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President Cole receives DuBois Award SGA president By Angie Harmon Contributing Writer threatens mass Clark Atlanta University President Thomas W. Cole Jr. was awarded the W.E. B. DuB ois demonstration Award, Oct. 14,for outstanding leadership, community By Clarence Rolle administration really care about excellence, and improving the Staff Writer us (students)?’” quality of life through education. However, SGA Graduate President Rick Robinson said he The National Association for 1 he Student Government the Advancement of Colored has not had an opportunity to Association, SGA, is poised People, NAACP, held its 37th discuss a demonstration with toT organize amassi ve student protest annual Atlanta Branch Freedom Bell. However, he said it is a after Thanksgiving break if, Fund Dinner at the Hyatt possibility. according to SGA undergraduate Regency Hotel in downtown One of Bell’s reasons for President Samuel Bell, Jr., “The Atlanta. The theme of the event proposing the demonstration is administration does not improve its was,” Celebrating Our Legacy: his claim that high-level treatment of SGA members and the A vision for the 21st Century. administrators have generally The dinner is the major student body.” ignored SGA since the beginning fundraising for the civil rights Bell said he will ask all students of this semester. organization. Proceeds will to walk out of class in protest of “The President of this benefit programs of the local what he claims is the administration’s institution, the President of branch. “disrespect” and “lack of concern Academic Affairs (and) the Dean Many awards were given out forSGA membersand the student of Student Life have literally that night including the Charles body.” disrespected me as a student L. Harper Award received by “When you hear the phrase leader by not even making an James Moffitt, the Economics ‘oneexceptional university,'you attempt to hold one meeting w ith Justice Award received by envision a university with an me or the graduate president Eugene McCullers, the administration that goes above throughout this school year,” he Thurgood Marshall Award and beyond the call of duty to said. received by Judge Glenda serve their constituents,” Bell According to Bell, meetings Hatchett and the Roy Wilkens said. “However, we have found with Vice President/Student award received by the that this is not the case. A question Affairs Dr. Doris Weathers and Honorable Emma Darnell, -has been posed to the SGA that Assistant Dean of Student Life Fulton County Commissioner. we sometimes cannot answer Peggy Hampton have been President Cole continued on P3 ourselves: ‘Does the continued on P2 Crime statistics highlight property theft, lost property IN SIDE: By Antonia Peagler The Department of Public for public access. Student parent P4 Contributing Writer Safety publishes monthly crime “None of this information can demands statistics to inform the campus be kept from the students orparents The Department of Public récognition community about reported that want to know,” Secretary of Property theft leads CAU’s criminal activities. Public Safety Beverly Gordon campus crimes, according to the The reports are in accordance said. Safety made two arrests out Department of Public Safety’s with the Student ’ s Right- to- Know Since January, Director of P6 Black Crime Statistics Report for and Campus Security Act of 1990. Public Safety Jackie Patterson said collegesand September indicated. Public Safety also has to forward he has been striving to make CAU of three reports of drug financial aid The report indicated, 22 incidents all crimes to the Georgia Crimes a safer place for the students. of property theft occurred. One Information Center ,GCIC, and Patterson said he’s added more arrest was made for property theft. the GCIC in turn forwards this police and public safety officers violations. The crime report The report showed that four information to the Federal Bureau on patrol on and around campus. P7 Can burglaries, two incidents of motor of Investigation (FBI) to be He has also instituted a new also disclosed a total of Farrakhan be vehicle theft, one robbery and one included in the FBI Uniform emergency phone system that is considered a case of simple assault and battery Crime Report. handicap-accessible. The muslim? were reported. No arrests were The Student’s Right-to-Know emergency telephone booths are $13,537 in property loss for made for the crimes. Act states that all students located around the Thayer Hall The department made two arrests attending any school have the right and Trevor Arnett Hall out of three reports of drug to know all of the criminal quadrangles and near the library. September. None of the P8 Charles Button violations. The crime report also incidents on and near the campus, “I think that CAU has a very ■j up close and disclosed a total of $13,537 in and the Public Safety Department safe atmosphere, but being in an personal property loss for September. None of that school must compile and urban area there are going to be property was recovered. of the property was recovered. . release a record of all incidence criminal incidents," Patterson -»______P2
Protest continued from Pl School of Social Work canceled every time they were scheduled. Dr. Cole said. “And they had indicated Sometimes, he said, they were canceled that there was miscommunication on their considers relocating fire- after a postponement. part.” However, Dean Hampton said Student Although meetings between SGA and Life had only one meeting with SGA administration have not taken place this ravaged hall members this semester and that it was the semester, Dr. Cole said neither he nor Dr. By Regina Roberts suggested the school get an architectural only one scheduled. Hampton also said Weathers have been reluctant to meet with Staff Writer firm to develop the drawing for the state of she called the only meeting with SGA just the student representatives. He said it is the art building that would have “all of the before Homecoming and she did not cancel sometimes hard to contact SGA executives technology we would need for researching, any meeting. due to their class schedules. But Dr. Cole In order to prepare for the 21 st century, teaching, meetings and things of that “Doors have never been closed to SGA said the miscommunication between SGA the School of Social Work has discussed nature.” or any student,” Dean Hampton said. “And, and administrators can be avoided if regular plans with alumni to rebuild and relocate Moreover, talks sparked regarding a in most cases, I’d probably go beyond if meeting times are established and both Quarles-Washington Hall, according to fund drive to raise a large amount of anything.” sides ensure that they always attend. Dr. Richard Lyle, Interim Dean of the money - which Dr. Lyle wishes to keep Not only did Hampton say she did not However, he said, administration has never school. anonymous - within the immediate future believe that administration has had a problem meeting with past SGA During a briefing session at the 75th for rebuilding purposes. “disrespected” SGA and the students, but