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THE MAROON TIGER
April, 1967
FOUNDED IN 1898
Edi tor
-in-Chief
. Harold J
. Farris
’67
Assoc
iate Editor ..
... Mi Iton
Wilkins
’69
Assistant Editor ...
.. Willi am
Howard
’67
Business Manager .
’68
News
Editor
Craig
Finley
’67
News
Reporter
... Russel
1 Carter
’70
News
Reporter
... Robert
T errel 1
’67
Sports
Editor
.... Alfred
Person
’70
Featui
*e Editor
... Terry Dawkins
’67
Feature Reporter ..
Waite
r Dancy
’67
Featui
*e Reporter ..
.. Robert Maxwel 1
’67
Featui
•e Reporter ..
. Moses Chirunga
’67
Photographers
Kendrix
’68
Richard Al len ’69
Advisors Prof. Cason Hill ’53
Prof. Fin ley Campbell *56
The opinions herein are the opinions of
THE MAROON TIGER staff and not
necessarily of Morehouse College. Ar
ticles may not be reproduced in whole
or part without written permission of
the Editor.
EDITOR’S DESK Continued
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1-COLUMN 1)
to make great strides, but made none.
Things have not changed from the way
they were last year. Students were al
lowed to freeze in the units like they
were last year; students were allowed
to go without telephones for several
months; students still are afraid to
speak out — like they were last year —
because the S.G.A. did not take a stand
one way or the other. You will see our
pictures in the yearbook though.
The S.G.A. did less this year than
any in the 100-year history of this school.
What we need is another David
Satcher to come out of political obscur
ity and do the job that could not be done
this year or last year.
We need a man who believes in
himself and the value of an effective
S.G.A. As I see it, there is no man
presently on the S.G.A. who could lead
us out of the self-inflicted misery that
we are now in.
Next year, we have the opportunity
to create an improved situation so that
things can get moving again. When you
go to vote, vote for the best man. Vote
for the man with the potential to get
things done and to get things moving
again.
What we need is a whole new organi
zation, not necessarily experienced,
but one with potential, drive, and the
will to do. Another apathetic S.G.A.
like the past two could create an atti
tude of indifference on our campus.
In closing, let us change, not for
the sake of change, but for the sake of
a better 1967—1968 school year. And
may next year be the best year ever.
"Let’s Get The Show
On The Road’’
The above caption was a recurrent
statement of the Rev. Ben H. Richardson
during our annual Religious Emphasis
Week at Morehouse - March 5 - 9, 1967.
Ben, as he is euphemistically known,
was the preacher and consultant. He is
the organizer and director of’ Religious
Social Service, Incorporated, Chicago,
Ill. For fifteen years he has labored
quietly and unobstrusively in some of the
worst sections of this metropolis. He
calls himself a Christian social worker.
He is a graduate of Florida A. and M.
University; Drew Theological Seminary,
Madison, N.J.; and Harvard Divinity
School. He has been a teacher, pastor,
and former co-pastor of the Abysinnia
Baptist Church, N.Y. He found the limita
tions and conservatism of the average
church unsuited for the kind of ministry
needed in these times of cataclysmic
social change.
During his days with us in assembly,
in classrooms and dormitory lounge
sessions, he brought new insights of
meaning into religion, the church and the
Christian faith. Many factors account for
the telling impact of his campus ministry.
Among them the following are salient: He
knows howto talktotenn-agers and young
adults. He knows their language. Collo
quially, he “digs” them and they “dig”
him. Ben is not concerned with abstract
theological doctrines. He addresses him
self to the concerns of the people-all
races, all religions orno religion. Believ
ers, agnostics and atheists, all come
within the orbit of his loving concern.
Some of his most telling achievements
have been with people who have been
thrown on the human scrap-pile. Ben has
a facile command of the English language
and in his staccato concentration of words
and thought he drives home effectively
the point. Another contributing factor is
his disarming sense of humor that wells
up from a rich background of reading and
experience. He has an optimistic faith in
human beings. Many times he was heard
to say, “I never give up on any person”.
