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Carolina Life 4 The Gamecock Monday, April 2, 1990 Toug] toug] By OCTAVIA WRIGHT Staff Writer T 1 AO ^ T? J_ TT!_L O _l 1 in iysz ai tasisiue nign acnooi in Patterson, N.J., a dramatic change took place. Joe Clark became principal. Many have seen his story in the Warner Brothers film, Lean on Me, which Clark says is a true story. President Ronald Reagan honored him as being an example of the tough leadership that is needed in inner-city schools. Clark was offered a job by the government as an educational adviser, but turned it down. "I'm not interested in a (political position) because it would keep me in a position where I'd be impotent," Clark said. "I'm at a point now where I can say what I want when I want to sav it. how I want to say it. I don't have to worry about the consequences of my actions. That way I feel freer to be a (strong motivational figure) because I am uninhibited by the bureaucratic system." Despite the bureaucracy's support of Clark, some educational and fear no more! V Women taking the birth control pill have a lower risk of cancer of the uterus & ovary and of pelvic infections... V Ctii^unt rotpc fr\r UlUUVlll IUIVJ IVI complete GYN exam. ?Call For Appointment? c^Cts.'zno-tivre. OB/GYN ^Ss.XXricS.X 191 Friarsgate 791-7815 Irmo, SC I _ CAI ft VHT I I come by CPU RHUU rm. 209 or call 7-7130 osit due by April ti princ h princ critics have found his method of education ir discipline harsh. In his first week And as a re at Eastside, Clark expelled 300 any industr students and began carrying a world," he s baseball bat and bullhorn through away from the halls to ward oil any patholog- have a vouc ical deviants from his halls. rents can ch Clark said that many people have their own way of doing things, and it just so happens that carrying a baseball bat was his way of dealing with hoodlums because "people understood the essence of what that was all about." In light of the need to restructure the inner-city schools, some schools have offered alternative schools for problem children. These schools give the kids a chance to learn the danger of drugs jk and attempts to turn them around in their method of thinking. Other school districts have offered to bus the better students to calmer schools. M Clark strongly disagrees with this idea of busing and has his own theory on how to improve the Af: American educational system. Idi "Thprp'c q 1 art- of nnnrprn ahnnt cn J U Ul 1.UI1UUIH UU U Ul jp III ill <M,h:j%' ffl\l^, <? Ove ROLINA PROGRAM UNION'S lVEL AND TOUR COMMITTEE ! PRESENTS: PRIL BREAK April 14-16 ES[HPE , ^ to Dai m Myrtle Beach f for only ? y 2 ^ :ipal, , :iples 1 i America in general, their children. What has to hap suit, it is the worst in specifically in the inner-city, v. ialized nation in the (environment) will have to bee ;aid. "We have to get more vibrant." public education and Clark has been involved ir her system where pa- educational process for ove oose where they send years and believes he has ma % JBMhi it, M Yy , ^8 '% Joe Clark will lecture at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday >ril 3 in the Russell House Ballroom. CPU's 2as and Issue Committee is sponsoring the eech. After midnight. . Here are just a few sci mk from Eric Clapton's sole JlIK concert at the Charlotte seum Friday night. Some o jSSZyyWI highlights from Clapton's tf hour show included cla songs from his old gro Cream, the Yardbirds and I rick and the Dominoes, s with new material. The cl; blues man celebrated his I day at the Charlotte pe HHHHhwJ1H mance. Clapton ended show with an encore incli "Crossroads" and "Sunshir I" Your Love." The one-night IBBi ...AA !r-1 mnr usb' . {? 1,1 idi iu llc waa in ou^v. S Clapton's latest all %JB Journeyman. MIMh Teddy Lepp/The Gamecock me Have Lunch With Us! h to W/v "he Music Lounge 1 Floor Russell House ijoy your favorite tunes while you eat \s#1 t 3000 Choice Selections SHIP ROLINA PROGRAM UNION Huj ?e] J ^ Tickets on so Education :o lecture ?pen, positive impact on the educationa 5 the system since the release of Lea :ome on Me. "I think (the attention that I'v i the received) has had a positive effec r 30 because it sort of has pricked th J- _ nf a nQtir\n onrt cprup UC d VAJIWV1V1IVV \J* ? "Utivn wx.v* ^V/X T W as a galvanizing force to bring at out a needed rejuvenation in a soc iety that's educationally defunc and decadent." "I don't care what people writ about me, as long as they're sayinj something about me. When the; stop, you've become nothing bu an anachronistic being. As long a they're talking about me, m; heart's filled with glee. When the; stop, I know that I'm due for ob livion," he said. Clark was criticized for no helping lower Eastside's dropoi rate. A Feb. 1, 1988 article sai when he arrived, Eastside's drop out rate was 13 percent, and now is 21 percent. Clark blames thi statistic on the fact that the drop out rate in inner-city schools i near 50 percent and he will not tol erate any "hoodlums runnin through the hallways," he said. tree- * issic Der- ^ ilong |Mar% A assic Dirthrfor /Jfllt m$m mm II I C jding stop d u m *' |r , N* P^ ^\N I VJotV^tot Tbe tAL A ON r Street Cone 903 Huger St. ile: Manifest Discs & Taylor St. Pharmacy & He For more information, call C&C Entertainment < renegade at USC il Despite the controversy he enn countered with the New Jersey School District, Clark is still eme ployed by the Board of Education, 't He has been on leave for about six e months because of a sick aunt, d "I'm still employed by the >- Board of Education. I intend not to > go back. I'm being paid. I'm not 't going back because. . . I'm beyond that particular stature. In life, you e go on to different levels. I'm at a g different level now." y "I'm no longer interested in bet ine actively involved in the educa s tional system because I've already y given '30 years of my life to that Y premise. Now, I'm touring the lecture circuit, talking to young people and working to disseminate a t philosophy that seems to be taking it root. And, I know that young d America will help to bring about a i- systematic change in the decait dence that abounds in this s society." >- He will be at USC Tuesday s night in the Russell House Ball1 room at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $1 g for USC students with an ID and $3 for the general public. PP I Teddy Lepp/The GamecocK G#*ecoCk' Call 777 ? ' <0 iNNAH MYLES ling her # 1 Hit Single Hack Velvet" All Ages sday April 5 8pm :kets $14.50 ' SALE NOW :ert Hall Box Records - Lexington [803) 432-9800