FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MOREHOUSE SOPHOMORE HEADED TO OXFORD

ATLANTA, March 12 - Jerard Gibson, a sophomore political science major from Madison, Ala. was recently accepted into Oxford University in England.

Gibson will attend the prestigious institution during the 1999-2000 academic year. He is the fourth Morehouse student to Oxford and is scheduled to be the first undergraduate to spend a full academic year there.

Badan Tuladhar, a junior economics major from Nepal, spent last semester at Oxford. William McCloud, a 1997 graduate of Morehouse from Winston-Salem, N.C., also spent a semester at Oxford, and Nima Warfield, the first African-American Rhodes Scholar from a historically black college and university, attended Oxford after graduating from Morehouse in 1994.

Founded in 1867, Morehouse is the nation's only historically black, private liberal arts college for men. The College enrolls approximately 3,000 students and graduates 500 each year, conferring bachelor's degrees on more black men than any other institution in the world.

Prominent alumni include Howard Thurman, internationally known theologian and author; Michael L. Lomax, president of Dillard University; and Louis W. Sullivan, president of the Morehouse School of Medicine and former secretary of health and human services.