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October-November, 1960
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THE WOLVERINE OBSERVER
The Wolverine Observer Staff
Editor-in-Chief Calvin N. Mathes
Managing Editor Donald J. Wilson
Associate Editors Dolores Johnson; Eloise Gay,
Gloria King, Ella Flowers
Sport Editor Jerome Bullard
Secretary-Typist _ Emma Durham
Business Manager - . Nathaniel Mathes
Ass’t Business Manager ... Ocelia C. Ellis
Advertising Manager Arthur Wilson
Circulation Manager . Shirley R. Wakefield
Typists Arthuj; Wilson, Betty Dotson, Benny Cliett
Reporters Doris Purdue, Gwendolyn Lucas, Mary Starks,
Bobby Schley, Dorothy McKissick, Arthur Foster,
Sharron Strickland, Mary Boykin
Advisors - Louise T. Hollowell (Chairman)
Beulah J. Farpier, George T. Johnson,
Betsy W. Horne, Vera L. Benton, Ola L. Adams
Member- of the Intercollegiate—Press
FROM THE EDITOR
by
Calvin Mathes
First Meeting of the
Sociology Club
The Sociology Club met Wednes
day October 12, at 10:00 a.m. for
yearly organization. Dr. Robinson
spoke and opened the meeting. Mr.
Rufus Stroud took over to act as
chairman and Miss Mildred Taylor
was appointed to act as secretary.
A few objectives were given by Mr.
Stroud and the bouse was opened
for the election of officers. The day
of regular meeting was set for
Monday of each week at 1:00 p.m.
in room 201.
Due to the fact that several
people had to leave for classes at
Morehouse College, the election of
officers was postponed until the
next meeting.
THE IE
WILL BE
ONLY TWO
There will be only two issues of
the. Wolverine Observer this semes
ter. The first is expected to be
published in October, 1960, and the
second in December, 1960. However,
we expect to remedy this state of
affairs by the second semester and
go back on a monthly basis begin
ning January, 1961. Actually, we
need more volunteer workers to
show the business manager that we
are eager to print the Observer on
a monthly basis. Won’t you help us
to strenghten our staff and create
more enthusiam for our publica
tion ?
First of all, 1 would like to express my thanks to all those who are be
ginning to show constructive interest in our publication. We have a
better staff this year than ever before. We have new additions to a few
of the old staff members who remain.
We are striving to give you a better looking and a more interesting
variety of news than previously printed by the staff. Our only regret is
that present policy will allow us to publish only one issue for September
and October, and one for November and December. With your unselfish
help, we hope to change this policy as soon as possible. Nevertheless,
this gives us a chance to concentrate on quality. So we will strive to make
the best of the present situation while it lasts.
Is This The Morris Brown
Football Team??
Many are wondering if it is. Questions are being asked, Maybe the loss,
through graduation, of some of the key men of last year’s Purple Wolver
ines had some undesirable effect; or maybe there is some other reason.
We only know that we feel let down, a terrible thing to experience—
that let down feeling.
COLLEGE POETRY
SOCIETY
Dear Editor,
'The American College Poetry So
ciety is pleased to announce that
its fourth semesterly anthology of
outstanding college poetry is now
being compiled for publication
early next year. We would appreci
ate it if you would alert interested
students on your campus to this
opportunity to have their work
published.
Contributions must be the original
work of tiie student (who shall
1-eta in literary rights to the mater
ial), submitted to the undersigned,
care of the Society, with the en
trant’s name, address, and school
on each page. Poems, which may
deal with any subject, may not ex-
oeed 48 lines, nor may any individ
ual submit, more than five poems.
Entries which are not accepted for
publication will be returned if ac
companied by a stamped, self-
addressed envelope, but they can
not be otherwise acknowledged, nor
can the Society compensate stu
dents for poetry which is published.
All entries must be postmarked
not later than midnight, December
9, 1960, to be considered, and the
decisions of the Society judges are
final.
We are very grateful for your kind
cooperation in this project. Without
the assistance of the college news
papers and magazines of the
United States and Candda, the
first three anthologies could not
have succeeded as they did.
