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May 1, 1993
Editorial
Page 5
Guns And Weapons
Destroying
Youth
Flushed Down The Drain
By Tara Gunter
Editorial Editor
The gun buy back pro
gram is one of the best solu
tions the Southern Chris
tian Leadership Conference
has developed to curb the
nonsensical violence that
plagues and claims too many
young black lives.
In this day and age, many
black organizations, like
SCLC are realizing that it is
not drastical measures, like
the seven day waiting pe
riod, that are bringing about
positive results, but creative
ones.
So far SCLC has been
successful. They offered fifty
dollars for every gun turned
in and received over one-
hundred.
What is, perhaps, more
stunning than the response
SCLC has been receiving
however, are the ages that
carry the weapons. Twelve
and fourteen year olds are
toting 9mm and aiming them
at innocent and targeted vic
tims.
Has society become so
overburdened with taxes,
politics, and economic moti
vators, that we forgot how to
raise our kids morally right?
Times used to be that fights
never went beyond a black
eye or a broken nose and if
worse came to worse maybe
a pocket knife or a finger nail
file.
Nowadays everything is
settled with a 9mm or 38cali-
ber and even while such posi
tive strides are being made
by organizations like SCLC,
fourteen and sixteen year
olds are still dying at the
hands of nameless bullets.
They are dying over baseball
jackets, angry words and in
the case of sixteen year old—
seventy five hard-earned
dollars and a pair of expen
sive tennis shoes.
By Chandra R. Thomas
Lifestyles / Entertainment
Editor
Do the adjectives despi
cable, disgusting, indecent,
and repulsive ring a bell?
If not, obviously you have
never used the restrooms on
the Atlanta University Center
campus. Being an off-cam
pus student, I am forced daily
to (and I use the term strongly)
“use the facilities” on cam
pus. I am appalled by these
deplorable conditions. It
makes me wonder if my tu
ition money is being flushed
down the toilet. Here’s the
run down.
The Mass Communica
tions department
It’s pretty clean but don’t
try to wash your hands be
cause there’s four sinks, one
towel dispenser, and one soap
dispenser at one end of
thebathroom (yes, one).
If you’re handicapped or
wheelchair-ridden forget it.
One girl struggled for 15-min
utes ust to get in the door. It
took another five for her to
attempt to enter the stall.
Luckily, she was tall, so she
could wash her hands, but
the soap and towel dispenser
was just too high for her to
reach..
McPheeters Dennis
This one is cool if you’d like
an audience. There's no lock
on the door and anyone can
and will enter at their own
discretion. There’s never any
soap in there either.
Lane Dining Hall
(Morehouse College
Tigers this .brings a new
dimension to the word filthy
(putrid maybe). The floor is
rusty and there’s no toilet
paper (probably because it’s
busy stopping up the toilet).
The sign on the door reads
“Ladies”, but this place seems
only fit for animals-NOT!
Vivian Wilson Henderson
Gymansium
There’s three stalls; two
have doors and one locks.
You’ll probablly have to stand
in line for the two fit for use.
That is, unless you’re willing
to “face the nation.”
Robert W. Woodruff Library-
This one’s almost always
vacant. It’s pretty clean, but
there's no hook for your purse
or book bag.
Haven Warren
Surprisngly it’s very nice.
There’s adequate sinks and
towel dispensers and even a
nice little shelf to put your
books on. However, the win
dow is usually wide open,
offering passer-bys a peep
show.
Manley Center (Spelman
College)
This one’s a beauty. It’s
spacious and clean. There’s
great lighting and gorgeous
mirrors.
Sage Hall
It’s always neat and tidy.
Everything’s great except the
low window (facing
Morehouse College) that any
one, sane or deranged, could
climb into for a cheap thrill,
or worse- rape.
Well, who’s to blame? Did
students take the doors down
or fail to put hooks in the
bathroom? Did the faculty
forget to add enough soap
dispensers? Did bandits
manipulate the stalls so that
they are inaccessible to handi
capped patrons?
As students we can no
longer overlook these uncom
fortable conditions. We must
demand more quality facili
ties. Complain to the mainte
nance department and even
the president of your school.
Only we can stop our money
from going down the drain.
Rotating Editor-In-Chiefs
Tara C. Gunter and
Tiana Harrison
Managing Editor
Danni Conner
News Editor
Jayme L. Bradford
Editorial Editor
Tara C. Gunter
Lifestyles/Entertainment Editor
Chandra R. Thomas
Personals Editor
Tiana Harrison
News Assistant
Jenel Williams
Lifestyles/Entertainment Assistant
K.A. White
Copy Editors
Bridget Gray
K.A. White
Advertising Manager
Alex Waldron
Advisers
Ann Wead Kimbrough
Tom Hallman
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Volunteer:
Let’s Pull The AUC Together
Kenneth Burnett
AUC Students should feel it necessary to volunteer to help their people
in the West End and Vine City community. Why should you feel the need,
to come together with the surrounding community? Because the people of
the Vine City and West End area are a larger part of the AUC community.
We are all in the same situation as African-Americans and need to be
The larger society watches the AUC students. They sometimes view us
as “stuck-up”, self-centered, students who live here four years and tear-up
the neighborhood because we care nothing about the people living there. Is
this how we really think? I don’t think so.
Unfortnnatly, I know some of you do think this way, but most of us care
about our people. We don’t believe as college students we are better than
our fellow African-American brothers and sisters or our elders who may not
have as much formal education as us> Do we?
I don’t think so. We haven t forgotten that many'of our parents and
grandparents didn’t go to college either. As a majority, we AUC students
respect the people and the neighborhoods that we will be a part of for the
next 4 years. Contrary to the popular belief that the AUC is a island
separate from the larger community, we are only a small area of the West
How you can give of yourself? Volunteering is the best way to come
together with the community as a whole. Homeless Shelters are short
staffed and in despert need of good hearted people willing to give of
themselves. You can also volunteer to be a mentor for ktds.at the YMCA,
Boys and Girls Club, and day care centers
What are some of the ben lefts to volunteering? One assetiS a more
unified African-American community. The streets will be safer, because
people are less prone to rob or rape someone they see as a part of them.
Finally, nothing can compare to the good feeling you get from helping
someone, ichallangeyou to give of yourself to help unite your people. Ibis
