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April 23, 1979
The Panther
Page 5
Philharmonics Complete Tour
Are Clusters Worth It?
By Eileen C. Hocker
Panther Reporter
The Clark College
Philharmonic Society com
pleted its annual spring tour in
grand style. The choir toured
eight cities in eight days,
receiving thundering ap
plauses and standing ovations
all along the way.
The cities toured were:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Friday, March 30, 1979
"■Bridgeport, Connecticut
Saturday, March 31, 1979
"New York, New York Sunday,
April 1, 1979
■"Newark, New Jersey Mon
day, April 2, 1979
By A. Lineve Wead
Editor
Carol Burr, a Clark College
senior majoring in business
administration, was named
Clark Advertising Student of
the Year formally at a lun
cheon recently honoring other
top Georgia college and
university students showing a
strong interest in advertising.
Although Ms. Burr knew of
her honor about a month in ad
vance, she received a plaque
and an inscription of her name
on a plaque that named other
top students at Clark. Ms.
Burr’s selection was based on
her advertising presentation
that was judged by business
administration professors, Dr.
Clyde Paisley and Ms.
McBain-Brown.
The luncheon was one of the
many highlights of the
Atlanta Advertising Club (Ad
Club) and Ad Club 2 careers
day at the Colony Square
Hotel in Atlanta. This
advertising careers day was
sponsored to “gain new in
sights into the challenges and
opportunities of the advertis
ing and marketing com
munity,” according to Dwight
■"Yonkers, New York Tuesday,
April 3, 1979
■"Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Wednesday, April 4, 1979
■"Cleveland, Ohio Thursday,
April 5, 1979
■"Dayton, Ohio Friday, April 6,
1979
All the choir’s performances
were given at United
Methodist Churches which
support the College; with the
exception of Newark, New
Jersey, where the choir
performed at two elementary
schools and one high school
for the performing arts.
The 35 member touring choir
received first class treatment
Scantland, president, Atlanta
Advertising Club.
Among the more than 200
students attending the day’s
activities, approximately 25
were black students from
Clark, Morehouse, Atlanta
University and Georgia State
University. Students from
Tennessee, Florida, and
Alabama also attended.
Both advertising clubs are
associated with the American
Advertising Federation
(AAF), the Ad Club was also
concurrently hosting the 7th
district AAF student
competition among colleges
with student chapers affiliated
with AAF.
Tours were conducted to
various media businesses and
advertising agencies. Turner
Communications, Atlanta
J our nal- Constitution,
Atlanta Magazine, Burke
Dowling Adams, Burton-
Campbell, Cargill & As
sociates, Cole Henderson
Drake, Liller Neal Weltin,
McCann-Erickson, McDonald
& Little, McGraw-Hill,
Richway Advertising, J
Walter Thompson, and WSB
were among the tour sights.
throughout the tour. Breakfast
and/or dinner was served at
each church where they
performed. In Newark, a friend
of choir director, Tom Hager,
invited the group to his home
for a spaghetti dinner and
social.
Church parishners housed
members of the choir all dur
ing the tour. In New York City,
the choir stayed at the
Ramada Inn.
Each spring, the choir tours
to support the Clark College
Alumni Association and to
serve as a public relations
vehicle for the school.
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The end result of course, was
that the senior and another
girl retrieved their cars within
an hour without paying. A
group of young men charged
that, “they won’t tow anymore
cars away from the courts
without a fight.”
This incident happened
because of a manpower
shortage, explained the cam
pus security director.
“Sometimes activities are
heavy and security can’t ad
dress all the illegally parked
cars daily,” said Smith.
Security runs people to the
bank, they check buildings;
moreover, patrol the campus to
insure safety.
However, I got the im
pression from Smith that if
manpower was up to par, more
cars would be towed daily.
Smith feels that a highrise
parking facility would be nice,
but now is not the time.
