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GREEK LIFE SPURS NEW DISCUSSIONS
ABOUT MOREHOUSE BROTHERHOOD
DAWNN ANDERSON
ASSOCIATE CAMPUS NEWS EDITOR
DAWNNARIANA@GMAIL.COM
MOREHOUSE’S MISSION:
With pageant season in our midst, creative minds come to
gether to produce some of the most elaborate productions
the AUC has to offer. Arguably, some of the most highly an
ticipated student productions are that of Greek pageants with
their ostentatious appeal and top-notch talent line-ups.
Despite the fact that fraternities are inclusive, catering to the
needs of its members, there is something to be said about their appeal
to non-Greek students. This leaves one to wonder what are the alluring
factors of Greek life at Morehouse College and how are they received
among non-Greek students?
Prior to becoming a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Senior
Biology major, Jeroson Williams was heavily influenced by his uncles who
had formed an impenetrable bond as brothers.
“Forty years removed from the yard and they still talk everyday
like they are undergrads," Williams said. Commonly referred to as “Jero”
amongst his peers, Williams serves as President of the Psi Chapter on the
Morehouse College campus.
Vidura Ufeli, a Senior Business major with a concentration in
accounting, admired his mentors for their camaraderie as brothers. As
an international student, he was intrigued by the idea that “different
people from diverse backgrounds can form a lifelong bond”. Prior to
becoming a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Ufeli admits that
he was not exposed to Greek life, nor did he have any Greek relatives
within his family.
A Junior Morehouse student who chose to remain anonymous
disagrees with the notions of a brotherhood outside the fraternities.
“I knew most of the line [of a particular organization] who
crossed recently and now they don't talk to me as much. I believe
discretion undermines every tenet that their organization stands for,” he
said.
Still, some members of Greek Letter Organizations see some
intrinsic value in the ability of these organizations to cultivate a brother
hood. These conversations seem to have an added value amid the rush
events that have occurred over the last few weeks.
“We are all human beings trying to make sense of what we are
given and being Greek doesn't mean we are on a pedestal,” Ufeli as
serts. “I know it's not always the case but that is how it should be,”
A NEW ERA FOR CROWN FORUM
JAMES PARKER
CAMPUS NEWS EDITOR
JAMESJR.PARKER@GMAIL.COM
Nicki Minaj’s “A Moment for Life"
greeted students who filed into the chapel
last Thursday. The atmosphere is part of col
lege administrators' new Crown Forum model
aimed at creating a more engaging experi
ence.
Students danced and sang in their
seats before participating in a game of “Who/
What is Better,” where attendants yelled out
which of the presented choices they preferred.
Comparisons included: Kanye or Jay Z; LeBron
or Kobe (at his prime); Hezekiah Walker or Kirk
Franklin; Xbox or PlayStation; and Chrome or
Firefox.
As part of a new interactive element,
students were encouraged to use technology
during the 50-minute section. When students
were not responding verbally, they were an
swering poll questions and reviewing the results
immediately.
“Polling by text, tweet, or online will
continue to be conducted to engage students
and record attendance,” Dr. Bryant Marks, psy
chology professor and member of the Board of
Trustees said on Thursday morning.
Seating arrangements are also going
to be used for attendance purposes.
"The assigned seats definitely makes
[entering] quick and organized,” Freshman
Sean Sheppheard said. Sheppheard and his
fellow freshmen will sit in their assigned seats
for the remainder of the semester while up
perclassmen will be allowed to pick their seats
until their chosen sites are made permanent.
Another rule to be enforced this se
mester is the tardy policy. Students who arrive
more than five minutes late will have to sit in
the balcony rather than on the lower level and
will not receive credit for attending. There was
a noticeable consensus among students in
favor of this policy - on one condition. Students
are calling for organizers to exercise the same
regard for time that they expect from atten
dants.
“There is nothing more annoying than
someone walking through those loud doors
while a speaker is up there or a speaker hold
ing us up all day,” Sophomore Clayton Mason
said.
Marks led the program and orchestrat
ed Thursday's assembly along with the Student
Development Committee who even collabo
rated over the summer to address student
complaints and suggestions.
