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MAROON TIGER
Friday, November 22, 1968
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(The Editor Speaks j
| By Carthur Drake, Editor
Will They Win?
College Student Body has demanded the removal
a possibility which seems dim due to recent oc
curences. They are demanding that they be allowed
complete freedom of entering and leaving the
campus at their pleasure. For clarity, let’s say
that they are demanding that they be allowed to
return or leave at 4500 in the morning if that
should be the time they decide to return or leave.
Eighteen and nineteen year old freshmen and
sophomores, respectively, are demanding this same
freedom just as the mature juniors and seniors.
And if the student body stays united as they have
appeared thus far, the new freedom, if granted,
will apply to all.
A prevalent question among their male companions, Morehouse
men, is how will the younger freshmen and sophomores fair under
a no curfew rule if granted. One Morehouse student felt “that this
will be the biggest mistake the administration could make” because
“generally, most entering freshmen and sophomores are not mature
enough to conduct themselves accordingly.” Further, he added,
“they didn’t have the freedom to leave and enter at will when they
were at home with their <paren1|s.” He felt that the juniors and
seniors were more mature and consequently, “they would be en
titled to a no curfew rule.” Another Morehouse student commented
that “when future freshmen enter Spelman and find a completely
free environment being the complete opposite of their usual one,
they will be overwhelmed to the point where they will lose all
sense of rational thinking.” Consequently, “more Spelman girls will
be sent home due to personal complications.” An opposing More
house student felt that “the majority of the girls are mature enough
when they enter college thus a no curfew rule would not be a sign
of decadence.” “Plus,” he added, “when I’m at a party I won’t have
to rush my girl back to the campus.”
The administration has reacted with a statement requesting the
student to send letters home to their parents for their consent or re
jection. Where some are predicting victory others are predicting de
feat. As for myself, I prefer to wait for the results.
The Spelman
of their curfews,
Carthur Drake,
To Hell with Hell Week
Relevant traditions and customs are not being ignored, but
the rationality behind Hell Week—the week preceding the Clark-
Morehouse football game—is beyond comprehension. School rivalry
is good as long as it stimulates interest and stays within a progress
ive realm.
Black people destroying what black people are trying to build
is a sign of decadence. The demolition of the Clark College Cen
tennial sign was not a display of school spirit but more of disre
spect for what our black brothers are trying to build. It took those
black brothers one hundred years to put it up and black brothers
destroyed it in a matter of minutes. Laugh, white man!
Has this article been funny thus far? The Clark student who
received stitches for head injuries isn’t laughing. All of this brings
the Maroon Tiger to say, TO HELL WITH HELL WEEK!
We Shake A Seasonal Fist
By C. Miles
On long hot summer days Pied
mont Park, here in Atlanta,
could be described as the Hip
pies’ Hullabaloo. It seemed as
if the summer was the time for
their “thing.” This is supported
by the fact that all hippie move
ments cease with the reopening
of school and the coming of win
ter; hippies tend to hibernate.
This is further explained by the
fact that they aren’t for real and
that their so-called struggle and
battle for expression seem not to
be worth continuing.
STOP!
What does this remind you ©f?
a salute? What has happened to
the soulful handshake that meant
so much to the brothers and sis
ters this summer? What’s hap
pening to the movement?
Our fight for liberation is not
waged on a battleground of sea
sons; it is lifelong. Brother, when
you let the movement slacken,
you’re giving the man plenty Of
time to uproot our seeds and
plant his weeds. Black people are'
in desperate need of your tal
ents, ideas, help and heart in a
renewal ctf blackness. Black
brothers, ffcere* is no time to
waste. Our lives will be short
and so will the lives' of our chil
dren. Keep on pushwsg and Think
Where are the upraised arms
and clenched fists that served as! Uack
. NOW!
A New Tradition
Ety Ronald Wilkey
During: the -weeks preceding j homecoming finances, but that
homecoming, members of tbe|mght we failed: them—“doing
Junior Class witnessed a new in- ! ®wr thing.”
Commuters Considered
Dig it, man, and saints be praised! It seems as if the cries
of the commuters were finally heard. Evidence of this can be seera
from the formation of the new student government committee,
entitled the City-Campus Coordinating Committee. Its function*
will not only be to bridge the gap between campus
students and commuters but also to> hear ideas
and complaints that any student may have. They
will in turn present them to the SGA, where
action will be taken.
As a first project, the committee* sought sig
natures for a day-student lounge because there
were many complaints about the limited study
area on campus! Also needed was a place for
recreation during those long breaks between:
Robert T. Smith classes when studying is out of the question.
Action was taken.
City students now have access to the lounge on the top- floor
of Samuel Archer Hall for study and relaxation, and a room an the
bottom floor of the same hall across from the snack shop for rec
reation, where ping-pong, pool, and card tables will be set up.