A revenue highrise parking
facility was mentioned at the
Council of Presidents meeting
some time ago, but nothing
has been finalized. Many
persons feel that the schools
cannot afford a highrise at this
particular time because the
United Negro College Fund is
undergoing a tremendous
deficit.
The end result lies with
Meredith Williams, AUC
Chance lor. Unfortunately, I
have not been able to secure a
five minute interview with
him.
Many persons told me to tell
the chancelor that “We don’t
mind walking if we had a sure
place to park.”
“We must do something,”
says Morrell, “because the
parking situation is terrible.”
By Kathy Moore
Panther Staff Writer
The Division of General
Education’s (DGE) program
on Clark’s, campus hopes to
prove that freshmen
participating in its program do
well academically throughout
college than other freshmen
not in the program, according
to Ms. Betty McNair, associate
dean of faculty and instruc
tion.
Research is currently being
conducted on students who
participated in the program
while it was in its pilot stage, to
see just how well they did, she
said.
According to Ms. McNair the
program designed for in
coming freshmen got
underway in 1973 with 50
students under a proposal by
the late Vivian Wilson
Henderson.
Currently the DGE program
involves only half the
freshman class which forms
several sets of cluster groups
comprising of 100 students per
cluster.
Ms. McNair stated that each
cluster is assigned to faculty
instructors who teach all
freshman required courses
such as math, English, social
science and science.
She also added that
freshmen in a cluster group
attend all classes with the
same members of their cluster
everyday.
“This program is much more
of an effort than we have had
at Clark,” said Ms. McNair .
“The close student and faculty
relationship provides
emotional and academic sup
port.”
Many instructors have high
expectations of the students
with a number of support
systems to help them along the
way, she said.
“Students in these clusters
must work,” she said.
In addition, students have
access to a Learning Resource
Center (LRC) where they can
go for studying and tutoring
purposes, she said.
In a recent survey of 25
freshman students participat
ing in the program only five
felt they had not learned with
other freshmen did.
Fifteen of the students
surveyed felt as though they
had been thrown into the
program during registration
time.
“I didn’t know what the
program was all about and
didn’t want to really get into it
but I found that it was a
quicker way of registering for
classes,” said one freshman
student in the program.
Another student complained
of being with the same
students in classes everyday
and not getting a chance to
meet other freshmen or
upperclassmen.
“I think the program is a
good one but like every
program it has its problems,”
said Larry Hardy, a math
instructor for one of the cluster
groups.
According to Hardy the
attendance is very high in the
cluster he instructs and if
students miss classes, instruc
tors can find out why they are
missing classes.
“The particular cluster that
I’m assigned to is a close knit
one because students have
learned how to communicate
with each other,” Hardy said.
“When a student isn’t
functioning well in class,
instructors are able to talk to
the other instructors within
the cluster to find out why.”
According to Hardy instruc
tors work so closely with
students that it is almost im
possible for them to fail any
course.
“Since instructors have the
knowledge of what other
instructors assign students to
work on, students do not get an
overload of work to do at the
same time,” Hardy said.
Fourteen of the students
surveyed also felt that the
instructors were willing to help
students with any classwork
problems.
Lorrie Garland, a senior at
Clark who participated in the
program in 1975 while it was in
its pilot stage, stated that the
program helped her prepare
tremendously for classes in her
sophomore year.
“Being with the same people
brought us closer and it was
easier to participate in open
discussions,” she said.
She also added that the
program has helped her to get
freshman required courses out
of the way.
“I was not like some of my
other classmates who were
taking freshman required
courses their junior year,” she
said. Out of all the students in
my cluster the majority of
them are graduating with me
in May.”
According to Ms. Garland a
lot of freshman students don’t
like meeting with the same
people everyday but they still
must take these courses.
“But the program was to my
advantage because instructors
took a little more time out with
students,” she said. “However,
students’ biggest hangup
about the program are the
instructors, but that is going
to be in any program or any
other school.”
Photo by Michelle Madison
Burr Named
Ad Student