Media professionals visit
WFMY news anchorwoman, Sandra Hughes and 12 other
media professionals visited Bennett Nov. 10 and 11 for Local
Media Day, sponsored by the Mass Communications,Speech,
and Theatre department. The event was presented to infomn
mass communications majors about diverse career opportuni
ties in media. Other guests included; WQMG AM general
manager and public affairs director, Irish Gaymon; Greensboro
News & Record’s reporter, Jason Williams; and communication
facilitator, Mimi Williams.
From left; Mass Communications
chair, Dr. Lenora Brogdon-Wyalt, WFH/IY
reporter Cyndl Farmer, WGHP news di
rector Scott Libin, WQI\1G PD Brian
Wallace and professorStephanieCarrino.
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'Student Newspaper of the Phenomenal Women of Bennett College"
November 19, 1993
Bennett College Greensboro, North Carolina 27401
Vol. XVI, No. 3
BENNETT BLOOMIN': These flowers, on Bennett Street, were donated by the Board of Visitors during Founders’ Week.
Mass Communications program reviving and revising
By Stephanie McCorkle
Banner Reporter
A change for the better.
That’s what is in store for the
Mass Communications, Speech and
Theatre Department.
Since the beginning of this
semester, the department has been
undergoing a series of changes.
Three new faculty—Sally Alvarez,
Stephanie Carrino, Dr. Lona D.
Cobb, and a new chair. Dr. Lenora
Brogdon-Wyatt — have been hired.
Now there are five full-time
faculty members, including Bruce
Clark, the only returning professor,
in the department.
The mass communications
program is also experiencing major
revisions which include the updat
ing of some course requirements
and the adding of some new ones.
“In the past, students had to
take everything offered in the cur
riculum that they did not need for
their concentration,” Brogdon-
Wyatt said.
She added that too much w£is
being covered in one class during
the semester and there were not
enough advanced or follow-up
courses being offered.
As of this semester, there
were only two 400-level courses
required for mass communication
majors, Independent Study aind
Media Law.
The Russians are coming:
Russiaui writers that is.
Bennett is presenting a
panel discussion,“The Soul of
Black America and the Soul of
Russsia,” Tuesday Nov. 30, at 7
p.m. in Pfeiffer Science Audito
rium.
Russsian writers, Yuri
Lebedev, Mikhail Bazankov and
Vyacheslav Shaposhnikov will
participate in the discussion with
Dr. Alma Adams, professor of art.
Dr. Dan Figgins, professor of po-
Brogdon-Wyatt intends to
solve these problems by focusing
on specific areas of mass commu
nication.
“We have two areas that we
are concentrating on and they are
broadcasting for radio and televi
sion, and print journalism,”
Brogdon-Wyatt said.
Continued on page 4
Writers to examine
souls, prose and
poetry of both cultures
litical science and Dr. Charlotte
Alston, vice president for academic
affairs. Other Bennett faculty
and students atre also on the painel.
In addition, the paneUsts will
be guests in an 11 a.m. chapel service
with Dr. Linda Beatrice Brown who
will read from her novel-in-progress
Belle first recipient
of national award
for music excellence
Nicole Isaac
Student Reporter
The first national recipient of
a $5,000 award from the Liberace
Foimdation for Performing and Cre
ative Arts for the 1993-1994 aca
demic year is LaShanna Patton, a
junior and vocal music performance
major at Bennett.
“In early August I heard of a
new grant which would help fund a
music majors education, and I in
quired about it through Dr. Pinnix,”
Patton said.
Although Patton had nothing
but high hopes for receiving the
Liberace Scholarship Award, she
still remembers being surprised
when she was chosen.
“I felt that I had a strong
chance of receiving the award con
sidering that there are a small
amount of students majoring in
music at Bennett,” Patton said.
“I also had a slight doubt in
my mind that I would not receive
the award, but that is only natural.”
According to Dr. David
Pinnix, chair of the Music Depart
ment Patton is a very talented singer
Continued on page 4
on slavery. Brown, a distinguished
professor of Humanites at Bennett, is
an internationally known writer.
The writers wiU also lead dis
cussions on the poetry of black Rus
sian vmter Pushkin and the prose of
Dostoevsky at 3 p.m. in Black Hal]
auditorium.
All activities are free to th(
pubUc. For additional informatior
contact Brown at 370-8616 or 275
2564.
Bennett is one of the sponsori
of the program.
Panel to discuss black, Russian commonalities