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Vol. 60, No. 6 Morehouse College, Atlanta January 31, 1985
"'The excuse that African soldiers traditionally give for
throwing elected governments out of power is that they are
corrupt and inefficient and even though the soldiers
themselves regularly turn out to be as corrupt and chaotic
as the civilians they have overthrown, the fact that the
corruption does exist when the guns are first taken usually
means that the promises made by the soldiers sound like
music to the ears of the tired and oppressed peoples.”
Talking Drums, September 12, 1983
Buckeye
Scoop City
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“Martin” - The
Musical in Pictures
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The Devil’s Night
in Bhopal
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Climbing the
Corporate Ladder
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We Demand Respect
Front Page Comment . .
Teachers,
Editor’s Note: This article is
reproduced here for official
college response.
If Rodney Dangerfield were a
student, he might describe his
affliction as "congential
prestige deprivation - the
academic world’s mindy term for
the profound lack of respect for
students now bedevils
Morehouse College.
During the Past Christmas
holidays, we discovered a big
flaw in our contracts (the
Morehouse College Catalog and
the Student Handbook) with the
College that has provided some
teachers the "green light” to
deny students to this institution
their respect as human beings.
This lack of respect has taken the
form of constant humiliation in
class, cheating in student’s
grading, envy because of
student’s special talent, etc.
While we will not condone
violence in solving our problems
with our teachers, we are in full
support of steps taken by some
students to attempt to address
their grievances because of lack
of established guidelines for
students to address and cure this
canker once and for all.
We are of the notion that some
teachers, especially the part-
timers, are the ones to be blamed
in this direction. They are the
ones who always bring their
frustrations from home or
elsewhere and transfered them
onto students. They have had no
problem doing this disservice to
the hundreds of men they are
supposed to bring up in order for
them to become responsible
citizens and adults. They seem to
have forgotten that a mind has
always been a terrible thing to
waste and their action con
stitutes a waste in human
resources. The loophole they are
using? Their tenure is short-
termed and they are not losing
that much. They are either
students somewhere or engaged
in some other business and have
other sources of income that
they can rely on if somebody
becomes BOLD enough to press
charges against them.
We would not want to see
Morehouse College become a
battle ground where students
have to fight their teachers
before they get what they
deserve out of this educational
process. That is why we call on
Academic Affairs Vice President
Phillip Redrick to set up a
commission of inquiry im
mediately to address numerous
incidents of faculty cheatings
that occurred during tne final
week of the Fall Semester and to
set up a procedure for students
to address this inhumane treat
ment.
We have grown to have less
and sometimes no faith in
teacher’s evaluation since it has
proved to be another waste of
time and paper. We foresee
more violent confrontations as
students become more dis
satisfied with the behavior and
attitude of some teachers. The
earlier we can address this
problem the better.
King Week In Atlanta
The theme of the 56th Birthday
Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., held at the National
Historic Site, the Omni Hotel,
the Peachtree Plaza Hotel, and
Symphony Hall of the Atlanta
Memorial Art Center the second
week of January was "Ending the
violence of poverty and world
hunger through creative non
violent actions.”
King Week speakers ad
dressed the problem of the lack
of will to solve the world’s
hunger problems for we have
the means.
At a press briefing Coretta
Scott King said, “A little more
than 20 years ago Martin Luther
King, Jr. delivered his Nobel
Peace Prize lecture in which he
raised a profound question of
conscience for all humanity. The
question was: 'Why should there
be hunger, deprivation, in any
land, in any city, at any table,
when man has the resources and
scientific knowledge to provide
all mankind with the necessities
of life?’
"Two decades after Martin’s
lecture, we have multiplied our
resources and scientific
knowledge immeasurably. Yet
the question echoes down to the
present with a burning urgency
and we are no closer to
eliminating hunger and
deprivations.
"Later in his Nobel Lecture,
Martin answered his rhetorical
question. ‘There is no deficit in
human resources’ he said. ‘The
deficit is in human will.’ In a
sense, King Week 1985 is an
attempt to help eliminate this
deficit of will and balance the
budget of our moral priorities so
that no one languishes in hunger
and poverty in a world of plen
ty.”
At the tenth annual
labor/management/govern
ment social responsibility awards
breakfast The Martin Luther
King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent
Social Change, Inc. presented
social responsibility awards to
Howard Samuel, president In
dustrial Union Department, AFL-
CIO, William K. Howell, presi
dent Miller Brewing Company
and The Honorable William H.
Gray, III, United States
Representative, Pennsylvania.
The Keynote address of the
National Action Symposium on
Poverty and World Hunger was
given by The Honorable A. W.
Clausen, President, the World
Bank. Clausen said the develop
ing countries have shown that
absolutely poverty can be end
ed.
The World Bank is a mul
tinational institution with 147
members. It has made Africa its
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