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THE BENNETT BANNER
APRIL, 1955
THE BENNETT BANNER
Published Monthly By The Students of Bennett College
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
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Editorial Staff
DISCIPLINE
Yvonne Ireland
Barbara Williams
. . Betty Nicholson
.Mildred Mallettee
.Barbara Brown
. . Juliette Walker
Editor
Assistant Editor
Associate Editor
News Editor
Feature Editor
Literary Editor
Fashion Editor Clara Hall
Social Columnist Emily Montgomery
Business Manager Jeann Moore
Clara Brooks, Reida Dykes
Exchange Editor
Picture Editor ■ Gloria Mitchell
Cartoonists Grace Ellison, Connie Vance
Circulation Managers Annye Martin, Jackie Cai^er
Faculty Associate Randall
Reporters Bettye Alexander, Grace Dungee, Delores Casemere
Marie Solomon
Typists Jackie Carter, Bettye Alexander
DEMOCRACY OR DICTATORSHIP -
THE DECISION IS NOW YOURS TO MAKE
You, Bennett Sisters, with your constant struggles to achieve
maturity and self-hood are willing to go along with the latest
destructive factor of which you must surely not be cognizant.
If it were known, it surely would be only a fleeting dream
and not the sure reality which it will soon become. Like a
sweet perfume potent with poisonous fumes, but because of
its sweetness is allowed to seep into the nose, you are letting
this item seep into your minds and desires and before you
realize its potency it is lost forever in that fearful realm of
dictatorship. ^ j
The Point System, obnoxious as it is to me, has fascmated
so many of you and made you purse your lips and say the
inevitable “yes” when “no” should have been the counter
point. You have seen democracy where even a trace of its
roots has been cast into oblivion and have become so engrossed
in personal whims that the individual other than self, if to
you there be any other, has long ago been forgotten and you
have fallen into that hopeless void of apathetic living.
Must you who fain would say that you are seekers after
maturity, intelligence and common sense with which to meet
the world upon graduation be told that you hold enough
positions and membership in various organizations. Must this
system like the traditional bell do your thinking for you or
will you rise up and say “No” I must suffer the consequences
no matter \vho does the thinking so I shall think for myself.
It must be recognized that several girls hold offices in a num
ber of clubs and do a great job in each of them while others
do not One must not forget that others must follow while a
few must lead but they are both equal in importance to the
life of the organization. This system tells me that if the only
good leader of the group has been selected by someone else
that I cannot elect her again, but choose an incompetent per
son because all the best men have been chosen.
As for me, I want freedom to decide upon the load I must
and shall carry if I so desire. How well do I know my own
capabilities and capacities and am quite wiUing to stick with
in the limit of them. Whether I ioin three clubs or six clubs,
I shall try my level best to do what I choose to do to the best
of my ability. If we are left to decide what we want for our
selves as a true democracy allows one to do, I am almost cer
tain that the same persons will not be the leaders in each
organization. There are only so many days and nights and
hours in a week in which it is possible to have meetings, and
constitutions certainly do not allow for promiscuous attend
ance. Get what you have in good working condition before
you start adding other things. I must suffer for the good and
bad choices of leaders alike, should I not be allowed to choose
whatever person I desire as long as she feels that she has the
ability to do the job. .
When are you going to begin making up your own mmd
and adhering to your beliefs and put democracy to work
instead of sittijjg idly by watching freedom and democracy
fly by like a bird in the night, too swift to be seen well? No
matter what the consequences-I may suffer I say I want no
part of a student body that is willing to place democracy on
the wing and bring dictatorship in on a velvet carpet. With my
vote dictatorship shall never come in disguised as the point
system.
CLEMSON WRITES HISTORY
The Clemson College Board of
Trustees recently wrote a new
page in the history books in ap
proving a plan to turn Clemson
College co-educational. The plan
will take effect at the beginning
of the second semester of the cur
rent school year, beginning, Jan
uary 31.
