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March 2, 1979
Vol. XXXI No. 9 An ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER Institution
MAC Students
Represent Clark
at Howard
By Michael H. Cottman
Panther Staff Writer
Communications and
Health was the overall theme
for this year’s eighth annual
Howard University Com
munications Conference.
The conference, which was
held in Washington D.C.,
shared the attendance from
students throughout the
nation.
A group of nine Clark
College students, sponsored by
Mass Communications
Department head, Dr. Gloria
Walker, were chosen to attend
the conference as represen
tatives from Clark.
The conference focused on
two major points of interest:
* The transmission of in
formation on the role of com
munications in the black com
munity.
* The opportunity to form
personal linkages with
students and professionals in
the field of communications
from across the nation.
The five day conference,
predominantly geared toward
black students majoring in
mass communications, was
divided into various daily
seminars, in order that
students coulcbbe enlightened
to all facets of com
munications.
You may ask, why the theme
Communications and
Health?
Well, professors and profes
sional communicators from
across the nation concurred
that without our health, we
wouldn’t have anything.
They also stated that young
blacks are now mis-using their
bodies more than ever, and
need to be constantly
reminded of the importance of
health care.
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Founder’s Day ’79
By Jaki Buckley
Staff Writer
Clark College celebrated its
110th Founders Day Con
vocation Tuesday, February
20, at the Vivian W. Henderson
Building.
Recollecting and rededicat
ing the school’s purposes, Dr.
Elias Blake, president of the
college said, “Founders Day is
an occasion when we remind
ourselves that what we have
should not be taken for
granted.”
The program began with the
processional in which faculty,
students and honor students
marched in their respective
regalia.
The keynote speaker for the
Convocation was Clark
graduate Haskell Ward, ’63.
Ward, currently Deputy Mayor
of Human Services in New
York City, told friends and
family of Clark that, “We still
have a long way to go in root
ing our causes.” He also told
students to challenge the exis
ting leadership of the nation.
Several greetings were made
from various organizations.
Reverend Walter L. Kim
brough, pastor at Cascade
Methodist Church, was on
hand as representative for the
United Methodist Church with
which Clark College holds afi
filiation.
The National Alumni As
sociation and Board of
Trustees was represented by
Mr. Edward L. Simon, ’33, who
is also Chairman of the Board.
Representing the faculty was
Dr. Robert Fishman,
Chairman of the Social
Science Department, and the
student body was represented
by Student Government
President, Floyd Donald.
Immediately following the
program, a luncheon was held
by President and Mrs. Elias
Blake in the Kresge Dining
Hall, and a seminar with Ward
later in the afternoon.
Although the seminar was
open to all, only a few
attended, including Dr. Blake,
Dr. Fishman and several
students.
By Charles Anderson
Staff Writer
Blacks must emphasize the
importance that the un
productive members in this
progressing society cannot
tolerate their predicaments,
said the Deputy Mayor of New
York City Tuesday at Clark
College’s Vivian W.
Henderson gymnasium.
Haskell G. Ward, the
keynote speaker of Clark’s
110th Founders Day Program,
said before a crowd of a
thousand that the status of
blacks is dependent on three
international programs in
which he has had experience
with. Ward, who graduated in
1963, also talked about his
college days here.
Ward said that in the late
19,50’s, an education was not
available to most young
blacks. He added that students
in the Atlanta University
Center played an important
role in the Civil Rights
Movement, as did the city of
Atlanta.
“None of us who were
educated in this college and
the Civil Rights Movement of
this town, will ever forget that
particular period of our lives,”
Ward said. “Men and women
educated here have gone on to
a variety of careers and profes
sions.”
Ward said blacks still have a
long way to go in changing the
standards of reform — stan
dards such as the necessity to
feed the hungry people of the
world.
“Each year, the U.S.
government sends over $1
billion in surplus agricultural
commodities to the developing
nations to feed the hungry
people of the world,” Ward
said.
Ward, who has a master’s
degree in African studies from
the University of California in
Los Angeles, said that his own
experience in various African
countries has led him to ques
tion the effectiveness of these
programs.
“The Food for Peace
Program has acted as
disincentives to local produc
tion and ultimate self-reliance
for Third World Peoples,”
Ward said. “In Africa, as
elsewhere, we know far too
many instances where such
food shipments have been
ciphened off by local officials
to be resold in neighboring
countries or in domestic
markets.”
He said he was not against
the $200 billion Peace Corp
Program nor the $1 billion
Food for Peace Program.
However, a former Peace
Corp worker himself, Ward
expressed concern for the
“different standard” applied
to the U.S. when the time calls
for domestic spending to feed
hungry people and put others
to work.
“There are millions of un
productive members who are
bitter,” he said.
According to Ward, he
returned to urban affairs from
the state department, at a time
when conservatism, budget
balancing and cuts in social
programs were the cause for
Black Americans to fear that
all gains made in the past
decade would be all but wiped
out.
“These fears are real,” Ward
said. “We were promised major
new initiatives in urban
policies, comprehensive
programs for the poor, reforms
in our welfare systems.
Instead, we see cutbacks, cost
reductions, indecision and in-
Inside
difference.”
Ward stated that he also
realizes that standards are be
ing applied to programs
designed to assist minorities in
this country which are quite
different from those used to
judge other areas of
government spending.
Ward said, “Washington’s
inability or unwillingness to
provide needed assistance to
New York City will force us to
cut back on services; many, if
not the majority, which assist
the poor. Such cutbacks are
disturbing and indefensible
and appear to have few, if any,
parallels in other major com
ponents of the federal budget,”
Ward added.
Ward told the Clark College
family that there is still a lorfg
way to go in achieving that
perfect world that everyone
looks for.
“Twenty years ago when I
was in school, we were fighting
for civil rights for social
change, and now it’s said that
the students today are looking
more for personal gain and
achievements, this is false,” he
said, “we still have a long way
to go in rooting out causes.”
Ward told the group that he
believes the students today are
just as concerned for social jus
tice as always.
Before concluding, Ward
challenged the students to
become more aware of Public
Policy, especially the political
process.
“Your goals are more
different, more complex, more
important,” Ward said.
“You should challenge exis
ting leadership,” he told the
students,
Founder’s Day Photos pg. 4 & 5 UNCF pg. 2
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