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THE ORGAN OF STUDENT EXPRESSIONS VOL. LXII NO. 3 MOREHOUSE COLLEGE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA | DECEMBER 10, 1962 HOMECOMING 1962. THE NEW LOOK Ode to the Queen If it is loveliness you would praise And in youth is your delight, Then behold this goddess of grace- Our dear MISS MAROON AND WHITE. W. Rolling Her Magnificence: Miss Ann Ashmore, Miss Maroon and White Accompanied by Edmund Robinson, Chairman of the Social and Cultural Affairs Committee; and Lamar Jack- son, Special Assistant and Planning Consultant. READERS DIGEST ■ UNCF Announces Creative 4 63 Writing Contest All regularly-enrolled undergraduates of Morehouse College are eligible to win cash awards for their essays, short stories and poems. The prizes are offered by the Reader's Digest to winners of its third annual Creative Writing Contest co-sponsored with the United Negro Col lege Fund. Students may submit origin al essays, short stories and poems. In each at these three categories the first prize is $300; second prize, $200; third prize, $50. If their entries qualify again this year, first- prize winners of the 1961 andi 1962 contests will be eligible! for $100 special awards. Rules of the contest are: (1) each entry must be an origins! work, n«Yer befor« published except in a college paper and not submitted to any other national contest;; (2) essays must not exceed 3,000 words; short stories must not exceed 4,000 words; poetry must not 60 lines in any verse form. All entries; must be- typewritten and double-spaced. Entries are submitted through Prof. Steven Henderson, chairman of the Continued On Page 4 ON THE INSIDE New Series Page 5 Special Award Page 6 Jazz Tempo Page 7 Morehouse Presents “A Sea Of Charm” By Charles Jackson, Jr. The history of homecoming activities in any college is usually long, vivacious and besieged with beauty. When it comes to elegance, homecoming at Morehouse defied no rules of history. But our homecoming activities added another word, innovation, which was the basis of our electrifying success. First of all, the Corona tion was the matrix for this newness. It was a Specta cular Fashion Show cleverly India - China Problem Reviewed And Analyzed The map clarifies China's strategic intentions. Having consolidated Tibet as a base, she begins to squeeze the border nations-Bhutan, Sikkim and the more important Nepal-in a strategic vise, with the presumptive political aim of turning the three into puppets. Through the same operation, the Chinese take a position on the Indian side of the mountain passes, from which they threaten the entire eastern segment of the sub-continent; and, for good measure partially outflank southeast Asia, down which the Communist forces are already driving. For the West and for us, this a complicated war. On the one hand we must extend military aid to those who use it to resist the aggressions ' of the only world force that threatens our own security. On the other hand we must not neglect the subtle traps involved in giving direct and unrestricted aid to the Government of India. Although the Chinese guns have finally compelled Nehru to oust Krishna Menon as Defense Minister, this can not erase the fact that for a decade Menon was Nehru’s closest political associate. Even in firing him, Nehru Continued On Page 4 made distinct by the “utili zation of ramp and stage." For the first time, gifts were presented to Miss Maroon and White and her Court by Fraternities and Campus Clubs. A modem dance served as a mode for relieving tension and break ing the monotony. The whole environment was encom passed by a “Sea of Charm.” But everything did not stop at the Coronation. A tidal wave were brought in a parade the next day that has be in hailed by many as the best in Morehouse history. The Sea of Charm theme created unity. It was this unity, this elevation of the theme and, of course, the charm reflected by the queens and their attendants, that won the hearts of the spectators. And a rain came, at the right time, to add to the mood. Two trophies were given. The Sophomore Class was awarded first place for the Continued On Page 4 The First Place Winner The Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity's float which waa first prize as the best fraternal entry.