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THE BENNETT BANNER
May, 1958
THE BENNETT BANNER
Published Monthly By The Students of Bennett College
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
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EDITORIAL STAFF
EDITOR Carolyn Brown. ’58
CO-EDITOR Yvonne Wynne, ’58
NEWS EDITOR Barbara Campbell, ’59
FEATURE EDITOR Delores Tonkins, ’58
EXCHANGE EDITOR Gladys M. Fortune, ’58
SOCIETY EDITOR Sonia Louden, ’58
PERSPECTIVE EDITOR Veronica Shipley, ’58
CIRCULATION MANAGERS ..... Barbara Hammond, ’58
Wilhemina Bundy, ’59
ART Emma Jean Blackstock, ’58
Joan Didier, ’60
REPORTING STAFF Nancy Kirby, ’60
' Juanita Spear, ’60; Gloria Brown, ’60; Jean Sparrow, ’61;
Linda Brown. ’61; Margaret Bailey, ’61.
A NATION WORRIES, A CAMPUS STUDIES
Currently, three issues have taken the spotlight in our daily
lives and conversation. Those three issues are those of our
status as a nation in foreign policy, the Recesional Period, we
have entered and the question of what happens in case the
president becomes seriously ill.
We, as a nation, are primarily disturbed about the situations
that these topics are bringng about. A few months ago, our
chief concern and worry as that of the Racial issues, develop
ing and arising in Little Rock, Montgomery and Tuskegee.
But now, the power of the All American Dollar, John Foster
Dulles and the President and the Veep have moved into the
lime light and in the background the struggle for human digni
ty still prevails.
The recessing state of the American Almighty Dollar is the
chief theme for many speakers, newspaper columns, editorials,
and is the chief debate in both Houses of Congress. In the city
streets, people ask deplorably “will the Republicans get us
out of this?”. Is Time repeating itself?”, and “Are we as a
nation really economically secure?”
Yet, there are those who are concerned with the work that
Secretary of State Dulles is doing. We ask as we read and
listen to accounts in the news, “Just where do we stand with
other nations?” and “does our stockpile of nuclear and atomic
weapons have any influence on our foreign policies?”
Concurrently, the nations’ population-is puzzled with the
third oroblem of “What happens and should the vice-president
have the power to take complete control in case the president
becomes seriously ill?”
These three problems are of a great magnitude and face not
only the statesmen and the poltical scientists but they appeal
to the common laymen, the voters—the nations’ population.
We are the products of these common lavmen—the votep.
Tomorrow, we will vote. Therefore, while the nation worries
and laments over the problems of this nature, we as college
students should take the opportunity afforded to us by the
voters, our parents and the Ivy Towers, in which we dwell
and ponder over volumes of “forgotten lore” and analyse
the problems which our nation faces.
The United States of America has yet to have a drastic
world war to take place on its’ soil. The poplus of the U. S. A.
has vet to hold the fear that the people of Japan have; the
fear of knowing that a nation possess an atomic bomb, will
use it and the dreaded effects that it can cause. But it can
happen here,” and unless we solve our problems, it can not
be prevented.
In essence, we should not only follow our chosen curricula
in order to prepare for that job but we should take advantage
of the opportunities and time we have behind these walls of
Ivy, to studv, and analyse the situations and predicaments of
the nation. We should take the time to propose new concepts,
develop keen insight and interst in them, so that when the
dawn of tomorrow is cpon us, we shall be prepared to march
to the polls, vmte that Congressman or Senator in a manner
wh'ch will prove to be our salvation as far as nations’ security
is concerned.
Meanwhile, the struggle for human dignity moves on in
the background with cries and muffled voices. While the
nation worries, the college campus studies methods and modes
to cease the cries and the problms, in order to prevent an old
world of tradition and strife from remaining in vogue and to
allow a new and free world, as near the true democratic stage
as can be found, to exist.
A nation worries, a college campus studies.
The Editor
MISS DEMO AND
HER ULCERS
This comes as a shock to me,
that is .the question as to my
identity. The editor of this paper
has been accused of using this
column as a means of getting rid
of her steaun and surplus energies,
but to those who think that she is,
are WRONG.
I was born out of Democracy and
the need for it here on this campus.
One does not know everything; per
haps I may die tomorrow, for is
not this a characteristic of almost
pure democracies, they are born and
then Shey die while in their prime?.
DECORUM
Ladies, please be seated while I
say a few words about your de
corum in Chapel. When one enrolls
in a college it is felt ihait one is
maturing or else one is a child
brain. However, I adnHt that we
have no such animals wailking
around must less enrolled in the
institution, as chMd Brains. Point
two of this little tete-a-tete, is you
girls make too mudh noise in the
Annie Merner Pfeiffer Chapel. To
teli the truth I ^am embarrassed
when we have guests, because we
always talk aloud and laff (not
laugh). This should be stopped at
once and the President of Hlhe Col
lege. Rev. Bryan nor any other
person should not have to tell us
of this. We should out it out right
now, that’s a chapel not the “block”,
RECORD PLACERS
Why is it at rest hour we have
to play our rock and roll records
at the highest volume and then
follow that up with a loud and wrong
tap dance right up over our Ben
nett Sister, who need the time to
study or to rest, and you need to
do the same?
IN ■raE UNION
Why is the record player in the
Union, upstairs that is, not fixed?
I like a different type of music
than does my room mate and I
would like to 'listen to it, but cain’t
becaiuse between lus there is only
one record player, so when I go
over to the Union to what is known
as llhe Listening Room, I still can’t
listen because that machine doesn’t
work or I’m dumb and don’t know
how. Someone should place some
directions there, so we’dl be in the
know.
