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In Search of Drugs
Police Conduct Sloppy Raid on Hubert Hall
By STAN DENTON
Plain clothes policemen,
led by a Cleopatra Jones
type female, conducted a
drug raid on a Morehouse
College dormitory on Thu
rsday January 21. After an
exchange of gunfire, and a
brutal handling of the
alleged drug pushers and
other innocent bystanders
six students were appre
hended and charged with
possessing and soliciting
illegal drugs.
According to police re
ports approximately one
half-pound bag of mari
juana and a small quan
tity of pills (assumed to
be THC) were ' confiscat
ed in the raid. After ob
taining lawyers and posting
bond, the student were re
leased from the Atlanta
City jail, to face trial at a
later date.
Tony Ward, a Morehouse
student was charged with
six counts of offenses for
“obstructing justice” and
“aiding criminal resis
tance.” Ward, saw the
plain clothes police and
assumed that they were
attempting a robbery. Af
ter firing several shotgun
blasts he turned over his
weapon and surrendered to
the police authorities, only
to be brutally beaten , and
shot at.
If the fact that a host
of plain clothes and later
uniformed policemen were
used to apprehend a rela
tively minor quantity of
marijuana, other facts sur
rounding the case seem
even more appalling. Eye
witnesses report that the
police were firing .357 or
.44 magnum handguns. These
weapons are not standard
police issue, which tends to
raise questions as to their
actual intents in conducting
the raid.
The raid was highly ir
regular in that school offi
cials were completely un
aware of its development.
A warrant was issued by a
Judge Little that specifi
cally named room 106, Hu
bert Hall as the target.
However, several rooms
on the first floor of the
dormitory were entered in
to by police, and students
passing through the floor
at the time were shaken
down. All of this, ironi
cally (and probably inten
tionally) transpired on a
night when the President
and City Mayor were out
of town on a fund-raising
mission for the institution.
Upon returning to the
campus, President Gloster
told the Maroon Tiger that
he was “extremely surpri
sed at the irregularities of
the raid. He revealed that,
traditionally, campus au
thorities were notified in
advance of a police man-
uever on campus, except
in cases of “hot pursuit.”
In an open letter to the
Student Body President
Gloster said:
“‘If dormitories are us
ed for drug traffic and
abuse, the college cannot
delay or prevent the ef
forts of law-enforcement
authorities to enter school
property to apprehend of
fenders. At the same time,
however, the College will
do everything in its power
to request and require
law - enforcement agencies
to advise College officials
beforehand concerning pro
jected raids and thereby
give . the College an op
portunity to use its secu
rity officers in an attempt
to avoid violence and con
flict.”
In a statement issued
by the University Move
ment for Black Unity,
(UMBU) that was printed
in the March 9 issue of the
Atlanta Voice several im
portant points concerning
the raid were pointed out.
UMBU stated that, “We do
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THE MAROON TIGER
VoI.XLVII No.6 Morehouse College February 18, 1974
School Launches National Fund-Raising Drive
Co-ed
Visitation
11
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE •
“The Quest for Quality”
is the theme for the More
house College Second-Cen
tury Development Cam
paign, launched at a ma
jor luncheon February 21,
1974 in New York City.
Dr. Hugh M. Gloster,
President of Morehouse
stated “Yes, Morehouse
has come a long way since
1867 and has now reach
ed the point where she is
ready to make the big push
not to remain one of the
best Black colleges but to
become one of the best
American colleges..In or
der to reach this goa,--
which will make her com
petitive with the nation’s
leading colleges in facul
ty salaries, student scho
larships, curricular offer
ings, and physical facili
ties--Morehouse is laun
ching her Second-Century
Development Campaign. ’ ’
The announced goal of the
campaign is $20,000,000,
with over $10,000,000 al
ready raised. The Atlanta
phase of the Second-Cen
tury Development Cam
paign began with a fund
raising drive for $2,000,-
000 was raised in Atlanta,
representing the first time
a Black college has ever
raising drive for $1,500,-
000. As of Feburary, 1,
1974, more than $2,00,-
000 was raised in Atlanta,
representing the first time
a Black college has ever
conducted a capital gifts
campaign in a major Sou
thern city. After all local
alumni and other Atlanta
contributors have been so
licited the drive will pass
$2,200,000. On February
21, 1974, the second phase
of the Second-Century De
velopment Camapign, re
presenting the national le
vel began with the expres
sed desire to raise the
remaining $10,000,000.
The money being rais
ed in the Development
Campaign will satisfy im
mediate and future ends.
The money will be used
for the provision of scho
larships, to give finan
cial assistance to needy stu
dents, to pay salaries to
hold and attract qualified
professors, to acquire land
to accommodate the phy
sical growth of Morehouse,
and to provide for the Con
struction of buildings, with
the purpose in mind of
creating an adequate at
mosphere for instruction.
Some of the more out
standing features of the
building campaign provi
de for the construction of
the Martin Luther King,
Jr. Memorial Hall, the
John H. Wheeler Hall (Bu
siness Administration-So
cial Science Building), a
faculty apartment build
ing, the erection of W. E.B.
Du Bois Hall, and Walter
R. Chi vers Dining Hall, both
of which are under con
struction at the present
time.
Distinguished persons
from various professions,
the arts, education, busi
ness, and politics are as
sisting Morehouse in its
development campaign.
Former Supreme Court
Justice Earl Warren, is
Honorary Chairman of the
Second - Century Develop -
ment Campaign.
Spelman Dean
Re$ign» Under Fire
Several weeks ago, the
Dean of studentslife at Spel
man College resigned, or
was dismissed.
Mrs. Barbara King, dean
of student life at Spelman
College, has “left” the col
lege in what some mem
bers of the body termed
“questionable circumstan
ces.”
Mrs. King, who is also
a minister, was either dis
missed or chose to resign,
according to sources.
The fact that Mrs. King
is no longer dean seems
to be the result of a ser
ies of letters between her
and the college’s president,
Dr. A.E. Manley.
The letters discussed the
fact that Mrs. King was em
ployed a minister and the
dean of students simultane
ously. The college’s hand
book states “that no college
official can hold two full
time positions simultane
ously , unless he is acting
as a consultant to the col
lege.”
Many students have plac
ed blame on the president
because they believe that
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In the past, the subject
of having coed visitation
on the Morehouse College
campus has been one of the
main objectives of the in
stitution’s young politi
cians. This year has pro
ven no different.
Graves Hall, the oldest
building on campus and
the freshman dormitory
had coed visitation in the
past for the sole purpose
of experimentation, but it
was lost because of two
candidates for Pre
sident of the Student Go
vernment Association.
Mr. Carlton Jackson,
assistant Dean of Student,
said that coed visitation
was being held in Graves
Hall for the mere purpose
of experimentation, but
two of our candidates for
President of the Student
Government Association
messed it up at a meeting
with the school’s adminis
tration.
This was denied by both
candidates.
Lebron Morgan, Presi
dent of the S. G. A. said
that some rules should be
changed around so it can
conform to the students.
He also went on to add,
“Until March 6 the S.G.A.
will be accepting any sug
gestions from the students
pertaining to these changes.
Another important item
of news concerning the
rules body of Morehouse
College is the Student Go
vernment is sponsoring
a fund raising drive to
send the Frederick Dou
glas Tutorial Institute to
Disney World in Florida.
The money will be coming
from the churches in the
area.