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Wednesday, December 18, 1968
MAROON TIGER
Page 3
The Student Feedback section of the paper will consist of stu
dents’ opinions regarding articles published in the Maroon Tiger
fend to pressing events on the campus. All articles for this section
will be welcomed.
JL/U^oodUU
I think that this year’s paper
adequately serves the Morehouse
College student body with the
highest degree of quality news. In
my opinion, the staff seems to
be very imaginative and co-oper
ative. I especially like the idea
of supplementing the regular e-
dition of the MAROON TIGER
with the newsletter, the BABY
TIGER.
I feel that it is an honor to
let any student voice his opinion
of the paper in a column such
as this and also to contribute
news. It is sometimes very hard
for people to understand my phi
losophy on the good that is pro
duced from the existence of a
newspaper. To those who are
critical of the staff and paper
I suggest that they join and see
if they can make it better.
It appears that the staff is try
ing hard to satisfy the students,
so I say KEEP UP THE GOOD
WORK and we’ll have the best
paper in the center.
KEN' SIMMONS
“W, jL
WLl IU ^4re”
Dear Editor,
In your first edition you ran
an editorial cartoon with the cap
tion, “Who Am I?” In response
to the caption, I am sending a
literary work that is not. my own
but was passed out at one of our
football games. I feel that it
pretty well tells who we are.
a freshman
WE ARE AFRICANS
The time is over for playing,
The time is now for being.
No longer do we play Zulu,
In the future we are the Zulu.
No longer will we do the Watusi,
In the future we are the Watusi.
No longer will we act European,
denying Africa,
In the future, beginning now,
we are what we are:
AFRICANS.
The time is over for playing,
The time is now for being.
UU e up,Sophomores
What has happened to the
unity in our class? Why don’t we
still have class meetings? Do
we still exist as a unit? Why
isn’t there any class business?
If there isn’t any business then
let’s make some. Sure, I under
stand that now we tend to asso
ciate with our immediate peers,
but all of us have one thing in
common . . . 1971. You see,
had we not been as energetic
and loyal to our class as we were
last year, then maybe I could
understand and even accept the
apathy.
It seems as though our class
this year was just organized for
homecoming. If so, then all we
needed was a homecoming com
mittee. Instead, we elected some
capable men to lead us through
out the year and by voting we
vowed to support them.
The sophomore class COULD
be “holy hell” this year if we
wanted to because of the vast
talent therein, but like I stated
in my last article, “the Brothers
prefer doing their own thing.”
My solution is that we WAKE
UP, DO OUR THING TOGE
THER, and REUNITE the class.
Ronald Wilkey
S&A SL P i
Students in 3,
ace
Approximately two weeks ago,
the SGA president made a move
which was, by the least descrip
tion, a slap in the face to any
student or group of students who
want to work “through the chan
nels” and change Morehouse so
that she will be more viable. He
disintegrated the Special Project
Committee headed by senior
Harvey Smith. In lieu of this
committee, he established a “wa
tered down” version of a do-
nothing, Establishment-oriented,
nice-nigger committee that should
be dissolved before it gets a
chance to meet.
Students have been here over
four months and not one definite,
constructive move has been made
to really pump life and vitality
into the Morehouse community.
Nothing has happened. Students
have waited.
Every student’s effort outside
of the SGA has been ignored on
the grounds that it was not au
thorized or for some other trump
ed-up excuse to do nothing.
Yet something must be done.
It ought to be clear to every
thinking individual here that
black people are fraught with
too many problems to “change
for change’s sake,” as one stu
dent commented derisively.
Harold McKelton
Chaos In Nashville
The place: Nashville, Tennes
see; the time: late afternoon on
the day of November 23, 1968;
the scene: an aggrevated array
of collegiate constituents.
The stage had
|lbeen set and the
event was about
to take place. A
|t r e m e n -
dous earthquake
of human verbi-
|| age echoed
throughout the
v \ m, arena. This sym
phony of soul was frequently
shattered with the explosions
Our Next Move
Is Going Home
Not long ago a Speak-Out con
cerning black Americans going
back to Africa was presented to
1 .the Free Think-
"ers Society of
jClark College.
This concept is
Uf|not new because
after 400 years
^ of both physical
and mental slav
ery, black people
now recognize
Othro Bradford that they aren’t
black Americans but just black
subjects in America. The Irish,
Scots, and Jews in America often
speak of returning to their home
land; therefore we should talk
about returning to OUR home
land . . . Africa.
Our present attitudes of Afri
ca were laid down by the colonial
powers, who did everything in
the way of exploitation of the
country. To break away from
these colonial stereotypes and
learn of blackness in its reality
is what must be done, starting
from the ground up and accepting
only what can be justified.
The myths that the colonial
powers have developed and in
stilled in us help to keep the
brothers in Africa alienated from
the brothers in America. As a
result we tend to call them sav
ages while they call us slaves and
sons of slaves.
Our next move should be that
of going home to Africa because
of the great degree of indoctrina
tion that we have been a victim
of in this country.
