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The Clark Atlanta University W PantheR “Well Find A Way Or Make One.” Panther places first at Southern Regional Press Institute. see Features Section for details 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. Continued P4 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. Continued P3