The Organ of Student Expression Serving Morehovse College Singe 1898 Maroon TiK er VOL. 70, NO. 7 MOREHOUSE COLLEGE; ATLANTA, GEORGIA Monday, March 30, 1998

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e runs, he GA President Will tackles, he Sellers offers his writes rebuttal to a Pre- poetry ! Alumni Association (PAA) Morehouse running IN CAMPUS NEWS member's accusations of SGA HHollimon as he fund mismanagement and the Renowned artist talks about his self- Rayford donates his life's Executive Board's ineptitude in leadership. work to the College. published book of poetry. Page 3 Page 8 Page 10 Accreditation Team.Arrives to Assess College That year of self-study Staff Reports "He has a degree from an Southeast; one represents Morehouse began accredited college." SACS headquarters staff. preparing for this visit when it resulted in a book Here they come. The officials will be on the appointed Dr. Jocelyn Jackson, approaching 300 pages long: After over two years of campus grounds, in classes, in Professor of English and "Institutional Self-Study preparation — thousands of the dorms, and in offices, Director of the Honors Report, 1996-98." All 13 SACS hours of labor by students, "inspecting" every aspect of Program, to be Director of Self- representatives will have read faculty, staff and Morehouse life and activities Study in August 1995. After a this book before this visit. administration on every Monday and Tuesday, March year of organizing "I am confident that we corner of campus 30 and 31. particularly appointing have written a Self-Study Morehouse welcomes the They will want to know committees of faculty, staff, and Report that is inclusive of our special guests who visit once everything, and so they will students — the self-study strong and unique features as per decade: the 13-member want to talk to as many committee began 12 months of well as of our unfinished team from the Southern members of the college intensive research, review and tasks," said Dr. Jackson. "Our Association of Colleges and community as possible on analysis of all that Morehouse follow-up plan lists Schools (SACS). every subject that bears on had done since the last re­ recommendations and At stake is the re­ Morehouse. affirmation of accreditation. suggestions we offer to It also assessed every facet ourselves." affirmation of the school's The SACS officials come Photo Courtesy of Jocelyn Jackson accreditation. That's what from different departments of the College's current "I want our students to employers, graduate and and other positions at 12 Dr. Jocelyn Jackson, operations, from buildings and reflect on the Mission of the different colleges and Director of the College's Self- grounds to curriculum to professional schools and Continued on page 2 parents refer to when they say, universities around the Study Committee student life.

Lots of Love for MOM in LA Two Freshmen Robbed Near Park Street Arts Complex By Sterling Taylor man standing next to the submitted a police report. Staff Writer church facing Lee Street. The A common belief is that man was seemingly mumbling the robbery was preventable, Two Morehouse freshmen to himself and as the two but according to Vernon were recently held at gunpoint passed, he asked them for Worthy, Chief of Morehouse and robbed, causing one directions. Thinking he was College Police, the area student to withdraw and drunk, they ignored him and behind the church is Atlanta return home for the remainder kept walking. A second man city property and out of of the semester. then came from behind the Morehouse's jurisdiction. The The robbery occurred at church, grabbed one of the onus of patrolling that area is the corner of Lee Street and students by his jacket and let on the Atlanta Police Norcross behind the Park him see that he had a gun. Department. Street Art Complex early One student was pushed Chief Worthy explained February 22. The suspects behind the church where a that most of the responsibility were described as three black third assailant frisked him. The of a student's safety falls upon males, ages 16-20, and ranging second assailant held the gun that student. to the second student's back "[Freshmen are] walking President and Mrs. Massey (center) along with hosts Dave in height from 5'7" to 6'2". The victims arrived at the while instructing him to take risks," said Chief Worthy. Coulter (right), CEO of BankAmerica, and Entertainment West End MARTA Station after off everything of value. After "[There is] a belief that these Mogul Quincy Jones (left) greet guest at Morehouse on the shopping at Lenox Mall. After both were robbed and the kids have money; if not cash, Move (MOM) in Los Angles. A series of special events that waiting a few minutes for the suspects escaped, the students then credit cards and bank AUC shuttle, they decided to sprinted to the Campus cards." will be held in 16 targeted cities over the next 18 months, make the walk back to Security Office at Spelman He recommends that MOM is designed to enhance public awareness and campus. College. There, they were students not go out late at appreciation of Morehouse, and its impending capital The students walked over questioned by the Atlanta night unless it's essential and the bridge and crossed the Police and taken back to the campaign. street, noticing a lone black scene of the crime, where they Continued on page 3 CAMPUS NEWS Science Symposium to Address Minority Roles ACHIEVEMENTS By Stefan Chase interact and exchange ideas with prominent professionals The Golden Key National Honor Society chapter at Contributing Writer already in the science arena," Morehouse held its annual membership induction on March The future of minority said Chris Jones, President of 4,1998. Academically superior juniors and seniors through­ engineers and scientists, and the Endeavor Space Club, a out all fields of study at the college were initiated into the their roles in the next century, key component in organizing society. Barrett K. Robinson, a Biology major with a 3.958 will be the topic of a the symposium. GPA, is the year's junior recipient. Steven D. Schukei, a com­ symposium to,be held early The endeavor Space Club puter science and mathematics major with a 3.9 GPA, is the April on campus. is an organization under the senior recipient. Entitled "Superstars of auspices of the NASA Science," the discussion programs at Morehouse and An American Dilemma Revisited: Race Relations in a Changing session will feature prominent Spelman Colleges, and has World, edited by Dr. Obie Clayton, Vice Provost for Re­ speakers in the field of worked for months now to search, was recently named an outstanding book on the sub­ Christine Darden, of the research and will be make this presentation a ject of human rights in North America by the Gustavus Langley Research Center, is one moderated by Dr. Walter E. success. Myers Center. of the featured speakers at the Massey, President of the Jones encourages and "Superstars for Science" college. The forum wilhtake invites other majors outside The Maroon Tiger debate team showed well at the South­ symposium. place April 2 in King Chapel engineering and science to east/ Southeast-Central Bi-Regional Tournament recently and will begin at 6 p.m. participate in the event as well. science. It will stress the held at Middle Tennessee State Univeristy. Team captain Featured "superstar" "Since the futuristic issues importance of minority Deon Garner took home second-place honors in the best panelists will include Dr. of science and the positions leadership and participation, varsity speaker category. The duo of Joe Patterson and Roosevelt Johnson, National minorities will assume within and will provide students with Derek McPhatter placed fourth in the novice division. Science Foundation; Dr. it will affect us all, complete in-depth information and Christine Darden, Langley community involvement is advice on what it takes to Research Center; and Mr. crucial," Jones said. achieve and succeed. OPPORTUNITIES Maynard Holiday, Lawrence Jones added that the Students who plan to Livermore National Labs, just symposium will prove to be a attend this symposium are Graduation is just around the corner and for those seniors to name a few. refreshing and insightful encouraged to bring resumes, who are actively searching for a rewarding job, THE BLACK "We want to provide an discussion on the futute of and to take full advantage of COLLEGIAN Online's Resume Database is the ideal way opportunity for aspiring African-Americans and other this networking opportunity, to make their resumes readily available for free to employ­ scientists and engineers to ethnic groups in the field of Jones said. ers worldwide. Additionally, the first 300 seniors (with a GPA of 3.0 or better) to post their resumes will receive ei­ ther the BLACK COLLEGIAN Online's cap or a beautiful kente stole. The address is www.black-collegian.com, and while there be sure to search for your dream job in the Search Open Positions Database. College Seeks SACS Reaffirmation Continued from page 1 Project Vote Smart, a national non-partisan organization all over campus from 9 a.m. to The College hopes that the that focuses on providing citizens with unbiased informa­ College and on their own noon and from 1 p.m. to 3:30, final result will be full re­ tion about political issues, is offering generous scholarships academic experience at on either side of a reception/ affirmation of accreditation, to college students to work as interns during the 1998 elec­ Morehouse. They will do lunch with the faculty. Then preferably with a few tion year. The ten-week scholarships are flexible and stu­ much to make the they return to their hotel, commendations. However, dents can work any ten-week period that fit into their sched­ undergraduate life at discuss their findings and most schools who receive re­ ules. Students and recent graduates with majors in political Morehouse a reality for these even begin drafting the first affirmation usually also science, communication and journalism are particularly evaluators," she added. part of their report. receive recommendations for encouraged to apply, although interns from all backgrounds The team arrived Sunday Tuesday's schedule is improvements — some of and majors are accepted. For more info, visit www.vote- and spent their first hours in much the same. The SACS these Morehouse must act to smart.org, or call 1-800-622-SMART Atlanta solve in three or working at four months; their hotel, They will want to know everything, and so they will others are DIVERSIONS organizing want to talk to as many members of the college allowed more themselves time for change, community as possible on every subject that bears On April 3-4, Georgia State University will be hosting a and holding as appropriate. Youth Service Summit, a spinoff from the Presidents' Sum­ preliminary on Morehouse. SACS can mit on America's Future held last April that helped estab­ discussions issue one or lish national benchmarks for youth in local communities. on two key more sanctions Students are needed to volunteer for positions from regis­ sections of at three levels of tration to facilitation. For more info, contact Kevin Moses at the Morehouse report: team members will be severity: notice, warning or (404) 215-2726. "Educational Program" and interviewing students, faculty, probation. Very rarely must a "Institutional Effectiveness." staff and administration from team render a decision of non­ Music Midtown 1998 needs the support of 500 volunteers They set foot on campus 8:30 a.m. to noon and from 1 renewal of accreditation. to make the festival the success it has become known for. for the first time for a dinner to 3:30 p.m., after which they The chairman of the The three-day music festival, held in the heart of Midtown Sunday evening. Then they resume their work at the hotel. visiting SACS team is Atlanta," is currently accepting applications for volunteers return here for breakfast They will deliver an oral President H. Douglas Lee of to help during the weekend of May 1, 2, and 3. All volun­ Monday morning, followed by report to the College Stetson University. Other teers will receive a souvenir festival T-shirt and a one-day a meeting with President Wednesday morning before members include pass to the festival. For more info, please contact the volun­ Massey, Dr. Jackson and Self- leaving Atlanta. The College administrators and faculty teer hotline at (770) 723-6572 or visit the website at Study Assistant Noreen will receive its formal written from Furman University, www.musicmidtown.com Mashaw. final report from SACS three Tarleton State, Fisk, and They will be interviewing or four weeks after this visit. Hampton, to name a few. Monday, March 30, 1998 THE MAROON TIGER CAMPUS PAGE 3 ' Artist Rayford Donates Life's Work to Morehouse

