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MAROON TIGER
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Wednesday, February 4, 1959
Sports Spotlight
chance to compete as much as
possible!” swimming received as
much support as other sports do
(“Most students only attend the
big meets’, laments the swim team
captain!) “The spirit manifested
by the student body toward lost
games, and meets should be a
little less negative.” “The (athle
tic) department, ’’Robert says, “is
rather conservative; more could
be done.”
“The music department is com-
It Seems To Me
tively initiate a program of par
ticipation.
A good course in governmental
participation and citizenship (col
legiate and national) would be an
excellent addition to the class in
freshman lectures. It seems that
this course should orientate the
student to the college community
and cast him, into the framework
of our academic goals. I don’t
remember too many aspects of
freshman lectures pertinent to
factors actually encountered in
the college community.
It is my opinion that unquali
fied persons have no business
participating in governmental af
fairs. The matters involved are
much too complicated, and they
present problems even to quali
fied persons. College, however,
should be the place where one is
exposed to, and taught to deal
with, problems of politics and
government. Student government
should be a laboratory to develop
a sense of governmental respon
sibility in the student-
In the Atlanta community
since the buses have been de
segregated, many Morehouse
men have entered the limelight
as leaders. For the most part,
they are ministers in and about
the city. I do not refer to persons
in any way connected with the
suit that brought about the deci
sion. The actions of these people
have been quite disturbing. It is
obvious that those people, like us,
did not have a good student gov
ernment. They don’t know what
they are doing. That is the Negro
dilemma in politics and govern
ment. Only a few of the students
who leave Morehouse will be any
better off. Even our little petty
political bosses will be shocked to
learn that their attempts to hind
er effective government by all
the students at Morehouse will
have hindered them, and they,
too, will be lost balls in high
weeds.
The student council should
move now to correct the situation.
Basketball Roundup
(Continued from page 3)
21 points each. Elmer “Tex” Wil
son third highest scorer and “de
mon on the “boards” was back in
form after having a nightmare of
a game against Fort Valley. He hit
13 and grabbed a good deal of re
bounds. Big Ike “Stretch” Parker
the rapidly improving sophomore
center cashed in 11 points ahdled
in rebounds. The score 78-62.
Victorius in Talledega
Rematch
The team journeyed to Tal
ladega on January 28 for the
second game of the season with
the non-conference rivals. The
Tigers had been upset by an und
er rated Talladega five on De
cember 1 in the first game of the
season. Morehouse and Talladega
were among the first STAC con
ference teams but Talladega ab
andoned intercollegiate athletics
and returned to competition only
recently. It has been reported that
they have applied for readmis
sion to the SIAC. Morehouse
emerged the victor.
Back at Home
Back in Atlanta in “Cool’s”
castle” Morehouse took on Beth-
une Cookman on the 27th, Mor
ris Brown; the 30th, Tuskegee;
the 31st and South Carolina State
the 2nd of Feb. The Tigers
emerged from the last stand with
four wins and no losses.
parable to the big ten”, compli
ments Robert. (He’s a music ma
jor, you see.)
Personality Portrait
went home. .When he returned
Monday morning he noticed some
huge footprints on the floor. He
asked his roommate, “where did
the tracks come from?” His
roommate told him that Melvin’s
dog was being kept in the bath
room for a few days. Boyd said,”
“the dog has to go because I have
to take a bath.” His roommate
told him that he couldn’t go into
the bath room. Boyd then became
very angry and went to get a
stick to chase the dog out. When
he returned to the room his room
mate was^ standing at the door of
the bath room insisting to keep
Boyd out. Vehement and contem
ptuous, Boyd tore open the bath
room door prepared to fight a
Doberman Pinscher' dog, found
Melvin McCaw on the floor
“cracking his side.”
Boyd, who is a very easy per
son to get along with, says there
are a few things that “bum him
up.” Among them are girls with
dirty finger nails, people who
can’t hold their liquor and pro
crastinating individuals. He says
that there is nothing more irritat
ing than to see a man volunteer
for a job that he can’t do.
Frederick Williams is a mathe
matics major, and plans to matri
culate at Northwestern Univers
ity after graduating from More
house. There he will work for his
masters degree in math. He hopes
someday to become the Dean of
a college. *
Bus Integration
peoples expressions would have
thought that a moon man and a
Martian Woman were doing a
strip tease. Your reporter has
never felt so conspicuously un
comfortable, even when he lost
his swimming suit at a high
school picnic. Nothing happened,
however. The interesting thing
about it was that when the bus
got down town some of the other
seats were vacated and the lady
remained beside me quite unper
turbed.
The few Negroes who were my
co-integrationists usually sat on
the fourth and fifth seats (one
lady in her twenties sat in front
of the complete integration situa
tion on the second seat) and left
by the center exits. Your report
er always left by the front exit
and it was in this respect that the
only incident of which the M T
has knowledge occurred. It was
Friday Jan. 16th, an extremely
cold day for a South Ga. boy.
Not many people were on the
bus and your writer sat on the
second seat. At the first bus stop
on Broad Street just off Marietta,
about twenty shivering bus pat
rons waited. As yours truly Start
ed off the front door the door
bolted shut and the driver said,
“Hey you, get off the center
door.” The reply: “Why?” “Cause
I said so,” was the answer. After
being informed that other peo
ple’s petty whims didn’t influence
this reporter’s actions, and after
a group of cOld hostile people be
gan to pound (verbally and phy
sically) upon the door, the driver
opened it. After a statement
made aloud to no one in particu
lar if “all that was necessary”
your writer exited.
Other incidents have been re
ported by Morehouse students. A
group of freshmen went to the
museum on the same night of the
first mass meeting January 13th
and were informed by the driver
that he expected to pick up some
white people after a while; they
would have to sit in back. They
refused to sit in back but agreed
to transfer to another bus. The
driver gave them emergency
transfers and they rode in front
of the next bus without incident.
Virgil McDonald; Freshman class
President and Maroon Tiger re
porter states that a driver, de
claring to be fed up, ordered an
individual to the rear, and his
request was granted.
Your reporter has not ridden
since the Tuesday Jan. 20 mass
meeting at Wheat Street Church.
(F. Boyd Williams and this re
porter attended both mass meet
ings.) Rev. Williams statement
was summarized in the papers.
Rev. Borders, the president of the
Triple LiLL movement, gave a
lengthy discourse which had
humor as its chief virtue. He told
Negroes to sit where they want
to as long as Negro men do not
sit beside white women. He de
clared, “If white men stay on
their side of the fence; Negro
men won’t come up to the fence.”
The mass meeting concluded
with Rev. Borders leading the
congregation in the Gospel songs,
Free At Las t, Thank God
Almighty I’m Free At Last.”
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