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Edition Dedicated To Graduates
Congratulations graduating Seniors! The Maroon Tiger
staff and, indeed, the entire Morehouse College family
would like to take this final opportunity to say thanks for a
job well done, and to wish you the best of everything as you
make you journey to the outside world. Morehouse, like life
itself, is what you make it. We trust that you have made the
best of you’re four years at Morehouse, and are now
prepared mentally, spiratually and physically to take on the
world. Morehouse College has always prided herself on the
building of black manhood. Wetrustthatyou notonly know
how to earn a living, but also how to be a man in every since
of the word. By all means, avoid trends ... be the trend
setter. The entire Morehouse family wishes you the best of
luck and now calls on you to rise up and lead ... like a man!
—The Tiger Staff
The Maroon Tiger
Volume 57 Number 6
Morehouse College
May 23, 1982
Mitchell To Speak At 115th Commencement
Woodruff AUC
Library Dedicated In April
By Paul Dillard
The 16 million, three level Woodrufl
AUC Library was dedicated before a
huge crowd on Friday, August 23.
In operation for approximately four
months, the library has been well
received and used by Center students.
Richard Wall Lyman - Rockerfellow
Foundation Preisdent - speaking to the
dedication crowd, said, “libraries such
as the one we are dedicating today will
remain the very heart of academic
enterprise, the major focal point for
educational endeavors.”
Chancellor of the Atlanta University
Center, Dr. Charles W. Meredith,
stated that the Coca-Cola donation of
seven million dollars was the largest
single gift to a black institution in the
history of blacks. It was this donation
that made completion of the 12 year
old project possible.
Dr. Charles Meredith presents Boisfeuillet Jones a citation for Woodruff.
Meredith presented Boisfeuillet Library will house the 600,000 volumes
Jones, a close friend of Woodruff, with of books formerly housed in the 50
a citation to be given to Woodruff year old Trevor Arnett Library and the
recognizes his show of concern. institutional libraries within the Atlanta
The new Robert W. Woodruff AUC University Center complex.
Rally Of AUC Students Due To Budget Cuts
Gloster: Cuts will hurt
by Van Hill
On April 26, approximately
1000 students from the Atlanta
University Center, carrying
banners and books, marched
from Clark College to the State
Capitol. The rally, held in front of
the Capitol, featured speakers
such as AndrewYoung,Reginald
Eaves, Ffugh Gloster, as well as
AU Center Student Council Of
ficers.
The march and rally was held
due to the effects of the Reagan
Budget cuts. FHugh Gloster
pointed out, “The budgets cuts
are the worst thing to occur for
the disadvantaged student and
Black institutions.” If these
budget cuts are approved, we
will lose 25 - 35% of our
students.”
In reference to why student
financial aid is being cut, Gloster
commented, “Reagan’s budget
cuts were done in order to push
lower income students to state
colleges, enabling them to only
gain 2 years of college education.
This policy would eventually
result in the emasculation of
Black leadership.”
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Groover Wins Election
Hundreds of
students par
ticipated in the day
long activities held
on the steps of the
State Capitol,
(photos by Edwin
Williams)
The Honorable Parren J.
Mitchell will deliver the com
mencement address at
Morehouse College’s 115th
commencement exercises to be
held at 3:00 p.m., on Sunday,
May' 23, 1982, in the Martin
Luther King, Jr. International
Chapel here on campus.
Although Parren J. Mitchell is
elected from the 7th Con
gressional District of Maryland,
in actuality, he effectively serves
the politically voiceless of all
America. Championing the
causes of the Black and poor
comes naturally to him. In 1950,
By Samuel Wallace
Gregory Groover - a junior
sociology major from Freeport,
New York - won the recently
Gregory Groover
held SGA presidential election
by a 2-1 margin. Groover’s
closest competitor, Alvin Parks,
received approximately 30% of
the vote.
The elections committee
reports that over 40% of the
student body casted ballots on
election day. (For complete
election results see page eleven.)
Gregory Groover, since elec
tion day, has vowed that his plans
are to rebuild the ailing Student
Government Association. With
good intentions, Groover stated,
“We (newly elected SGA
cabinet) are simply going to start
with a foundation and build from
there."
Groover, this past academic
year, served as president of the
Chapel Assistants program. He
also was recently inducted into
the Delta chapter of Phi Beta
Kappa.
he filed suit to compel the
University of Maryland to enroll
him as its first Black graduate
student. There, he completed his
master’s degree in sociology and
was admitted to the school’s
honor society. After taking his
master’s degree, Congressman
Mitchell returned to teach at his
alma mater, Morgan State Un
iversity.
As Executive Director of
Baltimore’s anti - proverty
program in the late 1960’s Dr.
Mitchell lobbied Washington for
his agency’s programs. Also
during the 1960’s, he served as
Executive Secretary for the
Maryland Human Relations
Commission, and played the
pivotal role in the enactment and
implementation of Maryland's
statewide Public Accom
modations Law. In 1970 he was
elected Maryland’s first Black
Congressman.
In 1976,Congressman Mitchell
attached to President Carter’s $4
billion Public Works Bill and
amendment that compelled
state, county, and municipal
governments seeking federal
assistance to set aside ten per
cent of each grant to .retain
minority firms as contractors,
subcontractors, or suppliers. This
single amendment resulted in
more than $625 million (15
percent) going to legitimate
minority firms. Following
numerous court challenges, the
“Mitchell Amendment” was
ruled valid and constitutional by
the UnitedStatesSupremeCourt
in July, 1980.
He also introduced the legisla
tion which, in 1978, became
Public Law 95 - 507, requiring
proposals from federal contrac
tors to spell out goals for awar
ding contracts to minority sub-
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