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WOLVERINE OBSERVER
March, 1967
WOLVERINE
OBSERVER
An Expression of Student Opinion
Editor
Svble Avery
Associate Editor
John Turner
Society Editor
Rosa Christian
News Editor
Nathaniel Sheppard, Jr.
Cartoonist
Patric Martin
Feature Writers
Alice Henderson, Julius Stiggers,
Typhenia Jackson, Jarrett Thom
as, and Timothy Solomon
Photographer
Don Graham
Roving Reporter
John Gilbert
Sports
Clarence Ogletree and
Minder Rucker
Advertisement Manager
Tillman Ward
Typists
Nathaniel Sheppard, Daisy Duncan,
Alice Henderson, Rosa Christian,
Julius Stiggers, Perry Wheat, and
Charlotte Beasley
Adviser
Ann Harrison
Creative Dimensions
For The Brownite
by Samuel L. Keith
Today there exists for all Brownites no written creative di
mensions. We are presently moving rapidly and quite often
haphazardly into the coming age of the new creative scholar.
As Brownites, we must prepare to meet this challenge, but it
must be met through meticulous development and new and more
meaningful integrations.
Too often when given blantant facts one tends to make Super
rationalizations. I shall not. It is my purpose here to suggest
feasible methods of producing new and cognizant Brownites and
stimulating hopefully the lethargie. College should be for each
student a unique and wonderful maturing process. It can often
be both the means and ends of newer and fuller levels of life.
This idea of creativity is probably about as old as man’s in
satiable desire and relentless need to question, seek, and create.
But it can also be as dynamic as a new break through in Bio
chemistry. Morris Brown College has preserved and purveyed
the best of the past. But now it is time for the entire college
family to scrutinize and challenge the ideas, values, and practices
of the present. We are on the road to fulfilling this, but we must
gather now an increasing measure of stamina to adequately cope
with this fulfillment. An era of creative scholarship is upon us
whether we realize it or not. It will take creative scholars of all
races, creeds, and classes to contribute significantly to this onward
push. For many of us at Brown, race, religion, religious prejudice,
crass materialism or what have you. may have in the past served
as our excusable barriers to creativity. This is no longer true, for
now is the time we do it! Now is the time for all Brownites to
realize that with the poignant drama of progress, no collegiate
institution can afford to lose one student who has the capacity
for creativity, we must endeavor to make our Alma Mater as
powerful and as unified a force to be found anywhere to promote
Intellectual and Artistic diversity. It is my desire that each
Brownite seriously begin to discriminate between the sound and
the fallacious, the beautiful and the shoddy. We can only do this
by becoming individuals and scholars with ethical direction and
purpose. The burgeoning problems we as students encounter daily
must somehow result in innovations in administrative procedures
and student attitudes. Somehow we must begin to destroy the
many monolithic structures of our college life into more manage
able units. This must be done through the creation of quality
educational services, administrative excellence and strenuous stu
dent effort.
Morris Brown. I am sure, is quite capable of generating
pleasant memories in the mind of the most venerable professor
we have and hopes in the youngest freshman. The college has
done a wonderful job. easily observable. But it is time do do
more and with a greater accentuation upon scholarly creativity.
This quest for quality must always be a continuous and chal
lenging exercise in creativity, new scientific versions of reality,
new artistic visions of beauty. I know at this point many of you
are wondering why I have not as yet explicitly defined this new
creativity. Well you asked for it. It means the capacity to find
new and unexpected connections, to find new relationships with
vague similarities, with the reminiscent collections evoked by
minute ingredients of our daily experiences. Sounds hard to do?
Not at all. If you as a serious minded student would achieve
as a creative scholar then in light of this personalized definition,
you will see yourself as ready to assume this powerful task. You
will in the words of Toynbee, “Climb up to the high Road of
Creative Scholarship.” But the traditional dogmas of the past
you must relinquish for they will prove minute and cumbersome
to the surging present.
Brownites, let the following revolution become our tools in
solving the moral. Intellectual, Social, and Economic issues in
digenous to our immediate educational environment. Let us:
Accept the challenge, seek newer and higher dimensions and
ACT ANEW!
Our Role as Black Students
by Ernest Stephens
What part do we as black students play in determining the
course of our lives? We must define our role and proceed to work
in accord with our definition. It is we as black students who must
ultimately benefit from the fruits of our education and therefore
we who must lay claim to the biggest stake. If we then have the
biggest stakes, should we not therefore have an effective voice in
determining the course and quality of our education?
Too often the role of the black student is tacitly defined as
assimilation into the society via equipping the student only with
the skills needed to earn a living. We must recognize that the
society itself has defined our position and using that as a reference
point, we must thereby determine the course of our actions. The
problems confronting the black student once he leaves the subtle
“protection" of the university cannot be solved through assimila
tion into the system in hopes that the society will become blind
to the color of his skin. Is it our role to assume the qualities of
the white educational structure, or must we direct our develop
ment along different lines? If we upon graduation leave the con
fines of the university with the feeling that a degree is the pass
port to equality within a racist society, then we leave handicapped.
