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At a G lance The Maroon Tiger Sunday, May 19, 2002 ANNOUNCEMENTS National Black Arts Festival Comes to AUC Fill your ears with the soulful sounds of Hugh Masekela, Randy Weston, Nnenna Freelon, and Steve Turre. Sway your hips to the rhythms of the Ballethnic Dance Company, Urban Bush Women, and The National Song and Dance Company of Mozambique. Laugh, cry and shout during Dreamgirls, the Broadway hit musical starring Jennifer Holliday. Feast your eyes upon the visual arts of Jacob Lawrence, the Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art, and thousands of other artists from around the globe. Recognized as the world's largest gathering of Black cre ativity, the National Black Arts Festival will present more than 1,000 artists from the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and the Ameri cas. Join us for this annual art celebration and cultural ex change in Atlanta, Georgia on July 19 -28, 2002. Staff and Faculty of the Atlanta University Center re ceive FREE ADMISSION to the NB AF Festival Site on the AUC Quad, July 26-28, with proper ID. AUC events include: Per formance by Hugh Masekela and Randy Weston, Writers Workshop, Children's Education Village, musical perfor mances by local and nationally recognized artists, Family Film Series, Food Court and the Vendor Marketplace featuring 100 vendors of clothing, gifts, jewelry, sculpture and crafts. Morehouse College Speech and Debate Team Results Six members of the Morehouse College Speech and De bate team travelled to Bradley University in Peoria, IL to com pete in the American Forensics Association National Indi vidual Events Tournament (AFA-NIET), April 5-8. The re sults were as follows: Theodore Perkins and Rhett Solomon advanced to finals and won third place in dramatic duo inter pretation. Tishuan Scott reached semi-finals in four events (prose, poetry, dramatic and program oral interpretation). Scott also placed 11th overall. Kirk Moore reached quarter finals in both poetry and dramatic interpretation; Theodore Perkins and Aaron Jones were quarter-finalists in poetry in terpretation and prose interpretation, respectively. Sixty schools and 540 speakers were represented at the national tour nament won for the second straight year by the University of Texas-Austin. Morehouse placed 16th overall. Congratulations to tla 2002-2003 M laroon ions T iqer e Edit oria I Staff! Editor in Chief J ames A. Britton h am Islam <wu Mamagimg Editor haki Cory Editor Christian Mwachukv Campus Mews Editor Colin host Gn Features Editor Ruhani Trimiew World & Local Mews Editor Anth ong Jewett Arts & Emtertaimmemt Editor David Yamall Sports Editor Demetrius Smith Photography Editor J amie Swift (Spelman College) Layout Editor Jcn-Sesrie Goff BuSIMESS MAMAGER Andrew Michael Meal SEMIOR COLUMMIST Saida G run d 4 (Sp el man College) Geoffrey Bennett/DES IGN