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Hill Explains Moral Majority
March 3, 1982/The Maroon Tiger/Page 3
Hill,Williams, Kennedy Address REW Audience
by Brent Williams and Samuel
Bacote
Rev. Dr. E. V. Hill, pastor of Mt.
Zion Baptist Church of Los
Angeles, California, addressed a
crowd of over 750 in King
International Chapel on Thurs
day, February 25th.
Hill has, in recent years, been
in the forefront of national
attention as a proponent of the
Moral Majority. Earlier in the
week he explained, before an
audience in the Afro - American
Hall of Fame, that the Moral
Majority was not an establish
ment such as a church or
business, but merely a stand
from an “evangelical Christian”
point of view. According to Dr.
Hill, the Moral Majority is an
organization which supports
laws against abortions and
homosexual lifestyles. It opposes
sex on television, increases in
foregin aid, ERA in its present
form, gun control, etc.
Rev. Dr. E. V. Hill
8 Deniece Williams
Jayne Kennedy
Entertainer, Deniece Williams
and Actress Jayne Kennedy join
ed Hill during the Thursday
evening service.
Jayne Kennedy, speaking
before the crowd of mostly
Morehouse and Spelman
students stated
that she has never doubted the
existence of God. “In fact,
through a lot of ridicule I got last
year because of the Playboy
article, several people were
asking me, if I feltGod turned his
back on me? I told them no. If
anything I turned my back on
Him. When God makes a com
mitment to us, he never backs
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Phi Beta Kappa
Bahamas; Galen Grayson, a
junior Biology from San Landra,
Cal.; Gregory Groover, a junior
Sociology major from Freeport,
N.Y.; James Jackson, a senior
Biology major from Houston,
Tex.; John Ogundipe, a senior
Biology - Chemistry major from
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Lagos, Nigeria; Darryl Tookes, a
senior Biology major from Atlan
ta, Ga.; and Robert White, a
junior English major from Boston
Mass.
The induction ceremony is
scheduled for April 16.
Operation Crossroads Africa
Recruitment Program Launched
Disrespect Shown At Woodruff
by Kimberly Richie
The Robert Woodruff AUC
Library has recently been
stricken by acts of disrespect
from center students.
Dr. Virginia Jones, director of
the new library, reported that
the staff members have found
rubbish from candy, potato chip
wrappers, food, trash inclduing
beer and wine bottles. Dr. Jones
stated, “Evidence of students
eating and drinking in the library
has caused rats to invade the
building already.”
A preventive measure requir
ing students to show ID upon
entering the library is being
taken into consideration.
Dr. Jones also reported that a
great many books and materials
have been stolen from the library
... even toilet paper! Graffiti has
been found all over the walls and
cubicles of the library. One staff
member even caught two
students engaging in sexual play
on the lower level during
operating hours.
Pipe Organ
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what I thought of the idea. I told
him that I felt it was long over
due.”
The pipe organ, which will cost
$340,000, will be one of the finest
in the nation. The design was
drawn by Dr. Whalum, himself in
March 1981. Immediately follow-
ing-the drawing and the Board of
Trustees approval of the propos
ed design, a bid was secured by
Wicks Organ Company in
Highland, Illinois. Construction
of the organ began in January of
this year.
Dr. Whalum also informed the
Maroon Tiger that materials used
to build the organ have come
from all over the world, such as
high quality zinc from Germany,
and wood from Alaska. “As for
the organ itself, it will be a
console size, four manual (key
board) and pedal model, which
is actually five organs in one. The
smallest pipe will be about the
size of a pencil, while the largest
pipes will be 32 feet high,
weighing 360 pounds each.
Under the leadership of Dr.
Lawrence Edward Carter, the
Martin Luther King Jr. Inter
national Memorial Chapel at
Morehouse College has launch
ed a recruitment program for
Operation Crossroads Africa,
Inc., in honor of the late Dr.
Edward A. Jones. The program
will assist students interested in
participating in eight - week
summer team projects in Africa
with Operation Crossroads
Africa, a non - profit organiza
tion focusing on international
development and educational
exchange.
