New Face of a "Morehouse Man"?

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Author Message   Yvettep AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Yvettep Post Number: 2880 Registered: 01-2005 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 10:13 am:        ATLANTA (AP) — From his first day at Morehouse College — the country's only institution of higher learning dedicated to the education of black men — Joshua Packwood has been a standout. His popularity got him elected dorm president as a freshman. His looks and physique made him a fashion-show favorite. His intellect made him a Rhodes Scholar finalist. His work ethic landed him a job at the prestigious investment banking firm Goldman Sachs in New York City. But it's his skin that has made all of this an anomaly. This month, Packwood is set to take the stage and address his classmates as the first white valedictorian in Morehouse's 141-year history. The 22-year-old from Kansas City, Mo., will graduate on May 18 with a perfect 4.0 GPA and a degree in economics. He could have gone elsewhere, to a school like Columbia, Stanford or Yale, but his four-year journey through Morehouse has taught him a few things that they could not, and he makes it clear that he has no regrets. "I've been forced to see the world in a different perspective, that I don't think I could've gotten anywhere else," he said. "None of the Ivies, no matter how large their enrollment is, no matter how many Nobel laureates they have on their faculty ... none of them could've provided me with the perspective I have now"... Full article http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5izq01Q0x-Pt9x7uzJTVCOxqe-neQD90JHQ8G0   Troy AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Troy Post Number: 1275 Registered: 01-2004 Rating:  Votes: 1 (Vote!) Posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 06:18 pm:        I guess I was confused about Morehouse's mission -- my bad.   Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 6796 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 02:05 pm:        You are getting what you want-- When you scream that the white folks cannot have all white institutions, this means you cannot have all black ones. Especially when they are getting all that white money. And so it goes.