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Center and Music Academic Rwanda Presidential Scholars Plan To Inside MOREHOUSE A CAMPUS NEWSLETTER FOR FACULTY, STAFF AND STUDENTS SEPTEMBER 2010 Ray Charles Performing Arts Center and Music Academic Morehouse Named the Nation's Best Liberal Building is Music Department's New Home Arts College By ADD SEYMOUR JR. Morehouse is the nation’s best liberal arts college, according to Washington Monthly’s 2010 Col­ lege Guide. The magazine’s editors picked Morehouse No. 1 based on their emphasis on social mobility, research and service to the country. “Morehouse enrolls an unusu­ ally large number of low-income men, graduates most of them, makes significant contributions to research and has an active ROTC program,” wrote the Washington Monthly editors in the magazine. Also, U.S. News & World Report chose Morehouse the nation’s third best historically black college while Forbes magazine picked More­ house as one of “America’s Best Colleges” for the third consecutive The Ray Charles Performing Arts Center and Music Academic Building will open for tours to faculty, staff and alumni on Oct. 2. year. The Princeton Review named Morehouse as one of the South­ By ADD SEYMOUR JR. east’s best colleges. usic department chair­ and said they have marveled struction Company (Moody is “It’s thrilling,” said Pres­ “It’s always good to be among the man Uzee Brown Jr. at what we were able to do a 1978 alumnus), the 76,000- ident Robert M. Franklin ’75. best company, so those rankings cer­ M’72 shook his head as with the limited facilities square-foot building on the “My metaphor for this era of tainly confirm our brand,” said he thought about the daysthat of we had.” corner of West End Avenue Morehouse is renaissance, Weldon Jackson ’72, provost and teaching and making music in That will no longer be a and Joseph E. Lowery renewal and rebirth. What is senior vice president of Academic what is now a small physical problem. Boulevard, with its rounded better than having the Ray Affairs. “It reinvigorates all of us who plant building and later in The Music Department has glass-walled atrium facing Charles Performing Arts work here because obviously what Brawley Hall. Neither was moved into the new campus north towards the rest of the Center and Music Academic we do is having the right benefit.” ideal for music. south side anchor, the spark­ campus, brings together Building as the symbolic To view the full list of colleges “We have managed despite ling Ray Charles Performing music performance and opening of this new year and and universities ranked by Wash­ not having an adequate place Arts Center and Music Acad­ teaching in one modern and this era in the renaissance? It ington Monthly magazine, go to to work,” he said. “Many have emic Building. technologically advanced symbolizes that sense of http://www.washingtonmonthly. come to visit over the years Built by C.D. Moody Con­ facility. unleashing creativity, genius com/college guide/index.php. (continued on page 5) Rwanda Presidential Scholars Plan to Take Morehouse Experience Back to Africa By ADD SEYMOUR JR. hile college is a new Kumutima said. “That encour­ “I think it’s unique when you experience for all fresh­ aged me to come to this school have a group of Rwandan stu­ Wmen, nearly everything and pursue my studies and do dents come to campus and be this semester so far has turnedwell. In Rwanda, many things able to meet students who come into a learning experience for will change. I came here to get from around the world, who Miguel Twahirwa and Jacques experiences so that I can go and may or may not look like them Kumutima. apply them and bring them back but share various commonali­ Rwanda Presidential Scholars Miguel Twahirwa (left) and to my country. I am very excited.” ties,” said Danny Bellinger, the A year ago, they were both Jacques Kumutima (right) are excited about studying at Morehouse. in the central African country This is Morehouse’s first year interim director of Admissions of Rwanda just hoping for any in the program, which brings and Recruitment. “It may be a bit after a civil war in the country. culture, both look to take their opportunity to attend college in Rwanda’s top math and science much to take in initially, but they Now Rwanda is a symbol of experiences home to Rwanda the United States. Now they are students to the United States to will leave here ready to get back strength as the nation’s govern­ and continue their country’s part of the Rwanda Presidential study at one of 19 institutions. to Rwanda and make a differ­ ment has been rebuilt, the econo­ growth. Scholars Program in which they After graduation, the students ence in their country.” my has been stimulated and “I’m excited to take classes will be able to earn their return home for a minimum of Twahirwa and