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Clark Atlanta University Panther
October 9, 1991
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THE PANTHER
Staff Members
Sheryl Kennedy
Editor-in-Chief
Tonya Latimer
News Editor
William Blackburn
Editorial Page Editor
Veronica Fields
Entertainment Editor
Anthony George
Sports Editor
Kesha Moorefield
Copy Editor
KeenanThomas
Graphic Designer
Ann Wead Kimbrough
Advisor
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GENERAL INFORMATION
The Panther is an official student publication of Clark
Atlanta University. No items published in the Panther
may be reproduced or used in any form without the
written permission of the Editor and Advisor.
The ideas expressed on the editorial page are the
opinions of the individual authors and do not reflect the
ideas of the university or Panther staff.
The Panther's mailing address is Panther Newspaper,
Clark Atlanta University, James P. Brawley Drive at Fair
Street, S.W. , P.O. Box 329, Atlanta, Georgia 30314 or call
880-8647 for inquiries. The Panther office is located in
the Mass Media Arts Building. Meetings are held every
Tuesday at noon in room 120 in the Mass Media Arts
Building.
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Wednesdays. Copies of the Panther can be found at the
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200 words or less, typed and doubled spaced. All
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The deadline for all announcements is the Friday before
publication by 5 p.m. Announcements will appear in the
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Panther to announce events, but will have to purchase
advertisement space and meet the advertisement
deadline.
The Panther reserves the right to edit for clarity,
length, grammar and reject announcements that we
deem inappropriate.
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Yo, Officer You're Making A
Big Mistake
By William Blackburn
Editorial Page Editor
Now the pistol packin',
gunslinging, certified in one hour
security guards have really done it this
time. Yeah, those Jesse James wannabees
dressed up in those babydoll uniforms
have totally messed up this time.
Shooting at students. Unbelievable.
Killing a fellow security guard. What
ignorance.
But we can't say we didn't see it
coming. The security guards throughout
the AUC seem to think that they are
licensed police officers with a RoboCop
mentality. The tragic incident that
happened at Morehouse over the weekend
is not confined to the campus over there
on Westview Drive. Every campus in the
AUC has security guards with identical
personalities. All of them think they are
modern day James Bond’s .' As though
the theme from ’Shaft’ followed their
every footstep. Walking around the
campus as though they control you, me
and every other student on the grounds.
They're so tough when it comes to dealing
with students but couldn’t stop an
intruder even if he surrendered to them.
Obviously, there is a
communication problem between
students, security and the
administration. Because I know that the
administration would never give security
the O.K. to shoot at a student. At least I
hope not. If any security guard cannot
protect the campus and himself from a
student without drawing his or her gun
then he or she needs to find employment
elsewhere. If we as students cannot feel
safe within the own compounds of our
campus then something is definitely
wrong. True enough, some students can
be rowdy at times but is death a suitable
punishment? I don't think so. I'm sure no
parent wants to get a phone call saying
that their child was gunned down by a
trigger happy campus security guard. And
I'm sure that the administration doesn't
want to make that phone call.
Everywhere I turn nowadays I see
a police car with the name of a AUC
institution drawn on its side. I even saw
one car down on Northside Drive. Now
what that security guard was doing down
there I don't know but I hope no student
on that campus was in any danger. For
some reason I believe that the AUC
security guards don't really know the
rules and limitations of their duties and
until they do incidents like the one at the
Morehouse Stadium won't be a rarity.
It's been said that a 'Nig _ _ with a
badge is Black peoples worse enemy' but
maybe a 'Nig without a badge is even
worse.'