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VOL. 71, NO. 6 MOREHOUSE COLLEGE; ATLANTA, GEORGIA
The Organ of Student Expression
£ Serui^g Morehouse College Sisce 1898
Tuesday Febraury 9, 1999
IN W & L NEWS
Malcolm X put his
ouin stamp on history. Now
his image has been put on
a stamp.
Page 4
Massey, Hopps
put an end to
speculations
By Mikhia Hawkins
Co-Editor in Chief
Both President Massey and
Provost and Senior Vice-
President for Academic Affairs
John Hopps deny rumors that
Hopps will resign under duress
at the semester's end.
According to these rumors,
certain administrators and
members of the
board of
trustees have
been
pressuring Dr.
Massey to call
for Hopps'
resignation.
"Nobody
is putting any pressure on me
to force him [Hopps] to resign,"
said Massey.
In denying the rumors,
Massey referred to his long
standing relationship with
Hopps.
"We are friends," said
Massey. "We were roommates
at Morehouse. We worked
together as physicists."
However, Hopps said that
he is considering offers, from
other institutions.
"There is a possibility that I
won't be returning [next school
year], but that will be my choice,
said Hopps. "I've had calls from
institutions with offers but I
have not made any
commitments."
Hopps declined to disclose
the institutions and details of
the offers that he has received.
Hopps joined the College's
administration in January 1996,
when Massey named him to the
then newly established position
of Provost and Senior Vice
President for Academic Affairs.
He has since served as the
College's second most senior
administrative officer after
Massey.
IN A & E
The world wasn't ready
when miles brewed up his
fusion of different genres.
Is the world ready for
more?
Page 13
Over Christmas break, Anthony Davis (above) donated his
kidney to his mother
Morehouse taking the bite out of the Y2Kbug
By Lemar Slater
Staff Writer
January 1, 2000 is less
than eleven months away,
yet prepara
tions are al
ready being
made for the
'big event'. No,
I am not speak
ing of the New
Year's Eve cel
ebration for the
new millen
nium, but
rather the im
pact to be caused by the on
slaught of the Year 2000 mil
lennium bug (Y2K). Most of
the general public has been
made aware of the expected
computer malfunction to
occur as the internal clocks
of all automated, date sen
sitive systems input the
date 1/1/00. However, few
people are aware that 9/9/
Y K
99 stands out as a date of
destiny as well, insomuch
as early programmers of
record-keeping software
utilized this date to repre-
Continued on page 4
IN SPORTS
The NBR is back. UJhat
next?
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Morehouse student gives
mother the gift of life
Faraji Whalen
Co-Editor in chief
Last Christmas, Morehouse
sophomore and Maryland native,
Anthony Davis surprised his
mother with a "Morehouse
Mom" sweatshirt . "I really
wanted to let her know how
much I loved her and my father
know how much I appreciated
them getting me to Morehouse,"
said Davis. "I wanted her to
somehow experience what I was
feeling."
Davis outdid himself this
year by giving his mother,
suffering from kidney failure, his
own kidney.
Tragedy struck the Davis
household in the middle of 1997,
when Beverly Davis, Anthony's
mother, was diagnosed with
kidney failure while undergoing
a routine physical examination.
According to Lynt Johnson, chief
of transplant surgery at
Georgetown University Medical
Center, kidney failure can be
undectectable by the victim until
the latter stages of deterioration,
as it did with Ms. Davis. In fact,
her doctor is still unsure of the
cause. "It is not until the kidney
gets down to the last percent of
function that a person could be
(physically) ill." The kidney
removes waste from the body and
is an integral part of the body's
waste management and digestive
systems.
While the family dealt with
his mother's illness, Anthony
entered his freshman year at
Morehouse. By January, Beverly
Johnson's condition had
deteriorated and she had already
endured 11 operations and
undergone dialysis.
The strain of dealing with his
mother's illness took a noticeable
toll on Anthony. "Thinking about
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Servants of all doing their manly deeds
Members of Alpha
Phi Alpha
Fraternity, Inc.
were among the
many in
attendance at the
Martin Luther
King Day campus
clean-up. (L-R)
Ge'Juan Cole,
Jason Smoot, and
Brian McCullum
do their part in
cleaning Lee St.