However, Thursday's program also
sparked new concerns among students.
“It would have been great for fresh
men orientation," Junior Carl Alexander said,
“but Crown Forum was always more respect
able."
There is still a population of students
who appreciated the college organist and
the singing of Dear Old Morehouse and saw
Crown Forum as the only deviation from the
DJs and rap presented at almost all other
events.
Marks said the new format aims to
have: engaging speakers, student participa
tion, concrete takeaways, non-traditional pre
sentations, minimal ceremonial activities, and
question/answer lunches. Also, organizers are
making continuous adjustments throughout
the semester and there will still be traditional
Crown Forums intermittently.
President John Wilson joined the session
and received a standing ovation before he
released students with an optimistic message
for the future.
“We’re going to continue to bring you
a quality product here [at Crown Forum] in
particular, and at Morehouse,” Wilson said.
FROM HUMBLING BEGINNINGS
TO WALL ST. SUCCESS
JAMES PARKER
CAMPUS NEWS EDITOR
JAMESJR.PARKER@GMAIL.COM
Last Thursday, students had the
opportunity to hear a success story that
has become a familiar refrain for college
students in the AUC. The Morehouse Man
agement Group hosted the summit as part
of an initiative to bring notable business-
people to the Atlanta area.
Madame La Savage, what many
might consider to be an American success
story, inspired the first African-American to
hold a position in the international division
of any major bank in the world. Madame
was a hairdresser. Her son is renowned
businessman Frank Savage.
"My mother started out doing hair
in my bedroom,” Global Wall Street Finan
cier Frank Savage said, "and when she
finished, my grandmother would wake me
up on the couch and let me go to bed.”
Savage’s mother eventually closed up
shop in his bedroom in their DC house and
opened her own salon.
The former member of the Howard
Board of Trustees went on to become the
chairman of a $700 billion asset manage
ment subsidiary and Alliance Capital
Management International.
Speaking on the topic “Success
fully Navigating the Waves of Business and
Life”, Savage gave a detailed account of
how he went from an inner city youth to
handling billions of dollars.
"I learned hard work can some
times trump intelligence," the Howard and
Johns Hopkins alumnus said. Savage re
called the countless times he was the last
person to leave the office. He added that
education is still a requirement to progress.
His message to students was that honesty
and integrity are absolute prerequisites to
success. Much of his time on last Thursday
was also dedicated to explaining how his
own experiences with the fragile financial
market instilled in his important values.
“I had to sit there and be ham
mered by all the newspapers, people I
knew, and people I didn't, but I knew I
would come out of it,” Savage said, in
response to the aftermath of the financial
crisis.
He added that it is during hardship
that a people learn who their friends are
but also whether they have lived uprightly.
Even though he cites his mother as the
most influential individual in his life, he said
he learned a lot from his enemies in both
business and personal experiences.
Savage also used the discussion to shed
light on his experiences with racial preju
dices when traveling around the world
and at home.
"I never had a racial experience
while traveling around the world, but the
minute I hit the customs office of JFK, then
it would happen,” Savage said.
On one instance he returned
home and began telling his wife about all
the powerful people that he met and she
told him to stop and take out the trash to
humble himself first. So, during his discus
sion Thursday he reminded students of
the necessity for character and a moral
compass.
Junior Terence Balmer said Savage
is the type of man that Morehouse tries to
make out of its students so it was impor
tant for him to be there. However, Sav
ages global thinking resonated more with
sophomore D'Ante Cook, who said the
statement that African-Americans rarely
think past their communities was the most
beneficial part of the speech.
“We need to go out and under
stand other people to be able to think on
an international scale,” said Cook.
Cook was one of many attendants
who left with free autographed copies
of his book The Savage Way: Successfully
Navigating the Waves of Business and Life.
Savage has a son who gradu
ated from Morehouse in 1991 as well as
a daughter and daughter-in-law who
graduated from Spelman.
He is among three distinguished
speakers who have attended the MMG
Summit since it began in 2011. The then-
head coach of the NFL Indianapolis Colts
Jim Caldwell as well as Vice Admiral of the
United States Navy David Brewer were his
predecessors.
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