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Page 2 MAROON TIGER Friday, November 22, 1968 NjmiitimioimiiimoniimimQimiimiioiiiimiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiioiiiinmiiLiiiiimiiiioimmmomimmoimimiioiM’ (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 Unlabeled opinions expressed in the Maroon Tiger are those of the Maroon Tiger and not necessarily those of Morehouse Col lege. Labeled opinions expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of the Maroon Tiger. If anyone cares not to join the staff, but would like to sub mit an article, he should forward it to the editor via the Maroon 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.