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PANTHER FEBRUARY, 1978
Manpower Paints Bright
Employment Picture
Graves Elected
Election of Earl G.
Graves, publisher of Black
Enterprise Magazine, to the
board of directors of Inter
national Telephone and
Telegraph Corporation, was
announced recently by Harold
S. Geneen, chairman and chief
executive.
In addition to publishing,
Mr. graves is president of radio
station KNOK AM and FM in
Dallas, Texas, and also heads
his own marketing research
company. He founded Black
Enterprise Magazine, a national
monthly magazine specializing
on issues affecting economic
conditions and business
development for blacks, in 1970.
Previously he had been
president of his own
management consultant firm.
Prior 10 launching his own
businesses, he was ad
ministrative assistant lo the late
Senator Robert F. Kennedy
vhere his primary efforts were
.n setting up pilot urban
development programs
throughout New York State.
Have you begun to worry
about what you will do after
graduation?
The Kappa Theta Chapter
of Alpha Kappa Mu National
Honor Society will sponsor a
workshop on graduate and
professional school preparation
on Feb. 22 in Kresge Hall, lower
jounge, at 1:30 p.m. The
program will include a panel
discussion on the mechanics of
applying, as well as the tedious
process of trying to decide on
which schools to apply to.
The speakers will then
eniertain questions from the
audience.
Alpha Kappa Muans at
Clark have also recently in
ducted nine new members
They are Suleiman Abdul-
Azeez, Faye Hardaway, Ivy
Hunt, Luther Speight, Sherry
Stenson, Calvin Thomas,
Stephanie Tindal and Regena
Williams.
The Atlanta area should
move into 'he new year with a
stable employment climate
which will feature a limited
number of new job op
portunities, and few expected
reductions in employment,
according to a quarterly survey
of Atlanta area businessmen
released recently by Manpower,
the world’s largest temporary
help service.
Joseph C. Whitaker, owner
of Manpower’s Atlanta office,
said, “Manpower's survey
shows that businessmen here,
in viewing their hiring plans for
the next three months (January,
February, March), generally
anticipate little change in their
employment levels. Overall,
77% of the companies polled
expect to maintain their current
employment levels, while 10%
anticipate increased hiring and
13% project decreased hiring,"
Whitaker said.
The outlook for the next
three months compares
favorably with a similar survey
made by Manpower last Sep
tember when 70% of the em
ployers forecast stable em
ployment levels, 13% were
anticipating new hirings, and
17% were contemplating
reductions.
The forecast of employment
stability ranged across all nine
categories of business activity
covered by the survey, with the
strongest optimism reported by
firms in the trades, tran
sportation and the service
sectors.
Nationally, while seasonal
factors will result in a slower
U.S. hiring pace during the first
quarter of 1978, hiring con
fidence among the more than
5,000 U.S. businessmen in
terviewed continues to be
positive.
The curreni survey results
indicate that hiring plans for the
quarter are slightly more op-
limistic than the figures from a
similar Manpower survey taken
one year ago when an annual
hiring pattern that added over
3.000.000 jobs to the U.S. work
force was established.
A seasonal drop in hiring is
expected due to lower activity in
the wholesale-retail fields and
the influence of winter weather
on Midwest and Northeast
construction areas.
Excluding these seasonal
factors, hiring should continue
in a positive direction.
Nationally, the employment
outlook is slightly more op
timistic than a similar Man
power survey taken one year
ago. In the next two months,
one out of every four employers
interviewed (25%), compared to
24% last year, anticipates
adding more workers.
All regions of the country
show increased hiring ex
pectations (33% nationally) for
the finance, insurance and real
estate sector.
Public administration is
another bright sector with
employee-related federal
funding partially propelling the
accelerated hiring pace with
39% of the employers indicating
increased employment.
The South continues to lead
the nation in optimism as it has
for the past seven consecutive
Manpower surveys with 28% of
the region's employers planning
to increase hiring. The per
centage of employers in the
South who expect to make some
cutbacks in their work forces
stands at 12% with another 56%
forecasting a status quo in
employment levels.
Since 1976, Manpower's
quarterly forecast of hiring
expectations have been in step
with actual increases in the
number of people at work.
