Newspaper Page Text
Page 3
REORGANIZATION
CON'D FROM PAGE 1
put the funding agency
(Ford) in a position to
control the ideology, pro
grams and administra
tion of the various in
stitutions,” he said.
"Thus, the reorganiza
tion plan is a venal
scheme designed to con
trol the minds of black
students.
He concluded by saying:
"It is my fond hope that
the black college presi
dents and Ford will have
both the intelligence and
courage to initiate a new
dialogue around the needs
of black colleges in At
lanta to end that
any future funding will
be supportive of the crea
tive role which black in
stitutions of higher learn
ing can play in a con
fused American culture.”
Morris Brown College
President John A. Mid
dleton also expressed
disgust at the proposed
reorganization plan.
Middleton said the plan
has been discussed ov
er the past three of four
years. However, he ad-
ed that the plan in the
long run would "kill the
individual colleges.”
Middleton further said
the chancellor and his
six provosts could
"squeeze any college by
withholding money from
a particular college.”
The chancellor would be
a powerful and dangerous
man, he added.
"The entire plan was
devious on the part of
Ford because once a
school signs, it has given
up its rights as an indi
vidual college,” Middle-
ton continued.
He added that Ford
was not concerned about
the students’ education.
"We need education for
our students, but instead
we get a bureaucracy with
a chancellor, whose an
nual salary will be $50,-
000, and with provosts,
whose annual salary will
be $40,000,” Middleton
explained. "These sala
ries alone will take edu
cation away from the
students. Nothing has
been said about scholar
ships for students nor
faculty salaries. This
plan is like so many
poverty programs— the
directors get all the
money while the poor get
poorer.”
However, Middleton
said he could see some
advantages in the re or
ganization plan if it would
"Allow for flexibility and
not try to coerce co
operation.
Middleton added that
students should have a
voice in the reorganiza
tion plan. But he said
Ford was not interested
in the student’s opinion
of the porposed plan.
MBC Choir invited
to Israel
by Angela Dennis
According to Mr. W.
Floyd Ruffin, Choir Di
rector at Morris Brown,
the seventy voice Morris
Brown College Choir has
been invited to make an
April debut in Israel.
This makes the second
MBC Staffer
CON'D FROM PAGE 1
Public response to
the series suggested that
Calhoun write a book on
Black leaders. The title
of the book is Atlanta
the Cradle of Black Lea
dership. The book sug
gests that many of the
Black leaders in Ame
rica were born, educated
or lived in Atlanta at
one time. Another signi
ficant factor is that many
of the nation’s Black lea
ders after 1920 were
friends or acquaintances
of the writer (Calhoun).
Calhoun, a native of
Greenville, South Caro
lina, has a wide range
of experiences which in
clude being a real estate
broker, field represen
tative for SCLC, and
serving as a community
development represen
tative for EOA. He is
currently associated with
the Model Cities program
Atlanta.
time in Morris Brown s
history that the choir has
been invited to Israel.
Morris Brown was unable
tomake the first appea
rance three years, ago,
because of the Mid-East
Conflict.
According to Mr. Ruf
fin, there are all indica
tions that the choir will
accept this year’s invi
tation. The Israeli tour
is to be sponsored by
the Morris Brown Col
lege Alumni Association.
Although nothing defi
nite has been decided,
the Morris Brown Choir'
also plans to make an
African tour during the
second semester of the
school year, which will
take them to several Af
rican nations.
The choir will also
perform their annual
performance of the Mes
siah on December 10.
The exact location for
the performance has not
yet been decided.
This year’s choir of-,
ficers are Dennis Ham
mock, President; Larry
Manley, vice president,
and Miss Carolyn Avery
is Miss Choir.
The Choir is in need
of tenors. There are a
limited number of scho
larships still available
ranging from $150 to
$250.
He further praised the
Atlanta Alumni Branch
for "creating an aware
ness in the public of the
dangers of the proposed
plan.”
Middleton said the Ford
Foundation will not listen
to Morris Brown’s revi
sions, because its mind
is made up. "Ford wants
complete control,’’head
ed.
The President further
said it was an "unfor
tunate situation for the
trustee board members,
of the other colleges who
did not know that their
respective schools had
accepted the plan.” He'
added the Morris Brown
trustees were aware of
the reorganization plan
and its pitfalls.
"Our school will never
be sold down the river,”
Middleton said, "even if
we have to suffer from
missing Ford’s money.”
Now that MBC has re
jected the plan, what will
happen to the other
schools.