By Mikhia Hawkins His captivating style of these paintings as Staff Writer bold colors and broad strokes "constructive addiction," have been showcased in many which entails listening to jazz, Arthur Rayford, a self- private and public collections, classical, and other forms of taught artist and writer whose including the Museum of Arts music while painting. works have received wide and Science in Daytona Beach; "What inspiration I don't acclaim nationwide, recently Hunter Museum in get from God, I get from donated forty-nine of his Chattanooga, Tenn.; and the Mozart and other great minds major works to Morehouse of the past," said the artist. Zora Neale Hurston Museum challenges ofHBCUs is the lack College. Although Rayford's art is in Eatonville, Fla. of financial resources. Your "Here I am with no lively with invigorating Carla Maxwell Ray, predecessor was able to triple affiliation to Morehouse Assistant Vice-President for themes, his past is marked the school's endowment during with unfortunate experiences. his tenure. As president, what After leaving the military, * took that situation and learned a lot from it. is your goal for the endowment Massey Rayford became enmeshed in and how do you plan to reach Now I don’t let my storms of yesterday stop my a life of crime that led to a ten- that goal? year jail term in a Florida prison. He was released in .sunshine today.” My vision for Morehouse is that it will be among the I 1956. finest liberal arts colleges in the world. To achieve that, we Arthur Rayford "I took that situation and must have adequate resources to continue to attract the most College, and I'm giving myA rtist learned a lot from it. Now I the Office of Institutional qualified students and faculty, fund current and new life's work," said Rayford, at Advancement, who was don't let my storms of academic programs, and enhance and maintain the campus a ceremony held last month instrumental in collaborating yesterday stop my sunshine living-learning environment. So, increasing the College's during Parents' Weekend. "My with Rayford to orchestrate today," Rayford said. endowment is a major concern for me as president. paintings are like my children. the donation, said his full- Rayford has since become Our endowment is comprised of corporate, foundation Now with you, these are your a widely revered artist. color oil paintings will adorn and private donations -- gifts to the College that we invest children. How much should selected halls on campus. Through his art, he aims to to make money. We spend the money (interest) we make on you be giving?" inspire and enlighten his Three of these paintings — those investments to fund scholarships, faculty development Rayford, who has been "The Crucifixion," "Judas - A audience so that they may and capital improvements - literally everything we need painting seriously sincel984, Friend Betrayed," and "Peter - appreciate life. to operate the College. The larger the endowment, the more said his works reflect the A Friend Denied" - are already His generous donation we are able to offer our students. common, positive experiences on display in Kilgore Center. will be cherished by members At Morehouse, we are fortunate in that our endowment, J in the lives of black people in Rayford described the of the school community for which currently stands at $94.6 million, is one of the largest all walks of life. insirational theme behind years to come. for historically black colleges. But, let me put that in perspective for you: Harvard’s endowment is $11 billion; Yale’s is almost $6 billion! So, when it comes to endowments, everything is relative. “Freshmenare Fund raising is the key to increasing the size of the College's endowment, and our fund raising efforts take place walking risks” on many different levels. For example, there is the Annual Fund, which is targeted to alumni. This year, alumni giving Continued from page 1 is up 25 percent over last year. We are also involved in fund raising for special projects, in such cases to travel in large such as the Leadership Center. Over the past year, we have numbers. He also advises that raised $5 million—$1 million from Bank of America and $4 students not deal with million from the Woodruff Foundation — to help fund strangers. construction of that facility, which will house our leadership As a result of the robbery, programs. one of the victims was ready And then there is fund raising for scholarships - to leave Morehouse for home. currently our highest priority at the College. Oprah His parents met with President Winfrey's recent $1 million gift to Morehouse for our Massey and Dean Darden, Diamonds in the Rough Scholarship fund is an example of both of whom suggested the this kind of giving. move. He says that the gravity nawara uavis/a iftrr Beyond these ongoing initiatives, the College also of the situation did not occur Two Morehouse freshmen were robbed at gunpoint behind periodically conducts capital campaigns, which, because of to him until later. the Park St. Complex. Campus security claims the area does their large fund raising goals, usually have the biggest "Then it hit me that not fall under its jurisdiction. impact on increasing the endowment. We are currently in could've been it," he said. the planning phase for a major capital campaign, which we "There would have been no hope to launch in the next few years. more. . . everything I ever Once we have raised money for our endowment, we dreamed of could have CHECK THIS OUT! are responsible for ensuring that it grows by making wise ended." investments. The Investment Committee of the Board of Chief Worthy is currently Trustees oversees this function. Over the past several years, lobbying for another assembly FREEZE FRAME IS CURRENTLY FILLING the College's endowment has grown significantly because on student safety. In the LEAD AND SUPERVISOR POSITIONS AT of growth in the economy, particularly the stock market. meantime, students are A LOCAL THEME PARK. HAVE FUN As we continue to implement our vision for Morehouse, advised to be careful. During we will also continue to raise money to support that vision. warm weather, crimes begin to WHILE EARNING HIGHLY COMPETITIVE One thing is for sure: We will need more, not less, support escalate in this area. Those WAGES, QUALIFYING FOR BONUSES & from all our constituents if Morehouse is to remain the strong who are not aware of the times and viable institution it has been for more than 131 years. that the AUC shuttles run GAIN ADMISSION TO THE PARK FOR YOU should pick up a schedule in & YOUR FRIENDS. FLEXIBLE HOURS. NO Sincerely, the Morehouse Campus EXPERIENCE REQUIRED. FOR MORE security office. INFO, CALL 1-800-695-5303 EXT. 319. Walter Massey Monday, March 30, 1998 THE MAROON TIGER PAGE 4 Morehouse Professor Publishes Second Book

By Brian L. Thompson the connection in style with described as "quaint" by an save the Far East, is game for researching since 1994. Editor-In-Chief Beardsley's illustrations. The English critic, even Pablo her to study drawings. "[Raisonne concentrates] rest, as they say, is history. Picasso (who was still painting on not only the. She is known to Zatlin’s new book is based still-life while Beardsley was description of Morehouse students for her on Beardsley's art which creating masterpieces) had to physical unorthodox frankness in her breached impermissible acknowledge Beardsley's information teaching methods. But she is subjects in the 1800's. By the depth and influence, which about each also the foremost authority on time he was eighteen, had huge implications on drawing [size artist Aubrey Beardsley's Beardsley had digested modernism. and medium], works. Japonisme and forged his own Zatlin began her extensive but also on the And last month she style with which he attacked research of Beardsley in 1986, past owners and merged her two loves when British chauvinism and finished it between 1990 and where it is now, she returned to Morehouse to colonialism: the Victorian 1991 and spent the next three the auction sign copies of her just ideal. years polishing it. Although records, exhibits, published second book "Japonisme [can be Beardsley died at twenty-five, when it was first Beardsley, Japonisme and the described as] Japanese he left over 1100 drawings that published [and] Perversion of the Victorian Ideal. pictures in two dimensional he created in just over six a discussion in Dr. Linda Zatlin, once form instead of three. [It years. detail of what the described as the "high became] a phenomenon in Unfortunately, they are original critics priestess" of Beardsley art by America and France," said scattered across the globe and Dr. Zatlin discusses her new book with her said," Zatlin the New York Times, first found Zatlin. the owners often do not want colleague James Richardson. said. her love for Beardsley after In the late 1800's, there to send her the information While Zatlin reading an illustrated copy of was a call for Japanese culture she needs. Therefore, Zatlin "Australia has about works on Raisonne — hoping Aristophanes' play Lysistrata to Europe, America and Asia. must travel from place to place seven or eight [drawings] and to complete research and a in her World Literature class. The Japanese responded by to do the detective work there's one in Japan that has portion of the writing this year Dr Joseph Agee, head of sending middle class art that herself. not been found," she said. — she continues to set up the Morehouse Foreign focused on the theater and Major Beardsley Currently, Zatlin is on her Beardsley exhibitions Language Department, saw courtesan areas. collections exist at Harvard second sabbatical in her thirty- worldwide. After completing Zatlin showing her students "[Japonisme. became] a University, Princeton one years of service to her most recent one in Japan, the pictures and invited her to rage similar to Kente cloth — University and Victoria and Morehouse, and is working on she hopes to set up the next his office after class. There, he everyone had to have one," Albert in London, England, her third book, Aubrey one in New York. She will showed her a book full of Zatlin said. where Zatlin visits regularly. Beardsley: ACatalogue Raisonne, return to teaching at Japanese drawings and made Although the art was Much of the rest of the world, which she has been Morehouse in the fall. Forum Deconstructs Rap, Hip-Hop and the New World Order

