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NEWS
April 2, 1993
Vandalism in Simon Courts raises underlying
issue about residential staff's effectiveness
By Jenel Williams residential staff.
Assistant News Editor > A resident, who prefers to
. remain anonymous for fear of
E.L. Simon Courts donni-t 'loosing her housing, said, "The
toiy director Eddie Richardsorr'
was the victim of brick throw
ing vandals.
The act moved the Simon
Courts residential staff to call
a mandatory meeting Feb. 24.
The issue was said to be of
such importance that any
resident not in attendance
would have their visitation
rights suspended from March
1 through March 7.
During the meeting, a CAU
police officer informed resi
dents of the seriousness of the
crime, slating that throwing
bricks can result in a jail term
of two to three years.
Some residents say that the
brick throwing incident and
other crimes in the courts ex
ist because of the lack of
visibility and concern by the
reason for the problems in the
courts stems from residents
knowing that they can get away
with murder and the directors
would not give a damn. They
are busy with each other.”
There was some confusion
among residents as to what
the meeting tried to accom
plish.
"The meeting accomplished
nothing, "saidRichard Stewart.
“ I don't think they ever found
out who did it anyway,” he
said.
Kojo Linder said, “ The only
reason 1 went was because
they would have taken my
visitation away. When you try
to reach a resident director no
one answers their phones,
but when something happens
to one of them they have a
mandatory meeting.”
Another resident, who wished
to remain anonymous, said he
was victimized in the courts on
several occasions last year. He
lost more than $2,000 worth of
property and received no assis
tance from the residential staff
when he alerted them about his
problem.
He said he questioned
Richardson as to why no other
courts crimes have been ad
dressed, "I won’t be returning to
the courts next semester and 1
wouldn't suggest that anyone
move there," he said.
Shena Leverett said "I don’t
believe that it would have been
an issue if it had been anyone
else’s window."
Kimberly Henderson said,
"The only thing the meeting
accomplished was to let people
know that you can steal from
everyone in the Courts except for
Mr. Richardson.”
Panther staff wins award
Chandra Thomas Jayme L. Bradford
This year has been
prosperous for the
Panther Newspaper
staff.
Chandra R Tho
mas, Lifestyles/Enter
tainment Editor, since
her freshman year,
won first place in the
1993 Southern Re
gional Press Institute
42nd Annual Feature
Writing Competitionin
the university division.
Jayme L. Bradford,
News Editorand four-
yearstaffer, won second place in
this category. Danni Conner,
Managing Editor, also won first
place in photography. This is
Conner's first year on the staff.
The awards were presented to
them from Savannah State Col
lege.
Bradford was also awarded a
$2500 Poynter scholarship from
the St Petersburg Times, where
sheintemedlastsummerthrough
the National Association of Black
Jounalists (NABJ]. This scholar
ship is renewable through doc
toral studies in journalism. In
addition, she won a $500 schol
arships from the Atlanta Press
Club, the Society of Professional
Journalists (SPJ) and the Atlanta
Assoc, of Black Journalists, con
secutively.
NABJ awarded
her a $2500 schol
arship and she is
president of the new
campus chapter.
Angela Fry.
Sports Editor and
Spelman student
was awarded an ed-
itingintemship from
Dow Jones at the
Hartford Courcmt in
Conn. She also re
ceived a SPJ schol
arship and is vice
president of CAU’s
chapter.
Lakesha Gage, former Editor-In-
Chief, was named a Chips Quinn
scholar, which includes a $1000
scholarship and internship in
Florida. She also received a $5000
scholarship earlier this year from
Reader’s Digest
Dionne Lang, staff writer, was
awarded a three-month internship
in media relations at Atlanta's
Coca Cola USA
$3 million grant to expand international programs
By Nicole McMillan
Contributing Writer
A $3 million grant from
the W.K. Kellogg Founda
tion was given to Clark At
lanta University in efforts to
help establish a School of
Public and International
Affairs and to reinforce pro
grams in international edu
cation.
The grant was awarded
in January and will be used
over three years as part of a
$30 million initiative to de
velop broad academic pro
grams at 10 historically
black colleges.
The other colleges and
Universities include Fisk
University, Florida A&M
University, Hampton Uni
versity, Howard University,
North Carolina A&T State
University, Tuskegee Uni
versity, Xavier University ,
Morehouse College and
Spelman College.
