It Happens in the Best of Families
Cafeteria Rating Drops After Sanitation
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inspection Precipitated By A "Concerned Student”
by Cheryl E. Johnson
An anonymous telephone call
from a “concerned student” who
“complained of roaches being in
the food,” resulted in the dining
hall’s sanitation grade being
dropped from “A” to “B” after an
inspection on Feb. 19.
A spokesman for the Environ
mental Health Division of the
North Carolina Department of
Human Resources, Division of
Health Services, Earl Tysinger
said, “The item that hurt the most
is that the inspector found some
rodents or roaches in the kitchen,
probably both and he took off
three points.” Steve Jones, who
was the inspecting sanitarian said
“I found roaches and signs of mice
droppings downstairs, which is
what we go by when we don’t see
them (mice). There weren’t “too
many” droppings Jones said but
“they need a little bit of cleaning
up down there.”
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The Dining Hall Kitchen
photo by Cheryl E. Johnson
Head Dietitian Mrs. Myra Jones said, “He came in and charged me
with the ceiling on top of the dining hall, all the broken tiles and some
roaches and the dumpsters (garbage containers) outside that he wants to
stay closed and stuff like that.” Some of these items she said, “They had
not been charging against me,” in the past “and in fact I had not ever
had anybody to notice” the ceiling before.
Tysinger, who is a Sanitarian II said “I know you all are probably
pretty disturbed about receiving a “B” but I might point out that this is
not that unusual and it does not mean that there has been a terrible
laxity within the cafeteria. It is something that happens from time to
time in the best of restaurants,” he said, and “it is just impossible to
maintain a food handling establishment at 100% efficiency all the time.”
He said, “We see fluctuations in grades each time we go out; in this
case a number of factors conspired to bring the grade down.”
In giving a break-down of items marked off the Bennett sheet he
explained, “Let me remind you that I have not seen the building so I’m
taking the items directly off the sheet just the way the sanitarian in the
field noted them.”
Tysinger said, “They did have a problem with cleanliness of floors
as well as obstacles to cleaning and lost a half point on the construction
of walls.” There are “notations about the ceiling in the cooler and agsdn
they lost one full point on the walls in the toilet facilities,” he said. A
point was lost because ice machine containers were not clean. “They lost
a point on easily cleanable construction and corrosion of equipment with
rusty sections in the refrigerator. Walk in cooler door gaskets are worn
out.”
At this point Tysinger emphasized again that he had “not seen this”
himself.
For the dirty paper on shelves they lost half a point because this is a
“potential harbor area for roaches” he said. Continuing, he added “a half
point for storage spaces not being neat and clean” as well as some items
not being stored above floor level. He said, “All things should be stored
above the floor but some of the items were stored directly on the floor
and this hampers cleaning since things stored on floors are not usually
moved during normal sweeping procedures.”
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FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1976
BENNETT COLLEGE, GREENSBORO, N. C.
VOL. XXXVil, NO. 8
UNC-G's Dr. Sewell Encourages Students
To Think Seriously About Academic Options
Dr. Smytli Feeis Compassion and Confidence Are Needed
by Joyce Bass
“It’s easy to fail in college, be
cause often we become bored. But
you should think seriously about
the adventures these (academic
options) programs offer you at
Bennett,” said Dr. Elizabeth Se
well, faculty member at the Uni
versity of North Carolina at
Greensboro during her speech
given as part of the Academic Op
tions program on Tuesday, Feb
ruary 26, in Chapel.
The ACES began with Bennett
faculty members speaking briefly
on new academic options that will
become available to students this
fall. One of the options, which also
served as the main topic for the
assembly, was the new Scholar’s
Program, to be initiated into the
curriculum.
According to Mrs. Janet Coch
ran, the Scholar’s Program will
provide broad, innovative pro
grams of study for qualified stu
dents choosing to enroll. “You
create your own program and goal
with a faculty associate,” she said.
Some advantages that were listed
included the opportunity to re
ceive special recognition, working
closely with faculty and having
control over life’s goal. Mrs. Coch
ran then introduced the speaker.
