S.G.A. Election ...Vote Today Voi. 82 No. 6 Morehouse College Atlanta, Ga. •_________ April 1, 1981 entered Mr. Phillips’ room requesting that he be allowed to “Is Morehouse Security Adequate?” “roll his stash”. Before it was over, the man stole what By Wayne Cummings Special News Analysis amounted to approximately $350.00 worth ofmaterials from On Dec. 11, 1980 at ap­ Having received a second Mr. Phillips’ room. proximately 2:00 a.m. a man call, the Atl. Univ. Sec. officials Once the man left, Mr. was discovered sleeping in the on duty opted to respond to the Phillips placed a call to restroom on the second floor of situation out of a concern that Morehouse Security, which, he Hubert Hall. The man in the man in question might says, responded immediately. question was found by Eric prove dangerous. In conjunction Security was, however, unable Wagner, a second floor with the Atlanta Police Dept., to apprehend the criminal. resident. Feeling that this was a an arrest for trespassing was The following week, situation which warrented the later made and the man was another robbery took place on assistance of security, a call for escorted to jail. Morehouse the first floor of Mays Hall aid was placed. After an un­ Security arrived approximately According to Richard (Rick) successful attempt to make two hours and thirty minutes Foster, first floor R.A, the contact with someone from the after the initial call for aid had incident involved three Morehouse Security Force, a been made. The responding Morehouse students, one of call was then made to the officer informed those who were whom, Oniel Swanson, received Atlanta University Security involved that there was a a blow to the head during the Force. Initially, the caller was shortage of manpower that course of the crime and was told that A.U. Sec. could not night and they would be more later taken to the hospital as a respond to the call due to the alert in the future,. result. fact that Morehouse College has Two days later the In this case the suspect was its own internal security. A president of the freshman class, not apprehended, although second call was. then made to Johnathan Phillips was robbed security's response was deemed Morehouse Security, in which at gunpoint. This act was also prompt. no contact was made. At this committed on the second floor At the present time the Jeff Chipman point Dan Jones, a second floor of Hubert Hall. The incident, as Morehouse Security Force R.A., walked over to the relayed to me began when a consists of ten people, nine men US THE SEASON - - Jeff Chapman, sophomore from security office in order to inform man came to Mr. Phillips’ room and one woman. Security is on Philadelphia Pennsylvania will be the new catcher for the them of the problem. Again he offering to sell him marijuana. duty twenty-four hours a day, Maroon Tigers Baseball Team. Mr. Chapman is a Business was unsuccessful at making After a brief exchange outside with one to four people on duty major who hopes to become an independent business man. Jeff contact. of the room, the man then at all times. This number may believes the discipline of the Baseball Team to be a positive increase, however, when special influence on his college studies. events are taking place. The main purpose of Morehouse CEBA Awards Security, as stated by Jeff Shulman Addresses Whatley, co-ordinator of internal The “CEBA Awards’’ According to Eugene D. security for Morehouse Campus, program, established in 1978 to Jackson, NBN President, there, “is to make sure that the Business Association help narrow the communications will be awards this year in 36 campus is safe for all campus gap between the business categories. The World Institute personnel as well as for the Atlanta Mayoral candidate upgrade their skills so they can community and the Black will begin to accept entries in students and to protect campus Warren S. Shulman told the match with the new industry consumer, has named two Continued on Page 4 property.” Buckhead Business Association we’re going to be able to bring prominent business leaders as today he believes “we can bring in.’’Shulman views his plan as a co-chairmen of the 1981 com­ new industry into Atlanta. I long term solution to unem­ petition. believe we can put together a ployment rather than tne short They are William E. combination of people from the term political answer so often Phillips, Chairman and Chief private sector and the public offered by officials. Executive Officer officer ol sector and go after specific Shulman believes in a Ogilvy & Mather, Inc., U.S.A., industry. We’re not going to be “business-like, planned ap­ a leading advertising agency, able to bring in high proach to the management