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Inside MOREHOUSE A CAMPUS NEWSLETTER FOR FACULTY, STAFF AND STUDENTS OCTOBER 2009, ISSUE 2 r i 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.” continues on page 2 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.