Regardless of our individual differences in outlook and ap
proach, we must unite ourselves around the points where we come
together. We must create for ourselves not only an awareness of
existing factors which determine the course of our lives but we
must further examine the causes and thereby work toward a solu
tion to our problems.
We must understand the factors which lead to militant protest
and recognize them as being the course taken when all channels
for appeal are barred. We must never assume a defeatist attitude
upon confronting blockades and barriers presented either here
within the framework of the university or elsewhere.
We must prepare ourselves to advance our cause through any
reasonable means if our cause is justified. If pressure is used as a
controlling force, we must be prepared to employ pressure to
initiate change. Here let me reiterate that we must first be aware
of what is happening not only in our immediate surroundings but
elsewhere. We must stay informed of events occurring not only
in Watts, Lowndes County, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta, but
right here in our own college community.
Let us understand that we as students right here in this college
can work together to initiate change — and there is much need
for change. We must get behind the student government and put
some power into student voice. Let us avoid becoming puppets of
this administration or any administration that works to our detri
ment. Let us understand the factors which control our lives and
work for their betterment. Let us understand further why the
direction of opinion, movement, and ideology changes with the
passage of time and how that relates to progress and the reality
of the times.
(This article was originally published in Black Thesis, an independent student
newsletter at Tuskegee Institute, of which Mr. Stephens is the editor.)
Our Perplexed Business Office
by The Students
We believe that the Business Office of Morris Brown College
could stand some improving in the areas of
1. Attitude and treatment of students
2. Paying Procedures
3. Organization
Frankly, one would think of the Business Office as a place
where all college finances and expenditures, are carried out.
This is true, but our office reminds us as being a place to go
when you want to be depressed or have your feelings hurt,
namely by Mrs. B. Green. The attitude of those Business Office
workers is atrocious. They treat us students as though we were
unintelligent and lacked feelings. The service is poor and the
capability of them giving service to us students is poor also. We
do not believe in putting such articles in our student publication
but this is the only way that we can voice our opinion to those
who have high authority.
Secondly, the paying procedure for us students who are em
ployed under the College-Work-Study-Program (CWSP) is not
in accordance with the modern or up to date paying procedures.
We are compensated monthly for our services rendered to the
various departments on campus and after a period of one month
I'm sure a college student is capable of handling his financial
record without having one of the personnel telling us what to
pay and how much we should live off of for one month. For
myself, I budget my money, and if I am going to have Mrs. Green
or Miss Arnold as my consultant I don’t need to worry about
planning my money. I know that these personnel workers receive
their orders from some higher authority but must they be so
authoritative themselves. Mrs. Green is a product of Morris
Brown College and I'm sure she didn't receive such training here.
Thirdly, is their obsolete manner of organization. In many
of our opinions, the Business Office is very poorly organized.
If we request any information that should come from the Business
Office, we always receive a negative answer or attitude due to
poor organization.
In summary, the Business Office is a conglumeration of un
willing to be nice to students, unwilling to become organized, and
unwilling to be intelligent people.
Specialization
In Today’s Society
by John Turner
In the modern world of to
day we are faced with special
ization. Whether specialization
is good or bad can be looked
at from two different views. One
view holds that specialization is
good and that it is almost a
necessity of life. Advocates of
this point of view believe that
advancements in science and
the world can only be brought
about through the work of spe
cialists. On the other hand there
are those who believe that spe
cialization is a harm to man
kind. These people believe that
specialization leads to over
specialization. There is a saying
that science is the process of
learning more and more about
less and less. These people view
it as a threat to civilization. The
educational process required to
create a specialist would not be
favorable to creating broadly
educated people because to cre
ate a specialist is to more or
less train a person for a par
ticular task. It is also believed
that specialization will create
personalities that are less than
human but more like unemo
tional machines. In the contro
versy between these two views
there is one thing that is fact
and that fact is that we are
living in an age of specialization.
The future will help to prove or
disprove one of these views.
From A Dream
To Reality
By John A. Gilbert
To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe,
To burr with unbearable
sorrow
Run, where the brave dare not
go,
Right the unrightable wrong;
Try when arms are so weary
Reach the unreachable star;
This was his quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far;
To be willing to live and die
So that honor and justice
May live.
Hats
off to the
late
Dr.
Frank
Cunningham
who
fos-
tered a
dream that
has
now
become
a reality.
u
nexpreided cMLove
J Jo
Unexpressed love is a rose
blooming in the desert—For
who smells its fragrance.
Unexpressed love is an uncut
diamond—For its beauty is
never complete.
Unexpressed love is a flaming
candle but hidden—For who
benefits by its light.
Unexpressed love is a kiss
never given—For there is
never a lover's sigh.
Unexpressed love is unex
pressed hope, unexpressed
joy. unexpressed being.
Tryphenia M. Jackson
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