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The Panther P8
March 6, 1995
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(Photo by Christian Gooden)
No parking signs placed in local areas,
such as Mildred St., are evidence of the
reported shortage of available parking
close to CAU's campus.
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wanted to help, but were afraid.Representatives from the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Victory
Over Violence and Pro Circuit were present to submit pro
posals. However, the overwhelming majority of the 50 peo
ple in attendance were Clark Atlanta University students
who expected to address Mayor Bill Campbell's controver
sial position on the Black College Weekend.
Students were told that the mayor would attend, but
according to organizers of the event he was never officially
invited.
Campbell stated in late 1994, students coming for the 1995
Freaknic activities are not welcome.
Students were concerned about possible student confronta
tions with the police. “It seems to me like a riot might
occur,” said a CAU freshman.
Michael Langford, director of the Office of Community
Affairs for the City of Atlanta, attempted to address students’
concerns about the remark and police safety measures.
Langford said he thought students wanted the City Council
to be a co-sponsor of the event as they were in April 1994.
Langford said that the press and the students were misinter
preting the mayor’s remark.
“I’ve been in 15 cities and that’s what they (students)
heard,” said E. Randel T. Osbum, SCLC administrator. He
said that before any plans are made, the mayor must apolo
gize to the students. “The mayor declared war on the stu
dents. David Duke came to town and nobody said he wasn’t
welcome. You can’t talk about sitting (down) to plan if
you’re not welcome to the table,” he said.
Teague said the event must be organized because of the
number of people in attendance.
Approximately 200,000 people are estimated to have
attended last April. Teague added that sponsors are necessary
to provide security, clean up crews and first aid.
However, some students disagreed with the attempts to
organize and questioned the intentions of the possible spon
sors.
“A lot of the organized events, people won’t go to them
because they feel they’re being pushed into this part of the
city and being relegated,” said one CAU student.
There were also discrepancies about the city’s assistance to
organizers and whether they actually existed. Philippe Jean
Band, a CAU student, said he was on the Atlanta Student
Forum (ASF) last year that helped organize activities with
the Atlanta City Council. The ASF solicited sponsorship
from Coca-Cola, Subway and Domino’s. However, he
added that their contacts in the council from last year are
now uncooperative.
Responding to Teague’s statement that organization is
needed to get sponsorship, CAU alumnus and President of
Technicolor International, T.W. Williams said that he had
organized several concerts, solicited sponsorship and was
currently promoting Freaknic with Black Entertainment
Students Say Parking Problem Reason
For Violations: 40 Tickets Issued Daily
By Kimathi Lewis
Staff Writer
Clark Atlanta
University students
receive about 40 tickets
per day for parking incor
rectly, according to
Captain Gregory Harris
of the CAU Police.
“Students often receive
tickets for parking with
out a permit, for parking
in handicapped zones,
reserved spaces and
blocking other cars,”
Harris said.
Some students said
they violate these laws
because of the lack of
parking spaces available
on CAU's campus.
CAU senior Lorvetta
Loftin said she doesn’t
understand why there
aren’t enough parking
spaces on campus.
“There aren’t enough
parking spaces near my
class. I received a ticket
for parking on the road
between Spelman and
CAU (Greensferry
Road),” Loftin said.
Student Government
Association Graduate
Vice President Ricky
Robinson said he
received complaints from
off-campus students
almost everyday about
parking problem on cam
pus.
Robinson met with
Atlanta’s Traffic
Engineering Chief Larry
Crowe, last November to
discuss the removal of
some of the “No
Parking” signs. A few
weeks later, the signs on
the north and south sides
of Greensferry Road
were removed.
“It’s just one measure.
Although it will benefit
undergraduate students, it
primarily concerns grad
uate students who take
classes in the evening,”
Robinson said.
Dean of Student
Affairs Dr. Doris
Weathers said the 600-
car parking deck, to be
included in the student
center, is slated for com
pletion in 1996. She said
it will alleviate most of
the problem.
Harris said some of the
problems with parking
spaces exist because stu
dents do not use all the
parking lots available.
There are 12 parking
lots on CAU’s campus,
eight for students and
four for faculty and staff,
according to the 1994-
1995 CAU Student
Handbook.
Harris also said he
received numerous com
plaints from students
regarding the payment
the $15 fee for the
required parking decal.
The decals must be post
ed on all vehicles parked
on a university lot.
“They feel that they
pay so much money in
tuition, that they should
not have to pay for the
permit.” However, Harris
said it's the university’s
policy and he has to
enforce it.
However, other local
universities aren’t
immune to the problem.
Edna Hicks, adminis
trative supervisor of
parking at the Georgia
Institute of Technology,
said they issue 30,000
tickets annually to stu
dents for 16 or 17 differ
ent violations.
With a student body of
13,000, Hicks said they
receive complaints from
the students all the time.
“To them, parking is a
big bad wolf. They tell us
we are here to cause
them trouble and take
their money,” Hicks said.
Keith Bradley, general
manager of parking and
community services at
Emory University, said
they issue almost 40,000
tickets yearly to students,
faculty and staff for ille
gal parking.
Dellie Culpepper,
director of traffic courts
for the city of Atlanta,
said 177,000 tickets were
issued for illegal parking
in Atlanta in 1994 and
188,000 in 1993.
From the Mississippi Delta:
Tellin’ It Like It Is
By Wendy Isom
Features Editor
“From the Mississippi Delta"
was the best theatrical show per
formed by a multi-talented three-
woman cast. The women sang and
“brung” the oral tradition and
dialect “outta dat dere Delta” and
let it “stan” on its own two “foot-
sahs” at the Alliance Theatre
Company.
There, the play stood up well on
opening night, Feb. 22, and so did
the audience after the performance
in applause. Although Dr. Endesha
Ida Mae Holland received many
requests to change the words of her
story to “acceptable” English, she
refused “even when it meant fewer
productions.” The preservation of
the language not only gives the
story its heart but its history.
After experiencing the authentic
drama of the Delta, it just wouldn’t
be the same if “Aint Baby” was
“Aunt Baby” or “Chile” was
“Child.” Holland illustrated that in
order to tell a story from the Delta,
she can’t take the Delta out of the
story.
In order to vividly understand the
life story of Holland, Kenny Leon,
artistic director of “From the
Mississippi Delta,” puts the audi
ence (dialectly) there.
“By the same token, in writing
Delta, language plays a crucial role
in the story. I could never buy false
to the sounds of the Mississippi
Crystal Fox (left),
Ebony Jo-Ann (right)
and CAU's own,
Carol Mitchell-Leon
(seated) star in the
highly acciaimed,
"From the Mississippi
Delta" at the
Alliance Theatre
Company through
March 19.
(Photo by David Zeiger)
Delta, people's speech, (or) their
dialect,” wrote Holland in “Telling
Tales. ” The true sites, sounds,
sayings and songs of the Delta
were portrayed to a tee throughout
the performance.
When Phelia said it was so hot
“dat” the flies “dun” stopped
“flyin,” the heat transcended from
the spoken word in a play to a feel
ing on a hot Delta day. Most of the
time the more than half a dozen
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