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PANTHER
Welcomes Scott
By A. Lineve Wead
PANTHER Co-Editor
After 109 years, the Clark College Family welcomes its first
black woman vice-president in an administrative position.
Gloria Scott accepted this challenging position following
duties as president of the Girl Scouts of America and assistant
to the president of Texas Southern University.
The Panther salutes Ms. Scott for her willingness to take
on this new responsibility.
Here we are, living at a time when the future of black
colleges is questionable thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s
decision on the Bakke case, and HEW’s new pressure to in
crease integration of black schools. Ms. Scott brings an ap
propriate perception the role black colleges have for present
and future development.
The Panther is proud that Ms. Scott recognizes a need for
Clark’s communication program to expand and improve, and
Clark’s freshmen programs to strengthen, also. We are in need
of such positive thinking.
We commend Dr. Elias Blake for his new implementation of
old thoughts at Clark, and the Panther appreciates his
determination to continually improve Clark’s position among
other institutions in the Atlanta University Center.
We’re off to a good start this year and the only way for Clark
to continue is upward.
WAOK
Radio Presents ■
FUNKADELICS
OCT. 22,1978
8:00 P.M.
AT THK FOX THIATM
RESERVE SEATING *7.50 & *8.50
Tickets con be purchased at all S.E.A.T.S.
locations and Music Scene West End.
&& Study Tips
from Mp student service
Recitation is an effective
device for learning while read
ing a textbook. To make
certain that you understand
and remember, you should
stop periodically and try to
recall to yourself what you
have read. This is recitation.
—Morgan & Deese
HOW TO STUDY, McGraw-
Hill
In a lecture hall, the best
place to sit is in the middle,
towards the front, where you
can see and hear easily.
Believe it or not, those who sit
in this position usually do
better than those who sit in the
back.
—Harry Maddox
HOW TO STUDY, Fawcett
Books
There is a great deal of
difference between high school
study methods and those at the
college level. In college you will
have to learn more material in
less time, and learn most of it
outside of class. Another
difference is you will have to
think more. Some courses re
quire that you criticize or
evaluate information and not
merely accept it because it is
the printed word.
—Gary E. Brown
A STUDENT’S GUIDE TO
ACADEMIC SURVIVAL
Harper & Row
ASHFORD &
SIMPSON
SPECIAL
GUEST STAR
MKHAa HENDERSON
OCT. 29, 1978
8:00 P.M.
AT THE CIVIC CENTEX
RESERVE SEATING ‘7.50 & ‘8.50
Tickets can be purchased at all S.E.A.T.S.
locations and Music Scene West End.
m Another Taurus Production *
Learn to think physically in
relationship to cause and
effect in history. Geography,
economic conditions, even the
air men breathe (whether fresh
or saturated with smog) in
fluence history. Do not
overlook the world in search
ing for a detail.
—William H. Armstrong
STUDY IS HARD WORK
Harper & Row
The PANTHER is published twice monthly by the
students at Clark College.
Editors Suleiman Abdul-Azeez
Ann L. Wead
News Editor Marcia Jones
Feature Editor Denise Green
Sports Editor Charles Anderson
Photography Editor Tyraun Patterson
Business Manager Reginald Tanner
Circulation Manager Jack Jenkins
Faculty Advisors Denise Johnson
Osker Spicer
All articles, poetry, photographs and other con
tributions to the newspaper may be dropped off at our of
fices in Thayer Hall.
Address all correspondence to: PANTHER Newspaper,
Box 154 Clark College, Atlanta, Ga. 30314.
THE UNITED WAY.
Never write a note until you
have finished reading a full
paragraph or a headed section.
This procedure will preclude
your grabbing at everything
that looks important at first
glance.
—W alter Pauk
HOW TO STUDY IN
COLLEGE
Houghton Mifflin
Since most instructors
follow their textbooks rather
closely, one can usually predict
what will be discussed in class.
Prepare yourself on a few
items that will surely come up;
then, seize the opportunity to
recite when these topics are in
troduced.
—Francis P. Robinson
EFFECTIVE STUDY
Harper & Row
International Students
Deserve Attention
By Suleiman Abdul-Azeez
PANTHER Co-Editor
Members of the International Students Organization have
constantly sought to mingle with AUC students in the interest
of an exchange of culture and friendship. The whole idea of
international (mostly African) students coming to the AUC is
their feeling of a rudimentary bond with AUC students, ac
cording to Ade Adesanya, ISO president. Unfortunately,
international students too often feel alienated from the
mainstream on AUC campuses and end up forming and
revolving their activities around other international students.
AUC students fail to respond to their international
counterparts for at least two reasons. First, language is a real
problem. As Adesanya states, “I talk to you and you talk to
me. Though we both speak English, we don’t always
understand each other.” It seems to me that patience and
tolerance on the part of black and international students
could ease the problem. Understandings develop at paces
directly proportional to students’ willingness to achieve them.
If we all do indeed speak English, we have a good basis from
which to build mutual communications.
A second reason that AUC students seem to shy away from
their international counterparts is that many students still
operate under the myths which the West has created about
Africans. The barely clothed tribesman who eats humans is
not representative of modern Africa. Nor is the continent
filled with tree-climbing, bone-in-nose, war-dancing natives.
Rather, as talk with any African will reveal, the continent is
rapidly moving to modernize within its individual countries,
raise the standards of living of its peoples and assume its im
portance in the international community. The very fact that
more than 150 international students attend Clark alone and
more than 500 attend all of the undergraduate AUC
institutions speaks eloquently of Africans’ broadening as
pirations. A casual conversation with one or two of AUC’s
African students can be a real lesson in modern African his
tory and civilization.
There are some compelling reasons for integrating
international students into the mainstream of college life.
First, as American students in our native land we are hosts
and hostesses to students from other countries. Isn’t it our
duty to help to see that our “visitors” feel at home as much as
possible? I think so. Come on, AUC students, where is our hos
pitality?
An even more compelling reason for getting to know and
interacting with our international counterparts is that many
of the future leaders of African nations are right here atten
ding classes with us at AUC. I know of two Azanians (South
Africans) and one Zimbabwean (Rhodesian) right here at
Clark. Zimbabwe is slated for majority rule next year. Azania
will take a lot longer, but majority rule is coming. Surely these
students will hold positions of power and responsibility in
their governments and countries in the future. What a great
opportunity we have at AUC to talk and interact with them.
By so doing we may get a better idea of what the continent’s
direction will be five, maybe 10 years from now.
So we at Clark and AUC should extend a friendly hand
toward our relatives from afar. We will find that the benefits
that we gain from their cultures is mutual with that which
they gain from ours. It might surprise many of us, but when
international students are finished with a long week of classes
and studying, many of them are ready for a good — party! It’s
time we invited some of them to the one we’re going to this
weekend. For, to paraphrase a famous quote, music just pos
sibly has charms to melt a communications block.
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