.o. HBCUs in the 21 st Century - Making The Connection DECEMBER 2000/JANUARY 2001 VOL. 63 - NO. 2 You Can Help Deserving Students at Morris Brown College “GO THE DISTANCE” January 2001 Morris Brown College Maintains SACS Accreditation confident that it would render by MBC - College Relations positive news about re-affirma- tion and would enable the he Southern Asso­ College to move forward in a ciation of Colleges manner where institutional and Schools (SACS), effectiveness becomes the the accrediting body rule of daily activities. Under for Morris Brown College, re­ the direction of Dr. Samuel cently announced the College’s Sullivan, the College is. estab­ re-affirmation of accreditation. lishing an Office of Institu­ The Dec. 5, announcement tional Effectiveness to mon­ came after months of self­ itor and enforce the process. study, re-examination, and The institutional effective­ two visits to the campus by ness process, in large part, SACS team members. A Dec. involves making sure the 2, interview by SACS involv­ College’s systems are fully ing Bishop Frank C. Cummings; place by June 30, 2001. Dr. Morris Brown plays tight defense against University of Arkansas-Little Rock. President Dolores E. Cross; Sullivan will work closely Jonnie Brown, Vice President with the Office of Institu­ of Finance; Dr. Charlyn Harper- tional Research and will MBC Plays Against The BIG Bogs Browne, Dean of Faculty; and coordinate oversight for plan­ Don Blair, Executive Director ning, assessment, and bud­ by Mark J. Littles ginia, the University of Pitts­ who is averaging 12 points of Facilities Management. geting for all institutional STAFF SPORTS WRITER burgh and the University of per game. The team is led in “The self-study process has functions, processes and West Virginia to name a few rebounding by Akiem Claborn served to strengthen the Col­ projects. he Morris Brown College teams, although the team has who is averaging 4 per game lege in many key areas, allow­ This arduous process of self Wolverines men’s basket­ lost to all three of the teams the and has 36 on the year. ing us to position ourselves to study involved many in the ball team has got their scores were very respectable. MBC is off to 2-6 record, meet the challenges of a world creation and implementation work cut out for them as The team is led in scoring by but over time the team will involved in rapid technologi­ of policies and procedures, Tthey competed in Division guardsI Anthony Adams who is only get better, it’s a long sea­ cal and economic change,” often brought about through basketball. averaging 14 points per game, son and a lot of time left to said Dr. Cross. Dr. Cross such a participatory process MBC has played WestVir- and Kavon Westberry improve. went into the SACS interview and frequently resulting in changes suggested to the administration.The College has been able to make impor­ Gwendolyn Brooks tant use of the information collected about students by Lost Literary Legend the Office of Institutional Research, which provides the critical “mission control” func­ by Angela McDowell tion at the College. STAFF WRITER “From conversations with SACS, we have learned of n Sunday December their interest in the results 3rd legendary poet we have been abli to achieve Gwendolyn Brooks over the past 18 months, all died of cancer at the age of 83. of which have been fully docu­ Brooks has published 20 O mented for the purpose of our books of poetry and had been 10-year reaffirmation,” the Poet Laureate of Illinois President Cross said. since 1968. She is widely known for her ability to voice the feelings of the Black com­ munity through her poetry. Newspaper Some of her most famous pieces include “We Real Cooi and “The Bean Eaters.” Gwendolyn Brooks and help educate a mind for life! Morns Brown students can MORRIS BROWN look forward to a special of the late luminary in the (SEE PAGE 8) COLLEGE night of poetry in memorial upcoming semester. 2 - DECEMBER 2000/JANUARY 2001 MBCWO - 63 Years Of Communications - HBCUs Making The Connection In The 21st Cen tury. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ing and maiming many. Sav­ H We Don't Tell The age attacks were also commit­ EDITORIAL World About Morris Brown Information from ted against the Palestinians- “THE ZIONIST the most dastardly being the College And The AUC CONNECTION II,” massacre of 254 women, chil­ From Our Point Of View - EDITOR'S By Dr. Alfred M. dren and old men in the vil­ Someone Else Will Try To Lilienthal, a Jew who lage of Deir Yassin on April 9, Do It For Us. One Of Many 1948. Following this, some of opposed the creation Reasons For Supporting i ; un the Zionists rode about the The Wolverine OBSERVER of Israel. region with bull horns scream­ by Caryn I. Renaud Newspaper - Always. