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April 5, 1979
1898 THE ORGAN OF STUDENT EXPRESSION 1979
Vol. 80 No. 10
Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA
McCraw,
Photos by Ronald Pettaway
Vincent D. McCraw
President, GCPA
Pettaway Elected to Georgia
College Press Association
Marcia Debnam
Ponald Pettaway
Executive Board, GCPA
Special To The Maroon Tiger
From The University Of Georgia
School Of Journalism
A Maroon Tiger reporter
became the first black president of
the Georgia Collegiate Press Asso
ciation (GCPA) at the second of
that organization’s bi-annual
meetings Friday, February 23rd.
The election of Vicent McCraw
to the GCPA office during the
annual Georgia Press Institute
held at the University of Georgia is
a part-result of efforts by the
Morehouse College members of
the collegiate group to “bring
change” to the way the predomi
nately white organization is run,
according to Charles Mapson, edi
tor of the Maroon Tiger and
former treasurer of GCPA.
“Our main objective was inte
gration,” Mapson said. “We were
also concerned about smaller
schools.”
Any accredited Georgia college
(including junior colleges) or uni
versity is eligible for membership
in GCPA. Morehouse delegates
attended their first meeting in the
fall of 1977, Mapson said. At that
meeting there was only one other
Black school, Spelman College ,
represented.
“We immediately recognized the
need for increased Black school
Darticination.” he commented.
The Maroon Tiger editor dis
cussed his delegation’s reaction to
the GCPA awards banquet also
held each year during the Georgia
Press Institute. “We noticed that
most of the awards went to the
University of Georgia, Georgia
State University, Georgia Tech
and Emory University.”
“We felt that they were in a class
by themselves with regard both to
Black schools and small schools.”
The Morehouse delegation then
began work to increase participa
tion and make the awards consid
erations “fairer” in GCPA by using
a catagory system for determining
awards, Mapson said.
“Now there are categories
according to circulation,” he con
tinued. “Big schools (those circu
lating at least 7,000 newspapers)
compete against themselves.” He
added that junior colleges have
always been in a class by
themselves.
Aside from initiating change in
the awards policy, the Morehouse
delegation was concerned about
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Atlanta University Center Library
by Duane Cooper Will Be Asset to Research
Although it will be several years
before the proposed new Atlanta
University Center library opens,
detailed plans for a well-equipped,
attractive facility have been made
by consultants, architects, and a
Center-wide library committee.
The new structure, which will
include the needed space, climate,
and equipment not available in
Trevor Arnett Library, will cost an
estimated 16 million dollars and
will have about 268,000 square feet
of floor area. The six AUC institu
tions agreed on a central location
for the library, to be bounded on
the north by Beckwith Street, on
the south by Parsons Street, on the
east by Chestnut Street, and on the
west by Jeptha Street.
The new library’s design calls for
a low profile structure with large
floor areas, thus avoiding the dis
advantages that would result from
a high-rise building and also elimi
nating the need of an elevator. The
proposed building will consist of
four major levels and a small pent
house level, and will meet the needs
of freshmen college students, grad
uate students, and experienced
researchers.
The street level, the lowest of the
levels, will house the new Media
Services Division, which will be
responsible for the teaching mate
rials service and the film service.
Besides providing an important
production center for these teach
ing materials, it will offer a rich col
lection of audio-visual resources
for students. It will include a large
reading room with a card catalog,
carrels and tables, and a service
counter where films and other
resources may be charged out.
The main level will feature an
attractive lobby and the core of the
necessary resources and services.
On this floor will be the card
catalog cabinets, 75,000 bound
volumes of periodicals, reference
collections, a periodicals reading
room, an area for browsing
through current, unbound periodi
cals, and six general study rooms
for both smokers and non
smokers. An after-hours study
room will provide a facility for
study or quiet relaxation 24 hours
a day. The room will include a
small mezzanine with vending
machines for students to break for
snacks and drinks.
Accessible from both the street
and main levels will be the
“garden” reading room, almost
certain to become the most popu
lar reading and study area of the
new library for both student and
faculty use. It will have a “living
room” atmosphere and will over
look an outdoor plaza on the
building’s west end.
The third level of the AUC
library is specially designed for use
by undergraduate students. About
125,000 selected volumes should
fulfill the limited needs of college
students. Among the bookshelves
will be study carrels and tables to
heip me tmrd tloor provide the best
possible library service for under
graduate students in an attractive,
inviting environment.
Two-thirds of the library’s
volumes will be located on the
fourth floor, which will mostly be
used by 'graduate students and
other researchers. Privacy will be
available -in the enclosed carrels
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The Proposed Atlanta University Center Library