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P6 Anril4. 1994
The Panther
Photographer/Christen Gooden
Hey Mr. D.J.: Program and Music Director,
Bobby Jackson hosts his show, "Midday
Renaissance."
WCLK Music Director Wins With Jazz
Bobby Jackson Named "Jazz Radio Person Of The Year"
Bobby Jackson, program and
music director for WCLK-FM radio
station, has been named “Jazz Radio
Person of the Year” by the Gavin
Report, a widely read industry jour
nal. The radio station is owned and
operated by Clark Atlanta
University.
Jackson, who also hosts the sta
tion’s “Midday Renaissance” pro
gram, won over competitors from
some of the nation’s top jazz radio
station, including KJAZ in San
Francisco/Oakland and WBGO in
Newark, New Jersey.
“Exhilaration, total exhilaration,”
Jackson exclaimed after winning the
top honor. “This is a stressful career
but hard work does pay off. If you
do what you love, that’s what really
matters.”
The Gavin Report honors are
determined in a two-year process in
which representatives of marketing
agencies, record companies and
radio stations from around the coun
try cast votes for their top choices in
several program areas.
Jackson was honored because of
the variety of jazz and the diversity
of music programmed on WCLK,
according to Gavin Report Jazz
Editor Kent Zimmerman.
The awards were presented in
San Franciso on Feb. 19.
Catrina Harvey Contributed to
this article.
COSA and ASA To Host
International Day
By Kimathi Lewis
Personals Editor
The Caribbean Oriented
Students Association
(COSA) and the African
Students Association (ASA)
are planning “International
Student Week” April 10-16,
in an effort to promote diver
sity, said Calvin Macklin,
program assistant of student
affairs.
The events will include a
food drive and a soccer tour
nament on Sunday, an inter
national film festival on
Monday and on Thursday,
the Pan People Steelband will
be performing at the calypso
dance, South African Dance
Group and fashion show to
be held in the Trevor Arnett
Quadrangle.
According to Christopher
Stewart, the president of
Cosa, this is not only for
CAU students, “We want to
develop an open line of com
munications with everyone
and not just international stu
dents.” said Stewart.
In an effort to preserve the
Caribbean culture, two Clark
College students, Richard
Mills and Ajamo Nyomba,
initiated the COSA in 1978.
In collaboration with
Ernestine Brazil, former
public relations director at
Spelman College, they
established the AUC COSA
chapter to combine the cul
tures of the Caribbean.
“I only knew two other
students from the
Caribbean,” said Nyomba,
now a professor of econom
ics at CAU. He contends that
as a student it, was difficult
to get “integrated into main
stream America” without
academic support.
After graduating in 1979,
he said he returned to the
school in 1984. COSA was
was then reestablished at
Clark College with Nyomba
as the advisor.
Stewart said he heard
about the organization in
Nyomba’s economics class.
A CAU senior and a
native of Jamaica, Stewart
said that although the organi
zation was chartered on the
campus, it was inactive until
last fall.
“We put up flyers and
arranged fundraisers, such as
Day on the Yard and
Fabulous Friday at the end
of the 1992 school year.”
According to Stewart, the
organization received a lot of
publicity from students.
He said the main purpose
of COSA is to unite students
from the Caribbean to act as
“a family away from home”
along with other students
who have a genuine interest
in the Caribbean and its peo
ple.
“It’s difficult to find peo
ple from the same place I
came from,” said Keva
Lloyd, a CAU sophomore
and native of St. Croix. She
said she joined the organiza
tion to meet people from the
West Indies.
Vice president, Kadija
Gordon, also of St. Croix,
said she wanted to get to
know others from the
Caribbean and be a part of
their activities. “I wanted to
get to know and share with
others my culture, music and
food.”
Mia Rolle, a CAU senior
from the Bahamas, said she
wanted people to know that
they were here and that they
are active in doing something
on the campus.
According to Nyomba,
now is a critical period in the
history of COSA and the
ASA on CAU’s campus.
Last spring, Nyomba and
Margaret Spriggs, co-advisor
of ASA met with CAU
President Thomas Cole jr.
and the Dean of Student
Affairs, Doris D. Weathers to
articulate the needs and con
cerns of the organization.
“Now that we have an
International student] advi
sor, hopefully it will lead to
the solution of some of the
problems that international
students have been having,
such as programs for interna
tional students,” said
Nyomba.
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