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CAMPUS NEWS
ACHIEVEMENTS
The Golden Key National Honor Society chapter at
Morehouse held its annual membership induction on March
4,1998. Academically superior juniors and seniors through
out all fields of study at the college were initiated into the
society. Barrett K. Robinson, a Biology major with a 3.958
GPA, is the year's junior recipient. Steven D. Schukei, a com
puter science and mathematics major with a 3.9 GPA, is the
senior recipient.
An American Dilemma Revisited: Race Relations in a Changing
World, edited by Dr. Obie Clayton, Vice Provost for Re
search, was recently named an outstanding book on the sub
ject of human rights in North America by the Gustavus
Myers Center.
The Maroon Tiger debate team showed well at the South
east/ Southeast-Central Bi-Regional Tournament recently
held at Middle Tennessee State Univeristy. Team captain
Deon Garner took home second-place honors in the best
varsity speaker category. The duo of Joe Patterson and
Derek McPhatter placed fourth in the novice division.
OPPORTUNITIES
Graduation is just around the corner and for those seniors
who are actively searching for a rewarding job, THE BLACK
COLLEGIAN Online's Resume Database is the ideal way
to make their resumes readily available for free to employ
ers worldwide. Additionally, the first 300 seniors (with a
GPA of 3.0 or better) to post their resumes will receive ei
ther the BLACK COLLEGIAN Online's cap or a beautiful
kente stole. The address is www.black-collegian.com, and
while there be sure to search for your dream job in the Search
Open Positions Database.
Project Vote Smart, a national non-partisan organization
that focuses on providing citizens with unbiased informa
tion about political issues, is offering generous scholarships
to college students to work as interns during the 1998 elec
tion year. The ten-week scholarships are flexible and stu
dents can work any ten-week period that fit into their sched
ules. Students and recent graduates with majors in political
science, communication and journalism are particularly
encouraged to apply, although interns from all backgrounds
and majors are accepted. For more info, visit www.vote-
smart.org, or call 1-800-622-SMART
DIVERSIONS
On April 3-4, Georgia State University will be hosting a
Youth Service Summit, a spinoff from the Presidents' Sum
mit on America's Future held last April that helped estab
lish national benchmarks for youth in local communities.
Students are needed to volunteer for positions from regis
tration to facilitation. For more info, contact Kevin Moses at
(404) 215-2726.
Music Midtown 1998 needs the support of 500 volunteers
to make the festival the success it has become known for.
The three-day music festival, held in the heart of Midtown
Atlanta,' is currently accepting applications for volunteers
to help during the weekend of May 1, 2, and 3. All volun
teers will receive a souvenir festival T-shirt and a one-day
pass to the festival. For more info, please contact the volun
teer hotline at (770) 723-6572 or visit the website at
www.musicmidtown.com
Science Symposium to
Address Minority Roles
By Stefan Chase
Contributing Writer
The future of minority
engineers and scientists, and
their roles in the next century,
will be the topic of a
symposium to,be held early
April on campus.
Entitled "Superstars of
Science," the discussion
session will feature prominent
speakers in the field of
research and will be
moderated by Dr. Walter E.
Massey, President of the
college. The forum will*take
place April 2 in King Chapel
and will begin at 6 p.m.
Featured "superstar"
panelists will include Dr.
Roosevelt Johnson, National
Science Foundation; Dr.
Christine Darden, Langley
Research Center; and Mr.
Maynard Holiday, Lawrence
Livermore National Labs, just
to name a few.
"We want to provide an
opportunity for aspiring
scientists and engineers to
interact and exchange ideas
with prominent professionals
already in the science arena,"
said Chris Jones, President of
the Endeavor Space Club, a
key component in organizing
the symposium.
The endeavor Space Club
is an organization under the
auspices of the NASA
programs at Morehouse and
Spelman Colleges, and has
worked for months now to
make this presentation a
success.
Jones encourages and
invites other majors outside
engineering and science to
participate in the event as well.
"Since the futuristic issues
of science and the positions
minorities will assume within
it will affect us all, complete
community involvement is
crucial," Jones said.
Jones added that the
symposium will prove to be a
refreshing and insightful
discussion on the future of
African-Americans and other
ethnic groups in the field of
Christine Darden, of the
Langley Research Center, is one
of the featured speakers at the
"Superstars for Science"
symposium.
science. It will stress the
importance of minority
leadership and participation,
and will provide students with
in-depth information and
advice on what it takes to
achieve and succeed.
Students who plan to
attend this symposium are
encouraged to bring resumes,
and to take full advantage of
this networking opportunity,
Jones said.
College Seeks SACS Reaffirmation
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College and on their own
academic experience at
Morehouse. They will do
much to make the
undergraduate life at
Morehouse a reality for these
evaluators," she added.
The team arrived Sunday
and spent their first hours in
Atlanta
working at
their hotel,
organizing
themselves
and holding
preliminary
discussions
on two key
sections of
the Morehouse report:
"Educational Program" and
"Institutional Effectiveness."
They set foot on campus
for the first time for a dinner
Sunday evening. Then they
return here for breakfast
Monday morning, followed by
a meeting with President
Massey, Dr. Jackson and Self-
Study Assistant Noreen
Mashaw.
They will be interviewing
all over campus from 9 a.m. to
noon and from 1 p.m. to 3:30,
on either side of a reception/
lunch with the faculty. Then
they return to their hotel,
discuss their findings and
even begin drafting the first
part of their report.
Tuesday's schedule is
much the same. The SACS
team members will be
interviewing students, faculty,
staff and administration from
8:30 a.m. to noon and from 1
to 3:30 p.m., after which they
resume their work at the hotel.
They will deliver an oral
report to the College
Wednesday morning before
leaving Atlanta. The College
will receive its formal written
final report from SACS three
or four weeks after this visit.
The College hopes that the
final result will be full re
affirmation of accreditation,
preferably with a few
commendations. However,
most schools who receive re
affirmation usually also
receive recommendations for
improvements — some of
these Morehouse must act to
solve in three or
four months;
others are
allowed more
time for change,
as appropriate.
SACS can
issue one or
more sanctions
at three levels of
severity: notice, warning or
probation. Very rarely must a
team render a decision of non
renewal of accreditation.
The chairman of the
visiting SACS team is
President H. Douglas Lee of
Stetson University. Other
members include
administrators and faculty
from Furman University,
Tarleton State, Fisk, and
Hampton, to name a few.
They will want to know everything, and so they will
want to talk to as many members of the college
community as possible on every subject that bears
on Morehouse.
