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Morehouse College • Atlanta, GA
September 14 - 20, 2011
Volume LXXXVI, issue 4
FINANCIAL AID:
Student body stirred by the office’s lack of
service, unequal treatment, and “the run around”
Pictured: Morehouse students wait to receive financial aid advisement. Many students have complained that the Office of Financial Aid does not run as
efficiently as possible and that employees are sometimes dishonest with students.
Tre’vell Anderson
Campus News Editor
anderson.trevell@yahoo.com
E ach year, the Financial
Aid Office sets up a re
mote office in Kilgore Hall to
divert the large influx of stu
dents seeking monetary assis
tance. Students, however, ran
into problems as the financial
resources typically available at
this time of the year had yet to
arrive to Morehouse.
This lack of funds upset
many students.
“The fact that Morehouse
did not have a budget for
NSO week is problematic,” se
nior history major Segun Id-
owu said. “You had freshmen
signing $33,000 loans because
you didn’t have a budget - and
then you have returning stu
dents.”
The supposed rumor that
Financial Aid didn’t have a
budget is false, according to
Jackie Jackson, scholarship
coordinator for the college.
“That is incorrect,” Jackson
quickly rebutted. “Any funds
that we do not have, they have
nothing to do with our bud
get as they are institutional
funds.”
The missing funds have
caused many students to be
nonfinancial and purged
from classes on Tuesday, Sept.
30. According to Jackson, the
college receives these funds
at different times during the
year. Unfortunately, these in
stitutional funds have come
later than usual this year.
This problem, however, of a
slew of non-financial students
is not unique to this year.
John Glaster, a junior his
tory major from Atlanta,
GA with a then 3.6 GPA was
forced to take fall 2010 off due
to what he deems poor com
munication from the Finan
cial Aid Office.
“I didn’t know what I was
going to do with my life,”
Glaster said about finding out
he would not be able to return
to Morehouse. “I felt like I was
screwed over by an institution
that claims to be a mother,
but abandons her children.
I realized I needed to get my
transcript, but, because of the
holds, I couldn’t get it released
until it was too late to trans
fer.”
Glaster also spoke of the
“run around” the Financial
Aid Office gave him the sum
mer prior when he attempted
to resolve his impending fi
nancial situation.
“They basically gave me
the run around for the whole
summer just to tell me a few
days before school started that
they couldn’t help me because
of a $3,000 overdue balance,”
Glaster said. “But the lady at
the front desk would tell me
to talk to my advisor, my ad
visor would tell me to talk to
Mrs. Jackson, who wouldn’t
be there or would say they are
King’s Legacy Lives
On In New Program
Cydney Fisher
Staff Writer
A rriving this fall is the
xVprestigious King’s Legacy
Scholars Program. This es
teemed forum will be headed
by Quentin Samuels ‘04, direc
tor of the King Collection, and
Maurice Washington, director
of the Office of Housing and
Residential Life (OHRL). Sam
uels and Washington are giv
ing a few select members of the
class of 2015 a chance to par
take in this great experience.
The King’s Legacy Scholars
Program is a series that will
be led by the collective efforts
of the Martin Luther King
Collection and the OHRL,
under the division of Enroll
ment Management and Stu
dent Services. This partner
ship aims to give participating
students structure as well as
developing them into future
leaders within their commu
nities.
“This program is a distinc
tive model of Dr. King’s work
See KING, page 2 ►
Strolling and Stepping
Back at the ’House
Jordon Nesmith
Associate Campus News Editor
R ecently, word was re
ceived that strolling and
stepping may be returning
to the yard for the freshmen
class.
Last fall semester, the ex
istence of the favored activi
ties, strolling and stepping,
came into jeopardy when^-a
brawl ensued between
rival teams from DuBois and
Hubert Halls. Said brawl oc
curred during a strolling ex
hibition in Archer Hall when
a member of one team inter
sected the line of the other
See STEPPING, page 2
WHAT’S HAPPENING
ON CAMPUS?
not doing scholarships until
July.”
Thomas Walker, a politi
cal science major, would have
similar issues, but a different
outcome Spring 2011.
“I came to Morehouse
spring semester of [my]
sophomore year owing about
$7,000,” the Chicago, IL native
with a then 3.24 GPA said.
After being referred to the
Trio Program via his aunt,
Walker was still short of
funds.
In regards to the Financial
Aid Office, Walker recalls be
ing in the office at least three
times a week with a suit on.
Having been in and out of
Jackson’s office the semester
prior, he was told to “check the
United Negro College Fund,
writer them a letter, and find
a cosigner for a loan.”
After doing what she said,
Jackson was still unable to aid
See FINANCIAL, page 2 ►
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