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ing “The Killers are coming! Christians must bear much Run for your lives!” Most Time is of the essence. of the blame for the horrible Arabs did, and the Israelis My fellow students this old violence between Jews and confiscated their property, saying is no joke. Arabs in the Middle East. saying it had been “aban­ As every hectic semester Christ told His followers to be doned,” and would not let draws to an end, many of us Peacemakers. Most Christians them return. can be found in a literal fren­ have not been between these Israeli policy of demolish, zy, running around campus Caryn I. Renaud, Editor two; they have not been im­ 643 Martin Luther King Jr., Drive drive out and take over con­ Atlanta, GA 303 14-4140 like chickens with our heads It may seem surprising, but partial and fair; they have tinues. It is no wonder some 404 739-1612 cut off-paying the highly these truths extend to facets supported the Jews, regard­ Palestinians have turned stressful debt of procrastina­ outside the academic realm less. violent. Christians should try PUBLISHER tion. and even the best of us can The Hebrew Jews and to be Peacemakers by 1, stop Students of Morris Brown College To some, this has become a attest to such shortcomings, Arabs had lived in relative taking sides, but call for fair ADVISOR/MANAGING EDITOR normal component of the col­ Life in general is a culmina­ peace in the Holy Land for and equal treatment for all Carvel Bennett lege experience-start off the tion of time-with intervals, nearly two thousand years. people there; 2, Boycott going Assistant Dean of Students semester with a bang ‘all seasons, peaks and recessions. They called each other to what is now an un-Holy Director Student Publications geeked-up’ at the ‘newness’ of In life, just as with the start “cousin” because both claim­ Land until there is justice the term, new classes, new of each semester, we get en­ ed, and still claim, Abraham and peace in the area; 3, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF instructors, new classmates— tangled in an almost ‘utopian’ as their ancient father. demand that none of our tax Caryn Renaud a new program. Then, as the web of activities and fail to It was non-Hebrew “Jews” money be used to try to “buy CONTRIBUTING WRITERS initial appeal wears off, mid­ remember the accompanying who went to Palestine and peace” between Jews and La'Sheema Babbs terms go by without effort, responsibilities. Every new began a campaign of vicious Arabs. Carvel Bennett and all attention is turned to relationship or interaction terrorism. Their ancestors Thomas J. Campbell LaToya Black the highly anticipated break. brings it’s own rules, yet we were the Khazars who lived Smyrna, GA Gary Faulkner Whether spring break or the find ourselves stuck in the in what is now Southern Rus­ Toni Hicks Lashanda Hollingshed food-filled Thanksgiving holi­ mode of the past. The memory sia. They were proselytized to Essex Igyan day, we depart in droves to of a bad relationship leaves Judaism during the 8th Cen­ ALCOHOL Na 'Tasha Marshall our respective destinations us scarred and makes us for­ tury A.D., and this is how Dear Editor: Rev Skip Mason forgetting or largely attempt­ get our responsibility to love. they became known as “Jews.” Alcoholic beverages are not Meghan Monroe ing to ignore the fact that a, So too, the day-to-day events Later they migrated over essential to good health, suc­ Renata Robertson College Relations stack of undone research in our academic careers make much of Europe and elsewhere. cess and the enjoyment of life. papers, class projects and text us forget or more so neglect Today they greatly outnumber Rather, drinking this person­ ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR chapters remain laying our responsibility to attain Hebrew Jews. ality/ behavior-altering drug Angela McDowell on our dorm room, desks. On our goals. In France in the late 1800’s, has caused many health pro­ SPORTS our return we realize that In reflection the tragic loss a few of the Khazar-decended blems and fatal accidents, Mark Littles there is no successful way of of one of our fellow Brownites, Jews organized Zionism, say­ has wrecked untold numbers Essex Igyan willing away our responsibil­ Jamie Mulligan, has remind­ ing they wanted to “go back of homes and careers, and ities and that no matter how ed me of one of my sidelined home to Jerusalem and create brought about wretched un­ CAMPUS PHOTOGRAPHER many stars or turkeys we responsibilities. In the Fall a Jewish state.” But it never happiness and woeful regrets. Spurgeon Dennis, Jr. wished on our academic re­ semester of 1998, Jamie and I had been home to them, and It is absurd for anyone, PHOTOGRAPHERS quirements still had to be met.