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if -9 Servwg Morehouse College Since 1898 Ult /-ri': < VOI. 70, NO. 2 MOREHOUSE COLLEGE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA Monday, October 14, 1996 Inside This Edition Shiver/Staff Khari Monday, October 14 THE MAROON TIGER _______ PAGE 2_______ Community in Uproar over Westview Closing approved June 10 for the pedestrian walkway for the By Cameo Clark Con tribu ting Writer abandoning of Westview Olympics. Drive Southwest for the After city council saw opposition, "Close the street, and d— there General mn the people," is what one was talk local barber had to say about o f Dr. Hamid Taqi, Associate Professor of Political Science has the recent closing of Westview rescinding assumed the position of Acting Director of the Center for Drive. The flow of traffic on the vote. International Studies. Westview has slowed But, dramatically between Ashby Morehouse Campus Operations is pleased to announce their newest and the turnabout in front of College campaign to help keep the campus litter-free and attractive. Spelman College. had Soon all flyers will be placed on strategically-placed bulletin Morehouse College had already boards on campus. If you have any suggestions about where attempted to get that section of spent bulletin boards should be placed, please call Campus the street closed for the past money Operations at x2717. several years without success. o n Now the street is closed, but œnsbudm The Maroon Tiger is searching for dedicated students to at a large cost to the of the contribute their talent and energy to Morehouse College's community. guard Organ of Student Expression. Positions are now open. If On several occasions, the booths you are interested, please stop by The Maroon Tiger office City Council denied Courtesy College Relations and on on the second floor of Kilgore Hall. Or call about 681-2800 Morehouse control of that West End Community forced to take a permanent the x2975 for more information. section of the street, claiming detour street that they had no legitimate itself. Scholarships reason to close it. In 1992, a benefit of Morehouse College. Members of the Morehouse faculty member Traditionally, when a public community seem to support went before city the colleges and universities in The 1997 Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay Concert, with street is subject to being closed councilwoman Cleta Winslow awards totaling $10,000, is open to junior and senior to the public, the eminent the area and recognize that and misrepresented the improvements need to be undergraduate who are enrolled full-time at an accredited closing must be made public community, saying that the college or university. The deadline for submitting an original knowledge. However, the made. They are not, however, community had agreed to give 3,000-4,000 word essay is Friday, January 17,1997. Call 212- public was never notified. in support of the methods that section of the street to 221-1100 to find out more. The proposal was able to used to gain those Morehouse. slip through the cracks by improvements. They feel that When members of the Interns being placed on the Consent there is no open means of community became aware of Agenda. Once the proposl is communication between the the situation, they began to placed there, no one can schools and the community. If you are an undergraduate or graduate student studying protest and gathered a petition oppose the issues on it. Certain When asked his thoughts geology, geography, computer science, computer graphics, of over 500 names opposing members of the Neighborhood on the closing of Westview, an oceanography, civil engineering, biology, chemistry or the closing. The city council Planning Unit believe that the anonymous freshman had this related fields, the U. S. Geological Survey Earth Sciences then voted down the proposal issue of Westview Drive was to say; "I believe that the Program is offering you the chance to do research with some and ruled that the issue of shaded under by the original intention of of the nations top scientists this summer. Stipend levels Westview Drive would not be Committee on Olympic Morehouse administration range from $19,000 to $38,000 per year. Write the Oak Ridge reopened. Development. Some were was to make Morehouse Institute for Science and Education at P. O. Box 117, Oak A proposal by city under the impression that the Campus more secure. Was that Ridge, Tennessee 37831 for more info. councilwoman Carolyn Long- closing of Westview Drive was objective achieved? I don't Banks was adopted June 3 and going to be a temporary think so." The Oregonian summer internship program has begun searching for reporters, copyeditors, photographers, graphic artists and page designers for the summer of 1997. Candidates Rape Allegations Brought Against Four Students must submit a letter of application, resume, sex to eight writing samples, three references and a 500-word autobiographical essay to be considered. The