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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 - - Page 2 “Martin” - The Musical in Pictures - - Page 4 The Devil’s Night in Bhopal - - Page 15 Climbing the Corporate Ladder - - Page 18 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 (Continued on Page 6) Celebrating Our 60th Year