Academic
Excellence,
Our Goal
THE BENNETT BANNER
“Believing that an informed campus is a Key to Democracy**
HIVES
VOL. XXV NO. 6
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROUNA
APRiL, 1958
Student Bo
Elects New Leaders
Nascence Reborn
After Absence
Poems, stories, essays, and draW'
ings—these are some of the crea
tive endeavors expected in the
forthcoming issue of Nascence. |
Making its first appearance ‘
after two years’ absence. Nascence
is the “brain-child” of tihe Hu- :
manities Division.
Editor linda Brown and the
editorial staff are working under
the direction of Dr. Hobaxt Jar-
rett.
Art. literature, music, theater
arts, dance, plus typists, proof
readers, and business compose the
departments of the revived maga
zine.
Articles for the magazine are
contributed by members of the
staff and by other members of
the humanities division who enjoy
expression through the arts.
A board made up of the advisor,
the editor, and a member of each
depKartment makes the final choice
of articles to appear.
Nascence will soon go on sale
for ten cents a copy. Watch for
the creative expressions of your
Bennett sisters and be sure to get
a copy!
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Editors Give
Jormula For
Campus Press
A panel of five newsmen agreed
recently that the college
press shares both the rights and
responsibilitiets of the general
press in its coverage of university
affairs
The five spoke at a seminar on
college journalism sponsored by
the Daily Princetonian
They incluxled moderator James
Kemey Jr., ’33, vice-president and
editor, Trenton Times; Edward W.
Barrett ’32, Dean of the Graduate
School of Journalism at Colum
bia; Barry Biiigham, president
and Editor, Louisville Courier-
Joxxmal and Louisville Times;
William B. Dickinson, assistant
managing' editor Philadelphia
BtJletin; and Charles B. McCabe,
publisher of the New York Daily
Mirror.
Must Beg:ard Common. Good
In answer to questions on the
limits of reporting rights within
Princetoo, the five members
maintained that the Princetonian
should have complete freedom.
They agreed. However, that de
cisions on touchy subjects and
stories should be made with re
gard for the “good of the entire
community.”
Stressing the importance of ex
panding the editorial page, Mr.
Bingham urged the Princetonian
to increase its depth coverage of
imrwrtance intellectual aspects in
the univtrsity.
Mr. McCabe warned against the
pictures in a newspaper for the
iiheer sake of printing a picture.
Mr. Dickinson told the editors to
be consisterit and more thorough
in their coverage of campus news.
Dean Barrett said that responsi
bility to the university commimity
was essential in reporting Prince
ton affairs.
Not only is this applicaible to
the paper at Princeton, but this
is true for all college newspapers.
EMPLOYMENT INTERVIEWS—Miss Isabel Ksnnedy, of Phiiadelphia, Pa., representing the
Department of Special Gifts and Advance of the Board of Missions of the Methodist Church,
talks with Bennett College students about summer employment opportunities. Students left
to right. Misses Janie Graves, Greensboro, N.C.; Daisy Flowers, Shannon, N. C.; Margirie
Wilson, Clinton, N. C.; Do’ores SneUings, Raleigh N. C.; Anita Duckett, Roanoke, Va.; and
Clara Carter, Yadkinville, N. C.
STUDENT ASSOCIATION URGES
FEDERAL AWARDS FOR "ALL MAJORS
WASHINGTON—Federal schol-
sliir)s awarded on the basis of
financial need and in all fields
of study were urged by USNSA
President Ray Parabee in testi
mony presented before the
Senate Committee on Labor and
Public Welfare. Speaking for' a
majority of the imdergradiuate
students enrolled in accredited
four-year colleges, the student
spokesman presented fonnal test
imony at the request of the Com
mittee which is condiucting hear
ings on “science and education
for national defense.”
“The U. S. National student
Association believes that federal
assistance to college students is
immediately necessaory for our na
tional defense and for the fiillest
development of the best minds in
this country,” Parabee stated.
He recommended that the
scholarship program ibe bolstered
by other forms of support “which
cover both the needs of the college
and the individual if we would
insure this country of its most
vital resource.” He warned against
any policy of “either-or” .either
aid to the individual or to the
institution. Instead he asked for
a sufficiently large scholarship
program, along with assistance to
institutions to aid in expanding
faculty and facilities.
No Control by U. S.
“The Federal Government would
provide the appropriations only,”
Faratoee said in his prepared text
for the Committee, “and would
not in any manner have control
of policy.”
Referring to two specific bills
before the Congress (S.3163 spon
sored by Sen. H. Alexander Smith,
IR-N. J. and S. 3187 sponsored by
Sen. Lister HUl, D-Ala.) the 25-
year old law student from tlhe
University of Texas pointed out
that neither of these bills "totally
restrict scholarship grants to one
field of study, and yet we feel
that thfe preference which would
be given to science and mathe
matics would be an undesiraible
form of indirect control and would
possibly divert qualified students
to areas of study to which they
were not 'best suited.”
