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Morehouse College Since 1898 The Organ of Student Expression Serving Morehouse College Since 1898 VOL. 70, NO. 6 MOREHOUSE COLLEGE; ATLANTA, GEORGIA Thursday, February 12, 1998 FOUNDERS’ DAY IN SPORTS IT I I. Oi l orehouse conquers AUC rivals CAU | ami liar faces 88-77. Also. Brian L. come home to Thompson gives his review of the NBA All-Star team and its participants at the halfw ay this yearsbe Founders' honored during Day F point of the season Celebration. Page 7 Page 16 MOREHOUSE COLLEGE 1 o my sons 1998 I will have long since departed this earth when you read FOUNDERS’ DAY this letter. But, I hope this will provide you with a sense of purpose and understanding. Friday, February 13th Founders’ Day Concert 8 p.m., MLK Chapel I have come to this place hy strange and oppressive Featuring: Kirk, "Peanuts” and Kevin Whalum, circumstances. In chains and shackles, I left my mother Phillippe Saisse &. Jeff Golub Africa where we were kings, The lashes are reminders Pickets: 810 general admission, 85 students with ID, first 300 Morehouse students tree the night of the show of the pain I bore for my people because I refused to surrender my freedom to think, act, and be who I am. Saturday, February 14 th “Reflections of Excellence” 1 1 a.in., Sale Hall So in 1865, President Lincoln declared I was free. Little Featuring: 1998 Bennie &. Candle Award Recipients did he know, I was always free in spirit. Two years later, Bennie Achievement George \\ . Haley ’49, Mice Chairman ot the Postal Rate Commis­ they gave our people the Augusta Institute, the sion forerunner to Morehouse. Bennie Trailblazer H. lulian Bond ’/ I, History Lecturer at the I niversitv of Virginia Bennie Service While Morehouse's founders were hell-bent on training Frederick E. Xlapp ’32, Biology Professorat Morehouse College Bennie Leadership free black men to he docile preachers, little did they John S. Wilson '79, Assistant Provost ol Outreach. Ml 1 realize they wou Id get Howard W. Th urman ‘23, who Candle in Community Senice would challenge the moral fiber of this country. While Joseph Marshall, hounder/Executtve Director of Omega Boys Club (. ’andle in Education they gave us Jim Crow and “separate hut equal, ” we were Alvin Poussuint, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Faculty preparing Martin, a King who would deliver his people to a Associate Dean tor Student .Affairs, Harvard Medical School land flowing with freedom and opportunity. They also locked 10th Annual "A Candle in the Dark” Gala us out the political process, hut they weren't prepared for Mistress of Ceremonies George W. Crockett '31, a persistent man. Lyn Vaughn,( .'NN Anchor 6 pan., 1 lvatt Regency Atlanta, (.'entennial Ballrot>nt Tickets: 8 1 50 and 8250 Son, remember you will never he invited to the table. Sunday, February 15th But, he persistent and unyielding in your devotion to founders' W. irship Senice excelling academically; you will make it. You will never 11 a.m., MLK Chapel receive a promissary note. You must earn that which Speaker: Reverend William Flippin Greater Piney Grove Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia you get hy the sweat of your brow. Perhaps you will feel Annual Mi irehi ntse (2i illege Glee Clt ih Concert like Richard Wright, that you are an Invisible Man. 4 pan., MLK Chapel But, if you stand firm on your principles, you will illuminate the world and society will not be able to Il is Letter to ligLt overlook you. A CANDLE IN THE DARK Because You Are A Candle in the Dark. tLan curse tLe darkness. \ ni SPI < I \l CAMPUS NEWS Morehouse Professor Plans Black History Month Events Morehouse College is offering free practice exams for the MCAT, By Nareissa Smith Professor Crawford said History celebrations in 1995 at LSAT, GRE and GMAT. The exams will be admistered Saturday, ■Contributing Writer other events are in the works, the urging of other professors February 21, at 9:30 am. For more information contact Clarinda A host of events are being but have yet to be finalized. and students. Ramsey at 404-681-2800 ext. 2862. scheduled to commemorate "Black History Month is a "We wanted to do Black History Month in the good idea, if it is taken as a something different," he said. Morehouse College is offering preparatory classes for the MCAT, AUC, under the direction of concentrated discussion of "We were always pulling in LSAT, and GRE exams to begin June 1. Applications are avail­ Larry Crawford, Assistant what we should be doing year speakers from outside of the able in Gloster Hall, Rm. 107. For more info contact Johnny E. Professor of Sociology at round," Crawford said. "For Morehouse Community, and Partham, Jr. at (212) 878-2220 or Clarinda Ramsey at ext. 2862. Morehouse. one solid month we should we wanted to change that." Feb. 27 deadline. "Black