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PI2 The Panther
March 6, 1995
(Photo by Clarence Rolle)
CAU's Men's Basketball Team
made a big effort for its goal of
SIAC champion.
Panthers End Season In Second Place
By Krystal Hunter
Sports Editor
The Clark Atlanta University Men’s
Basketball team, which
ended its season in sec
ond place in the SIAC
Eastern Division,
played its first game in
the SIAC basketball
tournament March 2, in
Fair Arena Park in
Birmingham, Ala.
The SIAC basketball tournament will
decide who will win the conference
title for the 1994-1995 season.
The first obstacle to the conference
title that the Panthers have to face is the
Western Division’s Lemoyne-Owen
Colleege, who placed third in the
Western Division of the SIAC. Despite
the fact that Lemoyne-Owen beat the
Panthers in their last showdown, the
Panthers seem confident. According to
Coach Anthony Witherspoon, “In the
game we played against them, we did
not have all our players. Also, we were
not shooting nor playing strong defen
sively.”
The ingredients that will make
the Panthers win according to
Witherspooon is, “improved
defense and shooting. We also
need the team and individuals to
play with more consistency.”
Another attitude that the coach
would like to see in his team is the
desire to not let the season end until
they have claimed the conference title.
According to Coach Anthony
Witherspoon, "In the game we played
against them, we did not have all our
players, Also, we were not shooting nor
playing strong defensively."
Head Start
Program
Continued From
PI
“I think it’s terrific that they
could reach out to head start
children,” said Tawayna
Richardson, a teacher’s aide and
mother of four whose 3-year-old
son, Antonio, is enrolled in the
Kennedy Head Start site. ”1
never thought it would’ve hap
pened,” she said.
The program kicked-off its
first campaign Feb. 22, to reach
its goal of $3 million.
According to Hassan, there was
a great response from the com
munity, and funds were donated
by individuals, civic and corpo
rate organizations.
The money from the endow
ment fund will offset any money
not provided to the student by
financial aid. Even if the goal is
not met, CAU is still committed
to supplying the students with
tuition waivers, said university offi
cials. However, “Not meeting the
goal is not one of our expectations,”
said Young. “Our expectation is that
we’ll exceed the goal.”
As of now, the Head Start Program
is working with the development
office to plan activities that will gener
ate positive responses to the plan.
“Once you eliminate the barrier of
how to pay for college, it becomes
reality,” said Hassan. “Most signifi
cantly, it encourages parents to see
children differently and to dream
dreams they never had before."
CAU’s Head Start Program serves
over 2,000 children from primarily
low-income backgrounds. Children
matriculating in the endowment pro
gram will be noted by a database and
they will have to comply with univer
sity admissions requirements.
Those wishing to contribute to the
Endowment Fund can mail donations
to: Attn: Head Start Endowment Fund/
CAU Head Start Program, 350
Autumn Lane. S.W., Atlanta, GA.
30314.
National SPJ Continued From P3
Georgia State University and the
Atlanta Professional SPJ Chapters
and journalists, were seated in a cir
cle as Stuart advised them to not let
a news blackout encircle them.
“Don’t let the news blackout
become a reality,” he said. When the
banana, soybean and GATT bills
were unfamiliar to some in the
room, Stuart just shook his head.
“Realize what’s going on. Turn off
TV. Tune in to what’s being done to
society. Pick up a pen and write the
U.S. senator or governor,” he said.
Throughout his lecture, Stuart vol
unteered journalists from the audi
ence and simulated exercises where
they had to choose between inform
ing the public or infringing on laws
of Congress. After the exercise, the
SPJ president left the solution up the
journalists, but he said it “costs you
50 minutes, 32 cents and an enve
lope."
By Krystal Hunter
Sports Editor
SIAC NEWS:
Playoffs Recap
(MARCH 1-4)
SIAC MEN'S BASKETBALL
TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
MARCH 2
Alabama A&M vs. Albany State or Fort Valley State 8:00 p.m.
Clark Atlanta University vs. Lemoyne Owen 4:00 p.m.
Morehouse College vs. Paine or Savannah State 7:00 p.m.
Morris Brown vs. Tuskegee 6:00 p.m.
MARCH 3
SEMI-FINALS 6:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m.
MARCH 4
FINALS 7:00 p.m.
SIAC Women's Basketball Tournament Schedule
MARCH 1
Alabama A&M vs. Clark Atlanta University
8:00
p.m
Albany State University vs. Morris Brown
2:00
p.m.
Lemoyne-Owen vs. Fort Valley
4:00
p.m.
Savannah State vs. Tuskegee or Miles
6:00
p.m.
MARCH 3
SEMI-FINALS 2:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
MARCH 4
FINALS 4:00 p.m.
• Playoffs took place at Fair Park Arena in Birmingham Alabama.
Delta Continued From P8
characters, who moved through three
women, captured the intensity and the
indoctrination of the Delta. The play por
trayed that Holland may have physically
moved from the Delta, but was spiritually
there all the time.
“Aint Baby’s” talk and “Phelia’s” manner
isms stayed with Holland “From the
Mississippi Delta" to the Minnesota
dwelling, as her story moved through famil
ial, racial and regional climates. The story’s
strength was in the talent of the three-
woman cast, Crystal Fox, Ebony Jo-Ann
and Clark Atlanta University’s
Communication Arts Professor, Carol
Mitchell-Leon who comically, consciously
and culturally carried the story, who sang
the song and the spirit “From the
Mississippi Delta. ”
Leon took Holland’s story, growing up in
the “region of African American inferiority”
and poignantly cast it as a performance that
spoke of the untold superiority of the region
where the stories of the “second doctor
lady,” “Aint Baby” and “Phelia” are authen
tically by-way of the Mississippi Delta.