Yours truly,
Alan C. Fox
Executive Secretary
The address is—American College
Poetry Society, Box 2U63, Los
Angeles 2U, California,.
—Ed.
Readers Digest Press
Kit Service New
Addition
A uew feature has been added to
the Wolverine Observer. The stu
dents of Morris Brown will have
the benefit of reading in their
paper articles from the Reader’s
Digest. Negotiations have been
completed which wiX enabLe the
Wolverine Observer to be the re
cipient of a Press Kit containing
advance proofs and news releases
based on articles from forthcoming
issues of the Reader’s Digest.
CARTOON QUIPS
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One man talking politics with
friend: “We’ve had a piano player
and a golfer. You know who I’d like
to see get in now? A bowler.”
* * * *
Small boy to mother: ‘“Daddy took
me to the zoo. One animal came in
and paid $33.80 across the board.”
* ❖ * *
One policeman to another: “Ever
get one of those days when nothing
seems to go wrong?”
* * * *
Small son to parents bringing home
quadruplets: “We’d better start
calling folks. They’re gonna be
harder to get rid of than kittens.”
% * H 5 $ | | , ’
Woman complaining to receptionist
in doctors office: “All ha does is
make an appointment for me to see
another specialist! Is he really a
doctor, or just a booking agent?”
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WARNING: SCHOOL AHEAD
The principal wound up the first
teachers’ meeting of the year with
this advice: “Do be patient and
long-suffering with parents. Re
member, they are each sending you
their very best efforts.”
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Home economics majors grad
uating from. January 1961 to June
1261 may apply now for The Pills-
bury Awards for 1961.
Woodrow Wilson
Fellowship
Nominations Begin
Princeton, N. J., October 3:—
An election campaign promising
rich rewards for the successful
candidates gets under way today
as thousands of faculty members
from universities and colleges in
the United States and Canada be
gin to nominate college seniors for
Woodrow Wilson graduate fellow
ships.
In announcing the opening of the
competition for the academic year
1961-62, Dr. Hugh Taylor, Presi
dent of the Woodrow Wilson Nat
ional Fellowship Foundation, esti
mated that well over 9,000 students
will be nominated by the closing
date of October 31.
Designed to reduce a nation-wide
shortage of qualified college teach
ers, the program annually awards
1000 fellowships for first year grad
uate study at any university of the
recipient’s choice in the United
States or Canada. Candidates are
elected only after rigorous Screen-
Continued on Page four
There have been four games and three consecutive losses. Fellas-,- do
you remember these dates: September 17, and 24, and October 1. We were
beginning to feel cold despair until Bethune Cookman fell prey to the
savage attack of the rejuvenated Wolverines.
Before this issue is off the press you will have met Florida A. and M.
There is little we can do but pray for you. We have been left very little
to “go on”.
We do know this, also; you cannot rest on your laurels. You cannot win
today’s games by dreaming of yesterday’s glory. You must grow up
sometime. You have to realize that you are letting the men down who are
gone. Your longings can’t bring them back on the team. Show us some
thing spectacular in the next few games; for we are hopeful and are
pulling for you as we always do.
Clark is probably beginning to feel that her day may have come, so
let us disappoint her with a crashing victory, as usual, in the traditional
“turkey day” classic.
Open Letter To
Morris Brown College
Dear Fellow Brownites,
I hardly know where to begin. I was quite unhappy after we lost our
first football game to North Carolina; and as I started home, I wondered
how I could come back to the “Victory” dance. Some victory!
When I got home, I didn’t know what to do to pass the time away-.
Then the doorbell rang. When I opened the door, there stood Lonnie King
and Benjamin Brown, leaders of the Atlanta University Center Student
Movement.
What on earth could they want? After a short conevrsation I discovered
that I had been accepted for a cashier's job .at Food Town, a North West
Super Market, to which' I had applied for work during the month of July.
Ben and Lonnie waited until I redressed and drove me to the store for
an interview with Mr. Jordan, the Food town manager, who was quite
pleasant and who treated us with every courtesy.
