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May 4, 1978
Maroon Tiger
Page 5
editorial
Why A New Election
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Hello Ford Foundation...Thank you -for your contribution
■for ihe next new building.
Gentlemen,
Let’s come together and
rationalize an apparent
situation arising at
Morehouse.
From what I gather you
students are contesting a pos
sible problem in the
Psychology Department and
its instructors; on the other
hand, the Trustees, President
and other administrative of
ficers are attempting to enjoy
at this time the beautiful
Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel
and what a chapel it is. In this
category, we are extremely
blessed.,
The Morehouse Glee Club,
though tneir renditions were
terrific, your restlessness and
vour would-be strike kept
many away. Is this fair?
And, now on the verge of
opening the medical school,
you indiscreetly take this time
on behalf of the psychologist to
divide and hopefully conquer.
If you do not like matters'as
they are. why don’t you
withdraw from Morehouse and
return to either congested
urban cities, to the ghetto or to
the farm from whence many of
you came? Cohesiveness is dic
tated at this time as we emerge
with the new chapel and the
soon-to-open Medical School.
Donors will not give
generously where there is
strife. Don’t you know this? I
thought Morehouse men were
thinkers and believed in ad-
fly WILLARD BELL. JR.
Why did everyone have to go
through elections again? Was
it because Gregory 0. Griffin
was too childish to take defeat?
Or was it because the student
body does not want to speak
against a second election?
These are questions that come
to mind when I look at the
reasons stated for a new elec
tion.
On April 18, 1978, the
Student Court met for the
second time in a week. The
Court decided to have the en
tire election over. The few
students that attended the
Letter
minstrative and student
solidarity. This is the way to
make a College grow and
shows its real wears. Think on
these things, please.
Respectfully yours,
F. Earl Mcl-endon, M.D.
A letter of rebuttal to Dr. F.
Earl McLendon, medical direc
tor of the McLendon Hospital,
Inc.
In response to your letter
written April 27, 1978, it is
clear to assume that your
knowledge surrounding the
situation in the Morehouse
Psychology Department is
none. In fact your letter is a
classic example of the feed
back given in response to the
very real problems which have
continued to plague
Morehouse before the thought
of having a medical school.
Dr. Gloster, Why
Bv William Jones, Jr.
Dr. Gloster, why, after more
than a year of students
attempting to bring about ac
tion from the administration
for the improvement of the
Psychology Department,
through all the “Democratic
Due Channels”, do you persist
in your inaction and insen
sitivity towards the students
(Psychology majors in
particular)? Why did you,
when some Psychology majors
and a faculty member came
before you and attempted to
voice their grievances, not
As far as your suggestions to
our problems; keep them! We
are fighting for a noble cause
and have no time for regres
sive ridicule.
John S. Callion
For the Committee on
Democracy at Morehouse
Cont. from pg. 3
ponsihility to voice in
differences and seek changes
in a reasonable and sensible
manner. Unfortunately, most
of us are so complacent, so con
fused, so unaware, so un
concerned or so afraid that lit
tle will probably change. The
administration realizes this
and capitalizes on it..
In closing, let me state that I
am not a militant or a disrup-
tor. I am a student who is very
fond of this institution but one
who also wishes to see it
operate to its full potential.
Solidarity and cooperation are
the only way that this may
come about. In psychology
there is a theory, which to put
succinctly, says that a person
can not concern himself with
growth until he has made his
environment suitable for
survival. On that note I
contend that the current en
vironment on campus does not
coincide with educational
growth—this is my major
concern.
Issues need to be resolved,
and participation in non
violent activities that bring
attention to this fact does not
mean one is being disruptive or
disloyal to his school.
Participation in such activities
simply means that one has
found elements or situations
inconsistent with a viable
educational atmosphere and
wishes to do something to rec
tify the situation.
It was Benjamin E. Mays
allow them the opportunity to
present their case by interven
ing and charging that the
faculty member present was
the problem? Why would you
not come out to a forum
presented concerning student
grievances in the Psychology
department to which you were
invited to participate in by
students in the Psychology
departments? Why will neither
you nor certain members on
the Board of Trustees grant
just a little time on the agenda
for one spokes-person to voice
the problems facing students
in the Psychology
Department? (This was re
quested more than a week in
advance of the meeting.) Why
will you not acknowledge
certain letters sent to you
concerning problems in the
Psychology Department by
interested students with some
type of response? Why would
you choose to circulate such a
threatening and incorrect
statement as to the reason and
outcome of the rally held on 4-
22-78, as the Board of Trustees
met? Why do you continue to
blame a single person as to the
reason for student outcry,
when in truth conditions in the
Psychology Department have
meeting did not think it was
fair to make all the winners of
the election go through all the
hassle that an election can
bring. We need the entire
student body to begin to attend
S.G.A. meetings next year so
that we do not keep getting
“messed over”. We will have to
begin speaking out againstthe
activities of S.G.A. officers
which affect us.
It is time that the student
body started working together
to gain satisfaction at
Morehouse. How can the
people we put in office ask the
administration for anything if
we the students can not be
truthful about what is going
down at Morehouse. I hope the
officers that we elect to office
are as truthful about what is
going down at Morehouse. I
hope the officers that we elect
to office are as truthful as the
nature of a traditional
Morehouse man. We do not
need officers that are not
truthful and Morehouse does
not need them either. So let all
of us work to make Morehouse
truly the “Pride of the South.”
reached such a low state that
every thinking, responsible
student feels compelled to try
to get the administration to
initiate actions for the im
provement of the aforemen
tioned department which
would be an improvement of
Morehouse College, a school
and an ideal we hold dear to
us? Dr. Gloster I therefore ask
you to be aware of certain
facts, we the students are
young men, not children, and
are fully aware of unres
ponsive administration, and
will take steps for the im
provement of this illustrious
institution to make it live up to
its reputation of producing
Black men who are responsible
for social change, because we
love ourselves as a people and
the ideal this institution
symbolizes.
who said, “He who starts
behind in the race of life must
run faster or forever stay
behind.” And at a recent
assembly program Rev.
Joseph Roberts, pastor of
Ebenezer Baptist Church,
said, “Never forget while you
are running, why you are run
ning.” Hence, the ad
ministration’s race must be to
provide conditions so that
each student who passes
through Morehouse comes out
ready to produce. The
students’ race must be to
prepare and achieve so as to be
ready to combat the knocks,
struggles and challenges oi the
biggest race—the human race.
No one ever won a race sitting
at the sidelines complaining or
by running awwy from the
field; educational situations
are not won that way either.
So, as th is year draws to a close
let us, administration and
students, run together so that
in the years to come we all will
be winners. .