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BLACK COLLEGE TODAY For Today’s Black College Student www.blackcollegetoday.com Volume XXI www.blackcollegetoday.blogspot.com Number 6 November/December $2.00 2014 Trey Songz: His Music Has Meaning Overcoming Obstacles Morgan State University: The HBI Equity Case 2014-2015 Black College SGA Presidents thescholarshipladydc.com: Has Schlarships For You Black College Today n2 September/October 2014 BLACK COLLEGE TODAY CONTENTS www.blackcollegetoday.com | www.blackcollegetoday.blogspot.com FOR TODAY’S BLACK COLLEGE STUDENT FEATURES NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2013 | VOL. XVIII NO. 6 4 DID YOU KNOW BCTMGAZINE @BCTMAGAZINE Today’s Teachers Hold the Public Trust by James B. Ewers Jr. Ed.D. 6 COVER STORY Trey Songz 10 BLACK COLLEGE SGA PRESIDENTS 18 SCHOLARSHIPS Hot Scholarships for the month by Carla Dickerson 25 ENTERTAINMENT BRIEFS We’re giving you the JAMES DIMMOCK PHOTO CREDIT: Latest news on your TREY SONGZ favorite celebrities. among the most promising R&B artists 26 MORGAN STATE Court Affirms 32 COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES Contributing Writers: Driscrimination in This Season Don’t Pass Steven M. Mootry II “HBI Equity Case” the Germs James B. Ewers Jr. Ed. D. by Charity B. Strothers by David J. Burton & Dr. Felicia Durden Pace J. McConkie Charity B. Strothers 34 EDUCATION Carla M. Dickerson Overcoming Obstacles 30 BEAUTY Crystal Styles by Felicia Durden Ph.D. So your hair goies “POOF” by Crystal Styles 35 FALL TOUR Black College Fall Tour September/October 2014 n3 Black College Today D id you know TODAY’S TEACHERS HOLD THE PUBLIC TRUST BY JAMES B. EWERS JR. ED.D. beginning would help me in the long in a positive direction. Teachers run. He was right. During field trips have always been difference-makers. for example, I always had more than Examples of their influence loom my fair share of parent volunteers. large. Ask any successful person It was because I had developed a about their journey and they will relationship with them. probably mention the name of a Those two pieces of advice served teacher. me well throughout my career in The demands on a teacher these education. While my public school days are much different. As a result position as a social studies teacher the teaching profession is losing too JAMES B. EWERS JR. shifted to higher education as many of its shining stars. Most are an administrator and a teacher, I challenged by ever changing state never fell to remember those two demands, parents taking up for their There is a chill in the air and principles. disruptive children and marginal pay. school has been back in session It did not take very long for me These are all legitimate concerns and for a few months now. Teachers to realize that my students trusted until some things change there will are back in their classrooms giving me. They believed what I said and be a mass exodus each year of highly students much needed instruction responded to me in a positive way. I qualified teachers. So give teachers and guidance. was a role model for them. Many of the voice they so desperately need to I can remember my first teaching my students told me they wanted to control their own destiny. Re-shape assignment as a high school history go to college and become a teacher. policies at all levels that penalize and government teacher. When I That was a great compliment, one good teachers for their students’ received my teaching contract in that I have never forgotten. poor performance. Let teachers the mail it was one of the greatest know their communities care about I still believe today that being a days of my life. Upon reflection now, them. teacher is one of the most honorable I was twenty-one years old soon professionals that you can have. Over time, we have created a lot of to be twenty-two and my career in Parents trust you and communities “days” for individuals and groups on education was just beginning. trust you. When students see their our calendar. I am sure that all of us One of the first things that I did teachers outside of the school can name at least three days. Let’s have a national teachers’ weekend was to get a mentor at my school. I setting they are acknowledged in a where if you are a certified teacher just figured I needed someone who positive way. was experienced and knew more all of your purchases are made at a Teachers hold the public trust. than I did about the profession. I was discounted price. All it takes is one They are viewed as leaders and so green that the advice and wisdom community or city to recognize the shapers of the future. Yet some