“It’s tough to determine who’s serious,” Hawkins says.
However, Morehouse’s student body vice president, Tony C. Anderson, is worried his school’s new interview policy could hurt the chances of free-spirited, independent-minded candidates of being accepted over those potential students who show up wearing a business suit, no facial hair and are more inclined to conform.
“What about the free expression of a student?” Anderson asks. “College is a very fragile period in a person’s development. It’s about testing the boundaries of who you are.”
Daughtry says he won’t let stereotypes prejudice his screening.
“Some concerns are simply generational,” Daughtry says, noting that young men wearing earrings raised eyebrows when he was an undergraduate. “But that does not speak to what’s in their hearts, what’s in their character, their level of integrity.”
—Associated Press
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