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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