executives. Anniversary Celebration/Rebuilding However, the interim dean said while she added that she was concerned that Bell Robinson said that the only meeting Fund, held Oct. 6-8, a group of alumni the School of Social Work supports these feels his office has been ignored. She said SGA had with Student Life’s Hampton was taken on a tour of the campus. While “excellent” recommendations, “we have she was interested in finding out whether this semester was to discuss concerns about touring, the group visited the site of the to look at that in light of the economy and other members of the executive board felt Homecoming expenses. He and Bell are school, 80 percent of which was destroyed the political climate to generate that the same way. compiling a post-Homecoming report in by arson last semester. amount of money in a reasonable amount Hampton declined to comment on the which they may recommend the dismissal “They were very depressed,” Lyle said. of time.” proposed student protest but agreed of certain university employees because “The alumni recommended that we And although the resources aren’t there, dialogue between administration and SGA they had not performed satisfactorily relocate the school from its current area to Dr. Lyle said, “we would expect to get a is needed to clear up grievances that the during Homecoming. the area near the Presidential Parking lot, drawing very soon so that we can proceed student body may have. Hampton believed some of the so we would have adequate space to with launching the fund drive (for the And Robinson said, “I don’t think any Homecoming problems were caused expand for the 21st century.” rebuilding of the school).” attempt has been made to meet with Dean because of a sudden change in the date for Robert Davis, an alumnus of the school, Currently, he added, “We have not Hampton. But, she has not initiated any the event. She said Homecoming was was one of the members who suggested finished our calculations of that (the sum attempts either.” originally scheduled to begin Oct. 15 the school be moved to the Parsons Street raised at the rebuilding fund from the Robinson also said the school’s problems instead of Oct. 22. However, she did not and James P. Brawley Drive site, but he anniversary celebration). We still have are related to the roles that high-level believe administration should carry all the had reservations about the relocation. some bills that are outstanding. As soon administrators have assumed. burden of Homecoming disappointments. “I wish it could be maintained where it as we clear those, we could get a tally on “The highest administrators on campus “There’s enough blame to be shared by is,” Davis said, “but it is not adequate what our profit is from the celebration.” have too many responsibilities and become everyone for Homecoming, and SGA enough to meet the needs of the 21st Asked about the school’s future within ineffective in their supervision of campus,” carries some of that,” Hampton said. “The century.” a year, the dean replied; “The school would he said. responsibility for homecoming is shared The co-chair of the planning committee continue to remain in temporary quarters For instance, Robinson believed Dr. (by SGA and administration).” for the 75th Anniversary Celebration/ and work toward generating funds to Weathers has not kept weekly meetings Hampton said that SGA is traditionally Rebuilding Fund, added, “In order for the rebuild Quarles-Washington Hall. with SGA because she is responsible for responsible for organizing Homecoming school to fit the needs of the students, Simultaneously with that task, the school 15 departments. SGA is scheduled to meet activities, but she said she would like to faculty and staff...the faculty, students would then continue planning for or with Dr. Weathers every Wednesday see Homecoming as a responsibility of the and staff should all be housed in one making preparations for its reaccreditation between 11 a.m. and noon, Robinson said. university “as a whole.” building.” by the Council on Social Work Education.” He said Uni versity President Dr. Thomas But according to Bell, students will In addition, Dr. Lyle said the alumni W. Cole has made attempts to meet with protest if administration does not improve SGA. Robinson said Dr. Cole “literally” its treatment of students by the end of Improvements noted in seniors’ walked over to the SGA office to meet Thanksgiving break. He said students will with its executive board when he believed walk out of class for the demonstration. graduation clearance process there was a meeting. Robinson added there “Everything will be shut down,” Bell were no meetings with Dr. Cole this said. “As student leader, I will not be By Kenneth Burnett Senior Seminar is a required course that semester because of miscommunication pimped. I will not let the student body be Contributing Writer must be taken during the first or second between the president’s office and SGA. pimped.” Seniors preparing to graduate semester of the students’ graduating year, Dr. Cole agreed with Robinson. “I Bell may have support for a must endure one final process before it all but Beavers suggested taking it in the first attended a meeting and they didn’t show,” Continued on P3 semester of the graduating year. becomes official. “They [graduating seniors] might miss While some contend the ritual of being an important deadline or not know what is cleared is still in need of improvement, going on, if taken in the second half,” Beavers many students and faculty contend they’ve said. noticed a considerable upgrade. One former student said she did not Could I have BV “I have seen 774 students [to be cleared know what she had to do to get cleared for Q for graduation] in a four week span of her graduation. time,” said Janice Hardnett, undergraduate and not know it? “CAU is a word-of-mouth school,” Kisha graduation coordinator. “That leaves only O Dennis, a 1994 graduate, said. “I sometimes 100 students left to be seen. saw advertisements about senior meetings, “This is opposed to last year,” Hardnett but there were times when nothing was H continued. “I saw 497 students in a six week Bacterial Vaginosis, more common than a yeast posted. A few times I received things in the process. Each year, I find the process can be infection, affects up to 60% of American women. mail after the event happened.” revised to work easier for the students.” The good news is, BV can be easily diagnosed Meanwhile, Hardnett said, “This year, Kimberly Beavers, a senior in the Mass and treated. To find out how to participate in the process went well because of good Media Arts Department, “It went well for a research study that will help women’s health cooperation between the graduation me. I knew where I was supposed to go and call: 1800-506-9091. coordinators, deans and the chairmen in the what I was supposed to do. In my senior different departments. I’m trying to move to seminar class, I was kept well-informed.” PQ Continued on P3 Protest continued from P2 Director of Student Activities demonstration from students like Michelle Rhodes, who is adviser Timothy Bembury, a graduating to SGA, said she is not aware of News Briefs