VOL 1, NO. 2
BENNETT COLLEGE -1993 GRADUATION EDITION
MAY 6, 1993
ENTERTAINMENT
by Deanne McLeod
BETTER DUCK: Chris
Tucker lays it on heavy
atBelleFest. P. 7
GLASS
BREAKING
NEWS
BENNETT CHOIR
SINGS A NEW TUNE
WITH NEW
DIRECTOR P. 6
GREEK FREAKS
TAKING THE SORORITY
STUFF TOO FAR P. 4
BENNETT LINE
A QUICK LOOK AT THE STORIES WE'RE COVERING
KICKING THE SCIENCES: Bennett looks to
Beakman's world for graduation honorees. Page 1.
SISTERHOOD SOARS: Big/Little sisters
share ups and downs at Bennett. Page 1.
GIRLS IN THE HOOD: A photo layout of the
first outdoor Spring Concert,
BELLEFEST, shows that the
Belles had fun and stayed
safe despite the fact that Mr.
Christopher Williams was a
no-show. Page 8.
WHAT NOW?: Graduating Belles can breathe
a sigh of releif. Or can they? Page 5.
A DIFFERENT WORLD: Kinn Hall schools
students on the other side of graduation. Page 3.
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER: Keying in on
what's important for us as a people. P. 5.
BAD RECEPTION: Tara Gross explains the
static communications majors get. Page 4.
COLORFUL PERSPECTIVES: Panel
discussion sun/eys piugress of black women. Page 6.
IN THE CLOSET: Roxie gives some straight
advice. Page 2.
CHECK 1-CHECK 2 : Juniors, don't wait too
late to make sure grades made, bills paid. Page 4.
ON HER MARK: Judyann Fletcher's 12.5sec.
100 meters makes NCAA nationals. Page 8.
BENNETT FAX
Profile of
Bennett College
Graduating Seniors (1987-1993)
YEAR
1987-88
1988-89
1989-90
1990-91
1991-92
1992-93
# OF GRADUATES
70
82
55
65
79
118
Source: Bennett College OHice of Management Information Services
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FEATURES
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SITUATION
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PERMAN£NTLY. P. 6
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BENNEH GRAD RECEIVES
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by Deanne IvlcLeod
KIM WALLER: A young
lady on the tnove
P. 5
Fostering sisterhood at Bennett College
by Tracey E. Fox
Bennett Banner
Friendship and unity are
two words that are well known to
the ladies of Bennett College.
To aid and foster this
friendship the Big Sister/Little
Sister program was implemented.
In the program, a junior (Big Sis
ter) can be assigned up to two
freshwomen (Little Sisters).
The program is put together
so that incoming students will have
an experienced student they can
ask questions about the school.
Additionally, these young students
may have personal questions about
their own lives that they may not
be able to ask anyone else. The big
sisters can also give tips on coping
in their new college environment. Big
sisters are there to lead their little
sisters in the right direction and to
lend a shoulder to cry on if need be.
Many little sisters say they
enjoy having a big sister to look up to.
They feel it is a form of communica
tion. Keli Vanterpool says, “I can’t
Please see Sisterhood, page 3
Celebrating-
. WOMEN IN
THE SCIENCES
J
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER: Noted psychiatrist and
psychoanalyst, Dr. Frances J. Bonner, is tlie daughter of
former Bennett president, David Dallas Jones.
A lool at statistics related to Bennett College
LEAD STORY
Bennett graduation
honors high
achievers in science
by Gloria Carr
Bennett Banner
On Sunday, May 9, 1993 at 11:00 a.m.
Bennett College will hold its 63rd commencement
exercise since becoming an all- women's institution
in 1926. This year's theme is “Celebrating Women
in the Sciences.” The commencement address will
be delivered by Dr. Frances J. Bonner, MD. a noted
psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Dr. Bonner is also
the daughter of the late David Dallas Jones, a
former President of Bennet College. She is a
Bennett College graduate of 1939 and a 1943 gradu
ate of Boston University School of Medicine.
Please see Lead Story, next page
McKissick-Kemp's
fight is in the genes
by Gloria Carr
Bennett Banner
Carrying on the
legacy of a man like Floyd
B. McKissick, Sr., is quite
a task. But Bennett com
munications professor
Charmaine McKissick-
Kemp is doing quite a job.
Few men were as
effective in the struggle
for southern civil rights
as her father.
He was a speaker
at the March on Wash
ington in 1963, a civil
rights attorney and activ
ist, judge and spokesman
for the doctrine of black
power. McKissick- Kemp
is the youngest daughter
of the McKissick Sr. fam
ily-
McKissick-Kemp in
herited her father's pas
sion for justice and em
powerment for African-
Americans. That passion
was on display when in
the spring of1992 she was
awarded the Coca-Cola
minority faculty fellow
ship at the University of
Notre Dame. McKissick-
Kemp taught a course
entitled “The Civil Rights
Movement and Beyond”.
The ivy towers of Notre
I
by Deanne McLeod
MCKISSICK-KEMP: Towards
black empowerment.
Dame proved quite a formi
dable challenge.
In thebeginningthe
students were not receptive
to the idea of an educated
African-American woman
instructing them on such a
touchy issue as that of the
struggles of African-Ameri
cans during the civil rights
movement.
McKissick-Kemp’s
familiarity, however, with
the dilemmas of the move
ment and her dogged deter
mination to adequately ex
plain the subject matter to
her students made the ex-
Please see Genes, page 6