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Volume II Number XVI
Atlanta, Georgia
October 9, 1991
Beckwith Receives National Recognition
By LaKesha Gage
Contributing Writer
Clark Atlanta University's
new $5.5 million graduate
dormitory will receive nationwide
publicity when featured in the
November 1991 award issue of the
American School and University
Architectural Portfolio.
CAU is the first Atlanta
University Center school to have a
campus dormitory featured in the
largest compilation of educational,
award-winning structures in the
United States.
The award issue features
projects completed since Jan. 1,
1989 and those under contract for
construction on or before Sept.l,
1991.
Beckwith graduate
dormitory, located at 700 Beckwith
St., S.W., is a co-ed housing facility
which consists of approximately 61,
500 square feet of brick and concrete
construction.
With three floors and a
partial basement level, the large
scale construction houses 225
students in a total of 150
bedroom units with suite
bathroom facilities. Twelve of
the bedroom units are specially
designed to accommodate
handicapped students.
To qualify for
consideration for this award,
entries must be submitted by
registered architects and
approved for competition. Once
selected, a jury of architects
and educators appointed by the
Beckwith Dormitory
Committee on Architecture for
Education vote and select
projects for publication.
Alan Pinado, director of
the CAU Real Estate Institute,
along with Alvin Moddelmog,
assistant to President Thomas
W. Cole Jr., worked on the
university team along with the
architects to construct the new
housing u nit.
Moddelmog explained,
"CAU has had a long range plan
to modernize and upgrade the
buildings and dormitories on
campus." He added that the
university made a conscious effort
to employ as many minority
businesses as possible. The analysis
of minority business participation
showed a subcontract value total of
$3.56 million to a total of 17 Black
owned businesses.
Brown Design and
Associates (BDA), project architect
Aiah Emanuel Pessima explained,
"BDA was commissioned to design a
new dormitory to help ease the acute
student housing shortage for a
growing number of graduate
students, so we developed a design
that retained elements of
residential architecture and the
historic character of the immediate
surroundings."
BDA, a Black owned
architectural, planning, and
interior designing firm, will receive
a monetary award and a
commemorative plaque for their
winning design-
continued on page 3
CAU Shows Unity;
Houses Homeless Spelmanites
By Tonya Latimer
News Editor
Due to a housing shortage, six
Spelman College women moved into Clark
Atlanta University’s Bumstead-Ware
dormitory on Sept. 19.
According to Dr. Freddye Hill, dean
of students at Spelman College, the
institutions in the Atlanta University
Center (AUC) have always consulted each
other when any of the institutions
experienced a housing problem. However,
they were never successful in securing extra
housing space.
Dr. Hill attributes their housing
shortage to a larger freshmen class then
expected. "We considered renting
apartments for students, but after housing
all freshmen on-campus, we had only a few
upperclassmen without housing. I met with
CAU's vice president of business and
finance, Donald Murphy, to see if they had
a few spaces to allow Spelman students to
use."
CAU's dean of students and
associate provost. Dr. Larry Earvin, said,
"After we were certain that the students who
wanted to live on campus were
accommodated, the spaces were made
available for Spelman students."
Thus, Dr. Hill said it was agreed
upon that the students would live on CAU's
campus for this semester and next semester
if needed.
CAU's housing director, Jerry
Randolph, said that CAU is no longer
experiencing a housing problem for
females.
He said. "The reason we had
available spaces is because of the students
who did not show to claim their rooms.
And Spelman was able to benefit from it.”
In addition, he explained that CAU was the
only one in the AUC that had extra space.
In addition. Dr. Earvin said, ’We
were fortunate to make approximately 600
spaces available to our students."
According to Randolph, there are
still empty beds in Bumstead-Ware Hall, but
basically all other dormitory facilities are
full. 'We're not asking that our students
stay for free," said Dr. Hill. She explained
that Spelman is paying CAU and in return
the Spelman students are paying Spelman
through their tuition and fees.
She continued to explain how this is
a 'win-win' situation. "If those rooms are
not used, they (CAU) will lose money. This
is lost revenue that helps keep the dorms
clean, heated, and pays for meals and
services." said Hill. We know how it feels to
have empty beds, because we've experienced
it before."
Dr. Hill said that CAU will have to
pay for the operation of the building,
whether the rooms are occupied by CAU or
Spelman students. "The building is
financed on a budget based on full
occupancy." said Dr. Earvin. 'Therefore,
we’re helping them and they're helping us at
the same time."
Randolph said, "Overall CAU
students have taken this living
arrangement very well."
However, there are a few students
who are opposed to the idea of sharing space
with Spelman students.
Patrice Hubert, a junior at CAU, is
circulating a petition to have the women
removed from the campus. However, she
stated that she jmows administration we I't
continued on page 3
THE INSIDER
Mishap at Morehouse
page 4
The Rape Debate
page 5
Students react
page 7
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Entertainment
page 8
CAU Beats Fort Valley
page 10
Solving the Jinx
page 11