Friday, October 13, 1989
THE BENNETT BANNER
PAGE THREE
hair stylist seeks
Student
Stylist par excellence: Senior Jocey-
lyn Isom is well versed In the
intricate art of women’s coiffures,
(photo by Yvette N. Freeman)
by Joycelynne Hodges
Bobs, curls, crimps and
waves. Jocelyn Isom does
them all and more.
She is one of the most
popular hair stylists here and
holds a grade point average
of 3.2. How did she get the
title of “the queen for all
styles?” Isom, a senior ac
counting major from Fort
Washington, Md., decided to
go to beauty school after
graduating from high school.
She said, “while I was in
high school, I found an inter
est in cosmetology. I thought
of it as a trade that I’d like
to go into in the future.
Everyone likes to get their
hair done and what a way to
make money.”
Once enrolled at the Scan
ners International Beauty
Academy, Isom began to feel
differently about her goals.
She explains: “Halfway
through hair school, I decided
to go to college. I didn’t like
the idea of being on my feet
all of my life. With the help
of school, I hoped to get a
degree in business and open
up a chain of my own stores.”
When Isom first arrived
at Bennett College, she began
to do hair everyday, but soon
she realized that all that
glitters is not gold.
“I was racking up!” Jocelyn
said. “I had about six people
a weekday, depending on the
day. On Thursdays and Fri
days, I usually had about 10
people on each day. Then my
grades went down and I rea-
li-ed that my purpose in
school was not just for
salon in
money, even though this was
and still is my only means of
support.”
Isom especially loves to
create wild hair styles and
doing “hard curls,” a techni
que which enables styles to
last for a long time. Even
though Isom enjoys doing
hair, she feels that the life
of a college hair stylist is
not all glamour.
“Doing hair is fun,” Jocelyn
admits. “But I always seem
to have a lot of problems that
arise. Like there is always an
overflow of people and they
don’t seem to understand that
I have a life outside of doing
hair. I enjoy being with my
friends and with myself.
Sometimes I get greedy and
that gets the best of me. I
really hate it when my cus-
dorm
tomers come late or don’t
even show up.”
Isom, along with some other
hair stylists on campus, is
trying to open the salon in
the basement of Cone Hall.
Isom feels the those who do
cosmetology should have a
place to do their trades.
She said, “Most of the stu
dents who are into cosmeto
logy are business majors. It
would be good experience if
these students could form
their own business. Plus, it
would also be a lot of fun.”
The room in Cone’s base
ment used to be open, but
was closed after one day of
use. Though several at
tempts have been made to
reopen the room, things have
not gone through yet. Isom
hopes that the room will open.
Belle falsely arrested in Virginia Beach riot
by Cherryl Floyd
On Sept. 2, among a crowd
of college students mingling
on Atlantic Ave. in Virginia
Beach, Va., Jewell Jackson
looked up to see an army of
police officers approaching,
some on foot, some on horses.
Jackson recalls that the
crowd started moving away
from the oncoming troop of
officers. “Then,” she says and
pauses, “the next thing I
knew, someone threw a bottle
through a store window, and
that’s when all the looting
everybody has been talking
about started.”
Contrary to local news ac
counts and Virginia Beach
newspaper reports, Jackson
says that the looting wa^
triggered when an unidenti
fied white person threw a
bottle through a store win
dow. As students robbed and
vandalized stores, Jackson
says that police officers stood
and watched.
The following day, the
avenue where the looting oc
curred was closed off. Stu
dents moved to another
avenue to mingle. Jackson
says that suddenly a heli
copter started to circle the
area and police officers on
foot, again, chased the crowd.
This time, though, people
were beaten and arrested.
“A guy and his girlfriend
were in their car getting
ready to leave, and about six
police officers dragged them
out of their car, beat them
both, put restraints on the
guy and threw him in a big
paddy wagon,” Jackson says.
Stunned and disbelieving,
she stood there with tears in
her eyes because, “I just
couldn’t move. I never thought
that I would have to exper
ience this in my lifetime.”
Jackson was then res
trained and arrested. She had
heard police officers behind
her counting “one, two, three”
and then heard them ap
proaching her from behind.
One police officer running by
pushed her and asked her to
move.
According to Jackson, she
was still stunned by what she
saw all around her and could
not move. When he asked her
a second time to move, he
pushed her hard enough to
fall. She tumbled down with
another police officer ap
proaching from the other side
of her. Before she had a
chance to get up, the officer
had placed her in restraints.
“I was the only black fe
male in a wagon full of black
males,” she says. “They ar
rested one white guy, I guess
to make it look good,” Jackson
says.
Jackson and others arrested
were taken to a recreation
center where they were locked
inside two ad(iacent fenced
tennis courts. They all had
to wait until they each re
ceived a summons to court.
They were all charged, ac
cording to Jackson, with un
lawful assembly.
Jackson says that she re
mained on the tennis court
from 9:40' p.m. until about 1
a.m. She was initially told
that she had been arrested
to be kept off the street.
Later, the arresting officer
informed Jackson that she
was arrested because she did
not move when he told her
to move.
Police didn’t read Jackson
her rights or give her a phone
call. She says, “I was man
handled. I didn’t resist arrest,
and I didn’t try to run.”
After her release, Jackson
stayed at a nearby 7-11 con
venience store until daybreak.
She says that she feared that
returning to her hotel room
would invite another arrest.
Jackson feels that the Vir
ginia Beach Labor Day riots
were unfairly blamed on
Greekfest (a convention of
sororities and fraternities)
which was supposed to have
taken place that weekend.
“Nothing Greek went on at
Virginia Beach,” she says as
she noted that both black and
white Greeks were present.