This recruitment organization
now consists of over 70
members, and is named in honor
of Dr. Edward A. Jones because
of his excellent service to both
Morehouse College and the
Crossroads organization. Dr.
Jones was associated with
Morehouse for 54 years, serving
as both professor and Chairman
of the Foreign Language Depart
ment until his death last year.
Among his many achievements,
Dr. Jones wrote the official
history of Morehouse College, A
Candle in the Dark. Two years
after Crossroads came into be
ing, Dr. Jones led a group of
American and Canadian
students to the African nation of
Togo. Two years later, in 1962, he
became director of the
Crossroads programs in French -
speaking West Africa.
Craig M. Marberry, a senior
English major at Morehouse and
Chairman of the Edward A. Joens
recruitment program, said that
“it is in a spirit of dedication to
serving others on a global scale -
a spirit that Dr. Jones epitomizes
so well - that we have launched
this recruitment program at
Morehouse, at the Chapel,
where the emphasis is inter
national.”
Participants in the Crossroads
program volunteer their services
for eight weeks of the summer to
assist numerous African coun
tries, performing tasks ranging
from farming and agricultural
development, to tutorial
assistance and compensatory
education. Projects are located
in rural communities, where
participants gain an immediate
personal sesnse of Africa that
cannot be duplicated by
academic courses.
During the past 22 years,
Crossroads, whose example in
spired the creation of the Peace
Corps, has sent more than 6000
volunteers to 34 English - ,
French -, Portuguese -, and
Arabic - speaking African coun
tries to spend their summers
assisting rural village com
munities.
NAA CP Mem bership Drive Begun
The MorehouseCollege Inter
fraternity Council recently voted
to take the responsibility of
securing N.A.A.C.P.
memberships from members of
the Morehouse College Family
of students, faculty, and staff. Mr.
Carl Taylor, President of the IFC,
stated, “The members of the IFC
see this project as an in - house
community project which will
serve the needs of all Black
Americans. We should be ableto
secure a minimum of 1,000
memberships at either $3 per
student, or $5 per student. The $5
membership provides a student
the opportunity to receive the
The FD Commons Is Shaping Up
by Zarick A. Clegg
The Frederick Douglass Commons has
ecently undergone an internal face lift,
welve video games one pin ball
nachine, a juke box with 200 selections,
wo pool tables, the Tiger Room, and a
>uffet lunch service have been added.
The game room is equipped with the
ollowing games: Asteroid, Centipede,
nd Defender, just to name a few. There is
Iso an Atari Football game and a pinball
nachine at 25 cents a play. A change
nachine is also available to convert one
ind five dollar bills into coins.
A storage room was converted to what
is now known as the Tiger Room. Candy,
gum, peanuts, bath soap, washing
powder, and other items of such nature
can be bought there.
The buffet lunch service, in addition to
the grill, is added to the list of newcomers
to the Commons. Lunch is served Monday
through Friday during the hours of 12
noon and 1:30 p.m. The service is open to
faculty and students. Lunch costs from
$2.50 to $2.75. Rose Brown, who serves the
buffet daily, says the response to the
meals have been, “ever praising”.
The Maroon Tiger commends all those
involved with the charges at the Com
mons.
"Crisis” magazine which is the
official organ of the N.A.A.C.P.
begun by W. E. B. DuBois.” Mr.
Nathaniel Veale, Director of
Alumni Affairs and Chairman of
the IFC has offered a plaque to
the fraternity obtaining the
largest number of memberships.
Mr. Veale said, “Morehouse
students during my years were
fully behind the N.A.A.C.P. At
least 90% of the students had
memberships. Even today, the
President of the State organiza
tion, Julian Bond, is Morehouse,
and the Area Director, Earl T.
Shinhoster, is Morehouse.” The
I.F.C. hopes the current
membership drive will re -
activate the Morehouse Chapter
of the N.A.A.C.P. which has been
dormant for the past five years.
Maroon Tiger recently donated sign to Commons
as a gift. Pictured is Associate Editor Samuel Bacote
and Lottie Fogg, Manager Fred. Doug. Commons,
(Photo by Edwin Williams)
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the lisCning skies,
Let it resound loud as the
rolling seas;