senior. Bembury said he expected any plans for a student demonstration. She said to participate in student NATIONAL NEWS predict he will lose in Saturday’s runoff to his demonstrations of relevant issues executive board members may oppenent, 65-year-old Mike Foster. But Fields is when he entered the university. not include her in the planning of Government halts due to undaunted. Three days before the election, he So far, he said, he has been a demonstration if they decide to exhorted a large and euphoric crowd of mostly black disappointed by the apathy of have one because she is a member congressional impasse students inside the Xavier University gymnasium. the student body. of the university’s staff. Thousands of federal employees were sent He implored them to set their alarm clocks at 5 a.m. “Well, I think I would walk Among SGA concerns are home Nov. 14 as a on election day, to vote early and then work to get out, but if Sam Bell wants us to rising tuition and the university’s consequence of the congress’ “balance the budget” others to the polls. walk out, he’d have to tell us budget, Bell said. He said war. why,” Bembury said. “I wouldn’t students should be able to identify Congressmen are haggling over the WORLD NEWS just get up and walk out. But I do improvements in the university Republican proposal to balance the budget within Tomb of Maccabees have certain problems of my own when tuition increases. He said seven years. The Republican proposal would allow with the administration. So if SGA should be aware of how all the government to spend $ 12 trillion between Oct. 1, believed found the funds are being used. there are any ways we could voice 1995 and Sept. 30, 2002. The sum is approximately A tractor leveling ground for a new highway “I’m ready to go to the Board our opinion and let them know $300 billion less than the sum President Bill Clinton broke open a 2,000-year-old burial cave believed of Trustees and ask them to about our displeasure, I think I had proposed. Current law allows the government to used by the Maccabees, a tribe of Jewish warriors intervene on my behalf,” Bell would support that.” spend $890 billion more than the sum. whose revolt is celebrated in the festival of Hanukkah. But CandraReid, a sophomore, said. President Bill Clinton’s internal polls Friday, Nov. 17 Site Director Shimon Rikkin said Bell said he was also upset was more weary of the proposed indicated that he is a more popular candidate than this was the first time archaeologists have evience because he paid $379 of his own protest. “There are a few Dole in the 1996 election. On Nov. 15, Clinton’s that this family existed. They were only known, until problems [with administration], money to prepare Homecoming approval ratings were about 50 percent and his now, from ancient Jewish writings. but I don’t think anything is going concert tickets because the disapproval ratings were dropping. Disapproval to be resolved by walking out,” university would have taken too ratings for House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) she said. “I don’t think it’s going long to issue the money for the were rising. Algerians defy threats to be that effective since we tickets. He also said he paid to vote for president haven’t had a general body another $1,500 for a generator Powell declines to enter Defying death threats by Islamic insurgents, meeting with the SGA and sat for the concert because the Algerians streamed to heavily guarded polling down as a body. I haven’t heard university could not supply presidential race stations Thursday, Nov. 16 for their first multiparty anything about that. enough electrical power. Former military Gen. Colin Powell presidential election since their independence in “I think we need to take steps Hampton declined to comment announced this month that he will not run for 1962. The military-installed president, Liamine and measures and actions, on Bell’s concert expenses or president, leaving Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) as the Zeroual, was the favorite in the election. At 7pm. a preliminary steps, before you go expenses Bell said he incurred forerunner for the post in the Republican camp. preliminary count from several small towns indicaed and do something this drastic. It because Student Life would not he had 60 percent of the vote, and three opponents might backfire on the students, give him access to long distance shared the rest. State radio said an exit poll gave and even though students may calling codes. Five Americans die in Zeroual 66 percent. not have participated, it might “I’m having a hard time Saudi bombing backfire. Personally I don’t think understanding if they really care LOCAL NEWS Five americans were killed Nov. 13 when a bomb I would take that route.” about us,” Bell said. exploded in a parking lot in Saudi Arabia. 28,000 affected by shut down in Georgia Dr. Robert Threatt, Atlanta President Cole A building that housed the U.S. Army mission The partial government shutdown that resulted branch president said," Everyone continued from Pl headquarters was next to the parking lot. The mission from the conflict between Republicans and Clinton’s should support this event and trains the Saudi National Guard. The bombing supporters affects 28,000 workers in Georgia. The DuBois award is given to an organization and the event will prompted the U.S. to tighten security at military Students rally against financial aid cut individual who has committed be a night of celebration for all stations in the Mideast. The color green brings black and white students their life to the scholarly pursuit who attend.” of racial justice and social and together at Kennesaw State College in Cobb County. Students from campus organizations including the economic equality and Dr. Cole Graduation Process Drugs fight Aids in college’s NAACP chapter and the Student Center, was the most deserved person. continued from P2 Doris Smith, an attendee at Monkey’s body that often are at odds on racial issues, rallied Thursday, a smoother and faster process.” the reception, said," It was a An experimental drug prevented monkeys from Nov. 16 against proposed federal cuts in financial According to Hardnett, the beautiful program and I am sure catching the AIDS virus even when the virus was aid. Registrar’s office would like to that all who attended enjoyed pumped directly into their bodies. move the clearance process to the it.” student’s junior year. Board plans to change Student threatens family by way of the racial bias within Internet A college student is arrested in Massapequa Georgia’s schools Park, N.Y., and charged with terrorizing an Currently, Georgia is one of the only states in the Indianapolis family via the Internet by threatening in county where an IQ score alone determines who is e-mail messages to hunt them down, rape a 12-year- gifted. Partly as a result, Georgia has the second Q old girl and kill them. most racially skewed gifted classes in the nation, Can you treat BV? with whites five times as likely as blacks to be Black candidate runs admitted, a 1994 Atlanta Journal-Constition study □ found. However, according to the state Board of against experts Education, by next fall no student with extraordinary ability will be shut out. They voted to include criterias Bacterial Vaginosis, more common than a yeast predictions such as; infection, affects up to 60% of American women. Cleo Fields, 32, shocked the political establishment • Allowing students who go through the four-part The good news is, BV can be easily diagnosed by finishing second in the October gubernatorial evaluation and meet only the IQ cutoff to get in and treated. To find out how to participate in primary. No Black in Louisiana history has ever anyway, as they do now. a research study that will help women’s health advance to the run off. The youngest state senator at •Making the use of multiple 'riteria optional this age 23 and the youngest member of Congress at age > call: 1800-506-9091. year but mandatory the next school year. 27, Fields plan to beat the odds in a state divided PQ politically more and more by race. Experts and polls Student parent forms collegiate Thanksgiving Picture Poll parent awareness society
