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Exams, classes rescheduled]
due to snow days
BY MONYA TOMLINSON
EDITOR
Belles will be paying the price for the free
mini-vacation.
A revised schedule for making missed
classes due to snow was released from the
Academic Affairs Office Feb. 24.
Bellespeak
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To Greeks and Chris
tians: "Can't we just get
along?"
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Features
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Information about HIV
available at campus
Health Care Center
Critic's Comer
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Voodoo, D’Angelo’s
second attempt
captures our hearts
The Bennett Banner
VOL LXX NO. 7
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Bennett CoUege
Greensboro, NC 27401
Students lead protest for change
BY MONYA D. TOMLINSON
AND CANDACE D. EVANS
Editors
Students hold up a sign "We want change" as they march to the president’s
house on Gorrell Street. Photo by Candace D. Evans,Candace D. Evans. BannerPhoto^P^
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Students wait on the lawn in from of the
President Scott's house. Photo by Candace D.
Evans, Banner Photographter
Krishel Panton addresses the
students in front of thepresident's
house. Photo by Candace D. Evans,
Candace D. Evans, Banner Photographter
It began al 10:30 a.m. Friday,
Feb. 18, a cold, dreary day.
Professors were in the middle of
their lec tures, as students rose from
their desks and began walking to
ward David Dallas Jones Student
Union, for Bennett’s first student
protest of the new millennium.
While members of the Bennett
CoUegeBoardof Trustees had their
annual spring meeting in down
town Greensboro, more than 100
Belles congregated in the David
D. Jones Student Union to orga
nize a protest for "change."
“We want books to study for
midterms," said Knshel Panton, a
sophomore biology major from
Miami, Fla.
Midterm exams had been sched
uled to begin Feb. 21, but some
textbooks were still not available
in the bookstore.
"We want our dorms clean and
renovated, and we also want our
financial statements on time.”
Students were shown a video
tape featuring some of the Uving
conditions in four dormitories. The
film included footage of flooded
showers and walls with chipped
paint and holes, and broken secu
rity doors.
“I think it’s about time students
take action on these issues con
cerning our campus,” said
CorinthiaSartin, a sophomorepsy-
chology major from Washington,
D.C.
The complaints were not lim
ited to living conditions. Darina
Mitchell, a sophomore sociology
majorfrom Bridgeport, Conn. said,
"I haven’t received any books be
cause my money in the business
office hasn’ I been uansferred yet."
Immediaiely following ihe as
sembly m the Union, ihe students,
carrying banners that read We
want change" and "We want re
fund checks," marched to the
President's house on Gorrell Street
where they were met by Provost
Charlotte Alston.
“I’m here to greet you because
the presidentis not here," Dr. Alston
said. "The College acknowledges
the concerns being expressed.
"1 think it’s about time
students take action
on these issues con
cerning our campus."
-- Corinthia Sartin
“The Student Development Com
mittee has moved its session to the
campus and you are all welcome to
attend. I urge you to come to this
meeting and speak clearly. I know
Bennett women, and I know that
you will project and articulate con
cerns in a way that there will be a
response.”
At 2 p.m. the students marched
to Annie Memer Pfieffer Chapel
for an open forum with President
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