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November 3, 1978
the Panther
Page 7
(right) Punter Charles McPherson (85) scores extra point. Clark beat
Savannah State 31-29.
What’s Wrong MBC ?
NFL Scores With Future Writers
Black sports journalism gets
a boost at Clark College this
year as four students receive
scholarships and concentrated
work experiences through a
financial grant from the
National Football League.
The students, who were
selected through an essay
contest, include three Clark
students and one student from
Morris Brown College. All four
students are enrolled in the
mass communications
program at Clark.
The two first place winners,
David Thomas and Valerie
Doyle, will be awarded $1,500
scholarships during the 1978-
79 academic year. They will
work as interns with WCLK
Radio, the Clark College
Panther Newspaper, and
with commercial broadcast
stations or newspapers in the
Atlanta area.
The two runners-up, Michael
Roland and Kent Hindsman,
will receive $500 scholarships.
These students will work with
WCLK Radio, the Clark
College Panther and will
coordinate several planned
sports journalism workshops
to be held during the school
year.
Dr. Gloria P. Walker, direc
tor, mass communications
program, says the two-year
grant of $10,000 will allow four
students each year to concen
trate their studies in thfe area of
sports journalism.
“Additionally, the grants
will give the department the
resources to conduct several
sports journalism workshops
during each school year for all
mass communications
students,” she said.
Dr. Walker explained that
the sports journalism project,
which is being sponsored
cooperatively by the NFL and
the National Newspaper
Publishers Association, will
provide Clark with the op
portunity to train students in
an area which is in need of
more black specialists.
“We’re hoping that his new
project will lead to more black
students and professional
journalists being trained in
and directed to careers in
sports broadcasting and
writing,” she said.
The mass communications
program at Clark College has
one of the largest student
enrollments in the Atlanta
University Center, which is
comprised of six institutions of
higher learning.
NFL Scholarship winners (left to right) Michael Roland, Dr. Gloria P. Walker,
David Thomas, Kent Hindsman, Valerie Doyle, and Dean Wesley McClure.
By Jack Jenkins
PANTHER Reporter
After starting out relatively
strong this season, Morris
Brown College’s football team
appears to be falling apart, or
rather, crumbling in the hands
of its opponents lately. In
M.B.C.’s last two games, the
offense has failed to score and
the defense, which is supposed
to be the team’s strength, has
given up a total of 92 points (a
56-0 loss to Florida A&M State
University and a 36-0 loss to
Alabama A&M State
University)
Coach Lambert Reed said
that because the football team
has a new head coach, a new
football program, and a young
team with only eight seniors,
four playing; it is inclined to
make a lot of mistakes.
Reed also said that the
Wolverines are steadily im
proving, although, the team’s
appearance in its last two
games will make one doubt the
validity of his statement.
Morris Brown currently has
a 4-3 overall record and is
ranked at the bottom of the
Southern Intercollegiate
Athletic Association’s first
division.
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