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XX Clark Atlanta University
Panther
Atlanta
Has The
"D.R.O.P."
On The
Film Industry.
CAU BEAT P. 5
VOLUME I No. 2
ATLANTA, GA
September 20, 1993
CAU Security Upgraded
By Malik Adams
Contributing Writer
After one year of service, Clark
Atlanta Uni versity ’ s new Depart
ment of Public Safety (D.O.P.S.)
continues to expand and upgrade
it’s employees, equipment, pa
trols, programs and capabilities.
The department’s staff has in
creased from 32 members to 46,
and may reach a new total of 54
by the end of the month.
“We have been approved to
hire eight additional Public Safety
Officers and we hope to have them
in place within the next two to
three weeks,” said Chief of Po
lice, Dana Scott.
According to Chief Scott, more
officers are needed to increase
patrols in the Bumstead and Ware
Hall areas, and to operate a new
24 hour security booth at Beckwith
and Brawley.
“This semester we started us
ing a golf cart to primarily keep a
constant mobile patrol unit around
the Bumstead, Beckwith, and
Ware Hall areas. We also use the
golf carts to escort students within
the main campus,” said Lieuten
ant Ernest Adams.
Plans are also underway to add
bike patrols and another patrol car
in order to increase the visibility
of the department.
In addition to the growth of the
quantity of staff members and pa
trols, Lt. Adams also thinks that
there has been a rise in quality.
“We are recognized as a law
enforcement agency with certified
police officers, continued Adams.
“The security guards of the previ
ous system only had to have four
hours of training and did not have
the power to arrest,” he said. ‘They
were phased out.”
‘The current police officers had
to graduate from a police academy
and must receive over 120 hours in
supplementary training per year,”
said Adams.
The newest branch of the
D.O.P.S. is the Safety Administra
tion Division. It is composed of a
Safety Administrator, Winston
Minor, and Safety Inspector, John
C. Williams.
“Mr. Minor and I are the
only Safety Administrators and
Inspectors within the entire At-
Band No Show At First Game
By Ytasha L. Womack
Contributing Writer
The sound of drums and trum
pets were fading thoughts during
the half time show at The Clark
Atlanta University and Morris
Brown Football Classic.
CAU band members anticipate
a negative student response to their
absence on September 6. “It has
been a tradition since 1927 for the
band to perform at the first game,”
said Sean Dunovan, drum major
and band member for three years.
“People have to understand that
with a new band leader and the
new problems we are dealing with
we just weren’t able to perform,”
continued Dunovan.
Band director Ivory Brock is
the first full time director of the
band program and a new member
of the CAU faculty.
“This is not an overnight pro
cess,” said Brock. “We’re trying
to evaluate and put the needs of the
program in place,” he continued.
One of the challenges facing
the band is the decision to limit the
band strictly to CAU students.
Previously, students from various
high schools and colleges could
participate.
This is CAU’s band not a com
munity band, said Brock. “We
have to be a student organization,”
he said.
In addition to administrative
changes, the hectic registration
schedule prevented the band from
having full practices. “Duringreg-
istration it was hard to get people
here until the week of the game,
said the director. “You can’t tell a
person they can’t register for school
because of practice,” he contin
ued.
Brock previously worked with
a number of bands, including the
Marshall State University Band in
Hampton, West Virginia, before
coming to CAU in July 1993.
“I know that in the end we’re
going to have one of the finest
bands in the country,” Brock said.
A Day To
Remember
CAU Students march in front of CAU/Morris
Brown’s bookstore last semester, protesting the
white management. Coordinated by the Grass
Roots Coalition. The students wanted a black
managment, and wanted them to employ more
students at the store.
INSIDE
Perspectives
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News You
Can Use
Compiled By Redelia Shaw
Staff Writer
WASHINGTON: According to the recent
release by the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT),
African American students scores remain at
the bottom. Although the 1993 test scores
remain disappointing, acurrentanalysis shows
African Americans making impressive gains
since the College Board begun
compilingethnic data in 1976.
On average, African Americans are placed
last at 741 points, behind the Indians, Mexi
can Americans and Puerto Ricans. African
Americans have gained 34 points since 1976,
more than any other ethnic group.
VIRGINIA: A black marine takes center
stage in the infamous Tailhook case. Refer
ring to the 1991 Las Vegas convention, dur
ing which, Navy and Marine flyers allegedly
forced military women to walk a gantlet where
their buttocks and breasts were grabbed by
men. Some of the women were forced to
undress in front of the men.
Lt. Paula Coughlin, who broke the scandal
last month, positively identified Capt. Bonam
as one of the men who molested her. Femi
nists complaining about the treatment of
women in the military
are revelling in the case. Bonam denies
involvement in the gantlet and says its a case
of mistaken identity.
TF.XAS: Gary Graham, a black inmate who
has evidence that he did not commit the 1981
murder of which he was convicted, has three
more weeks to live. A Texas Court of Crimi
nal Appeals ruling has given Graham at least
three more weeks to live before the state once
again tries to execute. His case has drawn
national attention because at least five people
have testified he was not the person who did
the shooting. However there are six others
who have sworn he was with them at the
party. The NAACP and several Hollywood
stars have come to Graham’s aid. Graham
says he is “confident his conviction will be
reversed.”
CALIFORNIA: “Kill her! Kill her!” en
couraged a crowd of teenagers as Stacey Lee
allegedly stabbed Dione Wells to death. The
incident occurred in a predominantly African
American section of Oakland, CA. Lee and
Wells reportedly fought after Lee confronted
her smoking crack in the hallway of Lee's
apartment building. A crowd of teenagers
gathered and reportedly shouted their ap
proval as Wells was stabbed to death. Lee has
justified her actions by claiming she was “fed
up" with drug use in her neighborhood.