6 • BENNETT BANNER • FEBRUARY 24, 1994
Program provides single moms educationai opportunities
By Christine Lewis
Banner Reporter
Bennett College has
taken one giant step or
maybe two baby steps for
ward in trying to assist in
the progression of potential
single parents seeking edu
cational opportunities.
This step will be
known as the Bennett Col
lege Challenge of Opportu
nity or the Single Parent
program.
Riley Kline, director
of Outreach Services, said,
“The Challenge of Opportu
nity will benefit to students
who want their children to
be closer to them while they
are in school.”
The Bennett College
Health Care Services
Project (BCHCSP) will pro
vide an intervention pro
gram for single mothers
which will allow the single
parents to finish their post
secondary education either
with an associate or
bachelor’s degree in the par
ticular field of their choice.
“We started this pro
gram in August 1993, and
it seems to be working out
just fine,” Kline said.
The Single Parent
program will assist partici
pants by enrolling their chil-
dren, ages 3 to 5, in
Beimetf s Children’s Hoxise
at no expense to the partici
pants. The Children’s
House is an early develop
ment childhood educational
center.
The participants
will be required to be in a
parenting program, a re
quired sex education pro
gram, and in a home man
agement program to learn
the development and imple
ments of a healthy home
environment. Students will
also be engage in appropri
ate work experiences.
BCHCSP targets its
population on women who
want to improve their qual
ity of Hfe, to become self
sufficient and who want an
education for them and
their families. A cormnon
recreational and program
facility will accommodate
the single parents and their
children with an on-site pro
fessional staff.
Sabra Ferreira, stu
dent intern, said, “The Pro
gram is very beneficial and
it is coming along better
each day.”
The programs ser
vices will have a social
worker with will provide
management services to
program participants.
Ardta Hairston, stu
dent participant, said, “This
is a great program and I
recommend it to anyone try
ing to continue in getting
the rest of their education.”
The Single Parent
Program currently eight
students are enrolled. The
program is accepting appli
cations for the next semes
ter.
For more informa
tion, contact RUey Kline at
370-8733 or 370-8734.
Information Super Highway topic of Science Convocation
By Stephanie A. Herron
Banner Reporter
North Carolina will
soon be connected by a series
of information highway that
will revolutionize, education,
scientific research, and com
munication and just about
every other industry.
These “Information
Movie Preview:
Super Highways” and their
effect on computational sci
ence, was the focus of this
year’s Annual Science Con
vocation Jan. 27,intheAimie
Memer Pfeiffer Chapel.
The Information High
way will enable students to
take courses on other cam
puses while they are still on
their own campus.
Using cameras and
mics, which will be set up at
each of the 106 sites, the
students vsdll be able to hear
and see the teachers as well
as commrmicate with them.
This process will also allow
the teacher to see and com-
mimicate vsdth the students
as well.
“An important point
is that scientist located at
great distance fi'om each other
can use Information Highway
that are being developed to
conduct collaborative comple
tive scientific research as
through they were all in the
same laboratory, said Dr. Lee
Ponting, associate professor
of Mathmatics and Physics.
The Science Division
theme for this year, “What’s
Research Got To Do With It,”
may leave many wondering,
but after the annual science
convocation the students were
told that research has every
thing to do with it.
Snipes stars in Sugar Hill
“Sugar Hill,” a pow
erful contemporary drama
starring Wesley Snipes, opens
at local theaters Friday, Feb.
25.
Snipes stars as a man
who beHeves he can escape
the villainy of his past. He
plays Roemello Skuggs, the
godfather of a New York City
crime empire fighting to break
free of the world he created
before it destroys him and his
family.
“Sugar Hill” is a pow
erful saga about redemption,
love and the price two broth
ers are forced to pay of fulfill
their destinies, in a high
stakes game for control of the
streets they rule. In many
ways, this movie is the re^
and brutal history of the first
“hood.” The title “Sugar HiU”
is taken from the legendary
neighborhood that repre
sented the aspirations and
hopes of all Harlem.
Beacon Presents
“Sugar Hill,” a South Street
Entertainment Group Pro
duction of a Film by Leon
Ichaso. The film stars Wesley
Snipes, and also stars Michael
Wright, Theresa Randle,
Clarence Williams IE, vdth
Abe Vigoda and Ernie
Hudson. “Sugar Hill” is di
rected by Leon Ichaso, writ
ten by Barry Michael Cooper
and produced by Rudy
Langlais & Gregory Brown.
Armyan Bernstein, Tom
Rosenberg and Marc
Abraham are the executive
producers. The film is being
released by Twentieth Cen
tury Fox. The soimdtrackis
available on Fox Records/Bea
con Records.
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