By LaRell Lee the single mother of a two year old son and Contributing Writer can empathize with Lawson. “So far I’ve only had to bring my son to Nikia Lawson, a mother and Clark class twice, because of emergency situations Atlanta University student, recently and both times the professor and students organized the Collegiate Parent Awareness were supportive,” Bell said. Society ,CPAS, whose primary goal is to Life for students with children can be acquire a board certified nursery on hectic at times. campus. Lawson, who has been married for three Currently there are no day care services years, goes to school in the morning while provided by CAU for its students. her husband cares for their daughter. University administrators suggested Lawson’s school day must end by 2 p.m. students with children apply for the so that she can be at home to take care of her Jermaine Archer, a CAU junior, Akosua Imara, a Spelman senior, federally funded Head Start program. daughter while her husband goes to work at does not celebrate Thanksgiving but says she does not celebrate But for some it’s not that easy. night. Lawson does not have a job because he said he plans to go to New Orleans Thanksgiving, but she plans to go to “One problem with Head Start is that she doesn’t have time, but she said she does during the holiday. her fiance's house. eligibility begins for children age four,” nail part time. said Lawson, whose daughter is just over Lawson feels that students who are parents a year old. have gone unrecognized. Many student parents pay between $65 “We want students, teachers and and $ 100 per week for child care services. administrators to know that we do exist and “For a lot of parents in school that is very our numbers will continue to grow,” she expensive and, if the facility is located far said. from campus, it can be inconvenient,” Her efforts to find out the total number of Lawson said. students with children have so far been She said sometimes she and other student unsuccessful. have to take their children to meetings and “Our goal for membership is to reach classes. every student parent raising a child while in “I know that my daughter can be school and that includes fathers,” Lawson distracting,” Lawson said, “but sometimes said. I can’t avoid bringing her to classes with Notices will be going up soon on campus Nyema Taylor, a CAU sophomore me.” buildings and bulletin boards for the CPAS Tutu Durant, a CAU senior said, said, "No, I do not honor the holiday, "No, but I eat a whole lot of Stacy Bell, vice-president of CPAS, is meetings. but I doeat!" and she adds, "Yes I am turkey!" going home!” photos by Melvin Jackson VOLUNTEER CAU ENCOURAGES Thanksgiving doesn’t necessarily mean home for the holidays STUDENT PARTICIPATION i By Tarsha Burton visiting relatives in Mississippi. i Staff Writer However, there are also students who ? By Felicia R. Jones publicity given to the group. will not be reunited with family this * Contributing Writer “We are aware that the service has gone November. After paying tuition, many i Family and friends plan to get together Serving as a network that links students unknown and we are working to improve students said they are unable to afford j the area of PR. Hopefully by sponsoring [ to celebrate the holiday season and share with volunteer agencies of their choice, transportation cost to return home for both and emphasizing projects such as the i cranberry sauce and dressing, roasted Volunteer Clark Atlanta University aids Thanksgiving and Christmas. Many i “Volunteer Leader Luncheon” the service j turkey and pumpkin pie. These are all students with their search for an simply stay in Atlanta for the two day i will become well known.” i symbolic of Thanksgiving. organization that fits their needs and break, opting to spend the three week i She said this project is planned to be held j For many students, this is their first interests. Christmas break at home. once a month, and will allow volunteer ; time being away from home for an However, many students are unaware Freshman Tamar Gant of Los Angeles i CAU student staff to invite chairpersons i extended period of time. will spend his first Thanksgiving holiday I of the program, which was reestablished or project coordinators of college I The Thanksgiving holiday will not only three years ago on CAU’s campus but away from home this year. “I may visit my associations or organizations, (i.e., Student i give them a two day break from classes, was originally started at Clark College. auntie in Gwinette,” Gant said. Govt. Association) to become involved in i but will provide them with an opportunity “Maybe if we knew the process we’d In fact, many students will be spending s better promoting the service. i to reunite with family and friends. become more involved,” CAU senior the Thanksgiving holiday in Atlanta. Gant, * Eddie Hughes, a staff member and i First year student Stacey Boozer plans Kelly Walton said. however, is one of the few students at i graduate student at CAU, feels the Office i to return to his Baltimore, MD home Headed by Peggy B. Hampton, assi stant Clark Atlanta University who is fortunate i of Student Affairs should focus more on i claiming, “This is my first time being dean of Student Affairs, Volunteer CAU enough to have family in the Atlanta area. > promoting the service and recruiting i away this long. I miss it.” is completely staffed by students. Second year MBA student Carlotta [ students. i Eighteen-year-old Meesha Harris Their goal is to enhance positive Swain, a native of Alabama, turned the i “It helps that [work-study students] are i agreed saying, “I miss my mom and my community relations through student tables. She has invited her parents to i involved, but the organization needs more i little brother and sister.” Harris will volunteering and other outreach related Atlanta this year for Thanksgiving. “My i people who have the skills and the drive to i spend the holiday season at home in activities, focusing primarily on mother is going to help me cook.” make it successful.” [ Philadelphia. For people like junior Danyella Rucker, { community needs in areas such as health, Volunteer CAU targets college students i International students like Dentra recreation and cultural affairs. flying home for the holidays is an ordinary i who are required to complete 30 hours of i Dixon of Bermuda is not going home, Hampton said students don ’ t know about occurrence. “I always go home for every ] Continued on P5 i Dixon, a freshman, will spend the holiday the program because there isn’t enough break, but I do miss it [home].” Rucker; lives'm'Denverj'C'oI...... "...... P; Features
