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Men of Morehouse Aim to be Well
Balanced in Honda Challenge
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n Sunday, Oct. 30, 24
Men of Morehouse went
head-to-head in the 23rd
Annual Morehouse Honda
Campus All-Star Challenge
(HCASC) campus-wide tour
nament. Over 85 Morehouse
students were tested in the
HCASC Power Search Test
administered by English pro
fessor Charles Walton’86, but
certain scholars surpassed
the results of their brothers
and were funneled into eight
teams of three to take part in
the competition, which was
held in Morehouse’s Nabrit-
Mapp-McBay Hall.
The questions for this tour
nament were all preselected
by the company, The College
Bowl, and the subjects ranged
from mathematics to ancient
history. Facilitators Eugene
Finley, Eric Finley, Daniel
Driffin, and Professor Walton
saw few changes in the way the
tournament was held in prior
years. In past tournaments,
facilitators read questions that
were printed on paper, how
ever, this year the program
took on a more modern ap
proach with the use of laptops
and a white board to conduct
the tournament.
This year’s facilitators had
the role of flipping through
questions and creating a con
trolled environment, but they
formerly played a greater
role in Morehouse’s history
in the national tournament.
Eugene and Eric both played
for Morehouse in the Na
tional HCSAC tournament
in prior years and Driffin has
played for our neighbor Mor
ris Brown as well. Currently,
Euguene is the Campus Co-
ordinator/Institutional Rep
resentative for the Morehouse
HCASC Team, while Profes
sor Walton has held the role
of coach/advisor for the team
for the past four years.
Dr. Anne Watts, the As
sociate Vice President for
Academic Affairs, has also
lent her hand to help the
Morehouse HCASC team.
She oversees the Morehouse
HCASC program and allo
cates funds for the Annual
Morehouse HCASC campus
wide tournament in hopes of
producing a team for the Na
tional HCASC Competition.
“In the past, Morehouse has
done quite well in the National
HCASC Competitions,” Wal
ton said. “In fact, Morehouse
has won the National Title
(and the grand prize award to
the institution of $50,000.00)
four times. (Morehouse won
in 2001, 2002, 2004, and
2006.)”
While all 24 contestants
deserve recognition, the first
place winners of the campus
tournament were Jared Log-
gins, Wiley Davis, and Matt
Kemelek. Ron Williams, Mat
thew Kelley, and Evan Tur-
nage finished in second place,
while James Nichols, Paul
Adamson, and Darius Blak-
eney placed third. The first
place winners received a $100
American Express gift card,
second place received $50,
and third received $25.
“With the campus tourna
ment, I think that the cash
prizes are a big motivation
for students to come out and
play,” said Walton. “Quite
frankly, not all students take
to an intense trivia contest like
the HCASC competition. My
ultimate goal is to see More
house once again win the Na
tional HCASC Tournament.”
PROFESSOR of English mourned by
students and faculty; memorial planned in
her honor
STROLL competition raises
funds and awareness for child
cancer
A continued from front page
death until late in the day on
Monday and had to face the
reality that they would sud
denly have a new adviser. For
many of her students, Franks
was more than a professor
who simply signed a sheet to
remove an advisement hold.
“I met with Dr. Franks a
week before she passed, be
cause I wanted to study abroad
and needed to ask her a few
questions,” Jordan T. Jones,
a sophomore English major,
said. “I was stunned when I
heard that a relationship that
I had taken for granted had
suddenly been taken away
only a few days after.”
Many students sympathized
with Jones’ sentiments, noting
that although Dr. Franks’ per
sonality seemed to be chang
ing slightly in the days before
she passed, her kind spirit was
still intact.
“Dr. Franks was the epito
me of a teacher,” senior Eng
lish major Quinterrence Bell
said. “She cared about all of
her students and always found
a way to compliment every
one she encountered. [Her]
legacy will definitely live on in
my life, especially when I start
teaching. I will always try to
be as understanding as she
was with students.”
