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THE VOICE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMANHOOD VOLUME XXXVI - NO.6 JANUARY 25, 1993 Morris Brown In Crisis by Kanika Williams dorms to reassure them of the situation. Arts & Entertainment Editor "She was the only person who told MORRIS BROWN Morris Brown, the only school in students what was really going on", COLLEGE the A.U.C established by and for black said a student. In response to her people, is facing a financial crisis. resignation, the students started a According to the Atlanta Journal petition drive to reinstate Dr. Anderson (Dec. 29, 1992), Morris Brown’s the following Thursday. financial advisors, the college incurred Until a permanent president is a deficit of $10 million dollars. This selected in April, the college’s Board of occured as a result of its Board of Trustees has appointed Dr. Herman Trustees launching a major expansion Smith Jr. to reside. As he entered on after losing track of the school’s Friday, he accepted $28,500 dollars in financial situation. donations and set about stabilizing his The Atlanta Constitution (Jan. 16, third troubled black school in 19 years. 1993), reported that James Rogers, Although private donations were executive director of the Southern presented to him to aid the school’s Association of Colleges and Schools, recovery, he continued to emphasize Morris Brown’s accrediting agency, said "keep the checks coming in." the association has not received an Donations have come from A.U.C audit from Morris Brown since 1989, alumnus Charles West, chairman od despite repeated requests. As a result NDI Video Inc., who donated $25,000; the college’s accreditation may be in Bishop Donald G.K Ming, chairman of jeopardy. If accreditation is lost, it can the school’s Board of Trustees eliminate the college’s eligibility for produced $500 in cash raised by federal student aid and further more members of the African Methodist become less attractive to both students Episcopal Church. In addition the and quality faculty. church committed itself to raising Due to the pressure brought on by $200,000 by Feb. 24. Morris Brown’s financial crisis, the Corporations and foundations give school’s interim president, Dr. Gloria L. to private institutions based on what Anderson, resigned Jan. 13. According the university is able to do for itself. to the students, Dr. Anderson had been The more money the alumni, students the only college administrator who met and community generate, the larger the with students in the cafeteria and in the donations will be from funding sources. WORLD IN BRIEF A Celebration of Women South Africa: Private talks between the African National Congress and the government began in Johannesburg. The goal is to resolve differences which impede the By Felice Winston resumption of multiparty political negotiations. Campus News Editor Negotiations last broke down in May over selecting the women in our past (who) have been Parents’ weekend is coming and neglected." best method for switching to multiracial democracy. once again it is time for Celebration in Rogers Lewis a Morehouse Black. According to the students who sophomore, said "I think it’s a good Bosnia-Herzegovina: Bosnian Serbs have accepted a attended the production last year it was idea. We need more unifying activities favored plan of the international community to end a huge success: powerful writing, in our individual schools." Bosnia's civil war. Serbs still maintain that they will dynamic dancing, and an excellent cast. Director Keelah Nurse, who also not waver on their right of self-determination: to join That was last year. What can we directed Celebration in Black last year, Serb-held territory in Bosnia with neighboring Serbia to said she is anticipating success with the expect this year? create a greater Serbia. Bosnian Muslims and Croats, The most talked about difference is change in cast."The shows aren’t the that this years’ production will be all same, they are two different entities. the Serb’s foes, have tentatively accepted the plan. female. This decision has come under Last year it was about shocking people some harsh criticism but of the people and making them think. This year we Haiti: Clinton is planning to issue a plan to expand the asked how they felt about the "radical" want to make them think also but more number of sites in Haiti for processing asylum change, they either had no feelings or on a womanist scope of thought." applications. However, the standard for awarding were in support of the idea. Celebration in Black has always asylum - that an individual has a "well-founded fear of LaQiana Fallin, a Spelman been a reflection of times, and times persecution" if repatriated - cannot be changed. The sophomore, said "So many times we are changing. Ms. Nurse put it best government continues to regard most Haitians (unlike feel like we (as women) need men in when she said "....