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Volume I • Number XVVI Atlanta. Georgia
February 6, 1995
Morris Brown
College Rises
From the
Ashes
By Lisa Flanagan
News Editor
Morris Brown College President,
Samuel Jolley, announced recently
that the 114-year-old college has
eliminated its debt of $6.5 million
dollars.
Since 1992, the institution has
raised the amount needed to clear the
deficit, and a possible $1.5 million
dollar surplus is proposed for the end
of the 1994-95 school year.
After receiving contributions from
the African Methodist Episcopal
Church, alumni, employees, students,
Nations Bank, The Coca-Cola
Foundation, Bell South and many
other supporters, Morris Brown was
removed from its financial probation
placement by the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools.
“I’m glad Morris Brown is out of
financial trouble,” said Morris Brown
senior Ngina Rome. “Positive activi
ties such as the Marching Wolverines’
participation in the Rose Bowl Parade
gave our school positive media atten
tion.”
Future plans for Morris Brown
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Campus Safety Improving
AUC Takes Precautious Measures
(Photo by Christian Gooden)
New scooters and security guards are among
the new precautionary measures AUC admin
istrators are taking to ensure campus safety,
By Clarence Rolle
Contributing Writer
Atlanta University Center
(AUC) administrators are
looking to improve the level of
campus security this semester
after several AUC students fell
victim to kidnapping, shoot
ings and murder last semester.
“These senseless acts of
violence have generated
renewed concern about safety
in the AUC,” said Clark
Atlanta University President
Dr. Thomas W. Cole Jr. in a
letter to students dated Dec.
14, 1994. In the statement, he
announced that CAU has
already taken steps to enhance
security on and around its
campus.
Cole said more of CAU’s
public safety efforts will be
coordinated in conjunction
with other schools in the AUC
and with the Atlanta Police
Department. He also said
there would be increased AUC
and CAU shuttle service for
transportation in the area,
especially at night.
According to AUC public
safety officers, all the AUC
institutions are now discussing
improvements to the shuttle
service system. They said
plans include abandoning the
system that keeps shuttles
waiting several minutes at des
ignated spots and implement
ing an express shuttle service.
The AUC’s “number five”
shuttle already provides
express service.
• Shuttles may also transport
students to more locations on
their respective campuses if
the tentative plans are imple
mented. However, security
officers said AUC institutions
have not yet approved any of
the plans.
Cole said in the letter that
CAU also wants to increase
the visibility of police and
public safety officers by the
use of foot patrols and inner-
campus scooters. CAU now
has six operating scooters,
according to Captain G. Hill
of the CAU Public Safety
Office.
“Please know that the safety
and security of students, facul
ty and staff are the highest pri-
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Jackie Patterson, New Public Safety Director
INSIDE
By Kendra Story
Contributing Writer
Clark Atlanta University appoint
ed Jackie Patterson as the new
director for the Department of
Public Safety.
Patterson said he is looking for
ward to introducing some very
promising ideas for the improved
safety of students and faculty of
Clark Atlanta as well as Spelman,
Morehouse and Morris Brown.
Patterson believes that “intercom
munication” is the primary key to
pushing these ideas into action.
The director, originally from
Atlanta, is a graduate of Brenau
College in Gainesville, Ga., where
he earned both his bachelor’s
degree in criminal justice and pub
lic administration and his master’s
degree also in public administra
tion. He then traveled to Texas
Southern University School of Law
in Houston to earn his juris doctor
ate. He returned to Atlanta to
receive his master’s of law in trial
litigation from Atlanta Law School.
As a private criminal defense
attorney, Patterson said, “The safe
ty of the students, faculty and prop
erty is the most important thing to
me.” In order to better protect stu
dents, Patterson’s current plans
include his institution of six scoot
ers, which have been seen
patrolling the campus.
Due to the efforts of the
Department of Public Safety’s con
sultant, Dr. George Napper, the
scooters were donated by Ed
Baker on behalf of the Atlanta
Business Chronicle last year. The
purchasing of the scooters was
designed to increase frequency
among officers responding to
problems on campus.
Additional Public Safety offi
cers are being hired and will
begin working within the next
two weeks.
When asked of any future
plans he has for the university,
Patterson said he will introduce
plans for a telephone system,
which he said is “critical for the
future.”
He hopes to install four emer
gency telephones throughout the
campus. When the emer
gency phone is picked up
by a student who needs
immediate assistance, the
phone line will automati
cally connect with the
Public Safety Department.
Officers should then
respond, going directly to
wherever the caller(s)
may be.
In addition to these
goals, Patterson would
like to install alarm sys
tems in all dormitories.
As a former U.S. Army
paratrooper and Atlanta
police officer of six years,
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