MAROON TIGER
The Organ of Student Expression
Founded 1898
Editor-in-Chief Carthur L. M. Drake
Ass’t. Editor , Robert T. Smith
News Editor Fredrick Salsman
Ass’t. News Editor Harold McKelton
Literary Editor Philip E. Brown
Feature Editor William Berry
Business Manager John Thomas
Sports Editor Drexel Ball
Ass’t. Sports Editor Kenneth Martin
Exchange Editor Benjamin Wright
Typist Rufus Hill
Reporters: Eugene McCrary, Bryce Smith, David Manning,
William Durant, Harold McKelton, Phillip Boykin, C. Miles
Smith, Bruce Johnson, Cecil Brim, Arlon Kennedy, W. Gray
son Mitchell.
Faculty Advisors Mrs. Ann C. Carver, Mr. Cason L. Hill
Maroon Tiger
Staff Receives
Recognition
On Dec. 6, the Maroon Tiger
staff received a letter from the
Georgia College Press Association
congratulating them in their Nov.
22 edition of the Maroon Tiger.
The letter mentioned that the pa
per “addressed itself well to the
problems” of the students. The
letter also stated that “the over
all layout was excellent.”
Carthur Drake, editor, stated
that “the letter was very timely
and will serve as an impetus to
an even better Maroon Tiger.”
He said further that “the letter
meant a great deal to my staff.”
He personally congratulated his
staff for a “job well done.”
The Georgia College Press Asso
ciation is a journalistic association
of several member Georgia col
leges. Mr. Nick Ordway of Em
ory University is president. This
association sponsors the annual
Georgia College Press Association
Better Newspaper Contest.
of a few profrane bombs or with
the accidental clinks of broken
bottles. The crowd, heatedly a-
waiting the competition, paid
little or no attention to a seem
ingly insignificant football game;
instead, they were watching and
participating in awesome antici
pation of the more violent and
active events to come. The li
quid energies had been consumed
and the aggravation was so in
tense that everyone knew that
the time had come to witness
the sprint. The flutter of dukes
was not enough to muffle the
crackle of guns. So with that the
“race” began. With the atmos
phere of a Batman fight scene,
the “race” had been run in less
than the time it took the guns’
echo to die down.
Numerous “drink” bottles,
trampled cigarette butts, stomped
band instruments, and two tat
tered and torn beauties (her ma
jesty the queen and her attend
ant) were all that remained to
applaud the victorious Maroon
and White Tigers, who now were
huddled on a distant corner of
the Fisk University campus.
William Berry
Mat flu, Mu, _4,
It is shameful that white Ame
rica has refused to accept the
conditions for peace as offered in
the gospel according to the late
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Out
of the chaos of the black man’s
despair has come the awful spec
ter of another civil war in this
country—a modern-day civil war
fought not only in the black
ghettoes of the city, but in the
heart of he white business dis
tricts. It appears that white
America is about to be shocked
out of its white castle.
And so the cry “Say It Loud”
sweeps the land. And the white
community is troubled because
it doesn’t want to believe that
the black man is fed up, that
he is beginning to see it’s too
late for peace with the white
man on terms short of full equal
ity and social justice. Since this
merica
j has not come about with the
white man’s help, it will have to
i be got without his help. And with
1 the death of integration as a so-
! lution comes the beginning of
j the end of white supremacy.
I That’s what scares the white
man.
But it is obvious that the white
community is not going to let
stand by and see the whole racist
culture of this country tom
down. The change, then, will have
j to come from without the pre-
| sent American institutions. And
I that is revolutionary.
One thing remains to be said.
If America is not to go under
in a world-wide war of libera-
, tion, then the whole community
has got to come back into the
j real world from whatever “kick”
| it’s been on all these years and
centuries.
Nina Simone performing before a capacity crowd in Archer Hall.
Nina Brings “Three
Women” To M’house
By Philip Brown,
Staff Writer
On November 30, at 8:00 p.m.,
Nina Simone and her trio gave a
concert before an overflowing
crowd in Samuel H. Archer Hall.
Miss Simone, who acknowledged
her standing ovations and encore,
was invited to appear in concert
by the Pre-Alumni Council and
the United Negro College Fund.
Warmly greeted by the capa
city crowd, Miss Simone appear
ed on stage in black velvet bell-
bottoms and a low cut blouse
of gold. The appearance trig
gered wild applause as well as
her dancing.
Afterwards in an interview,
Miss Simone said, “I found the
audience quite pleasing. One of
the warmest I’ve ever performed
before.” When asked about her
feelings concerning the death of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Miss
Simone quickly replied, “I felt
I the same way I did when they
j killed Malcolm X.” Miss Simone
j has studied piano for fourteen
! years and has never had tradi
tional lessons in voice. She said
that singing is only an extension
of communicating, just like talk
ing. She attributes her “soul”
sound to her gospel roots in
North Carolina.
Following Miss Simone’s inter
view, Carthur Drake, who made
the show possible, was question
ed. He thought that the Simone
Concert was a great success and
that Miss Simone was greatly
pleased. When reminded of the
Tams Concert during the Home
coming Activties Week, Mr.
Drake said, “This only goes to
show that people will back you
when you offer something they
REALLY want to see. I am con
vinced that if Morehouse could
get entertainers of Nina’s status,
otir treasury would overflow.”