By Deisha Galbreth Johnson began by Marion "Suge" Knight and entertainers Bill Bellamy, Awadu also advised against Contributing Writer encouraging AUC students to details concerning Shakur's Madonna, Easy-E, Snoop tattooing, saying, "Where does make "righteous" moves to and the Notorious B.I.G.'s Doggy Dogg and Foxy Brown. the ink go and what is it going "Negativity perpetrated under success. He then told the death. As the students begged for to do to your immune the banner of white supremacy audience that "these two Morehouse sophomore more, Obi Awadu detailed system?" must be challenged and defeated nights [February 24 and 25] Shaun Caldwell found how Brown got her "Ill Na Before concluding, Awadu by African people - it is our God- will be critical for the Johnson's discussion of Suge Na" from what he called "the instructed AUC students to given responsibility and right to education of black people." Knight one of the high points killer condom." stop accepting the behavior of do so." His lecture included facts of the evening. Clark-Atlanta sophomore celebrities and to not take on —Corey Johnson about the Mafia, infiltration of "All the implications that Eiko Harris said, "'The the culture of those who oppress them. A forum exploring the Morehouse sophomore apparent conspiracy engulfing Caldwell said, "The seminar popular black culture was held "These two nights will be critical for the education of black people" was very good. Plans of the in King Chapel last month. New World Order, Entitled "Rap, Hip-Hop -- Corey Johnson, at the "Rap, Hip-Hop" forum last month. innuendoes, morbid titles of and the New World Order: the rap albums...and just Who Shot Biggie and Tupac?" [destructive behavior of] our the talk featured Morehouse people are all things that I took professor Larry Crawford, from it." Corey Johnson and Keidi "The the black community and can be made from Suge Conscious Rasta' suggested It was this type of Conscious Rasta" Obi Awadu, "conspiracy for global Knight's background and the that we stop using latex feedback that made 'The founder of the Los Angeles control." possible conspiracies were condoms because of their Conscious Rasta' feel he was a Coalition Against Racist Child Johnson's speech ranged eye-opening and possible effects. He said we step closer to reaching his Experimentation and author from information on the first enlightening," he said. should use a brand of audience. of Missing Assets . black fraternity (Sigma Pi Phi) Students who left on the condoms called Avanti "There is, in the body of Crawford said that the to more incendiary topics such first night missed Keidi Obi because they are safe[r]. I'm written literature, all of the speakers came to gave the as documents from the FBI's Awadu's speech that was trying to share that with experience needed to create AUC a "more balanced Secret Wars Against geared towards empowering everyone I know." the reality that our nature presentation of reality" while Dissension in the United States Generation X. He took the Awadu further spoke demands," Obi Awadu said. testing the students' ability to and the Cointelpro Papers. stage and began sharing what about demonic messages in "Spending too much time on judge. Before introducing He also discussed Tupac he called "new ideas that song lyrics and commercial sports, celebrities and keynote speakers Johnson and Shakur's fight to make would lead to new actions and marketing of rap and hip-hop decadent American culture Obi Awadu, he also discussed politicians listen, his protest new results." entertainers. He also cited a like Ricki Lake and Jerry the concept of "Rolehouse" and against California's He backed his opinions chilling example of population Springer...tolerates the the shutting down of the Proposition 209, as well as the with facts on basketball's control: 440,000 black babies degradation of our cultural students' voices. history of Death Row CEO Dennis Rodman as well as were aborted in one year. values." WORLD AND LOCAL NEWS

Iraq Investigations Progressing Despite Some Discord

a group of Republican By Mikhia Hawkins trial. Clinton reasserted his stance U.N. Arms Commissioner Staff Writer senators headed by Majority Allegations of the use of on the Iraqi situation, stating Jayantha Dhanapala. The Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) chemical and biological that "the [U.N.) resolution team will be responsible for Since the passing of the appended a $38 million weapons against Iranians and gives us the authority to take the inspections of United Nations Security package for Iraqi opponents of Iraqis during the Iran-Iraq war whatever actions are controversial "presidential Council resolution on Iraq Hussein to the stalled of the 1980's constitute the necessary" if Iraq does not sites" where UNSCOM after U.N. Secretary-General conference report ont h e subject of the Senate comply with it. But Clinton believes material related to Kofi Annan's meeting with fiscal 1998-99 resolutions. added that the U.S. would prohibited arms are hidden. Iraqi President Saddam S t a t ach weapons were the consult with the United Dhanapala was quoted as Hussein, there has been a Department of failed attempts by the Nations before any further saying that the United Nations virtual frenzy of diplomatic authorization to inspect Iraqi action against Iraq is taken. wanted to implement its efforts to ensure a peaceful bill. weapons-testing sites. Iraq's Nearly all fifteen Security agreement with Iraq "as soon resolution of the situation. unwillingness to permit the Council members have as possible," to avoid the But the threat of war still 13, inspections prompted the insisted that the U.N. allow the possibility of another war. subsists. Senat recent U.N.-Iraq negotiations. United States to engage in In the latest news, U.N. The collective voice of unanimous The bill was first military actions against Iraq if weapons inspectors Congress has conveyed an passed a introduced in it violates the resolution, conducted their first-ever apprehension towards the 1991by Senator which stipulates the demand search of one of Iraqi President U.N. deal that is salient Arlen Spector. for unhindered U.N. Saddam Hussein's palace throughout both congressional The United inspections for suspected compounds Thursday, houses. Nations will weapons of mass destruction. accompanied by senior Many congressmen have dress the Following Annan's visit to diplomats whose presence expressed their concerns over . e n a t e Iraq, several "normal" cleared their way into the the effectiveness of the deal, resolution inspections, led by U.N. previously off-limits sites. contending that it may not and is Weapons inpector Scott Ritter, One diplomat, Horst allow sufficient efforts to expected have been executed. Holthoff of Germany, thoroughly inspect alleged to give , In accordance with the described Iraqi cooperations Iraqi weapons-sites. In the an initial U.N. Resolution, the U.N. as "fantastic, absolutely eyes of many, the resolution response Special Commision positive." was a victory for Iraq. resolution calling on the in a matter of days. (UNSCOM) are in the process On March 11, the United Nations War Crimes During a meeting with of organizing a new team of Washington Times reported that Tribunal to bring Hussein to Annan on Marchll, President inspectors, led by Sri Lankan Still Separate and Unequal: 30 Years after Kemer Report, Some Say Racial Divide Wider

biggest problems facing blacks By Saeed Ahmed • The national unemploment programs like Head Start. It National Center for Contributing Writer rate is below 5 percent, but also recommends reducing Neighborhood Enterprise, in America today. The real unemployment for young spending in ineffective accused the report's authors of issue is the growing economic Thirty years ago, a African-American men in programs, cutting corporate being "stuck in the ’60s" and rift within the black presidential commission places like south-central welfare and military spending. offering recommendations too community," he said. warned America that it was Los Angles have topped The report urges general to be useful. The critic of the most facing a racial crisis, becoming 30 percent. continuing commitment to Woodson says the number recent report on race divisions "two societies: one black, one measures that work, of black families earning in our society says Americans white — separate and • The national incarceration including: after-school youth between $35,000 and $70,000 need to change their mantra. unequal." rate of black men is four centers, school-to-work annually doubled between "If we keep banging the Thirty years later, that times higher than the programs, job training, inner 1970 and 1990, even though drum of racism, we will never dire prediction has come true. the number of black families find a way to close this So claims a new report to be earning less than $15,000 more economic rift. After all, if released April 1. than doubled during the same racism were the culprit, why According to the report — “The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, time frame. haven't all blacks been affected in the same way?" Woodson prepared by the Milton S. and minorities are suffering disproportionately,” reads the "Racism and discrimination Eisenhower Foundation to still exist. But they aren't the said. coincide with the anniversary document of the Kemer Commission findings — the economic and racial divide in the country same rate in South Africa city economic development today is greater than it ever under apartheid. and crime and drug Pbylicia Rashad to Restore Historic Black School was. prevention. Actress Phylicia Rashad -- TV's Claire Huxtable — has "While leaders and • The country's poverty rate Emphasis should be taken paid $115,000 to bring back to life a historically black school pundits talk of full is four times the average off things that don't work, it that has been closed for 59 years. - employment, inner city of western European says, including: enterprise Without her intervention, the 132-year-old school - unemployment is at crisis countries. zones, prison construction, which began as an institute for recently freed slaves - would levels. The rich are getting boot camps, and supply-side have all but disappeared. richer, the poor are getting • And of the 43 percent of economics, which gives tax Rashad bought the Brainerd Institute's lone remaining poorer, and minorities are minority children breaks for the rich and building and 12.5 acres last month with plans to open a new suffering disproportionately," attending public schools, corporations in the hope that chapter of the school. Her mother, Vivian Ayers Allen, was reads the document from the more than half are poor the money will trickle down to a member of the school's final graduating class in 1939. foundation. and more that two-thirds poorer socioeconomic groups. Rashad says she plans to work with graduates of the The report, entitled "The fail to reach basic levels of However, not every school and community leaders to restore the buildings and Millenium Breach," cites a national tests minority leader agrees with grounds of the now run-down and overgrown school mountain of statistics as the foundation’s findings. compound. evidence to support its The report recommends Robert S. Woodson Sr., an findings: some $56 billion in societal African-American — Saeed Ahmed changes, including expanding conservative who heads the Monday, March 30, 1998 THE MAROON TIGER WORLD AND LOCAL PAGE 6 Ex-Detroit Cop Convicted in Retrial

