Editing Morgan State University (section)

==Student life==

===Athletics===
{{main|Morgan State Bears and Lady Bears}}
{{see also|Morgan State Bears men's basketball|Morgan State Bears football|Morgan State Bears lacrosse}}
Morgan's athletic teams are known as the Bears, and they compete in the [[Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference]] (MEAC). Between 1926 and 1928, a young [[Charles R. Drew|Charles Drew]] served as Athletic Director. During this time he made great improvements in the school's teams' records.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retrieve/Narrative/BG/p-nid/337 |title=The Charles R. Drew Papers |work=nih.gov |date=March 12, 2019 |access-date=February 18, 2014 |archive-date=February 8, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170208122851/https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retrieve/Narrative/BG/p-nid/337 |url-status=live }}</ref> From the 1930s through 1960s, led by coach and then athletic director [[Edward P. Hurt]], Morgan's athletic teams were legendary. More than thirty of its [[Morgan State Bears football|football players]] were drafted by and played in the [[National Football League|NFL]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.databasefootball.com/players/bycollege.htm?sch=Morgan+State+University |title=NFL Players who attended Morgan State University |work=databasefootball.com |access-date=April 26, 2007 |archive-date=April 12, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412033241/http://www.databasefootball.com/players/bycollege.htm?sch=Morgan+State+University |url-status=usurped }}</ref> and many of its track athletes competed internationally and received world-class status. By the late 1960s most white colleges and universities ended their [[racial segregation|segregation]] against black high school students<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.history.appstate.edu/WadeTolliver.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070619040328/http://www.history.appstate.edu/WadeTolliver.htm |archive-date=June 19, 2007 |title=Professor Revising History of College Desegregation }}</ref> and many top black high school students and athletes started matriculating to schools from which they had previously been barred. While achieving a national goal of [[desegregation]], [[Social integration|integration]] depleted the athletic strength of schools like Morgan State and [[Grambling State University]]. For example, the annual contest between Morgan State and Grambling played in New York City in the late 1960s drew more than 60,000 fans.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9406EED8163BF93BA15752C0A962948260 |title=Sports: Scouting |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 8, 2009 |first1=Michael |last1=Janofsky |first2=Thomas |last2=Rogers |date=January 28, 1984 |archive-date=March 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307215127/https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/28/sports/scouting-207938.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Morgan State's rivals are the [[Howard Bison and Lady Bison|Howard University Bison]] (the matchup is often called the ''Battle of the Beltway'') and the [[Coppin State Eagles]].

====Basketball====
{{Main|Morgan State Bears men's basketball}}
In 2009, the Morgan State men's basketball team won the MEAC regular season and tournament championship and qualified for the 2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. In their first tournament appearance, the 15th-[[Seed (sports)|seed]]ed Bears lost to the 2008–09 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team Oklahoma Sooners, 82–54, in the first round of the South Regional.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/bracket |title=NCAA Tournament Bracket – 2009 |publisher=ESPN |access-date=March 28, 2009 |archive-date=October 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008185035/http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/tournament/bracket |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2010 the Morgan State men's basketball team again won the MEAC regular season and tournament championship<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.meacsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=20800&ATCLID=204907715 |title=Morgan State Wins 2010 MEAC Men's Tournament |work=MEACSports.com |date=March 14, 2010 |access-date=March 19, 2010 |archive-date=October 6, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006203247/http://www.meacsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=20800 |url-status=live }}</ref> and qualified for the [[2010 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament]], again as a 15 seed. Morgan State lost to [[West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball|West Virginia University]] in the first round by a score of 77–50.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=300780277 |title=Morgan State Bears vs. West Virginia Mountaineers – NCAA Tournament Game – Box Score – March 19, 2010 – ESPN |publisher=ESPN |access-date=November 11, 2024 |archive-date=April 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414204926/https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=300780277 |url-status=live }}</ref>

====Football====
{{Main|Morgan State Bears football}}
Morgan State began playing football in 1898, 31 years after the school was founded. The Bears have won three MEAC Championships (1976, 1979 and 2014). Their last Division I-AA/FCS playoffs appearance was in 2014. Fifty three former Morgan players have gone on to play professional football. Former Morgan Bears Len Ford, Leroy Kelly, Willie Lanier and Rosey Brown are members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.

