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Article: Recount crowns white student 'Mr. TSU' at Tennessee State
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- New Pittsburgh Courier
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- November 8, 2006
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(BLACK COLLEGE WIRE)-Tennessee State University has its first white "Mr. TSU" in Stephen Morrison, a senior from Memphis, after a recalculation of the votes displaced an African-American student, Darrius Brooks, who had held the position for three days.
Morrison, a senior health sciences major, had been first runner-up in the Mr. TSU pageant held Oct. 24. After an emergency meeting among university student affairs officials three days later, however, Morrison was told he had won the title.
It was only in September that Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen announced the end of the state's 38-year-old civil rights lawsuit to remove segregation from the state's public system of higher education. ...