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Construction Is Booming
at Morehouse
The current building
program at Morehouse, the
largest effort of its kind in the
history of the College,
represents a systematic
attempt to provide the
facilities needed for teaching,
learning, research,
community service,
recreation, housing, and
boarding through the first
two decades of the second
century in the history of the
College.
Currently under
construction is William
Jefferson White Hall, a
dormitory which will house
approximately 120 students.
The dormitory is named for
the founder of Morehouse
College.
White Hall, a $1,385,000
structure, will be the tenth
building constructed at
Morehouse since 1970.
During the past decade,
Morehouse has constructed
two classroom buildings —
Brawley Hall and Wheeler
Hall; a dining room —
Chivers Hall; a student center
— the Frederick Douglass
Commons; an administration
building — Gloster Hall; an
auditorium building — the
Martin Luther King, Jr..
Memorial Chapel; and four
dormitories — Hubert Hall,
Thurman Hall, DuBois Hall,
and W. J. White Hall.
Viewed in totality, this if
the largest building program
ever undertaken or
Morehouse Business
by Roderick Weatherly
Career goals have been a
very persistent question
around Morehouse these
days. We, the students, would
like to know what is in store
for us in the near future.
What do our majors have to
offer after college? Should
we go to graduate school or
will our four years at
Morehouse be prosperous
enough so that we may be
able to enter a professional
field compatible enough with
survival in Corporate
America. These questions
and more are the main
themes that I will try to unfold
in a series titled “Career
Goals.”
Dr. James Hefner, a senior
professor on the Morehouse
faculty and chairperson of
the Department of
Economics and Business
Administrator, was the first
person I chose to begin my
series with because he is
more than qualified in his
position.
A majority of Morehouse
students have chosen
Economics or Business
Administration for their
major field of professional
work. We spoke about
incoming freshmen who had
chosen one of these fields.
He told me that there is a
healthy demand for Blacks in
the business community
today. Dr. Hefner noted,
however, that currently
Blacks comprise no more
than 20% of all the
management positions in top
corporations in the country
today. Much is due to racism,
but some is due to the fact
that Black Colleges are not
graduating seniors of top
quality for Corporate
America.
He went on to say that the
greatest demands in the
business field today are
finance, accounting,
insurance, and marketing. To
get help, students who might
be having difficulty in their
majors should get to know
their professors on a visiting
policy.
About Morehouse’s
accreditation in the graduate
level, Dr. Hefner said that
Morehouse was outstanding.
Morehouse graduates are
accepted to all of the great
business schools across the
country — to name a few;
Wharton School of Finance,
Standford, Chicago, and
Colombia. Morehouse heads
all Black colleges and
institutions in graduates of
prestigious business schools
in the United States.
Those students who are
preparing in advance for
summer 1982 and would like
to find out what available
summer internships thereare
should get to know
placement director. Mr.
Benjamin McLaurin, and
inquire about what summer
jobs are available. The key to
summer internships is the
G.P.A. the students have; the
higher the G.P.A., the greater
the job chance will be. Health
and demand in the business
field might take a peeling off
in the next decade, says Dr.
Hefner, because the demand
is so high today. Many
Americans might move into
other fields of endeavor.
completed by a black college
within a ten-year period.
Construction of a new
football field is currently
underway at the intersection
of Westview Drive and
Wellborn Street. Later
additions to this construction
project will be a track which
surrounds the field and a
west-side grandstand. The
field will be named in honor
of B. T. Harvey, a pioneer in
Morehouse athletics and a
professor of biology.
The objective of the
construction of the football
field and surrounding track is
to give Morehouse a first-
class outdoor facility for use
in intramural and
intercollegiate athletics.
Chapel
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purpose. The Dean of the
Chapel is hired by the
College to be pastor,
preacher, priest, professor,
prophet, in-resident
theologian, fiscal
administrator, facilitator of
counseling and
psychotherapy for the
Morehouse community, and
coordinator of nationally
oriented programs.
It is impossible for a college
or a university to have a
value-neutral posture. All
institutions are value-laden.
The value-free assumption is
a myth. “In colleges values
operate as inchoate, tenuous,
diffused impressions which
support the educational
process. All the activities and
procedures in academia rest
upon implicit values.” I agree
heartily with Michael R.
Winston when he says:
. . .a University is by the
nature of its being defined by
mind and spirit. Its most
fundamental activities cannot
be measured physically. The
excitement of discovery in
research, of the shaping of
young minds in teaching, of
preparing professionals for
competent service to the
community — all of these are
activated by values, beliefs
and conceptions of the
purpose of human life. The
true, although invisible,
center of a great university
may be found in morality and
ethics, in the synthesis of
objective fact and spiritual
meaning.
Because colleges shape the
value commitments of
students, citizens and
community leaders, they
New athletic field adjacent to King Memorial Chapel.
(photo by Brevard)
New White dormitory to be completed second semester.
(photo by Brevard)
have an ideological
responsibility. The college
should not be governed by a
narrow, dogmatic
intentionality and a sectarian
moral posture which
encourage intoleration of
diversity and brain-washing,
while negating the scientific
approach to learning. The
environment of liberal
learning, however, i s
founded on specific ethical
assumptions. These
assumptions should be,
defined, recognized,
understood, and celebrated.
Celebration of these claims in
a collegiate community is the
purpose of the College. Our
collegiate ministry of
celebration at King Memorial
Chapel must stand squarely
within the ideological
tradition of Morehouse
College.
Dr. Benjamin E. Mays states
clearly the primacy of value
affirmation in the academic
context that has become one
of the hallmarks of the
Morehouse College
tradition:
The trouble with the world
lies primarily in the areas of
ethics and morals. It will not
be sufficient for the Negro
liberal arts college, nor any
college, to produce clever
graduates, men fluent in
speech and able to argue
their way through; but rather
honest men who can be
trusted both in public and
private life — men who are
sensitive to the wrongs,
sufferings, and, injustices of
society who are willing to
accept responsibility for
correcting the ills. This may
be done by example in
emphases and practices
within the college
community; nevertheless, it
is urgent that it be done.
Teachers should he more
than good scholars; they
should be men of integrity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
seemed to echo Dr. Mays’
feeling when as a student he
said in the campus paper, the
purpose of education is to
provide “intelligence, plus
character, with a concern for
people.”
The ministry of the Chapel
named in King’s honor
concerns itself with the
intellectual life of the
College, because that is the
College’s chief business. The
Chapel continually asks the
University Center what it
means by being a university;
what values does it hold
which make it cohere and
hang together? The Chapel
calls attention to the
common root of the words
“university” and "universe,”
and suggests that whatever it
is that gives unity to the
universe may be the final
unity of the university. This
constitutes a religious
question, and no self-
conscious college that
reflects seriously on its own
purpose can avoid this
ultimate query.
The Chapel reminds the
College that truth is found in
many forms: in behavior, in
books, in experiments, in
people, and in propositions
that can be verified, notshort
of ultimate ideals. The
college is thereby called to an
appropriate humility.
Humility results when the
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