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Page VThe Maroon Tiger/October 18,1982
Endowment
Gloster: College Fiscally Sound
By Sidney Wood
While Black College around
the country find themselves
struggling, Morehouse College
is continuing to prosper. Despite
budget cuts by the Reagan
Administration, Morehouse’s
Gloster Administration has met
the challenge of providing a
quality education to its students
at a relatively low cost.
According to Morehouse
President Hugh M. Gloster, this
is due to extensive fundraising
conducted by the college, in
addition to assistance from the
United Negro College Fund,and
Morehouse College Alumni.
Donations from private cor
porations are the most promi
nent source of funds to the
college. The most recent of these
donations is a $50,000 grant from
the Gulf Oil Company to the
Business and Management
Department of Morehouse
College. This donation will be
the first of many, for the Gloster
Administration has set a goal of
raising ten million dollars as soon
as possible.
When asked how such a large
number of donations will be
realized, Dr. Gloster responded
“we will get whatever funds are
available from whatever
sources."
Another source which keeps
Morehouse very much in the
financial black, is the United
Negro College Fund (UNCF).
This independent organization
collects funds from various
organizations and companies,
and distributes these funds
among its member institutions.
Fortunately, Morehouse is
among the member institutions
and receives periodic financial
boosts.
In addition to UNCF
donations, Morehouse also
relies on its alumni. Last year only
26% of the alumni made con
tributions to Morehouse,
however these contributions
totalled $217,461, making
Morehouse’s alumni donation
per capita the greatest among
black colleges. But despite this
achievement, Dr. Gloster -sees
Lawyers Say The Bomb
Breaks International Law
New York Times
NEW YORK - A committee of
lawyers and law professors from
the United States, Europe and
Japan has declared that the
manufacture and use of nuclear
weapons violates long - accepted
principles of international law.
They have expressed the hope
that their declaration will
strengthen the nuclear disarma
ment movement.
The declaration, to be sub
mitted later this month to the
Second U.N. Session on Disar
mament, was drawn up at a
symposium in New York on the
morality and legality of nuclear
weapons.
The meeting, sponsored by
the recently formed Laywers
Committee on Nuclear Policy
and the Geneva - based Inter
national Peace Bureau, attracted
more than 250, including
longtime anti - war activists,
survivors of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, American clergymen,
scientists and foreign visitors.
The Rev. Robert F. Drinan, a
member of the lawyers com
mittee, said the 400,000 members
of the American legal profession
are particularly well equipped to
press for disarmament.
Drinan, once a Congressman
from Massachusetts and now a
Jaw professor at Georgetown
University, said: "As inheritors of
Anglo - American jurisprudence,
we should be ashamed that
we’ve done so little.
How Our Tax Dollars Are Being Spent
Cost Of Running Congress
Up 900
WASHINGTON (AP) - Thecost
of operating Congress has grown
by almost 900 percent since 1960
and now averages $2.3 million
per senator and $836,000 for each
House member.
An analysis of the legislative
budget was released Tuesday by
the Tax Foundation, a nonpar
tisan research organization.
The analysis said it will cost
taxpayers $676.4 million to run
the House and Senate in the
Frat Controversey
McFarlane asserts, "these
problems were aggravated by
the failure to meet other clauses
of their contact. The frat houses
were not maintained as model
residences. Further, in recent
years fraternities have strongly
encouraged prospective pledges
to reside in the frat houses with
no guarantee that they would
‘make line,’ thus creating a body
of discontented non - frats who
could not move back to general
housing.”
Butler adduces that fraternity
misbehavior increased the dis
satisfaction of non - frats in
Quarles Court and has been the
source of literally hundreds of
complaints not only from re
jected would be pledges, but
also other students, some
parents and even some Greeks.
Percent Since
current budget year, which ends
Sept.30. Other agencies in the
legislative budget - ranging from
the U.S. Tax Court to the Library
of Congress - run the total cost to
$1.5 billion.
The legislative budget broke
the $1 billion mark for the first
time in 1978. It has grown from
$165.2 million in 1960, to $343.1
million in 1970 and $1.2 billion in
1980. The increase from $165.2
million to $1.5 billion is 808
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The high noise level and general
rowdiness create an atmosphere
not conducive to or even
prohibitive of proper study.
McFarlane and Butler insist it
has been the shortage of
available housing which has
mandated the reclaiming of the
fraternity houses, not simply
fraternity misbehavior - though
alleged instances of fraternity
involvement with drug and
alcohol abuse and sexual abuse
sometimes requiring the in
tervention of campus security
personnel and even the Atlanta
police were factors in making the
decision.
Various fraternity members
have countered charges of mis
behavior and argued that the
fraternities have had a beneficial
effect on the Morehouse cam-
1960
percent.
