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Morehouse Resident Assistants: Men with Many Hats
Cedric Dark/STAFF
Meetings, meetings and more meetings: RA's
Julius (left), Dalmar and James ponder the
latest dorm crises.
By Jeremy L. Writt
Contributing Writer
The men of Morehouse
College form a diverse
community. This diversity,
along with a myriad of other
factors, makes this community
exciting as well as potentially
volatile.
College administrators
combat this possibility by
recruiting some of the college's
most talented and dedicated
students to become resident
assistants. Once selected,
these students are trained in
the latest peer counseling
techniques and are given a
fully comprehensive course on
college policy. Morehouse,
unlike the rest of the A.U.C.,
does not end its training
process here. It gives its
resident assistants (RA's) a
crash course in philosophy so
that they can have an
intellectual basis for the
counseling techniques they
learned earlier in their training
process.
So, what exactly does an
RA have to do?
"Sometimes I feel like a
taxi driver," said De'Ndre
Mingo. "I work in a freshman
dorm and they swear I have
nothing better to do than to
take them to this place or that
place."
But an RA's duties extend
far beyond that.
Resident assistants serve as
the dormitory's liaison to the
Campus Police Department.
Morehouse preaches the
concept of brotherhood.
Unfortunately, some of her
students purge these lessons
from their minds. On
occasion, students' tempers
flare and arguments elevate to
fisticuffs. This is when a good
RA steps in.
However, this does not
mean that he jumps in and
breaks up
the fight
himself.
According
to senior
S a m a r i o
King, an
experienced
RA: "I
would
never put
myself in
physical
danger.
They don't
pay me for
that. Besides, in training they
instructed us to follow
protocol in emergencies of this
nature."
In the event that a fight
does break out, RA's are
supposed to call campus
police and then their Resident
Director. Resident assistants
are also instructed to alert the
campus police department
whenever a resident needs
medical care after hours.
Resident assistants also
serve as floor hall monitors.
Morehouse has designated
quiet hours every evening so
that students can study. Many
RA's consider this duty a
necessary evil. Resident
assistant Monteith Miles says,
"I hate having to tell grown
men to be quiet or to turn
down their radio."
"I feel like I am being a big
nag," said Tigwa Davis. "But I
know that if I don't tell them
to be quiet, one of my other
residents will ask them to do
so in a much more forceful
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2. Wasn't Clark wrong for that chant at the b-ball
game? 3. Does all of Missy's outfits look like big ass
Hefty bags? 4. How come we're ready to fight for
someone else's freedom when we're not done fighting
for our own? 5. Wasn't the crooked SGA more
productive than this? 6. Is God only good when He
does something good for you? 7. If you keep it real,
why did you hide yo' weed when yo' momma came
to visit? 8. Okay, now who's the second grader writing
for the yearbook? 9. Since when did Morehouse
Aquatics become like Navy S.E.A.L. training? 10.
What if the "Morehouse Experience" was all the
brochures claimed it to be? 11. What if you wrote a
poem on the back page of a college newspaper to a
girl and she didn't realize that her initials are in the
title? 12. Isn't "ghetto" more a mentality than a place?
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proclaim to be on Sunday? 14. How many of you
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woman? 16. Ya'll do know that Lil' Kim rumor is
bullshit, right? 17. Is "Creative Loafing" an alternative
paper or a nickname for the Morehouse Police
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orange boot faster than a parking space on campus?
19. Isn't Kirk Franklin just a holy DJ Clue??? 20. Are
you awake yet?
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