Lady Panthers Break the Clock Against Tuskegee, See page 11. Volume I • Number XVVII Atlanta, Georgia February 20, 1995 CONVOCATION 95 CAU Makes Mayor Campbell No Show History With New Major By Tarsha Burton Contributing Writer Clark Atlanta University has been noted as the only historically black college and the first institu­ tion of higher learning in Georgia to offer enter­ tainment and sports management as a major. Currently, 172 colleges and universities in the United States offer sports management programs, but fewr institutions offer an entertainment and sports management program. The program’s mission is to “provide high qual­ ity management education for a group of individu­ als that will be the future leaders in entertainment and sports management,” according to a statement from CAU’s School of Business. The major is offered through the School of Business. Dr. Oliver Welch, founder of the Entertainment (Photo by Christian Gooden) and Sports Management Center, said the major is Coleman voices his views about Freaknic and Atlanta politics at CAU's Black primarily offered to graduate students. History Month Convocation. Welch credits Edward Irons, dean of the School of Business, for helping with the program. “I think there are a lot of people who saw it SGA President Questions Atlanta Mayor s Absence emerge, but the dean should be given full credit,” Welch said. Few schools offer a program that combines tion will be resolved before April. sion in scheduling. By Lisa Flanagan entertainment and sports. Welch said within the “We make a plea to the city to sit “My understanding is that Mayor News Editor next decade, the fields of entertainment and sports down and really listen to what we Campbell was invited to speak at the will be inseparable. have to say.” convocation and because of a sched­ Student Government Association “CAU hopes to help change the economic equa­ “Instead of talking to the students, Undergraduate President, Jamal uling conflict, he was not able to tion of African Americans with this program,” he Coleman, encouraged student politi­ who basically control the information attend the convocation,” Jill said. cal awareness and pleaded with city flow of this event he (Campbell) has Strickland, press secretary for the Baseball legend Hank Aaron, Filmmaker Spike officials to discuss the banning of instituted an almost military style mayor, said. Lee and Recording Producer Antonio “L.A.” Reid, Freaknic, as he stood in for Mayor direction to the police force, warning In 1994, Campbell stated Freaknic, who serve on the advisory committee as vice presi­ Bill Campbell, who was expected to students that certain things will not be the event held in late April, which dent, president and co-president respectively, give the Feb. 17 Black History Month tolerated,” Coleman said. attracts around 500,000 black assisted in implementing the program. Convocation speech. Campbell was unable to attend the Courses began this semester and students are Coleman said he hopes the situa­ convocation because of some confu- Continued P8 Continued P8 INSIDE Library Receives Grants for Special Collections grant which totaled $345,000 to include features of Vivian we get finished with it,” said Dr. •Students help select By Candice Giles Contributing Writer the library. The National Henderson, a former Clark Prince Rivers, interim director of the new vice-presi­ Endowment for Humanities College social philosophy pro­ the Woodruff Library. dent of academic Grants totaling over $535,000 awarded $190,000 to Woodruff fessor and C. Eric Lincoln. Archivists measure the collec­ affairs. p3 for the Robert Woodruff to be used over a two-year peri­ The 14 collections contain, tions by lining up record center among ojther things, interviews boxes side-by-side, filled with • See the movie and Library’s Division of Archives od and the Ford Foundation and Special Collections, will awarded the library $50,000. with Elijah Muhammad and completed files. Each box is book reviews and get support the processing of 14 pri­ Some of the anticipated col­ Malcom X, correspondences, approximately five inches wide. another "Backstage vate collections of historical lections include one representing questionnaires and personal “Processing of the collections Pass" with the rap memoirs, letters and other docu­ the former dean and president of papers relating to religious and is very time consuming and tedious work,” said Wilson ments. Clark College, James P. racial subjects since the 1960s. artists Dre and Big Boi Flemister, project archivists The Andrew W. Mellon Brawley, who served from 1965 “Lincoln’s Collection will of OutKast. supervisor. “We plan to cele­ probably be 200 linear feet when Features Section Foundation awarded the largest to 1976. Other collections brate the opening of the Lincoln Continued P3 P2 The Panther FEBRUARY 20, 1995 CAU Alumna Elected President of 100 Black Women CAMPUS •Clark Atlanta University will be offer­ By Tarsha Burton She has served as vice-president of the nesses,” Applebaum said. ing tuition waivers to