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Center Begins Study of Possible Merger
By Fredrick Salsman and William Berry
The Atlanta University Center
has anounced plans for a compre
hensive interval study that
could lead to a merger of the
Center’s six institutions.
The study, to be financed by
a $189,000 grant awarded last
month by the Ford Foundation,
will be aimed at developing the
Center into a “model consortium
in American higher education.”
Representatives of the Academy
for Educational Development, the
New York-based organization en
gaged to conduct the study, stat
ed that the education consorium
ulimately could include predom
inantly white institutions such as
Georgia Tech and Emory Univer
sity.
The study, expected to begin
within the next month, will seek
to formulate “appropriate and
reasonable goals” for the Center
over the next 15 years, according
to academy president Dr. Alvin
A. Eurich.
Scheduled to be completed by
! mid-1970, the study is expected
to contain recommendations for
patterns of growth and develop
ment in areas for closer cooper
ation among the Center’s six in
stitutions.
Tentative plans for the study
| call for investigation of ways to
i achieve “a maximum degree of
cooperation, educational and ser
vice activities and joint arrange-
■ ments with other institutions of
| the area.”
The scope of the study will in
clude an analysis of the social,
political, economic and demogra
phic situation locally, regionally
and nationally.
Investigators will consider en
rollment projections, fiscal 'prob
lems, resource requirements and
program changes in relation to
the six colleges individually and
collectively.
The study proposes in-depth
investigations of 14 areas of in
stitutional activities, including
organzational structure, unique
program fund raising, faculty re
sources, community services, co-
ordination of activities and re
cruitment of students.
Dr. Albert E. Manley, president
of Spelman College and chairman
of the Center’s Council of Pres
idents, described the proposed
study as a “significant step to
ward the attainment of the future
goals and aspirations of the in
stitutions in the Atlanta Univer
sity Center.”
VOL. 1, NO. 2
MAROON TIGER
THE ORGAN OF STUDENT EXPRESSION
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Friday, November 22, 1968
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rent school year I have received
two unsigned mimeographed
inside The Tiger
Editor Speaks:
Carthur Drake 2
Intelligentsia 6
Advertisements _5
Features 4
Sports 7
Interview 8
Clark's SGA Organizes
Black Liberation Bank
The Clark College Student
Government has established a
student bank so students may
borrow money to help them with
some of their financial needs.
The bank, called the Student
Liberation Bank, is planned as
a cooperative service wherein
students have set up a financial
service for each other. There are
presently 300 members in the
bank. It is the only such project
on a campus in the Atlanta Uni
versity Center.
The SGA has also set up a
student industry making dashi-
kis, an African shirt. Several
Clark and Spelman women are
making the garments, which sell
for $5.00 each. The women are
paid $1.50 for each shirt that is
made. The dashikis may be pur
chased at the Clark College SGA
office. Proceeds from the shirt
sales will go to the Liberation
Bank.
The idea for a student bank
was one of the party platform
planks in Clark College’s SGA
president James Mays’ campaign
last spring.
Georgia’s Invitational
Basketball Tournament
December 5-7
Archer Hall Gymnasium
communications from an ad hoc
committee which threatened di
rect action if their demands were
not met by specific deadlines. In
view of the fact that the second
of these communications was de
livered to me along with a mem
orandum which stated that the
demands expressed the thinking
of the students of Morehouse
College, I referred both of these
documents to the Student Gov
ernment Association, which has
been elected by the students of
this institution to voice their
interests and concerns.
The faculty and staff of More
house College respect the right
of students to criticize and pro
test. At the same time, however,
we shall do everything in our
power to work with the student
body in an effort to maintain an
academic climate in which stu
dents may effectively receive the
education which we are pledged
to provide.
The channels of communica
tion are open at Morehouse Col
lege, and representatives of the
faculty and staff are now work
ing with officers of the Student
Government Association in the
development of improved condi
tions of living and learning at
this school. If we continue our
industry and commitment, I be
lieve we can solve the problems
that face us at this time. In any
case, I shall always endeavor
to work in the best interest of
Morehouse and the students who
have come here for a college ed
ucation.