History Month is a celebrate who we are. But we Crawford feels that the time to assess where we are, should not see this as the only student response to previous Resume Referral Service - Georgia Press Association is assem­ and where we need to go," time that we can reflect on Black History events has been bling a book of resumes for distribution throughout the state in said Crawford. "It is also a April. Resumes will also be put on-line for 3 months. Contact time to take what we know “Action is necessary... students need to understand Missy Kosciolek at (770) 454-6776 before the March 16 deadline and bring it to the larger that they are teachers as well.” to include yours. community." Larry Crawford A presentation will be Marketing and communications students can learn about their pro­ given in King Chapel on the Professor of Sociology spective careers at the American Marketing Association’s 12th topic of "Rap, Hip Hop, and Southeastern Collegiate Conference from Feb. 27-28 here in At­ the New World Order" on ourselves." positive. lanta. The registration fee is $79. For info, call .(770) 270-0619 February 24 and 25. The Although some have "The students have lecture by Keidi Obi Awadu begun to attack the validity of responded well," Crawford Summer internships in Washington D.C. are available through The will also cover population Black History Month, said. "Political conditions have Fund for American Studies. Application deadline is March 15. control, harmful media Crawford defends it. made students realize that Call 1-800-741-6964 for details. influences on black children "Carter G. Woodson and history should be acted upon and the incarceration of black others worked very hard for as well as intellectualized. Central State University Alumni Atlanta presents “An evening with men in the prison industrial us to have this," he said. "It "Action is necessary. Paul Laurence Dunbar” at the Apex Museum on Feb. 28 from complex. Both lectures will was very important to him students need to understand 6:00pm to 8:00pm with a reception preceding. For more info, start at 6:30 pm. that we have this time. If only that they are teachers as well. contact John M. Holden at (770) 484-8804. Admision is free. On February 26, the because of his efforts, we They must take the knowledge Spelman College History Club should continue to honor that they have and share it CNN's interactive talk show, TalkBack Live, is looking for will sponsor a panel Black History Month." with those beyond the walls of one or two production interns for the spring session. discussion on Black History. Professor Crawford first the AUC...if you claim to be a Internships are unpaid and interns receive college credit. The event will begin on became involved in the leader, you must deliver the Interns will perform simple editing and production duties. Spelman's campus at 7:00 pm. planning of campus Black word." In addition, interns are encouraged to create independent projects. Questions may be directed to Jillian St. Charles @ 404-827-3969. Robert Hughes Brisbane: A Legend Lost Mitsubishi Motors in partnership with the UNCF and Clark By John Wilson editorial staff of the Walter Massey, President of Atlanta University announced The Mitsubishi Motors Young Staff Writer Encyclopedia Britannica, and Morehouse College; former Entrepreneurs Program. A joint effort to provide minority much more. He toured the President Dr. Hugh M. students entrepreneurial education and opportunity, the "We need to call a national world, educating students in Gloster; Senator Leroy components of the program are a Summer Institute and meeting of blacks and do two countries such as China, Israel, Johnson, and former Mayor Dealer Mentor Assignment. To be qualified for the program, things: one, put together a new England, Holland, Senegal, Maynard Jackson. It also a student must be enrolled at a UNCF or HBCU school, be agenda for blacks in America, the Ivory Coast, Ghana, and featured several selections a junior with at least 18 to 20 hours in business-related and two, select a new cadre of Switzerland, just to name a from the Morehouse College courses, and have a minimum 2.5 grade point average. national leaders to carry out few. Glee Club. Deadline for applications is February 16, 1998. For more the new agenda." His funeral services Dr. Brisbane's remains are information, contact Dr. Jeffrey J. Phillips at Clark Atlanta -Dr, Robert Hughes included speeches by Dr. Anne interred in Westview University in Wright Hall in Room 324. Brisbane Watts, Vice Provost of Special Cemetery. The city of Atlanta Academic Programs; Dr. Zone III Photographic Workshop presents BLACK WITH DE­ mourned the loss of Dr. Robert TAIL, an exhibit featured at the Arts Exchange, 750 Kalb St., At­ Hughes Brisbane on Friday, lanta.
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