Questioned by Senator Yar
borough (D-Texas) concerning
the USNSA recommendation that
students be free to use their Fed
eral scholarsihlp grants at any
institution they chose and the
subsequent possibility tliat the
few “toig-name” institutions would
be overcrowded and the smaller
schools neglected, Parabee point
ed out that the proposed Federal
grants would not be so large as
to substantially build up a few
schools in this manner and that
the schools themselves would con
tinue to limit the number of stu
dents they accepted on the basis
of their aJbiUty to educate a cer
tain number.
Both Senator Yarboroxigh and
Senator H. Alexander Smith, who
sit on this Senate Committee,
commended Faranee and the U.
S. National Student Association
for the work they are doing in
the student community. Senator
Smith said "I think you are mak
ing a most valuable contribution.
You are (thinking about these
things and you are contributing
from your own experience to the
needs of education in this coun
try.”
Faralbee’s testimony was based
Continued On Page Four
AKM Entertains
Top 20 Frosh
As one of its projects to pro
mote high scholarship oca the
campus Alpha Kapi>a Mu spon
sored a get-to-gether for the
twenty freshmen having the high
est academic standing for the first
semester.
Bobby Moore, president, and
other mjemtoers of AKM at A&T
College added to the pleasure of
the evening.
The affair which was held in
Reynolds playroom honored:
Esther M. Alexander, Carolyn
Y .Bennett, Geraldine Brown,
Helen Brown, Linda Brown, Jac
queline Daise, Eunice Hawkins,
Jean Hayes, Lucy H- Howell, Iris
Jeffries, Gwendolyn Mackel,
Ellshama Madison, Jo Ann Mar
tin, Gloria McKniglit, Freddre
Patterson, Charletta Pickering,
Idajeanne Robinson, Leacy Belle
Shipman, Shirley Thompson, Au
drey Williams.
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Staff Serves
As Sponsors
On February 5 members of the
Bennett Banner newspaper staff
served as sponsors for the mid
week vesper service. Organ pre
ludes were played by the college
organist, Clarence E. Whitman.
The call to worship was given by
Merry Jean Sparrow.
Sonia Louden served as narrator
of the skit “Our Holy Book,”
written and produced by the mem
bers of the staff. It told the story
of how the Bible takes its present
day form with the coming of the
machine era.
Margaret Bailey gave the clos
ing evening prayer.
FAYEnEVIUE l
BOASTS 'TWO" ;
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Jamesena Chaiiners, rising sen'j
ior of Fayetteville, polled a ma'-
jority of th© votes to becomip
presidemt of the Student SenaDfe
in the final campus elections hel^
this month. j
Her opponent, Jane Williams
Winston-Salem, will be vice-pr
Ident.
Queen Murphy, Fayetteville,
won the presidency of the David
D. Jones Student Union. Her asr-
sistant will be Wilhelmina Bundy
of Johnson City, Tennessee.
Electedl as student represensta-
tive to the Central Committee
was Inez Jones, Lenoir.
Addle Watson will reign as
Queen at the May Day exercises.
Other officers for the 1958^59
school year as detenhined by the
elections aire: Sylvania Black,
secretary of the Senate: Johnsle
Adams, treasurer of. the Senate;
Blanche Tobuku-Metzger, parllar-
mentarian of the Senate: Sarah
Lawrence, Sunday school secre
tary; Dequincey Johnson, secre
tary of the Student Union; Cecile
Harrison, Representative to the
Union Board of Majaagers; Gloria
E. Brown, chairman of Mld-We^
Vespers Committee;, Joan Didler,
secretary of Mid-Week Vespers
Committee: Anece paison, sup«r-
intendent of Surkday jschool; and
Carolyn I>avis, Sunday aciiaol
pianist. ...
These stuident ki^ers will ‘ibe
offictaily installed,.at a vesper
service in May.
Leaders Active
Presidtent-elect Chalmers is an
English major and music minor.
She is a member of the Alpha
Kappa Mu Honor Society, Senior
Choir, E!ngUsh Club, YWCA, ao-
companist for the College Quar
tette, and acting co-editor of tlie
planned yearbook. Jamesena re
cently spent two weeks at Mt.
Holyoke, South Hadley, Massa
chusetts, as an exchange student.
Jane Williams is a chemistry
major and biol^ miinor. She rep
resented the Methodist Student
movement of North Carolina at
the Christian Citizenship Seminar
held in New York and Washing
ton, D. C. Jane is a member of
the Science Seminar, Alpha Kap
pa Mu, and the Senior Marshal
Board.
An EtogUsIh major and French
minor, Queen Murphy is active in
the Modem Language Club, Eng
lish CkiS>, and Alpha Kappa Mu.
Inez Jones, wlio will serve as
the co-ordinator between the ad
ministration and the Studeijt
Senate, is a pre-medical student
She is a member of the Science
Seminar, the Marshal Board and
Alpha Kappa Mu.
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Caagratalations Shirley
In recognition of the high au-
ademlc record which Shirley
Waters has maintained at the col
lege, Alpha Kappa Mu inducted
her into the society on March 4.
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