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Vol. XXXII, No. 8
AN ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER INSTITUTION
APRIL 11, 1980
BY JOYCE N. CALDWELL
Panther Staff Writer
Attention everyone, for the
Eighth Annual Spring Arts Fes
tival is steadily approaching.
“There will be something for
everyone’s tastes and interests,”
said Dr. Florence Robinson,
Director of the Music
Department and Humanities
Division at Clark College.
Workshops, jazz forums, and
concerts are just some of the ac
tivities scheduled during the fes
tival for your enjoyment as well
as educational experiences. All
departments at Clark College
have contributed in someway to
the completion of this festival.
"It will be a very full six weeks.
The festival has expanded
greatly,” said Dr. Robinson. Its
completion was the end of April,
but now it lasts through May.
Following are the events that
will occur at the festival, which is
scheduled March 23 through
May 4 at Clark College.
The Clark College Symphony
Band will perform at the vivian
Wilson Henderson Gym, 6 p.m.
on March 23. A faculty recital is
scheduled for March 27, at 6 p.m.
Clark College Senior Art
Exhibit, is significant to the Art
Department, because of the
students’ eagerness to share
their creative experiences with
the Clark College family and
'community. The display will in
clude paintings, scu Ipture, crafts,
prints, and photographs done by
seniors such as Floyd Atkins,
Deborah Colling, Ronald Young,
and Patricia Jones. View this dis
play scheduled for the month of
April.
WCLK will boost their Sixth
Annual Birthday Celebration
with a week long celebration of
events. Open House (April 7)
extends an invitation to the
public to come and view the
facilities of the Mass Com
munications department, in
cluding WCLK. For your en
joyment, a jazz concert is to be
held in behalf of WCLK.
Proceeds from this concert will
go to the station.
A film forum is scheduled to
show the relationship between
jazz and musicians. That
evening, WCLK in conjunction
Cable Atlanta To Provide 95 Channels
And Involve Community Programming
BY SHERRY JONES
Panther Entertainment Editor
and
BENJAMIN LUMPKIN
Panther Feature Editor
It will be the most com
prehensive cable system found
anywhere in the world, an
alternative to what we are seeing
on commercial television, ac
cording to John Haynes, one of
the five panelists who discussed
the topic, “Cable Television in
Atlanta: The Possibilities,”
March 11 in Room 201 of the
McPheetus - Dennis Building at
Clark College.
Haynes told an audience of ap
proximately 60, that the new
cable system which will start in
about two months, is interested
in people using television
instead of television using
people.
The new cable system, to be
completed by February 1984,will
give Atlanta communities the
chance to get involved in com
munity programming and public
access shows.
“Cable Atlanta will provide 95
channels to various homes and
institutions," explained Haynes,
"Fifty-four channels will be for
home subscribers and 41
institutional channels to be used
by the police and fire
departments, schools, hospitals
and the like.”
Cable Atlanta will give Atlan
tans a broader viewing choice for
the same price many systems are
charging for 11 to 35 channels.
For $8.50 a month, subscribers
will have access to 54 channels of
full service cable television.
Ten channels will be provided
for individuals desiring to be on
television (with worthwhile mes
sages) and those wanting new
sources of information and
opinions about their com
munity.
It will include community and
public access programming,
high school sporting events,
opinions from area residents,
government and educational
channels.
All of Atlanta’s television
stations will be included in the
home subscriber network. In ad
dition, there will be three “super
stations” from San Francisco,
Chicago and New York.
Other features will provide
instructive, commercial free and
violence free children program
ming, all news channels, a black
entertainment channel, all sports
channels, old movie channels,
weather and other information.
The Entertainment and Sports
Programming Network (ESPN)
and the Madison Square Garden
Sports Network will carry
exclusive sports broadcasting at
no additional charge.
On a da ily basis, ESPN will offer
24 hours of sports. It includes
gymnastics, NCAA basketball,
swim meets, and yacht racing.
The Madison Square Garden
Network covers NHL hockey,
wrestling, track, NBA basketball,
pro boxing, tennis, dog and
horse shows.
Ted Turner’s brainchild,
“Cable News Network, (CNN)
scheduled to began broad
casting in June, will provide 24
hours of up to date news with
featu res, sports, on the spot news
- - “everything to inform and
give you news while its news, and
not history,” according to a
video presentation by CNN
panelist, Susan Korn .
Four channels will provide pay
TV service. Included will be
current feature films and foreign
language programming.
Premium seivice will be
available to Atlanta cable
television subscribers for an ad-
Continued on page 12
with the Jazz Forum of Atlanta is
conducting a jazz film entitled,
“Passing Through,” at Colony
Square.
Terry Cobb, WCLK Station
Manager, is proud to
acknowledge WCLK’s First An
nual Communications
Conference. Five workshops
pertaining to news, sales,
management, public affairs, and
promotions are scheduled dur
ing the conference. Professional
media people throughout
Atlanta will highlight the dis
cussions.
Clark College’s English
Department jointly with Emory
University will sponsor the
Writer’s Workshop. James
Baldwin, writer and social critic,
will begin the opening session,
which is scheduled March 21. A
panel discussion entitled "In
sight to the Humanities through
Literature,” will take place.
Panelists participating are Hoyt
Fuller, editor and publisher of
New World; Alice Lovelace,
creative writer and Bronze
Jubilee Awards winner; and
shirley Franklin, an arts ad
ministrator. Each panelist will
discuss writing from his or her
point of view.
A Creative Competition Ses
sion is scheduled during the
workshop. This segment of the
workshop is open to high school
students and college students.
This session will include
competition in drama of one act
plays, short stories, poetry, and
essay.
Dr. Sylvia Utterback, Religion
. instructor, will give a lecture,
“Living Poetically,” showing the
relationship between life,
religion, and art. She will attempt
to indicate ways a non-artistic
person can live poetically.
Continued on page 12
One of several Clark College senior’s artwork being exhibited in
the Marquis L. Harris Library. (Photo by Dennis D. Burns)
Spring Arts Festival
To Be A Pippin of Jazz,
Symphony And Song
