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VoL 53, No. 2
Morris Brown College
November Issue
— Telling It Like It Is!
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Jackson Spends Birthday At MBC,
Campaigns For Democrats
MBC president Calvert Smith and Rev. Jackson enjoy an embrace.
Photo courtesy of Cheryl Bray,The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
by Laura Green
On Monday, October 8th,
Reverend Jesse Jackson told
students attending a voter
registration rally atMorris Brown
College that at one time the
Atlanta University System was
the hubcap or headquarters of
the movement for social and
economic justice in our nation
and peace in our world.
“We transcended from our
fraternity-ness, sorority-ness,
Morehouse-ness, Spelman-ness,
Morris Brown-ness and Atlanta
U.niversity-ness, we didn’t have
time for fun and foolishness.
Animosity didn't have any time
in our lives as civilized people,’’
he said.
Jackson urging students to
vote said there were people
marching from slavery to
freedom, marching from dis
grace to Amazing Grace, all of us
cannot be famous he said,
because all of us cannot be
known.
“Because of that generation
that fought from dust, death,
blood, sweat and tears, that
generations sweat and sacrifice,
they achieved greatness because
they served their day," Jackson
said. “You don’t have to fight,
public . accommodation, you
don’t have to march for the right
to vote. They made our only
obligation to register and vote in
this election."
Jackson said the entire country
is at stake and in November we
will be voting for the person we
want to direct the course of the
country.
He also said on that day to vote
your conscience. Unless we
forget that Reagan chose the
"nuclear race over the human
race" and that he cut back on
financial aid but continued to
send funds to El Salvador. "On
November 6 we have thousands
of reasons to vote and no reason
not to vote,” he said.
“We now have the power to
reinforce our nation, everybody
that has an opinion must put that
opinion in the vote,” said
Jackson. “You are not just voting
on November 6 for a man, an
idea, it’s more than that at stake,"
he added.
He told the capacity crowd
that we will be going on a
shopping spree for four years, it’s
a political shopping game he
said. "On that day the entire
of politics as well as the
running and we have the
power from the outhouse to the
courthouse to the white house to
make that judgment and we are
going to do it."
Following his address, Jackson
inspired 250 unregistered
students to register and was also
given an award by Morris Brown
Student Government President
David Kinchen.
October 8th was also a special
day for the country preacher as
he celebrated his 43rd birthday.
Rev. Jackson commented that he
like Dr. King was glad to be able
to spend his birthday fighting for
justice.
Shown above are the three young ladies of the Miss Freshman Court.
Savacia Wallace, 2nd Attendant, Vanessa Heygood, Miss Freshman
and Trina Hodges, 1st Attendant.
Fall Convocation '84;
Smith Stresses Unity
by Cheryl A. Jones
"The only way a ship floats is if
everyone on it does their part.”
These were the opening words
of Morris Brown College Presi
dent Calvert H. Smith at the
September 20th Fall Convoca
tion,-held-in-the John-Iir Lewis
Physical Education and Recrea
tion Complex at 11 a.m. Vice
President of Academic Affairs,
Dr. Willie Payne, presided.
After presentation of colors by
the R.O.T.C. Color Guard,
prayer and scripture were given
by Dr. William Saunders. This
was followed by warm greetings
delivered by Miss Morris Brown
College 1984-85 Michelle Pat-
mon.
The audience was touched by
a selection from the college
choir - "Once to Every Man and
Nation" - under the direction of
Glynn Halsey.
The introduction of the
speaker was given by Vice Presi
dent of Student Affairs,
Magnoria Smothers.
The choir again entertained
the crowd by performing “Ride
on King Jesus" immediately after
the speaker’s introduction.
In his address, Smith set two
priorities: (1) to work with the
staff and the community to
upgrade the standards of Morris
Brown College in order to make
a strong future in academics and
(2) to implement all activities and
a curriculum to ensure the first
class preparation and well-being
of all MBC students.
He added that an attempt to
implement fiscal stability would
be made by donations from
businessmen, community
leaders, teachers, medical peo
ple, millionaires and fundraisers
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Black Women Hold First Annual
Conference In Atlanta
by Camilla Clay
History was made as the First
National Black Women’s
Conference burst onto the
scene. Held at the downtown
Holiday Inn, it lasted from
Wednesday, October 10th until
Sunday, October 14th.
In the words of National
Conference Chairperson Grace
Davis, the event was a success.
“We (black women) came from
every walk of life to sit down and
figure out how we could
counteract what we are doing to
ourselves. We had nothing to
measure it by, but I think it was
successful."
With the theme "Bridging the
Gap for Total Unity,” the con
ference had much to offer. Not
only educational workshops and
dynamic speakers, but a chance
for- entertainment and
fellowship was provided there
for women ages 19 to 84 years
old.
When the topic of black
women comes up, one wonders
where to start on such a broad
topic. But Davis says there was no
doubt about what topics should
be covered. “We knew exactly
/vhat our concerns were.”
Acting on this knowledge, no
energy was spared to find the
very best human resources to
moderate and coordinate the
conference’s workshops.
Respected professionals in every
field were sought to put together
informative sessions relative to
black women. And no area was
missed.
From "Social Concerns” to
“Education" to “Youth,” the
workshops continued with:
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THE MBC WOLVERINE
CAMPAIGN ‘84