"It’s my guess that:
Ford will rope the other
schools in and give them
some money,” the Presi
dent said. "But they will
be in danger to accept
the money,’ because it is
dangerous when a school
sells its rights.”
Ford inspired the re
organization plan, Mid
dleton said, and they even
spent some $200,000 for
a study in drawing up the
plans for reorganization.
Middleton agreed that
Clark College President
Vivian Henderson is pu
shing the reorganization
plan all the way.
"However, Henderson
is a man involved in a
conflict of interest,” he
concluded.
“There is a need for
more blacks on the Ford
Foundation Trustee
Board,” Middleton said.
"Ford doesn’t come
up with plans like this
one for white instituti-
ions,” Middleton added.
“They are just trying to
perpetuate the myth that
black instutions can’t
run without white brains.
Morris Brown College
will not sell it’s soul for
money.”
Library begins
Microfilmiong
Atlanta University’s
Trevor Arnett Library,
in a joint project with
the Bell & Howell Com
pany, has started micro
filming works for its
“Black History andAfro-
America” collection.
Library officials, state
that the project will be
come a "significant con
tribution to scholarship
in the field of black his
tory and Afro-American
culture.”
Trevor Arnett is edit
ing and preserving a col
lection of some 7,000
volumes, including the
Hen^ P. Slaughter col
lection on the "Black Ex
perience in America
since the seventeenth
century.”
Compulsory Class
Attendance Return to MBC
by Cleon Day
cuts, a two-hour class
will allow for five cuts,
and one-hour class will
allow for three cuts on
ly.
Furthermore, a com
mittee on absences com
posed of the director of
admissions and records,
the personnel dean, the
academic dean and three
faculty members will
consider the case of any
student who has acquir
ed excessivp absences.
The student should be the
person responsible for
presenting his case to this
committee. Teachers of
classes involved will be
invited to sit with the
committee.The commit
tee’s decision on each
case will be final.
The Academic Dean
is authorized to issue ex
cuses for: absences by
reason of participation in
college-sponsored offi
cial activities which have
been so designated by the
director of the activity;
absence due to attendance
at academic, activities
such as conferences, in
stitutes, workshops,
forums, etc.
The Dean of Students
is authorized to issue ex
cused absences for: per
sonal emergencies —ill
ness or death in family,
transportation break
down, sudden changes in
job schedule and personal
illness.
Academic Dean Mar
garet Rowley, whose of
fice is in Fountain Hall,
said she welcomes all
freshman to her office
to discuss any type of
academic problems.
Alphas Begins Scholarship Drive
by Elbert J. A. Wilson II
There are, today, near- ^ A has worked on tickets
ly 23 million blacks li- to ra ffle off a television
ving in the United States.
More than half live in
unfavorable conditions.
The majority of all
blacks would like to bet
ter their education as well
as living conditions.
In an effort to help
solve some of these pro
blems, the men of the Iota
Chapter of Alpha Phi Al
pha initiated a scho
larship fund to appro
priate some type of fin
ancial aid to some wor
thy black student regard
less of his feeling toward
fraternities and sorori
ties.
To raise these funds
Much of the collection
is comprised of books,
pamphlets, periodicals,
and papers published in
thel9th century. How
ever, there are some vo
lumes of more recent
publication.
The library plans to
make the microfilm avai
lable to other libraries
and academic institut
ions.
set.
“We realize that there
is a tremendous need for
more awareness of black
problems,” the Alphas
said. "Thus we consider
this endeavor as a small
step toward the A A
purposes of serving the
black community, be
cause we realize that's a
mind is a terrible thing
to waste.”
The Art
Dept, will
Sponsor an
Art Sale in
the Lobby o!
Fountain Hall
March 5-9
Compulsory class at
tendance is the new policy
and procedure governing
freshman and sopho
mores at MBC this year.
Last year, unlimited
class cuts was the rule
for every student at Mor
ris Brown. Bu t this
system failed mainly be
cause there were a great
number of students who
misused and abused this
privilege. Many of these
same students are on
academic probation now.
However, juniors and
seniors are expected to
attend class everyday
too, since most of their
classes will probably be
in their respective major,
a student’s official
course program is re
garded as his contract
with the college. Since
full performance re
quires, in part, regular
and punctual attendance,
juniors and seniors
should feel responsible
for attending all classes
for which they are re
gistered.
All instructors are re
quired to record atten
dance and to inform the
student, when he has
reached two less then the
maximum number of un
excused absences, that
he is in danger of oeer-
cutting. When the student
has one absence more
than twice the number of
times the class meets per
week, his name will be
submitted to the Office
of the Academic Dean.
For example, a person
with a three-hour class
will b e allowed seven