Norman A. Brown, presi
dent of the Kellogg Founda
tion, said the colleges
awarded the grant that have
shown excellence in teach
ing and research.
“They are playing a key
role in meeting society’s
growing demand for diver
sity in leadership and pro
fessions," he said.
Half of the grant will be
used to build a School of
Public and International Af
fairs at CAU. The other half
will be used to upgrade sev
eral international programs
at the university.
Tanya McGee, a sopho
more at CAU said, “ I think
this program will make it
possible for students to
actually become fluent in a
specific language. A lot of
times students study a lan
guage but can’t use it be
cause they don’t know any
thing about the culture and
don’t develop an interest."
Many students at the
university feel that this grant
and the improved programs
will greatly benefit students
as well as the university.
This new school will be
completed by the 1993 Fall
semester. Within the school,
the students will learn exten
sively about other cultures.
It will enable them to be
come bilingual, culturally sen
sitive, and more aware, said
Dr. Shelby Lewis, associate
vice president of research
and sponsored programs.
Staff Writer and
Nicole McMillan
Contributing Writer
pation and student awareness about the organization.
According to SGA reports, the problems with the Spring of
university," said Charles Elliot, graduate CAUSGA president
Elliot said that anyone who anticipates running for an office
must be committed. “If I were to run again 1 would try to get
more graduate students involved,” he said.
According to sophomore class president. Caren Cloud, less
than 100 students voted from the sophomore class out of800.
She also said that the elections need to be more publicized by
candidates and student activities.
“ It’s sad, but Clark Atlanta seems to be the only school in the
AUC where student leaders have to be forced to participate in
their own student government," said Cloud.
High Judiciary officer, 1991-92, Narviar Griffin said she
should have done more while serving her position. However,
she recognizes more student needs and intends to run again.
“SGA needs to have a greater impact on student life. There is a
lack of programs about African American independence and
successiul alumni,” said Griffin.
According to Beverly Richardson, former fh'shman class
president and senate member, CAU’s administration needs to
boost upour political system and whatit stands for, so there can
be more participation.
“The advantages of holding an office gave me more information
about the inside politics of CAU as well as other major black
institutions," she said.
Richardson also said the greatest impact she made while in
officewasvoidngher opinion aboutschool problems to establish
a change.
“Besides there not being enough knowledge of what SGA is,
candidatesneedtostopemphasiidnghomecomingandstoengthen
more of the immediate issues of the university." she said.
Richardson said she thinks that our campus queen is seen as
more important to students than their government body. “1
would like to run again in the future on the condition that the
SGA is more professional and taken more seriously by the
student body and administration. ”
According to Jamal Coleman, SGA undergraduate vice
president, there is a need for improvement. He said he was
interested in programs that incorporate more student involve
ment. Coleman said, “The problems with past candidates
Michele Rhodes, CAUSGA advisor said information about
the candidates is not available, but campaigning will start in
early April.
The Miss CAU Pageant is tentatively scheduled for Apr. 16
in the gym. She also said that all information wil be disclosed
soon.
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Graduate stuent, LaNisha
Thomas said, "I think the con
solidation parties involved
looked at the student at the
end of the four years as op
posed to looking at the student
each of the four years. I think
they had long range goals and
short range objectives that did
not necessarily coincide with
getting the students from step
to step."
“It’s not clear to students the
changing role of CAU. The
merger created a multiple ef
fect This has given the univer
sity what it needs to meet the
changing needs of the stu
dents. This university is a
multiversity, not a university
because of its increasing role."
said Dr. Bota.
’ ’President Cole has done a lot
to help the music department.
There are some problems on
down with taking care of the
little people, said senior, music
education major, Vickie Craft.
According to Dr. Cole, stu
dents are First Foremost and
Fantastic. “I think there are a
lot of faculty and staff mem
bers, who arenotpushingveiy
hard for students. I think stu
dents should be viewed as their
number one priority. It should
be reflected In our attitudes
and the decisions we make.
WeVe got some ways to go,” he
said.
Dr. Cole also said if students
encounterofficesandindividu-
als are not treating them with
respect theyshouldnotifyhim.
“Give me names and not this
lady in that office,”’ he said.