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Monday, March 30, 2009

Welcome to Tha House!

Dear Old Morehouse,


Today, I found out that the study abroad program that I was hoping to attend had been cancelled.  It stinks.  But I didn't discover this until AFTER the representative from the program told me that he had not received my application.  Morehouse a reputation with the company for either sending in applications late, or not sending them in complete.  My study abroad application, that I was told to give to Morehouse Study Abroad representative so that SHE could send it off, was not sent off at all.  It's probably still on her desk.  She's been telling me that she was expecting them anytime now....for the past three weeks.  Thanks.

Richard Fulton, Jr.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

My Week


So, this past week, ive been pretty active.  ATL has been active, and i've gained a new level of respect for Emory University and the free stuff they put on.

Here's pics:


President Franklin and Attorney General Eric Holder
N.E.R.D. live at Emory.  Free concert.  Free food...


Atlanta from Freedom PKWY
Reverend Joseph E. Lowery
Angela Davis at Ebenezer Baptist Church


Now that the fun's over, I have to get back to business.  Just a few more weeks. Finish strong


Wednesday, March 25, 2009

I've been twittering super hard

Saturday, March 21, 2009

just a cool watch



Friday, March 20, 2009

I wanna be rich.


So, AIG borrowed money from the government, and taxpayers, to save their company.  If they had not borrowed this money, they would have gone under, and the nation might have fallen into a depression.  Now, the company is using this money to pay bonuses of +1 million to some of their employees.  Many people feel that this is not right.  The government gave AIG that money to save their company, and they're using it to give their employees outrageous amounts of money as a bonus.
I don't think AIG is really doing anything wrong.  While they could have used the money for something other than rewarding their employees, they really are saving their business.  Those employees probably have contracts that state that if they perform at a certain level, they receive a bonus of at least a mil.  Bonuses are used to reward employees for their good work.  I believe it would be wrong of AIG to break their contract with those employees.  If you were promised a million dollars if you did a certain amount of work, and you did that work, you would expect your pay, also.  Though it doesn't seem fair to see them get paid, they truly deserve that money.  And if AIG doesn't pay them, they could possibly sue AIG for more than what their bonus would have cost, which could put AIG under, resulting in a much higher waste of US tax dollars.  Or, they could leave AIG and take their talent to another another company willing and able to pay them.  Same end result.  What seems even worse is the idea that the government has proposed taxing those bonuses for 90% of their worth.  If that doesn't seem like robbery, or at least unconstitutional, then I don't know what the government could eventually do down the line.


People seem to blame the rich of being evil.  People seem to believe that in order to get that much money, you must be doing something morally wrong.  Those people could have simply been doing their job.  They could be really nice people that always try to behave morally correctly.  As far as I know, I don't know any evil rich people. Most of the people that I know that I consider rich are actually very nice.  But, I know evil poor people....

And the logic of thinking that being rich is evil doesn't seem right to me.  If being rich is evil, and I want to be morally correct, then I can never be rich......


Friday, March 13, 2009

Priceless




I gotta stop tryin to get money for the material things.  I need to get money so that I can really enjoy moments with my friends.  I've been at U of I for the past two days just hanging out with people and having fun.  I tried to spend as little money as possible, and I was just....happy.  I realized once again that money doesn't buy happiness.  Some of the most fun i've had, or at least some of the most memorable, have happened when I was just enjoying the people that I was with.  


- Rich

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Some of the old Morehouse spirit

Below is the Feb. 11 article "Is Gay the Way?" The writer has

since authored a follow-up piece. To read

his new article, "The Aftermath: Is Gay

the Way?" click on the link after the jump...

http://www.themaroontiger.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=222:the-aftermath-is-gay-the-way&catid=3:opinions&Itemid=4


Original article below...

 

It’s no secret that the gay population on Morehouse's campus does not go unnoticed. Take a walk down Brown Street on a clear Spring day, and one will quickly learn that Morehouse College is an institution unlike no other for reasons far more than the "Morehouse Mystique."


Although Dr. Franklin has urged men of Morehouse on various occasions to treat each other with the utmost respect (especially homosexual students), I have noticed the prevailing discomfort between our heterosexual students and their homosexual counterparts.


You know how it goes: a cluster of openly gay students walk by. A group of heterosexual students suddenly stop what they’re doing to either avoid making any contact whatsoever, or look on with a sense of disgust. Or when class discussions happen to touch the topic of homosexuality, that one openly homosexual student steps up to the plate to defend himself and his lifestyle. The silence in the classroom confirms that no one wants to counter-respond for fear of coming off too strong. Awkward?

 

I don’t want to get into the religious, scientific, or philosophical debate about homosexuality. However, this taboo subject still merits great conversation.


This lovely man-producing institution, Morehouse College, contains many homosexual students- some openly and others not so much. Heterosexual students, through their unsettlement with this reality, tend to make gay slurs within the comfort of their friends, and homosexual students do whatever it is that they do behind close doors. That’s the reality.


Over the years, despite social divergence on campus, the Morehouse community has done its share to both accept and adjust to the growing homosexual population. But don’t you think this has gone too far? A boy with a pocket book is far.


It’s not so much that “straight” men of Morehouse are uncomfortable with the gay lifestyle, but moreso that the lifestyle is constantly and robustly thrown in their faces. Does being a gay man include adopting the traits of a woman? Because if that’s the case, there’s a more fitting school, and it’s not an all-male institution.


I’m all for being who you are. If you like women, go on and date women. If you like men, be my guest and date men. But if you are born a man, you should be just that—a man. If I have to look twice to tell if I’m looking at a man or woman on an all male campus, then something is tragically wrong.


At this rate, Morehouse College may find itself in a difficult situation. What happens if and when one of our gay Morehouse brothers decides to go the next step and undergo a sex-change operationand is then physically considered to be a woman? Does Morehouse have the right to ask that student to leave?

 

A massive population of feminine males and possibly transgender students could harm the reputation of Morehouse and perhaps affect its admissions rate, thereby impacting the college's revenue. Would it be wrong for Morehouse to implement a new acceptance procedure in which they are required to interview students in an attempt to decrease gay population?


Now of course such a process is not likely to succeed, but something must be done before Morehouse College, an all-male Black institution, becomes something quite the opposite.


One may argue that Morehouse should allow its students to live as they please, but in these circumstances, one must begin to accept that this once black-and-white matter has become a rather gray, complicated issue.


It is true that some men of Morehouse have failed to honor and respect their gay brothers, yet the feelings and presence of heterosexual students should not be ignored. Is it fair for a straight male to come to an institution where he is forced to live in an environment that makes him feel uncomfortable? Because I’m quite sure that if he wanted to be surrounded by females, he would not have gone to an all-male institution.


I’m not saying that having gay students at this institution damages the image of Morehouse, but as the only all male African American liberal arts college in America, we have a certain image to uphold and a man with hair weave just isn’t it.



Gerren Gaynor

Associate Opinions Editor