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Volume V Number 7
Atlanta, Georgia
April 2, 1993
Betty Shabazz emphasizes education at Convocation
By Pierre Harris
StaffWriter
D r. Betty Shabazz, chal
lenged teachers to educate and
save black youth at Clark At
lanta University's Consolidation
Convocation.
She received an honorary doc
torate degree which concluded
the consolodation festivities on
Thursday, Mar 25.
Dr. Shabazz, widow of slain
black activist Malcolm X said,
“We have crippled our students
and young people. We’ve been
so busy dealing with racism
and discrimination that weVe
neglected to educate and raise
our children."
According to Shabazz, teach
ers must teach the youth to
resist destruction. 'We are a
great and honorable people.
We need to recognize that this
is a new day and we are respon
sible for preparing our youth for
the new day,” she said.
Dr. Shabazz also discussed
racism in America. "African
Americans are not the only
people to be discriminated
against and segregated, but
the prolonged 500 years that
we’ve had to endure it is defi
nitely longer than any other
group. We’ve mainly had equal
ity in theory and inequality in
practice. Even with all of the
hard work and accomplish
ments that we’ve made, equal
ity still eludes most of us.”
Violence, she said, has forced
herto decide notbealeader and
does not want to be one. “I saw
what they did to my husband,
who loved black people and took
their plight on as the cause of
his life. Butsome people said he
was racist and violent but the
only violence he was a part of
was his death.”
She said she was able to move
forward with her life because of
her husband’s Sage advice, "He
said'girl, when they kill me and
believe me they’re going to kill
me, I don’t want you to be like
lots of wives and keep turning
around and turn into salt. Stay
wholesome, stay strong, and
keep going.'"she said.
Dr. Shabazz is the Director of
Communications and Public Re
lations at Medgar Evers College
of City University in New York.
Dr. Betty Shabazz streesed the importance of educating black youth during
convocation.
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Senior dies in storm
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Trina Adel Fink
INSIDE
News
Student elections lack
enthusiasm
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Editorial
U.S. involvement in
Somalia.
page 3
Lifestyles/
Entertainment
Climbing The Ladder.
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Personals
A nearly fatal affair.
page 7
By Jenel Williams
Assistant News Editor
Awenty-one year old Clark
Atlanta University senior, Trina
Adel Frink, died from injuries
sustained in an auto accident
March 15th.
Frink was returning to At
lanta after spending the Spring
Break in Kentucky. While trav
eling down an icy Tennessee
Interstate her car slid off the
road. Another motorist offered
her a ride to the off-ramp. As
she made her way over, a pass
ing vehicle lost control on the ice
and hit her.
As a business education
major she was active in
severaldepartmental commit
tees. Classmatesandinstructors
said they remember Frink as a
creative and admirable stu
dent. She also worked part
time as a PBX operator at the
Holiday Inn.
Friend and classmate, Suzette
Spencer, said she got to know
Frink while working on group
projects in class.
She used her creativity to
help Spencer set up a bulletin
board still on display in the
Gym. “It was that same creativ
ity,” Spencer said,“that made
her a source of inspiration for
others.”
Frink’s roommate, Julie Elly
said,“She was a perfect room
mate and friend. She did so
much good on earth just think
of what she’ll do up there [in
heaven].”
A memorial service was held
Friday, March 19 at Providence
Baptist Church behind the
gym. The funeral service was
held the following Sunday In
Fink's hometown of McCray,
GA
Students take a revealing look at C AU
By LaKesha Gage
StaffWriter
M
any students say they want a revaluation of school policies.
Dr. Thomas W, Cole Jr., president of CAU and his administration.
“My role is kind of like the quarterback. The quarterback doesn’t win by himself. I
don’t know that I do anything in particular that does not require or involve someone
else,” Cole said. “My biggest problem Is getting everyone working together as a team.:
A few months ago some students walked out of classes and gathered in front of
Harkness Hall for a demonstration. One of the demonstrators yelled, “the president
talks of his so-called open door policy. Why are the doors closed now? Why are police
barricading the doors? We paid for this building, we pay salaries, why can’t we get in?"
In an interview, Dr. Cole stressed his open door policy, but quickly pointed out that
if students want to see him they have to let him know. “This (open door policy) does not
mean that a student can walk in off the street and I will stop what I’m doing. This is
not what they (students participating in the protest) did,” Dr. Cole said. “I heard the
rumor and I had some general idea of why (students were protesting) but none of the
students let me know. Just out of sheer respect, let me know and I will see them. There
is just a way to do things and I indicated that (to the students). It would not be fair to
me or appropriate to have a confrontation."
Many students feel the upperclassmen at the university are not doing their part to increase
school spirit. Ms. Thomas recalled her freshman orientation week gatherings when an
upperclassman stood up and gave a
together and loudly screamed, “CC.’
“This is something that CAU should require,” Favours said. It will bring more unity to the
school and give students a chance to be together in other ways than just standing on James P.
Brawley chillin'.”
According to Ms. Thomas, if you do not bond a group together when they come in then you
can’t build that bond retroactively. In 1993you can't say, ‘Okay let's try to get the class of 1993
to be a dose knit group,’ because it is simply too late.”
A step by step process, is what Dr. Kofi B. Bota, vice president for research and sponsored
programs, feels the university is going through.
“It’s a revolutionary process. In order for one to get there the process has to evolve. It can't
happen over night” Dr. Bota said. “All of the problems students talk about concerning
registration. ..they lie within financial aid. There are some problems with the university. Don’t
get me wrong, and if you (students) spent over three hours doing the process I’m sure it was a
financial problem.”
Junior mathematics major, Lincoln Ramsey thinks Dr. Cole can do much better. Ramsey
said, “CAU is all about the money. I’ve been here for three years and the registration process is
terrible. Many white schools have the phone-in registration, but at CAU, 'One Exceptional
University,' we have people driving 900 miles to find out the Financial Ad Department has lost
thdr paper work. It’s a damned shame when you walk outside and see somebody on the phone
crying, saying ‘they lost my papers.’ I will not be surprised to come back in the fall of ’93 to see
the same setup.”
Eric Paige, senior, business administration/management major,' feels that CAU is a good
school but more concentration should be placed on the needs of the students. “I’m happy, but
I’m not satisfied," he said. “The students should be informed. I’m complaining, but it’s gotten
to the point where I have not seen more for my money."
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