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NCAA may limit blacks' education See P11 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.