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Yearbook Staff Resigns
Below is an open letter to
the students, faculty, ad
ministration and staff of
Morris Brown College
explaining the resignation
of the yearbook staff on
September.
The staff of the 1975
BROWNITE announces its
resignation. We cannot and
will not work under the con
ditions perpetuated by the
administration of Morris
Brown College. We have
spent a considerable
amount of time in deliber
ation over the problems
we have encountered with
in the past few months and
have concluded that re
signation is our only al
ternative.
This staff has attempt
ed on several occasions,
beginning in the late Spring
of 1974, to express our
selves through the indicat
ed proper “channels and
procedures’’. All of our
efforts have been in vain.
Our main concern has
been with the contractual
agreement between Morris
Brown and Paragon Year
books. Our reasoning for
this discontent hgs been
outlined in the two attach
ed letters; one dated June
12, 1974 and the other Sep
tember 18, 1974. We feel
that this agreement is not
fair and will be hinderance
to the production of a re
presentative yearbook. We
feel that the outcome of
this arrangement will be a
poor publication for a high
cost. The staff was not con
sulted at the time this de
cision was made, and fol
lowing a grievance letter
of June 12, 1974, we met
with the President of Mor
ris Brown College, the
yearbook advisor, the
Comptroller, and a field
representative of Paragon
Yearbooks. At this time we
were told that we would
not be involved in any de
cision making regarding the
yearbook. The staff, asex-
peienced personnel, feels
that our input is substan
tiated and should be readily
considered by the adminis
tration. The students on the
staff are far more exper
ienced than most persons
in the organization of a
yearbook. We have all
worked with both Pub
lishers involved in this dis- j
pute, and we, more than
anyone else, recognize the
vast differences in services
offered and rendered.
Further, it has been im
plied on more than one oc
casion that this staff has
been influenced by other
persons. We wish to em
phatically state that any
decisions made by this
staff, and any actions taken
by this staff were solely
perpetrated by the staff
alone. We have some in
telligence. The more fact
that we are students here
should be some indication
of our intelligence. If we
are too immature to know
what we have been doing
and what we want, if we
are too immature to make
some decisions on our own,
if we are too immature to
think for ourselves, then we
ask “Has Morris Brown
College fulfilled its mis
sion”? Is Morris Brown
producing leaders or is it
producing instant “yes”
and “no” machines? We
are serious and intelligent
individuals. As an organi
zation, this staff is in
terested in producing a
quality, unique and repre
sentative yearbook. We feel
that the student funds allo
cated for the production of
the yearbook. We feel that
of the yearbook should be
put to the best possible use.
We are not concerned with
individual preference.
Our concern is the best
and most reasonable use of
funds. There is no logic
involved in making an
agreement which does not
guarantee adequate service
and representation. There
is none involved in an
agreement in which speci
fications originally re
quested have been cut by
the representative in order
to lower costs. The bidding
therefore, was obviously
unfair. We question further
that the Publisher’s con
tract was hastily signed,
without the knowledge of
the yearbook staff, and the
photographer’s contract,
which has been in the hands
of the administration since
late May, was still unsign
ed as of September 17,
1974. This delay has cost
MBC Gets New Faculty & Staff
Left to right are: Mrs. Lula Garrison. Director.
Skills Center, Mr. William Head. Assistant Football
Coach, Mrs. Paulyne Morgan White. Director of Public-
Relations, Mr. Nathaniel B. Smith. Development '7Yf"f'j,.<*r
Mr. Christopher Powell, Special Assistant to the Pres
ident, Dr. D. F. Glover. Director of Institutional Re
search. Mr. Roscoe Murchison. Director of Plant Op
oration
Front Row: Mrs. Louretta Price, Director, ACTION
V derail Affairs. Mrs. Nallion Hunter, Reading Instruc
tor. Mrs Jean Oliver. Secretary, Admissions Officers,
Mis Katherine Assistant Professor of Mathematics
"Hi Mi Charles Hardnett. Head Basketball.
the yearbook staff over
three weeks of work, leav
ing the staff incredibly off-
schedule.
We will not work under
conditions in which no con
sideration is taken for the
staff. We can not work
under conditions which call
for submissiveness rather
than mutual understanding
and respect. We are at this
point frustrated and dis
gusted with the situations
we have encountered.
We wish only the best
to the new yearbook staff,
and we hope that they will
at all times respect them
selves.
Karen D. Johnson
Former Editor, 1975
Brownite
New
GYM!
Morris Brown College
has received a $2.5million
loan from the U.S. depart
ment of Health, Educatoin
and Welfare (HEW) which
will be used for the con
struction of a health, phy
sical education and recre
ation building.
The New Gym will have
two stories with approxi
mately 80,200 square feet,
The building will house 15
faculty and administration
offices, 7 lecture rooms,
9 demonstration areas, a
gymnasium, and a swimm
ing pool. The projected date
for construction is to begin
April 75 and due to be com
pleted May 76. ’ The new
building will b e b u jit facing
Mitchell Street, beside the
John A. Middleton Complex.
SPOTLIGHT
By Sandra Watson
The Staff of the Wol
verines are proud to give
recognition to a fellow
Brownite, Clarissa Myrick.
Clarissa is a Junior at
Morris Brown majoring in
English and minoring in
Mass Communications. She
has written a teleplay en
titled “THE TIE THAT
BINDS” which will be
shown on October 30, at
9:30 p.m. on channel 8.
Clarissa wrote the play
during a scriptwriters’
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