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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. t-SS is V- Sr r Senior dies in storm during spring break Trina Adel Fink INSIDE News Student elections lack enthusiasm page 2 Editorial U.S. involvement in Somalia. page 3 Lifestyles/ Entertainment Climbing The Ladder. page 4 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." d generate a SEE LOOK, Page 2