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P2 The Panther
FEBRUARY 20. 1995
CAU Alumna Elected President of
100 Black Women
By Tarsha Burton
Contributing Writer
Clar College alumna and newly
elected President of 100 Black
Women, Hattie B. Dorsey, plans to
establish a political and corporate
agenda for black women in America,
according to her Executive Assistant,
Alex Applebaum.
Dorsey is the oldest of 11 children.
She has served as vice-president of the
Economic Development Corporation’s
Neighborhood Development
Department and as president and
CEO of the Atlanta Neighborhood
Development Partnership, Inc.
“While the structure of 100 Black
Women will remain the same, Dorsey
plans to implement entrepreneurial
programs to encourage more black
women to establish their own busi
nesses,” Applebaum said.
“Dorsey wishes to start raising funds
to provide black women with the
financial support needed to enable
them to run for political office,” he
said.
Dorsey was recently honored by
The National Housing Conference,
Inc. and named a 1994 Drucker
Foundation Affiliate.
Commuter Students Have Mixed
Views On Convenience
(Photo by Christian Gooden)
Some of CAU's off-campus students prepare for another
commute on MARTA.
By Rhonda K. Witherspoon
Contributing Writer
Living off-campus for some
Clark Atlanta University students,
means freedom from disagreeing
roommates, campus rules and tight
living situations, but for others it
means being left out of campus
life.
“Living on-campus is more con
venient,” said Tamika
Cushenberry, a sophomore com
muter student who lives an hour
away from campus.
“I don’t always feel informed
about what’s going on because all
the major information seems to be
posted only in the dorms,”
Cushenberry said.
Despite the fact that there are
colorful flyers, letters and poster
boards around campus, some com
muter students still say they feel
disassociated with the bulk of the
student community.
Michelle Rhodes, director of
student activities at CAU, com
mented that the Student Activities
Office has tried to reach the com
muter student. “We even have a
special coordinator of International
and Commuter Student Services,
whose office is open daily,” she
said.
Rhodes rejected the idea that all
of the “important” news regarding
student life and activities is in the
resident dormitories. She said that
recently “the office has put up
more calendars, posters and bul
letin boards that are both up-to-date
and informative.”
These attention-getters are said
to be located in most places where
students congregate, such as
McPheeters-Dennis and the Trevor
Arnett Quadrangle.
Her views are affirmed by sopho
more commuter student, April
Wilson.
Wilson lives in Midtown Atlanta
and is very active on campus and in
the community.
She said there is an equal balance of
information for the on-campus stu
dents and the students who have to
commute to school.
Wilson said, “We are very
informed, there are flyers everywhere
and usually people will tell you about
things. How can someone say that
they don’t know what’s going on?”
However, Cushenberry said, “The
bulletin boards are run down, clut
tered and loaded with a lot of old
information.”
Ricky Robinson, SGA graduate
vice-president, explained that stu
dents “don’t take time to read the cal
endar or the bulletin boards.”
Robinson’s office works mainly
with graduate students, the majority
who live off-campus. He said he is
currently devising ways to get more
commuter students informed and
involved.
Realizing the commuter student
involvement on-campus is less than
50 percent, he resolves that the
responsibility of finding out about
activities on campus, lies impart on
both the students and the organiza-
CAMPUS
•Clark Atlanta University will be offer
ing tuition waivers to four-year-olds
through the “Touching the Future” pro
gram designed to serve about 1,800 chil
dren involved with the institution’s
Head Start. The endowment’s funding
comes from donations given by Head
Start employees that were matched by
CAU. University officials said that the
endowment is the only one of its kind in
the country.
•YSB Magazine’s Editor-In-Chief,
Frank Dexter Brown, hosted Clark
Atlanta University’s recent Unity
Seminar which was taped for BET’s
Rap City and Screen Scene.
•Clark Atlanta University, Georgia State
and the Atlanta Professional chapters of
the Society of Professional Journalists,
SPJ, hosted the National President,
Reginald Stuart’s, visit to CAU to dis
cuss the coming news blackout and
techniques to prevent it.
CITY
•Atlanta has mailed 137 letters to black
colleges in efforts to discourage their
students from coming to the city for
Freaknic. According to the Atlanta
Journal/Constitution, the letter was
signed by all six of the presidents in the
Atlanta University Center.
•Vice President A1 Gore made a recent
trip to Paschals Motor Hotel to observe
the areas that will be impacted by an
empowerment grant given to the city of
Atlanta estimated at approximately $100
million.
•The Rev. Jessie Jackson toured
Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail to speak to
incarcerated black youths about reform
ing their lives.
•Twenty-one black youths have been
banned from Union Point shops after
business owners in Green County com
plained of thefts. The shut out was initi
ated by the town’s Mayor John B.
Stewart.
COUNTRY
•After 130 years, Mississippi senators
are finally voting whether to abolish
slavery. Mississippi is the only state
that never ratified the 13th amendment
in 1865 because it was not reimbursed
for freed slaves.
•Students at Clemson University and in
colleges in Charleston and Columbia
have scheduled rallies in efforts to com
bat the $20 billion proposed cut in fed
eral student aid within the next five
years.