In conclusion, I wish to ask for
the cooperation and support of
every Morehouse man in our ef
fort to develop the best possible
faculty, staff curriculum, and
plant for the education of stu
dents at this college.
There exists in the center, on
the part of a few students from
Morehouse and Spelman, a Black
Liberation School for black chil
dren of the immediate communi
ty.
The school centers its eurricu-
Leroy Johnson, graduate of
Morehouse, spoke before a fresh
man chapel ga
thering last
month to explain
his candidacy be
fore he was re
elected as Sena
tor to the 38th
Senatorial Dis
trict.
Sen. Johnson He discussed
his accomplish
ments as being the first Black
man to go to the Georgia State
Senate in 92 years. The senator
assured his audience that he had
always aided Black people in
“our” struggle for first-class ci
tizenship and equal rights in the
past, and that he will continue
to do so in the future. To further
emphasize his allegiance to
black people, the Morehouse bro
ther reminded students that he
had voted against the election of
Georgia’s governor, Lester Mad
dox, when his election was plac
ed in the hands of the Congress.
Leroy Johnson has been signif
icant in the passing of fifteen
bills, six of which were personal
legislation and nine where other
senators joined with him.
lum around African History, Afro-
American History, Black Litera
ture, Mathematics and Science
and Humanities. Approximately
fifteen students are enrolled in
classes.
The previous week Rev.
James A. Wilborn-, pastor of the
Union Baptist
Church, spoke to
the freshmen in
chapel. He em
phasized the
need for equal
and just repre
sentation. He at
tacked his oppo-
Rev. Wilborn nent statin S
that “Leroy
Johnson isn’t concerned about
you or me unless your name is
MR. DOLLAR.” He further stated
that he was out to expose John
son for what he is.
Rev. Wilborn, also a graduate
of Morehouse, said that he 1
couldn’t stomach the national tic
ket, and furthermore woudn’t be
found dead in the same room
with Lester Maddox. When asked
who he was supporting in the
national election, he stated his 1
preference for the Humphrey-
Muskie ticket. Wilborn is running
on the independent ticket.
His platform consists of a pay
roll tax, state minimum wage
law, state funds for job training |
programs, more jobs for Black
people in state government, a
strong mayor system, election of
board members and more Black
representation on state boards
and commissions.
Senator Johnson won by a |
2 to 1 margin.
Students Form Black
Liberation School
Nelson Taylor
Attends Re-Con
Meeting In N. Y.
Nelson Taylor, president of the
Morehouse College student body,
and student bo
dy presidents of
Spelman, Morris
Brown, and
Clark Colleges
and Atlanta Uni
versity, along
with colleges and
universities as
Nelson Taylor far f f 110 * 6 Is *
land to Texas,
journeyed to New York at the
invitation of Re-Con, a new job
placement organization which us
es computers to match student
resumes and industrial job open
ings. Also present were Robert
Powell, president of the National
Student Association, and Vic
Lee, president of the California
State Confederation of Student
Governments, which represents
more than 225 thousand students
who attend public colleges and
universities in California.
During the meeting’s question-
answer period near the end of
the session, Morehouse’s Taylor
secured the floor and “ripped Re-
Con apart verbally.” He stated
that “Eighteen of the twenty-five
schools present were black insti
tutions—the top black colleges
and universities in the country;
and it was quite obvious that
Re-Con was making a bid for
support from black students.”
“In cold hard facts, said Tay
lor, “Re-Con, as an idea, is great,
but Re-Con as a money-making
corporation is half-way dead
without some black resumes in
its computers.”
Taylor ended his remarks by
saying, “You’ve wined and dined
us in New York, but that’s not
enough.”
Mr. Taylor suggested in the
next meeting that a steering com
mittee should be formed for the
purpose of establishing a Black
Student Alliance on a national
scale.
The idea was presented to Re-
Con and was accepted. Student
representatives from every pre
dominantly black institution in
the country will meet in Atlanta,
tentatively on December 20 and
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