SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1972
THE BENNETT BANNER
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COLLEGE - STILL A LUXURY?
When Cora Nolan went to college, she had a serious need
for financial assistance. The oldest of five children who were
supported by a widowed father, Cora had worked during the
last five summers of her high school life doing various odd jobs.
During the first year of her college career, she had worked in
the college cafeteria, a job scorned by most of the too proud
or lazy students. Despite the work hours, she continued to rate
as a top student who was also active in co-curricular affairs.
Cora represents many blacks who worked at all types of
jobs to pay their way through college. Despite the fact that
more students are enrolled in today’s colleges, it must be re
membered that for the bulk of the black population, A COL
LEGE EDUCATION IS A LUXURY. It is not guaranteed to
anyone, although some find it easier to achieve than others.
One of Bennett’s recent graduates, Connie Diane Hammond ’72,
well represents the Cora Nolan of our time. Connie, an honor
student, worked off campus everyday and still managed to be
very active in campus affairs.
The majority of Bennett students are receiving some
type of financial aid. Yet, so few of them realize the purpose
of such aid. How many squandered the bulk of their paychecks
downtown, instead of placing at least half toward their bills?
How many sleep during their work hours? How many end the
school year owing the college?
No one owes you or anyone else a college education!
When you know that your parents nor you can foot the entire
bill alone, it should strike you out of self-pride and some ma
turity that you must help yourself. It must be left up to the
financial aid office to help the students realize the purpose of
financial assistance. When the need for aid by a student is so
apparent, that office should make sure that the money is placed
on the bill. Such an action would defeat the purpose of stimu
lating maturity and and independence. But a mature, responsi
ble student would not spend her entire paycheck on a pair of
suede boots when her need for aid is so apparent. Do you
realize that the average student on Work-Aid receives $300 a
year?
Job supervisors must tighten the reigns and seek to in
still in the student worker, a sense of professionalism. Afterall,
that is what the future brings for most. As Ma Tucker would
have it: “No work hours, no pay! No work, ro job!” (Right on
Ma!)
It is now time to take a serious look at our financial aid
program. Is it achieving what it w'as established for? Are the
right students receiving the aid? Is the college really benefiting
from Work Aid? How can it be improved?
Poet’s Corner
WHAT BLACKNESS IS TO BE ABOUT
We the people
Who are the Black and Proud
Descendants of Mother Africa
Must begin to define ourselves
In a way that fits our being
And our purpose
We must envision ourselves
As Black creators
With a destiny to fill
With the power to give birth
And the power to kill
We must envision ourselves
In a new direction
Not partying and getting high
But working to build a mighty Black nation
We must envision ourselves
As armed, educated and skilled
So we can control that which is ours
And gaps toward our progress can be filled
And when the rhymes and the chants are over
When we’re tired of dreaming and ready for doing
When we realize that Black is REAL
And not just something in our minds
When we can shun white bourgeois values
And be our true African selves
When we are each and every one dedicated to the liberation of
our people
When we are all ready to
“KAZI, KAZI, KAZI”
(That’s Swahilli for “Work”)
And make our dreams come true to life
Then and only then
Can black
Become
BLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL A A A AAA A AAAAACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FROM THE CO-CURRICULA OFFICE
FOOL SCHEDULE
Monday 6:30- 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday
2:00- 4:00 pjn.
Wednesday 8:30-10:30 p.m.
Thursday 6:30- 8:30 p.m,
Saturdays 2:00- 4:00 p.m.
IDA H. GOODE GYMNASIUM
Swimming for Bennett Family
(Beginning Oct. 16, 1972)
Practice Swimming
(Beginning Oct. 17, 1972)
Co-ed Swimming
Swimming for Bennett Family
(Began 9-21-72)
Swimming for Bennett Family
COFFEEHOUSE
SCHEDULE
Tuesdays 2:30- 4:
Wednesday 9:30-11:
Thursdays 8:30-11;
Saturdays 2:00- 4
DAVID D. JONES
STUDENT UNION
30 p.m. Sip N’ Chat
(sponsored by Student Union B.)
30 p.m. Game Night
(Beginning Oct. 11, 1972)
00 p.m. Fun Night
(sponsored by Recreational C.)
:00 p.m. Gettin’ Together
(sponsored by Recreational Cous-
cil & Student Union Board)
From The Editor’s
Mailbox
Dear Fellow Students:
On Tuesday night, October
3, 1972 at 8:30 P.M. the fresh
men presented their annual
talent show. The talent .was
much and varied. The appall
ing part of this year’s show
was the rudeness on the part
of the audience. Everyone
has different tastes and this
diversity makes for a better
society. But the other person
has to have his chance even
if it’s not necessarily to our
liking. The constant conver
sation and BOOing while cer
tain participants were on
stage were not the manners
expected from mature Ben-
'nett Women.
—A Concerned Student
FRYE, BARBEE ADDRESS
FRESHMEN ORIENTATION
PIEDMONT
VISITING SCHOLAR
On September 25, 1972, Dr.
Lemuel W. Diggs spoke on
“Sickle Cell Hemoglobin and
its Consequences”. The semi
nar was held in the science
assembly of the Pfeiffer Sci
ence Building at 10 A.M.
Dr. Diggs said that sickle
cell hemoglobin, hence sickle
cell anemia, is hereditary.
Sickle cell trait occurs in 1
out of every 10 Blacks (Afri
can descent) and sickle cell
disease occurs in 1 in 600
Blacks. Sickle cell trait is
normally not noticeable but
if two persons with the trait
should marry, the possibility
of their children having sickle
cell anemia is 1 out of 4.
