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INSIDE MOREHOUSE, FEBRUARY 2015 NEWS BRIEFS Morehouse Qualifies for Honda Campus All-Star Challenge Morehouse is one of 48 HBCUs that has qualified for the 26th Honda Campus All-Star Challenge, March 21 -25, in Torrance, Calif. Morehouse has won the national title four times and earned $443,000 in scholarship money in 26 years of competition. Last year’s team lost on the last question to Oakwood during the quarterfinal round. This year’s team consists of D’ondre Swails, George Nwanze Jr., Aquia Richburg and Cullen Watkins. Robert Myrick coaches the team this year. The Maroon Tiger Wins Student Journalism Awards The Maroon Tiger ms named one of Georgia’s top college newspapers after winning first place in general excellence during the Georgia Press Institute Awards ceremony on Feb. 7. Presented by the Georgia College Press Association, the awards program annually honors the state’s top collegiate journalists and their publications. The Maroon Tiger also won a first place award for Best Community Service- Features and a third place award for layout and design. Darren Martin '15 is the paper’s editor-in-chief, while Jared Loggins is the managing editor. National Endowment for the Humanities Awards $100,000 Grant to King Collection The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $100,000 grant to Morehouse College and the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection. The grant will go towards incorporating documents from the King Collection into humanities teaching at the College. TIAA-CREF Offering Individual Counseling Sessions Representatives of TIAA-CREF will be on campus March 23 and 24 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to give individual counseling sessions to evaluate employees’ retire ment goals. Meetings will be held in the Human Resources conference room. Employees must register for a counseling session. Go to www.tiaacref. org/letstalk1 or call 1-866-843-5640, Monday through Friday between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m. Students, Faculty and Staff Invited to Participate in 9th Annual Student Symposium The Morehouse English department, in collaboration with the Office of the Provost invites students, faculty and staff to participate in the 9th Annual Student Symposium to be held in April. Papers may be presented on a variety of topics, but those focusing on events in Ferguson, Mo, and the following themes are desired: athletics, film, African American studies, business, foreign language and culture, history, journalism, literary, visual and performance art, mathematics and computer sci ence, religion, faith and philosophy, science, social and political science, urban studies or Martin Luther King Jr. Those interested in participating should submit a 300-word abstract of their paper or presentation by going to http://2015symposiumweebly.com and click on “submit abstract.” The deadline for entry is March 16. For more information, contact Francine Allen atfrancine.allen@morehouse.edu. C-SPAN Comes to Morehouse PRESIDENT JOHN SILVANUS WILSON JR. 79 talks about Morehouse and HBCUs during a live interview on C-SPAN’s ‘Washington Journal” on Feb. 11. The interview was conducted on the C-SPAN bus, which was on campus during its tour of HBCUs. Students, faculty and staff were allowed to tour the bus and learn more about C-SPAN. ■ Tim Sams Looks to Enhance Morehouse Student Development Model BY ADD SEYMOUR JR. IT’S IRONIC that Tim Sams, the College’s vice presi dent for Student Development, has always wanted to be an interior decorator, specifically on Afrocentricity. Just as the Chinese concept of feng shui in interi or decorating focuses on creating spaces that cultivate growth and development, he is looking forward to building a campus culture that develops and cultivates the growth of Morehouse Men. “Morehouse has the culture to create that Morehouse Man,” Sams said. “The challenge is refin ing our ability to do that, being very clear about what those outcomes are and what the processes are that enable us to achieve those outcomes... I just have to get us to make sure we are clear about what we are doing and doing it in the best way possible. That’s exciting to me.” Sams, who hails from upstate New York, has spent 23 years in student development and student services at Swarthmore College, New York University- Abu Dhabi and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He comes to Morehouse looking to enhance the idea of a student development model that’s as unique as Morehouse. Sams said that model looks to develop an aca demically strong student who is just as strong in character, but with the traditional Morehouse ideals of spirituality, leadership and career focus. “I’ve always wanted to do that here,” he said. “So I see the past 23 years as preparation for this place for me.” To develop those kinds of graduates, Sams is focused on creating an environment that targets three areas. “First, the school needs a solid financial founda tion,” he said. “My area plays squarely into that, from Tim Sams talks with senior Anwar Johnson an enrollment standpoint and a housing standpoint. So I want to make sure we are meeting our goals, our targets, with regards to those things. When we do that, everybody benefits. “Second, embrace. President Wilson has made it very clear that we are expected to achieve a better embrace. So the first couple of things along that line that I’m seeking to do is to realize a residential college model. Attached to that is restructure the way our deans operate because they are the drivers of that embrace. “And finally, create an environment among my division of professionals that continuously enhances their ability to be consummate professionals. I am of the belief that the more you develop, the more you support the success of your staff, the better they are going to be for your students. So I’m keenly interest ed in how we do that. I want top-flight, high-powered staff, and I’m interested in creating an environment that creates those folks.” ■ Morehouse to Host Nation’s Top African American Officers During First Military Crown Forum BY ADD SEYMOUR JR. A NUMBER OF PEOPLE told Asante McCalla, a junior sociology major and a member of the Morehouse Navy ROTC unit, that there was no way to get four African American flag officers on campus at the same time. Flag officers, some of the U.S. military’s high est-ranking members, must be nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. And only 5.5 percent of them are African American. “It’s like having four CEOs of the nation’s biggest companies here, only that these are people managing the lives and safety of millions of people in this and other countries,” he said. Despite the naysayers and the logistical challenges, the impossible will happen at 11 am. on March 26 during the College’s first-ever Military' Crown Forum in the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel. Representing the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, four of the nation’s highest-ranking African American military leaders will tell students about their lives and careers. They are: • Rear Admiral Sinclair Harris, vice director for opera tions for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, D.C. • Maj. Gen. Stayce D. Harris, commander of the 22nd Air Force, Air Force Reserve Command, Dobbins Air Force Base, Georgia • Maj. Gen. Leslie Smith, Commander General of the United States Army Maneuver Support Center of Excellence, Fort Leonard Wood • Lt. Gen. Vincent R Stewart, Commander, Marine Forces Cyber Harris is a three-star general while the others are two-star generals. Also attending the Crown Forum will be area mil itary' officials, high school and college ROTC units, and the Atlanta University Center Veterans and Military Affinity Group. The Military Crown Forum is a student-led event. McCalla, along with Mark Ellison, a junior international studies major and Army ROTC mem ber; Matthew Diedonne, a junior economics major and Navy ROTC member, and Georgia Tech Air Force RO TC member, Jordan Rodgers formed the ROTC Joint Services Committee and worked with Crown Forum committee members. “We want to expose students to the fact that there is senior leadership in the military who looks like them, McCalla said. “And we’ve never had a military Crown Forum before. We always hear that if you want to be successful, become a lawyer or a doctor or a businessman. Rarely do we hear about the influence of the military and how there are great Morehouse Men who have been part of the military.” ■