GOING HOME SOON
Just think, we’ll be going home
soon for a much needed rest an^
I’d just like to drop a packing hint.
Please pack your own clothes and
not someone else’s. You’ll find that
you’ll have more space, providing
you do it this way.
In closing I would just like to
say, that girls it’s 'getting pretty
v/arm these days.
My the way, if you don’t swim,
then please enroll in swimming
next year, if you plan to have class
es in the Science Building, because
I almost drowned the other day,
in the vicinity of the 'flagpole. It
gets real wet around there when it
rains.
For Music Lovers
A Real Treat—The Editor On Jazz great feeling, be holds a pretty
When asked imy opinions on Pro- decent conversation too. “Cannon-
gressive Jazz, adl I could say was ball’ is 'great, too and ErroU Gar-
“I dig it the 'most”, and further ner is not 'to be forgotten,
more it is. i Vocal miusic in the modern vein is
As la rule, as far as music comes j crazy. The Four Freshmen are way
and goes, I like Classical miusic, but' out attractions, the Hi-Lo’s are gone,
since the medium of Progressive j I like the way they sing, you know
Jazz and I have met formally, I in whole and half steps. To top it
admit that I do dig the stuff. My all off you must sit and listen to
advice to those who not share this those husky, sultry, appealing voices
stellar delict of digging this music of “Sarah, the Divine”, Julie, June,
in the modern vein is, if you haven't
heard it—listen to some, and if at
first you don’t like it. then take a
bigger dose of it,
I figure that -Rock and Roll, or
Blues and Rhythm, is for the birds
and adolescents. But Rock and Roll
has its merits, where they are I do
not know.
However, that is not the question
at hand, which is, who are some of
your favorites in the world of jazz.
I now begin 'by saying that George
Shearing is my favorite. If you lis
ten dosely, you can hear some faint
traces of Bach in the numbers that
he ararnges. Other than being a
terrific showman, he is tops when
it comes to gracing the 88 keys
with his renditions of “Laura”
“Stella by Starlight”, “Have You
Met Miss Jones” and “Autumn In
New York”. Of course. I like Billy
Taylor and Don Shirley. The Modern
.lazz Quartet is way out. 1 still
mourn for people like the late Char
lie Parker and Cliff Brown. 1 also
figure that The Jazz Messengers
are “tuff” and Chico Hamilton is
tremendous.
To reach 'wav out and listen to
Jahnney Eton and his aggregation,
lately graduated from Princeton is
a “neverous” and “nice” pastime.
To experience the pleasure of lis
tening to Terry Gibbs and his vibes
and lalso feast your eyes on him
doing so at the same time is a
Carmen, Cris, Dakota.
'Now, We have those people that
I’m sent on. There are still others
that exist that I like, but there are
those that I don’t like, for instance
Dave Brubeck who plays the same
old cords over and over again. By
the way, if it were not for Paul Des
mond, there would be no Brubeck
and company.
If I could give an award for the
preservation of Jazz I would give
it to Normam Granz. who doas a
remarkable job of getting people
together in this 'fascinating idiom,
the world over.
Lastly, it’s a good thing that mu
sic is a universal language, because
we have the chance to see and hear
records and personal appearances
of such "Dersonnel as the Blue
Flames of France, the Australian
Jazz Quartet. Toshiko and many
others, who from the far corners
of the earth, find that the medium
of jazz is the one mode in which
they can expr^s themselves and
reap a harvest of satisfaction. And
of course those people like Satch
Dizzy and Hamp who have been
abroad witti their music, (Remem
ber Hamp and his “Flyin’ Home’"
in the Netherlands last year’^
Well, this could go on forever that
is, me expounding about something
I know very little about, but this I
do 'know, Progressive Jazz is tops
in my book
20 COMMANDMENTS FOR
RUSSIAN SCHOOL CHILDREN
School children in Russia are
required to memorize 20 “Rules
for Pupils” and may be expelled
for failure to observe them.
It is th6 duty of every school
child—
1. To acquire knowledge persist
ently in order to become an edu
cated and cultured citizen and to
be of the greatest possible service
to his country.
2. To study diligently: to be
punctual in attendance; and not
arrive late at classes.
3. To obey the instructions of
the school director and the teach
ers without question.
4. To arrive at school with all
the necessary textbooks and writ
ing materials: to have everything
ready for the lesson before the
teacher arrives.
5. To come tb school clean, well
groomed, and neatly dressed.
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6. To keep his place in the class
room clean and tidy.
7. To enter the classroom and
take his place immediately after
the bell rings: to enter and leave
the classroom during the lesson
only with the teacher’s permis
sion.
8. To sit upright during the les
son, not leaning on his elbows and
not slouching: to listen attentively
to the teacher’s explanations and
the other pupils’ answers, and not
to talk or let his attention stray
to other things.
9. To rise when the teacher or
the director enters or leaves the
room.
10. To stand at attention when
answering the teacher; to sit down
only with the teacher’s permis
sion ; to rales his hand if he wishes
to answer or ask a quetsion.
11. To take accurate notes in his
assignment book of homework
scheduled for the next lesson, and
to show these notes to his par
ents; to do all the homework un
aided.
12. To be respectful to the
school director and teachers;
when meeting, to greet them with
raise their hats.
13. To be polite to his elders,
to behave modestly and respect
fully in school, on the streets, and
(in public places.
14. Not to use course expres
sions, not to smoke, not to gamble
for money or for any other ob
jects.
15. To protect school property;
to be careful of his personal things
and the belongings of his com
rades.
16. To be attentive and consid-
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