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1898
1978
THE ORGAN OF STUDENT EXPRESSION
MAROON
Ivan Allen, III
3770 Northside Dr.
Atlanta, ua
TIGER
>use College Atlanta, Georgia
1978
Dr. Bell
Tuition to Go Up
The yearly tuition at
Morehouse College will rise to
$1950, according to the in
formation being sent to in
coming freshmen.
This increase marks the
greatest yearly increase in the
past several years. In 1969-70
the tuition at Morehouse was
$1,100.
This figure was at $1,600 in
1975-76 and from there rose
$100 per year and in 1977-78
was $1,800. This year the $150
increase is supposed to reflect
the ever-increasing expense
costs in operating the college.
While schools like
Dartmouth and Harvard
charge four and five thousand
cont. on page 2
Are You Gonna Funk Off?
BY K.T. WHALUM, JR-
You have an opportunity to
win a free homecoming concert
group. CBS, one of the top
recording corporations in the
nation, is sponsoring a contest
among Black colleges which
will allow the winning colleges
(4 will win) to present a CBS
recording group, free.
As Atlanta area coordinator,
it is my joy to distribute and
collect ballots from the schools
see page 14
in the center. I sent letters to
the SGA president at each
school. Morris Brown was
quite responsive. Clark has not
responded. Spelman has not
responded. And some urchin at
Morehouse threw away (into a
garbage can) ballots that had
been filled out. .. son of a bis
cuit! Go ahead; throw this
chance away as we have done
so many others.
Bell To Be Replaced
By Charles E. Mapson
Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Charles Bell, registrar of
Morehouse College will be
replaced at the end of this
summer, according to well-
placed sources in the
Morehouse administration.
Bell, who has served as the
registrar and director of ad
missions for some seven years,
told the Maroon Tiger that he
would still be at Morehouse in
a role that he does not yet
know.
It has not been disclosed as
yet who will be succeeding Dr.
Bell next semester, but with
the appointment of Gary
Bussey last November as ad
missions director, the new
registrar will only serve in that
function.
This replacement caps a
number of changes in the
Morehouse administration
this school year. The academic
dean was given an assistant,
Patrick Royster; the director of
development, Alice Green, was
replaced this year by Robert
Leonard; the office of vice-
president was filled by Paul
Smith from Washington
University; and Gary Bussey
was appointed director of ad
missions.
Well-placed sources indicate
that more administrative
“sweeping” will be done before
the next semester begins in
September.
Psychology Department Controversy
By Charles Mapson
The Morehouse College
Psychology Department is in
the midst of great controversy
surrounding the alleged threat
to Black professorship.
Well-placed sources have in
dicated that the problem
surrounds the status of
Kenneth Ellis, a professor in
the department who had been
accused of assaulting a white
female professor of the
department, Margaret Weber-
Levine.
According to supporters of
Ellis, one complaint is that he
Dr. Ellis
was not appointed chairman
of the Psychology Department
when the position was vacated
in 1975 by Luther Weems nor
in 1977 when it was vacated by
Alvin Ramsey. The new
chairman, according to these
same sources, will be Madeline
Chenault from Fisk
University.
“The issue in the department
is not a Black and white issue,”
said William Lamg and senior
psychology major, “because
we have had Black chairmen
all while I’ve been here. The
key issue here is competency.”
It is general knowledge that
Dr. Ellis is not respected by his
fellow psychology faculty
members and has stated that
never struck Weber-Levine. “If
I had slapped her, she would
still be on the ground,” said
Ellis.
The controversy zenithed on
March 22 during the annual
Morehouse Trustee Board
meeting in Gloster Hall. There,
some fifty students
demonstrated including a
good number from the Atlanta
Junior College.
A minimal amount of
damage was done to the new
administrative building but of
ficials are still trying to find
the names of those involved.
According to sources within
the student body, the doors
were damaged by students
from the Atlanta Junior
College. When they damaged
the doors a student from
Morehouse said, “This isn’t
your building, it’s ours, you
can’t do that.”
It has been said that Ellis is
the only one teaching anyth
ing from a Black perspective.
,His students have in consen
sus confirmed the fact that
they do indeed learn in the
classes he teaches.
Dr. Levinn