Volunteer Cau continued “The concept was to create a organizations. Pre-Alumni Council from P4 space where students and If interested, students can obtain agencies could interact,” Hughes an application from the Volunteer community/volunteer service boasts of high member said. CAU office, located in Kresge during their first year. Volunteer CAU will sponsor Hall, Room 204. For further Since many students apply to morale the Empty Stocking Drive Nov. information, please call (404) By LaRell R. Lee fulfdl their first year student organization even though their 30. This event will allow students 880-6360. Contributing Writer reasons for joining may differ. orientation community service “I would hope that the requirement, the service hopes uplifting of CAU, other black to encourage students to continue The Pre-Alumni Counsel colleges and the community volunteering their services after ,PAC, a fund-raising community would be the motivation of the requirement is met. service based organization has prospective members,” Brownlee Hughes said he hopes to been actively involved at Clark said. broaden the spectrum of the Atlanta University and with the As a result of high attendance service by using his own ideas to local community for the past at national and local conferences implement a program that will seven years. and excellent community service be educational and beneficial for According to Albert work, PAC was rewarded with disadvantaged children in the Brownlee, PAC president, this is “Best Attendance” award for the surrounding Atlanta University the largest organization on 1994-1995 school year and Center community. campus with a membership of “Chapter of the Year” award for Though not highly visible, 175 students. the past two years. Volunteer CAU has also He said members are kept PAC encourages anyone with coordinated activities that busy with numerous activities. enthusiasm, energy and the introduced students to various “This semester we hosted a willingness to make a volunteer opportunities. On Oct. Miss United Negro College Fund commitment to join. 18, the staff held a “Volunteer Pageant, CAU Homecoming “Joining is also a way to learn Fair” on CAU’s campus. Coronation, Chapel service, a and develop skills concerning Representatives from The canned food drive and several communication, organization, American Red Cross, the Fembank Museum of Natural other events,” Brownlee said. and how to run a business,” Members are expected to Brownlee said. History and other organizations comply with the goals of the were present. Calendar__ I »»O’ I 330-of Events Thursday, November 23- 26 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY Xavier University of Louisiana Monday, November 27 College of Pharmacy Classes Resume Tuesday, November 28 How to Run An Effective Student Government-Video presentation for the Student Government Association and Class Officers to emhance their leadership skills. 4 pm - Science Research Center Room 1043 Wednesday, November 29 CAUSGA- Roundtable Discussion Thayer Hall Room 121- 12pm Wednesday, November 29 University Counseling Center Social for Graduate Students Thayer Hall Room 121-6 to 8pm Thursday, November 30 I he Righi I’rcMiiplion For Your i’harin.icculiciil Education. Organization Officers In Action!- Video Presentation for the Organization
Officers to build their leadership skills and team building skills. For more information call or write to: Xavier University of LA, College of Pharmacy 4 pm - Science Research Auditorium 7325 Palmetto Street New Orleans, Louisiana 70125 Friday, December 1 (504)483-7424 Campus Christmas Decorating Party - Campus Organizations and Residence Halls decorate the designated areas on campus. Get in the Holiday Spirit and join us in this campus decoration beautification project. Black colleges at Letter to the Editor the crossroad Does The Administration Really Care YOUR money, i.e. student activity fees, About Students? tuition, etc. An editorial by the Student Government Association * Maintenance By Jahi Issa In 1991, former president George Bush Dozens of students have voiced special to The Panther proposed a Bill that would make black The Clark Atlanta University Student legitimate concerns about the maintenance colleges force the students who need Government Association (CAUSGA) of university buildings. The air conditioning “A new civilization is emerging in our student loans to have a credit check. And serves as the liaison between the has not been converted to heat in some lives, and blind men everywhere are trying if they do not pass the check, they will not administration of the university and the buildings, others have showers that flood, to suppress it” be able to get a loan. Congress has also students. The relationship maintained or strange smells... It is interesting to note The Third Wave: Alvin Toffler passed a law that will cut federal grants between the administration and CAUSGA that the administrative buildings are that are given to universities by 65%. The is a mirror of the relationship maintained maintained, but student facilities do not Anyone who is looking at the world Supreme Court headed by Clarence between the administration and the students receive the same care, i.e. Thayer Hall, the intelligently can tell that a change is taking Thomas voted last year that Affirmative at large. student activities building, Crogman, the place globally. The 90’ s have brought about Action is against the Constitution. So this Thus, the question emerges: student dining hall, and all of the student a wave of political and social change. The means that all the race-based scholarship residential facilities. collapse of the former Soviet Union, the that blacks and other people of color Does The Administration Really Care 30-year trade embargo lifted by the United depended on to get through school are About Students? * Pre-planning For Homecoming ‘95 Nation against Cuba, and the 1993 elections now gone. These and many more laws During the past six months of our tenure in Homecoming festivities represent one in the Canadian government that the ruling will go into effect in the coming years. office, CAUSGA has not met with the Vice of the biggest events for students throughout party dropped from 153 seats to 2. And All the things that we have seen President of Student Affairs, Dr. Doris the year. Dean Hampton called one meeting here in the United States “The Contract for happening in Congress in the last few Weathers. In addition, CAUSGA has not for the Homecoming committee and America” headed by Newt Gingrich. years have not hit us as of yet. But in the been able to hold an exclusive meeting CAUSGA approximately