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The Maroon Tiger
Sunday, May 19, 2002
Campus News
Bond scheduled to give
commencement address,
Turner to receieve
honorary doctorate
ATLANTA - Morehouse Col
lege celebrates "A Gathering of
Men" during its 118th Commence
ment /Reunion weekend.
The Reverend Kenneth Lee
Samuel, pastor of Atlanta's Victory
Baptist Church, will deliver this
bama, Mississippi, and Arkansas.
Bond left Morehouse one se
mester short of graduation in 1961
to join the staff of a new protest
newspaper, The Atlanta Inquirer.
He later became the paper's man
aging, editor. Bond returned to
Morehouse in 1971 and graduated,
earning a Bachelor of Arts degree
in English.
Bond holds honorary degrees
Morehouse alumnus H.
Julian Bond, Chairman of the Board
for the National Association for the
Advancement of Col
ored People, will deliver
tiie Commencement ail-
dress.
While a student at
Morehouse during the
60's, Bond won a varsity
letter as a member of the
Morehouse swimming
team, helped to found a
literary magazine called
The Pegasus and was an
intern for Time maga
zine.
Bond was a
founder in 1960 of the
Committee on Appeal
for Human Rights
(COAHR), the Atlanta
University Center stu
dent civil rights organi-
zation that directed H. Julian Bond, NAACP Chairman
three years of non-vio
lent anti-segregation
protests that won integration of
Atlanta's movie theaters, lunch
counters, and parks. Bond was ar
rested for sitting-in at the then-seg-
Ted Turner, media behemoth
regated cafeteria at Atlanta City
Hall.
He was one of several hun
dred students from across the South
who helped to form the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Commit
tee (SNCC) on Easter weekend,
1960, and shortly thereafter became
SNCC’s communications director,
heading the organization's printing
and publicity departments, editing
the SNCC newsletter, The Student
Voice, and working in voter regis-
from fourteen college and universi
ties and has served on the boards of
numerous organizations working
for civil rights and social change. He
was president and founder of
the Southern Elections Fund
(SEF), an early political action
committee which aided in the
elections of rural Southern
black candidates. In 1995,
Bond was elected to his
fourth term on the NAACP
National Board. He was
elected chairman in February
1998.
Ted Turner, Vice Chair
man of AOL-Time Warner,
will receive an honorary doc
torate of humane letters. The
media mogul and philanthro
pist, according to those who
know him, has always done
things his own way. The
brash billionaire, champion
yachtsman and founder of
Cable News Network and
Turner Network Television
set an independent course early in
always succeeded. Known as "The
Mouth of the South” and "Captain
Outrageous” for his notorious volu
bility and singular opinions, Turner
built a communications empire
from his father's over-stretched bill
board business and is now cre
atively engaged in giving away the
fortune he earned from it. "Few
Americans,” wrote Newsweek, "have
cut such a swath through life."
Fraternities impact sense of
brotherhood on campus
Christian Nwachukwu
Asst. Campus News Editor
cnwach@maroontiger.com
Since 1906 and 1924 they've
been apart of the African-Ameri
can and Morehouse
College communities,
respectively. 96 years
later, we're still fasci
nated by them. Frater
nities. The vehicles for
social and community
empowerment, the
most visible campus
organizations that
aren't, and the "great
danger" to Morehouse
brotherhood. Admire
it, shun it or aspire to
it, Greek life at
Morehouse is often the
great unknown.
"I think Greek
organizations can add
to what brotherhood is
supposed to be
about," Henry
Goodgame, Director
of Alumni Affairs and
a member of Alpha Phi Alpha,
said. "There's an added value by
students being able to see a full
complement of not only the social,
but also the service aspects of
what Greek organizations can
bring to the campus."
Many of the members of
Greek organizations on campus
agree with Goodgame.
"To an extent I see where
some people say it detracts from
Morehouse brotherhood," said
Van Freeman of Omega Psi Phi.
"But also, I think it adds to the
Morehouse brotherhood because
through these organizations some
people find who they are."
"There have to be some set
tings where brotherhood works
and brotherhood can be seen to
work and people can say, 'Oh,
that's the brotherhood,'"
Goodgame said. "I think
Morehouse in itself has a brother
hood, but like any other relation
ship it has be worked on and ev
erybody has to understand what
their role is in serving as broth
ers."
The fear that Greek organi
zations would deteriorate
Spelman sisterhood prevented
that College from allowing sorori
ties until 1979. Many of the same
concerns prevailed at Morehouse
until 1924.
"The faculty and others
were very hesitant about the start
up of fraternities," Goodgame
said. "But it took the bold leader
ship of John Hope, encouraged by
W.E.B. Dubois, and backed up by
a person who was on the faculty
at the time, Benjamin E. Mays, to
say, 'We can show the campus
how it can be done, how we can
really make the brotherhood con
cept work."
Some Greeks feel that more
effort should be extended between
the organizations-to develop coop
eration based on a common
Morehouse brotherhood.
"You can't show enough
brotherhood," George Sandidge, a
member of Phi Beta Sigma, said.
"We're all Morehouse brothers
and we should show more cam
pus unity. When other (Greek) or
ganizations have events, show up
to those events. Showing our sup
port at those events shows that
we're all brothers."
Sandidge says that Phi Beta
Sigma will devote even more time
to community service next year,
beginning with the incoming
freshman class.
One of the things we're try
ing to do next year is branch out
to the freshman," Sandidge said.
"We don't have any civic pro
grams now, but we are going to
develop some programs where we
do a lot more with the freshman
and with people who aren't in the
organization—we're working
with everybody, not just Sigmas
and people who want to be a part
of our organization."
Other Greeks feel that stu
dents, whether they aspire to join
a fraternity or not, can look to the
organizations for community re
sponsibility leadership.
"There are many individu
als who have no interest becom
ing a member of a fraternity, but
those individuals do the same
thing that individuals in fraterni
ties do, in terms of community ser
vice and leadership goals," Andre
Eaddy, a member of Alpha Phi Al
pha, said. "Fraternities are a
means of making your efforts
stronger by doing community ser
vice in a collective group."
"That's what the organiza
tions are about—scholarship,
helping the community, and being
good role models," Freeman said.
"Each organization has a different
avenue by which they approach it,
but each organization has those
common goals."
However, not all fraternity
members agree with the level of
community involvement that fra
ternities have currently or should
be expected to play in the future.
"I know when I was here,
fraternities were very much in
volved in service activities, both
on campus and off," President
Walter Massey, a member of
Omega Psi Phi, said. "There was
more of a goal oriented, socially
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The spring 2002 line of Psi Chapter, Omega Psi Phi
executes a probate show in front of Kilgore Center.