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MOREHOUSE
A CAMPUS NEWSLETTER FOR FACULTY, STAFF AND STUDENTS
OCTOBER 2009, ISSUE 2
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Harewood excels on the football field
and the classroom
Homecoming 2009 has a winning
lineup of events
Empowering women and pursuing
creative interests drive Bell
Vice President Biden honors Morehouse
College Entrepreneurship Center
Football, music and coronation highlight Homecoming, which features (clockwise from upper left), rapper Lupe Fiasco, jazz artist Roy Ayers, the Homecoming
Coronation and the Morehouse football game.
Arts and Alumni Highlight Week of Music
By ADD SEYMOUR JR.
The arts will take center stage
during Homecoming 2009 as
a slew of alumni performers
will join a buzzing campus full
of alumni, family and friends
Oct. 18-25.
Along with the Oct. 24 tradi
tional Homecoming football game
(the Maroon Tigers will host Clark
Atlanta University at B.T. Harvey
Stadium) and the Miss Maroon
and White Coronation Ball on
Oct. 23 and other activities,
music, film and other artistic
endeavors will be celebrated
in discussions and in perform
ance. “The arts are important at
Morehouse, especially this year as
we get ready to open the
Morehouse Center for the Arts,"
said Henry Goodgame ’84, direc
tor of Alumni Relations, Special
Events and Annual Giving.
“It’s really important for
Hum-anities brothers to let them
know that we know and we sup
port them as they continue their
climbs for that success," he said.
On Friday, Oct. 23, a distin
guished group of faculty, alumni
filmmakers and performance art
ists will talk about, “The State of
the Arts at Morehouse," from 10
a.m. until noon at the Bank of
America Auditorium in the Exec
utive Conference Center.
A member of that panel will
be veteran jazz and R&B vibra
phone player Roy Ayers, who will
also headline the 2009 Alumni
Show-case and Sound-stage on
Saturday, Oct. 24.
Ayers will join a number of hip
hop, jazz, R8;B and rock artists, all
Morehouse and Spelman gradu
ates, who will be performing on
the Soundstage in two sets, the first
from noon until 2 p.m. and the
second from 3 until 6:30 p.m.
But before they take the stage,
food, fellowship and fun will fill
the campus as nearly 20,000
people are expected for the
Homecoming Alumni Tailgate
Experience from noon until 6
p.m. Tailgaters will fill West End
Avenue between Westview Drive
and Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard
and along Wellborn Street in
front of B.T. Harvey Stadium.
The day begins with the
annual Homecoming Parade at
9 a.m., with the route running
from West End Avenue, right
down Joseph E. Lowery
Boulevard and then right onto
Fair Street.
For a full list of Home-coming
2009 activities, turn to page 5 or go
to www.morehouse.edu.
Coca-Cola Gives
$7.2 Million to
Atlanta University
Center Schools, Library
By ADD SEYMOUR JR.
Thanks to help from the
Coca-Cola Company, men of
Morehouse will get needed assis
tance in paying for their college
education.
The students are the recipi
ents of more than $1.7 million in
scholarship money, courtesy of a
gift Coca-Cola made to Atlanta
University Center institutions on
Sept. 9.
“We were very grateful to
receive that gift,” President
Robert M. Franklin ’75 said.
“Morehouse has been able to
respond to about 140 students
who were in a real financial bind.”
Coca-Cola gave a total of $6
million in scholarship money
that was directed to Morehouse,
Spelman, Clark Atlanta and the
Morehouse School of Medicine
who are experiencing economic
hardships that could force them
to leave school.
“This gift from Coca-Cola
really represents a fulfillment of
the college dreams of so many
men of Morehouse,” Franklin
said. “Its size is humbling and
inspiring.”
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Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent (second from right) joins AUC presidents
John Maupin (left) (Morehouse School of Medicine), Beverly Tatum (Spelman),
Robert Franklin 75 (Morehouse) and Carlton Brown (Clark Atlanta) along with
Robert W. Woodruff Library CEO Loretta Parham.
Police Chief Urges
Campus to Go One Step
Further to Ensure Safety
By ADD SEYMOUR JR
A Georgia State University
student was robbed at gunpoint
while walking back to his dorm
room on Sept. 7. Three days
prior, a University of Georgia
student was assaulted. And the
day before that, a Spelman
College sophomore died after
being shot while walking back to
campus, an innocent victim of a
stray bullet fired during an alter
cation she wasn’t involved in.
The three incidents under
score the importance of campus
safety and awareness in collegiate
environments.
“The Morehouse adminis
tration, however, is determined
to foster an environment where
everyone is free from harm,” said
President Robert M. Franklin Jr.
‘75. “To that end, we are working
in tandem with all the campus
security units in the AUC, as
well as with the mayor’s office
and the Atlanta Police Depart
ment, to determine the best
course of action.”
Crimes around campuses are
hardly just an Atlanta University
Center issue, or even a metro
Atlanta problem.
A Sept. 20 story from the
website The Daily Beast, using
two years of U.S. Department of
Education statistics and report
ing crimes on campus across the
country, lists schools such as
Yale, Brown and Harvard, along
with Grambling, Alabama A8cM
and South Carolina State among
the nation’s 25 colleges and uni
versities with the highest crime
rates. No Atlanta University
Center schools were on that list,
however Morehouse Police Chief
Vernon Worthy said the crime
problems in the Atlanta Univ
ersity Center community mirrors
those of society.
Theft continues to be the
biggest crime problem nation
wide, he added.
“And the people who steal are
often tied to others who [commit
violent crimes],” he said.
Worthy encourages people to
go one step further in ensuring
their safety and safeguarding
themselves against theft. He said
people should not leave their
valuables, like purses or laptops,
on their desk or in open, unse
cured places in their workspaces
or in their cars, even when the
parking is equipped with cameras.