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Atlanta, Georgia
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President Cole receives DuBois Award
By Angie Harmon
Contributing Writer
Clark Atlanta University
President Thomas W. Cole Jr.
wasawarded the W.E.B. DuBois
Award, Oct. 14,for outstanding
leadership, community
excellence, and improving the
quality of life through education.
The National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People, NAACP, held its 37th
annual Atlanta Branch Freedom
Fund Dinner at the Hyatt
Regency Hotel in downtown
Atlanta. The theme of the event
was,” Celebrating Our Legacy:
A vision for the 21st Century.
The dinner is the major
fundraising for the civil rights
organization. Proceeds will
benefit programs of the local
branch.
Many awards were given out
that night including the Charles
L. Harper Award received by
James Moffitt, the Economics
Justice Award received by
Eugene McCullers, the
Thurgood Marshall Award
received by Judge Glenda
Hatchett and the Roy Wilkens
award received by the
Honorable Emma Darnell,
Fulton County Commissioner.
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SGA president
threatens mass
demonstration
By Clarence Rolle
Staff Writer
T 1 he Student Government
Association, SGA, is poised
to organize amassi ve student protest
after Thanksgiving break if,
according to SGA undergraduate
President Samuel Bell, Jr., “The
administration does not improve its
treatment of SGA members and the
student body.”
Bell said he will ask all students
to walk out of class in protest of
what he claims is the administration’s
“disrespect” and “lack of concern
for SGA members and the student
body.”
“When you hear the phrase
‘oneexceptional university,' you
envision a university with an
administration that goes above
and beyond the call of duty to
serve their constituents,” Bell
said. “However, we have found
that this is not the case. A question
has been posed to the SGA that
we sometimes cannot answer
ourselves: ‘Does the
administration really care about
us (students)?”’
However, SGA Graduate
President Rick Robinson said he
has not had an opportunity to
discuss a demonstration with
Bell. However, he said it is a
possibility.
One of Bell’s reasons for
proposing the demonstration is
his claim that high-level
administrators have generally
ignored SGA since the beginning
of this semester.
“The President of this
institution, the President of
Academic Affairs (and) the Dean
of Student Life have literally
disrespected me as a student
leader by not even making an
attempt to hold one meeting with
me or the graduate president
throughout this school year,” he
said.
According to Bell, meetings
with Vice President/Student
Affairs Dr. Doris Weathers and
Assistant Dean of Student Life
Peggy Hampton have been
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Crime statistics highlight property theft, lost property
By Antonia Peagler
Contributing Writer
Property theft leads CAU’s
campus crimes, according to the
Department of Public Safety’s
Crime Statistics Report for
September indicated.
The report indicated, 22 incidents
of property theft occurred. One
arrest was made for property theft.
The report showed that four
burglaries, two incidents of motor
vehicle theft, one robbery and one
case of simple assault and battery
were reported. No arrests were
made for the crimes.
The department made two arrests
out of three reports of drug
violations. The crime report also
disclosed a total of $13,537 in
property loss for September. None
of the property was recovered. .
The Department of Public
Safety publishes monthly crime
statistics to inform the campus
community about reported
criminal activities.
The reports are in accordance
with the Student’s Right- to- Know
and Campus Security Act of 1990.
Public Safety also has to forward
all crimes to the Georgia Crimes
Information Center ,GCIC, and
the GCIC in turn forwards this
information to the Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI) to be
included in the FBI Uniform
Crime Report.
The Student’s Right-to-Know
Act states that all students
attending any school have the right
to know all of the criminal
incidents on and near the campus,
and the Public Safety Department
of that school must compile and
release a record of all incidence
for public access.
“None of this information can
be kept from the students or parents
that want to know,” Secretary of
Public Safety Beverly Gordon
said.
Since January, Director of
Public Safety Jackie Patterson said
he has been striving to make C AU
a safer place for the students.
Patterson said he’s added more
police and public safety officers
on patrol on and around campus.
He has also instituted a new
emergency phone system that is
handicap-accessible. The
emergency telephone booths are
located around the Thayer Hall
and Trevor Arnett Hall
quadrangles and near the library.
“I think that CAU has a very
safe atmosphere, but being in an
urban area there are going to be
criminal incidents," Patterson
The Department of Public
Safety made two arrests out
of three reports of drug
violations. The crime report
also disclosed a total of
$13,537 in property loss for
September. None of the
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property was recovered.