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INSIDE MOREHOUSE, OCTOBER 2013
FINDING FRESH FOOD
Students Help Promote Healthy Eating in the West End Community
BY ADD SEYMOUR JR.
A ssociate psychology professor Sinead
Younge’s students often don’t
understand it, but each time they
dig their hands into the fertile dirt of
a small garden in the middle of the West End
community, they are helping area residents to
become more aware of healthier eating.
Along with Georgia State University
and local organization Helping Africa by
Establishing Schools At Home and Abroad
(HABESHA), Younge’s students have cre
ated the community garden to encourage
others to do the same. They also have
sought to highlight those places that do offer
healthier eating options in the area, along
with providing data and research that shows
the deficiencies and needs for more places
like them in the West End.
“Students often think we are teaching
these archaic topics that have nothing to do
with the real world,” she said. “I’m trying to
show them that this has real-world applica
tions and it’s actually doing something that
can improve people’s lives.”
So each week, Younge’s Health
Psychology and Research Methods and
Statistics students go to the garden, less
than a mile from campus, and work with
HABESHA to do everything from tilling the
soil to harvesting their newly grown food.
The food is for anyone in the area, free of
charge. They also answer questions for resi
dents who want to plant their own gardens.
Students also go out into the commu
nity to find out things such as how residents
utilize the garden space or has it made some
aspects of life better for them.
“Research has shown that when you
have communities with gardens, you have
an increased sense of community, lower
crime rates, increased health, you name it,”
Younge said. “So it’s not simply eating bet
ter. It’s about improving the community on
multiple levels.”
A Georgia State professor is working
with Younge to find fresh food options
in the West End community and, using
Geographic Information System mapping,
to create a grid of where those options are.
That information is not only useful for resi
dents, but also for local politicians and busi
ness leaders to see the deficiencies in fresh
food options in the area.
“The goal in all my research is to have
a product that will improve the community
and I want the community to have owner
Morehouse students tend neighborhood garden.
ship of it,” Younge said. “So the goal is just
community enhancement overall. I can use
some of it to write up some scientific articles
about it, but the community isn’t neces
sarily going to read that. The specific goal
is to improve the community and to show
students that what they are learning in these
books has real world applications.” ■
2013-14 Presidential Ambassadors Named
BY ADD SEYMOUR JR.
AFTER A RIGOROUS interview and application process, 20 new
Presidential Ambassadors have been selected for the 2013-14 year.
They join 33 current ambassadors.
Ambassadors assist President John Silvanus Wilson Jr. 79 in
hosting liigh-profile corporate executives, government and alumni
leaders and other friends of the College.
“I am so proud and honored to work with this group of
gifted and talented men,” said Satyn Geary, who works in the
Office of Institutional Advancement and heads the Presidential
Ambassadors Program.
“The Presidential Ambassadors are considered outstanding
representatives of the Morehouse student body and come from
a variety of backgrounds and majors,” she said. “These students
demonstrate extensive involvement and strong leadership across
campus, in addition to maintaining high academic standards.”
The 2013-14 Presidential Ambassadors are:
CURRENT AMBASSADORS
Oke Bamgbose T4
Omaru Baruti T4
Tywan Bishop ‘14
Austin Broussard T4
Julian Buchanan ‘15
Devon J. Crawford ‘15
Louis Dancer ‘15
Thavon Davis ‘14
Joseph P. Dillon ‘14
Boris Dobrijevic ‘14
Parry Elliott ‘14
Christopher Gooding ‘14
Stephen A. Green ‘14
Kalle Higdon ‘14
Angelo Izere ‘14
Travon Jackson ‘15
Tonee’ Jones ‘14
Joshua Manley-Lee ‘15
Clark McCants ‘14
Donte Miller ‘15
Isaiah L. Norwood, II ‘15
Francisco Nunez, ‘14
Andrew Peterson ‘14
Daniel Primous '14
Winford Rice ‘74
Kenyon Scales 74
Michael Taylor 74
Richard Taylor 75
Jamal Thorne 74
Austin Tucker 74
Christopher A. Wills 74
Seth Wolf 74
Ulato Sam 74
NEWLY APPOINTED
AMBASSADORS
Matthew Dieudonne 76
Dexter East 75
Austin Easterling 76
Delonte Egwuatu 76
Bryant Eubanks 75
Christian Fuller 75
Ivan Gaskin 77
Herberto Horne 75
Christopher Jones 76
Anthony Kinsey ‘74
Martavius Leonard 74
Sorin Ovreiu 76
Garrett Ransom 75
Winston Roberts 74
Malcolm Talbert 76
Willie Thompson 76
Otha Thornton 74
Frederick Tippett 75
Breon Weathersby 76
Michael Ward 76
Convocation 2013
(continued from the cover)
The second step, uncovering, will
entail finding what has worked in
the past and making the best use of it
now. Besides the exceptionally strong
Morehouse Man brand, the College
has earned laurels for student develop
ment—laurels that, today, the College
may be resting on.
To strengthen what Wilson
described as “not as robust” student
development performance, the College
will embrace new approaches to teach
ing and learning; support and develop
faculty; enhance curriculum; ensure
affordability; and increase the gradua
tion rate.
Finally, the College will discover—
or become aware of something for the
first time.
“What is not here that should be
here—and how do we get it here?”
asked Wilson.
Discovery, as he outlined, will
include strengthening the College’s
research capacity; creating new admin
istrative systems with a higher grade
of professionalism; and assembling a
world-class administrative team.
“We must discover new ways for
Morehouse to be Morehouse—espe
cially operationally,” said Wilson.
As the College celebrates the
100th anniversary of being named
Morehouse, Wilson said, “Tliis is the
ideal time for us to surge again to be
what we were created to be.” H
2013-14 Presidential Ambassadors