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Spelman And Morehouse Students On Hunger Strike To Bring Attention To Hungry And
Morehouse Student’s Extra Credit Rap Video Goes Viral
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Morehouse College sopho- more Julien Turner was looking to get a grade boost in his biology class.
The charge by his professor was: Make a music video over any subject we’ve covered and I’ll curve your overall grade.
Turner wasn’t kidding when he tweeted “I’m about to drop some fire” at 7:30 p.m. on last Thursday. Forty minutes later, he tweeted a video of himself rapping about cell divi- sion to the beat of Lil Uzi Vert’s “XO Tour Llif3.” It has since blown up as a viral hit— garnering thousands of com- ments, and hundreds of thousands of retweets and likes.
It didn’t take Turner long since filmmaking is his pas- sion—he and his younger brother, Justen, even have their own company, Dread- head Films.
The marketing major is no stranger to success. He main- tained a 4.0 GPA while being captain of his varsity football
Lillian Thomas and Mary-Pat Hector are on a hunger strike.
and track teams throughout high school, receiving multiple football scholarship offers from across the country, and eventually choosing More- house College, where he could pursue his dream of filmmak- ing with his brother.
How did you start the idea?
I just took off with it when I was looking at my notes to see what I was going to do the video about. I saw cell division and for some reason I had been listening to Lil Uzi Vert re- cently and I heard “all my cells are dead” in my head and I kept repeating it. I was like “Oh
wow, that could really be a song.”
I called one of my football player friends up and said “Hey, I’ve got a song, do you want to come record this for me?” and he recorded it in my dorm and I went to the library to record the other half.
Okay, after all that hard work—did you actually get extra credit?
Yeah I did. It’s half a letter grade. I don’t know if I’ll need it yet until I take this next test but I’ve never been one to turn down some points.
Do you think you’ll get an A? Oh yeah.
ATLANTA, GA — A group of Spelman and Morehouse Col- lege students are on a hunger strike, in an attempt to change school policy and allow the do- nation of campus meals to the needy.
About 25 students from the single-sex liberal arts universi- ties in downtown Atlanta started hunger striking on Nov. 2.
Mary-Pat Hector and Lil- lian Thomas, Spelman jun- iors, are among them.
Their aim: to get the colleges and their campus food provider Aramark to set up a way for students with paid college meal plans to donate unused meals to needy students who can’t af- ford the plans.
“By introducing a Swipe Out Hunger program at Spelman and Morehouse, we would di- rectly impact student hunger and raise the awareness on is-
sues impacting our fellow stu- dents experiencing hunger and homelessness while in college,” Hector, 19, said Nov. 2.
Spelman’s director of mar- keting and communications, Joyce Davis, said the hunger strikers raised a “very concern- ing” issue, of widespread hunger insecurity on campus, and the college administration will set a time to meet with strikers to discuss the issue.
“In the meantime, we are en- gaging our vice president of student affairs, Darnita Kil- lian, to determine the extent of the problem on Spelman’s campus,” Davis said Nov. 2.
Davis said Spelman has al- ready made use of support from Publix and Mimi’s Pantry, on the Clark Atlanta University campus, to address the food in- security issues that have been brought to the college’s atten- tion.
North Carolina A&T Football Team Goes 9-0 For First Time In School History
Morehouse sophomore marketing major, Julien Turner is a social media hit for his biology lesson video.
Cam Newton’s Younger Brother Upends FAMU On Senior Day
The North Carolina A&T football team finds themselves in peculiar position after im- proving to 9-0 overall with a 35-7 win over Norfolk State Saturday at William “Dick” Price Stadium.
The Aggies are making large amounts of history in 2017, but with so much more history re- maining to be made this sea- son, they find themselves slightly tempered about the unprecedented accomplish- ments they have already achieved.
The win over Norfolk State makes the 2017 N.C. A&T Ag- gies the only football team in the 93-year history of Aggie football to have a 9-0 record. This year’s senior class is the only senior class in school his- tory to put together four con-
secutive nine-win seasons. Individually, junior quarter- back Lamar Raynard broke the Aggies single-season pass- ing record. He eclipsed Maseo Bolin’s 23-year old record on a 24-yard completion to grad- uate tight end Trey Scott in
the third quarter.
Head coach Rod Broad-
way got to into the act as well. The win gave him 56 wins as the Aggies head man, moving him past former head coaches Bert Piggott (1957-67) and Hornsby Howell (1968-76) for second on the Aggies all- time wins list behind Bill Hayes’ 106 (1988-2002).
But again, with all that recorded, there is still next week versus Savannah State at Aggie Stadium at 1 p.m.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Nov. 4) – The FAMU Football team led early in their home finale Saturday afternoon, only to lose late as visiting Howard University overtook the Rat- tlers for a 37-26 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference victory at Bragg Memorial Stadium be- fore a home crowd of 17,234.
Resurgent Howard (6-3, 5-1 in MEAC) stayed in a tie for second place in the league with Saturday’s win with defending champion North Carolina Cen- tral, while first place North Carolina A&T won big at Nor- folk State to remain unbeaten (9-0, 6-0) with two weeks to go.
Meanwhile, the Rattlers (3- 7, 2-5 in MEAC) saw yet an- other opportunity slip away in the second half Saturday, as they could not close out the vis- iting Bison, despite leading 23- 20 at the half.
Howard freshman quarter- back Caylin Newton, younger brother of Carolina Panthers’ quarterback Cam Newton, accounted for 435 total yards (141 rushing, 294 passing), rushing for a score
Senior defensive end Ken- neth Melton bears down on NSU quarterback Juwan Carter. The Aggies defense held NSU to minus-4 yards rushing, recorded nine tackles for loss and four sacks. Melton had 2.5 TFLs. Photo by Kevin L. Dorsey.
The bright spot for FAMU, redshirt freshman halfback Ricky Henrilus, who rushed for 153 yards on 20 carries and one score.
and passing for three more. Senior Brandon Nor- wood led the Rattlers with six receptions for 60 yards in his final home game while junior linebacker Jabreel Hartly led the Rattlers with 11 total tack- les, 1.5 for nine yards in losses. FAMU has a bye date, Nov. 11 before closing the 2017 campaign in Orlando against Bethune-Cook- man, Nov. 18 at 2:00 p.m. at Camping World Sta-
dium.
B-CU Says Goodbye To Its Seniors With Big Win
DAYTONA BEACH, FL — Saturday’s game for the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats at home was also Senior Appreci- ation Day. The school and pro- gram said farewell to 29 seniors playing in their last home game for the Maroon and Gold.
And what a game it was.
Redshirt senior, Larry Brihm, Jr. threw for a sea- son- and career-high matching 354 yards and a career-high five touchdowns to lead Bethune-Cookman to a 41-28 win over Morgan State on Sat-
Senior Jawil Davis of Miami stretches for the score.
urday at Municipal Stadium. Brihm, from Delray Beach, Florida, finished 23-for-30 passing and spread the ball around, connecting with a dif- ferent receiver on each touch- down. Jamaruz Thompkins added a 20-yard touchdown run in the third
quarter.
Bethune-Cookman is back
in action Saturday, Nov. 11, as the Wildcats travel to defend- ing MEAC champion North Carolina Central in Durham, North Carolina. Kickoff for the game is scheduled for 2 p.m.
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