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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. Continued from Page 1 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