sentence on his 1993 murder the head." By Burt Herman But eyewitnesses who Associated Press Writer conviction before the state Supreme Court threw it out were acquaintances of Green DETROIT — In a case last summer. said they saw Budzyn beat that highlighted the racial The court dismissed the Green. split in this largely black city, first verdict partly because the According to testimony, a white former police officer mostly black jury was shown race was not a factor in Green's Damn You, Al Nino was convicted of involuntary the film "Malcolm X" during death. Still, in the aftermath of manslaughter this month in a break in its deliberations. the 1991 King beating in Los NIPOMO, California — El Nino's been taking the blame for his retrial in the beating death The film opens by showing the Angeles and the riots there the a lot of ugly weather. So has Al Nino. of black motorist Malice videotaped beating of Rodney following year, the death Green. King with a voice-over from heightened racial tensions in Alfonso Nino - listed in the phone book as Al Nino - has The jury of eight whites, Malcolm X charging the white Detroit. fielded a few irate calls from people who for some reason three blacks and an Asian man is "the greatest murderer The initial jury, made up think a weather phenomenon would have a phone. deliberated 22 1 / 2 hours over on Earth." of 11 blacks and one white, five days before convicting Green, a 35-year-old was chosen only from within "It's always something like, 'Why are you doing this?"' Nino Walter Budzyn of the count, unemployed steelworker, died Detroit. Because of a says. "And I say, 'Well, I didn't really have nothing else to which carries a maximum Nov. 5, 1992, after a subsequent reorganization do. I thought maybe it would be kind of fun.' I usually joke sentence of 15 years. A confrontation that left him that combined city and Wayne around with them a bit." previous jury had convicted with severe head injuries from County courts, the second trial him of the more severe charge at least one police flashlight. drew jurors from the suburbs of second-degree murder, Budzyn testified that he as well as the city. You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore which carries a maximum didn't hit Green. He said he Nevers was convicted by sentence of life in prison. saw his partner, Larry Nevers, a separate jury in the same CHICAGO, Illinois — Forget flowers and fancy chocolates. Budzyn, 52, showed no holding Green and the 1993 trial. He was released in What really turns women on are the scents from candy- expression as the verdict was flashlight coming down December after a federal judge coated licorice, cucumbers and baby powder, according to read. His daughter, Andy toward Green's head. overturned the verdict. a study released this month. Budzyn-Moleski, broke into "It came down and it No retrial has been tears and mouthed "why?" stopped," he said. "I don't scheduled for him while Following up on a previous study he did on the odors that Budzyn had served 4 1/2 know if you'd call that a hit, prosecutors appeal. most arouse men — pumpkin pie produced the strongest years of an eight-to-18-year but it did make contact with penile response - Alan Hirsch of the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago said he exposed women to odors and then measured their vaginal blood flow.

For women, he found the candied licorice smell produced by "Good and Plenty" candy, the odor of cucumber, and the aura of baby powder increased blood flow by 13 percent above the average blood flow. Other arousing odors were produced by pumpkin pie and lavender. S ¡¡LA irMfiW .attife a Smells that inhibited blood flow in women were cherries, taa Ol charcoal-barbequed meat, and — perhaps disturbing to scent dot, 1 w w' « d i IU cd manufacturers -- men's colognes.

For those interested in the topic, Hirsch has a book coming out in April entitled "Scentsational Sex." One of his previous work has been research on smells that encourage gamblers to bet in casinos.

Every Dog Has His Day Everyday

SAN FRANCISCO, California — So much for the phrase "it's a dog's life."

At San Francisco SPCA's new $7 million animal shelter, cages have been replaced with spacious "apartments" complete with comfortable furniture, TVs, skylights, and artworks on the walls.

The dogs even have their own personal trainers, and their own "social group" of two other dogs with which to romp.

Says SPCA President Richard Avanzino: "No one wants to adopt an animal that can't adapt to home life. Here our animals are socialized to be good pets."

The 21-dog apartment complex (and 67 "kitty lofts") has sound-proof walls so that visitors aren't overwhelmed by noise; and cute dogs are placed in back, so the public is forced to consider "the ugly ones, too," says Avanzino.

— Saeed Ahmed FEATURES I Morehouse Resident Assistants: Men with Many Hats

By Jeremy L. Writt crash course in philosophy so breaks up Director. Resident assistants ______Contributing Writer______that they can have an the fight are also instructed to alert the The men of Morehouse intellectual basis for the himself. campus police department College form a diverse counseling techniques they According whenever a resident needs community. This diversity, learned earlier in their training to senior medical care after hours. along with a myriad of other process. S a m a r i o Resident assistants also factors, makes this community So, what exactly does an King, an serve as floor hall monitors. exciting as well as potentially RA have to do? experienced Morehouse has designated volatile. "Sometimes I feel like a RA: "I quiet hours every evening so College administrators taxi driver," said De'Ndre would that students can study. Many combat this possibility by Mingo. "I work in a freshman never put RA's consider this duty a recruiting some of the college's dorm and they swear I have myself in necessary evil. Resident Cedric Dark/STAFF most talented and dedicated nothing better to do than to physical assistant Monteith Miles says, Meetings, meetings and more meetings: RA's students to become resident take them to this place or that danger. "I hate having to tell grown Julius (left), Dalmar and James ponder the assistants. Once selected, place." They don't men to be quiet or to turn these students are trained in But an RA's duties extend latest dorm crises. pay me for down their radio." the latest peer counseling far beyond that. that. Besides, in training they "I feel like I am being a big techniques and are given a Resident assistants serve as from their minds. On instructed us to follow nag," said Tigwa Davis. "But I fully comprehensive course on the dormitory's liaison to the occasion, students' tempers protocol in emergencies of this know that if I don't tell them college policy. Morehouse, Campus Police Department. flare and arguments elevate to nature." to be quiet, one of my other unlike the rest of the A.U.C., Morehouse preaches the fisticuffs. This is when a good In the event that a fight residents will ask them to do does not end its training concept of brotherhood. RA steps in. does break out, RA's are so in a much more forceful process here. It gives its Unfortunately, some of her However, this does not supposed to call campus resident assistants (RA's) a students purge these lessons mean that he jumps in and police and then their Resident Continued on page 8

1. Will the REAL Underground Live please stand up? 2. Wasn't Clark wrong for that chant at the b-ball game? 3. Does all of Missy's outfits look like big ass Hefty bags? 4. How come we're ready to fight for someone else's freedom when we're not done fighting for our own? 5. Wasn't the crooked SGA more productive than this? 6. Is God only good when He does something good for you? 7. If you keep it real, why did you hide yo' weed when yo' momma came to visit? 8. Okay, now who's the second grader writing for the yearbook? 9. Since when did Morehouse Aquatics become like Navy S.E.A.L. training? 10. What if the "Morehouse Experience" was all the brochures claimed it to be? 11. What if you wrote a poem on the back page of a college newspaper to a girl and she didn't realize that her initials are in the title? 12. Isn't "ghetto" more a mentality than a place? 13. Are you as holy Monday through Saturday as you proclaim to be on Sunday? 14. How many of you found out the hard way that Lifestyles break? 15. Why is it only "playing games" when a man does it to a woman? 16. Ya'll do know that Lil' Kim rumor is bullshit, right? 17. Is "Creative Loafing" an alternative paper or a nickname for the Morehouse Police Department? 18. Isn't it messed up that we'll get an orange boot faster than a parking space on campus? 19. Isn't Kirk Franklin just a holy DJ Clue??? 20. Are . , V V. fc- fc fc. fc u' 4« % A * * . you awake yet? Monday, March 30, 1998 THE MAROON TIGER FEATURES PAGE 8 Rod Hollimon: The Poet, The Future of The Maroon Tiger

We, the collective editing body of the Maroon Tiger, present the Player, the Person you with a vision: As the premier liberal arts college in the na­ tion for black men, we must continue to bring forth a newspaper By Myron G. Burney result of his personal form. that reflects our academic excellence. Staff Writer experiences. He said writing After receiving the was the best stress reliever for necessary finances for his We also intend to continue in the tradition of The Crisis and The He has only been a "Man him since he did not have book, he was on his way to Opportunity respectively: bringing forth literature that incurs of Morehouse" for just two many friends. print, and in about a week he thought and gives rise to rhetoric and discussion. As Africans, semesters but he has already His vision was later put was selling and marketing a we must seek to continue our native oral tradition of passing made a name for finished down history. As Americans, we must sustain the level of jour­ himself. product. nalistic excellence that has been handed down for the past one You might He hundred years. As African Americans, it is our responsibility to recognize him as admits sales dispel the myths assigned to us by society and continue to raise one of the Maroon were slow in the bar by which Morehouse Men are measured. Tiger's up and the coming offensive beginning, The mission of the 1998 Maroon Tiger is to motivate you, the backs or maybe but having student body, into action. Too often, we as a people sit on our you have read his the label of hands and watch revolution pass us by. It’s true we have no book of poetry the best journalism courses, but the fact that our people can read today is entitled, running a testament to change. We are the descendants of a people who "Reflections of a back in the simply refused to die. What you see before you is a product of World of Reality." state proved five hundred years of blood, sweat and tears. Jn the tradition of Whatever the to be a big past editors David Wall Rice, Obinna Eze Lewis, Marc Joseph case may be, this advantage and Cedi Snowden, we present you with a vision and the oppor­ sophomore for him. tunity to participate in it. The future is in your hands. transfer student Every­ from the Citadel is where he destined to do went, his great things at Taimy Alvarez/SPECIAL from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution book was Brian L. Thompson & R. Francis Blakeney Morehouse and Freshman Rod Hollimon, a running back for the Maroon mentioned Editors-In-Chief beyond. Tigers, was one of the nominees for the 1998 Georgia and with the The Maroon Tiger Rod Hollimon, Writers Author of the Year Award for his book of poetry, help of some an English major other key originally from Augusta, into form during his high people, his sales began to pick which he hopes to have out from writing. Although Georgia, was the number one school years after writing over up. this summer. This book will professional football is in his ranked running back in the fifty poems and getting A book signing at his local contain poetry that has shown future plans, he also aspires to state of Georgia while at T.W. feedback on his work from his high school put him on his feet his transition from boyhood to teach on the college level. Josey High School. After one peers, teachers, and friends. and allowed him to pay off all manhood. Cool, calm, and collected, year at the Citadel, Rod His big break came in his his expenses, as well as use a When asking him what Rod Hollimon is definitely on decided that he wanted to senior year when a family bigger publishing company. advice he would like to give to his way to the top in whatever continue his education at a friend expressed interest in He says whenever he comes in his fellow Morehouse he does, because not only does Historically Black College publishing his works. contact with other authors, brothers, he said, "Never give he have athletic abilities, and where he would also be closer Hollimon said that although they admire his up on your hopes and dreams, a literary skill, but he says he to home. the publishing company was accomplishments at such a because anything is possible." has Christ who strengthens Hollimon says he began virtually foreign to him, he young age. With very little free time him in all things. his vision of writing a book of decided to team up with them Currently, Hollimon is on his hands, Hollimon says poetry in the eighth grade as a to get his works into book working on his second book he gets most of his enjoyment

