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VOL. 72, NO. 2
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE; ATLANTA, GEORGIA Thursday September 16, 1999
IN CAMPUS NEWS
Meet the contestants
for the 1999-2000 Miss Ma
roon & White pageant.
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IN FEATURES
“Hey Baby, what’s
yo’ sign?” Need a date?
Listen to Corey...
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INA&E
Do you know the
hot spots? Check them
out.
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Sean Shand/ Staff
Sophomore offensive lineman Emmanuel Rowe looks pensively atthe field in Morehouse’s
disappointing 14-6 loss to Miles College last Saturday. Though the Maroon Tigers gained
261 total offensive yards, turnovers and penalties crippled the rapidly improving team.
Joe Carlos
Sports Editor
Well, the sun was shining,
the band was playing, from time
to time, there was a nice breeze,
and once again B.T. Harvey was
filled with Morehouse faithful
and pretty Spelman coeds
enjoying the atmosphere of a
Morehouse football game.
Sounds pretty familiar. And it
was. So was the outcome.
Morehouse (0-2), marched
into B.T. Harvey Stadium last
Saturday as a team coming off of
a close home opening loss to the
Wildcats of Fort Valley State, and
lost to Miles College 14-6.
Anchored by sophomore
quarterback Camy Smith,
Morehouse's offense gained 261
net yards. Smith, who replaced
Chivalrik Daughtry in the first
half, had 13 completions on 29
attempts for 222 yards, a touch
down and an interception.
"We should've been 1-1.
When you have 3 fumbles inside
the 5-yard line, it 7 s hard to win.
I'm glad I got the chance to play,
and show what I can do. As
long as this team continues to
believe in itself and believe in
me, I know we'll come out on
top." Smith said.
Smith's impact on the
game was a sudden one. On his
first possession, he capped an 81
yard drive with an on the
money 22 yard touchdown pass
to wide out David McMillan.
Smith's favorite target of the
afternoon was Daughtry, who
shifted to the slot and played
well with 5 catches for 97 yards.
Senior Bmce Randall had four
catches for 72 yards that helped
the Maroon Tigers gain 12
passing first downs.
On the ground, the
Maroon Tigers continued to
struggle. Although junior
Wendell Olden gained 68 yards
on 18 carries, he lost 96 yards in
the process. Olden also had two
turnovers in the second half in
the red zone. The ball was
stripped from him at Miles' 13
yard line in the third quarter and
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Detangling web registration
NSO oratorical winners
Lemar Slater
Staff Writer
One of the most antici
pated and also most scrutinized
projects of the new school year
has been the registration process.
Students gearing up for
this coming year have had to
deal with the Banner System, the
new system allowing students to
register over the Internet. Out
with the old and in with the new
is unquestionably fitting for the
implementation of this new
technology. Battling with the
new set of changes has certainly
been efficient for some, while
being dreadfully frustrating and
painful for others.
Several students were able
to get the classes that they
wanted, when they wanted
them without any difficulty.
"I did not pre-register and
I had no problems," said
sophomore Benjamin James
Others students, though,
faced being booted off-line and
had to deal with the long lines
and waits that has typically
been associated with registra
tion.
Registrar Dean Richard
Winstead shared some of his
convictions, comments and
concerns about the registration
process now as well as what is
hoped for the future.
Winstead said, "It
[registration] is considerably
improved over fall 1998 and
overall it is working well." He
went on to explain that
registration for students whose
accounts were free from holds,
who registered at the appropri
ate time, and followed the
instructions, as outlined on the
web registration information
page, had no trouble with registra
tion at all and was a "piece of
cake."
Although Winstead spoke
highly of the new system, he did
admit that there were problems
that need to be addressed. The
most significant glitch in the
system occurred on August 24, the
day before classes began, when
many students who registered via
the web, found out that their
schedules had been dropped.
Junior biology major
Damian McFarlane was one of the
students who found out his class
registration was nonexistent. He
rated his experience as "fair, but
not good.
"I was able to get classes
back, and the classes that I
couldn't get (on the web), I went to
the department and was allowed
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( from left) Terry McKinney, Derrick L. Plummer, and
George A. Peters II display the plaques they recieved
during Crown Forum for placing in the NSO oratorical
contest.