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Page 6/The Maroon Tiger/February 17, 1983
30 Students Named To Who’s Who
Students For Mayor Jane M. Byrne
Student Activities Coordinator John Lafferty, (L to R) Mayor Jane M. Byrne and Morehouse
! College Campus Coordinator Dana Marberry. Marberry has endorsed Mayor Byrne in the
upcoming Feb. 22 primary election.
The 1983 edition of Who's
Who Among Students in
American Universities and
Colleges will carry the names of
30 Morehouse men, who have
been selected as being among
the country’s most outstanding
campus leaders.
The Morehouse students
selected are: Harold Adams,
Timothy Askew, Samual Bacote,
III, Logan T. Burke, Carl Carter,
Tony A. Chisholm, Kevin Hamm,
Archie Hall, Odell Horton, Jr.,
Matthew Johnson, Joseph W.
Lawson, Thomas Cox, Darryl
Fortson, Phillip Cusic, Tony
D’Arceneaux, Brett Dunson,
Roderick E. Edmond, Kenneth
Flowers, Galen Grayson, John S.
Grayson, Gregory Groover, An
drew McWhoter, Alawode
Oladele, Keith Perry,
Christopher Richardson, Edgar L.
Smith, Jeffrey Swain, Joseph
Tarwell, Dewayne Tolbert and
Robert C. White.
It’s Unofficial
Walker Announces Candidacy
For SGA President
by Wendell Williams
Kelvin Walker, ‘84, has in
formed the Maroon Tiger that he
will seek the SGA presidency in
the April elections, thus becom
ing the first student to make
public his intent.
SGA election rules prevent
Walker and Muncie Steed, the
other unofficial candidate, from
making a formal declaration of
intent.
In declaring his unofficial
candidacy, the Griffin, Georgia,
native stated, “I’ve always
wanted to take a leadership role
at Morehouse and the SGA
presidency gives me what I think
is my best vehicle for
leadership.”
He says that although SGA
participation has improved this
year, it is not what it should be.
At the same time, however, he
maintains that student participa
tion is not what it ought to be
either.
Accordingly, he has proposed
that the SGA will take a more
visible and significant role under
his leadership with the primary
aim of creating a sense of pride
and spirit in the SGA and
Morehouse in general.
“We will concentrate on mak
ing Freshman Week ‘83 a starting
point in our efforts to raise the
level of overall student par-
ticiapation," he says.
If elected, Walker wants to
work closely with the administra
tion in building a strong line of
communication between the
students and Gloster Hall.
“The students need more
accessibility to high-level ad
ministration figures,” he says.
“We need more interaction
between the two because of an
obvious communication gap.”
At the same time, he stressed
the need for greater visibility on
the part of key administration
figures with an emphasis placed
on accountability.
The current junior class presi
dent describes himself as an
effective communicator, a hard
worker, enthusiastic and "a man
able to listen and follow as well as
lead.”
The finance major believes
that he will have the necessary
time in his senior year to devote
to the chores of being SGA
president.
Walker has been a consistent
Honor Roll and Dean’s list
member and is currently Publici
ty Chairman for the Oxfam
America Project, a Boston-based
organization which lends its
financial support to self-help
development projects in Third
World countries.
Editor’s note: To prevent any
appearance of favortism on the
part of the Maroon Tiger, stu
dent profiles will become a
regular feature of the paper as
such students make their inten
tions public until election day.
Kelvin Walker
Campus nominating com
mittees and editors of the annual
directory have included the
names of these students based
on their academic performance,
community service, ex
tracurricular activities and future
potential.
They join an elite group of
students who have been selected
from more than 1,300 institutions
of higher learning in all fifty
states, the District of Columbia,
and several foreign nations.
Outstanding students have been
honored in the annual directory
since it was first published in
1934.
Registration Trouble
by Keith LaRue
It seemed simple enough, but
it did not work out that way.
It started in November with
the pre-registration process. The
only thing the students were
required to do was to look in the
schedule book and choose their
courses. Once this was done,
they were to turn in their cards
with their classes on them to the
registrar’s office.
“The new system really im
pressed me,” said David Gains, a
senior, “You didn’t have to run
around looking for professors to
get into a class and you just
dropped the class schedule off in
the registrar’s office.”
However, when students
returned from the Christmas
break they were meet by an extra
long line.
“It’s really incredible,” one
student remarked while in line,
“total mismanagement."
But Mr. Redrick, the
Morehouse College registrar,
said “careful planning of class
schedules would have made the
registration process go a lot
smoother.”
He said it should not have
taken more than 2 minutes to
register each student, but many
students stood at the computer
terminals and changed their
whole schedules, some students
after deciding to drop a course,
returned to the line, others were
in the wrong line, and others had
incorrect information on their
cards.
“The computer works great,”
said Redrick, “you just have the
correct information to put into it
and everything should go
smoothly.”
Another thing that slowed the
registration process was that the
communications sector of the
new system had not been in
stalled. This would have
prevented students from signing
up for classes that were closed
and waiting in line only to find
this out.
Registration took over three
weeks, but Redrick said that it
will be much better in April.
It’s Unofficial
Steed Announces Candidacy
For SGA President
by Eugene Maxwell, Jr.
Munson Steed, a junior
political science major from
Tucson, Arizona, announced
that he will be running for the
office of SGA President for the
1983-84 academic year.
Steed has been periodically
associated with the Student
Government Association and he
feels that he can step into office
and perform effectively and
efficiently without having to be
oriented to the affairs of the
present SGA. Steed feels, “The
present administration under
Gregory G. Groover has done a
good job of creating a govern
ment, which did not exist last
year. Mr. Groover started with
nothing, and has established a
foundation for future presidents
to operate and develop further.”
While being interviewed
Steed was asked the following
questions:
Q. What made you decide to
run for the presidency?
A. “The position of the presi
dent is in strong need of an
individual who can make the
government work. The SGA has
many members that are not
working to their fullest capacity.
While majoring in political
science, I have obtained a total
awareness of how a government
should be led and administrated.
I have led and participated in a
majority of the SGA’s that have
existed on campus.”
Q. What are your
qualifications for SGA president?
A. "Qualifications for student
body offices are written up by
the administration. My past
political history has many ac
complishments, and will be
reserved for the race ahead."
Q. What are the major objec
tives you plan to pursue if you
are elected to office?
A. "The major objectives of
any student government should
be to involve all of the student
body of a given institution. My
platform will be released later.”
Steed’s hobbies include
writing, philosophizing, and
conceptualizing. His
philosophies of life are “Do the
best that you can to the best of
your ability,” and “Always be
objective, and always try to lend
a helping hand."
When Steed was asked about
campaign plans, he said,
“Anyone who wants to par
ticipate in my campaign may do
so, because a government can
not be run by one man alone.
This is an open invitation for
anyone who is interested in
positive change.”
Munson Steed has certainly
jumped out to an early start in
this electorial race, indeed, a
very close one. However, Steed
feels that "Competition is a spice
of life So I hope for a good race!"