one week before Yet in spite of all the things that are coming issue, I will deal with the historical with the Assistant Dean of Student Life, Homecoming began todiscuss policies and happening in the world, the black college reasons for the changes that are occurring Ms. Peggy Hampton. Several meetings have procedures’. However, both Dean Hampton seems to be operating in a 19th century in this country and the rest of the world. been scheduled, but each one has been and Dr. Weathers were not accessible during fashion. It is evident with all the budget Black colleges must deal with the issues canceled, or postponed and then canceled. the plenary stages in the summer and the cuts going on in Congress that black people facing Black America, or the number of Despite the fact that these two month of September. As a result, CAUSGA in this country will suffer the most. black colleges will decrease. administrators should be operating as had no administrative backing or Not only will these cuts hurt poor none advisors as well as supervisors toCAUSGA, information - in other words, no one was working families, but they will have a At present there is a petition neither has placed any priority on working with CAUSGA to make YOUR tremendous effect upon Historical Black Homecoming a success. Thus, there was sponsored by Pi Sigma Alpha communicating with us. Colleges and its students. Which leads me proposal to the Dean of Undergraduate to wonder, why hasn’t there been much of and the Political Science How Does This Lack Of Communication Studies requesting that midterms occur a protest by black university officials about Association of Clark Atlanta Affect You, The Student? either the week before or the week after the proposed bills that will cut the amount University being taken around If CAUSGA does not have the opportunity Homecoming; there was no conversation of money giving to these schools? with the Athletic Director about scheduling campus. to meet with Dean Hampton or Dr. It seems that our university leaders are Weathers, the link between the “voice” of for Homecoming events and the Women’s See P7 for more on the petition walking around blind and deaf. the students and the “ear” of the Volleyball Tournament... administration breaks down. It is the responsibility of CAUSGA to not only What Is CAUSGA Doing To Remedy The Panther listen to the concerns and interests of the This Situation? We encourage letters to the editor. student body, but also to relay those issues CAUSGA is in the process of addressing Letters should be: STAFF to the applicable administrators. However, these and other concerns to those •200 words or less •Handwritten or typed if neither administration maintains administrators above and beyond the NEWS: 880-8077 •must be signed division of Student Affairs. President Cole •received by Monday 5 p.m. availability, how can any issue be relayed? ADVERTISING: 880-6219 has always been receptive to the needs of All Submissions once received... 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The opinions ex pressed in The Panther reflect only the posi * Budget September, and that she and Dean Hampton Graphic Design / Layout: Iyabo Shabazz tions of the student writers and editorial staff, keep the lines of communication open. Assistant Graphic Designer: Natasha Jules and not the ideas or opinions of the University The Student Government budget, which or its governing board. The Panther has both is YOUR money, is completely Photo Editor: Melvin Jackson the right and responsibility to report news of Office Manager: Michdle N. Jacksun student interest from on and off campus, to inaccessible. Your SGA treasurer can not How Can You, The Student, Help? editorialize on matters of student concern, and Staff Adviser: Shawn Evans Mitchell to provide a forum for the free expression of access any account holding SGA funds Demand a higher level of performance opinion and exchange of ideas in the commu from upper-level administrators. nity. All rights reserved. Reprints by permis except through bureaucratic steps. In sion of the editor and advisor. Staff positions addition, CAUSGA had no input on the Demand higher visibility from these •> shall be open to all interested students. Fax: allocation of funds to the budget. In other individuals, and more respect for (404)880-6220 :x:: words, YOUR opinion, through your SGA CAUSGA, because ademonstrated lack of P.O. Box 343 officers, was not sought in reference to Continued on P7 Atlanta. Ga 30314 Perspectives CAN FARRAKHAN BE CONSIDERED A MUSLIM? Hafeezah S. Mahdi that Muslims are racists, and often Contributing Writer people have passed me and in their way saluted me by holding “What’s your leader’s name?” up one fist and saying “Black a fellow student once asked me. Power," or something to that “You know that man that says effect. that white people are devils?” What bothers me is that people the student continued. think that Muslims are the only My response to this people, the only black people who question was that my only leader want equality for their race. is Allah [God]. 1 follow no man. Everyone, whether they be People constantly assume that Muslim, Christian, Buddhists or just because I am a Muslim, that whatever, should want to have 1 follow Farrakhan. And I want high standards or love for their to let everyone know that even race. though Louis Farrakhan Furthermore, we must considers himself a Muslim, he remember that all Muslims are is not. not only African-American. When I told some of my peers There are people in Europe, Asia, that Farrakhan was not a Muslim Australia and even the former Soviet Union that practice the Graduating: June 4, 1992. they asked me, “Then what is Killed: May 28, 1992 he?” Islamic faith. Cleveland, OH First of all, Farrakhan is not a For Farrakhan to make such Muslim because he believes that anti-semitic statements only God is a Black man named Fard proves the fallacies within his Muhammad (who is currently hypocritical campaign. For me alive) who had intercourse with to accept and follow such Mary, whom he considers to be a hypocrisy would make me the white woman. The Muslim equivalent of a follower of the If you don’t stop someone from driving drunk, who will? Do whatever it takes. believes that there is only one cult leader David Koresh, the God, Allah, who is not a man but Televangelist Jim Bakerand even FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS DRIVE DRUNK. a spiritual interpretation. Jim Jones, the leader of Second, Farrakhan has stated on Jonestown in South America. several occasions that he believes Therefore, if anyone wants to Ü3 U.S. Department of Transportation “White men are devils.” This know who my leader is, I am statement leads people to think obliged to say, “Allah.” The real meaning of Thanksgiving Letter to the Editor Continued front P6 Petition respect for student government Stacey Hoyt Thanksgiving was not celebrated Continued fromP6 illustrates a lack of respect for Contributing Writer annually until Nov. 26, 1789, when President George the voice of the students, YOUR voice. The fourth Thursday in Washington issued a Y our job as the student body at November is not just an