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October 25.
Volume I No. 6
Atlanta, GA
October 18, 1993/FREE
News
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Khandra DSad-Kobreon
News Assistant
SOUTH CAROLINA:
Hazing charges were
dropped against two
Citadel sophomores
accused of beating two
freshmen. The state’s
new anti-hazing law
applies only to hazing
that occurs during initi
ation into a campus
group.
LOUISIANA: Civil
charges claiming that
David Duke had accept
ed money from anony
mous donors during his
1991 campaign for gov
ernor were dismissed
Wednesday. Judge
William Brown said he
did not think the former
Ku Klux Klan member
had knowingly violated
the law.
NEW YORK: MTV
spokeswoman Carole
Rttinsm announced that
there will be no refer
ences to fire in future
episodes of “Beavis and
Butt-head” after two
blazes were set by chil
dren who investigators
believe were influenced
by the cartoon.
PHILADELPHIA*
The Phillies defeated
the Atlanta Braves to
become the 1993
National League
Champions.
SWEDEN:Karv
Mullis, a Georgia Tech
graduate, was awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize
for chemistry for dis
covering how to mass
produce DNA and
reprogram the genetic
code. He shares the
$825,000 award with a
University of British
Columbia graduate.
CAU Professor, Simama Lagging
In Polls
eveals Arrington Lead
Staff Photo
CAU Professor, Jabari Simama. According to a recent poll, two
thirds of Atlanta voters do not know who he is.
Recent
By Chandra R. Thomas
Features Editor
Atlanta City Council presi
dential candidate Jabari
Simama, is lagging in the
polls an Atlanta Journal-
Constitution and WSB-TV
poll reveals.
According to an article
featured in the Atlanta
Journal -Constitution,
Simama’s opponent, incum
bent Council President,
Marvin Arrington, leads the
race with 56 percent of the
vote. The poll showed that
if the election had been held
in late September, Simama
would have collected 14 per
cent of the vote.
The poll, conducted
September 25-27, included
638 likely voters with a mar
gin error of plus or minus
four percentage points.
Simama, a Mass Media
Arts professor at Clark
Atlanta University, was
expected to appeal to
Atlanta’s intellectual and
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cultural elitists. However,
this support has not material
ized.
Twenty percent of college
graduates have a favorable
opinion of Simama, only
slightly higher than the 12
percent favorability rating of
voters who have not com
pleted college. He received
positive ratings from 17 per
cent of those in households
with annual income of more
than $35,000.
According to the poll, two-
thirds of all Atlanta voters
don’t know who Simama is.
About 70 percent of likely
voters said they don’t know
enough about Simama.
Among those who do, black
women tended to have a
more favorable impression
of him.
Simama has been accused
of waging a negative cam
paign against his opponent,
accusing him of using his
elected position to draw
business to his highly-suc-
cessful law firm-what
Simam referred to as “the
Marvin Tax”
In a September article fea
tured in Creative Loafing
last month, Simama was
quoted as saying “...Marvin
Arrington is a self-serve
politician—he knows how
to serve himself, and
he’s being doing it
for 24 years.”
Young Urges Students
To Work For Opportunities
By Khcnda Wad Robhson
News Assistant
Andrew Young, former
Atlanta Mayor, was guest
speaker at the Opening
Convocation ceremonies
held on Tuesday October
12 in the Vivian Wilson
Henderson Gymnasium.
Young spoke of the reli
gious, educational, and
political struggles that
African-Americans have
had to endure, describing
them as “expressions of
our faith”.
Among those mentioned
was the Civil Rights
Movement which, Young
reminded the audience,
was partially led by col
lege students.
“You do not have to wait
until you leave here to give
leadership,” he said. “We
have got to move forward,
there’s no such thing as
standing still.”
In the past, blacks were
trained to serve, Young
said. , “I never heard the
word entrepreneur while I
was in college,” he said.
His previously served as
a United States Congressman
and Ambassador to the
United Nations.
Young said he could not
think of a better place in
Atlanta to build a founda
tion than here at CAU.
“What we’re offering
you in the educational
opportunities of this uni
versity is to have it all,”
said the former Mayor.
“We make sure your gen
der and color do not inter
fere with your educational
opportunities,” he said.
However, Young said
students must also make
personal contributions to
their futures. “While you
are given certain basic
rights, you have to work to
fulfill your opportunities.”
‘ Communication:
Changes and Challenges 4
WSB-TV Anchorman, Sailor To Appear
At Clark Atlanta's Communications Arts Festival
By Brenda J. Wright
Guest Writer
The second annual Clark Atlanta
University Communication Arts Festival is
slated for Tuesday, October 19, in the Mass
Media Arts Center.
There will be workshops, exhibits, and
media professionals focusing on the theme
“Communication: Changes and Challenges.”
W. Ron Sailor, president and chief execu
tive officer of WIGO-Radio, will be the
keynote speaker at the noon general session.
A former television news anchorman and
commentator at WSB-TV (channell 2).
Sailor has also worked with WXIA-
TV(channell 11) and with Atlanta radio sta
tions and newspapers. Sailor is the owner of
WIGO (1340 AM) and the West Georgia
Tribune newspaper and the publisher of the
Southwest News & Shoppers Guide.
Other professionals participating in the
activities, 8 a.m. - 9:30 p.m., will include
Doris G. Hines. WATL-FOX 36: Erine
Holsendolph and James Mallory, the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution', James Heath and
Sidmel Estes-Sumpter, WAGA-TV; Portia
Scott, the Atlanta Daily World', Ivory
Dorsey, Golden Eagle Business Services;
Deborah Strahorn and Tony Phillips,
WCLK-(91.9 FM) Radio; Felicia Church,
WAOK-WVEE (103.3 FM)-Radio; Ron
Hamilton, Street Heat magazine; and Darryl
Hollins, Atlanta Creative Marketing consul
tant.
Workshops begin at 8 a.m. and will con
tinue throughout the day. The activities will
culminate with the CAU-TV taping of
Frontline, where the mayoral candidates will
be interviewed before a studio audience.