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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 See FRATERNITY Page 6 The spring 2002 line of Psi Chapter, Omega Psi Phi executes a probate show in front of Kilgore Center.