On Monday, September 19, I was to begin a two-day orientation course
at the National Cash Register Company to learn the techniques of operat
ing the register. Once .the course was completed, everything was all set.
I would work Friday evenings and all day Saturday.
As you can imagine, the dance that night was a victory dance after all!
1 *
On Sunday afternoon, I talked with Dean Wilson and Professor Dickson
of Morris Brown, and both agreed to help me by carrying out my registra
tion for the first semester while I went to orientation classes.downtown.At
this point, I must mention the fact that we have some wonderful people
at Morris Brown, for my instructors all .agreed, in my absence, to enroll
me in their respective classes.
My course at the Cash Register Company turned out fine. I made re
markable progress and my instructor was pleased with my success. The
same views were expressed by my employer when he received the exam
ination papers.
My first day at work was one of uncertainty, but later became some
what of a relaxed routine. Everyone was nice to me and helped me in every
way possible to make me feel comfortable. They succeeded, for before the
evening was over, I felt that I belonged behind my cash register.
Now I feel that everything wil be fine. New highways are being
opened, fellow Brownites, and I am happy that I was chosen to be a trail-
blazer. The date September 17, 1960 will go down in history as a DAY
OF VICTORY” for all Brownites whom I represent, though we lost that
Your fellow schoolmate,
Willie Mae Keith
The Price for
Freedom
Donald J. Wilson
What is the price of freedom?
The real question is, how long can
white America bear the cost of
bigotry ? “Discrimination,” says
market research consultant Elmo
R.oper, “is an economic luxury this
country cannot afford.” In 1959,
says Roper, “racial discrimination
alone robbed the economy of $15
billion of unearned—and unspent—
income. When all the direct and in
direct costs or all the varieties of
discrimination are taken into con
sideration, the full cost of this
drainage is probably twice that of
the color bar alone.” As long as the
Negro remains half slave and half
free, this country can never attain
its full measure of greatness, nor
can it maintain its present leader
ship among other nations of' the
world.
Since February 1, hundreds of
Negro .students have cheerfully
gone behind bars, for the sacrificial
altar of Negro freedom has shifted
from civil war to lunch counters;
from the freeing of men’s bodies te-
the freeing of men’s souls. Often
abused, intimidated, beaten, and
even put to death, the Negro is
“paying heavily” for rights long
earned but still denied him, and for
privileges so freely granted to
everyone else, even to the world
known enemies like Nikita Krush
chev and Fidel Castro. A
Here in the South alone, local
laws requiring dual facilities are
costing millions of dollars in lost
industries. Hotel and restaurant
discrimination discourage national
conventions, further curtailing po
tential revenue. Nothing that
Montgomery had sold its zoo, closed
jts public pools, parks and tennis
courts to avoid intergration. Harry
Golden, a well-known satirist, said:
“Pretty soon Montgomery won’t
have Montgomery.”
But the Negro is not alone in his
fight. Seeing Southern Negro stu
dents fighting for human dignity
evoked the admiration and aroused
the social consciousness of North
ern white students from coast to
coast. They formed local picket
lines, held campus demonstrations
and set up fund-raising organiza
tions to support their 1 Dixie col
leagues; but, like white abolitionists
of yesterday and the Negro every
day, they, too, pay dearly for their-
belief in the freedom of man.
Paying dearly for freedom is an
old historical precedent. Each note
worthy age and every surviving
people have produced their freedom
fighters—those who have fought,
suffered and died that they might
be free. Some great leaders are
present^ today. Let us follow them
wherever they go, for they will pay
the price, the price of freedom.
Fun Fare
PARDON,*YOUR SLIP IS
SHOWING
From a restaurant ad: “Good Food
Takes Time, Yours Will be Ready
in a Second.” - ' 1
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Club notice: “The Skyland- Garden^
Club will meet Thursday at 10 a.m.
at the country club. Shady subjects
will be discussed.”
*■ * * *
Newspaper headline: “Public Asked
to Meet on Light Poles.”
Newspaper article about a local
resident: “He operates a farm,
engages in civic activities and keeps
an occasional sneaking date.”
Knee - length '•
skirts are fashion’s craze, bringing
back the good old gaze.