The budget for Congress alone
has risen from $69.9 million in
1960, to $179.2 million in 1970
and $581.5 million in 1980. The
increase from $69.9 million to
$676.4 million is 868 percent.
The Reagan administration’s
budget for 1983, which was
submitted in January, projects a
decline, to $1.45 billion, in
spending by the legislative
branch.
pus and the community, (see
editorial, p.4). "Nothing has
happened in Quarles Court that
doesn’t also take place in the
general student residences,"
they insist.
The fraternities assert that,
further, fraternity members have
been prominent and important
as leaders and movers in student
organizations and in the student
body. The fraternities have
provided officers to the SGA and
have often been awarded for
their community involvement.
More, fraternity members
add, the black Greek letter
fraternities are nationally
recognized organizations. They
are rich in a tradition of racial
affirmation and dedication to
black social advancement. The
de - centralization of the frater-
room for improvement in the
area of alumni donations.
"More Black people" say Dr.
Gloster “need to leave money to
colleges in wills and insurance
policies. This practice has
become commonplace among
white universites, giving them a
pronounced financial edge.”
After all donations and con
tributions are received, the
worth of a college or university is
usually judged by its endow
ment, or the amount of money
an institution has in various
banks. Currently Morehouse’s
endowment is between nine and
ten million dollars, giving the
institution a superior ranking
among black colleges, while
ranking fairly among white in
stitutions.
Dr. Gloster’s goal is to see the
endowment between 35 and 50
million dollars. Elaborating on
the importance of the endow
ment Dr. Gloster says “the future
success of Morehouse College
depends upon the ability to
increase the endowment. This
money is needed for land ac
quisition, building construction,
building repairs, faculty salaries,
and student scholarships.”
When asked about the
prospects of Morehouse's
economic future, Dr. Gloster
simply smiled confidently. From
this, we may deduce that
Morehouse is here to stay.
Phyllis Wallace At Clark
By Wendell Williams
Editor - in - Chief
Author, educator and lecturer,
Phylis Wallace spoke before a
gathering of 100 AUC students
and faculty on the campus of
Clark College on October 7.
Dr. Wallace, author of Women
In The Labor Force, addressed
the topic “Labor Market Status of
Black Women: Double Jeapar-
dy."
Wallace discussed and analyz
ed the traditional roles that black
women have filled in the U.S.
economy. She said that,
historically, greater oppor
tunities were found in the public
sector for blacks in general, due
to racism and job discrimination
in the private sector.
"The perception of most
politicians," she said, "is that all
black women are welfare
mothers."
She refuted this distorted
image and said, “Traditionally,
black women were expected to
earn wages because black men
did not earn enough on their
own.” On the contrary, she
explained that black women
have rarely had the option of
working or staying home.
She pointed out that up until
recently traditional women’s
jobs were characterized by low
pay, low esteem, low priority,
and lack of upward mobility.
Wallace compared the
progress of white and black
women and asserted that while
white somen have experienced
many obstacles in the labor
market, black women have
traditionally been at the bottom
of the scale.
She stated that while black
women have made significant
gains in the labor force, the
median income for black women
head - of - households is $7,400,
nearly $1,000 below the official
poverty line.
She also stated that while there
are more black women
professionals than ever before,
the vast majority of them are
educators, which have been
traditionally low paying jobs.
She also took issue with the
state takeover of workfare
programs, describing it as poten
tially counterproductive to the
interests of black women.
“Workfare programs must be
made fair and equitable for all -
particularly black women," she
explained. She postulated that
those states which have the
toughest welfare laws were the
ones likely to have the toughest
workfare laws.
Professor Wallace reasoned
that the future of three types of
black women workers looked
bleak: that for college grads'
entry in middle - management
positions would be most dif
ficult; that workers in the public
sector would soon feel the pinch
of Reaganomics; and that large
numbers of black women
employed in domestic service
jobs would suffer from a worsen
ing economy.
In conclusion, she said that
black women would benefit
greatly from government en
forcement of anti - discrimina
tion laws currently on the books.
Professo/ Wallace is a Phi Beta
Kappa graduate of New York
University, and was invited to
Clark by the women of Delta
Sigma Thelta. The winner of
numerous awards in Economics,
she sits on the Board of Trustees
of the Bank of Boston.
nities will greatly reduce their
effectiveness and leave a perma
nent gap in campus life.
The fraternities and
Morehouse’s administration are
currently negotiating in the
monthly meetings of the Inter -
Fraternity Council. Dean Butler
informs that “the option is still
open for the fraternities to
regain their houses, but not
before the next academic year."
Director McFarlane adds that
“if the fraternities want their
houses, then it is their respon
sibility to earn them, because
their possession is a privilege.
When the fraternities’ sense of
responsibility is resumed, their
privileges will be restored.”