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MBC’s Working Fellows
Emergency Loan Program
by Vanessa M. Harris
Atlanta Morris Brown College
Alumni Association introduced
the Working Fellows (on the
spot) Emergency Loan Program.
The program offers students
who are employed off campus,
the opportunity to receive a loan
within the period of 24 hours
after completing the application
The employed student should
use the following procedure for
obtaining a Working Fellows (on
the spot) emergency loan: (tran
saction should be complete
within twenty-four (24) hours.)
1. Pick up an application from
Dr. Greene's office. Complete
on the spot
2. Make three (3) xerox copies.
a. Leave 2 with Dr. Greene.
b. Keep one for your files.
c. Take original to Vice Presi
dent for finance.
3. Dr. Greene will contact the
Vice President for finance via
telephone in search of
authorization/approval of
release of a pre-signed (by V.P.)
Morris Brown voucher. (V.P. for
finance may contact campus
references).
4. Dr. Greene’s office will
contact the student to inform
him/her of the decision.
5. If approved, the student will
pick up the voucher from Dr.
Greene and take it to the cashier
for delivery of requested funds.
-No graduating seniors after
March 31st.
-Must have co-signer/on cam
pus
-Promissory note
Procedure for Repayment
(1) Pay (cashier)
(2) Take receipt to Dr. Greene
(3) Get cancelled note marked
paid.
And if you have any questions
about the program, contact the
Associate Dean for Student Af
fairs, Dr. Charles Greene.
Dr. Asante Speaks of
Knowing Your Heritage
by Laura Green
“The real renaissance did not
take place during the 1930's and
40's. It happened during the
1%0's when there was so much
information being spread ar
tistically and intellectually," said
Dr. Asante.
Dr. Asante is Director of the
Afro-American Studies depart
ment at Temple University.
Previously he was Director of
Communications for the State
University in Buffalo, New York.
Dr. Asante, speaking to a
history class at Spelman, told the
students that during the 1%0's
black people were reading
poetry on street corners, in
church and discussing high level
concepts of Africa.
"What Carter G. Woodson
said fifty-three years ago in his
book The Miseducation of the
Negro is still true today in 1986,"
said Dr. Asante.
According to Dr. Asante,
the development of Black
Studies departments throughout
the United States problem began
of who was going to run these
departments.
“Black student movements
were able to advance in America
because of cultural nationalism,"
said Dr. Asante.
Dr. Asante said many schools
established their Black Studies
departments on the nationalist
ideology.
"But the people in charge of
these departments were not
hired because of their nationalist
ideology, but because they were
black," s^id. Dr..As§nt^,,.,- .
Dr. Asante said some of these
people ended up becoming
nationalist and some marxist. He
also said that the marxist turned
around the condemned
nationalism as being a reac
tionary ideology.
“Afro-American Studies is not
only a collection of people
studying but, a collection of
people analyzing culture, history
and ideology," said Dr. Asante.
Dr, Asante said too many
people died for Afro-American
Studies departments because the
assimilationists, the cultural
nationalists and the separatists all
wanted the departments to be
run in their ideology.
“I do not think we would have
had these departments without
King and Malcolm. They set the
tone for what was to happen,"
said Dr. Asante.
According to Dr. Asante even
though there had been black
colleges there was not a lot of
appreciation of the movement of
black people on a broad level.
"Black colleges should arm
you all with information about
yourself that is important to
change the system or create your
own,” said Dr. Asante.
Dr. Asante told the students
that there is no reason why we
should not produce the next
leaders of the country and the
world.
"We educate our students to
go into corporations instead of
teachingthemto build their own.
Blacks have never assumed that
we can run the country or the
world. But we can," said Dr.
A^nje.. ,.
Mayor Young Addresses
MBC Honor Students
by Annette Collins
Mayor Andrew Young ad
dressed Morris Brown College's
honor students March 18, at the
annual Honor’s Day program.
Mayor Young said it was ironic
for him to be speaking at an
honors program. He said, he
never got the chance to
celebrate honors day when he
was in school. He was never
invited to any honors program,
he added.
As a result of not being an
honor student Young spoke
from a different perspective.
“If I could make it as I’ve made
it, as sorry a student as I was, how
much more you should be able
to make it as an honor student,"
he said.
Using his life as an example,
Mayor Young said that even
though he's supposed to be
important, he's still ordinary.
"As you begin to meet impor
tant people you’ll realize that
they are ordinary people like
you. If they have succeeded then
you can too," he added.
Young continued, "Being a
member of Congress I would get
surprised when I would go to a
meeting with other Con
gressmen and realize that they
didn't know anything."
The mayor made an analogy
that life gets easier as one
progresses. He commented that
grammar school was hard, but
learning got simpler as he
matriculated to graduate school.
