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THE MAROON TIGER
Serving as The Organ of Student Expression for Morehouse College Since 1925
Vol LXXV No. IX “The Best Little Paper that Could!”'
We Are The Champions !!!
68-65 THRILLER OVER MILES GIVES BASKETBALL TEAM TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONSHIP
Thursday, March 6, 2003
Golf Team In
Full Swing
Louis Muro
Birmingham News
Sunday afternoon, fresh on
the heels of an ill-advised floor
waxing, the fighting Maroon Ti
ger Basketball team clenched the
2002-2003 SIAC tournament
championship. The game took
place a day late after someone in
advertently waxed the stadium
floor.
The Maroon Tigers were
down early but thanks to poise
and confidence, they were able
to stay in the game and eventu
ally win the contest.
After a dramatic second
half that featured nine lead
changes and five ties, favored
Morehouse defeated Miles 68-65
in the final of the 70th Southern
Intercollegiate Athletic Confer
ence tournament.
This is the Maroon Tiger's
second appearance in the cham
pionship game in as many years.
The Maroon Tigers showed why
they have won 14 games in a
row, reeling off eight straight
points to take a 64-59 lead with
See CHAMPS pg 8
INSIDE THE
uGER
Lil Kim drops new album
A & E page 6
Vlore coverage of the
Basketball triumph pg 8
and 9 in Sports
Or. Massey discusses
relevance of HBCU’s in
Campus, World and Local
)g. 3
Christian Nwachukwu, Jr.
Copy Editor
Blanketed in relative obscu
rity, the Morehouse Golf team
continues to chip and charge to
ward greatness. The team that
spent their first competitive year
undefeated, recently earned
NCAA status and a new lease on
the course life.
"(Golf) has been here
previously," Van Freeman, junior
and co-captain of the golf team,
said. "I met an individual whose
dad was a golf coach (at
Morehouse) in the 70s."
Freeman hit the links, so
to speak, his freshman year, stak
ing out Athletic Director Andre
Patillo's and Dean of Students
Eddie Gaffney's offices, and talk
ing to whomever would listen
about how Morehouse College
and a golf team were a good fit.
Freeman, Samuel Fregia,
and Joshua Joseph worked last
school term to convince Patillo to
put the College's support behind
the reestablishment of a
Morehouse golf program.
"I annoyed him every
day that I could about starting a
See GOLF pg 7
Threat of War Cancels Spring Tour
Parents and Administrators Fear for Student Safety in South Africa
Poise under pressure: Morehouse guard shoots freethrows vs. CAU
Geoff Hill
Staff Writer
The Morehouse Business
Department's Annual Spring
Tour has been indefinitely post
poned, leaving the
participating stu
dents wondering if
and when they will
be able to go. Con
cerns from parents
and administrators
about uncertainty
in the Middle East
and preceived
threats to Ameri
can safety abroad
have sparked the
postponement of
the trip.
The Business
Department's
Spring Tour gives
approximately 20
juniors and seniors
the opportunity to
travel abroad in or
der to expose them to American
corporations doing business in
foreign countries. The tour rein
forces the department's goal of
helping students understand
their place in a globalized
economy and gain a better under
standing of how institutions are
capable of functioning in totally
different cultures and societies.
Past tours have taken students to
such places as Zurich, Switzer
land and Shanghai, China.
This year, on its 20 th anni
versary, the tour was scheduled
to take place in Johannesburg and
Capetown, South Africa. After a
very rigorous application pro
cess, twenty-two students were
selected to go on the all expenses
paid trip.
While in South Africa, the
students would have had the op
portunity to visit a number of
American businesses with opera
tions in that coun
try, including
Merrill Lynch. The
students had been
meeting every
week for 2 hours in
preparation for the
trip, before calls
from certain con
cerned parents
prompted the col
lege administra
tion to postpone
the trip indefi
nitely.
The reaction
from the students
seems to be one of
general under
standing, though
many of them
would have preferred to go to
South Africa for Spring Break.
Ryan Drake Lee, a junior
Economics major, said that the
administration's position is "un
derstandable, but I think they
might be being a little too risk-
averse in this case."
The other students selected
were: Richard Baltimore, a junior
finance major; Edivaldo Dos
Santos, a senior accounting and
Spanish major; Anthony Francis,
a senior accounting major; Chris
topher Gaddis, a senior market
ing major; Willie Hill, a junior
management major; Geoffrey
Hill, a junior accounting major;
Darius Hubbard, a senior man
agement major; Darius Ingram, a
junior marketing major; Cory
Jenkins, a senior management
major; Matthew Kennedy, a se
nior finance major; Mengistu
Koilor, a senior finance major;
Alex Louis-Jeune, a senior man
agement major; Todd McDonald,
a senior management major;
David Neverson, a senior finance
major; Nathaniel Saunders, a jun
ior finance major; Coleman
Skeeter, a senior finance major;
Carlos Tanner, a senior finance
and Spanish major; Traftin Th
ompson, a senior finance major;
Patrick Washington, a senior fi
nance major; Michael Weaver, a
junior finance major; and Michael
Wilson, a senior finance major.
The twenty-two students who would have been representing
Morehouse College in South Africa this Spring Break. With
the looming threat of war in the Middle East, the students
now have to make new plans for the break.