Internship are also being charged with involuntary withdrawn from By Louis Clotman lasts 10-12 weeks and pays $527.50 per week. December 1, aggravated sodomy. All four classes and are suspended for Campus News Editor 1996 is the deadline. Call 503-221-8039 for more info. students are currently being the remainder of the academic Four Morehouse students held without bond. year. The Dow Jones Newspaper Fund is announcing it 1997 were arrested Thursday, A hearing was scheduled In a mandatory crown business reporting internship program for minority college October 3 by the Atlanta Police for October 9, and then forum on Monday, October 7, sophomores and juniors. Interns spend one-week in an on charges of rape filed by a postponed until a week later Provost John H. Hopps intensive training course before working as salaried freshman student at Spelman on the 16th. Morehouse addressed Morehouse reporters for 10 weeks. The Fund provides transportation, College. reportedly began its own students. Provost Hopps room and board during the training course. For more info, According to police ongoing investigation into the underscored Morehouse's call 609-452-2820. reports, senior Herman Banks, case Monday, September 30. policy regarding violations of junior Tony Clark, sophomore Morehouse has suspended all residential regulations and The Sacramento Bee is offering summer reporting Dadon Dodd and sophomore four students for the treatment of visitors. "We are internships in sports, copyediting, photojournalism and Darren Marshall all maintain remainder for the academic not only our brother's keeper," graphic arts. The internships are full-time for 12 weeks and their innocence of the charges year for violation of College Hopps concluded, "but our pay $400 a week. For more info call 916-321-1001. and have no previous rules and standards of sister's as well." disciplinary violations on their conduct. Banks, Clark, Dodd records. Clark and Marshall and Marshall have Monday, October 14 THE MAROON TIGER PAGE 3 Town Meeting: Many Questions, Few Answers since Thursday, October 4, the actions of the alleged rape as the fault of the the four students were By Okorie A. Johnson illuminating important details. administration, arguing that respective victim, because of "standing strong and standing Staff Writer These included the time of the their measures have ",.. only her short skirt, alarmed tough," while being held at the judicial board meeting in put a positive spin on the Gaffney and left him Fulton County Detention The Morehouse student relation to the arrest of Center. Hopps stated that they body entered King Chapel at Herman Banks, Dadon Dodd, have nothing in their record 7:30 p.m. October 7 to seek Darren Marshall and Tony that would make Morehouse answers to the tragedy that has Clark. Johnson highlighted view them as criminals. He befallen the AUC the drastic age difference then attempted to use the communities. Instead of between the alleged manner in which the students perpetrators and the victim of were arrested as an example to the crime. Johnson balanced remind them that in America his assertion that "Morehouse "You are still just another black has not, [and] will not turn its man." back on these brothers. We During the question and must put ourselves in answer period, Senior Abdul Morehouse has everyone's shoes." Karim Boyd asked about the Johnson then outlined a consistency of the indecency not and will not best-case scenario in which the policy, its consequences and its students were not rapists, but equal application to students, turn its back on were nevertheless guilty of organizations and faculty - taking advantage of the highlighting Dr. Lawrence these brothers. Spelman freshman, and Khari Shiver/Staff Carter's Sunday morning breaking the ambiguous remarks as an adequate school policy of decent Provost John Hopps faces tough questions at meeting example for dismissal. behavior. Upon closing, Senior Earl Adams Johnson affirmed that though matter." Gaffney then concerned that if the media got followed with a precise he did not agree with the reassured the student body hold of such a document they question about what behavior providing answers, questions arbitrary nature of the that the Morehouse greater would create an image that the policy states as prohibited were deflected and dodged in decision, he supported the community was invested in "Morehouse Men support or illegal, admitting that he the name of discretion, justness and the this struggle, particularly in rape," which would ultimately could not follow the rules if he confidentiality and diplomacy. appropriateness of the the legal contributions of four hurt the community at large. did not know what they SGA President Antonio suspension. lawyers who are Morehouse Provost and Senior Vice entailed. "Treat it like your Johnson chronicled the Vice Provost of Student alumni. President of Academic Affairs, parents home," responded happenings of this matter Affairs, Ed Gaffney defended A flyer, implicating the Dr.