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V® Mr) see anthe Features Section E K for details “We’ll Find A Way Or Make One.” Volume 1 • Number XIV Atlanta, Georgia April 4, 1994 Graffitti And CAU Hosts Olympic Broadcast Training Program By Antoinette Ross the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. utive director of the mentation of the traing pro­ Contributing Writer The Host Broadcast Telecommunications Alliance gram, includes WCLK-FM Vandalism Cost Training Program (HBTP), at Clark Atlanta University, Radio, CAU-TV, and HBTP. was launched in January with said that by the summer Hampton University, CAU $50,000 Clark Atlanta University, 90 CAU students but will semester of this year, students Savannah State College and under a grant from the Atlanta expand to include students from some 50 schools will the University of Georgia are Committee for the Olmpic from other Georgia colleges begin their first semester in among the many schools In Repairs Games (ACOG), is conduct­ and universities as well as the HBTP. whose students may partici­ ing a three-year training pro­ several historically black col­ The Telecommunications pate in the Olympic training Siedra Cooper gram to prepare students to leges. Alliance, which is responsible program. Contributing Writer assist in the broadcasting of Dr. Gloria P. James, exec­ for the planning and imple­ Continued P4 Destruction and defacing of property 'You are the first generation to be raised in front of the television" has cost Clark Atlanta University about $50,000 in reparations since December, according to Lloyd Van Dyke, director Bryant Gumbel Encourages Media Responsibility of facilities. Van Dyke said that students cause most of the graffiti and vandalism that At CAU’s Sixth Cosolidation Celebration occurs in the dormitories and buildings on campus. Major damages in universi­ Tara C. Gunter ty buildings- McPheeters Dennis, Editor-In-Chief and Holmes Hall, and Annex H- will cost Lisa Flanagan the student body in the future. Repairs News Assistant alone have cost $1,800 this year. The director said that repairing the “While you cannot see the damage becomes more expensive future, we can assure it will be because of supplies and employees’ televised,” NBC "Today" show overtime. host, Bryant Gumbel proclaimed “I don’t think they (students) take last Thursday, May 24, at Clark the time out to figure how much it Atlanta University’s costs,” he said. “I’m taking funds stu­ dents pay to fix up things that could be Consolidation Celebration. used on computers.” Gumbel, the Convocation's On walls and bathroom stalls around keynote speaker, received an hon­ the campus, graffiti artistse are display­ orary degree Doctor of Humane ing references to drugs, and other popu­ Letters. lar sayings. Donald Keough, current chair­ One individual who calls himself the man of Allen & Co. Inc. and for­ 'Windy Cities Pimp', has featured his mer president, chief operating signature on many CAU buildings and walls. officer, and director of the According to Van Dyke these CocaCola Company also received offenders are immature, and have little an honorary Doctor of Law respect for property. degree. “If you want to leave a legacy that’s During his speech, Gumbel not the way to do it,” he said. “I would discussed the impact of television, Bryant Gumbel was the keynote speaker at CAU's Consolidation rather leave something behind (that's) the misuse of language, and the Celebration. educational rather than...destroy the validity and truthfulness of net­ property.” is more attention given to a not,” said Gumbel. “Most of research and development He also claims that property damage work news. superstar than to our our your opinions about social grants than any other histori­ to the Campus Shop, located on the cor­ “I started at the "Today" show issues are formed from news cally black college or uni­ ner of Fair St and Brawley Drive, dur­ in 1982, 12 years later I can hon­ own children. There is more versity. ing the 1992 student protest, caused attention given to a girl’s tap programs.” estly say things have not The Convocation was more harm to the students rather than on the knee than the violence Also during the program, improved," he said. part of the many activities the store's white manager. that occurs everyday in CAU President Dr. Thomas Gumbel said while there have commemorating the merger “The bookstore is owned by Clark America." Cole cited some of the been many changes, some aspects of Clark College and Atlanta Atlanta University, not the white man. He also discussed how achievements of the institu­ of television news coverage have University in 1988. The side and the back of the building today’s students are privi­ tion since the consolidation. was totally demolished,” he said. deteriorated. Other activities included leged to be