The survey results reflect
employment intentions for the
next two months. Some of these
intentions may change unex
pectedly.
Manpower, Inc., is a ma)or
employer of office workers and
semi-skilled and skilled workers
in a wide variety of fields.
Carnegie Board Names
Blake Vice Chairman
The Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of
Teaching recently announced
the election of Elias Blake, Jr.,
president of Clark College in
Atlanta as vice chairperson of
the board of trustees.
Blake, who has been
president of Clark College since
August of this year, was
president of the Institute for
Service to Education,
Washington, D.C. from 1969 to
1977. He served as the
Institute’s director of evaluation
from 1967 to 1969.
Blake has a B.A.
degree from Paine College, an
M.A. degree from Harvard
University, and a Ph.D. degree
from the University of Illinois.
He is a member of the board of
the American Council on
Education, and is on the
editorial boards of the Journal
of Negro Education and the
Journal of Law and Education.
He has been a trusiee of the
Foundation since 1973. His term
as vice chairperson of the board
will expire at the close of the
annual meeting in November
1978.
The Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of
Teaching was established by
Andrew Carnegie in 1905 to
provide pensions for retired
college teachers and to conduct
studies in the field of higher
education. The principal activity
of the Foundation is the
operation of the Carnegie
Council on Policy Studies in
H i ohpr F.rincat ion.
Photo bv T* rone Patterson
Art Dept-
Not A Pretty Picture
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By Larry Simpson
The lack of proper
photographic and art equipment
and the apparent lack of ad
ministrative support and
commitment at Clark has cause
disappointment for many art
and photography students,
according to a Clark
photography and art instructor .
We feel that the potential
visual arts inertia of the entire
center is less than desirable,”
Tom Dorsey said.
“Clark has the potential to
become a voice to be heard in
the visual arts here at the
Atlanta University, Center but
for various reasons it is not
contributing its potential
share.”
Dorsey, a part-time in
structor from the Art Institute of
Chicago,'cites, the reasons for
the apparent lack of . concern.
“The major reason is the
apparent lack of administrative
commitment to supporting the
value and need for the visual
art’s programs.”
This lack of concern can be
fully illustrated in terms of the
photography classes here at
Clark, he said.
“Photography here has not
been properly or adequately
supplied,” Dorsey said.
The photography depar
tment needs enlargers. There
were four but two were ripped
off. The darkroom is not suf
ficient enough to supply the
needs for the photography
students and there is no type
ventilation. Improper ven
tilation may cause serious
health problems |Of students
inhaling, toxic, fumes.
“I asked for an audience
with the president to discuss the
art department’s problem but I
never received a reply,”
Dorsey.
“I received the run-around
trying to replace the stoler
equipment and untii I get it, it
doesn’t make sense to use my
st uff.' ’
Dorsey said it also was a lot
of red tape in trying to get other
necessary supplies.
"It took some time to get
'he chemicals to use th4L
darkroom and 1 *\a«. led »£>
believe 'h;n i'd gc he 'HE ♦
enlargers, Dorsey said.
Dorsey was told to check
out the mass communications,
department because they had
five enlargers and one has not
been assembled.
"I was informed that 1
could possibly get one on loan
from the mass com, depart
ment during the la'ter part of
October or the first of
November.
“1 was informed officially
by Dean Brown that I wouldn't
get the enlarger because of
security reasons and that they
planned to consolidate
photography with the mass
comm department.”
There are several reasons
for not being able to carry out
that plan, according to Dorsey.
“They don’t have water
and space to do what they are
doing and photography,”
Dorsey said.
“It would take instructional
media space to occupy one
complete black and white
darkroom," Dorsey said.
“It’s toial frustration.
When one person’s priming the
lights can’t go on and maybe
you might need the light to do
your work.”
There are so many com
plications you know you’re
gonna catch hell.”
The average photography
student spends $200 in ex
penses, not counting paper.
Some have paid over $600,
according to Dorsey.
His students are Dorsey’s
main reasons for putting up the
fight.
“I am putting it on the line,
for $5,000 we could do a lot of
things,” Dorsey said.
“1 feel that I’ve gotten into
something,” Dorsey said. “If I
have to lose my job to help these
students Well?”