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MOREHOUSE COLLEGE, ATLANTA. GA
Tuesday, October 28,2003
www.maroontiger.net
Volume 78, No.9
Lack of funds delays
dorm renovation
Financial aid denied to HBCUs due
to recent federal budget cuts
by Mel Dennis
STAFF WRITER
The Quarles Court Dormitory
Unit Two was last week re-opened
for student use, one year after a first
floor fire on August 9,2002 left eight
students without rooms. Though the
students were relocated to Unit Five
immediately after the incident,
reconstruction did not begin on the
dorm until June of this year due to
lack of funds.
Funding for the reparation of
Unit Two, as well as for the
renovation of the remaining units,
was originally slated to come from a
series of four federal grants. When
the government reneged on over
$275,000 last January, however,
faculty, staff, students, parents, and
friends of the college had to band
together to raise the money. Forty-
five thousand dollars had to be taken
from Morehouse’s endowment to
raise enough money for the
renovation. The goal was reached in
March.
The loss of funds came as a result
of governmental budget cuts, caused
The
government
has done its share
of promise
breaking. We
should have
expected it and
planned to raise
the money
ourselves.
- Barry Marcus, 04
by the continuing war in the Middle
East. Financial aid to HBCUs
chartered before 1900 was among the
first programs to be cut. Among the
affected schools are Morehouse,
Spelman, and Edward Waters
Colleges, and Howard, Atlanta, and
Wilberforce Universities.
Please see BUDGET, page 2
Maadeia dies in irlsoa,
Ssuth Africa aripts In rlats
CORTESY OF WWW.KIM.CO.ZA
The world mourns the loss of 85 year-old, South African
anti-apartheid activist,Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.
Story by John Thomas.
Please see MANDELA, next page.
Black athletes urged to
join the struggle
This revolution will not
be televised
by Kyle Scoop Yeldell
kyle_yeldell@maroontiger.net
SPORTS EDITOR
Jackie Robinson broke the color
line in Major League Baseball in
1947 by playing for the Brooklyn
Dodgers. Larry Doby followed suit
11 weeks later with the Cleveland
Indians. Preceding them was Moses
Fleetwood Walker who played for
Toledo in the American Baseball
Association in 1883. His brother,
Welday, accompanied him into the
league, at a time when the league let
few, if any blacks in. Now, many
black Americans are calling on their
pioneer black athletes to take an
active role in the struggle for
universal voting rights.
Though the National Football
League was integrated upon its
inception in 1922, it adopted a no
blacks policy in 1933. This policy
was lifted in 1946, when Woody
Strode and Kenny Washington, two
UCLA All-Americans, broke down
that barrier by signing with the Los
Angeles Rams. In 1950, Earl Lloyd
became the first black American to
play in the National Basketball
Association when he signed with the
Washington Capitols. At the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, Charlie Scott became the
first black basketball player to
integrate major college basketball.
Like Lloyd, who attended West
Virginia State College, most of these
black athlete pioneers went to
historically black colleges and
universities.
Please see ATHLETES, page 3
by Marc Muneal
marc_muneal@maroontiger.net
FEATURES EDITOR
The following story is brought to
you at a price.
Every week, the Maroon Tiger
undergoes a strict censorship and
screening process to ensure that what
we print coincides with the city’s laws
regarding propaganda and activism.
This week, a false copy was sent in
for screening.
On this page, we were supposed
to run a story profiling Morehouse
trustee Dr. Bill L. Garrison and his
candidacy for the office of mayor in
the upcoming election. The interview
was done. The story was written. The
dummy copy was sent off to the
review board. With the assistance of
a sympathetic party, however, the
approved material was intercepted on
the way to press and replaced by one
bearing this page and this story.
Fellow students, take the
following words to heart. When
authorities get word that we have
subverted the system, the Maroon
Tiger may be shut down. We, the staff
members, may face legal action; our
safety, uncertain at all times, will be
even more compromised. We must,
however, stand for something.
Our time is now, and we may not
get another chance.
For the past year, secret societies
have been privately meeting at
Morehouse College, Spelman
College, Clark Atlanta University,
and many other colleges and
universities throughout the city of
Please see REVOLUTION, page 4
QUICK READ
OUR WORLD
Local restaurant
asks black college
* students to leave
Students claim the restuarant
forced them to vacate seats for
whites, page 2
SPORTS
Black Athletes
forced to take the
defensive
Everything from hairstyles to
interracial dating make black
athletes the target of a racial
discrimination, page 3
COMMENT
Sneed: Separate
isn’t equal, page 6