among the first CAU ranks first nationally In 1993, the university spent $2 mil­ Some of the changes he a celebration dinner in honor generation to have been in the graduation of doctoral lion on renovations for campus build­ referred to were the lack of sensi­ of President Cole, a commu­ raised in front of the televi­ students in education, life ings. tivity and diversity in news and sciences, and political sci­ nity day, student awards for Van Dyke said that property damage sion. the inaccurancy of coverage. ence. Over the last three excellence in acheievement and trash, such as paper and bottles, “The media plays a very “TV does seem one-dimen­ years CAU has completed and a faculty and staff ser­ take away from the beauty of the cam­ important role in your lives sional at times," he said. "There and received more federal vice recognition luncheon. pus. whether you want it to or Continued P3 P2 April 4, 1994 The Panther Blacks More Likely To Contract Deadly Hepatitis B Virus By Chandra R. Thomas Education, the health association rec­ Features Editor ommended that all college students be vaccinated against the deadly disease. Carriers of the Virus The recommendation came as the Black college students are more number of hepatitis B cases increased likely to be carriers of the potentially nationwide with 240,000 new cases • Hepatitis B kills more than 6,000 Americans every deadly hepatitis B virus. reported in 1991. Health officials said Hepatitis B, a disease that kills more year. young people age 15 to 25 are the than 6,000 Americans a year, is on the fastest-growing segment of the popula­ rise. College students, are considered tion with hepatitis B. The association •Among Blacks, hepatitis B accounts for 66% of all to be at high risk of contracting the dis­ reported that the number of young cases. ease because they are likely to have adults contracting the disease today is more sexual partners, a report by the 77 percent higher than a decade ago. American College Health Association •Among whites, hepatitis B accounts for 33% of all Hepatitis is a viral inflammation of said. the liver that is passed through the cases. Although, no statistics are available blood or semen of an infected person specifically reporting the incidence of most often, through sex and intra­ the disease among black college stu­ •According to an article in The Chronicle of Higher venous drug use. dents, officials at the Centers for However, it is not one disease, but is Education, the health association recommended that Disease Control said the black commu­ nity is at an even higher risk of con­ a group of five different viruses, named all college students be vaccinated against the hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E. All have tracting the disease. According to Gary deadly diseased. similar symptoms, including nausea, Schatz, an epidemiologist with the fever, and jaundice, that vary in their CDC hepatitis branch, blacks are 5 to degree of seriousness. 1,0 percent more likely than whites to •Young people, ages 15 to 25, are the fastest growing Many people are unaware that they be carriers of the virus. “If you take a segment of the population with hepatitis B. carry the disease because initially they cross section of the U.S. population experience no symptoms or are misdi­ one half of 1 percent are hepatitis B agnosed, depending on the viral strain. carriers. If you take a cross section of develop an incurable inflammation of hepatitis B patient. the black population, 2.5 percent to 5 These symptoms appear anywhere from a few weeks to as many as six the liver. About half of them continue percent are carriers,” said Schatz. months after a person is infected. to have symptoms; the other half He contends that other socioeco­ Vaccination But cases of hepatitis B stemming become silent carriers. Fifteen to 25 Hepatitis-B resembles AIDS in many ways. nomic conditions, including increased years later, many of these people will from drug use and sexual activity are The virus which causes it may sit dormant in drug use and sexual activity contribute develop a liver soaring, up nearly 40 percent in the last someone for years before any to the high percentages. disease so severe their only hope for decade. Over a third of patients have symptoms appear. But when it is present in much survival may be a liver transplant. no idea how they got the infection. higher concentrations in the bloodstream, it is Ethnic Factors Experts think many of these cases While there are no currently much more infectious. It is transmitted in semen approved treatments, an injection of According to statistics provided by may be caused by sexual contact with a and blood. However, unlike AIDS there is a vac­ immune globulin B within a week of the CDC, cases among blacks were silent carrier who doesn’t know he or cine.