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Page 2 * THE MAROON TIGER October, 1986
SGA addresses
student body
Are you considering professional school?
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
JOHN F. KENNEDY
SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT
Is Looking for Future Leaders in Public Affairs.
Come Learn About Harvard's Two-Year Master's
Program in Public Policy, Leading to either
the Master in Public Policy or
City and Regional Planning Degree.
Joint Degree Options and Cross-Registration
Opportunities with Other Schools
Meet with a Kennedy School Representative
DATE: Wednesday, November 5
TIME: 1:00-3:00 group
LOCATION: Please contact your Career
Placement Office for this information.
All Students, All Majors, All Years Welcome!
Lewis — Continued from Page 1
by John Smith
Before a boisterous stu
dent body in Martin Luther
King International chapel,
the Student Government
Association gave their an
nual introductory presenta
tion at a recent Thursday
assembly. Presided over by
SGA member Quinton
Parker, the event was mark
ed by the introductions of
SGA members and the three
finalists for Miss Maroon
and White, who received
thunderous applause from
all-male audience.
In his speech, SGA presi
dent Archie Rich urged for
There is a new kid on the
block and his name is Crack.
Crack is a cocaine
derivitive that has put the
nation in an uproar due to
its potentially lethal side ef
fects. For this reason, a local
group of business people
have pooled their resources
to form a group called the
Task Force Against Drug
Abuse (TADA). TADA’s
main concern is the removal
of Crack from Atlanta’s
streets. They are also in
terested in trying to make
the general populace of
Atlanta aware of how close
to home drug abuse is and
how it can be slowed down,
Computer —
tions, and Computer
Graphics.
The Microcomputer
Laboratory, supported by
Bell Laboratories and
General Motors, gives
students hands on hardware
experience for support of
class instruction. The
microcomputer lab pro
motes construction and pro
gramming of an operation
microcomputer, and digital
logic design.
Noortajalli maintains that
Co-Op and internship posi
tions are readily available
for CSI majors. Companies
such as Cargil, Monsanto,
Bank of Virginia, Amoco,
IBM, and Southern Bell are
“increased student par
ticipation in school ac
tivities, particularly the up
coming homecoming
festivities.
His oration, as well as
those of other SGA
members, was frequently
met with disrespect from
members of the audience, a
great many of whom were
shouting “BOOKS,
BOOKS!”
This was in reference to a
Morehouse history book, A
Candle in the Dark by
Edward Jones, they were
upset because the SGA pro
mised the freshmen the book
with their $32 freshman
week packet, but never
received it.
if not completely stopped.
Diming the second week of
November, TADA plans to
have a week dedicated to
drug awareness. This week
will begin with a “pray-in”
on November 9 and end with
a rally and concert on
November 14.
TADA is also interested in
organizing a student com
mittee in the AU Center.
The purpose of the commit
tee is to help make AU
students aware of the drug
problem on the campuses,
and to try to get the
students to band together to
try to put an end to drug
usage in general.
always seeking applicants
with computer science
backgrounds.
With an extremely compe
tent and eager group of
faculty members, the
department is able to pro
vide its students with a
variety of experiences. The
department consists of in
structors with doctorate and
master’s degrees, along with
instructors who are actually
working in some computer
industry. Max says that all
faculty members extend an
open door policy to their
students which helps makes
the learning process much
easier.
News
capsule
♦♦♦Join the Morehouse
Debate team this year;
meetings are held Tuesdays
at 5:30 in Brawley Hall 205.
If interested contact Paul
Wiebe or Charles Carpenter
at 681-2800 (ext. 408).
This semester’s topic is:
“Resolved; that improved
relations with the Soviet
Union are a more important
objective for the United
States than increased
military preparedness.”^
♦♦♦Tri-Corp International
has just announced the
establishment of the
AVANT Achievement
Awards for junior and senior
accounting students. The
AVANT Awards consist of
five AVANT Systems and
five cash scholarships
awarded each semester. For
further information contact:
Joy Richterkessing,
AVANT Achievement
Awards, P.O. Box 22509,
Kansas City, MO., 64113,
1-800-255-0551.
♦♦♦Honeywell will launch
its fifth-annual Futurist
Awards Competition, an
essay contest that asks
students to predict
technology advancements
25 years from now. Ten win
ners will get $3,000 each for
an essay of 1,500 words. For
further information contact:
Futurist Rules, Honeywell
Telmarketing Center,
Honeywell Plaza, MN
12-4164, Minneapolis, MN,
55408, or call toll free
1-800-328-5111, ext. 1581.
Dec. 31,1986 is the deadline.
Scott —
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Georgia’s highschool seniors
showed that their Scholastic
Aptitude Test scores im
proved, in comparisions
with last years; their
average score was up 5 per
cent.
“We should be awarded
since our scores improved,”
Scott said. “We should
redirect those funds out of
summer work programs into
public schools.” She said
federally funded summer
jobs do not prepare students
for the job market. “We
should put that money into
public schools in the form of
federal grants.”
Private businesses could
also lend a hand by training
highschool seniors in their
corporate offices after
school.
an original “freedom rider”
who helped desegregate
public facilities of interstate
travel, and became the
youngest speaker at the
March on Washington. His
Selma to Montgomery
march, which was coor
dinated with Andrew Young
and Hosea, has gone down in
history as “Bloody
Sunday.” Bloody Sunday
proved to be a critical point
in the civil rights struggle.
Since the civil rights
struggle of the 1960’s, Lewis
has not given up his fight.
After an unsuccessful bid
for Atlanta City Council in
1976, he accepted an ap
pointment from President
Jimmy Carter to head AC
TION, the federal volunteer
agency. While serving in
this capacity, Lewis travell
ed extensively throughout
the country listening to peo
ple and voicing their con
cerns to the President as
well as congressional com
mittees.
Shortly after returning to
Atlanta in 1980, Lewis
worked on several projects
benefitting both minorities
and whites. From his work
in 1980, Lewis gained the
faith of a wide cross-section
of Atlanta’s voting popula
tion. He was persuaded by
several friends to run for an
At-Large position on Atlan
ta’s City Council against
Jack Summers, a 12 term in
cumbent.
Despite some discourage
ment from some of the city’s
Black leaders concerning the
race, Lewis was able to
mobilize the students from
the Atlanta University
Center and began a door-to-
door campaign throughout
Atlanta. When the ballots
had been tabulated,
Lewis—a tremendous under
dog in the race—had amass
ed approximately 70 percent
of the votes. Once again,
Lewis quickly continued his
fight for the people after the
1981 election.
Lewis’ record on Atlanta’s
City Council is an im
pressive one. He has spon
sored and co-sponsored
legislation to create an in
dustrial parks in Fulton
County to attract small
businesses thereby increas
ing jobs for citizens. He has
sponsored legislation to con
tinue the city’s revenue to
day care centers and provide
$100,000 dollars to pro
grams which would benefit
Atlanta’s homeless. “I think
See LEWIS, page 8
Business people
band together
to fight drugs
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