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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.”