“Come, now, tell me all about it. Let’s
get the show on the road.” Another factor
that has endeared him to students is the
honesty and openness in responding to
all questions, however delicate and con
troversial, from the “God is Dead” slogan
to Adam in Eden, to Adam on Bimini.
There was no shadow boxing, no ostrich
like evasions, no false pietism, Ben has
walked with kings but has not lost the
common touch. The power of his personal
witness has given to our students a new
dimension of the Christian faith. Remarks
such as these were heard from the men:
“I now see the Church in a new light and
I am willing to throw my weight behind
it.” “You cannot ignore him, even if you
do not agree with him.”
All sessions were well attended. The
final assembly on Thursday morning was
a capacity audience of students and
faculty. Our guest was given a thunderous
standing ovation. There was no doubt of
his deep and abiding commitment to the
ministry of love to the human family. He
left his signature on the campus.
Signed: Lucius Al. Tobin
Department of Philosophy
and Religion
A Plea For Help
and Cooperation
by Robert L. Maxwell
Sixty-nine years after students at
Morehouse College began their first
newspaper. The Athenaeum, The Maroon
Tiger Staff finds that Morehouse men
still would rather scoff at their news
paper than help to improve its quality.
The scene is the same, and the
trend is getting worse. The do-nothings
stand around .grinning and finding fault,
while the failing do-gooders, as we are
often called, rush about flailing type
writers and scribbling our fingers to the
bone doing our best to give you a repre
sentative campus publication.
Surely you do not think us so vain
as to set ourselves up as the criteria
that all others must adhere to. There
must be those among you who are far
superior in skills and abilities. Then
why in the name of heaven will you not
show yourselves? Step out of the crowd
and become your own mouthpieces. Here
is your opportunity to use your imagina
tions, to express yourselves complete
ly, but you turn and run like cowardly
hyenas.
Your campus newspaper is an organ
of student opinion and a vehicle of liter
ary talent showing merit and promise.
Some of you must have opinions, and
if you think that you have journalistic
talents, join the Maroon Tiger Staff and
prove it. Certainly you would not want
campus opinion and self expression to
return into the hands of the college ad
ministrators. This is not to suggest that
the administrators could not do a su
perior job of publication. But the ex
press purpose of a campus newspaper
is to serve as a student organ of ex
pression. A vehicle free of administrative
reprisals and censorship.
You need not be ashamed of The
Maroon Tiger. She has a time-honored
heritage and a long legacy of which
you can be proud. From her inception
in 1925, as an independent student
paper obligated only to student opinion,
men have fought valiantly to improve
her in quality and to uphold her high
standards of journalism. The Maroon
Tiger that started out as a small in
significant tabloid in 1925 won the
Associated Collegiate Press First
Class Honor Rating at the University
of Minnesota in the first semester of
1947-1948.
Many of the editors and writers
of The Maroon Tiger have gone on to
win acclaim in journalism, business,
government service and other varied
fields of endeavor. To name but a few:
Dr. Hugh Gloster, president-elect of
Morehouse College; John H. Johnson,
president, Johnson Publishing Com
pany, Inc.; Lerrone Bennett, Jr., senior
editor, Ebony Magazine and noted au
thor of books on Negro history; C. A.
Scott, editor and general manager of
the Atlanta Daily World; V. T. Tubbs,
editor of the Baltimore Afro-American;
Marion E. Jackson, Emory O. Jackson,
Atlanta Daily World; Moss H. Kendrix,
public relations. Coca Cola Company;
Dr. Edward A. Jones and Dr. B. R.
Brazeal, Morehouse College; Usher
Francis Ward, associate editor, Jet
Magazine.
Now I say to you once again,
come out of the crowd and make your
mark. Let The Maroon Tiger be your
vehicle of self expression, of personal
growth and development. As you can
see, many Morehouse men started their
careers right here in the office of
The Maroon Tiger.
Take up your arms and join the
fight today. Men from all classes are
welcome. Won’t you come? Please
come and help us continue to strive
to keep The Maroon Tiger out front.
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