erf and Percy E. Sutton, former manufacturing industry into the city’s affairs.” He told the President of the Borough of Atlanta. We can bring in high Buckhead Business Association Manhattan in New York City, manufacturing industry into he would set “a department who is now Board Chairman Atlanta. We can bring in high wide goal of reducing ex­ and Treasurer of Inner City technology and service oriented penditures by 10 percent” as Broadcasting Corporation. businesses that Atlanta is soon as he was inaugurated as The “CEBA“ (Com­ known for. We’ve been told we Mayor of Atlanta. Each suc­ munications Excellence to Black have a mismatch between our" ceeding year of his term he Audiences) Awards are labor force and this new type of “would reduce expenditures by presented annually by The industry that we can bring in -- 5 percent.” He told BBA that World Institute of Black and perhaps we do -- but he had found during his ex­ Communications, founded in maybe we ought to be using perience in government that 10 1978 as a non-profit corporation some of those federal funds the percent across the board cut by the National Black Network city receiv.es to train people to made his office more efficient. (NBN). Page 2 - THE MAROON TIGER APRIL 1981 “Peace Corps Helped Me Our most precious resource Reassess My Priorities” By Julian Bond ....“Peace Corps helped me as a person- helped me iflanwn ©tger A black child still lacks a fair chance to live, learn, thrive reassess my value struc­ and contribute in America. "Ihr I <»// <• (If freedom ture,” said Joan Tarpley So asserts the Children’s Defense Fund, a Washington-based Winn oi Dallas, Texas. Ms. Morehouse ( ollege advocacy group, in a new report titled “Portrait of Inequality: Black and White Children in America.” Here are some of its Winn, who served as one of findings: the nation's first elected — Millions of black children do not receive even minimal black women judges, in the Editor In-Chief............ (.Karl J. Robinson health care. As a result, they die needlessly or develop lifelong ! Chief Associate Editor, 191st District Court of .. Robert M. Nance handicaps that could have been prevented. Dallas County from 1978 to Associate Editor.......... ... Mark Stevenson — Blacks are twice as likely as whites to die in their first year of life, twice as likely to drop out of school and three 1980, commented on her Sangue! Bacote H times as likely to be unemployed as adults. Peace Corps volunteer — One out of every two black children is bom in poverty. service in Nigeria during an One in four lives in substandard housing, one in three has interview in Washington, never seen a dentist and one in seven lacks a regular source of D.C. health care. Two out of five of those who live in central cities ....Ms. Winn, who are not immunized against polio. Our View... I This pathology is compound^ by the common but mistaken currently runs her own assumption that the gap between white America and black political consulting-real There is no room for there has been pro-integration America was closed during the 1960s and 1970s. estate development firm In argument when we say that Dr. ¡publicity throughout the mass “Millions of black children wiere left behind when the prog­ Dallas, was in the nation’s Martin Luther King, Jr. has media for a number of years, ress began in the 1960s and leveled off or declined in the ’70s,” capital for a meeting of the ¡today we still find that the says Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children’s Peace Corps Advisory touched all erf our lives, in one Defense Fun. “Unless immediate, targeted action is taken to ¡way or another. There is no ¡masses of Black people are not meet black children’s needs, we will risk creating a perma­ Council, of which she is an doubt in anyone’s mind why he ¡fighting for integration, and the nent underclass in the next generation. appointed member. was killed. However, every so majority of white folks don’t “This is not only unfair to the children but costly and dan­ ....“I taught at an all­ often in the continuing struggle want it. If self-determination gerous for every American.” male teacher training for our freedom, Black people had half of the amount of Why don’t these statistics provoke more outrage? Why did college in an Islamic area OTe media lose interest in the fund’s report just one day after of Nigeria,” recalled Winn. have to sit down and publicity (with accurate its release? < - - realistically assess the value of reporting) that the “civil riters” America’s preoccupation with the purse — rather than with “During the evenings I the legacy left behind -- and be have been given, then those the person — accounts for some of the disinterest.