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Volume 1 • Number XIV Atlanta, Georgia
April 4, 1994
Graffitti And
Vandalism Cost
CAU $50,000
In Repairs
Siedra Cooper
Contributing Writer
CAU Hosts Olympic Broadcast Training Program
By Antoinette Ross
Contributing Writer
Clark Atlanta University,
under a grant from the Atlanta
Committee for the Olmpic
Games (ACOG), is conduct
ing a three-year training pro
gram to prepare students to
assist in the broadcasting of
the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
The Host Broadcast
Training Program (HBTP),
was launched in January with
90 CAU students but will
expand to include students
from other Georgia colleges
and universities as well as
several historically black col
leges.
Dr. Gloria P. James, exec
utive director of the
Telecommunications Alliance
at Clark Atlanta University,
said that by the summer
semester of this year, students
from some 50 schools will
begin their first semester in
the HBTP.
The Telecommunications
Alliance, which is responsible
for the planning and imple
mentation of the traing pro
gram, includes WCLK-FM
Radio, CAU-TV, and HBTP.
Hampton University,
Savannah State College and
the University of Georgia are
among the many schools
whose students may partici
pate in the Olympic training
program.
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Destruction and defacing of property
has cost Clark Atlanta University about
$50,000 in reparations since December,
according to Lloyd Van Dyke, director
of facilities.
Van Dyke said that students cause
most of the graffiti and vandalism that
occurs in the dormitories and buildings
on campus. Major damages in universi
ty buildings- McPheeters Dennis,
Holmes Hall, and Annex H- will cost
the student body in the future. Repairs
alone have cost $1,800 this year.
The director said that repairing the
damage becomes more expensive
because of supplies and employees'
overtime.
“I don’t think they (students) take
the time out to figure how much it
costs,” he said. “I’m taking funds stu
dents pay to fix up things that could be
used on computers.”
On walls and bathroom stalls around
the campus, graffiti artistse are display
ing references to drugs, and other popu
lar sayings.
One individual who calls himself the
’Windy Cities Pimp', has featured his
signature on many CAU buildings and
walls.
According to Van Dyke these
offenders are immature, and have little
respect for property.
“If you want to leave a legacy that’s
not the way to do it,” he said. “I would
rather leave something behind (that’s)
educational rather than...destroy the
property.”
He also claims that property damage
to the Campus Shop, located on the cor
ner of Fair St and Brawley Drive, dur
ing the 1992 student protest, caused
more harm to the students rather than
the store's white manager.
“The bookstore is owned by Clark
Atlanta University, not the white man.
The side and the back of the building
was totally demolished,” he said.
In 1993, the university spent $2 mil
lion on renovations for campus build
ings.
Van Dyke said that property damage
and trash, such as paper and bottles,
take away from the beauty of the cam
pus.
"You are the first generation to be raised in front of the television"
Bryant Gumbel Encourages Media Responsibility
At CAU’s Sixth Cosolidation Celebration
Bryant Gumbel was the keynote speaker at CAU's Consolidation
Celebration.
Tara C. Gunter
Editor-In-Chief and
Lisa Flanagan
News Assistant
“While you cannot see the
future, we can assure it will be
televised,” NBC "Today" show
host, Bryant Gumbel proclaimed
last Thursday, May 24, at Clark
Atlanta University’s
Consolidation Celebration.
Gumbel, the Convocation's
keynote speaker, received an hon
orary degree Doctor of Humane
Letters.
Donald Keough, current chair
man of Allen & Co. Inc. and for
mer president, chief operating
officer, and director of the
CocaCola Company also received
an honorary Doctor of Law
degree.
During his speech, Gumbel
discussed the impact of television,
the misuse of language, and the
validity and truthfulness of net
work news.
“I started at the "Today" show
in 1982, 12 years later I can hon
estly say things have not
improved,” he said.
Gumbel said while there have
been many changes, some aspects
of television news coverage have
deteriorated.
Some of the changes he
referred to were the lack of sensi
tivity and diversity in news and
the inaccurancy of coverage.
“TV does seem one-dimen
sional at times," he said. "There
is more attention given to a
superstar than to our our
own children. There is more
attention given to a girl’s tap
on the knee than the violence
that occurs everyday in
America."
He also discussed how
today’s students are privi
leged to be among the first
generation to have been
raised in front of the televi
sion.
“The media plays a very
important role in your lives
whether you want it to or
not,” said Gumbel. “Most of
your opinions about social
issues are formed from news
programs.”
Also during the program,
CAU President Dr. Thomas
Cole cited some of the
achievements of the institu
tion since the consolidation.
CAU ranks first nationally
in the graduation of doctoral
students in education, life
sciences, and political sci
ence. Over the last three
years CAU has completed
and received more federal
research and development
grants than any other histori
cally black college or uni
versity.
The Convocation was
part of the many activities
commemorating the merger
of Clark College and Atlanta
University in 1988.
Other activities included
a celebration dinner in honor
of President Cole, a commu
nity day, student awards for
excellence in acheievement
and a faculty and staff ser
vice recognition luncheon.
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