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THE PANTHER
OCTOBER 4, 1979
EDITORIAL COMMENT...
The First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the people...
Fellow Clarkites,
We are well aware that the
student body has been
impatiently awaiting the
arrival of this year’s first
issue of the Clark College
Panther. Due to
circumstances beyond our
control, the reason for the
delay was because of various
technical difficulties. We hope
that we will not encounter
similiar perplexities with our
upcoming issues.
The 1979-80 Clark College
Panther has broadened its
perspective of campus life at
Clark College.
In the past there has been a
lack of student participation
as far as submitting editorial
comments, letters to the
editors and public opinion.
We strongly encourage you
to voice your opinion. This is
your paper as well as the
Panther staff. We feel thatthe
more student input, the better
the makeup of the Panther.
make this newspaper the best
in Clark College’s history.
By Marcia E. Jones
Lillie M. Lewis
Panther Editors
In the future we plan to have
a special Homecoming issue,
a Thanksgiving and
Christmas issue, and others
that will arouse your curiosity.
Not only will we be
producing the Panther, we
hope to sponsor Journalism
Workshops featuring local
media oriented professionals
for interested students.
We plan to incorporate news
on the local and national level.
We also plan to feature some of
Atlanta’s best entertainment.
We have qualified staff
members who are willing to
UNTO
Atlanta Crime Rate Soars
The Atlanta homicide rate
may continue to rise without
the help of area residents and
others who may witness an ac
tual occurrence of a crime.
As of Sept. 28, the homicide
toll climbed to 174 compared to
144 during all of last year, ac
cording to Phyllis George,
Public Information Officer at
the Department of Public
Safety.
The 50 state patrolmen
who are on loan to Atlanta
Police Department will con
tinue to assist them for an
indefinite period of time. Their
duties include: traffic en
forcement, traffic accident
By Lillie M. Lewis
Panther Editor
investigation and traffic con
trol at special events. The
Atlanta force concentrates on
the more serious and complex
crimes.
Currently, there are 53 of
ficers in training at the
Atlanta Police Career
Academy. These men spend 12
weeks in the classroom and
eight weeks in the field
training. According to
Governor George Busbee these
men are scheduled to join the
Atlanta Police force at the end
of November.
According to the Atlanta
Journal (Wednesday, Sept. 19)
Public Safety Commissioner
Lee Brown said that if no in
formation or leads are com
piled, “it complicates the
ability of the police to bring a
case to a successful con
clusion.”
If the residents would lessen
their complaints and become
more concerned about
criminal activity occurring in
their area, then there would
probably be no need to request
more patrolmen to walk
through or cruise through their
particular area.
Ms. George suggested that if
anyone has any leads or in
formation concerning the local
crimes, report it immediately
to (emergency) 658-6666 or the
confidential tipline at 659-
COPS.
The PANTHER is published twice monthly by the students at Clark College
Editors Marcia E. Jones
Lillie M. Lewis
News Editor Michael H. Cottman
Feature Editor Benjamin S. Lumpkin
Entertainment Editor Rozell Clark
Sports Editor Veverly Y. Byrd
Photography Editor Tyraun Patterson
Copy Editor Charles D. Anderson
Business Manager Jack Jenkins
Faculty Advisors Denise Johnson
Osker Spicer
All articles, poetry, photographs and other contributions to the newspaper may be dropped
off at our offices in Thayer Hall.
Address all correspondence to: PANTHER Newspaper, Box 154, Clark College, Atlanta,
Ga. 30314.
Colleges Lack Funds
By Marcia E. Jones
Panther Editor
Have you ever wondered
about how government funds
are distributed among black
schools, especially in the
Atlanta University Center
(AUC)?
This is a rhetorical question
that may be asked by many
AUC students. Well, a junior
Business Education major at
Clark, provided The Panther
with some useful information
concerning this issue.
Angela Cotton did an
internship in Washington,
D.C. at the U.S. En
vironmental Protection Agen
cy’s (EPA) Office of Civil
Rights. She was a student as
sistant and among her duties
were to find out the amount of
funds given to black colleges
and universities for the entire
year of 1978 through June
1979.
Ms. Cotton began obtaining
her information by first sen
ding out a Federal Interagency
Committee Education (FICE)
report to all interagency of
fices. This report was given to
these offices to obtain correct
figures of black college fun
ding through the government.
“The agencies, however, did
not give factual information.”
said Ms. Cotton. “Therefore, I
had to' resort to the agency
computer division’s computer
print-outs.”
Through the computer print
outs, Ms. Cotton found thatthe
monetary figures were highly
discriminatory in comparison
of black and white colleges.
Ms. Cotton said that black
universities received ap
proximately $1 million in
government funds as opposed
to white universities receiving
$30 million.
As an AUC student, Ms.
Cotton deemed it necessary to
investigate government
funding within the Atlanta
University Center,
noted
“I found that Atlanta
University dominates more
government funds than any
other AUC school, due to the
Environmental Protection
AGency’s (EPA) lack of
knowledge of the other
schools’ capabilities in various
departments,” said Ms.
Cotton. She also noted that
Atlanta University received
more government funds
because of special projects.
Clark Unorganized
By Joyce N. Caldwell
It is pathetic that a college
having an approximate
enrollment of 2000 students
lacks organization. Clark
College’s staff has been
negligent in solving problems
caused by collapsed regis
tration procedures, the
student’s financial status, and
a drastic population explosion
on campus.
Registration time is hectic
for both the students and
college staff. For the most part,
preparing a schedule and
receiving course cards is
relatively easy. Students
prepare themselves to spend
approximately two hours at
that particular time.
The humidity rises and frus
tration occurs when a student
attempts to pay his bill.
Suddenly, one learns that his
financial aid has been delayed,
or not yet processed. The
student then attempts to seek
information as to whether or
not his aid will arrive at a later
date.
In some instances, the
student is unable to register.
Some of Clark’s students have
concurred this problem
caused by the financial aid of
fice. These problems could be
alleviated if this office
evaluated students yearly, and
notified them of their financial
status before a certain date.
This procedure will run
smoother if the student knows
before hand exactly what his
financial status is.
The population expolsion of
students should not exist on
Clark’s campus. The Housing
Director knows the precise
number of rooms available for
students, and therefore begins
excepting housing deposits
during late April. By June 1st,
all dorms and the Clark
College Courts are basically
filled. The problem of housing
occurs when the Admission of
fice continues to accept
deposits knowing that their is
limited space on campus. The
Admissions office should only
accept deposits until all the
rooms are filled. This would
alleviate students sleeping in
basement dormitories, young
women would not be crammed
four and five per room and
they definitely would not be
living secretly in Brawley Hall
on a hope and a prayer.
There is definitely a need for
the re-evaluation of'Clark’s
staff and students. If these
problems are not dissolved, the
staff will continue being the
abusers, and we the students
will continue to allow
ourselves to be the abused.
Clark’s staff must take heed
to this article and realize that
the problems we the the
students are facing must be
concluded in some manner,
soon.