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Maroon Tiger
February 9, 1978
SCLHBG
to Hold Meeting
The State Committee on the
Life and History of Black
Georgians (SCLHBG) will
hold its first Annual Program
Meeting, February 9-11 in
Atlanta. Sessions, which are
open to the public, will be held
at Paschal’s Motor Hotel, 830
Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive,
S.W. and at Brawley Hall,
Morehouse College, 223
Chestnut Street, S.W.
The Meeting will open on
Thursday night, February 9 at
7:30 p.m. at Paschal’s Motor
Hotel with an Awards Night
Banquet. Four outstanding
black Georgians and two white
Americans will be honored at
this dinner with SCLHBG’s
Coveted Black Georgian of the
Year and Human Rights
Awards.
The sessions on Friday and
Saturday will be held at
Morehouse College and will
feature outstanding speakers
on topics of historicalhand
current interest. Topics in
clude: The Status of Black
Women in Georgia, The Media
and Georgia Blacks, and the
Status and Future of Afro-
American History in the
Public Schools of Georgia.
Pre-registration for all ses
sions, including Banquet, is
$11. Registration at the
Meeting, including Banquet, is
$12. Session Registration
alone is $2. Students may
attend Banquet for $10 and
sessions free.
For Further Information,
Write SCLHBG at Box 73,
Morehouse College, Atlanta,
Georiga 30314 or phone
SCLHBG Executive Director,
Dr. Abraham L. DA vis at (404)
681-2800, Ext. 258.
"Anyone Can Design
Atomic
by Jayne Hamilton
John Phillips fears the
potential dangers of nuclear
energy, and perhaps it is well
he should. Phillips is the
fellow, who as a junior at
Princeton University last
year, successfully designed an
Atom bomb as a class project.
“I did it to prove that just
about anybody can design a
bomb from information
available in public libraries,”
Phillips told an audience made
up mostly of college students
at Georgia Tech recently.
Phillips got his bomb-mak
ing information from $25
worth of unclassified
government reports.
“I was amazed at what I
found — the reports were
virtually a road map for
anyone who wanted to make
an Atomic bomb,” he said.
Phillips’ bomb is similar to the
one dropped on Nagasaki in
World War II.
It took three months for the
physics student to complete
his design. Near the end he ran
into some complications.
“The final plan was like a
jigsaw puzzle with several mis
sing pieces,” he said. “The mis
sing pieces were information
that was still classified.
However, all the parts surroun
ding them were available, so I
guessed —- successfully at
the missing parts.”
Phillips has recently written
a book “Falling Upward,”
which will be dramatized in a
two hour CBS-TV movie in
1978. The book recounts his
experience and expresses his
concern at the ease of making
atomic bombs.
“My chief concern then and
now is that if it’s so easy to
design a bomb — it would be
easy to make a bomb. All
someone would need is 20
pounds of plutonium,” he told
the gathering. “Can you
imagine the implications this
holds for a terrorist group or
non-nuclear nation?”
Phillips said that getting
plutonium may not be such a
difficult task.
“Do you know that in the
U.S., plutonium is shipped to
energy plants in unguarded
railroad cars which are plainly
marked ‘PLUTONIUM’?”
“And,” he pointed out, “Do you
recall that in an inventory last
summer, the government was
unable to account for 800
pounds of plutonium?”
Phillips is also apprehensive
about the hazards involved in
working with atomic power in
general.
“We are not doing all we
should to safeguard people
against nuclear energy ‘mis
takes’ or ‘accidents’,” he told
the audience of Tech scientists
and engineers. “One accident
l>r. W. J. White
Founder
Morehouse Auxilary Fashion Show
The Atlanta Area
Morehouse Auxiliary is spon
soring a Fashion show on Sun
day, March 19, 1978 at 4:00
p.m. in the new Martin Luther
King, Jr. Auditorium.
The Fashion Show is for the
benefit of its student
scholarship fund.
Representatives from the
faculty, staff student body, ad
ministration, alumni, and
friends of the college will
participate in the Fashion
Show and the proceeds will go
into the Auxiliary’s
Scholarship fund.
Mrs. Jondell Johnson,
executive director of the
Atlanta branch of the
NAACP, and Miss Sennia
Mack, of the English
Department Faculty will serve
as the narrators.
The Morehouse Auxiliary is
Bomb”
observing its 55th anniversary
and has a long record of
service to Morehouse College.
It has sponsored a student
loan fund (now an annual
scholarship), presented
programs for the student body
and faculty, and sponsored
booster activities for football
and basketball teams.
The Auxiliary is interested
in instilling spirit of com
munity among the various
components of the college.
“King”, the movie produc
tion about the life of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., starring Paul
Winfield, Ossie Davis, Cicely
Tyson and the King children,
will be telecast on Channel 2,
in Atlanta on February 12, 13
and 14 at 9:00 p.m.
AUC Newsreel
A number of interested and
concerned communication
students of the AU Center,
have united to form The
Atlanta University Center
Newsreel. With the
cooperation of Clark’s Mass
Communication Department,
the Newsreel will serve to keep
AUC’s student body abreast of
significant information inside
and outside of the center. It
will involve the filming of
Public Service an
nouncements, departmental
documentaries including the
coverage of special events, i.e;
lecture scenes, forums,
speakers, etc. The general ob
jective of this service will be to
extend it’s self, providing an
overall assessment to all
institutions of the center;
Atlanta University, Clark,
ITC, Morehouse, Morris
Brown and Spelman.
For additional information,
please contact; Sidney Sim
mons, Mass Communication,
Clark College 525-1896.
at one plutonium plant could
kill 45,000 people and con
taminate an area as large as
Pennsylvania. There are
currently 205 nuclear reactors
in 22 countries: It’s predicted
that this number will grow to
678 reactors in 45 countries by
1978.”
“In the United States,” he
continued, “Our reactor build
ing program is full of mistakes.
There’s evidence of shoddy
workmanship, poor planning
and lack of foresight — one
building on the drawing board
was going to be placed on top
of a faultline.”
The Princeton senior was
asked at a press conference
after his talk what he would
suggest as an alternative to
nuclear power.
“Conservation,” he said.
“The dollars being poured into
the development of nuclear
energy could be turned into
programs to conserve the
natural energy we have.”
Dr. H. L. Storehouse
Six enter race
for SGA Prexy
Sources close to Rodney
Thaxton, a junior political
science major from Memphis,
Tenn. and chairman of the
Student Adjustment Com
mittee, has confirmed that he,
an unsuccessful candidate last
year, will again run for the
presidency of the Student
Government Association.
Gregory Oswald Griffen,
president of the sophomore
class, has officially announced
his plans to seek the presiden
cy. Other likely candidates are
*Thomas Braggs,
*Howlie Davis, a junior major
and president of the Atlanta
University Center Student
Council,
*Wayne Jones, junior class
president
*Dargan Bums, sophomore
from Cleveland, Ohio and
Student Councilman.
Although all haven’t
formally made an an
nouncement, sources close to
each hav.e confirmed their can
didacy. The next issue of the
Maroon Tiger will analyze
the platform of each candidate
and formally endorse one.
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