Kenyatta Shamburger. This Resident assistants also brilliant homeless person." Resident RA not only handles the many play the role of big brother. Tigwa Davis said: legitimate maintenance Senior RA Samario King said: "Sometimes that resident that concerns of his building, but "RA's in freshman dorms are you think is just a total jizzboy Assistants also becomes a sounding dealing with younger students is simply acting out because he board for those residents that who, in some cases, have is not used to not being the Keeping are generally unsatisfied with never been away from home. focal point. My job is to give the Peace “RA A in freshman dorms are dealing with younger students who, Continued from page 7 in some cases, have never been away from home. You never know manner. This could lead to a how far a little guidance can go. A five-minute conversation confrontation and I don't want could be the difference between a student becoming valedictorian that." Some Resident assistants or another brilliant homeless person." be extremely versatile and act like apartment must have a genuine concern superintendents. for their fellow students in "One resident assistant the living accommodations the You never know how far a him a little of that attention order to be successful. This from each building is College provides them. little guidance can go. A five- that he craves while giving unheralded position is one of designated as that building's The RA then takes the minute conversation could be him some advice that will help the most important cogs that maintenance issue concerns to the physical plant the difference between a him adjust to his new keeps the leader-producing coordinator," said W.E.B. where they are processed and student becoming surroundings." machine we know as Dubois Hall Resident Director eventually addressed. valedictorian or another Resident assistants have to Morehouse College running. EDITORIALS

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Saeed Ahmed Glennis Curry Spiritual Consciousness on Campus Copy Editor Production Manager Steven Baker, Ph.D Larry Crawford, M.S. Advisor Advisor By Chester Starks opposing viewpoints on more real or prophetic. I want Campus News Editor semantics and authenticity to see us use each ofhers' Melvin B. Rahming, Fh.D cloud our judgment and wisdom for the positive Advisor Within this microcosm of prevent us from seriously elevation of our people's elevated spiritual understanding our spiritual souls. I only used Christanity StaffWriters consciousness, technological awareness. and Islam as an example Myron G. Burney, Jason Pollard, Thomas C. Sweeney, Jr., Kamau advancement and limitless For example, a few weeks because they are the most Crawford, Sterling Taylor, Joe Carlos, Marcus C.H. Bolden, John cultural/ sexual/ human ago, Dr. Charles Finch from popular. Various Wilson, Curtis Johnson exploitation, I see that the the Morehouse School of denominations of world has problems and that Medicine shared some of his Christianity argue amongst Contributing Writers people have different ways of spiritual experiences at a themselves, and so do Narcissa Smith, N.D. Washington coping with them. I also see a Crown Forum. Some of his Muslims. very detrimental pattern experiences seemed to be I want to see us grow evolving in from our The Maroon Tiger welcomes your views on any public issue. Faculty, our combined administrators, staff, students, and alumni are encouraged to express their communities Because people view religion and spirituality wisdom original ideas and opinions in the paper. We publish only material addressed across the differently (and usually believe that their view is better instead of to us. We routinely edit letters for space and correct errors in spelling and world. Some hearing punctuation. Letters as well as commentaries must be 500 words or less, typed, signed and should include foil address and telephone number. of these than anyone else’s), opposing viewpoints on semantics about it: problems are and authenticity cloud our judgment and prevent us Nuwaubian All commentaries and letters to the editor must be mailed to: represented Moors The Maroon Tiger and from seriously understanding our spiritual awareness. having Letter to the Editor ■ manifested at yelling Morehouse College Morehouse. matches 8.30 Westview Drive, Southwest The problem that I want to funny to some of our brothers. with the Five Percent Nation; Unit # 140040 deal with at present is It is a shame that we laugh at Baptists (among others) Atlanta. Georgia 30314 spirituality. our elders when they testify to complaining about Jehovah's Many understand that one their tangible spiritual Witnesses knocking on their must have a strong spiritual experiences. "Don't knock door; followers of KMT's foundation to transcend what you don't know" is the Metu Neter constantly problems in society. However, phrase for today. If the man reiterating how lost other people commonly mistake said that he saw religions are, etc. Although religion for spirituality. interdimensional candy, let each point of view is not Religion is a group's organized him have his experience necessarily wrong, I think that method of expressing its without so much laughter and we can use more humility in spirituality. Spirituality is skepticism. how we present our one's ability to walk with, hear I'm sick of seeing perspective. None of us alone and know the Creator. While Christians arguing with have every single answer to religions differ, spirituality Muslims about God vs. Allah, every single question, but remains the same. Because Jesus vs. Muhammed. Let's with us all working together, people view religion and compare the two individuals we can produce answers that spirituality differently (and in terms of the principles they all of us can use. Twelve million American them? Call Second Harvest, used instead of hoopin' and usually believe that their view kids never had a choice. SECOND America’s food bank net­ hollerin' about which is better, is better than anyone else's), Won’t you choose to help HBBVESJ. work, at I-800-532-FOOD. Monday, March 30, 1998 THE MAROON TIGER OPINIONS PAGE 10 ___ sissiiiigio Are You Eligible for a Five-Finger Discount?

By Matt Collins about housing that phat FUBU yourself a booster. yourself suffering the than the law. Guest Commentary hoodie from Champs? Have Let’s face it, everybody consequences for such actions, So after reading this you candidly thought about steals. This is definitely not a whether it is getting fired, column, I must ask you this Let’s be real. How many sticking up Stegall's or one of good thing, but with the high prosecuted, or getting jacked question: "Are you a times have you slipped that the local BP's to pay off your cost of Morehouse tuition yourself. Play it smart shoplifter, potential shoplifter, pack of gum, candy bar, or negative balance so that you accompanied by the reccuring brothers, and remember: No or a booster?" I know I am. anything else that is small can register? Did you wish Bell South bill, there are few matter how good you think enough to be concealed in they didn't have chains on the other alternatives. Some might you are, you are never smarter your pocket and "forgot" to computers in the Sale and say "get a job.” I've done that, pay for it? How many of you AT&T labs? If you can answer but decided it was time to quit SGA President Responds to a Critic "forgot" to tell a grocery store any of these questions, then when store inventory rolled cashier that you had a 24-pack you have the potential to be a around. Some of us shoptlift As I opened my copy of the last issue of The Maroon of Coca-Cola or beer hidden shoplifter. without even knowing it, like Tiger, I was shocked by Mr. Dante Wormley's accusations of cleverly out of sight under How many of you hold when you order a pizza and the Pre-Alumni Association (PAA). I would first like to your grocery cart? down a tight job in Lenox or tell them you have a coupon commend Mr. Wormley on his concern for the student body. How many of you partied Cumberland Mall and have that you know you don't have. I would encourage everyone to participate in all facets of at the Warehouse all night and sold over $500 in merchandise Or when you shake that the Morehouse community, including missed the last shuttle, so you to one of your peeps for 50 vending machine for dear life its criticism. However, I will not and your boys called a cab and bucks that you eventually so that you can get that loose support such a slanted account of the ran like hell when it was time pocket? How many of you bag of Doritos. And when you PAA's appropriation of funds to to pay the fare? How many of ever made bootleg concert are supposed to put a token in attend the UNCF (United Negro you have a fiendish plan to tickets at Kinko's that you sold the slot at the MARTA station, College Fund] conference. First, I must defend my sneak into Lane or Chivers to innocent bystanders for not a penny, but then pull the Hall down packed? If you can profit? How many of you got bar back and slip right colleagues in the Senate: Steven answer any of these questions, stupid with a credit card that through. Schukie, the President of the Senate, and Senator Ike T. Ummanah. The then you are a shoplifter. you "accidentally" got in the But with every action On a higher level, how mail? If you answer any of there is an equal and opposite duty of our senators is to represent clubs and lobby for their clubs' many of you ever thought these questions, then consider reaction, and you may find interests. By contrast, the duty of the senate leadership is to not only manage the funds of the senate with financial acumen, but also to make decisions Hecklings and Fabricated Apologies that take into account the overall welfare of the student body. The PAA wanted to fly to the UNCF Conference while other members from the AUC community arranged other students. It would place he slept that night. Or maybe By Sterling Taylor transportation via bus. The PAA also proposed that their us all on the same level of he left Crown Forum Staff Writer twelve members be lodged in the Adams-Mark Hotel, which intelligence as such a person, unharmed, and slept that is equal to the Ritz-Carlton. Is that not self-serving, Mr. Something took place at since we were all accepted to night untouched, not giving a Staunch Critic? The Adams-Mark is a hotel for a honeymoon, this year's Founder's Day this school under the same single thought to what not for students attending a conference. The leadership of Crown Forum that shocked criteria. happened that day. Maybe the the Senate denied this extravagant request with the best and embarrased me more than I don't know what letters were fabricated. interest of the student body in mind. I applaud their resolve. anything has since I've been a prompted this person to act Why would the I must also address the grossly incorrect information student here. Keynote speaker the way he did. The most administration do such a that was presented to the Morehouse community about SGA Herman Cain, president of the likely answer could be that he thing? It all has to do with expenditures for the "Candle in the Dark" Gala. The SGA National Restaurant simply lacks something that I maintaining the image of purchased 30 tickets and distributed them to outstanding Association, was treated to believe a "Morehouse Man" Morehouse College. A phony students. The tickets were distributed to members of our shouts of "shut-up!" and should possess. In a word, letter sent to Cain would renowned Track and Field Team, the MLK Chapel Assistants, "booo!" that could be heard civility, or as most people call quickly erase the bad Work-Study students, and Men of Morehouse who have coming from the balcony. it, home-training. People who impression that his alma mater excelled in the areas of academics and community service. The culprit was ignored lack this social grace don't say is being run further into the So to the author who submitted these faulty claims: I would by Cain and Dr. Massey, who "excuse me" when they bump ground every time a new class implore that in the future you conduct better research. was also served to a round of into you. They yell out in steps foot on campus. In the The author raised a valid question, "What have we "boo!" The noise was Crown Forum and Freshman students' eyes, an apology done?" Please allow me to provide a brief sketch: tolerated by members of the Assembly, and if it causes a letter would let them know • the leadership of the Senate introduced student faculty on stage but their disturbance, they definitely that no matter how much legislation to ban credit card companies from campus who discomfort showed in the way don't apologize for it. trouble one individual causes, charged higher interest rates to our Morehouse brothers than they shifted in their seats. But wait a minute. he will be quieted and made to students at majority [white] schools. Perhaps this person had According to Dr. Massey at the an example of. If the • the SGA worked with the Student Services to improve some unresolved issues with following Crown Forum, administration doesn't get to the transportation situation of our brothers on North Dr. Massey, but they certainly that's just what this person did you, then your conscience will. Campus and worked so that their meal plans would be wouldn't have been resolved in two drafted letters, one to If the scene caused by the credited. in a situation such as the one Dr. Massey and one to Cain. rude person injured my sense • the SGA has helped co-sponsor Crown Forum he created. He must have been The letters were signed, sealed of brotherhood, then the assemblies this semester with the Department of African- bored with the ceremony, so he and delivered to the President administration added to it by American studies. decided to interrupt it as a the next day. This hardly insulting my intelligence. As That said, the main thing to note is that both the SGA means to speed it along a little seems in line with the Dr. Massey stood behind the and the Senate are accessible for questions and concerns. I bit. character of a person who podium, waving the apology was dismayed that the critical author did not attempt to If he rationalized either of would yell "shut-up!" during letter in the air for everyone to speak with the SGA or Senate in person, before judging them the reasons I've mentioned, it's one of the most important see (but not too closely) there erroneously. I find that a direct affront to the "mystique" obvious that he's not too annual assemblies of the was only one person that was that the author mentioned, and a violation in the creed of bright, especially if he thought school year. more stunned by disbelief brotherhood. These unwarranted attackers are the true he could achieve anything Maybe he fell and hit his than I. He probably thought parasites that wrongly cripple institutions and maim the positive. But I don't think any head as he left King's Chapel to himself, "I didn't write no character of individuals. student at this school is and had an epiphany that damn letter." But he couldn't dimwitted enough to believe made him see the error of his say a word. Will Sellers that. To say so would be an ways. Maybe his roommate SGA President ’97-’98 insult to me as well as most gave him a shot of civility as ...... Monday, March 30, 1998 — - , ; THE MAROON TIGER OPINIONS PAGE 11 —— ■ The Realities of Life in Prison

