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January 15, 1982 / The Maroon Tiger / Page 5
Campus News
UNCF Research Grant Awarded
The Career Advancement In
stitute of the United Negro
College Fund has announced
that Morehouse College has
been awarded a research grant
totaling $16,715 for the study of
career advancement and mobili
ty issues affecting black youth.
The college was one of only
eleven institutions whose
research projects were approved
for funding. Projects were
chosen through competition.
Dr. James A. Hefner,Charles E.
Merrill Professor of Economics,
Mr. John W. Handy, Assistant
Professor of Economics, and Mr.
John Vincent Eagan, Instructor of
Economics, will be the principal
investigators of the study en
titled “Labor Market Structure,
Career Advancement and Oc
cupational Mibility,” Assisting
staff include Mr. Clifford Butler
and Mr. Leighton Haynes, both
honor students in Economics.
The Morehouse study will
seek, for the first time, to assign
jobs to specific tiers within the
primary and secondary labor
markets by computing and utiliz
ing socio - economic indices.
Additionally, the study will
devleop policy prescriptions
which deal with the career
advancement of black men
whose labor force participation
rates have been declining for the
past twenty - five years, in
contrast to the increased rates
experienced by black women.
The Career Advancement In
stitute is operating this program
with funds channeled through
the United Negro College Fund
from the U.S. Department of
Labor. Dr. Hefner and his
colleagues will work closely with
the Institute and other
researchers to analyze data from
a black American perspective; a
perspective that has heretofore
been overlooked.
AUC Students
Involved In
Shuttle
Development
Eight Atlanta University
Center Dual Degree Engineering
students spent this past summer
working for the Rocketdyne
Division of the Rockwell Inter
national Company, in California.
Rockwell International is the
prime contractor for the
development of the Space Shut
tle. The Rocketdyne Division
developed and produced the
reusable main engines deployed
in the maneuvering and landing
of the Shuttle.
The AUC students, Clayton
Bell (Morehouse); Raymond
Boykin (Morehouse); Guy Ginn
(Morehouse); Marvin Ingram
(Morehouse); Carl E. Johnson
(Morehouse); Valerie Rembert
(Spelman); Kenneth Thompson
(Morehouse) and Willie Wilson
(Morris Brown), were involved in
various aspects of the Shuttle
Engine development. Three of
the students were involved in a
project which provided direct
input into the final design of the
engines used in the recent Space
Shuttle launch. All of the
students were involved in
engineering - related activities.
The students received their
summer jobs through their in
volvement in the Dual Degree
Summer Intern Program (SIP).
This past summer, over two
hundred (200) students were
employed through SIP.
Woodruff Opening On 18th
Entrance lobby filled with study cards. (Staff photo)
Over 600,000 volumes of books will be housed in the new AUC Library.
)
(Staff photo)
Dick Gregory
Shows Up
Cool At MLK
by George Espy III
Staff Writer
Even through the crisis Atlanta
had with the snow storm, Dick
Gregory and Coretta King
appeared and entertained in
MLK Chapel on lastTuesday. The
cumulative one third audience
waited patiently for the program,
which was scheduled to begin at
7:00 p.m., but was delayed two
hours by snow.
Dick Gregory and Coretta
King arrived about 8:45, shortly
after the crowd, led by an
unknown crusader on stage, had
paused with a rally of songs.
Gregory swept to the
microphone, wearing a trench
coat, smiling mischiefly, “I’m
gonna to take off these long
draws - then I’m cornin' back,”
he announced. For the next
hour, the audience was led in
singing hyms and pep songs and
introduced to various S.G.A.
Presidents, representatives and
spokesmen from Morehouse,
Spelman, Clark, Ga. Tech and
Ga. State.
Coretta King, surprised with
the turnout of students, praised
the audience for its support and
apologized for the delay. She
then announced a schedule of
the activities and events that
took place on King’s Birthday.
"The holiday should be
meaningful, honoring the con-
Continued on page 7
Morehouse—Spelman Player In Paramount’s
“Ragtime”
by Samuel Bacote III
“Ragtime” explodes; it’s ex
cellent. Accompanying that ex
cellence is Morehouse’s own
Samuel L. Jackson, a veteran of
the Morehouse - Spelman
theatrical group during the
seventies. Jackson appears as a
member of the Coalhouse
Walker, Jr. gang, a vigilante
group seeking vengence against
firemen in the turn of the
century film.
Coalhouse Walker, Jr. is
Howard E. Rollins, a 31 year old
Baltimore, Md. native. He is
supported by actress Debbie
Allen of T.V. and Roots II fame.
Together they give a convincing
performance as young lovers
caught in a world of racial
bigotry.
The setting is New York 1906.
The problems which were pre
sent in New York at the time
were basically present in
America everywhere. Atlanta
was also experiencing several
race relation problems during
that era.
James Cagney tops the cast as
New York police commissioner
Rheinlander Waldo who must
deal with the Walker Jr. gang
when they seize the Morgan
Library. The cast also includes Pat
O’Brien, Donald O’Conner and
Elizabeth McGovern.
“Ragtime” is a .Paramount
Pictures film directed by Milos
Forman and produced by Dino
De Laurentiis. The film is based
on the novel “Ragtime” by Eli
Doctorow.
Howard E. Rollins visits Debbie Allen in the attic of the family home
with the intention of asking her to become his wife in Paramount
Pictures' “Ragtime.”