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Maroon Tiger
April 13, 1978
Disturbed About Morehouse
By John S. Wilson Jr.
The scene is too familiar: the
Freshman class is confusedly,
but steadily filling up the seats
of Sale Hall for the first time in
a new year. As the crowd
quiets, the speaker instructs
them to look to the left and to
the right, and then he proudly
states, “One of these persons
will not be here next year.”
After a host of tense murmurs
and shuffles in the crowd, the
speaker then goes on to boast
about the Morehouse
curriculum, emphasizing to
the students the much needed
dedication and diligence.
And so again the stage of
fear is set in the minds jjf
another group of perspective
Morehouse graduates. The
reader must understand,
however, that there is more to
this perennial episode than
what meets the eye. In a closer
look at the situation we see
that the intended purpose
behind bragging about the at
trition rate at Morehouse is to
infer that the Morehouse
curriculum is the only cause of
it. Furthermore, to brag about
the attrition rate is to foolishly
assume that the cause of it is
noble. That is to say that those
persons, who are attrits, are so
because they simply could not
handle Morehouse, due to her
supposed “Ivy League inten
sity” and pedagogic rigidity.
This sort of evasive rationale
indirectly allows the attrition
problem at Morehouse to take
a back seat in terms of rec
tification. However, I ask, how
much validity is there behind
the postponement in solving
this problem?
Over the last nine years
some very dramatic oc
currences have taken place on
paper in the Registrar’s Office.
In 1969, 299 freshmen entered:
in 1973, 145 graduated (48%);
in 1970, 348 freshmen entered:
in 1974, 183 graduated (52%);
in 1971, 445 entered: in 1975,
209 graduated (46%); in 1972,
350 entered: in 1976, 188
graduated (53%); and in 1973,
420 entered: in 197, 167
graduated (39%). Question in
point: Can all of this be due to
the fact that students are
diseased with postsecondary
stupidity? Of course not!
Students punch out because of
various reasons, such as:
inadequate finances; the
undesirable food program,
unavailable major course of
study, undesirable en
vironment, lack of intellectual
ferment, disenchantment with
administration, and
pedagogic insufficiency, just
to name a few.
Business Club
Is On The Move
By Calvin F. Vismale
It is with great pride that I
announce, the Morehouse
College Business Club is
undertaking a center-wide
search for clerical talent. We
are interested in promoting
people with clerical and
sefcretarial skills who are
highly motivated to become a
part of the development,
operation, and maintenance of
a progressive student
organization. This is our
initial step in an effort to end
the under-utilization of the yet
untapped human resources
with which we are so richly en
dowed.
The Business Club of
Morehouse College is also will
ing and able to provide a host
of services to other student
organizations such as the
planning of activities to next
specified needs; successful
fund-raising, and assistance
in organizational design. We
are also broadening our
horizons by visiting high
schools in the Atlanta
metropolitan area to
familiarize younger students
with career opportunities in
business-related fields and
expose them to the advantages
of higher education. In ad
dition we will continue to spon
sor “Business Forum” in con
junction with the Office of
Career Counseling and
Placement.
The “Business Forum” and
other activities which we spon
sor are open to all Atlanta
University Center students,
faculty, and administrators.
Persons interested in the
Clzrical Talent Search must
submit a resume along with a
convenient time to be
telephoned to Dr. Hefner’s of
fice, Office Department of
Economics and Business in
Wheeler Hall Morehouse
College.
President, Morehouse
College Business Club
There is no doubt about
it—the attrition rate at
Morehouse College is a very
complex problem that must be
dealt with. What can be done?
Here are just a few simple
suggestions:
A6 Perhaps the first step is to
refrain from creating the
psychological barrier that is
created in the freshman each
year. This would attempt to
replace the “verbal hazing
syndrome” with supportive
coaching.
B) Initiation and proper
operation of the long-awaited
teacher-evaluation program.
C) Hold periodic question-and-
answer forums between the
teachers and administrators,
and the students, in an effort to
close that particularly crip
pling communication gap.
D) Perhaps the most important
step is to strengthen the
Morehouse Counseling
Program. This would entail in
creased efficiency and
visibility of the faculty ad
visors, and perhaps also the
dormitory counselors. This
suggestion would also include
better ocmmunication between
the counseling center and the
Morehouse student body.
I repeat—the attrition rate at
this institution is ridiculously
too high, and we are, in the
SCLC
Promotes
Black
Awareness
The Southern Christian
Leadership Conference
(SCLC) has now formed an
AUC-wide campus
organization. The present
aims of this SCLC chapter are
to promote “Black
Awareness”. By Black
Awareness, we intend to put
out several leaflets before the
end of the year concerning
relevant issues to both the
AUC and community. These
issues are Bakke, Destruction
of Black Leadership, South
Africa and the Destruction of
Black Oolleges. Other im
portant issues will be
forthcoming.iJoin now!
long run, only hurting
ourselves by remaining so pas
sive in the face of such a dilem
ma. Think about it!
letter
Don’t Talk In
Reading Room
To The Student Body of
Morehouse College:
Plainly speaking, the Read
ing Room is a place to study,
not for the usual incessant
talking that goes on there!
Even I myself have passed a
comment on occasion, but I
have always been careful to
keep it down to a dull roar.
Even dull roars can be
sometimes irritating.
Some of us, however, choose
to let everyone for ten miles
around know what we are dis
cussing. Please keep your
voices down! Better yet,
DON’T TALK AT ALL!!!
A Serious student in need
of a QUIET place to study.
1977-78 MAROON TIGER STAFF
Editor-in-Chief Charles E. Mapson
Associate Editor Roy L. Hamilton
Managing Editor Willard Bell
Assistant Editor Arlin Meadows
News Editor Reginald Scott
Entertainment Editor Kenneth T. Whalum, Jr.
Sports Editor Walter Parrish
Fraternity Editor Theodore B. Jones
Photography Editor Alfred Peters
Feature Editor Ronald Pettaway
Cartoonists Daily McDowell
Lawrence Turner
Chief Proof and Copy Reader David Thornton
Proof and Copy Readers Barrington Brooks
David Morrow
Rodney Thaxton
Business Manager Larry Walker
Assistant Business Manager .. Vincent D. McCraw
Advertising Managers Claude A. Ford, Jr.
Darrell E. Robbins
Contributing Staff: Rodney Thaxton,
Dargan Burns, Michael Stewart, T. Tee Boddie, Karl
Robinson, Delbert Rigsby
Office Manager Ronald Pettaway
Assistant Office Manager Vincent D. McGraw
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