TEXT BY TYLON D. SWEET PHOTOS BY SHAUN SPEARMON

The real with all this time, falsely desired letter, card, or note that state prison accused. The silence, the never arrives. Waiting in pure is not just isolation, the unforgiving of faith for a visit from family, fences and society is debilitating. How who are over three thousand bars, bad much longer must I wait? miles away. But only receiving guys and How much longer must I disappointment because no bad food. knock at the gates of righteous one comes...no one cares...out No, the real people, before the outcasting of sight, out of mind. state prison of hate and unworthiness It is not the fast ticking can be and ceases and becomes an seconds, but the slowly should be expression of love and passing hours that I spend compared to affection? daily in this narrow six by news, in movies and videos, existing, not The real prison is where eight cell, which I must share and looking at pictures of living. It is too many people struggle to with a cell mate, squeezing out friends, family, and myself are filled with find the answers in their own the already unbearable damn near unbearable. people who debilitated, enfeebled, loneliness and depression. I Ahhhh! If only, if I would've, have disillusioned self, because find myself hoping and I could've, I shoud've, if only.... isolated hearts and suppressed there is no one else who will praying for guidance, Without the love and minds; loneliness that leaves mind seem to close in on me listen or even try to strength, inner peace, and a support from outside sources, one with an internal and and make me unresilient. It all understand. It is a place of solid faith and trust in God. a brother couldn't survive. He external need for love and makes life have no meaning, endless routines and orders, After listening to an old couldn't maintain stability and affection; and ideas, desires life without purpose, no life at where time itself is a dreadful familiar song on the radio with focus. He would break down and feelings that one should be all. My situation and I are task. It is the pile of great delight, I then find mentally and no longer be a doing something constructive constantly faced with hopelessness, with no myself having my heart human being, rather just a and positive with one's self, opposition. I am guilty, but affirmation from society or stabbed and my memories of being. I've come across existing more comfortably. not as charged. I am guilty of family members. past family and good times brothers who have been But no, in sets the growing associating with scum, guilty However the most savagely and cruelly incarcerated and been serving dreary anxiety, pushing and of some irresponsible choices heartbreaking, painful thing brutalized. The noisiness and time before I was even thought swelling. Uncertainty made throughout life. about being in prison, besides frustration of the days are bad, of. smothers, suffocates, until it I can easily stand criticism, the loss of one's freedom and but the countless nights one That's shocking huh? finally absorbs one's correction, incarceration, even rights, is the deprivation of lies awake and very much Well, their strength had a lot imagination. Yeah, the real punishment for the things I've not being there for your alone, crying in the solitude of to do with my support. That prison is agonizing frustration, done. But what about for the children, family, and that the soul, robs, drains, and seven letter word carries a lot fruitless despair, and things I am truly innocent? significant other. The most exhausts one's bodily energy. of weight for a person unfamiliar indifference. Why am I here all alone? depressing and spiritually Just reminiscing about the imprisoned. Responses from I am in prison. Why does Because I chose to be a loyal disrupting feeling is not the good times shared at you would give me infinite, my heart ache? It is because friend and not speak up, I am freezing winter coldness, or Morehouse, times shared with unlimited, internal pleasure; everything around me is left here to be devoured by the the uncomfortable summer that special someone, time peace, happiness, and joy to suppressed, dead, and crushes system. I know I've made heat and humidity, but the with family and friends in make it through the emptiness in on me. some mistakes in my life, but I waiting in anxious California, are all agonizing. of the days, and the dreadful The walls of my conscious don't deserve to be sitting here anticipation for a gravely To watch familiar sights on the terrifying nights.

The United Snakes, Israel, and Foreign Policy: A Sign for Black America

By Jamarlin Muhammad Tennessee State University perpetuate a non-visible form confiscate Arab-owned land to were HIV contaminated. Guest Commentary clapped and supported the of white supremacy. America make way for the illegal When will Black People "Wicked Witch of the West" is the same nation that used expansion of additional Jewish have our own foreign policy? The United Siates of Madeleine Albright and our people as human guinea settlements. (3) Israel Intelligent leaders like the America continues to live up America's intention of pigs in the Tuskegeee Syphilis intentionally targeted a U.N. Honorable Marcus Garvey to the term "Great Shaitan" bombing Baghdad. experiment. America is the Refugee camp in Lebanon, and the Most Honorable Elijah that was coined for them by During slavery when the real biological and chemical killing more than 100 innocent Muhammad had a vision that Muslims in the Middle East. Is white slave master was sick, warfare threat! victims. elevated Black people beyond there any reason why Saddam the slave would identify with History teaches that the Maybe America will not welfare, affirmative action, Hussein and the innocent Iraqi the master's cause and say, slave masters' best interest is bomb Israel because of their civil rights, and status quo people should endure a "We sick." If the slave master not in the best interest of the "unholy alliance" that allows "Negro" affairs. These great devastating military campaign was hungry, the slave would slave. America's best interest Israel to receive $5 billion leaders saw a way to improperly called "Desert say, "We hungry." Centuries is not in the best interest of annually via U.S. taxpayers. materialize our national Thunder"? This arbitrary later — in 1998 — when Bill Blacks in America. The Jews' promiscuous use of interest in which we could operation should be called Clinton says fight, "Negroes" Why doesn't America the term "anti-semitic" to orchestrate our own foreign "Devil Thunder." will be fighting before the real bomb Israel? (1) Israel has one describe critics won't deter me policy and not rely on another Segments of Black fight has begun. of the largest arsenals of from telling the truth. people to tell us who to fight America has blindly backed We have enough problems nuclear, chemical and America's allies are not and who our allies are. United States' foreign policy already: unemployment, biological weapons, yet Black America's allies. Israel against Iraq without even drugs, miseducation, self- refuses to join the Nuclear supported South Africa's knowing the history and hatred, and the racism that we Non-Proliferation Treaty and racist regime according to current politics of the region. encounter by White America the Biological Weapons U.N. voting records. Israel is While students at Ohio State on a dayto-day basis. America Convention to monitor these a racist nation itself; it threw University protested against is the same nation that mass destruction weapons. (2) away blood from the original Jamarlin Muhammad is a their own country's foreign distributed crack cocaine in Israel continues to demolish Black Falasha Jews based on Sophomore Political Science policy, Black students from our communities to Palestinian homes and an arbitrary stand that they major at Morehouse College. ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT How I Spent My Summer Vacation - Not Another loreJones!

