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Clark Atlanta
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PANTHER
Volume II Number X Atlanta, Georgia January 30, 1991
USA Goes To War
PHOTO BY HENRIETTA SPEARMAN
Students protest at an anti-war rally on the steps of the Georgia Capitol building.
Reserve Calls CA U Students
By TONYA LATIMER
News Editor
At least seven Clark Atlanta
University students have
withdrawn from school to fight
for the liberation of Kuwait in
the Middle East.
According to Mark Mar
shall, director of Veterans
Affairs, all of the students were
undergraduates and only two
of them were women. How
ever, there is a good possibility
that there are more than seven
CAU students in the Middle
East because all of them did not
have to come through Mar
shall.
1 am not involved in the
withdrawl process. It is only a
courtesy for them to call and let
me know that they are leaving,”
said Marshall. He added that
he wouldn’t have any knowl
edge of those who left during
the Christmas holidays or those
who dealt strictly with the
registrar’s office during the
withdrawl process.
However, there were two
students who left whose
absence could not be over
looked, especially during the
football season. Kelvin Allen
and Anterius King, first-string
players for the CAU Panthers
football team, were called to
duty after the team’s first game.
According to head football
coach Willie Hunter, the team
suffered tremendously this
season because of the two
student’s absence. He stated
that the team’s record was 4-6,
but could have easily been 7-3
with they guys’ help.
Hunter said that the loss of a
strong offensive guard, such as
King, cut into the team’s depth.
He added that this really hurt
the offensive team.
According to Hunter, King
had just started hustling
because he had just decided
that he really wanted to play
football. “We didn’t have
many guys on defense of
quality to began with, which
caused us to have to play the
guys on reserve when players
got hurt.”
Hunter heard from the
players twice and they were
doing fine. “The coaching staff
and the players are praying that
our young boys return home
without any injury or death,”
said Hunter.
The football team also has
three other players in the
reserves who may be called to
duty anytime now: Steve
McClardy, Leo Barr and
Charles Evans.
Dwight Calhoun, a member
of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity,
Inc., is among the many
African American students in
the Middle East. Calhoun’s
faternity brother, Maddix
Moore, stated, “Unfortunately
his being over there is a result of
his trying to get an education.”
Like many of the students in
the military, Calhoun joined
the reserves as a means of
geting an education. Moore
stated, “I find it sad that a
person has to join the military
to go to school in the so-called,
richest country in the world,
when people in Kuwait don’t
pay to go to school.”
Senetria Moore, a member
of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority,
was one of the two CAU
women called to duty.
However, unlike most, she was
able to come back to visit prior
to leaaving. Moore was in
Atlanta the day the first shot
was fired in the Middle East,
which was a sure sign that she
would have to go soon.
Robin Winston, financial aid
counselor and Moore’s sorority
sister, said, “We are all
remorseful that she has to go,
but we are praying for peace
and few casualties.”
“We have never had to deal
with students leaving school to
fight a war, therefore, we have
to come up with brand new
rules and procedures to deal
with the situation,” said
Marshall. He added that he
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By TONYA LA TIMER
News Editor
As families watched televi
sion or sat at the dinner table,
the United States waged war,
about 7p.m. Jan. 16 with
hundreds of air attacks against
Iraqi military bases.
“The world could wait no
longer,” President Bush said at
a press conference two hours
after the invasion. He added
that while the world prayed for
peace, Saddam Hussein, Iraqi
president, prepared for war.
He went to say that the
“American soldiers will not
have to fight with their hands
tied behind their backs.”
Daytime attacks by U.S.,
Britain, French and Kuwait
forces were also reported as
part of what was once Desert
Shield, but is now called
Operation Desert Storm.
According to reports of the
attack, over 100 Iraqi bases
were targeted and almost all
were hit or destroyed during
the air attack which began 20
minutes before 3 a.m. Iraqi
time and lasted more than three
hours. All U.S. planes that
participated returned to their
bases or were accounted for, so
no American casualties were
reported for the nighttime
attack.
The only allied force to have
been hit is the French, who had
four planes hit by Iraqi
anti-aircraft devices All
returned to their bases.
However, complete damage
reports are unconfirmed, but
they say all chemical and
nuclear plants in Iraq were hit
and all Iraqi scud missiles were
destroyed.
Hussein broadcast on Iraqi
radio and said, “On the 17th
day of January, the great
hypocrite struck.” It is unsure,
however, whether the message
was pre-recorded before actual
fighting began or even if the
message was Hussein or
somone speaking in his name.
A Washington Post flash
poll taken of 545 adults across
the United States in the few
hours after the first.strike
showing that 76 percent
approved of Bush’s actions,
while 22 percent disapproved.
Only two nations have
spoken out against the attack,
North Korea and Cuba, both of
whom have a history of
disagreement with the United
States.
Reports have also come in
claiming that Kuwait and
Saudi Arabian air forces took
part in the first attack.
Nevertheless, the U.S. sees
the war as necessary. “Our goal
is not the conquest of Iraq.”
Bush said. “It is the liberation
of Kuwait.”
AKAs Sponsor Student Forum
By CYDNEY WILLIAMS
Managing Editor
Davage Auditorium was filled to near capactiy. It eerily
resembled the angry meeting that occurred after the death of
Duane Goodman last fall. This time, among the topics was the
possible death of millions of young African American menjust
like Goodman.
Atlanta University Center students gathered recently to
express their views on the situation in the Persian Gulf at a
forum sponsored by the ladies of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority,
Inc. Alpha Pi Chapter and the Philosopy and Ethics Club. The
discussion ran the gamut — from student activism to
patriotism, but the emphasis was clearly on world issues.
Various views were shared by students and faculty members
on the issue of the crisis in the Middle East. The tone in Davage
Auditorim became still and quiet as Dr. Fahed Abu-Akel, a
Christian Palestinian Arab, told of his personal experiences in
war as a youngster of four, growing up 25 miles northwest of
the city of Nazareth.
“I was going with my father, five sisters, and two brothers,”
he began. “The scene I will never fo r get is going with my father
and my mother standing on top of the roof and not coming with
us.
Dr. Abu-Akel referred to being a young boy and being closer
to his mother more than anyone else, “So I can see it just like a
television screen, leaving my home and she standing not
coming with us,” he added.
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