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The Maroon Page i May 119)97/ THE MAROON VOLUME 1 NUMBER 5 n* Cover Photo by Melvin G. Jackson Questions, Comments, and Solicitations SHOULD BE SENT TO: The Maroon Tiger • Morehouse College 830 Westview Drive, SW • Unit #140040 ‘Atlanta GA 30314 or call: 404-681-2800 ext. 2975 For we intend, as Africans, to retrieve our human face, our human heart, the human mind our ancestors taught to soar. That is who we are... -Ayi Kwei Armah Osiris Eking MISSION To re-visit the tradition of the Afrikan griot by documenting the actions, traditions, iniquities and ideologies of the 21st century Morehouse man. Though our ul timate duty is to serve our com munity, we refuse to relinquish our autonomy to it, nor will we acquiesce to the private agendas of individual people, organiza tions, or political entities. As we supply a reflective surface for Morehouse to examine her exter nal and internal concerns, we also provide a looking glass through which the globe can analyze our pitfalls and conquests. The Ma roon Tiger endeavors to maintain the highest levels of journalistic quality, moral integrity, and visual diversity in an all-inclusive jour nal which alienates no member of this community who embodies our ancestral spirit. In short, our goal is melanated honesty, a higher truth whose alternative is genocidal.