====Lacrosse====
{{Main|Morgan State Bears lacrosse}}
By 1975 Morgan State became noted for its [[lacrosse]] team. Morgan State was the first—and, until the turn of the 21st century, the only—historically black university to field a lacrosse team.<ref name="Ten Bears"/>

In 2005 students organized a lacrosse club which plays other college's lacrosse clubs, but the team has yet to qualify to become an [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]]-sanctioned team.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Daraji |first=Malachi |title=Lacrosse Returns to Morgan State University |publisher=The Spokesman |date=July 1, 2005 |url=http://www.msuspokesman.com/media/paper270/news/2005/07/01/Sports/Lacrosse.Returns.To.Morgan.State.University-961055.shtml |access-date=March 15, 2008 |archive-date=December 1, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201093036/http://www.msuspokesman.com/media/paper270/news/2005/07/01/Sports/Lacrosse.Returns.To.Morgan.State.University-961055.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>

====Wrestling====
In 2023, Morgan State revived its wrestling program, which was cut in 1997 due to budget restraints.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://intermatwrestle.com/articles/25083 |title=Large Gift Revives Wrestling at Morgan State; HBCU Wrestling Initiative Enacted |access-date=October 24, 2021 |archive-date=October 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021144336/https://intermatwrestle.com/articles/25083 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Kenny Monday]] was hired as head coach.

[[Image:Hill Field House.jpg|right|thumb|[[Hill Field House]], Morgan's indoor athletic venue]]

====Athletic Hall of Fame====
{{main|List of Morgan State University Athletic Hall of Fame members}}
More than two hundred men and women Morgan State athletes have been inducted into the Morgan State University Hall of Fame including National Football League Hall of Famers [[Rosey Brown]], [[Leroy Kelly]] and [[Willie Lanier]], two-time Olympic Gold medalist [[George Rhoden]], and the coach of the [[Morgan State Bears lacrosse|Ten Bears]] lacrosse team [[Chip Silverman|Howard "Chip" Silverman]].

===Band===
[[Image:Morganstateband.JPG|thumb|right|The Morgan State Marching Band performing during halftime at the [[Rutgers University]]–Morgan State football game in [[Piscataway, New Jersey]] (September 2008)]]
[[Image:Morgan State University Marching Band 1977.jpg|thumb|right|1977 photo of Morgan State University Marching Band]]

The Morgan State University Band Program consists of six ensembles: the marching band, symphonic band, symphonic winds, pep band, jazz ensemble, and jazz combo. Self-titled the Magnificent Marching Machine, the marching band has performed at Morgan State football games, [[National Football League|NFL]] games, Presidential Inaugurations, World Series games and in regional and local television appearances.<ref>{{cite web |title=Morgan State University Marching Band |url=http://www.morganstatebears.com/sports/2003/7/17/MarchingBand.aspx?&tab=6 |publisher=Morgan State Athletics |access-date=April 27, 2015 |archive-date=November 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211102113951/https://morganstatebears.com/sports/2003/7/17/MarchingBand.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref>

On November 28, 2019, the Magnificent Marching Machine performed during [[Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade]] in [[New York City]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Morgan's Marching Band Lights Up Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade |date=December 2, 2019 |url=https://news.morgan.edu/macys-parade/ |access-date=February 11, 2020 |archive-date=December 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211216035914/https://news.morgan.edu/macys-parade/ |url-status=live }}</ref> They also performed at the 80th Anniversary and Commemoration of [[D-Day]] in [[Normandy, France]] on June 12, 2024.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wbaltv.com/article/morgan-state-university-marching-band-paris-d-day-parade/60928519 |title=Morgan State University marching band to perform at D-Day memorial parade in Paris |date=May 28, 2024 |access-date=November 11, 2024 |archive-date=September 12, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240912014035/https://www.wbaltv.com/article/morgan-state-university-marching-band-paris-d-day-parade/60928519 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Choir===
[[File:Morgan State University Choir.jpg|thumb|Morgan State University Choir]]
The Morgan State University Choir has performed for audiences throughout the United States and internationally. Robert Shaw has directed them, together with the Orchestra of St. Lukes and Jessye Norman and others in Carnegie Hall's One Hundredth Birthday Tribute to Marian Anderson. In the 1996-1997 season, the "Silver Anniversary" concert was broadcast throughout the state of Maryland. The concert won an [[Emmy Award]] for Maryland Public Television.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rw5dbsyM6k |title=The Morgan Choir: A Silver Celebration (1996) - 50th anniversary flashback |website=[[YouTube]] |date=April 17, 2019 }}</ref>

During 2011-2012 academic years, the choir had several prominent performances. Since 2017, the Morgan State University choir has toured, Cuba, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Slovakia, Germany, England, Scotland, Wales, Peru, Ecuador, and Galapagos Islands. In December 2021, the choir sang a concert in Hawaii, to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://msuchoir.org/page3/page3.html |title=About the Choir }}</ref>

===Greek life, social clubs, and organizations===
Morgan State University has over 20+ [[Fraternities and sororities|fraternity and sorority]] chapters including the nine [[National Pan-Hellenic Council]] (NPHC) organizations, social fellowships, clubs, student government association (SGA), and free purpose recreation spaces.