2 • BENNETT BANNER • NOVEMBER 19, 1993
The opinions expressed in this column are
the author’s and do not necessarily represent
the staff of the Banner.
Editorial
Do you know where
your yearbook is?
During the past three years at Bennett
College I have received only one yearbook, instead
of the three I am supposed to receive.
This leads me to believe that I’m being
taken advantage of because $60 of my tuition and
fees pays for a yearbook each year that I attend
school.
There are about 600 students enrolled this
year at Bennett. That means that we will pay
$36,000 this academic year for a yearbook that we
probably won't receive. Should we pay for things
that we don’t receive?
Where is the money going since it is obvi
ously not going to producing a yearbook?
I offer a solution that is both reasonable and
practical.
Instead of offering useless coiu*ses such as
"Career and Life Planning," the College should
implement a yearbook lab course. Such a course
would allow students to earn credit for producing a
yearbook. In addition, the money should be used to
provide an office for desktop publishing and a photo
lab specifically dedicated to yearbook production.
Reader responds
Honor Code decision defended
In your letter to the Just to set the record
editor, “When to Enforce the straight for once and for all,
Belle Honor Code?” pub- McCorvey was not charged
lished in the Nov. 4 issue of with the use or distribution
the Banner, you expressed ofillegal substances on cam-
concems about the validity pus. She was vaguely
ofthe Honor Code. You ques- charged with breaking the
tioned the decision of whom Belle Honor Code, a charge
you presumed was that of that was never justified.
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Bennett College, Greensboro, NC 27401.
Dr. Tiajuana Mosby, Dr.
Daphne Thomas, Dr Gloria
Scott and Dr. Alston. You
were wrong. You were not
just wrong about who was
responsible in making the
decision that SGA president
Pamela McCorvey be rein
stated, you were also wrong
My sympathy goes out
to you Miss WilHams. You
have ignorantly questioned
McCorvey’s commitment to
God, her character as a posi
tive black woman and have
labeled her a threat to oiur
Bennett sisters. Is this the
work of a woman of the Lord?
about how many people were I have known McCorvey for
reinstated. The presump- nine years and I have ob-
tion that she was reinstated served her as being a God
on a technicality followed fearingwomanwhoforgives,
by the presumption that she is positive enough to over
appealed her case.
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Tammi McCall
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look your blatant ignorance
and is concerned enough
about her Bennett sisters’
safety not to prolong this
issue.
Referring to a com
ment in your letter, “We are
all women at Bennett Col
lege and it is time we started
acting like it,” Get the facts,
not the rumors, whispers or
bathroom stall conversa
tions.
Last month, SGA is
sued a Student’s Right to
Know pamphlet which pri
vate institutions were ex
cused from adheriag to un
til last year. The pamphlet
outhnes several topics in
cluding the use and distri
bution of illegal substances
on campus. On our campus
there have been no previous
cases. That should have you
questioning, if anything,
why McCorvey was sus
pended at all.
The decision to rein
state McCorvey and one
other Bennett student was
not left up to the adminis
trators you so gracefully
advised in your letter. The
decision was first reviewed
by Dr. Mosby. Thereafter, it
was sent to the judiciary
committee, which included:
five faculty members and
three students. All were
randomly selected. They
based their decision on evi
dence given in statements
by witnesses selected by
each, the accused and ac
cuser. The decision was a
result of the due process of
the College; it had nothing
to do with “who she is.”
Instead of making a
mockery of Bennett’s screen
ing process for admission,
perhaps you should research
more on the issues at hand.
Tammi McCall
Managing Editor
BENNETT BANNER
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