(the production is) our drama productions and it’s not so. investigating from whence we come Cubans) as refugees from the hemisphere’s worst We need to know our heritage... We and acknowledging it and allowing it to poverty. especially need to recognize the black prepare us for where we need to go." Spelman Spotlight NATIONAL NEWS Will External Affairs Overshadow Internal Problems? Clinton faced with problems in Somalia, Bosnia, Iraq, and Haiti before inauguration membership to a social group." The U.N planes with armed incursions to By Kelli Moore Haiti author continues, saying that "the U.S Although Bill Clinton promised in get the weapons from the territory that Several months ago Bill Clinton can’t exclude or deport refugees his campaign to focus on the American the U.N had given Kuwait. heavily criticized former President Bush arbitrarily as a signatory to a 1967 economy like "a laser beam," this The targets that the U.S may hit and his administration for sending Protocol Relating to Status of promise may not manifest promptly include airfields, communication sites, Haitian refugees back to Haiti. Clinton Refugees; the U.S is bound by given the foreign policy problems that sites that are thought to house chemical said that it was a "cruel policy of international law to afford protection to have arisen recently. The problems in weapons, and other sites involved in returning Haitian refugees to a brutal this most vulnerable group, including Somalia and Bosnia-Herzegovina will the development of weapons for mass dictatorship without an asylum the right to asylum." destruction. receive much of Clinton’s attention as hearing." Bill Clinton promised to give So does the Haitian situation apply will the latest developments in Iraq and The U.S is not as heavily armed Haitians refuge and make it easier to in Haiti. Much of the future for Haiti and stationed in Iraq now as they were apply for asylum until democracy is to these rules? and Iraq depends on how Clinton during the war (Jan.-Feb., 1991). restored. Evidently not. decides to interpret and execute former However, today the air force has 60 Mr. Clinton is now saying that Despite almost 1000 boats that President Bush’s policies. planes in the vicinity including F-117 "Those who leave Haiti by boat for the were constructed to transport 150,000 stealth fighters, F-15E strike Eagles and U.S will be intercepted and returned to people to the United States upon F-111F Aardvarks which have the Haiti by U.S Coast Guard. Leaving by Clinton’s inauguration and the many Iraq ability to drop guided laser bombs and suffering in Haiti, Clinton will continue Iraq angered U.S officials upon its boat is not the true route to freedom." A-10 ground attack planes. Clinton and his advisers say that doing what he thinks is best. This decision not to acknowledge U.N Clinton resolves that President they are working to bring Haitian means that Clinton will support the resolutions. Although a letter was sent Hussein could change the relationship parties together to find a solution for Bush policy "temporarily." to the president of the security council with the U.S by changing his behavior. the political problem in Haiti. In the meantime, Clinton will saying that Iraq wanted to try and Clinton tells the New York Times, suggest that human rights observers be resolve their differences and have Clinton resolves now that his goal "Based on the evidence that we have, is to save lives and that his campaign put in Haiti to insure that people constructive dialogue, Bush decided to the people of Iraq would be better off returning to Haiti from U.S shores do launch a military strike against Iraq. comments have been very much if they had a different leader. But my "misunderstood." Clinton says "...people not get punished. He has offered to The U.S pointed out that Iraqi job is not to pick their rulers for them. who didn’t qualify as refugees still increase the number of immigration provocations cannot be tolerated. The I always tell everybody I’m a Baptist. shouldn’t be here and there was a clear officers in Haiti to process applications Iraqi’s have jet fighter flights in the I believe in deathbed conversions. If he and legitimate distinction between for those who decide to apply for southern zone where the "allies" have wants a different relationship with the political and economic refugees." political asylum. banned such flights; the Iraqi’s have United States and with the United A letter to the editor in the New With all of this and more on the also deployed anti aircraft missile Nations, all he has to do is change his York Times states that a "refugee by foreign policy agenda, will Clinton be batteries in zones in northern and behavior." definition is unable to return to able to concentrate on the American southern Iraq.