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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. CATALOG of COLLEGIATE RESEARCH Over 10,000 listings! All subjects. Send NOW forthis FREE catalog. (offer expires Dec. 31,19718) Send to: COLLEGIATE RESEARCH P.O. Box 84396, Los Angeles, CA. 90073