ordinary proclamation of a nation wide The 104th Congress is proposing to cut financial aid (i.e. large is to rally behind us, YOUR Thursday-Nov.24 is Thanksgiving day of Thanksgiving. It was made representatives, ass we fight to Day. In the United States, clear by the proclamation that loans, grants and work-study) by over $ 15 billion within make YOUR voices heard. Thanksgiving is an annual day of the day of Thanksgiving should thanks for the blessings of the be one of prayer and giving thanks the next seven years. The proposal of S.B. s 1198, otherwise to God. It was to be celebrated past year. It is an historical, Attend all SGA meetings, national and religious holiday by all religious denominations, a known as the Student Loan Privatization Act of 1995, if circumstance that helped to that began before Christ. beginning with the general The Bible tells of the Hebrew promote a spirit of common passed, it will terminate the Federal Direct Student Loan feast of the tabernacles or tents. heritage. body meeting on Tuesday. For seven days in the fall, the Today, Thanksgiving has Program (adversely affecting funding for subsidized and Hebrews lived in tents or huts become a time of family made from boughs. These were gatherings as well as helping unsubsidized STAFFORD LOANS, PERKINS LOANS November 21st between 6-8 like harvest in Palestine. The those less fortunate. shelters were decorated with Of course, we always think AND PLUS LOANS). S.B. s 1198 will also severely limit p.m. Attend the round-table fruits, palm leaves and other of a big family dinner when we branches. The people feasted think of Thanksgiving. We feast the availability of PELL GRANTS and it will eliminate discussion with Dr. Weathers and thanked God for the Harvest. on many of the same things our But the Holiday was more ancestors did: cranberries, com, the WORK-STUDY Program. If you do not support S.B. in Merner Hall on Monday, than a harvest festival. It was pumpkin pie, and turkey. Thanksgiving afternoon, all si 198 and you are prepared to fight against its passage by also in memory of the Hebrews’ November 20th, at 5:30 p.m. 40-year search for the promised over the United States, football land. games are played and parades voting and civil protest, please sign this petition! In the United States, are watched. P8
By Nikki Roberts believed, at the time, that there was going Staff Writer to be an armed overthrow of the government and I couldn’t wait for it to Although Charles Dutton is dressed in happen. I was going to be the first one on the line—shooting or doing whatever a conservative blue suit and his voice is as coaxing as it is powerful, you can’t help was necessary,” Dutton recounts with a bit of contention in his voice. but affectionately relate to him as the rough- After gathering fellow inmates together edged, garbage-man who entered America’s living room every Sunday night to perform the play during talent night because everyone else just “did imitations as the character “Roc.” The recent divorcee of actress Debrah of ‘The Temptations’ and ‘The Four Morgan and ex-boyfriend of Hollywood Tops,’” Dutton was so impressed with star Angela Basset, leans back in the folds the response of the crowd, he knew acting of the reclining chair and tells you why he would be an intricate part of his life. chose the character “Huey” in the “It was a moment in the play, when upcoming Paramount Pictures release my character was speaking, that I looked “Nick of Time.” out in the audience and I saw that I had “I thought the plot was totally these guys in the palm of my hands. I implausible at the first reading. But it was actually felt this eerie kind of power. I actually a challenge to play the character could make these guys laugh. I could of Huey. I didn’t give an ounce of concern make them cry. I could make them quiet. to his occupation being a ‘shoe-shine-guy’ I could make them pensive, reflective. It because anything I play, I’m going to give was at that moment, on the stage in the it some dignity and integrity. He just penitentiary, that 1 had discovered what I wasn’t a guy who shined shoes,” Dutton was bom to do.” said in the roundtable interview. That same determination landed him a Viewing “shoe-shine-men” and black spot in the prestigious drama department barbers as “philosophers,” Dutton at Yale University. expounds on this reasoning. When asked if his success had any “You’re not gonna go into a barber effect on the other young men who started shop or a shoe-shine-stand in the black acting with him in prison, Dutton community and not come away learning responds: “Unfortunately, out of the 10 something about the world and life. Now, or 11 guys, I’d say that probably three of you may want to get out the chair and hurry them are still living. They’re either dead up and get the hell out of there, but you’ll or back in the penitentiary.” learn something.” file photo Although Dutton enjoys his personal “/ feel if I were doing what the accolades and the great reviews and on voice becoming slightly shaky. success, there are still several issues in the Monday they would call [me] and say: So, is there any hope for blacks in the Martin Lawrence is arena of black actors/actresses that still ‘that was a great show, but you can’t do television industry? disturb him. that every week.’ My answer was ‘are you “Where TV is concerned, when doing, I’d still be on the “I have less criticism of the film industry out for ratings or are out to suppress my someone from the television industry gives than television because I think the film artistic views?’ With the exception of The me a satisfactory explanation why there air. If we were doing light industry is a choice. You get a script, you Simpsons, “Roc” was the highest rated hasn’t been a black drama after 9pm on do it or you don’t. The problem I see with show on Fox three or four years ago.” television that goes beyond six episodes weight, fluffy episodes film is that there aren’t enough black Dutton reclines a little more in his in 50 years of TV, then I will stop women working in it. There are several chair. His face is calm, but there is a subtle complaining about it.” like "Fresh Prince of Bel- black men that are doing well in film, hint of anger as he speaks adamantly of Turning the subject to his popular they’re constantly working. I still have a present-day black sitcoms. phrase: ‘From Jail to Yale,” Dutton delves Air" and "Family major, major beef with TV. I don’t see any “I feel if I were doing what Martin into the true struggle behind that statement. progress since I’ve left it.” Lawrence is doing, I’d still be on the air. If “I started acting in prison. A girlfriend Matters” and “Living So, why isn’t the highly acclaimed we were doing light-weight, fluffy of mine sent me a book of plays around television series “Roc” on television Single, ” [Roc] would still episodes like "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" 1972 and I had never read a play before at anymore? and “Family Matters” and “Living Single,” the time. I dropped out of school in seventh “Having worked in television for three be on television. the show would still be on television. grade, 12 years old. I read this play in years, I don’t think it has anything to do Unfortunately, nice guys and nice girls prison called “Day of Absence,” a political with money. I think it’s all bigotry. My Unfortunately, nice guys finish last in television. That industry only satire. As destiny would take it, it sort of example is, whenever we did episodes of responds to power. I know all of those fit my consciousness as a human being at “Roc” that were social episodes about and nice girls finish last people I just mentioned and I’ve seen what the time because I was a communist, something, those shows always received they do on their shows,” Dutton said, his socialist revolutionary who really II the highest ratings. [Fox] would take all Screen vibes