my mentor gave me was invaluable. importance of teachers and their would say that teaching is a fall back He called me by my last name which value to society. Is this idea radical? profession. In other words if you I thought was strange but he was the It depends upon your perspective. can’t be what you want to be, then consummate professional so that set Our children and grandchildren are the tone. you can always be a teacher. being taught by teachers. Where Sometimes I will ask students would our children be without our An original piece of advice he gave teachers? me was to get order in my classroom. what they want to be. I don’t see as He said without order and discipline many hands going up when it comes Consider your college major as learning could not take place. He to being a teacher. Yet I believe maybe teaching is in your future. added that there would be chaos strongly if you want to change the Talk to some of your teachers as I am every day. The next thing he told world then become a teacher. sure they will provide you with some me was to call every parent to tell Yes, you may have to be a surrogate sage wisdom on the profession. them how privileged I was to have parent and yes, you may have to Teachers are the beacons of light their child in my classroom. My provide lunch money or clothes for that guide our children along the mentor said establishing a positive some of your students! Yet those road to success. You could become relationship with them at the acts of kindness may influence a life one of them. n BCT Black College Today n4 September/October 2014 September/October 2014 n5 Black College Today Cover Story Trey Songz Attack.” And let us not forget the who brings real situations from classic change-the-game-sounds of his life into ours. So if you liked “Successful,” with partner Drake, the irresistible emotion that fueled the permanent go-to-bed-cocky “Heart Attack,” “Can’t Be Friends,” records like “Neighbors Know My the yearning ballad “Yo Side Of The Name” & “I Invented Sex,” the club Bed,” or the chart-topping multi- banger “Bottoms Up” or “Say Aah,” platinum hit “Bottoms Up (feat. the best, most literal, did-he-just- Nicki Minaj)” then get ready to fall say-that? club anthem ever made in love with the new jam, TRIGGA’s that brought all that heat and sex second single, “Smartphones.” appeal and provocation to longing A beautiful, driving mid-tempo ladies everywhere who thought ballad with a yearning chorus, they were safe at the bar. sensual live guitar rhythm line and Over the past ten years, no one His best, most anticipated album building drum track, it was written, has better blended the sounds of of his career, TRIGGA will also turn produced & conceived in Trey’s hip-hop and R&B and pop better on legions of new fans who want a Hollywood Hills home studio. than the Grammy-nominated R&B pop & soul master who wears international superstar TREY Tremaine Aldon Neverson was his heart on his sleeve. Fans like SONGZ. And now for 2014, after born in Petersburg, Virgina, a Trey, then they love Trey, then they dozens of hits, and more than 20 small town south of Richmond. never ever want to be without his million albums & singles sold, his Trey’s mom, April Tucker, had him music. And then he always brings sixth studio album…TRIGGA is when she was seventeen-years-old that new fresh beat… here. and raised him as a single parent “Nana” is TRIGGA’s lead single until she married Trey’s step- Put your hands in the air if you’re and it has pushed its way up the father when he was seven. An loving tonight… video & song playlists dripping Army brat, Trey spent most of his With TRIGGA, Trey Songz has with the sweat of its leading man. earliest years moving from town to found the true meaning behind The song flips that classic “oh town as the family would follow his his music and prepared his most nana” dancehall refrain into an stepfather who would be stationed intimate album yet. The album is anthem for the new millennium, to different military bases. an honest and courageous set of a soundtrack for couples “I went to eight schools before songs that will solidify his bond everywhere who want to take care ninth grade. That prepared me for with an adoring fanbase who have of each other. who I am in my life today…” been open ever since he exclaimed “I love hard,” says Trey Songz. “I gotta make it!” Stability came in high school “When I love you I love you to when Trey moved back to TRIGGA will extend the legacy of I death, but if I’m not rocking with Petersburg, and it was then that GOTTA MAKE IT (2004), TREY DAY you then I don’t think you exist in he discovered his music talent.