By Curtis K. L. Johnson, Jr. Howard Film School. He through his own experiences, the cinema world. Fisher gives W&L News Editor subscribed to The Independent he was able to add an ironic credit to Spike Lee, Woody Deanna Davis as Film & Video Monthly and saw edge to his drama/ comedy. a Castleway ad along with one The interview with Fisher Stephanie and Make room for another from a production company in took on a peculiar twist when brother on the cinema block. Atlanta. He decided to send it turned into a therapeutic His name's John Fisher and re­ them a copy of his script for session regarding black RonReaco Lee as telling the story of black love How I Spent My Summer relationships. Fisher recalled in the 90's is his first attempt Vacation. that a woman he once dated Perry are college at stardom. Fisher is the After they received it, he told him that "men are lumps director and writer of a new was contacted by producer of clay." He elaborated by students who can’t independent film entitled How Alan Gay. Gay showed interest saying you grow from each I Spent My Summer Vacation. in producing the film and experience and it somehow This film explores the asked if he could start looking expands who you are. He also decide whether to turbulent and often hilarious for support for it. went on to discuss how often world of dating through the "It was very much a people view a woman's break up or make up eyes of African-American surprise, especially at that perspective on break-ups in college students. This film point because school was relationships and not on a in John Fisher’s debut breaks current black film beating me down," said Fisher. man's. Ironically, in Fisher's stereotypes by featuring no "I Was worried about my new hit romantic comedy, he drugs, gang wars, or gunshots. future after graduation. And focuses on the feelings of men feature, How I Spent How 1 Spent My Summer then this happens, and I was at the end of a relationship Allen and Martin Scorcese, Vacation instead illustrates a like, wow!" rather than women. film makers who have My Summer Vacation, a war between the sexes in a Fisher has written six "Often, new film-makers inspired him. fashion that is sharply ironic. other screenplays; all either attempt to bring a new style to Fisher does not know romantic comedy. Fisher, originally from dramas or comedies. His the art of filmmaking," he said. where his first film will lead Athens, Georgia, is a recent personal experiences in Fisher wishes not to be him. But in regards to his graduate of , Howard relationships made him pen labeled as a Black film maker, film's central theme of baffling photo: University Film School. His this dating tale. He labels his implying that there are limits relationships, one can only Deborah Celecia/SPECIAL claim to fame came just a week relationships with women as for Blacks in film. He would imagine how his first love feels before his graduation at learning experiences, and also like to bring diversity to now that he's broken ground.

Crossing Over to the Other Side: Bebe Winans Style In a departure from his Happy Day," which also ("If You Say," "In Harm’s Way," gospel purist, this is not the wanted to do for a long time gospel music roots, Bebe features Hezekiah "In the Midst of Rain"), the album for you. Winans and that they would Walker's absence of Cece's powerful ventures away from the base collaborate as a duo again in Winans explores popular Fellowshi voice is quite noticeable. audience that Bebe and Cece the future. So, if you enjoy music in his self-titled LP. Crusad Not taking anything shared. Bebe Winans, check out a Choir. away from Winans' In an interview, they similar crossover product from By Brian L. Thompson Vfe personal singing ability, stated that solo projects are Cece Winans, entitled Editor-In-Chief follows but listening to Bebe something that they both have Everlasting Love, now in stores. the Winans without Cece is Usually when a preacher t r e n like listening to Ihtrhj ip ars a

by Deisha T. Galbreth 166." with my group for a class KP's father recently tour, new video and an R&B Contributing Writer While KP has discovered project and be on a plane to passed and she has erected remix of "Swing My Way." The fame and popularity, she is New York at the same time." her career goal in his honor. new video will have an Clark-Atlanta University's faced with new obstacles "I've been in the business entirely different format with own Kia Phillips, of bass music overcome. How does s for a long time, so I plan on Envyi singing mostly and KP duo KP & Envyi, has fame and balance academics and staying in it ...when I get my rapping at the end. notoriety dangling from her recording career? How is first lump sum of money, The duo recently fingertips. successful in both? instead of buying a recording performed at an Atlanta Glory Twenty-two year old "KP" "It's not really hard, studio like most artists, the basketball game and appeared (as she prefers to be called) is it's a whole lot of work," sai first thing I will do is make a on BET's Teen Summit and a native Atlantan and KP. She is also fortunate huge learning center and Soul Train. They are also graduate of local Benjamin E. have very understandin name it after my dad," she talking about going on tour as Mays High School. Presently professors who appreciat said. an opening act for Immature. a graduating senior in early what she is trying to do "Swing My Way” became KP asks that Atlanta childhood education, KP is help her keep up with number two on the Billboard University Students continue also part of a group called The school work. Hot Rap Singles Chart after to support her by buying their Kaperz on Legacy Records. "[These professors are only nine weeks. The single single and the album. As a member of The saying that I can miss class," KP and Envyi, with Clark has surpassed gold status and "A lot of people have come Kaperz in high school, KP was she said. "But, if I do miss a Atlanta's Kia Phillips on the sells about 100,000 copies bi­ up to me and said 'I like your surrounded by high profile day, they understand and I still right. weekly. video' or 'I just bought your performers like Jermaine have to do all my work." KP & Envyi are now single.' Stuff like that really Once, she was even Dupri on a regular basis. She often gets home from working on a promotional keeps me going," she said. interviewed via telephone in a Surprisingly though, her the studio late at night with a hallway while listening to her interest in music lot of homework to do. A professor lecture at the same entertainment evolved slowly typical weekend with KP time. "Caught Up" in a Mediocre Soundtrack but surely. might include a number of KP's mother, recent CAU "Now I like a whole lot of shows, then getting home at 4 grad Bertha Phillips-Furcon, is Personally, I'm tired of seeing the "black man who goes music, not just rap, R&B or a.m. and still making it to her "very supportive" of her to jail - gets out and tries to do the right thing - falls into a bass—I like almost anything 8:00 class. Few students have newfound success. different trap" movies. Somehow, between adulterous divas that anyone tries to do," said her dedication and drive. "One of the things that (Waiting to Exhale), murderous home girls (Set It Off) and Phillips. According to KP, the makes me feel good about black buffoonery (Senseless), we get a locked up bruh -- trying KP & Envyi's single hardest part is when [KP] is that [she is] a believer to go right — ends up going wrong again in Caught Up. At "Swing My Way" was chosen something important is going in the Supreme Being and His least the others had better soundtracks. by Black Market Inc. to be on in both her academic and ability to give them the desires Don't get me wrong, Caught Up has a few decent tracks featured on the compilation musical life. of their hearts," said Phillips- on it. DJ’s Quik and Premier, True Master (Wu-Tang), and album for Elektra Records "The two coincide a lot," Furcon. Jermaine Dupri bring star power to the album. But please, entitled "Rhythm and Quad she explains. "It's hard to meet don't get caught up in the production or the flashy names. The songs may actually pace the movie and push along the Class Dismissed: “01 Skool” almost Flunks out action but the only thing it made me push was the 'eject' the decent songs are lacking. Dreaming." "Dreaming" is button on my JVC. By Johnathan Howard Snoop Doggy Dogg and Kurupt perform the title track Associate A&E Editor They become so full of one of the better slow jams of synthesized drum beats and the year. But the question is : "RideOn/Caught Up." It has an infectious beat but The current R&B scene is heavy bass characteristic of much of Snoop’s music in the post-Dr. Dre chock full of three- or four- that you era, it's light on the rhymes. Guru and DJ Premier, in the member male groups that take eventually company of Pete Rock, Terminator X (and Eric B. when it us down the same road of lost lose the comes to beats), does not disappoint on "Work" while Joe's love, i.e. "I want you back lyrics. "U should Know me" proves that Mr. Thomas is well on his baby" and "love you down" This, way to R&B stardom. songs. though, is The tracks by Do or Die featuring Danny Boy and Now, along comes O1 no great Johnny P ("All in the Club"), Lost Boyz ("Ordinary Guyz"), Skool — a group that promises loss. Lyrical Luniz featuring Daz and Kurupt ("My Buddy") and Killah to take you back to the good gems such Priest featuring Inspectah Deck and the GZA ("Cross my oT days of soul. However, as "...we can Heart") solidly round out the middle of the album. This is they fail in their valiant get kinky" where Caught Up begins its downward spiral. (though badly-crafted) and "...feel Imagine a song where Mad Lion sounds like Dikembe attempt. my nature Mutumbo and sings an old hook by the Bangles. That's track The album is produced by rise" number nine ("Ey-Yo"). How about a girl with a "for studio O1 Skool's promising future disappears in a self- Keith Sweat, which assures the proliferate only" tag on her voice singing a song with MC Lyte rapping listener that there will be an the album. titled LP with a prototype sound. a few bars? That's song number twelve ("I Like"). "I Like" obligatory amount of begging And just when you thought it Does the song work because of will probably get some airplay because studio-only voices and pleading. O1 Skool gives couldn't get any more clichéd, O1 Skool, or because Xscape are "in" these days (T-Boz, Total, etc). A group named "O” you exactly that on nearly one of the members shouts, and Keith Sweat are featured sings the soundtrack's last song. Oh . every single track. "O1 Skool, can you hear me vocalists? I wasn't the only If you are a West Coast fan, then this is the soundtrack Their vocal ability also sing?" Sheer poetry! one who didn't even hear O1 for you. Throw up W's and pump it up to your heart's leaves much to be desired. To match the lyrical Skool in the verses. content. However, even though I don't like a lot of West These brothers sound like the wizardry, there's "Come with O1 Skool, true to their Coast, I have a hard time believing that Snoop, Daz, Kurupt, four guys who came in second Me," an ode to the 3:00 a.m. name, bring nothing new to Luniz and Mack 10 are the only westside groups worth place at your high school booty call. The album does get the music scene except four putting on a soundtrack. What about Ice Cube? The talent show. Their vocal better as it nears the end. Both fresh faces. If your music Pharcyde? Dr. Dre? WhoRidas? For God's sake, there is a training must consist of "It Won't Let Go" and "Don't collection ranges from R&B to group named "O" on the soundtrack! singing lessons from someone be Afraid" are the compulsory ... well... R&B, you may want Caught Up walks a thin line between mediocrity and named Ms. Jenkins and "uptempo jams with guest to pick up O1 Skool's self-titled potential. Unfortunately, potential does not guarantee harmonizing along with Jodeci rapper (place name here)." CD. For those whose musical record sales. on the radio. O1 Skool slightly redeems tastes do vary, your fifteen —Brian L. Thompson There are few high points themselves with "Touch You" dollars might be better spent on this debut album, but even and their first single "Am I elsewhere. SPORTS

