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Volume I • Number XVVII
Atlanta, Georgia
February 20, 1995
CONVOCATION '95
Mayor Campbell No Show
(Photo by Christian Gooden)
Coleman voices his views about Freaknic and Atlanta politics at CAU's Black
History Month Convocation.
SGA President Questions Atlanta Mayor s Absence
By Lisa Flanagan
News Editor
Student Government Association
Undergraduate President, Jamal
Coleman, encouraged student politi
cal awareness and pleaded with city
officials to discuss the banning of
Freaknic, as he stood in for Mayor
Bill Campbell, who was expected to
give the Feb. 17 Black Flistory Month
Convocation speech.
Coleman said he hopes the situa
tion will be resolved before April.
“We make a plea to the city to sit
down and really listen to what we
have to say.”
“Instead of talking to the students,
who basically control the information
flow of this event he (Campbell) has
instituted an almost military style
direction to the police force, warning
students that certain things will not be
tolerated,” Coleman said.
Campbell was unable to attend the
convocation because of some confu
sion in scheduling.
“My understanding is that Mayor
Campbell was invited to speak at the
convocation and because of a sched
uling conflict, he was not able to
attend the convocation," Jill
Strickland, press secretary for the
mayor, said.
In 1994, Campbell stated Freaknic,
the event held in late April, which
attracts around 500,000 black
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CAU Makes
History With
New Major
By Tarsha Burton
Contributing Writer
Clark Atlanta University has been noted as the
only historically black college and the first institu
tion of higher learning in Georgia to offer enter
tainment and sports management as a major.
Currently, 172 colleges and universities in the
United States offer sports management programs,
but fewr institutions offer an entertainment and
sports management program.
The program’s mission is to “provide high qual
ity management education for a group of individu
als that will be the future leaders in entertainment
and sports management,” according to a statement
from CAU’s School of Business. The major is
offered through the School of Business.
Dr. Oliver Welch, founder of the Entertainment
and Sports Management Center, said the major is
primarily offered to graduate students.
Welch credits Edward Irons, dean of the School
of Business, for helping with the program.
“I think there are a lot of people who saw it
emerge, but the dean should be given full credit,”
Welch said.
Few schools offer a program that combines
entertainment and sports. Welch said within the
next decade, the fields of entertainment and sports
will be inseparable.
“CAU hopes to help change the economic equa
tion of African Americans with this program,” he
said.
Baseball legend Hank Aaron, Filmmaker Spike
Lee and Recording Producer Antonio “L.A.” Reid,
who serve on the advisory committee as vice presi
dent, president and co-president respectively,
assisted in implementing the program.
Courses began this semester and students are
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Library Receives Grants for Special
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•Students help select
the new vice-presi
dent of academic
affairs. p3
• See the movie and
book reviews and get
another "Backstage
Pass' with the rap
artists Dre and Big Boi
of OutKast.
Features Section
By Candice Giles
Contributing Writer
Grants totaling over $535,000
for the Robert Woodruff
Library’s Division of Archives
and Special Collections, will
support the processing of 14 pri
vate collections of historical
memoirs, letters and other docu
ments.
The Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation awarded the largest
grant which totaled $345,000 to
the library. The National
Endowment for Humanities
awarded $190,000 to Woodruff
to be used over a two-year peri
od and the Ford Foundation
awarded the library $50,000.
Some of the anticipated col
lections include one representing
the former dean and president of
Clark College, James P.
Brawley, who served from 1965
to 1976. Other collections
include features of Vivian
Henderson, a former Clark
College social philosophy pro
fessor and C. Eric Lincoln.
The 14 collections contain,
among ojther things, interviews
with Elijah Muhammad and
Malcom X, correspondences,
questionnaires and personal
papers relating to religious and
racial subjects since the 1960s.
“Lincoln’s Collection will
probably be 200 linear feet when
Collections
we get finished with it,” said Dr.
Prince Rivers, interim director of
the Woodruff Library.
Archivists measure the collec
tions by lining up record center
boxes side-by-side, filled with
completed files. Each box is
approximately five inches wide.
“Processing of the collections
is very time consuming and
tedious work,” said Wilson
Flemister, project archivists
supervisor. “We plan to cele
brate the opening of the Lincoln
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