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September 26, 1984/The Maroon Tiger/Page 4B
Hands Off The Maroon Tiger, Torch
We Are At Service To Students
The success of a student
publication lies with the editor
who must maintain two principal
relationships. He must organize
a staff that enjoys empathy. He
must have access to the policy
and news sources of the universi
ty. The editor can best achieve
these goals when he works in a
situation devoid of censorship.
Irving N. Rothman,
Director of Student Publication,
University of Pittsburg.
Elsewhere in the newspaper,
we have published a story about
the confrontation between the
editor of a campus newspaper
and the president of the Student
Government Association. The
piece under reference illustrates
one of the problems that college
publications go through. We
have had our own share of
confrontations of this type, and
so has the college yearbook,
"The Torch.”
Of late, we have heard of
censorship (like we hear of
wedding bells ringing) not bythe
administration and not by our
advisory committee, but by some
officals of the SGA and some of
its president’s appointees. While
we were in the process of putting
every official, whether elected or
appointed, in his proper position
Of operation, the senior class
president, either out of con
fidence or arrogance, demanded
that HE be allowed to appoint his
own representative (not a
member of the “Torch” staff) to
plan the pages of the senior class
in the yearbook. All these talks
boil down to the fact that some
politicians do not know their
limits of operation.
In 1924, when The Maroon
Tiger was established, its main
objective was to be a mouth
piece of the student body of
Morehouse. According to
reports, it was very critical of the
Charitable giving is a uniquely
American institution. No other
society has so thoroughly es
tablished such a variety of ser
vices and educational
organizations, which are depen
dent upon voluntary individual
and corporate giving.
Since 1923, Atlanta has
recognized the need for a single
campaign at the workplace and
for an organized, accountable
stewardship of funds for human
services. That organization is
now called United Way of
Metropolitan Atlanta. It depends
on earnest citizen participation
at every level to assure that
voluntary giving is an effective
way to develop the quality of life
in this community. The United
Way metro-area community
now includes 61 human service
administration and may have
been denied funds for publica
tion because of its views.
In the ’20’s, this could have
been possible and could have
passed without comment. To
day, the spread of education has
given more and more people
access to the most varied and
advanced forms of knowledge,
thus greatly enhancing the
capacity for innovation and
hence the well-being of many
societies especially ours. The
achievement of political
sovereignty by almost all nations
apd racial groups have made
possible an extraordinary widen
ing of the scope for human
initiative and liberty and have
given each of us the opportunity
to play an active role in a history
that will henceforth be worked
out by a collective effort like
ours.
Newspapers were not left out
in the dark during these changes.
We have come from a period
when we were a public relations
mouthpiece to politicians to a
more sophisticated period
where our freedom is enshrined
By Mashariki Aisha, United Way
agencies serving an average of
one in every three families in an
eight county area. A network of
groups and individuals support
these organizations’ efforts
through volunteerism.
This year's campaign chair
man, E.P. “Bud” Gould, is a
United Way volunteer leader. He
represents the banking com
munity as President of Trust
Company Bank, and he also
represents the voice of active
human concern. On July 11,
“Bud” Gould, with other
volunteer leaders, announced to
the public, their goal to raise
$29,818,000. These funds will
provide critical health and
human services to the very old
and the young, to the sick and
disabled, to those experiencing
family crisis, and to youth grow-
in the Constitution of this land.
Article XI of the Morehouse
College SGA constitution spells
out what a student publication is,
but it fails to spell out what role
an editor-in-chief should play. It
creates a newspaper and year
book that have to operate under
“Hitler’s rule and the Pavlovian
Syndrome.” We reject this ap
proach to journalism. In fact, we
reject the article under
reference.