This act follows up talk and
plans of many years. In the past
there have been numerous requests
that the institution be opened to
women. With the rapid industriali
zation of South Carolina and the
entire south, requests have become
more and more plentiful for wom
en wishing to take technical
courses which would enable them
to tackle many jobs which have
opened up for them.
Officials approved this admit
tance of women on the belief that
it was the logical thing to do. It
will benefit women in the area
from which Clemson draws its stu
dents to take technical courses
which they have previously had to
go elsewhere to get. Clemson turn
ing co-educational leaves only one
land grant college in the United
States which only admits men.
Eventually courses will have tc
(When one sees or hears the word discipline he then
thinks of some form of punishment, but here is the word
used in a. different manner. This fall when 1 was preparing
to return to school, this article appeared in the magazine
section of our state newspaper. It as a part of a letter from
a traveling father to his son, who was beginning his col
lege career.)
Discipline is indispensable to knowledge, and when you
have acquired the power over yourself to stand still when you
want to run, to be silent when you want to talk, to rise early
when you choose to lie late in bed, you will have gotten on
the way to fix your attention on any subject which may be
you gain, and scarcely less in finding out that you have only
presented to you for study. And in this way, as in most all
others, the advantage will be bound to increase with the line
of progress. You will find a high satisfaction in the knowledge
to try and keep on trying to accomplish just anything you
please. And this is what you have to do for yourself to do
what you dislike, and to do it with attention, for the sake of
the benefits to be derived from the unpleasant and irksome
duty. You must learn to study by learning to deny yourself.
Fix your hours (not too many, but a few in a day at first),
and use today for what it shall produce tomorrow.
“The State” 9-5-54
Barbara J. Williams
Associate Editor
You and Your Coat
A coat is such a beautiful piece
of clothing to be tossed and thrown
around as is common in the Union
Foyer. It surely is an expensive
wearing apparel and much to be
valued for coats are worn many
places and at devious timess
Moutons, furs, and alpaca all go
the same way, over the furniture
in the lounges.
Girls, as future mothers and
homemakers, it does seem that it
is quite feasible that you now
Degin practicing what you will
soon be preaching. “Junior, moth
er said to hang your coat in your
room,” etc. At home one can rest
assured that such deplorable be
haviour will not be tolerated by
vour parents and remember that
a holiday is coming soon, so why
not get in the habit of hanging
jour coats in the spaces provided
for them.
As a result of much consultation
the girls living in Reynolds, Pfeiff
er, Barge, and Jones are asked to
enter the Union through the side
door and hang their coats on the
hooks downstairs. The remaining
girls are asked to place theirs in
the closet on the main floor with
those girls entering the Dining Hall
first, placing theirs in the back so
that they will not be knocked off
the hooks by those coming in last.
Even you, you and you are cog
nisant of the fact that the break
fast system must be improved. So
that it has been decided that any
coat left on any piece of furniture
in the student union building will
be taken and held until a slight
monetary compensation has been
paid for its return. Girls, why
not hang your coats up and act in
all other situations like the cul
tured young ladies you are reputed
to be.
Your coat is saying to you “In
stead of throwing me around Why
not take me off and hang me some
time.”
cal-
pro-
Wit and Humor
Prof: Jones, what three words
are used most among college stu
dents?
Jones: I don’t know.
Prof: That’s correct.
—Penn State Froth
“Have you been through
cuius?” inquired the college
fessor.
“Not unless I passed through at
night on my way here,” answered
the Freshman. “I’m from Kansas,
you know.”
Daughter: “Father, why wa.s
Adam made first?”
Father: “To give him a chance
to say a few words.”
Time tells on a man . . . especial
ly a good time.
Epitaph on a tombstone: Don’t
Dig Me Now—I’m REAL gone.”
Customer: his coffee is like
mud.
Waitress: Well, it was ground
this morning.
The old college jalopy puffed
up and came to a rattling halt at
the turnpike tollhouse. “Twenty-
five cents,” said the tollkeeper.
“Sold!” cried the student, jump
ing out.
