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April, 1967
THE MAROON TIGER
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We Have Pledged . . „ Continued
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is it that you can’t run heaters for fear
that the electricity will blow? But per
haps it’s not really cold after all. Per
haps it’s all in our minds. Perhaps we
don’t even exist. That’s a question for
you, SAM.
So now Dear Old Morehouse moves
on into its second century, in the same
tired motion by which it survived the
first. So to Morehouse’s new face and
new times, the students wish luck. But
when will the students finally be of con
cern? I guess when you ask for a check!
If you don’t agree, what did Centen
nial mean to you?
From Biology
Department
Morehouse College has received a
grant of $2800 from the National Science
Foundation for the purpose of conduct
ing scientific research and extending
the frontiers of education in science.
This grant is being administered by
Dr. Frederick E. Mapp, Chairman of the
Department of Biology at Morehouse,
with Dr. John A. Wagner serving as Re
search Adviser.
Presently, two senior biology majors
are conducting research in the area of
biochemistry. Another student is track
ing alkaline phosphatase by histo-
chemical methods while a sophomore
biology major is attacking problems as
sociated with growth and development.
In an effort to improve education in
biology, an independent study program
is also being supported by this grant.
Ten junior biology majors are now un
dergoing rigorous self-training in this
program with the emphasis being placed
upon general biological problems.
The National Science Foundation,
through such grants, provides special
opportunities for undergraduates of high
ability to advance in their understanding
of science through research participation
and independent study.
Chamberlain’s
Challenge
When it was announced earlier this
week that pro basketball star Wilt Cham
berlain of the Philadelphia 76ers had
challenged heavyweight champion Cas
sius Clay to a title bout during the
basketball off-season, sports fans look
ed on in confused wonderment.
Why would the world’s greatest bas
ketball player want to get into the ring
with the undefeated heavyweight champ
ion of the world?
Sportswriter Leonard Shecter, writ
ing in the current issue of SPORT maga
zine, explains Chamberlain’s sudden de
sire to enter boxing this way:
“The one thing Wilt Chamberlain
despises the most is to be considered a
freak. It’s why he contemplated leaving
basketball to become a professional de
cathlon star, it’s why he considered be
coming an end for the Kansas City
Chiefs, and why he considers trying to
become the heavyweight boxing champ
ion of the world. To prove he isn’t a
freak.”
This drive to prove himself without
capitalizing on his height (7-1) even
led Wilt to develop an unusual fade-away
jump shot which may have been detri
mental to his game of basketball. “It’s
a shot Chamberlain developed, those
close to him suggest, because he want
ed a shot he could score on not simply
because he was tall.”
“It is this strange drive that leads
him to think he is not only the best bas
ketball player in the world, but the best
chess player, the best track man, and
the best cook,” continues the SPORT
article.
Says Willie Reed of the Knicker
bockers, “He swears he can beat any
body in the world at anything.”
“He wants, when you come right
down to it,” concludes Shecter in the
SPORT magazine feature, “to be six feet
tall.”
A Jive Conference
by Alfred Person
On February 15, delegates from the
schools in the Atlanta University Center
left Atlanta for Savannah State College
and the Southern Regional School Press
Institute. Although the theme of the con
vention was “the Freedom and Respons
ibility of the School Press,” it seemed
to lack the necessary organization to
develope its theme. Much time was
wasted on unrelated activities. Among
the time wasters were a campus tour of
downtown Savannah, numerous long,
drawn-out introductions, and the like.
The last day of the convention was
a total farce. Only one hour of the re
maining time was spent constructively.
The remaining time was spent listening
to the Savannah State Choral Society
and to speakers who knew less about
journalism than I do. Those of us in the
Atlanta Delegation used the remaining
time to leave that sorry place.
Despite its numerous drawbacks,
the convention was not a total failure.
W. Fordon Graham, news director of
KGO-TV (ABC) in San Francisco, Cali
fornia, provided an interesting speech
on the “Youth Revolution” throughout
the country. Robert Terrell of Morehouse
College gave a very informative talk on
hard-nose reporting.
Another of the highlights of the con
vention was the free drinks that the local
bottler provided free of charge.
In other words, the conference was
“jive.”
TODAY’S BETSY ROSS
In This Corner
by Craig W. Finley
You can sure tell that it’s spring
again. Our campuses have been invaded
by two new species of migratory human
oids. I have given them the scientific
names of Walk-acrossti grass us and
Layonthe grassus. Watch out for them,
as they may bite if they are disturbed.
Spring is the time of year when a
young man’s fancy lightly turns to
thoughts of summer vacation.
On March 3, the roaches in Graves
Hall officially came out of hibernation
and began their baseball spring training
in the south end of Unit I.
While I’m talking about time, have
you ever noticed that the sun dial in
front of Graves Hall is an hour slow?
While we’re still on the subject of time,
I’ve discovered a way for getting the cor
rect time from the clock(s) on top of
Harkness Hall, It’s very simple. You sub
tract three minutes from the time show
ing on the west clock, two and a half
minutes from the east clock, add theiti
all up, get their average, square it, take
the average of the average square root
of the answer, add this to the time show
ing on the south clock, then go to the
nearest telephone and call 522-8550, and
they’ll give you the time.
Have you ever figured out how it
was so easy to make an eight or nine
o’clock class in high school, while in
college it seems tantamount to getting
up at 4 a.m. to answer a telephone and
finding out that it’s a wrong number?
**********
If variety doth truly be the spice of
life, then breakfast at Morehouse is
surely without proper seasoning.
A lot of people think that, because
I talk about it so badly, I don’t like the
food served in the dining hall. That’s
not true. I do like it. (Note: I didn’t
say how much. I think that it’s the best
food served in Mays Hall.)
I’ve come upon a good definition of
Spelman’s curfew. I define it as some
thing like a class in compulsory dormi
tory attendance. The thing that’s so
terrible about it is that it’s a twenty-
four hour course, and if anyone takes
an unexcused cut, he automatically
flunks the course.
**********
Atlanta policemen seem to be pretty
hip nowadays. I mean like especially
when the block boys are giving some
poor, dumb college guy their extra spe
cial treatment, the cops are really OUT
OF SIGHT.
**********
Well I guess that it’s about that
time again. I got to git, I got to split, I
got to go cause there ain’t no more.
(How do you like that for a snazzy end
ing? Keep the faith, anyway.)
Call For New National
Political Unity
by Floyd B. McKissick,
National Director Convener
“Wake up, Black Men; sleep no more:
Racist tyrants crash at your door.”
More than a century after the Eman
cipation Proclamation, black Americans
still experience the evils of a racist
society — economic deprivation, inferior
education, sub-standard housing and an
unemployment rate almost three times
higher than white workers. Political dis
franchisement, economic exploitation,
fear and frustration continue to plague
black citizens throughout the country.
Discrimination in every aspect of
American life perpetuates our misery and
prolongs the blight of second-class citi-
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