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Vol. XXXI No. I
An ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER Institution
Registration System Works
By Angela Esannason
Although there is still room
for improvement, Clark
College’s new registration
system is considered an initial
success by those who worked
with it.
According to the new Dean
of Faculty and Instruction,
Wesley McClure III, the new
registration system was im
plemented by the student
government, faculty and
many people within the ad
ministration.
The new plan included some
18 stations which all had a
specific purpose. At station
one, all new and continuing
students picked up their regis
tration packets. Financial
arrangements were taken care
of at station three, and 1.1) .
cards were obtained at station
15.
Officers Elected
By Jaki Buckley
The Freshmen class an
nounced its presence
September l,‘l with the election
of major officers and Mr. and
Miss Freshman.
A political field which in
cluded over 40 candidates with
16 running in the Miss
Freshman slot, ended with the
n ine students who were elected
leaders of the class of 1982.
Winning by two votes,
Mvkol Williams, a native of
Atlanta, took over the
presidency by outlasting his
competitors, P>ruce Heard,
Melvin Smith and Freddie
Harrell.
Harold Greenwell took the
vice-president position win
ning by eight votes over
Phillip Williamson.
Chicagoan Charmaine
Ward won as secretary. Ralph
Strickland won as business
managerand Kimberly Larkin
was elected treasurer. Serving
on the higher and lower
judicial council will be James
Brown and Jeanette Davis.
Respectively.
Electing Miss Freshman,
the most competitive slot on
the ballot, was tough task.
Michell Madision, a mass com
munications major from Aus
tin, Texas is now the reigning
freshman queen. She will be
joined at the homecoming
parade and coronation by her
first attendant Felecia Wim-
bish and second attendant
Colleen Mitchell.
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Registration — We’re getting better all the time.
(Photo by Kenneth Hodges)
15.
Clark’s comptroller,
Nathaniel Williams, designed
the new registration system.
According to Dean McClure,
the new registration system
has been “an overwhelming
success.” However, he says
there is still room for im
provement.
Some unanticipated
problems that confronted the
registration workers included
the number of upperclassmen
taking lower level courses
which resulted in overcrowded
classes. Last minute an
nouncements concerning
financial aid created problems
for students. Students also
failed to follow the instruc
tions that were laid out for
registration.
Clark students also felt that
registration was a success. A
Clark junior related, “The new
By Fletcher Peacock
A personal gift of $7 million
has been awarded to the
Atlanta University Center
(AUC) for the construction of a
$22 million dollar library.
Robert W. Woodruff, Atlanta’s
famous anonymous donor, has
announced his personal gift to
the AUC Library campaign,
bringing the total amount of
funds coming from Woodruff
sources to $10 million.
In a letter to Vernon E.
Jordan, Jr., the AUC’s board
chairman, which Woodruff
personally sent to Chancellor
Charles W. Meredith,
Woodruff announced his inten
tion of ensuring that the new
library “becomes a reality for
the center at the earliest pos
sible date.” Woodruffs gift will
assure the completion of the
proposed facility within 20-22
months.
Gifts and grants to the
library campaign now total ap
proximately $13 million
dollars, the amount needed to
cover the costs of all construc
tion and equipment, with the
remaining funds for the en
dowment to be raised during
the conclusion of the cam
paign.
Noting that he had observed
the activities of the Center and
it’s member institutions for the
past 50 years and from time to
time has provided support for
them, Woodruff wrote, “At this
point, I am confident that as
surance of the new library as
the academic heart of the six
institutions is the most effec
tive way I can demonstrate the
importance of educational op
portunity for all our citizens.”
Some of the special features
of the 248,000 square foot
structure will be:
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Black Education Group
Protests Use of Tests
By Suleiman Abdul-Azeez
system had a more relaxed at
mosphere and the location
made it more convenient.”
A sophomore stated that the
new registration system was
not that much of a difference,
but added that there was not
much of a hassle.
“The new registration
system is superior to other
schools within the Atlanta
University Center,” said Dean
McClure.
The accomplishments that
were made this year during
registration included the
faculty and administration be
ing more involved and the time
factor was decreased con
siderably.
“The goal we hope to ac
complish is to make every
student complete registration
in one hour or less in
September, 1979,” Dean
McClure said optimistically.
Library Gets $7 Million Gift
The national trend toward
exit tests for high school
students has had and will con
tinue to have a adverse effect
on minority students if their
focus does not change, ac
cording to Clark President
Elias Blake, Jr.
Speaking as chairperson of
the National Advisory Com
mittee on Black Higher
Education and Black Colleges
and Universities, Blake told
the press at a noon news
conference September 12, “Our
concerns are that those tests
will have disproportionate im
pact on minority students.
They should be used diagnos
tically and earlier in high
school.”
Blake and other members of
the panel emphasized to the
media assembled at the Vivian
W. Henderson Health and
Physical Education Center
that they were not against the
tests per se. Instead, they feel
that the way the tests are being
used is wrong. He said the
movement toward exit tests
has reached over 30 states, 21
of which have set exit exams
as a pre-condition for
graduation in the next few
years. Two states, Florida and
Oklahoma, already require
that a student pass tin exit
exam before he can graduate.
“It seems like an unfair
system which addsinsulttoin-
jury,” Blake said. He pointed
out that minority students
used to be denied jobs after
graduation, but some of them
could at least get into an
institution of higher learining.
With exitexamseven thelatter
option will be snatched away,
according to Blake.
He suggested that tests be
given at two to four-year
intervals instead of con
fronting the student with an
exit test when he has reached
the point of graduation.
The committee, whose
purpose is to make recommen
dations to HEW on black
higher education issues, met.
September 11 and 12 in the 1
Henderson Building. It
examined all approaches to
higher education of Black
Americans as well as the ad
vantages of historically Black
colleges and universities. This
is the first time the committee
has met outside of
Washington, D .C.
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AUC Chancellor Meredith accepts library gift from Coca-
Cola’s Woodruff.
(Photo by Kenneth Hodges)