She also feels that the en
tire incident could have been
avoided if ix)lice had not
treated students as roughly
as they did. “I was treated
like an animal,” she says.
Jackson has emerged from
this situation with a new out
look on racial relations.
“I don’t trust white people,”
she says. “I never felt that
way before, but I do now.”
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“What in the devil are they
doing down there?” “Where
is all that dust coming from ?”
“I wish they’d stop that noisy
drilling.” “Why are they mov
ing the post office boxes?”
These were the common com
plaints and questions being
heard from the students of
Bennett College in reference
to the renovation of the post
office.
The function of the post
office is to serve the students
of Bennett College as effec
tively as possible. The post
office renovation, according
to Ms. Carole Owens, purchas
ing agent and college opera
tions manager, “was neces
sary to enable Bennett College
to better serve its students.”
Also, Ms. Owens stated
“that the expansion of the
post office was a direct res
ponse to the growing needs
and population of Bennett
College, because the old post
office was becoming too small
to accommodate the increas
ing influx of mail that is com
ing in, due to the increase in
enrollment at Bennett.”
Students may have assumed
that the days of constant dust
and incessant drilling were
over, but the post office was
just the beginning of the re
novation and expansion pro-
C0SS
The renovation/expansion
of the bookstore is scheduled
to begin in a matter of weeks
and should be completed by
next semester. The bookstore
is being expanded so that it
will provide more in terms of
merchandise and college par
aphernalia and permanent
storage place for textbooks,
making the process of selling
and dispersing textbooks more
orderly.
Being able to offer more
merchandise will generate
more income, enabling a wider
range of items to be sold.
Rather than going off-campus
to buy personal toiletries and
school supplies, the students
will be able to purchase those
items from the bookstore,
therefore, according to Owens,
“creating an atmosphere more
conducive to buying and sell
ing merchandise.”
The new bookstore will be
located where the old bowling
alley used to be.
Owens and the bookstore
staff would like to extend
their appreciation to the stu
dents of Bennett College, who
were patient during the in-
convience of the renovation of
the post office.
The bookstore in coniunc-
tion with the Student Govern
ment Association (SGA) re
cently sponsored a “Design a
T-Shirt” contest. Owens would
like for the students to play
a more viable role in the d^
signing of the paraphernalia
that will be sold in the book
store. Any suggestions that
would help the operation of
the bookstore run more
smoothly or any suggestions
as to what the students would
like to see sold in the book
store will be taken into con
sideration.
by Yvette N. Freeman
If you’re planning to see
a movie this weekend, you’re
probably considering “Black
Rain,” starring Oscar-winner
Michael Douglas.
Douglas portrays Nick
Conklin, a tough, foul-
mouthed New York cop under
investigation for what he calls
“liberating” money retrieved
from drug arrests.
The plot of the movie
centers around Conklin and
his partner Charlie, played by
Andy Garcia, who are as
signed to carry out the ex
tradition of a Japanese mafia
killer, Sato. Once in Japan,
Conklin and Charlie mis
takenly turn Sato over to his
own men impersonating Japa
nese police officials. Conklin
and his partner then join
forces with the Japanese
police to recapture Sato, but
only as “observers.”
If you like action movies
with slow starts, “Black
Rain” is the one for you. It
takes almost 30 minutes be
fore any real action begins.
Also, the action scenes are so
spread apart, that it seems
as if this movie will never
end.
However, this is a good
movie to see if you want great
ensemble acting, mostly done
by the Japanese actors. Ken
Takakura is absolutely fan
tastic, and at the same time
frightening, as Sato, the ruth
less killer. He practically
steals the entire movie away
from Douglas.
Takakura, along vdth
Garcia and Kate Capshaw,
who plays Joyce, an American
living in Japan, help to make
this movie interesting.
Douglas’ performance is
also up to par. His portrayal
of a bumt-out cop is so con
vincing you want to feel sorry
for him and any other under
paid, overworked cop.
Although “Black Rain”
seems very slow and drawn
out, you may be able to over
look that because of the act
ing. However, there are sev
eral action scenes as well as
violence — graphic violence
(i.e., self-amputation of a
finger, hand-stabbing, throat-
slashing, and beheading,
samurai style).
The picture even has a dash
of humor thrown in here and
there, which helps to break
the monotony.
Most Belles oppose Supreme Court abortion verdict
by Cherryl Floyd
This summer, the Supreme
Court overturned the 1973
Roe V. Wade decision which
made abortion legal.
Courts in individual states
can now decide whether or
not a woman can have an
abortion. The majority of
Bennett Belles feel that this
is not fair.
“It’s a mother’s choice. No
body should be able to force
their beliefs on you. It’s your
own choice. You’re the one
who has to live with it not
them,” says freshman Wilma
Clark.
Others feel that the abor
tion issue should have some
moral guidelines.
Marcia Burrell, senior, does
not know where she stands
on abortion. She says that
the right to have an abortion
depends on the person and the
situation and that “The Sup
reme Court doesn’t have any
thing to do with it.”
While Burrell feels that
the Supreme Court should
have no authority to make
the decision about an indivi
dual woman’s right to have
an abortion, Traci Cure, a
freshman transfer student,
feels that there are instances
when someone other than the
mother should decide.
“It’s up to the woman, but
if the person is under 18, the
parent should decide,” Cure
says.
A minority of Bennett
Belles feel that the Supreme
Court is justified in making
this decision for women.
“I feel that the fetus, un
born or not, is a life. Since
our country was founded on
Christianity and since I am
a Christian, I feel that the
Supreme Court should make
abortion illegal,” says junior
Kimberly Grant.
The Supreme Ctaurt re
cently convened for a new
session and must hear three
abortion cases, the outcomes
of which could determine a
woman’s right to choose to
have an abortion.