The committee, capably chaired by Edward L. Wheeler, seems
to have its program pretty upright but can only function with the
support of other city students. Their support can be administered
in three ways. First, by using the lounge and recreation area, they
can show the administration that these provisions were really needed,
because once student interest decreases it will be difficult for the
committee to get any more wishes granted. Secondly, they can en
courage other commuters to use the lounge and instill in them a
sense of city-student unity. Thirdly, they can meet with the com
mittee in its office, located on the top floor of Sale Hall (SGA of
fice), between Tuesdays and Fridays from 1:35 to 2:45 p.m., and
make known their problems so that they can be solved.
Present members Of the committee are Thomas Nicholson,
Bruce Johnson, Robert Smith, Benjamin Woods, and Louis Lindsey.
According to the chairman, Edward Wheeler, membership on the
committee is open.
novations here at Morehouse. This !
new innovation tunned oat to be j
a different breed! of Morehouse
men, who* used as* their motto*,
“I’m with: you hut tonight I’ve
got to db; my own thing.” As
true mem of their word! they did
exactly that:
Our junior brothers were in*
need of help:. Wfe pledged our
attendance* to a dance* that they
sponsored! to> help: with theiir
Remember the.* big show that
was put on in chapel' where again
money and attendance were
pledged to the SGA for the Tams
show? The outcome, as before,
was the “brothers doing; their own
thing.”
I’m not one* to heM to tra
ditions, but damned 1 iff I want to
become a member efi this new
one.
MAROON TIGER
The Organ off Student Exf-ression*
Founded 1898
Eddtor-in-Chtef — _ 1__ Carthur E. M. Drake
Ass’t. Editor ....... Robert T. Smith
News Editor — - Fredrick Salsman
Ass’t. News Editor William Berry
Literary Editor ... Philip E. Brown*
Feature Editor — William 'Benjft-
Business Manager John Thomas
Sports Editor Drexel Hall
Ass’t. Sports Editor Kenneth Martin
Typist Rufus Hill
Reporters: Eugene McCrary, Benjamin Wright, Bryce Smith,
David Manning, William Durant, Harold McKelton, Gregory
Wilkins, Michael Johnston and Philip Boykin
Faculty Advisors Mrs. Ann C. Carver, Mr. Cason L. Hill
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Tiger mailbox in the mailroom.
The Right And
Wrong Of It
By W. Grayson Mitchell
To those of us who have never
been acquainted with any educa-
tonal system other than our own,
it may be surprising that the
ultimate goal of giving a college
education to every member of
the society is one which is unique
to this country. Although there
are countries in which it is just
as easy to be admitted to a col
lege as it is in the United States,
the fact that a student has been
admitted is not a guarantee, as
it is here, of his proceeding be
yond his freshman year. In oth
er countries and other societies,
educational institutions tend to re
gard their students as adults, and
the students are expected to be
have as adults and to work as
scholars. Here in America, the
situation is different. The stu
dent does not have the sole re
sponsibility for his progress but
shares this responsibility with his
teachers, deans, advisers, and ul
timately, his parents. Interest
ingly, a student who shows no ap
titude for intellectual activity is
never written off as a poor stu
dent. Instead, he is either con
sidered a psychological challenge
or a “not-so-brilliant guy” who
would really have done well if he
had not been so wrapped up in
Outside interests.
The reason college administra
tors are so hesitant in writing off
a student as a mistake in admis
sions is that they have become
so preoccupied with this fetish of
a college education that to criti
cize a man’s intellectual ability
has become tantamount to criti
cizing the man! This is Hie trag
edy of the weak student in
American society, which has arbi
trarily attached for-college-grad-
uates only labels to certain po
sitions. Those* who do not* end
up with a degree from the ivy-
covered walls are condemned to
a lower social status and made to
feel ill' at ease for allegedly not
having' what it takes to enter the
“Educational Big-Top.” Scarcely
a thought is given to how valuable
these people may be as members
of the community they live in
and how much pride they may
take in doing in it whatever they
do best: An* intellectual must be
of a very poor spirit indeed if he
cannot sustain respect for the
man who can fix his television;
or who* can find the source of
a power failtere, or who* can fix
the machine which makes the *
tools* that he maintains for his*
colleagues.. If we no longer can*,
find ih our- society enough crafts
men* to* construct a mosque, it is*
because* they are ad* in college*
learning to become* automobile
salesmen^, public relations men,
preachers of the gospel, or pseudd-
iittelleeiual India** chiefs.
P&eple in the- education: busi
ness are usually very defensive
when confronted with these views.
They choose to see in such cri
ticism of the weak or- uninterest
ed student only a son of perverse
intellectual snobbery. For ex
actly this reason, I expect to see
thousands upon thousands of stu
dents, the scholarly and the schol
arly impotent, trekking anxious
ly into educational institutions
throughout the land in sincere
quest for what they hope to be
their “society survival kit”: the
college degree.
I The right and wrong of it all.