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Volume I • Number XIII
ews Brief
Compiled by: Tarsha Burton
Atlanta, GA.- A suspect has
been arrested for attempting to
rape a Spelman College stu
dent. He is being charged with
assaulting the woman after he
was caught masturbating in a
dormitory hallway. The sus
pect, 27-year old Mario
Brannon, is also being charged
with prowling, and peeping into
dormitory windows. Brannon
was later arrested by campus
police, but later escaped.
Atlanta police apprehended
Brannon as he tried to enter a
local apartment.
•One-hundred Morehouse
College students staged a
protest over the schools new
grading system. Morehouse
has implemented a grading sys
tem similar to Emory
University, and Spelman
College’s, whereby a “plus,
minus” system is used.
Students protested both against
the new grading system, and the
desire to invite Louis
Farrakhan, leader of the Nation
~ r Islam, to speak. During con-
tcation students protested
silently by refusing to applaud
during the program. The
Atlanta Journal/Constitution
reports college spokeswoman,
Lillian Jackson, said that
“adminsitration is being respon
sive to students concerns.”
CAU
Dancers
Slighted At
Half-time
Ytasha L. Womack
Staff Writer
Clark Atlanta University’s
Dance team went on court to
perform during Morehouse’s
basketball half-time only to
leave without performing.
The CAU Dance team ran
off the court during the CAU
vs. Morehouse half-time show,
Sunday February 19.
The newly established CAU
Dancers took the floor follow
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The
Clark Atlanta University
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“We’ll Find A Way Or Make One.”
Atlanta, Georgia
Flyer Cooks
Up Trouble
At Mac’s
Snacks
Former Employee Claims He Was
Fired After Alleged Carjack
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Snacks
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alleges
two men
forced him
into his
car.
Morris Brown College
Campus
Mitchell
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Williams
instructed
to get out
of car.
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By Chandra R. Thomas
Features Editor
A flyer being circulated by a former
employee, is hurting business at Mac’s
Snacks, the restaurant’s owner said.
A former delivery driver for the eatery
located near the Atlanta University Center,
Tyson Williams, contends that he was treat
ed unfairly by the restaurant’s owner,
Woody McDaniel, after being robbed on the
job.
Williams maintains that he was carjacked
at approximately 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday,
Feb. 9 while delivering food to the Phillips
dormitory on the campus of the
Interdemonational Theological Center. He
said after the alleged life-threatening attack,
McDaniel seemed more concerned with the
location of the car and the nearly $200 stolen
than the well-being of his employee.
“As I got out of the car to make the deliv
ery, I saw two guys dressed in black, walk
ing towards Morris Brown College,”
Williams said, “I didn’t pay any attention to
them because I was on campus. . . After I
made the delivery I walked back to my car.
Soon as I opened my door, the same two
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Former CAU
Found Dead.
March 7, 1994
Is Campus
Security
Making The
Grade?
Chandra R. Thomas
Features Editor
One in three
students will be
the victim of
some kind of
campus crime,
a New York
Times Magazine
article said.
Many Atlanta
University stu
dents said
increased crime
rates have
raised concern
about the effec-
tivenss of Atlanta
University Center
campus security
There were
11 reported
aggravated
assaults on or
within a 500-
yard radius of
the Morehouse
College campus
between August
1992 to July StWMMMMlMIMlllWHWtWMM!
1993. There were 71 thefts report
ed on the campus of Clark Atlanta
University by December 1993.
(Morris Brown and Spelman
College were unable to provide sta
tistics.)
According to the New York
Times article, the number of
women raped or sexually assaulted
during their college years range
from one in seven to one in 25.
At Temple Junior College in
Texas, the chairman of the sociolo
gy department was held hostage by
an armed student displeased by her
sociology grade. At Yale, a sopho
more died only yards from the
University’s President’s house,
being fatally shot in a street holdup.
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Students’
Rights
All four
AUC
institutions
are required
to release
annual
campus
crime
statistics
under the
Student-
Right-To-
Knowand
Campus
Security
Acts.
Morehouse Students Protest School's Ban: No Farrakhan
Stacy Adams
Features Assistant
The Thursday, Feb. 17 student demon
stration, addressing the issue of Nation of
Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan
speaking at Morehouse College, has
caused mixed views.
Walter White, president of
Morehouse’s SGA, said the student gath
ering that took place before the school’s
convocation, was not an over-reaction to
the students' denied requests to hear the
leader speak at their school. “It was not
blown out of proportion at all,” he said.
The university’s administration must
approve the Minister’s appearance before
he can speak at Morehouse, which White
said does not seem likely to happen.
“Right now it doesn’t look like it,” he said.
According to White, Farrakhan was
denied access by the administration
because he is a diverse speaker. “He tells
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