■—Colorado Flatiron
The most dangerous part of a
car is the nut that holds the steer
ing wheel.
—Yale Record
Late to bed
Early to rise
Makes a man baggy
under the eyes.
—Missouri Showme
“Did you ever take chloroform?”
“I don’t know. Who teaches it?”
—Pennsylvaia Pennpix
The pressure of your teeth may
be as much as 150 pounds when
you chew.
be added to all college curricula
in order to satisfy women wishing
to attend Clemson. The schools of
arts and sciences and education are
set up now only to accommodate
a minimum of the students en
rolled here. This is logical because
of the fact that Clemson is pri
marily a technical school. In order
to atract as many women students
to put Clemson on the same basis
with most co-educational institu-
tions,o courses will have to be
added in these two schools.
Sailors used to wear little “pig
tails” down the backs of their
necks. These “pig tails” were
known as queues.
College-Then What!
Where Are You Going!
“Columbus, when he set sail
didn’t know where he was going;
when he got there he didn’t know
where he was; when he got back,
he didn’t know where he had
been.”
Don’t be like Columbus, for you
might eventually make the tragic
discovery that you have got no
where. And then it will be too
late.
In this column begins next
month a series of articles through
which I shall attempt to help my
self and you to plan for the future
—to know at least the direction
in which you want to go.
I am dedicating these articles to
Bennett Senior Sisters on the
campus. And to other members
of the other classes maybe you
too will get some hints on what
you are going to plan for the
future.
After college, will you settle
down to be a house wife? Will
you go to graduate school or to
some other type of specialized
school? Will you go to another
country on a fellowship? Will
you be a missionary? Will you
teach? Will you go into armed
service? Will you get a job and
support yourself and do best by
your parents or guardians who
have sacrificed so graciously for
you? or will you just let FATE
do with you what she will.
All of these questions should
come into your minds long before
graduation or your senior year in
high school would not be too early.
But they should certainly be seri
ously considered as soon as we
begin earning our degree toward
college graduation. Then, because
the curriculum and college experi
ences we choose may serve as an
aid to successful living in the
future. Think on these things girls!
The average student at our col
lege who plans to finish college
looks forward to going to graduate
school. But not all of us will go
to graduate school, Many who do
go will never graduate. Before you
decide that you want to go,
ask yourself this question. Am I
mentally equipped to cope with the
academic requirements of graduate
school? Just a little hint. Know now
where you are going and begin to
prepare. If you are in doubt nov/
talk it over with your advisor, or
Mr. Grandison. I am sure they
will be delighted to help you. Even
taking a Psychological test may
serve as an aid in helping you to
choose what areas you are strong
and weak in.
Next month, the first article in
this series will help you think on
“GRADUATE SCHOOL — WHY?
WHERE? WHEN? AND HOW?”
By Katherine Jennifer Jones
Ramster's New Intecollegiate Deflnary
BY NOAH RAMSTER
ENGLISH
Idiom—Magical ingredient in
tooth paste.
Comma—State of unconscious
ness due to disease.
Tense—(dialect) To move rhy
thmically as in time to music.
Semicolon—Inferior; not up to
standards.
BIOLOGY
Parasite—Native of France.
Transpiration—Ways of travel.
Villi—Spanish building.
Legume—Body of water. Ex.
Song—“A sleepy legume, a tropi
cal moon.”
Bacilli—Ridiculous. Ex. “Don’t
bacilli.”
Gene—Girl with the light brown
hair.
ROMANCE LANGUAGES
(SPANISH)
Agarra—Place to keep auto.
Camara—Device for taking pic
tures.
Como—Male baritone.
Chico—Groucho’s brother.
Elio—A greeting.
Falso—Padded lingerie.
Jama—Night clothes.
Lanzar—Male tenor.
Misa — Person who hoards
money.
Privar—Outhouse.
Raza—Device for shaving.
Tanto—Lone Ranger’s faithful
Indian companion.
—Alabama Rammer Jammer