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c1Al> 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. r 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: continued on page 3 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. continued on page 3 W AUC Chancellor Meredith accepts library gift from Coca- Cola’s Woodruff. (Photo by Kenneth Hodges)