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Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook The Morehouse tradition P-2 A former mentee of Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays Tatted Wright tattoo shop P-3 shares the uniqueness of Mays' life and work, p.3 Breaking Upwards review P-4 The Organ of Student Expression Since 1925 MARO Ol «GER Morehouse College • Atlanta, GA January 27 - February 2, 2010 WWW.THEMAROONTIGER.COM Morris Brown College: Down, but never out 1 ; HI be under the sole patron never regain its status. return to the school to fin w Ofe -¿fe '■'A 'i' Æ BH I¡y *siE? age of Black people. Just However eight years ish their degree. They are HBF X < X L as Morehouse has its own later and with no accredi hoping to attract students clout as the only all male tation, Morris Brown still by offering online classes institution for Black males has a heartbeat. This life and an array of class start in the country, Morris was apparent in an inter ing times. Brown was the first college view with Morris Brown Irving Marshal is a busi to be a part of the soon to student Aaron France. ness administration major be AUC. “Although there is no at Morris Brown. He also In 2002, S.A.C.S. (South accreditation, there are believes that accreditation ern Association of Colleg still graduate schools that is not the most important es and Schools) stripped will accept your degree, aspect of an education. the historic school of their like Georgia Tech,” France “No one can say that I accreditation stating that said. did not attend and gradu they needed to make criti As a 29 year old graduat ate from college,” Marshal cal changes in their opera ing senior with a 3.7 GPA, said. “It’s all about what I tions-. Accreditation is a France understands that his am doing here; the experi review process that helps Morris Brown education is ences that I am gaining are *** * h ST assure academic quality just as good as any educa priceless.” and qualifies a school to tion at another institution. Led by acting President federal funds. “I am getting the same Dr. Stanley J. Pritchett, This loss in accreditation education that you or any Morris Brown’s “come led to an 8 million dol one else in the AUC is get back to accreditation” has lar loss in federal funds. ting,” France said. “The been a long road. Howev Most would agree that this classes here have the same er, all administrators are is why 80 percent of Mor academic rigor as any oth doing what they can for ris Brown’s 2,500 student er university in the coun the school to return to its population left. try.” former status. Without federal finan One of the main aspects The schools public rela cial aid to help pay for of improvement that Mor tions officer Bonnie Jack- Calvin Monroe Others chuckle when they in the AUC than most peo their education, these stu ris brown is working on is son was not available to [email protected] hear that the institution ple think. In all actuality, dents had to either trans enrollment. Students are comment. But with the cli Staff Writer still has an operational the AUC is not complete fer or find substantial fi the reason that anyone is mate of the campus and the Student Government As without its fourth member. nancial resources for help. employed at any education high morale of students, it ost AUC students are sociation. Although they Morris Brown was es With this dramatic loss in al institution; thus Morris is obvious that the fourth baffled when they have been the butt of most tablished in 1885, and ac enrollment, most thought Brown is trying to entice member of the AUC is on Mhear that Morris Brown jokes recently, Morris cording to their website that Morris Brown would their former students to the rise. still has enrolled students. Brown plays a bigger role it was the first college to Students question the retention rate of Business Policy class Calvin Monroe derstand,” an anonymous stu One anonymous student from cal vi nmonroe2009@ yahoo com dent who took the class said. the class said he did just that. Staff Writer “Luckily I’m still on track to “Of course I went to see him graduate this semester.” when I found out I failed,” the henever a new semes As students prepared to take student said. “But he never Wter begins, one has the one of their last business class gave me concrete answers, mindset to earn a high gradees inat Morehouse, they faced a and he never told me what I the class. It is not in the nature professor that some students was missing in the class.” of a Man of Morehouse to en refer to as, “unfair, and incon Professor Adam Sharkey is roll in a class that he knows he siderate.” an 11-year tenured community cannot pass. “Officially, we do not dis college professor. He believes Men of Morehouse go into cuss a professor’s individual students should take a differ classes with confidence, and performance,” Dr. Keith Hol ent approach to looking at this ready to take on whatever lingsworth, chair for the de situation. challenges they may face. That partment of Business Admin “Students barely read the is why the failing of almost istration. said. syllabus, and most do not even 50 percent of last semester’s Although the accusations of know they have rights as a stu Business Policy class students the professor are harsh, most dent,” Sharkey said. “Being is so baffling. teachers would take it as a familiar with your rights as a The result of this class has compliment that their classes student is the key to know if left students in shock and for are considered “tough.” Busi there are unethical actions be ■Í, some, a possibly delay their ness Administration is one of ing taken in the classroom.” nr graduation. Since it is not typ Morehouse’s most popular This situation in the Busi ical that a class have half of its r majors. ness Policy class is proof that students fail, the real question Since Morehouse wants their every student needs to not only lies in whether any violations students to be able to compete on top of their course work, but of student rights occurred. with the best of the best in the to know their rights as a stu Business Policy is an applied business market, some busi dent. Men of Morehouse are course that attempts to prepare i ness classes are quite rigid in constantly told that they are no students for the workplace by attempts to prepare these stu longer in high school. integrating the concepts,knowl i ¿ 8 dents. This is the reason that As Men of Morehouse, it is edge and skills acquired in each the class requires its enrolled more important than ever to of the various functional areas. students to be well prepared by take a proactive approach to As such, it is often referred to requiring three prerequisites. your education. as the “capstone” course for the Most friends of the failing The Morehouse website curriculum. students quickly asked each (www.morehouse.edu) will al “His (Dr. Morman’s), cur other if anyone had spoken to low you to review all of your riculum was very hard to un- the professor about their grade. rights as a student. Recycle The Maroon Tiger The Maroon Tiger January 27 - February 2, 2010 Features Morehouse tradition and the MAROON TIGER Vol. LXXXIV, Pages I - VIII current students one we experience. The in Morehouse and begin to Kody Joseph Melancon Managing Editor types of students that are at dig deeper into those ideals. George W. Williams, IV kjmelanc@hotmail .com Editor-In-Chief tracted to Morehouse today “This is what Dr. Frank gwwiv. [email protected] are students who are drawn lin is trying to do when he ophomore Rashad to the idea of making lots of talks about the Renaissance Management SMoore, who is studying money and not truly focused man,” Cook said. "He is not Kody Melançon Lauren Harper philosophy, believes that on social change.” inventing something out Managing Editor Associate Managing Editor Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook Cook stated that More of the clear blue. The Re [email protected] laurenharper@rocketmail .com has done an excellent job house students who read naissance man is ideally the Jeffery Taylor, II Krista DeSouza of shedding light on Mays’ Morehouse man and is truly Chief Layout Editor Chief Copy Editor the book should look at it [email protected] [email protected] impact on students and the in terms of the ever-present deeply rooted in this More Carl Ringgold Brittany Diagle-Leonard Morehouse experi house tradition.” New Media Director Associate Copy Editor ence. Cook stated that carlringgold@ gmail .com If current Morehouse “The book isquite fas w w people think Dr. cinating and does a bet students abandon that Franklin is advo Operations ter job than his [Mays] cating something Xavier Ifill O’koyea Huff-Boone autobiography on re legacy, they open the new but he is only Finance Director Associate Webmaster vealing who Mays truly framing it differ [email protected] okoyeahb@gmail .com was to Morehouse,” gates of darkness again. ently. Cook sees it Joshua Brown Reginauld Williams Moore said. “Dr. Cook as Franklin’s way Advertising Manager Public Relations (PR) Director And they miss a golden josh .brown07 @y ahoo .com rwilliamsbla@gmail .com and the other writers of thinking of a Alimou Bah Sescily Coney do a great job of talk opportunity.

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