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MAROON TIGER THE ORGAN OF STUDENT EXPRESSION VOL. 1, NO. 1 MOREHOUSE COLLEGE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA Monday, October 21, 1968 298 Freshmen Enter M’house Two hundred and ninety-eight freshmen from 24 states entered Morehouse College for the aca demic year 1968-69. Leading the list of states rep resented was Georgia, with a total of 130 freshmen. Other states represented in the class were as follows: South Carolina, 30; Florida, 27; New York, 17; Alabama, 15; North Carolina, 14; Texas, 10; Tennessee. 8; Califor nia, 7; Mississippi, 6; Virginia, Ohio and Louisiana, 4 each; Pennsylvania, 3; District of Co lumbia, 2; Indiana, Kentucky, Washington, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Missouri and Montana, 1 each. Also included in this year’s Freshman Class are two foreign students from Sierra Leone and Ghana. Freshman Week was climaxed with a speech by the Student Government President, Nelson Taylor, who challenged the class of ’72 to live up to Morehouse’s good traditions and to discard those that are bad. To calm the rivalry between Morehouse and Clark, the two freshman classes met and discussed ways of build ing a better relationship between the two colleges. The meeting was called when a Morehouse junior was stabbed during a clash with Clark students. Pictured above are the Fabulous Impressions. From 1-r, Curtis May- field, Sam Gooden and Fred Cash. ImpressionsPerform BeforePackedHouse Before an audience of approxi mately five thousand students and community dwellers, the Stu dent Government Association presented the Fabulous Impress ions in concert in the Samuel H. Archer Hall Gymnasium, Sunday, September 22, at 8:00 p.m. The Impressions opened the conecrt with a dedication to black people. Such songs as “We’re a Winner,” “Keep on Pushing,” and “We’re Rolling On” were rendered as special dedications to the “blacks.” Also listed among the songs were: “Up, Up and Away,” “I Need You,” “Gypsy Woman,” “I’m a Fool for You.” “I’ve Been Trying,” “People Get Ready,” and “A-men,” the song taken from the movie, Lelies of the Field. It was reported that many of the top-ranking black recording artists refused to participate in programs sponsored by small black colleges in the South. As one student put it, “They’d rath er take their soul music to the white schools of the North and Midwest or to the large black universities than to bring it to us.” M’house Hosts Haitian Envoy On September 17, 1968, in Sale Hall Chapel, Morehouse College was the host to the Haiti Ambas sador to the United States. Mr. Arthur Bonhomme. Ambassador Bonhomme pre sented Honorary Doctorate De grees of the University of Haiti to Morehouse College President Hugh M. Glouser, College Choir Conductor Wendell Whal- um and, in absentia, to Rev. Martin L. King, Sr., Rev. A. D. King and Mrs. Coretta King. Ambassador Bonhomme deliv ered an address to the faculty and students of Morehouse Col lege on behalf of the people, government and President of Haiti. In addition to calling forth a dialogue in the form of aca demic and cultural exchange be tween Haiti and black Ameri cans, the Ambassador expressed the importance of the example of the martyred Reverend Martin Luther King to the black Haitian masses. Freshman Class 1968-69 Peace Corps Contributes To King’s Memorial Fund Director of the Peace Corps, Mr. Jack Vaughn, presented offi cials of Morehouse with a check for $10,625 to be applied to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memo rial Scholarship Fund in a cere mony September 19. After making the presentation to President Hugh Gloster, Mr. Vaughn said the funds were col lected in a spontaneous move- Dr. Lee Named Ass’t To Pres. Ralph Hewitt Lee has been ap pointed Assist ant to the Pres ident at More house College. Dr. Lee, who re ceived his bac calaureate de gree from More house in 1957 and his Ph. D. degree from the University of Kansas in 1964, assumed his new position Sep tember 1, 1968. He comes to At lanta from Normal, Alabama, where he had been employed by Alabama A & M College as professor and chairman of the Department of Chemistry. Dr. Lee, who is well known in educational circles, is listed in American Men of Science, Who’s Who in American Education, and Outstanding Young Men of A- merica. He has directed National Sci ence foundation