Bell, along with Franks’ col
leagues Dr. Maureen Dinges
and Dr. Leah Creque, are
planning a student presenta
tion, which will include a dra
matic reading of “Go Down
Death” by James Weldon
Johnson and the singing of the
Negro spiritual, “Steal Away
to Jesus.” The presenters hope
to provide a Morehouse-cen
tric tribute to one of its own
and to commemorate Franks
through spoken words, a skill
she thrived in. This event
is tentatively scheduled for
Thursday, Nov. 10.
Franks’ funeral services
took place on Oct. 29 in Din-
widdie County, Va., where she
was born. She is survived by
her son, Robert Franks, and
by a host of family members
and a large and extended fam
ily on the campus of More
house College.
A continued from front page
halls. The competitive nature
for each hall was different, but
strong. However, the recent
restraints placed on strolling
for Morehouse by the Resi
dence Hall Association made
the experience more interest
ing.
“The event was great,” Mi
chael Gatewood, a fresh
man political science major,
said. “I believe if there were
fewer limitations placed on
the halls, they could have
brought more to the table,
but at the end of the day, Spel-
House successfully helped
raise money for the children.”
The 2011 winners of the St.
Jude Stroll Off were More
house’s White Hall, which
collected $22.86 in addition
to their tickets sold, and Spel-
man’s Living Learning Center
1, which collected a total of
$5 in addition to their tickets
sold.
After suffering a loss at the
Kickoff Jam during home
coming, White Hall recovered
and returned to take the Stroll
Off title for the third consecu
tive year.
“The memory of the keys
ringing in our ears [at the
homecoming stroll off] was
the motivation for us to take
home the victory,” Joshua
Kent, a White Hall stroll team
member, said. “Since we lost
the first stroll off, it motivated
us to work harder and con
tinue the tradition of winning
the St. Jude Stroll Off.”
Students Give Suggestions to Improve
Homecoming Experience
Karlton Mitchell
Contributing Writer
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L ess than 24 hours af
ter the Homecoming
football game, the streets
of Morehouse College were
plastered with empty bot
tles, vacant tents, candy
wrappers, and mountains
of trash. This sight was per
haps an accurate indicator of
how well Homecoming week
went for the community of
people present. Students,
however, are already think
ing about ways to improve
for next year.
Numerous students at both
Morehouse and Spelman Col
leges had strong recommen
dations regarding this topic.
To kick off Homecoming
week, all Spelman students
benefit from a fall break, while
the Men of Morehouse are still
required to attend class.
“We need a fall break,” Eric
Boyd, a Morehouse sopho
more economics major from
Inglewood, Ca., said. “It
would help us unwind after
midterms.”
While this idea sounds
promising, several students
feel that a break after Home
coming would be a great idea
too.
“Everybody is tired from
Homecoming,” Asia Allison, a
Spelman mathematics major,
said. “All AUC schools should
be closed the Monday after
Homecoming.”
Students also reflected on
how concert artist choices can
improve in the years to come.
A comparison between the
two Homecming concerts in
dicates distinct areas where
the hip-hop concert, which
featured Future, Ace Hood
and Kendrick Lamar, can be
improved. The neo-soul con
cert appeared to have a more
nationally known artist, R&B
singer Miguel. Some students
felt the hip-hop artists did not
have the same level of popu
larity.
“We need more established
hip-hop artists rather then
people who are not nation
ally known,” Dorian Boyd, a
Morehouse junior psychology
major from Atlanta, said.
Michelle McNeil, a junior
biology major at Spelman,
agreed.
“Students are from all over,”
she began. “We need hip-hop
artists who are nationally
known, with current songs. If
they are able to do that for the
neo-soul concert, they should
do it for the hip-hop concert
also.”
The staple of the Home
coming weekend is the Ma
roon Tiger football game and
tailgating. The vast majority
of people attend the tailgate,
a time when most alumni re
turn to relive the past glories
of their college years at the
two institutions.
“More free food at the tail
gate would recruit more peo
ple,” Liz Smith, a junior his
tory major at Spelman, said.
Imagine Morehouse and
Spelman College Home
coming next year with a few
different changes, perhaps
a break, an established hip-
hop artist, a wider variety of
free food, and many other
additions. While this does
sound promising, it is a
common belief that the one
thing that should remain
the same is the camaraderie
felt throughout the entire
week.
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