Hope Springs Eternal as the 1998 MLB Season Looms

By Staff Reports power of 3B Matt Williams and fight off the question mark- Should the Mets acquire only weak link is SS Jose rookie IB Travis Lee due to filled Angels to repeat as Randy Johnson or another big Vizcaino and he will put up With the regular season largely inexperienced pitchers. champions. Randy Johnson arm to put them over the good fielding and average beginning in just a few days, AL Central: The Indians will again pitch too many hump, they will be a force to numbers, which is good the addition of the expansion will receive their strongest innings this year and most reckon with. enough for skipper Bill teams, and Milwaukee and competition from the likely will be traded to a team NL Central: Milwaukee's Russell. Otherwise, the Kansas City switching struggling Chicago White Sox with prospects and/or big return to the NL puts them in Dodgers have the firepower leagues, this MLB season will since the Brewers moved to the names and money to spare. the thick of a title race between and pitching to win. The piggyback on the success of NL Central and their The Mariner middle relief is the Astros and Cardinals. defending West Champion last year's. Since there have replacement (Detroit Tigers) is just as bad if not worse than Houston resigned "Killer B’s" Giants must pick up more been some major changes in still rebuilding. The Indians' last year's and the longer they Craig Biggio, Jeff Bagwell and consistent hitters and get personnel for most teams, it is average rotation of newcomer depend on four people Derek Bell, but lost staff ace decent production from the anyone's guess who is the best Dwight Gooden, Jaret Wright (Johnson, Ken Griffey Jr., Jay Darryl Kile and starting CF bullpen in order to repeat. The team in baseball. and Chad Ogea will get plenty Buhner, Alex Rodriguez), the Luis Gonzalez to free agency. Arizona Diamondbacks will AL East: The Yankees will of run support if they falter. longer they will come up short The Cardinals look promising have to deal with very little be closely challenged by the On the other hand, the White in the post-season. The Angels with OF Brian Jordan depth up the middle and equally powerful division Sox will have to rely on the have taken swan dives the past returning after missing out inexperienced relief in their champion Orioles while the one-two-three punch of Frank couple of years and must most of the 1997 season, but inaugural season. Devil Rays begin their Thomas, Albert Belle and solidify their questionable they will miss the arm of P More things to look for in inaugural season. The Yanks, former Gold Glove 3B Robin middle relief in order to Alan Benes. Milwaukee now the new season: Randy with new additions 2B Chuck Ventura. The ChiSox staff ace contend. will have to contend with NL Johnson will be traded. Knoblauch and DH Chili is Jaime Navarro and it only NL East: As the best pitchers, a smaller strike zone Former Brave Jeff Blauser will Davis, have superior power gets worse from there i.e. regular season team in the and no DH rule. They must help the Cubs try to become a and speed from the top of the James Baldwin, Scott Eyre, Bill league, the Atlanta Braves will make the necessary legitimate winner. Andres lineup to the bottom while the Simas and a few other people have to match consistent adjustments early on in the Gallaraga will drop off in Orioles have a superior that we've never heard of. hitting with great pitching and season. The Pittsburgh Pirates production in pitcher-friendly starting pitching rotation in Newly-signed and admitted find speed on the basepaths in will not be a factor as long as Turner Field and former Mike Mussina, Doug Drabek, wife beater IB Wilfredo order to prove that they rule they keep a "league minimum Florida ace Kevin Brown will Scott Kamieniecki, Jimmy Key Cordero might start at IB beyond September. The salary" approach to signing provide depth to the starting and Scott Erickson. The first- moving Frank Thomas to DH rejuvenated Mets will be the talent. rotation of the Padres. Lastly, year Devil Rays, however, will where he can’t make any Braves' toughest opposition NL West: The L.A. Kenny Lofton should return to have to rely on their strong fielding errors. now that Florida has Dodgers should take the successful form back in defensive players, the speed of AL West: The pitching- dismantled its championship Western division back from Cleveland. CF Devon White and the poor Mariners will have to powerhouse of a year ago. the San Francisco Giants. The Hot Cash For The Cold Winter Package Handlers Needed Now

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For Dates and Times to Apply Call: (404) 608-0433 ///R//P//S Atlanta Hub EOE/AA Monday, March 30, 1998 THE MAROON TIGER SPORTS PAGE 15 Mason's Future Hazy after Rape Accusation The I^íiííI Shot to Mason's agent. A week or His selfless play was rewarded By Johnathan Howard Asssociate A&E Editor two later, Mason is charged with a fat contract extension with rape and his face is from his current team, the It's All About the Benjamins: Latrell Sprewell is banned plastered all over the papers. for sixty-eight games. Patrick He now awaits the results of a Ewing breaks his wrist. It's March 9 court date where he Salaries in Pro Sports Michael Jordan's last go- gave a blood sample. If DNA round. 2-Ball replaces the evidence matches Mason to By Brian L. Thompson Dunk Contest. Now, Anthony the girls, he will undoubtedly Editor-In-Chief Mason, current Charlotte face some serious jail time. Hornet and former New York Two questions come to Do you realize that in the time it takes me to write this article, Knick, is charged with rape. mind in this situation. The there's a basketball player sitting on a bench making more money This NBA year is one for the first is: What the hell was than I'm likely to see during my lifetime? history books. Anthony Mason thinking? If I offered to write articles for a magazine but demanded This is far from the first What is a 26 or 27-year-old that they pay me $200 million over seven years, which do you time "Mase" and the man doing having sex with think I would get first: a strait jacket, a urine test, or thrown out authorities have crossed paths. adolescents? And if the of the building? His escapades as a Knick are charges are false (and let's Here's the funniest thing about it: the athletes do whatever nigh legendary. For example, pray that they are), why was they want and get away with it. Half of the NBA players get there were arrests for he riding around with these drunk and high and their punishments are the equivalents of hundreds of dollars in unpaid two girls anyway? Everybody "Go to bed without dessert." Of course, testing positive for parking tickets, charges of is out to make a dollar these cocaine is out of the question. Choking a coach and threatening punching out a patron in a days. I know Mason has to kill him will buy you a 68-game suspension and lose you a N.Y. bar, and the list goes on. always been one to remember few million. But if a player spits in another player's face, it's all That Mason got into trouble where he came from, but AP good. Mason's brushes with the upon a return to New York sometimes you have to be Baseball is no different. Albert Belle once corked his bat isn't totally shocking. What's careful of who you're with. law extend far beyond the (like he needed to) and gave Fernando Vina a Lex Luger-like shocking are the details of the Not everyone has his best current rape charges against forearm shot that likely had Vina looking for a three-count pin. accusation. interests at heart (see Wyclef's him. Roberto Alomar has made spittle a household word. Yet both Apparently, Mason was "Words of Wisdom.") these men combined make more than a few Major League teams. riding around Queens, NY, The second question is: Charlotte Hornets. Innocent Even in hockey, which black folks are actually starting to with two underage girls in the What now? For fans he was or guilty, what happens to all play, is getting bad. What has the world come to when a Native back of a limousine. No, wait. an inspiration; the hard road of this? Regardless, he'll American is throwing racial epithets at a Black man? Underage is too light a word. player who fought his way to probably lose fans and gain Now as for the NBA, the owners do have the collective These girls were 14 and 15- the NBA, while taking stops in critics. Mason denies the bargaining agreement. It'll be reopened at the end of the season year-old sisters, barely the CBA and even Turkey. charges, and his legal team to put a ceiling on the skyrocketing player salaries and place pubescent, hardly legal. The Mason blossomed into a "Poor portrays him as the victim. marijuana on the list of drugs the NBA won't tolerate. Since the explanation for the event is man's Scottie Pippen." Mase When this is all over, Anthony players want a load of money and believe they have the right to that Mason and the girls were was the first point forward on Mason won't forget this brick do whatever the hell they want, they'll threaten to walk out. "driving around," according the East Coast since Larry Bird. for a long time. Being the type of people that they are, the owners might let them. Even if this is not the case, if the issues are not resolved in a few months, there will be a lockout. Game, set, match. We have no NBA season. Whatever happened to the Tony Gwynn's and the Cal X" greatness Ripken's of the world? It used to be all about the love of the game. These men have played for the same teams their entire careers. Cal Ripken has played for over thirteen years without I ’what does missing a game while Tony Gwynn strikes out about the same amount of times per season that Morehouse wins football games. It's about baseball for these men. Yet Deion Sanders, who bats about as good as he tackles, clamors for a bigger salary. be^L I ins bere ... No one likes to lose. But if you're Rony Seikaly and traded to a team one piece away from making the NBA Finals (Utah), why do you accept a trade from a team a few years removed from the NBA Finals (New Jersey)? Locale? New Jersey is not the best place on earth but at least there are more than five black people living there. Hell, give me the league minimum (around a modest $272,000) to play for Utah (ugh) and I'll go out there Lerone Bennett Julian Bond and actually give a damn every night. And if I were traded to a team like Toronto, I'd be a cold brother with about half my salary eaten up by taxes but I'd shut up and play my butt off every night. Why, you ask? For the love. Not just for the Benjamins.

Robert Johnson Howard Thurman

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