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Page 4 /The Maroon Tiger/ September 22, 1982
Williams Is New Maroon Tiger Editor
The Maroon Tiger has a new
editor and his name is Wendell
Williams, a senior from Rich
mond, California.
“The objective of the paper
will be to inform as well as
entertain,” Williams said,
“Therefore, we will try to give
the Morehouse family enter
taining information.”
He said that one of his primary
goals as editor will be to
heighten the political con
sciousness of the Morehouse
man and to bring a new wave of
political activism to Morehouse.
“Many students give me the
impression that they think that
the world revolves around
Morehouse,” he said, "I con
sider this type of thinking both
ridiculous and dangerous.
Therefore, we will place a great
deal of emphasis on national and
international issues that concern
Morehouse either directly or
indirectly.”
The history major stated that
one of his first concerns as Editor
- in - Chief will be to set up a
gubernatorial debate between
(D) - Joe Frank Harris and (R) Bob
Bell sometime in late October.
He insisted that such a debate
would likely take place in either
MLK International Chapel or
Sale Hall.
In addition, Williams has ap
pointed fellow history major
Keith LaRue, of Louiville, Ken
tucky, to the position of Manag
ing Editor, and Van E. Hill, of
Washington D.C., News Editor (a
complete list of appointees can
be found on p. 6).
Said Williams, “The movers
and shakers of Washington have
demonstrated that they do not
particularly care to see
Morehouse survive. However,
we can insure Morehouse’s
survival by becoming politically
active and impacting on the
political decisions made both
here in Atlanta and
Washington.”
The California native has been
writing for The Maroon Tiger
since his freshman year, and has
written several editorials for the
AUC Digest and Atlanta Voice.
Currently Vice - President of
the Society For Professional
Journalist, Sigma Delta Chi
(Clark College Chapter) he in
tends to pursue a career in either
journalism or politics. But he
adds confidently, “Probably
both.”
Mukasa chats with students.
Mukasa Is Back
By Keith LaRue
Willie Ricks, better known as
Mukasa, is back on campus
yelling “down with capitalism,
down with imperialism and
down with neocolonialism.
“Stop begging America for
civil rights bills, human rights
bills and voting rights bills
because all we ever receive are
the bills."
Mukasa has become a perma
nent fixture of sorts here at
Morehouse. The former civil
rights activist has been here
nearly a year and a half
preaching about Africa and
scientific socialism.
The ex - student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee
member now extolls the prin
ciples of Pan - Africanism, which
is properly defined as the total
liberation and unification of
Africa under scientific socialism.
Mukasa, presently a member
of the All - African People’s
Revolutionary Party, claims,
“Our Party’s objective is to
mobilize and organize the
masses of students into
workstudy groups of thirteen so
that they may be educated
politically towards the liberation
struggle.”
The AAPRP is an international
revolutionary political party that
is based in Africa organizing
Blacks all over the world.
When the former Black Pan
ther organizer was asked why
Pan - Africanism, he said, “After
the Civil Rights movement we
discovered that we could never
have freedom in America's
capitalist system, and this led
millions to join the Pan -
Africanist movement.”
In his civil rights days, Mukasa
worked closely with Dr. King and
Stokely Carmichael, now Kwame
Ture. Born in northern Alabama,
he grew up in Chattanooga,
Tenn. and joined the struggle at
age seventeen.
History books generally credit
Carmichael; however, according
to Mukasa, it was he - not
Carmichael - who first coined
the phrase “Black Power” in
1965.
Mays’ Picture Recovered
By Gregory S. Gibson
It was a cold morning of
February 4,1982 when Mrs. Sadie
Alexander, Resident Director of
Mays Hall, opened her office to
start a new day.
But on the way she noticed
something quite unusual. The
portrait of the honorable Dr.
Benjamin E. Mays was not hang
ing gracefully on its usual spot on
the wall of Mays Hall Lounge.
To her disbelief, the portrait of
Mays and his poem entitled
Morehouse Men
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Jonathan Pettigrew, East Lansing,
Michigan.
“Elijah” were both missing.
According to Alexander, the
portrait had been taken to an art
exhibit in downtown Atlanta;
but when she called and
questioned Mr. Whatly, Chief
of Security at Morehouse, he
knew nothing about the portrait
being removed from the lounge
for an art exhibit.
“Mr. Whatly directed me to
call President Gloster, who
ordered all dormitories searched
- namely Mays and Dubois.” she
decent and honorable in
today’s black men,” and said:
“Part of me died with these
young men and I shall never be
completely the same ever
again.” Members of the football
team were visibly moved by the
service.
Jonathan Pettigrew, 23,
jumped to his death from off the
top floor of the downtown
Hilton Hotel on June 17. A 1982
Economics Honor graduate, he
had been accepted to graduate
school at Howard, Cornell and
the University of Delaware.
Memorial services for the East
Lansing, Michigan native were
held on June 18, here at
Morehouse.
Economics Professor R.
said.
However, the search turned
up nothing and this “left a bad
feeling on campus,” according
to Alexander, now into her 19th
year as director.
Then on May 13 at 10:00 a.m. a
student at Morehouse entered
her office. The student, who later
identified himself as Anthony
Baisden, asked her to come out
to his car “because he had
something to show me.”
In the back seat of Biasden’s
Theodore Poole, Greenville,
South Carolina.
car, she said she saw the portrait
of Dr. Mays, which she im
mediately took inside her office
and telephoned security.
According to Alexander,
Baisden had been living on
campus in DuBois but for the
summer was to be living in
college authorized housing off
of Westview Drive.
According to Baisden, he
found an ad in The Maroon Tiger
for just such a house and wentto
check out its condition.
Winstead gave a brief but heart -
felt eulogy on the life of
Jonathan Pettigrew.
“His death (Pettigrew’s) is one
terrible loss to humanity,”
Winstead said, “because of his
greatness inside the classroom
and his potential greatness out
side the classroom.”
Funeral services for Poole
were held on Thursday,
September 9, in his native
Greenville, South Carolina.
Coach Hunt, members of the
football team and Groover were
in attendance.
As a footnote, the football
team has unanimously decided
against dedicating either a single
game or the entire season to the
two former football players.
As he told Alexander, when he
arrived there the house had trash
spread all over the middle of the
floor. “He said he was picking
through the trash when he
stumbled across a picture with an
unbroken frame, that of Dr.
Mays,” she said.
He later brought the unharm
ed portrait of Dr. Mays to her
office. However, the poem “Eli
jah” has yet to be returned.
For safety purpose^, the por
trait now hangs in Dr. Gloster’s
office.
Lareese Ashley, Pittsburg,
Pennslyvania.