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September 7 -13, 2011
Volume LXXXVI, issue 3
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New Partnership, More Student Opportunities
Morehouse Brothers Form New Organization
Tre’vell Anderson
Campus News Editor
anderson.trevell@yahoo.com
H OUSEsports is a new
campus organization
focused on bringing more
light to sports in the Atlanta
University Center (AUC).
Created by seniors John Smith
and Devin Emory, the organi
zation hopes to bring students
of the AUC together around
the topic of sports.
“After meeting John in my
Basic Newswriting class, we
formed a tight bond with each
other through competition,”
Emory, a Mephis, TN native,
African American studies ma
jor, said. “We would challenge
each other to see who would
get the best grade on a given
assignment from time to time.
As the semester went on, we
became really good friends
and decided to create a Word-
press blog covering the NBA
playoffs that summer.”
After the blog, the two want
ed to do more journalistically.
“We began to realize that
people began to enjoy our
commentary [from the
blog] and wanted to join
us,” Smith, a Mobile, AL na
tive, English major, stated.
“We then recognized the
lack of publicity that exists
within our particular sports
arena and felt as though it
would be beneficial to or
ganize a team that would
accommodate the lack of
endorsement of the AUC
sports teams.”
This realization encouraged
the two to forge on in creat
ing what they saw as a needed
entity for the college.
“That’s when we began to
reach out to teams on cam
pus,” Emory explained. “We
wanted to write about sports
and bring more publicity
to Morehouse talent while
gaining more practical ex
perience in media. Last year,
we built a small media team
that would cover every bas
ketball home game and pro
vide footage of post-game
E
Organization creators Devin Emory (left) and John Smith (right).
video interviews, pictures,
and a game story or column.”
Therein was the start of
HOUSEsports. Emory and
Smith would take their knack
for Morehouse sports to the
radio, hoping to further their
message and cause on a larger
scale.
“We created a HOUSEs
ports radio show sample us
ing a small voice recorder that
we took to Clark Atlanta’s ra
dio station,” Emory said. “The
Program Director at WCLK,
Aaron Cohen, was impressed
by what he heard and granted
us a show on their student
station. He even made sure
that we were weekly guests of
Ken Hudson’s ‘Sports Talk,’ a
Saturday morning sports talk
show on WCLK last spring.”
This allowed for more ex
posure for the budding orga
nization.
Now officially charted by
the Office of Student Life,
HOUSEsports looks to be
come an integral student or
ganization not only for More
house, but for the AUC.
“Our goals for the future
include covering the entire
AUC and bringing more ex
citement about sports to the
AUC,” English stated.
“I hope to become the go
to source for AUC athletics,”
Emory began. “I want people
to utilize HOUSEsports to
find out the results of games
on campus, no matter where #
they are.”
One thing that Emory and
Smith hope will attract stu
dents to their organization is
that they are a student-ran,
production-based organiza
tion.
“We ask the questions, we
write the stories, we produce
the news from a peer-to-
peer perspective,” Emory re
marked.
To become involved, HOUS
Esports can be followed on
Twitter (@HOUSEsports).
Student may reach the blog
at HOUSEsports.org or join
the Facebook group. HOUSEs
ports will also be hosting their
second general body meeting
this month.
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tions and the Office of Stu
dent Life.”
Partnering with the Student
Government Association
(SGA), Revolution Racing
provided various giveaways
and inflatable games at the
Hump Wednesday. They also
brought the NASCAR Fan
Experience vehicle allowing
students to simulate being in
a NASCAR race.
Tevin Jones, a junior Land-
over, MD native and event
director and assistant to the
president for logistics of the
SGA, was the student chiefly
responsible for executing the
day of events.
“Every year NASCAR has
an initiative called the Fuel
ing Dreams Tour in which
they seek to encourage
younger generations to ex
plore the possibilities and
potentials of having a career
within NASCAR,” Jones be
gan. “In addition to expos
ing the public to NASCAR
as an industry, the tour also
serves as a means of diversity
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Tre’vell Anderson
Campus News Editor
anderson.trevell@yahoo.
com
T he Office of Student Life
has established a goal
of increasing the number of
corporate partnerships. The
first of such partnerships in
cludes one with Revolution
Racing, an organization af
filiated with NASCAR.
Last week, at the first
Hump Wednesday of the
year, Revolution Racing co
sponsored various activities
along with the Office of Stu
dent Life and the Journalism
and Sports program.
According to Kevin Book
er, Associate Dean of Stu
dent Life, this relationship
with Revolution Racing was
fostered by Ron Thomas, di
rector of the Journalism and
Sports program some years
ago.
“They contacted us want
ing to do a panel discussion,”
Booker began. “We wanted
to extend the idea and part
ner with student organiza-
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