The child with sickle cell
anemia usually has a shorten
ed life span and is severely
disabled while alive.
Dr. Diggs said that genetic
lamily planning centers are
opening up around the coun
try to provide information
and ‘counseling’ to those
couples in which both parties
have the trait and are think
ing of having children.
Screening clinics are , also
open around the country, the
closest to Greensboro being
in Winston-Salem, to give the
tests for sickle cell trait and
sickle cell anemia.
Dr. Diggs is professor of
Hematalogy, University of
Tennessee, School of Medi
cine.
Bennett College Psy. Ed.
Majors Attend Convention
Fourteen physical educa
tion major students from
Bennett College attended the
State Physical Education
Student Convention which
was held at Appalachian
State University on October
13 and 14. The convention was
completely student directed
and represented from all the
institutions within the State
that offer a degree in physi
cal education. Major concern
of the conference centered
around the new issues in
■ physical education, methods
of teaching skills in motor
performance, and techniques
of leadership in teacher edu
cation.
The pre-registration con
ference data indicated that
Bennett College had the larg
est number of student dele
gates. Those students were:
Elizabeth Hemmingway, Flo
rence Darby, Seniors, Johanna
Lee, Debra McFadden, Reba
Moore, Juniors, Jean Jack
son, Wanda Cobb, Anita
Glass, Delores Scott, Vanessa
Curry, Sophomores, D«nise
Scott, Terri Morris, Bemetta
Sisco, Denise Whittle, Fresh
men. Dr. Davm Chaney is
faculty advisor to the physi
cal education majors club.
The Counseling Servipe
presented the first of a series
of seminars for the Fresh
men Orientation classes. The
first session was devoted to
“Youth and the 1972 Elec
tion.” Guest speakers for the
seminar were Rep. Henry
Frye and Mrs. Zoe Barbee.
They were introduced to the
audience by Mrs. Isaac H.
Miller who presided over the
event and moderated the dis
cussion period.
Frye, a local attorney, is
up for re-election to the state
General Assembly. He advis
ed the Bennett students to
get involved in the three areas
of power — politics, econom
ics, and organizational out
lets.
“All of these are important
if we are ever to ride where
we want to ride,” he said.
“The real challenge for ns
as individuals is to decide
in which area we can have
the greatest influence.”
Mrs. Barbee, a professor
at A&T State University, is
running for the board of
county commissioners. She
stressed the importance of
voting as one means of hav
ing a “say-so” in government.
She added that her can
didacy means possible repre
sentation for blacks, women,
and the area of eastern Guil
ford County.
Rep. Frye and Mrs. Barbee were guest speakers for the
first treshman Orientation seminar.
Student Indifference
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dents have progressed (or re
gressed from protests and
demonstrations to the attitude
that the nation is controlled
by administration and big
businessmen and all the
marching in the.world ain’t
gonna help or change that.
The political operation of
the nation (either the Black
one or the white one) is no
longer a prevailing interest to
the students who were for
merly up in arms over the
most seemingly insignificant
matters — coed visitation,
food in the dorms, etc.
Students who once combed
the cities looking for unregis
tered voters now find voting
itself a waste of time. Those
who held opinions of poli
ticians, platforms and issues
and vigorously challenged
them all, now lump all poli
ticians and their platforms
into the same category — not
worth the time.
The central question be
comes the need for some un
derstanding of just what stu
dents are about these days.
If they are unconcerned with
voting (for either Black can
didates or white) and un
concerned about Black na
tionalists and indifferent to
Pan-Africanists, fed up with
America and tired of the
Black thing, what is the con
cern of the black student
world?
Unfortunately, the real los
ers here will be the Black
community, for it is they
who will end up looking to
the college-groomed leader
ship for assistance in the
growing plight of our com
munities, only to find unin
formed, apathetic middle-
class-men who would rather
just do ‘their own thing.'
“In an under-developed
country an authentic national
middle-class ought to consider
as its bounden duty to betray
the calling fate has marked
out for it, and to put itself to
school with the people: in
other words to put at the
people’s disposal the intellec-
Bennett Offers Science
Program For High School
Seniors
Bennett is sponsoring a
Secondary Science Training
Institute for qualified high
school senior girls of the
Greensboro community. Un
der the leadership of Dr. J. H.
Sayles, the program’s major
focus will be an inter-disci
plinary course in the biolog
ical and physical sciences. The
general objective of the pro
gram is to provide high qual
ity instruction in the sciences,
specifically designed for a se
lect group of college bound
high school seniors. Admission
to the program will be
through application. Girls
who have exhibited high aca
demic ability in the sciences,
particularly those interested
in attending Bennett, are en
couraged to apply.
Classes will be conducted
on Saturday mornings from
9:30 A.M. until noon begin
ning October 14th and culmi
nating on May 12, 1973. Last
but not least, the program is
free. Bennett College will
provide all needed equipment
and school supplies.
tual and technical capital
that it has snatched up when
going through the colonial
universities.” So said Frantz
Fanon, patron saint of the
Black revolution.
Unfortunately, not too many
students have bothered to
study him. For in doing so
they would see that current
student indifference to any
thing and everything falls in
line with his follow-up to the
foregoing analysis:
“But unhappily” he wrote
“we shall see that very often
the national middle class does
not follow this heroic, posi
tive, fruitful and just path;
rather, it disappears with its
soul set at peace into the
shocking ways — shocking be
cause anti-national — of a
traditional bourgeoise, of a
bourgeoise which is stupidly,
contemptibly, cynically bour
geois.”