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THE PANTHER
December 3, 1979
EDITORIALS CONT
Checks cause problems
BY LORI F_ FORD
Panther Reporter
To The Clark College Family:
All work study and regular
work program students on
Nov. 9 were to receive their pay
checks. But, any student in
quiring about his check was
told that it would not be ready
until Nov. 12.
There is a hideous problem
prevailing over our sanctified
environment. This problem is
one that has existed for quite
some time now and obviously
no solution has been looked
into yet. The time has come for
a change.
The problem is a lack of
respect on the part of certain
administrators and staff
workers for students. Why
does this problem exist? I can
not point out the reasons one
by one butno matter what they
are, they do not excuse the
problem.
Believe it or not ad-
' ministrators and staff
members, students have bills
and responsibilities justas you
do. You are never deprived of
your check on the designated
pay day.
Are students shown the
same consideration? Because
none of the administrators
who handle business matters
seem to respect our feelings.
If a student demonstrates in
competence in his classes, he
flunks. He suffers for his mis
takes. On the other hand, it
appears that an incompetent
member of the staff at Clark is
never reprimanded or suffers
for his blunders. This injustice
must cease.
From this day forth, any ad
ministrator or staff person
who exhibits an example of in
competence should have the
guts to resign or their superior
should have sense to release
that person from his burden
some responsibilities.
Since this problem is so
severe it should not be
overlooked any longer,
because students need their
money to pay rent, telephone
bills, buy food, among other
things.
Someone owes all regular
and work-study students a
valid explanation as to why
checks cannot be issued on
time.
What compiled the problem
for the Nov. 12 pay period was
that Veterans Day was a holi
day and most businesses in
cluding banks were closed.
Therefore, the students had to
wait another day to take care
of his business. Clark wake
up and straighten up!
Students are not going to
stand for anymore injustices.
Yearbooks on the Way
Invasion of Privacy
BY JAKI BUCKLEY
Panther Staff Writer
A memo given to all
residents residing in the Clark
College Courts announced as
one of its Do’s, “Look forward
to monthly housekeeping
checks by resident.’director.”
Recently, such a house check
was administered. Upon enter
ing one apartment, the director
immediately noticed that the
carpet needed shampooing, a
light fixture needed repairing,
and the thermostat needed ad
justing.
When the resident of the
apartment asked the director
about the nature of the checks,
the director responded that the
check was to make sure the
students hadn’t removed
furniture or purposely
damaged the walls, floors, win
dows, etc. This was fine
because it gave the residents a
chance to show the director ac
tual problems. However, the
house check did not end at this
point.
The director proceeded to the
bedroom closets and carefully
viewed the insides.
Closets, somehow seem as
personal as refrigerators and
ovens. Only those who are in-
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It is an unending cycle
which cannot place the total
weight on one individual. The
advisor, the editor and the
staff were all caught up in the
vicious cycle one way or
another as it turned over and
over and over again.
“We will never pass this way
again” was the theme for the
1978-79 yearbook. What
Happened? What causes a
book to be late?
Unforessen mishaps in
terms of late, stolen and mis
placed pictures, missed
deadlines, lack of com
munication between advisor,
staff, photographers, and the
absence of the assistant editor
delayed the production of the
1978-79 Panther yearbook.
BY GAY-LYNN
GATEWOOD
Panther Yearbook Editor
Give this years staff a
chance to produce Volume 111.
Volume 110 will arrive at
Clark no later than January. It
is in its final stages. It will be
your Christmas or New Year’s
gift. It is an inconvenience to
you all? Yes, I am sorry. Is it a
heavy burden on this years
editor and staff? Please
understand and relieve some
of the tension for we will never
pass this way again.”
Unorganized meetings also
carried an extreme amount of
weight on the incompletion of
the Panther Yearbook Volume
110.
The staff participated in the
meetings at the beginning of
the first semester, but as
unorganized meetings
lengthen the staff diminished.
Is there hope for the Panther
1980, Volume 111? YES! This
is a new school year, a
relatively new staff and we all
are on the edge of a new
decade. Please let this years
staff be> creative, exercise our
dreams, execute our hopes, and
distribute our plans for the
new Panther. For 1979-80 is a
new school year so please let us
operate as a new staff.
Mishaps do happen
unorganization can caus*
turmoil, but an advisor, ai
ed itor and a staff must learn t<
function in the midst of reality
This year I can honestly say
we are “Stalking . .. Destiny”
and will never pass this way
again.”
Students dissatisfied with FAO
BY LORI F_ FORD
Panther Staff Writer
Headaches, disputes and
long lines are what a student
can expect to encounter on any
normal day in the Financial
Aids Office (FAO) at Clark.
The office is open to students
only 27 hours each week when
it should be open for 40hours a
week. Is it really necessary for
this office to be closed so fre
quently when it has 2000
students to serve?
When a student goes to the
FAO he or she is seeking
answers to his or her ques
tions. Yet, the student will
probably not receive a prompt
answer if he gets one at all. The
vited open such com
partments. Perhaps however,
the director believes there is no
such moral as privacy. Clark
College has a right to the
personal items of all its
students-closets included.
What can a student do about
this situation - virtually noth
ing that would render positive
action against further in
vasion of privacy acts.
FAO will give the student one
of several replies: We cannot
find that form, Are you sure
you filled an application out?,
Are you enrolled in school at
Clark because we have no file
on you in this office? And of
course the all too frequent, I’m
sorry there is nothing we can
do for you.
I am not saying that a
student is always right and the
FAO is always wrong but I am
willing to predict that it is a
discrepancy on the part of the
FAO 99 3/4% of the time.
It seems like the FAO should
improve over the years but its
standards have not changed
any since my freshman year.
The FAO is open to serve
students less than in previous
years but the staff still does not
seem caught upon all the
procedures of the office.
Students, we all have
suffered at the hands of the
FAO once or twice a semester
since coming to Clark but this
does not mean that we must
continue to suffer. The 60’s
was the decade of change and
a time when men and women
stood and defended their
rights. I want the 80’s to be as
the 60’s - progressive and full
of improvements for students
at Clark as well as advances
for the rest of the world.
Students must stand again
and demand that their rights
and grievances be heard and
answered adequately in: “very
area of their lives.
Petition for Jacque
BY MICHAEL S_ BAILEY
Panther Staff Writer
A group of student leaders at
Clark College are drafting a
petition calling for channel
five of Atlanta to put demoted
black anchorwoman Jacque
Maddox back on the 6 p.m. and
the 11 p.m. news.
Proteges For Leadership, a
group of selected students on
Clark’s campus who are being
trained to be leaders, are call
ing for all students in the
Atlanta University Center to
sign petitions that will be
circulating within the week in
an effort to put Ms. Maddox
back on the evening news
shows.
Proteges is not really
concerned as to why Ms. Mad
dox was demoted. The group is
only interested in the fact that
Ms. Maddox is no longer on the
air in the evening when most
people, especially black people,
are at home and they want to
see her anchoring the evening
news again very soon.