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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2003
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Reports: rank Morehouse in third
tier, Massey addresses the College
REPORTS continued from page 1
of the rankings score. In examining fac
ulty resources, U.S.News considers class
size, faculty salaries, the proportion of
professors with a terminal degree in their
field, student-faculty ratio, and the pro
portion of full time faculty. Forty per
cent of this score is based on class size.
Morehouse has a reported 98 percent
of classes with fewer than 50 students.
According to U.S.News, eighty-nine
percent of the Morehouse faculty mem
bers are full time, although it is noted
that this may not be the most cunent
statistic. Findings in other faculty re
sources categories, such as student-fac
ulty ratio and the overall faculty re
sources rank, are not disclosed in the
charts for institutions that fall below the
top 50.
Fifteen percent of the ranking score
is dependent on student selectivity. Half
of this score is derived from the range
of the middle 50 percent of SAT or ACT
scores of students. The middle fifty
percent of SAT scores for Morehouse
students ranges from 960 to 1190. Other
institutions in the third tier have largely
similar ranges. In the top 100, a num
ber of schools have scores near 1190 as
the lower end of their middle fifty per
cent range of SAT scores.
Forty percent of the student selec
tivity score is based on the proportion
of freshmen entering in 2002 who
graduated in the top 10 percent of their
high school classes. In previous years,
Morehouse reported that 43 percent of
its entering freshmen were in the top 10
percent of their graduating classes; this
information is used as the current stads-
Morehouse College s endowment is just
shy of $100 million... Swarthmore, Grinnell,
and Pomona have endowments four times
that of Morehouse College.
tic, although it is not necessarily current.
The acceptance rate makes up the final
ten percent of the student selectivity
score. Morehouse has a 64 percent ac
ceptance rate.
U.S.News uses financial resources,
the amount of per-student spending, to
make tabulate ten percent of the overall
ranking score. Morehouse College's
endowment is just shy of $ 100 million.
Other national liberal arts colleges, such
as Swarthmore, Grinnell, and Pomona
have endowments four times that of
Morehouse College.
Morehouse’s graduation rate per
formance, negative five percent, is an
indicator of the impact that program
ming and academic policies have on the
graduation rate of students. According
to U.S.News, the entering class of 1996
had an expected graduation rate of 63
percent. The reality was that 58 percent
of these students earned a degree in six
years or less.
Alumni giving is weighted by
U.S.News as 5 percent of the overall
ranking score. At 11 percent,
Morehouse has the lowest reported
alumni giving rate from 2000-2002
among institutions in the third tier. The
majority of liberal arts colleges enjoy
alumni giving percentages in the thir
ties and higher.
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away? 5. Am I wrong for playing along with who she thinks I think she is? 6. When did girls stop respecting the
commitment of jheirfelatibnship? 7. When did the parking deck swipe card become a status symbol? 8. But, doesn’t it I
make you anybody’s best friend at the end of the school day? 9. Before I go buying a ticket for the concert can you tell me |
who’s performing? 10. Did my lost refund check go towards her new found white Range Rover? 11. When are you going |
to realize that talking about it isn’t going to change your hopeless candidacy for membership? 12. And if it is that important |
to you, why don’t you just s^rt J&ri^thing'fliat you can finally be happy with? tLSb, why is he still running things?
14. Are you ready to do something about William Mayo? 15. And why don’t you know who he is? 16. Is there any j
substitute for intimacy? 17. Is it just me or did Dre mess it up for everyone in the industry? 18. Just because we are close j
you think you can tell everyone my business like it’s yours? 19. And doesn’t my keeping someone’s secret from you mean.
that I also keep your secrets from them? 20. Doesn't it suck that we can't separate the intensity of Al’s agenda from the
ugliness of that perm? 21. If it wasn’t for Officer Moss keeping the deck open for business late at night, where would
Freshman get there first Spelman kiss? 22. Hey, men of the Senate, are you serious? by Savion Victor Robes-Pierre, PhD.
Homecoming
debate sends senate
into extra innings
by Nicholas Austin
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
In this fall’s President’s Crown
Forum, Dr. Massey responded to the
U.S.News rankings. He contended that
these rankings are largely based on in
puts, such as finances and the caliber of
students. However, Massey reminded
students that Morehouse is known for
its output, and has received acclaim for
its reputation as a solid liberal arts col
lege for men.
Such acclaim recently came in a
Wall Street Journal article that showed
Morehouse College to be among the top
institutions sending students to the best
graduate and professional schools.
There are numerous methods and
criteria used to rank academic institu
tions, some more arbitrary than others.
However, no one system can truly con
sider all relevant factors of each institu
tion. In the case of Morehouse College,
certain factors and criteria, such as ac
ceptance rates, and the SAT and ACT
averages do not reflect what Morehouse
does. Through programming and cur
riculum, Morehouse has demonstrated
that it is about results. Given its proud
tradition of producing outstanding lead
ers, Morehouse knows where it stands
and holds true to its mission. In terms
of institutional rankings, with respect to
its mission, the image of Morehouse
College stands on firm ground.
Homecoming held court in the
Morehouse Student Senate on
October 7, as senators met for nearly
four hours to discuss the proper
appropriation of funds for the
various events during the week of
celebration.
The allocation of funds to the
various organizations on campus
falls to the five-person
Appropriations Committee of the
Student Senate, the chairman of
which is appointed by SGA Vice-
President and Senate President,
Christopher Lee. The remaining
positions are filled by two
appointments by the committee
chair and two at-large nominations
from the floor of the senate. All
appointments and nominations are
subject to the vote and conformation
of the entire senate. Senators are.
then charged with creating
Homecoming proposals to be
reviewed by the Appropriations
Committee.
The Appropriations Committee
reported its decisions at the October
7 senate meeting. Even after the
lengthy deliberations and debates,
senators from several organizations
were upset with the committee’s
findings.
Kyle Wyche, a senator for the
Massachusetts Club felt that
“Senators failed to realize that no
matter what changes were made, not
everyone was going to leave with a
Coke and a smile.”
Concerns motivated some
senators to move for a Committee-
of-the-Whole, in which the entire
Senate body reviews and votes on the
Homecoming Appropriations Bill.
Sophomore Class Senator Terrence
Brown attributed the lengthy debate
to "mistrust" and “questions of
integrity” among certain senate
members.
One contentious issue involved
what appeared to be exorbitant
awards made to Omega Psi Phi
Fraternity, Inc. and Phi Beta Sigma
Fraternity, Inc., in comparison to
other Greek lettered organizations.
There was also disagreement
over the withholding of funds from
the Morehouse Chapter of the
NAACP.
The situation was compounded
by accusations of impropriety and
favoritisrn on the part of the
Appropriations Committee, on which
certain members of Omega Psi Phi
Fraternity, Inc. are represented. These
accusations were followed by
suggestions that the Appropriations
Committee be brought before the
Ethics Committee of the Senate.
The meeting, which dragged on
into the night, featured a number of
proposed amendments to the
Appropriations bill, including an
amendment that would assign an
equal amount of money to all
organizations of the same category
regardless of their proposals or
programmed events.
In the end, it was voted that
organizations should resubmit their
proposals, using proposal templates
drawn up by the Appropriations
Committee. Because of the midterm
examination schedule, an emergency
meeting was scheduled for Saturday,
October 11, to hear what will be the
second Appropriations Bill.
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