Kumutima tourism continues to rise. here,” Twahirwa said. “I think I degrees in the U.S. and then two years to put their educations come from a country that con­ Kumutima and Twahirwa will get many opportunities here. return to Rwanda to help the to work in the central African tinues to rebound after that both will study chemistry at And Morehouse will help me to developing country. nation. The students are nation’s low point in 1994 when Morehouse. Although they hope go from being a young man to a “Great people studied here, matched with institutions that fit nearly I million Rwandans died to make lots of new friends and man. I’m very excited to be here like Martin Luther King,” them academically and socially. during the Rwandan genocide immerse themselves in American at Morehouse.” 2 CO ISSUES INSIDE MOREHOUSE, SEPTEMBER 2010 Inside Morehouse is ‘I anticipate that we’ll see the about the people who make up the Morehouse Morehouse Renaissance intensifying’ College community. To tell those stories, The 2010-11 academic year academic excellence and a we’ll see the Morehouse Ren­ WE NEED YOU is underway, and Morehouse widely celebrated track record aissance intensifying. It has College is pleased to have added of producing graduates who already begun with students to send us your ideas, more than 720 freshmen and serve the public good. But through their service to the comments and thoughts, transfer students to its commu­ another of our noteworthy local community. And little along with your news, nity of scholars. Included achievements, often over­ by little, we’ll see it broaden­ information about your new among these first-time students looked, is our longstanding tra­ ing to impact communities are residents of 43 states and 17 dition of fostering global across the globe. books or publications and countries, including, South awareness, appreciation for I believe Indian Prime your commentary for Africa, Japan, China, and the human diversity, and encourag­ Minister Jawaharlal Nehru sections like My Word. United Kingdom, among oth­ ing students to experience the said it best when he defined To send us your information, ers. Each one of us brings spe­ amazing kaleidoscope of cul­ culture as “the widening of cial talents and gifts to tures, thought, food, languages, the mind and of the spirit.” As contact Inside Morehouse Morehouse, and all are respon­ literature, music, and lifestyles the leader of an institution Editor Add Seymour Jr. at sible for upholding our tradi­ here and around the globe. that is doing both, I encourage Sincerely, [email protected] tion of producing thought lead­ This year, in addition to you to engage yourself in at ers and change agents for the the opening of our modern least one of the many wonder­ For more up-to-the minute global community. Ray Charles Performing Arts ful opportunities we offer to information about academic Morehouse has earned an Center and Music Academic broaden your knowledge and Robert M. Franklin 75 departments, adminsitration, international reputation for Building, I anticipate that expand your spirit. ■ President athletics, registration, financial aid, as well as the people and activities at Morehouse College, go to MY WORD www.morehouse.edu China Gives Morehouse Students Up-Close Lesson on Importance of Global Awareness reminded me of my grandmoth­ asked in return was that I helped Inside MOREHOUSE er -- a very strong woman, but him practice his English. I glad­ still with an inviting aura. ly accepted. I not only made a Director of Public Relations The life of a student in Beijing new friend, but it also shattered Toni O'Neal Mosley is very fast-paced and is often my previous expectations of [email protected] hard for foreign students to com­ Chinese culture. prehend. I was very blessed by It took me traveling half-way Executive Editor being able to have an escape from around the world to truly under­ Vickie G. Hampton this hectic existence with my host stand the importance of Amer­ [email protected] family. They were able to explain ican influence outside of Editor cultural implications of certain America, and also see places that Add Seymour Jr. actions and how to adjust to the have been completely untouched [email protected] environment of China. By Charles Corpening By Jerry Hoagland by American influence. I believe Morehouse students Another gratifying experience Calendar Editor have wanted to go to China would not only benefit from y experience studying was when our university held a Julie Pinkney Tongue ever since I began studying spending time in China, but abroad in Shanghai, culture festival to go along with ¡[email protected] I the language in the 11th would bring a different perspec­ MChina, for five months the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.
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