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Morehouse College • Atlanta, GA September 28 - October 4, 2011 Volume LXXXVI, issue 6
AUC Participates in the Fight to Save Troy Davis
AUC students traveled to Jackson, Georgia, on Wednesday, Sept. 21 to protest with the NAACP outside the prison where Troy Davis Was to be executed,
Lauren Morton
Contributing Writer
Imorton i @semail.spdman,edu
M orehouse, Spelman,
and CAU students trav
eled to Jackson, Ga., this past
Wednesday to protest the
scheduled execution of con
victed killer Troy Davis.
Davis was scheduled to die
by lethal injection on Sept.
21 for the killing of off-duty
Savannah police officer Mark
MacPhail in 1989. Incredu
lous debate emerged sur
rounding Davis’s involvement
in the killing after seven of
nine witnesses retracted their
testimonies.
A collaborative effort be
tween the Martin Luther
King Jr. International Chapel
assistants and Morehouse’s
NAACP chapter enabled four
busloads of eager AUC stu
dents to protest in front of
Georgia Diagnostic and Clas
sification State Prison, where
Davis was being held.
Upon arrival, each bus was
met with warm words of grat
itude and appreciation from
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Miss Maroon and White Represents
SpelHouse in Miss HBCU Competition
Tre’vell Anderson
Campus News Editor
anderson.trevell@yahoo.com
M iss Maroon and White,
Lauren Wicker, has tak
en her crown to a new level by
representing Morehouse and
Spelman Colleges in the Na
tional Black College Alumni
Hall Of Fame’s Competition of
Black College Queens pageant.
In becoming involved with
the pageant, Wicker, a senior at
Spelman, owes her experience
to the Office of Student Life’s
Kevin Booker and Michael
Gary.
“The Office of Student Life
proposed the idea to me this
past summer,” the economics
major from Stone Mountain,
Ga. stated.
The proposal was an effort
to have Morehouse, and inher
ently Spelman, represented in
activities that other Historically
Black Colleges and Universities
(HBCUs) participate in. Wick
er prepared the entire summer
for the Miss HBCU competi
tion, with the aid of Gary and
Anita Whatley, associate direc
tor of the Frederick Douglass
Learning Resource Center. Em
bodying Well-Balanced, Wick
er held an internship during the
summer while preparing for yet
another pageant. After return
ing to school, she also had to
balance her studies and prepa
ration for the Howard-More-
house Classic while preparing
for the Miss HBCU contest.
The competition was a four-
day process taking place Sept.
22-25 at the Hyatt Regency
Hotel in Atlanta. Participating
in formal wear, interviews and
a question and answer session,
Wicker also recreated her well-
received talent from the 2011
Miss Maroon and White Pag
eant; she sang a medley com
bining Beyonce’s “Dangerously
in Love” and Jill Scott’s “He
Loves Me.”
“There’s no doubt in my mind
that [Lauren] had the best tal
ent and presence,” Morehouse
junior political science major
Akina Griffin said.
Wicker’s favorite moment
of the competition, aside from
meeting all of the other HBCU
queens, was a attending a fo
rum titled “The Call to Wom
anhood” hosted by judge and
member of the Morehouse
family, Glenda Hatchett. She
gave them a “challenge to be
women of purpose and women
of substance.” Wicker says that
because of this forum she has
become “more focused and
more centered.”
Though Wicker was not able
to place in the competition, she
is still “extremely excited.”
“Participating in this pageant
means that I am a part of histo
ry ’ Wicker said. “I am now one
of the few Miss Maroon and
White’s that have been able to
represent my school, Spelman
and Morehouse, in this compe
tition.”
Senior Korby Wesley believes
Wicker represented the college
well.
“I think it was great that
she had the ability to go out
amongst other queens and rep
resent our institution with class
and grace,” the English major
from Las Vegas said.
Some students in attendance,
however, were disappointed by
the lack of student attendance.
“I believe more should have
been done to get a larger amount
of students there to support her,”
Wesley commented. “I feel like it
was kind of downplayed until a
day or two before [the pageant].
If we want to send our Court out
to different events to represent
us, we need to be there to sup
port them in full.”
In regards to the pageant
itself, Griffin was under
whelmed.
“It is disappointing to think
that many of the girls that were
chosen for the top 12 would
not even make it to the Miss
Maroon and White pageant
to compete at this institution,”
Griffin remarked. “[Lauren]
was not only on a different
playing field, but in another
league of her own.”
Receiving the Miss HBCU
title was Miss Tennessee State
University followed by Miss
Shaw University as 1st Atten
dant and Miss Howard Univer
sity as 2nd Attendant.
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