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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 Paae 2 PERSONALS Paae 5 CAU Beat Paae 6 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.