Student pastor allegedly fired for inviting blacks to service
By Barbara Riddle and
Melissa Denley
■ The Auburn Plainsman
Auburn U.
Auburn U. senior John Clark claims
he was fired from a pastoral position at
a local church afler inviting blacks to the
church’s revival.
Clark, named pastor of Loachapoka
Baptist Church during the summer of
1988, issued invitations to the service
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action and quotas.” The group protects
white students’ rights and has charged
the university with practicing racist poll
cies such as imposing minority quotas.
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attending lectures that cover only one
subject, such as physiology or pathology
Anderson said the change is necessary
because "the mass of knowledge is
changing so rapidly that by the time you
get out of medical school, much of what
you’ve memorized is out of date "
The new curriculum, called problem
based learning, was developed by
McMaster U. in Ontario, Canada, about
20 years ago Only 10 universities m the
United States have adopted it ()f those.
I’H is the first to convert entirely to the
new system
The others, including Harvard
Medical School, offer a choice of the tra
ditional or problem-based tracks or a
hybrid of the two.
Anderson said McMaster sent consul
tants to train UH faculty m the new
methods last spring Other help came
"The information you learn is
relevant instead of just for a
test.”
— Todd Abbey,
UNM graduate
through correspondence with the l of
New Mexico, which started its problem
based format in 1979
Two graduates from the l.’NM School
of Medicine currently intern at
Honolulu hospitals.
Graduate Todd Abbey said his class
that graduat'd from the problem-based
track enjoyed the first two years,
normally the worst. 1 le said he was not
required to memorize as many facts for
tests as students in the traditional for
mat, but what he did learn he has
retained better.
•“It’s because the information you learn
is relevant instead ofjust for a test. You
have something to tie it to — there’s a
patient, whether fictitious or real. If you
just remember things to pass a test, it’s
gone soon after," Abbey said
1’he World Health Organization pub
lished an evaluation of the 10 schools
using problem-based learning
Graduates surveyed scored as well or
better on national licensing exams and
rated themselves to be as well-trained
or better than their peers in traditional
schools
Many med schools suffer high dropout
rates due to burnout, but the 1987 WHO
study found problem-based learning
schools lost fewer students. UNM had a
10 percent dropout rate, compared to the
20 to 25 percent national average.
throughout the community When he
informed church members the next day.
h deacon allegedly asked him, "You didn't
invite any Negroes, did you?" Clark
answered that he had
The next day a deacon called ('lark and
said members of the congregation were
upset The group fired him in a secret
ballot vote two weeks later. Church offi
cials refuse to comment about Clark's
dismissal.
"The idiotic philosophy of the 1960s is
Spletzer said
"\VV want to educate poo pie and let
people know what’s going on in the conn
try." he said. “The American people are
waking up to find that their rights are
being walked on by minorities."
Moody said the Temple group reflects
a national trend toward acceptance of
occurring again," ('lark said "Today
there are no white hats or capes, but the
racism is still there " Racism is more sub
tle today but just as dangerous, he said
Although he has no formal ministerial
training, Clark has always been inter
ested in public speaking. The 21 -year-old
history major spoke at several churches
before he got hired full-time at
Loachapoka
The Rev. Donald T. .Johnson, director
of missions for the Tuskegee D-e Baptist
racism “It's an indication of the new
mind set, bigotry and racism that’s turn
ing around the idea of reverse discrimi
nation.” she said
Spletzer also believes the White
Student Union will become a nationwide
issue, saying he has received numerous
letters from students across the country
Association, said the circumstances sur
rounding l 'lark's dismissal wvrr “blown
all out of proportion "
“The l>est thing to do is say nothing,"
he said “Kach church m the Southern
Baptist Convention can decide what
they want to do, and that is what
Loachapoka Baptist Church did ”
Clark denied that churches have tin
right to decide against admitting mein
tiers of am race “A church is a church
Anyone should In- able to worship there '
who support the group's aims
"It's like what happened with Martin
Luther King Jr .” he said.
"Isven though people abused him and
his supporters, they continued to stand
up for their civil rights We re doing the
same thing we're white civil rights
activists ”
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