive and to pledge a
pint call Peer Counselor
Charles Dunn at 586-0613
and Sigma Henry Diggs at
752-7344, both during
evening hours.
A PLAN FOR CHANGES
othe ISE is a non-profit
corporation involved in research
and prooram development
designed to promote greatet
access for Blacns in higher
education.
Even though Blake has
been involv e d
with severl educational and
philanthropic instit tions, he
said comino to Clark is a new
challenge.
I find it extremely interesting
and provocatve and can see all
kinds of positive things that
have been going on her,” he
said.
One of the first things Blake
plans to do i to review the basic
missions and goals of the in
stitution. “I want the faculty
and staff to slow down and ask
themselves what is it that Clark
College has been trying to do
over the pa t five to seven years
which was really the period in
which it changedm
“I want to review what
those directions
eally were to make certain that
we have a kin
of community understanding of
what those things were; what
increasing the options * really
meant as the mission and goals
of the institution.” ,
Blake said he will basically
be followoing the 10-year
projections establishe
by Presidnt Henderson. There
will be some revisions however.
b”the projections in many'
ways define the expectations for
Clark as a college,” he said.
Blake readily
acknowledged some of the
sccomplishments Clark has
made since i,t established
priorites in its effo
ts to increase the options for
students, but it 1 will take time
to completely fulfill all of the
goals enumerated n the
projections, he said.
‘‘The communications,
program has a lot'of work to be
done, but it’s beginning to
produced graduates,” he. said.
“The allied health and public
policy programs are getting off
to a good start.” ;
Dressed neatly in a white
shirt and black trousers, Blake
used his hands frequently as he
expressed his concern bout the
faculty, administration and
students.
Continued on page 3
Skipping Ca
use?
Registration "Bl
ues
By Ann L. Wead
“The key to enrolling large
numbers of students is
staggering the lines and'having
monitors to view the students,”
Dean Paul Brown said recently.
Brown, dean of faculty and
instruction at Clark, said the
staggeriing of lines would have
worked well, but the students
“would not follow directions.”
There are no monitors,
however, to aid in the process
at Clark.
Yet, a Clark student,
Kenneth D. Thompson, a junior
medical illustration major said
the staggering process did not
work. He stood in one line for
four hours to finish his financial
obligation to Clark.
“Ample space was not
provided to register, Thompson
Isaid. The gym could have been
used because you can see
what’s going oij aheadiof you. ”
“Pre-registration limp acts
the process of registration
adversely because many
students don’t return to school
the next semester, or they take
advance Iclasses,” Brown said.
He would like to see more
cooperation from the students to
be more consistent in their
enrollment of classes. Also,
Brown blamed those students
who “skipped” their places in
line for some of the confusion.
“Students showed up at
anytime,” hesaid, “They would
.get in any line. They would not
follow directions. They held up
those who do read the signs.” *
One student, Emmanuel
innis, a junior, said he follwed
the directions given to him for
the final process of registration,
but he said a better system
could be implemented to help
prevent the long lines next
semester.
Innis said each class should
register separately and with its
[respective department
>ichairmen to complete the
■process.
Brown said Pre-
Registration and Registration
will be more effective if the
computer system could be up^
dated for the Atlanta University
Center.
“If we are to have pre
enrollment, then we need a
more complicated data
processing system than we now
have,” Brown said.