Intelligent as we are, we are
aware of our service to students
of this community, not any
specialized group or agency. We
also deem it very important to
operate under the requirements
of the College Press set forth by
the Commission on the Freedom
of the Press way back in 1947and
which apply today as if they were
set forth yesterday. Consequent
ly, we pledged in our first issue
that we will publish a truthful,
comprehensive and intelligent
account of events, create a
forum for the exchange of
comments and criticisms, and
present and clarify the goals and
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Philanthropy
ing into happy, productive
citizens of tomorrow.
United Way, as a name,
reflects the combined resources
of all communities in which
volunteers conduct a single
campaign rather than 61 separate
requests, while providing an
effective system for identifying
and confronting local human
service needs. Accordingly, this
process remains, as it has existed
since the foundingof our nation,
a uniquely American ex
perience, and it shows that
Americans are very taken with
the spirit of giving.
The 1983-84 Campaign theme,
"You Give Hope," depends
upon each of us joining in this
spirit of giving, which is the”
vitality of our democratic socie
ty-
The Maroon Tiger is published each month of the academic
semester by the Morehouse College Student Government
Association - Keith Andrew Perry, President. The Maroon Tiger
maintains an independent editorial policy aimed at providing
its readers with a broad spectrum of information and
viewpoints consistent with the black life-style. Editorial opions
expressed are not necessarily those of the publisher, but
represent the effort of the writer(s) to interpret current issues
on this campus and the environment around us. We believe all
advertising to be correct but cannot guarantee its accurady or
be responsible for its outcome.
Editor-in-Chief Freddie Asinor
Executive Assistant Eric Nelson
Assistant Editor Eugene Maxwell, Jr.
Associate Editor (Photography) Johnny Crawford
Associate Editor (Editorial) Oscar Jerkins
Arts & Literary Editor Paul Kearney
Political Editor Charles Carpenter
Sports Editor Robert Drummer
News Editor Gregory Powell
Copy Editor Avery Williams
Business Affairs Editor . Ezra Davidson
Administrative Manager Torrence Stepteau
Office Coordinator Edward Williams Jr.
Staff Photographers Melvin Willis, James Scales
Emannuel Payton, Michael Thierry
Staff Writers Tony Mobley, Adam Smith
Mitchell Smith
Raymond Henderson, Emanuel McGirt, Philip Thomas
Dylan Warmack, Zawdie Jackson, Stephen Stokes
Advisory Committee Kay S. Perdue, Ph.D.
Eileen Meredith, Ph.D.
Charles N. Hawk, III, J.D.
Keith A. Perry, Esq.
Allen S. May, Jr., J.D.
The editorial office is 104 SGA Building, Morehouse College,
Atlanta, Georgia 30314. Phone: (404) 681-2800, Ext. 431.
A First Edition In American
Internal Security Gets
J The Apple
Tough. But--
Talk
According to Jeffrey Whatley,
chief of campus police,
designated areas have been
marked for parking by students,
staff, and facutly.
He stated that the normal
penalty for a “No Parking” or
“improper parking” violation
will be a ticket (attached to the
windshield) and the immobiliza
tion of the vehicle by the use of a
wheel lock until the assessed fine
has been paid at his of
fice. Whatley emphasized that
campus police officers have
been authorized to have vehicles
towed away by a commercial
towing service when they are
parked to obstruct the flow of
traffic and when they are in a
visible state of disrepair.
I have no quarrels with this. I
am all for a safer campus, but I
don’t understand why this
sticker was posted on the
windshields of students and
visitors during the Labor Day
Picnic.
Morehouse, I believe, broke
away from the Atlanta University
Center Public Safety System
some four years ago, and I can’t
understand why I or any other
person should call AUC Public
Safety for a traffic violation on
Morehosue’s Campus.
Maybe Whatley would want to
tell us what's happening. We
pause for an answer.
PARKING VIOLATION
Your vehicle is parked in violation of Atlanta University Center
Parking Policies and is subject to removal at the owner/operator’s
expense. For information regarding parking regulations contact
The Atlanta University Department of Public Safety
525-6401
For your safety this vehicle should not be operated until this notice is
removed from driver’s line of vision.