2 * BENNETT BANNER « OCTOBER 27. 1995
OPINION
Student Opinion Poll:
BelleSpeak
What is the one thing you would do if you
were President of Bennett College?
LETITIA ROBINSON
SENIOR
GRAPHIC ARTS
CONE HALL PRES.
Hometown: Stanford, C.T.
Revise the curriculum, especially
the art program.
TIRSHANTHA DERRICKS-BEY
FRESHWOMEN
UNDECIDED
Hometown: Chicago
If I were president I would try lo
raise more money, something
Bennett needs.
NICOLE BUCHANAN
SOPHMORE
BIOLOGY
Hometown: Findley, Ohio
I would change basically
every tiling.
What are you going to do?
Just when I thought things
may be getting a little beuer for
black men, (after the Million
Robin Hawkins
Banner Co-Editor
Man March) 1 opened the
"Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" and
what do 1 read?
"Witness, police reports
differ"; "Police version Fuels
Fear of A Cover-Up."
These headlines are referring
to the recent death of Jonny
Gammage. No one really knows
exactly what happened but a
sketchy version of the incident
goes as follows:
Oct. 21 at approximately
1:47 a.m. the police began
tailing Gammage, a cousin of
Steelers defensive lineman Ray
Seals, who was driving a 1988
Jaguar, in a white suburban
neighborhood in Pittsburgh.
Gammage was reportedly
“operating the vehicle errati
cally.”
“I'm pulling over a
Jaguar.... It has Florida
(registration) plates and the
trunk is low and all, ” said Lt.
Milton Mulholland over police
radio.
Mullholland, along with
other officers, pursued
Gammage's for 1.4 miles.
When the car stopped,
Mulholland, ordered officers to
remove Gammage from his car
so that he could be searched.
An altercation ensued involv
ing six other police officers
from three departments.
Gammage, 31 was killed by
suffocation.
Jesse Jackson and a local
chapter of the NAACP have
been called in.
We all are familiar with the
police officers’ song, sung to
the tune of “Old McDonald”:
Black man, nice car, white
neighborhood, the car has out-
of state license plates. I'm
going to get him good.
What can we do if tliose
employed to "protect and to
serve” do the opposite or
worse?
Could it be that only black
police officers should patrol
black neighborhoods. That
way, a young black male
driving an expensive foreign
car — with out-of-state
registration , equipped with
tinted windows, shiny rims
and a “thump'n” system —
may have a better chance of
leaving the neighborhood
alive, not harassed or beat
up.
What we can do? Reach a
solution before the headlines
are about events in your
neighborhood.
ANN -CATHERINE BAKER
JUNIOR SPECIAL EDU.
SNCAE SEC.
Hometown: Philadelphia
I would refurnish and fix the
chapel. Our place of worship and
fellowship should not have
chipped paint, worn carpet.... If
we took better care of the chapel
our sisters might show more
respect for it.
MELISSA JACOBS
JUNIOR
INDUST ENGINEERING
REYNOLDS HALL PEER
COUNSELOR
Hometown: Maryland
Spread the word about what the
women at Bennett College are
doing and what they continue to
do once they leave Bennett.
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