"It is because everywhere
along the way you learn more
about yourself and you develop
confidence in yourself," he said.
Atlanta's mayor noted that lear
ning comes from more than
books and classroom ex
periences. He said even though
he’s a success in politics, he has
never had a course in political
science, economics or religion.
"The experience of being
black in America is an
authoritative experience in itself.
It's really your total life oc
currences that make up your
education," he said.
Young stated, while he was
involved in the Civil Rights
Movement - along with Martin
Luther' King — he had not
thought to write a book about
the movement.
"It took me almost 20 years to
write a manuscript about my
experiences in the movement,
simply because I’ve been made
to feel inferior about my think
ing," he added.
"The strongest thing in your
background,” he said, "outside
of the education is the life you
live. So much of what you do in
your life is determined by your
dreams and your ability to
believe in yourself.”
"As honor students you've
been willing to apply yourself to
projects that have enabled you
to achieve. Keep the same
positive attitude toward life as
you have toward your ability to
compete in school," he said.
Encouraging students to look
toward the future, Young said
"You have no idea what God has
in store for you."
The Mayor said, "He never
imagined himself as Atlanta's
mayor. There was no way I could
fix my mind to believe I would
live in Georgia. Almost in spite of
myself I’ve gotten to be a Con
gressman, an Ambassador and
Mayor of a city that's doing
better than it has done before,"
he said.
"Just trust in God to direct
your path," he added, “The road
won't be smooth or straight. You
will be tested through storms
and tribulations."
In closing his speech, Young
told the students to put their
faith in the Lord.
Black Leaders Criticize
American Foreign Policy
by Timothy Tyler
"While people are hungry,
homeless, and children are be
ing denied a quality education,
the U.S. Government is debating
the dynamics of giving $100
million in aid to the Contras,"
stated Georgia Representative
Mable Thomas while addressing
a group of Atlanta University
Center Students.
Thomas spoke at a public
gathering held on March 26, in
the Woodruff Library.
The meeting was sponsored by
the Atlanta University Political
Science Department’s Ujaama
Society.
Other speakers were: David
Mundavi, a member of the
African National Congress; Rev.
Dr. Joseph Lowery, President of
the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference; Robert
Vargas, Nicaraguan poet and
counselor for cultural and labor
affairs, embassy of Nicaragua;
John Stockwell, former director
of the CIA covert action plan in
Angola; and Roy Patterson, host
of "Take 30" on WPBS-TV.
Representative Thomas said
that people everywhere want the
right to self-determination. "We
should take a strong stand
against imperialism at home and
abroad," stated Thomas. She
went on to say that we must stand
for right and respect the people’s
struggle for self-determination.
In speaking. gf.^.S. policy,
Thomas stated, "If we fall for this
one the handwriting is off the
wall and on our faces." The
representative said that we must
understand the U.S. and its
"gun-boat" diplomacy.
David Mundavi agreed with
Thomas. He called for solidarity
in the struggle against capitalism
and imperialism. In speaking
about the situation in his coun
try, South Africa, Mundavi said
that more than 200 people have
been killed in South Africa
during this month alone.
“It is no longer a matter of
peacefull change,” he said. "The
system itself has been cuasing
our blood to flow." He went on
to say that the time has come for
the people to hit back with
everything at their disposal.
"We salute the people of
Nicaragua for we know that their
struggle is our struggle," said
Mundavi. He stated that the
people of Nicaragua are fighting
for oppressed people all over the
world.
Dr. Lowery said that the Regan
administration is an administra
tion of the greedy, against the
needy, by the seedy. “America is
reacting with great political and
moral immaturity," stated
Lowery.
The United Methodist
minister said that the Nicaraguan
people want America to leave
their shores. “They are willing to
share the bananas, but they .want
more than just the peeling," he
said.
Making reference to the
Reagan administration's charges
that the Nicaraguan government
has violated the human rights of
its citizens, Lowery stated, "I
don't have any doubts, they are a
young country, only seven years
old. He added, "This country is
207 years old and we still commit
human rights violations."
"We must work for the day
when black will not be asked to
get back, when brown can stick
around, when yellow can be
mellow, when the red man can
get ahead man and when the
white will behave alright," stated
Lowery.
Vargas, Nicaraguan embassy
representative, spoke about
President Reagan’s foreign
policy.
"The President has catapulted
us from a banana republic to a
mortal threat to the entire
world," stated Vargas. He said
that the administration has used
"fuzzy" pictures and charges of
alleged drug trafficking to paint a
negative image of the
Nicaraguan Government.
"The only excitement and
hysteria is in the mind of the
President, the CIA, and the
television media," Vargas said.
According to Vargas, "The trou
ble in Latin America is a $300
billion debt incurred by dic-
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