Dr. Sewell said that as a pro
fessor, she often finds herself with
students who have no interest or
enthusiasm about courses. “I
sometimes ask my students to
bring their bodies to class. We
can’t learn without our minds and
we can’t have minds without
bodies,” said Dr. Sewell.
She said that memory and
imagination are very important to
a college student. “Our ideas and
imagination come in combination.
But we have gotten out of prac
tice,” said Dr. Sewell. She said
that when we say we don’t have
time to do things, in reality we
don’t want to do them. We always
make time to do the things we
want to do, according to Dr. Se
well.
“You have two special programs
here, the Honors and Independent
Study programs. You should seri
ously think about these programs.
True, you may be thinking, well
suppose I do sign up in one of
these programs and I begin to
fail. Your faculty advisor doesn’t
expect you to know all the an-
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by Cheryl E. Johnson
Dr. Mabel M. Smyth, vice presi
dent of the Phelps Stokes Fund
in New York City, was the speaker
for the Spring Honors Convocation
on February 19.
The Spelman College graduate
began her address by saying that
she felt “a sense of coming back
home whenever I stand in the pul
pit of a black college,” because
during her childhood she lived on
several college campuses.
She said if she were a “fairy
godmother” two things she would
give to the college students would
be “confidence in yourselves and
compassion” because these are
“things that intelligent people need
in order to make their intelligence
count for something.”
Dr. Smyth elaborated and ex
plored various myths that she said
had existed concerning blacks.
One of these myths was that
“black women have not moved
ahead for fear they would leave
their black male counterparts be
hind.”
This myth she stated gave birth
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For the second year in a row,
the Banner has been awarded a
first place in the eollege-univertity
section of the annual national com
petition sponsored by the Columbia
University Scholastic Press Associa
tion. The award was announced at
the annual convention at Columbia
on March 12.
The Banner was farther honored
by the Southern Regional Press In
stitute in its annual meeting at Sa
vannah State College earlier in
March. It received a 92% rating
with the judges commenting that it
was "clearly an above average col
lege newspaper” and that the writ
ing was "for the most part first
rate."
Dr. Smyth
photo by Cheryl E. Johnson
BENNETT SCHOlAirS PROGRAH FOR HIGHLY lOTIVATEI TO BE III FULL SWING FALL ’76
by Cheryl E. Johnson
A new program allowing
students of superior ability to
plan their own curriculum,
have the option of majoring
or concentrating in a specific
subject matter, or electing to
do neither of these has been
developed as an academic op
tion.
“The small college has a
special obligation to provide
its students with an appropri
ate educational experience re
gardless of their academic
ability; in response to the ne
cessity to provide a maximum
opportunity for every student
the college offers the Bennett
Scholar’s Program to the stu
dent of superior intellectual
ability.”
That’s the word from Mrs.
Janet Cochran, an English in
structor and the co-ordinator
of the scholar’s program.
Eligibility for this program
will be determined after the
first semester of freshman
work so that a student’s per
formance at the college level
can be evaluated. Students
may apply for admission to
the program only during the
second semester of their
freshman year or during the
first or second semester of
their sophomore year.
A first consideration for ac
ceptance into this program is
that the student have a 3.00
grade point average. Beyond
this requirement are other
“evaluative instruments” Mrs.
Cochran said.
Students “will take a stand
ardized general knowledge
test” along with a reading
comprehension test. These
tests will be selected by the
Bennett Scholar’s program
committee. Committee mem
bers this year are Mrs. Coch
ran, chairman; Dr. Charlotte
Alston, Mrs. Willie Mae Mc-
Callum and Dr. Mattie Moss.
Another requirement be
fore admittance is awarded is
interview with the committee.
About the standardized
test, Mrs. Cochran conceded
that it was a logical assump
tion that students who did
well on the SAT or ACT
would also do well on this pre
requisite for admission to the
program. “However this does
not mean that those students
who did poorly on the SAT or
ACT should not attempt to
qualify for the program,” she
said. She explained that the
reason “we decided to post
pone evaluation until the sec
ond semester is because we
feel a student’s performance
in college is a better index of
her ability than her high
school transcript and perhaps
even her SAT scores.
And she emphasized that
having to take a standardized
test is only one component in
the whole evaluation process.
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