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P2 The Panther
February 6, 1995
CAU Bookstore Better Serves Students
By Gigi Barnett
Staff Writer
Students are reporting noticeable
management changes in Clark
Atlanta University’s bookstore, now
fully owned and operated by the
institution.
For example, the costs of school
paraphernalia and computer soft
ware have been reduced, and the
hours have been extended from
7:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monday thru
Friday and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on
Saturday.
“It’s a little better. The lines are
much smaller and faster,” said
Sheena Fernandez, ajunior.
Albertha Tucker, the bookstore’s
assistant manager, realizes that the
store is fairly new and explained that
more changes will be made this
semester. Tucker promised that in
the future students will receive addi
tional information about the up-and-
coming changes in the bookstore.
“Our goal is to make the book
store number one in the AUC. We’re
trying to hire professional workers,
(who can) work fast in a rapid situa
tion,” said Tucker.
Although more changes will be
made, some students want the man
agement to concentrate on the current draw
backs of the bookstore. Some objections
have been made about the location, the
amount of money refunded during the book
buy-back period and the lack of used text
books.
“1 understand that they (management) are
going through changes, but I don’t believe
that it’s being run as efficiently as possible,”
said junior, ToJana Jackson.
In October 1994, the previous owners.
Interstate Textbooks, filed a lawsuit against
the university claiming reverse-discrimina
tion. Yolanda Favors, an attorney at the
University Office of Legal Counsel, said that
the matter is still “in litigation.”
Scantron System Gets Low Marks
By Sonya Mullings
Contributing Writer
Some students believe the introduc
tion of scantrons to the registration
process caused a sea of confusion in
Clark Atlanta University's Vivian W.
Henderson Gym as thousands of return
ing students swarmed the faculty in
this year’s registration period.
According to students, faculty are
not blameless. David Harris, a senior
business administration major, had defi
nite thoughts of the attitudes of CAU’s
faculty. “The faculty I’ve dealt with act
like they’re doing you a favor by talk
ing to you.”
Registration three semesters ago
took longer because medical clearance
forms had to be checked by hand. Now,
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include the renovation of existing
facilities, additional scholarship pro
grams and a grant from the depart
ment of Housing and Urban
Development which will support the
construction of a Resource
Development Center on the campus.
Morris Brown College is the only
institution in the Atlanta University
Center founded by blacks and has an
enrollment of 1,900 students.
they are computerized and have elimi
nated at least one infamous line.
Sharon Sealy, an education major in
her second year at CAU said, “I still
remember one semester when I had to
stand in line under the burning sun
waiting for hours to show the nurse my
clearance forms from my doctor. And
that was before I tried to register.”
Although scantrons are new to CAU,
they are not new to the students of
Morris Brown and Spelman College.
The technology was bought by the
AUC in 1991 and was first adopted and
later dropped by Morris Brown
College. Spelman College was the sec
ond AUC school to try the scantron.
The scantron’s maiden voyage at
CAU was a rocky one. Many students
did not get the classes they pre-regis-
One of its graduates, Atlanta Chief
of Police Beverly Harvard, will deliv
er the keynote address at the college’s
Founder’s Day Convocation in
March.
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he feels that students, faculty and
staff should also learn fire safety.
He wants to be especially certain to
tered for and had to stand in lines
before registration during the adjust
ment period. According to Dr. Fredrick
Fresh, the university’s registrar, there
were some technical glitches that will
be worked out before the next pre-reg
istration period rolled around.
Angelo Carr, a program analyst in
the Data Processing Center, blamed the
high instances of problems on poor
handling of the forms. Smeared pencil
marks and folded edges were the cul
prits that prevented the scantron
machine from picking up the data.
Dr. Fresh said in the next year and a
half, the whole registration process will
change completely. Next spring,
Morehouse College will be the first
AUC school to begin telephone regis
tration. The other schools are expected
to follow.
include the faculty and staff in this
project because he said they are
often left not knowing nearly as
much as the students do.
If more Public Safety vehicles
from other schools have been
noticed around campus, one reason
is because Patterson feels that “all
of the departments should be work
ing together” to insure safety.
“We’ll make sure no one gets
turned away in an uncourteous
manner,” he said.
Compiled by:
Lisa Flanagan
News Editor
ATLANTA, Ga.- According to the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, black women are
three times more likely than white
women to die from complica
tions of pregnancy.
• Morehouse College’s
Department of Economics and
Business and the National
Association of Black Accountants
(student chapter), will offer
income tax preparation free of
charge to the Atlanta communi
ty. The tax help will take place at
Wheeler Hall (Morehouse
Campus) every Saturday from
Feb. 18 through March 10, and
from March 18 through April 15
from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The
deadline to file federal income
tax forms is April 15.
•Jacquelyn Belcher will become
the first black female president of
Dekalb College, the third largest
institution in the University System
of Georgia which includes the
University of Georgia, Georgia
State University, Savannah State
College and other state funded
institutions.
• McDonald’s restaurant plans to
open two new franchises on the
campus of Georgia Tech, as well
as bestow a $5.5 million dollar
facelift to the Alexander
Memorial Coliseum.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Clinton
administration has announced
that borrowers will have a new
opportunity to pay off defaulted
student loans through monthly
payments based on income - or
face having their wages gar
nished.
BOSTON, Mass. - Dr. Dimitrios
Trichopoulos of Harvard's School
of Health, released a study that
claims that olive oil intake helps
prevent breast cancer.
RED LANDS, Calif. - John Sirola,
13, shot his principal and then
killed himself. Principal Richard
Facciolo of the Sacred Heart
School, met with Sirola because
of discipline problems.
ATHENS, Ga. - Students at the
University of Georgia will be able
to use their school identification
cards to enter parking decks,
dormitories and campus cafete
rias. The cards will also be used
to purchase items on the universi
ty's campus, Academic and
financial records will also be
accessible.
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ority at the university, and we are committed to work assidu
ously to provide an atmosphere free of fear about safety in
the vicinity of the AUC,” Cole said.
In his statement, Cole sought to assure students that last
semester’s violent incidents - the murder of Morehouse
sophomore Oronde K. Allie on James P. Brawley Drive, the
off-campus murder of Morehouse sophomore Michael
Singleton and the kidnapping of a female CAU student in
Cobb County - were not random acts.
CAU sophomore Angela Johnson however, is not totally
comforted by his statement.
“What really scares me most of all is that the Morehouse
student (Allie) was gunned down right in front of the securi
ty station,” Johnson said. “And it leaves me asking, ‘If a stu
dent can be shot down right in front of a public safety securi
ty station, how effective is public safety? Were they not
watching?”’
Johnson, who stays on-campus and often catches the AUC
shuttle, said she has not noticed improvements in the shuttle
service yet. She said that she does not feel safe while walk
ing on campus, even during the day, so she looks forward to
an improved shuttle service.