institutes for ele mentary and secondary teachers in science and mathematics for the past five years and, in 1966 and 1967, he spent three months in India as consultant in science education with the U. S. Agency for International Development and the National Science Insti tutes Program. He is a member of the Ameri can Association of University Professors, the American Asso ciation for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society, Sigma Xi Honorary Research Society, Beta Kappa Chi Scientific Honor Society, and Alpha Chi Sigma Profession al Fraternity in Chemistry. ment among Peace Corps staff members, Volunteers in 59 coun tries around the world, returned volunteers and staff members in this country, and friends of the Peace Corps. With Mr. Vaughn were Peace Corps representatives from Washington, D. C. (Mr. Stewart Aubrey, Deputy of Public Af fairs, and Dr. Marie Gadsden, Training Coordinator, Africa Re gion) and the southern regional office in Atlanta (Mr. Robert Nelson, Director; Mr. Larry Oms, Deputy Director; Mr. A1 Johnson, Area Representative; and Mr. Joe Kimmins, Public Affairs). Members of the King family on hand for the presentation were: Dr. and Mrs. M. L. King, Sr., Mrs. Christine King Farris, and Reverend and Mrs. A. D. King. Dr. King, Sr., received a lenthy standing ovation from the student body following a brief speech he made at the conclusion of the ceremony. Exchange Students Discuss M’house John Shipley and Robert Hall are exchange students at More house for the first semester from the University of California at Berkley. A junior with a major in phy sics and a minor in mathematics, John is from Walnut Creek, Cal ifornia. When asked of his gen eral impression of Morehouse, he said, “The atmosphere here at Morehouse is completely differ ent from that at “Cal’. Here at Morehouse the students are friendlier, and you have closer contact with your teachers. The other exchange student, Robert Hall, Martinez, California, also a junior, is majoring in en gineering physics and minoring in mathematics. Although he agreed that the students at Morehouse were friendlier and that there is a closer contact with teachers, he feels that the dining hall’s servi ces are “pretty bad.” He feels that Morehouse’s only problem is that it needs “MORE MONEY.” New Courses Scheduled Morehouse College has been awarded a grant of $91,803 from the Department of Health, Edu cation and Welfare to conduct a critical languages program for the undergraduate schools in the Atlanta University Center. A course in Russian, which was introduced last year at Mor ris Brown College, will now be come a part of this program. Mr. David Polutnik (Institute of Critical Languages, Windham College; M. A., Russian School, Middlebury College) will teach courses in elementary and inter mediate Russian. In addition, he will teach a course in Soviet Institutions and Culture. Chinese (Mandarin) will be taught by a native Chinese, Mrs. Maria Morgan (A. B., Hong Kong University; M. A., Syra cuse University). Mrs. Morgan will also teach an introductory course in Chinese Civilization. Ibo, a language of the eastern region of Nigeria, including Bia fra, will be taught by Mr. Pat rick Anugo Ntukogu (A. B., Central State University; M. A., Ohio State University). Ad-Hoc Comm. Voices Grievances Cleveland Sellers, a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordi nating Committee who was re cently released from Federal custody, and poet A. B. Spellman, a visiting instructor in ahe A. U. Center, were the main speakers at an inter-campus “Speak Out” held Thursday, September 26, in Sale Hall Chapel at 7:00 p.m. Sellers was the first speaker. He said that the basic concern of the students should be to in sure the surrounding black com munity. He said that the A. U. Center lacks that relevance, as reflected in “the number present at the meeting” and the group’s interest in “seeing the freak.” A. B. Spellman followed Sell ers at the speaker’s microphone. He developed his remarks around the small show of hands that ap peared when he asked, “How ma ny people in this room know Cleveland Sellers?” He spoke of the need of invit ing Ron Karenga and LeRoi Jones to speak on campus. These people could be here if students had the leverage, meaning a stu dent organization with power. The “Speak Out” was the first meeting of the “brothers and sisters” this year.