four-year-olds Contributing Writer Economic Development Corporation’s “Dorsey wishes to start raising funds Neighborhood Development through the “Touching the Future” pro­ to provide black women with the gram designed to serve about 1,800 chil­ Clar College alumna and newly Department and as president and financial support needed to enable elected President of 100 Black dren involved with the institution’s CEO of the Atlanta Neighborhood them to run for political office,” he Women, Hattie B. Dorsey, plans to Development Partnership, Inc. Head Start. The endowment’s funding said. comes from donations given by Head establish a political and corporate “While the structure of 100 Black Dorsey was recently honored by Start employees that were matched by agenda for black women in America, Women will remain the same, Dorsey The National Housing Conference, CAU. University officials said that the according to her Executive Assistant, plans to implement entrepreneurial Inc. and named a 1994 Drucker endowment is the only one of its kind in Alex Applebaum. programs to encourage more black Dorsey is the oldest of 11 children. Foundation Affiliate. the country. women to establish their own busi­ •YSB Magazine’s Editor-In-Chief, Frank Dexter Brown, hosted Clark Atlanta University’s recent Unity Commuter Students Have Mixed Seminar which was taped for BET’s Rap City and Screen Scene. Views On Convenience •Clark Atlanta University, Georgia State and the Atlanta Professional chapters of By Rhonda K. Witherspoon the Society of Professional Journalists, Contributing Writer SPJ, hosted the National President, Reginald Stuart’s, visit to CAU to dis­ cuss the coming news blackout and Living off-campus for some techniques to prevent it. Clark Atlanta University students, means freedom from disagreeing roommates, campus rules and tight CITY living situations, but for others it •Atlanta has mailed 137 letters to black means being left out of campus colleges in efforts to discourage their life. students from coming to the city for “Living on-campus is more con­ Freaknic. According to the Atlanta venient,” said Tamika Journal/Constitution, the letter was signed by all six of the presidents in the Cushenberry, a sophomore com­ Atlanta University Center. muter student who lives an hour away from campus. •Vice President Al Gore made a recent “I don’t always feel informed trip to Paschals Motor Hotel to observe about what’s going on because all the areas that will be impacted by an the major information seems to be empowerment grant given to the city of posted only in the dorms,” Atlanta estimated at approximately $100 Cushenberry said. million. Despite the fact that there are (Photo by Christian Gooden) colorful flyers, letters and poster •The Rev. Jessie Jackson toured boards around campus, some com­ Some of CAU's off-campus students prepare for another Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail to speak to muter students still say they feel incarcerated black youths about reform­ commute on MARTA. ing their lives. disassociated with the bulk of the student community. •Twenty-one black youths have been Michelle Rhodes, director of students congregate, such as bulletin boards are run down, clut­ banned from Union Point shops after student activities at CAU, com­ McPheeters-Dennis and the Trevor tered and loaded with a lot of old business owners in Green County com­ mented that the Student Activities Arnett Quadrangle. information.” plained of thefts. The shut out was initi­ Office has tried to reach the com­ Her views are affirmed by sopho­ Ricky Robinson, SGA graduate ated by the town’s Mayor John B. muter student. “We even have a more commuter student, April vice-president, explained that stu­ Stewart. special coordinator of International Wilson. dents “don’t take time to read the cal­ and Commuter Student Services, Wilson lives in Midtown Atlanta endar or the bulletin boards.” whose office is open daily,” she and is very active on campus and in Robinson’s office works mainly COUNTRY said. the community. with graduate students, the majority •After 130 years, Mississippi senators Rhodes rejected the idea that all She said there is an equal balance of who live off-campus. He said he is are finally voting whether to abolish slavery. Mississippi is the only state of the “important” news regarding information for the on-campus stu­ currently devising ways to get more that never ratified the 13th amendment student life and activities is in the dents and the students who have to commuter students informed and in 1865 because it was not reimbursed resident dormitories. She said that commute to school. involved. for freed slaves. recently “the office has put up Wilson said, “We are very Realizing the commuter student more calendars, posters and bul­ informed, there are flyers everywhere involvement on-campus is less than •Students at Clemson University and in letin boards that are both up-to-date and usually people will tell you about 50 percent, he resolves that the colleges in Charleston and Columbia and informative.” things.