"Nick of Time" docks action, suspense
By Nikki Roberts impostors played by Christopher the sure knowledge that the Staff Writer Walken and Roma Maffia. kidnappers will retaliate by Watson is told he must commit killing his daughter. Tiptoeing past the silhouette a murder within the next 90 Co-starring as Huey, a hotel of critically acclaimed “Speed,” minutes or his daughter will die. employee enlisted to help comes Paramount Pictures’ This aspect of the plot could use Watson, is Charles Dutton, action-filled suspense thriller, some developing. For instance, whose savvy and creme de la “Nick of Time.” beyond the blood-tie and, of creme acting skills give an air of On Nov. 22 viewers will be course, sentimental value importance to the otherwise offered a cumbersome leap from attached to his daughter, the disabled veteran who shines the rueful world of Hollywood audience could have been offered shoes for a living. Huey adds a fantasy into what is commonly something more of a father- sense of urgency and twisted known as real life, when Gene daugher relationship before the humor—check out the wooden Watson (Johnny Depp) dramabegan. Case in point, what leg action—to the acting and experiences the sort of drama happened with his wife that the physical production demands. that holds your morbid daughter would be such a “Nick of Time’s” Director/ fascination when splashed across vulnerable ransom? Producer John Badham has the evening news. The target of Watson’s deadly constructed the film’s length to Arriving at Union Station in assignment is an innocent public be nearly identical wih the time downtown Los Angeles, Watson figure (Marsha Mason) who span of events taking place in the file photo and his six-year-old daughter tends to court “broken promises.” Gene Watson (Johnny Depp, left) tries to involve hotel employee Huey movie, which thrills the audience (Charles Dutton) in derailing an assassination plot in the suspense thriller Lynn (Courtney Chase) are Any effort Watson makes to and keeps one guessing of the "Nick of Time." suddenly taken hostage by police destroy the plan is stymied by seemingly impossible resolve.
trademarks that catapulted its big brothers (Dre and Snoop) to the forefront of hip-hop: heavy bass lines, catchy rap phrases and enough all-stars to compete with the big dipper. “Dogg Food” takes its listeners to a world of '64 convertibles, survival skills and the quelling rays of California sunshine. The mid-tempo groove of “New York, New York” challenges the credibility of East Coast performers (without being overly-cynical) and displays the versatility of Daz and Kurupt’s lyrical prowess. Other favorites are “Smooth,” featuring none other than the “tilted grinster” himself and the gangsta romantic vibe of “Let’s Play House,” file photo showcasing the almost-forgotten file photo talent of Michel’le. Although the official Dogg \VAY 2 FUbll Panthers continued from Pll Track team starts early for victory With five players averaging in double figures, experience and talent, the Panthers Dionne Reynolds Edwards is also excited about the who Edwards expect to improve. Edwards hope to finish in the top two for the Eastern Staff Writer potential of the teams new recruits and also has recruited a group of his football division. quality of his returning runners. New players to run. “This is their off-season Witherspoon, Latimore and Nolley plan With track season coming around the recruits for the men include Juan Austin, a training to build up their speed,” Edwards to lead the Panthers to victory in their first corner for the spring semester, Head Coach native Atlantan, who specializes in said. home opener against Clayton State Davg Edwards and his team are starting sprinting and the long jump and Charles The team is currently practicing daily at College, Nov. 21. practice early. Breeding, who specializes in the 100,200 either 5:45 a.m. or 3:30 p.m. They are Even though Edwards is the Defensive and 400 meter races. practicing long-endurance running such NCAA continued from P12 Coordinator of the Panther football team, With the women, the track team has as 3-to-5 miles, 800’s and 1500’s. to be testing. If it does not occur these he never loses site of his runners. For his acquired Nicole Prad, a transfer student Edwards said the team is building students will not be able to pass.” distance runners, Edwards has who is a sprinter, long jumper and quarter endurance and are lifting weights to prepare Haygood also asserts that the student is accommodated them with a few cross horse, and a native of Sparta, GA, Shonta for the season. responsible for their academic success or country meets. “I call around for a couple Alexander, who sprints and does relays. Edwards said he has seen plenty of failure. He said student athletes can excel of meets,” Edwards said. “I have very high expectations of them,” improvements over his three years as head and thus perform well on the ACT and Since the runners are not an official Edwards said. coach. “We have a lot more depth,” SAT were they to start early preparation. cross country team, the runners compete as Veterans who are returning to the team Edwards said. This also would entail the aid of college individuals or as a club team. “They are are Kyrah Webb, who was an All- He said his team can now compete in recruiters in stressing the importance of endurance training for the (upcoming) American and a second away from more events because of the new recruits those tests, he added. season,” Edwards said. Nationals, Latifah Johnson, who was two and the runners who have come from other However, Haygood also agreed with “We have beaten some other SI AC teams seconds away from Nationals and Roxanne teams. However, Edwards said, "We still coach Hunter and others that the ACT and and they got mad,” laughed Edwards, who Singleton, who will be a contribution to have a long ways to go.” SAT are bias toward blacks and that many had to explain to the other teams that they the relay teams. The men include blacks do not test well on either test. are just practicing. Wilkenson Nestor and Andre Crawford, Sports Trivia 1995-96 TEAM SCHEDULES 1. How many teams are there in the NFL that have never PANTHERS MEN’S 1995-96 made it to BASKETBALL SCHEDULE the super bowl? 2. Who is the first black quaterback to ever lead a team to win the DATE OPPONENET PLACE TIME superbowl? Answers NOVEMBER 1. 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