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The ORGAN of
Student Expression
1978
Maroon
Vol. 79, Number 10 Morehouse College Atlanta, Go. April 13,1978
SGA President AUC Buildings in
Dismissed
William Robinson, senior
political science major from
Hartford, Connecticut and
president of the Morehouse
College Student Body has been
dismissed from school for the
remainder of the semester.
The decision to dismiss
Robinson was made by the Ad
visory Committee, a com
mittee composed of three
students and three faculty
members with a faculty
chairman, in a special hearing
on April 4.
Rick Grigsby, senior
political science major from
Atlanta, was named president
upon Robinson’s dismissal,
after having served the year as
vice-president under Robin
son.
According to reliable
sources, Robinson collected
$125 from checks and $125
from cash for tickets to protest
the Davis Cup tournament in
Nashville on March 25. The
cash was kept by Robinson.
Each person had paid $5 for
the ticket but the cost for the
bus was to be taken from the
SGA budget.
According to reports from
the advisory committee, the
money was replaced, that
Robinson had taken, however
the committee still decided to
dismiss him.
The advisory committee con
sists of Rick Grigsby, Melvin
Baird, Terrence Young,
Nathaniel Veale, James Shef-
tall, Wiley Perdue, and
chairman Roswell Jackson.
Morehouse Begins
Medical School
By Karl Robinson
In a recent interview Mr.
William B. Marks, Public In
formation Officer at the School
of Medicine at Morehouse
College, explained to the
Maroon Tiger the realization
of America’s “Third Black
Medical School.” But why, one
may ask, does Morehouse need
a medical school? Why not?
Morehouse College already
has an impressive record of
turning out 5% of all Black doc
tors in the nation. There are
over 25 million Black people in
the United States; only 6
thousand are professional
Black doctors.
Dr. Louis Sullivan, dean of
the medical school, wrote
recently that “Indeed, the
percentage of Black students
in the first year class of the
nation’s medical schools has
actually decreased from 7.1
percent in 1971-72 to 6.8
percent in 1975-76.” Surprised?
Much more important than the
general statistics is the urgent
need for Black people to
depend upon their own people
to take care of the “least of
God’s children”. There is only
one Black physician for every
4,100 Black people compared
with one physician for every
538 white people, so what we’re
talking about makes a con
siderable amount of sense.
Another fact which gives
meaning to our new medical
school is that of the 114
medical schools in America,
only two are Black. This is im
portant to note because
Morehouse has come a long
way, and it is still producing
and responding to the hopes,
the wishes, and the needs of
the oppressed in our society.
There is a need and Morehouse
is fulfilling the gap, the gap
between the haves and the
have-nots. We did not have our
own medical school, but now
we will have not only an ac
credited 2-year medical school,
but land on which it will con
tinuously expand in years to
come. So Morehouse College is
on the threshold of opening its
first medical school in the fall
of this year. Students who com
plete the first two years of the
School of Medicine at
Morehouse are guaranteed a
place in the third-year class of
a four-year medical school for
their final two years of study
through agreements (con-
tractural) with the medical
schools of Emory, Howard,
and Meharry and also the
Medical College of Georgia.
Let’s give ourselves a deserved
pat on the back!
Atlanta Top Ten
Several college quadrangles
in the Atlanta University
Center were collectively
chosen as the seventh best
architectural structure in
Atlanta by a panel of six well-
known Atlanta architects. Ac
cording to an Atlanta
Journal/Constitution
article by Raleigh Bryans,
some of the AUC buildings
were placed collectively and
listed by the experts as one.
Preceding the AUC
buildings are the Hyatt Regen
cy, Healy Building, Fox
Theatre, Swan House, Lenox
Square, and the Omni
Coliseum.
The only recent high-rise
structure to receive listing was
the Hyatt Regency. The
Equitable, Peachtree Summit,
Trust Company of Georgia
and Life of Georgia towers
were not placed on the list by
consensus.
The architects consulted on
the final list were Preston
Stevens, Jr., Garland M.
Reynolds, Jr., Arnall T.
Connell, und Paul Muldawer.
Dr. Louis Sullivan