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OCTOBER, 1964 THE BENNETT BANNER Page Three B. C. BEAT By PATRICIA MURRAY Since the start of school sev eral quite interesting things have been happening on campus. Some i things were new, some were old, some were supported by you, others weren’t. One very different and very interesting thing that occurred one Saturday night in Cone Hall was a most original talent show. The title was “A night without the Boys” presented by none other than the Playboy Club. It was nothing less than hilarious with Del Tricia Currie acting as M. C. and many acts to follow featur ing such personalities as, Angel (Gwyn) Wynn from the Golden Gates, Tappin’ Kitty (Peggy Lar- gent). Drown Baby (Gloria) Leevy, Mama (Barbara) Ham mond, and The Grape Sisters (Jean Little and Carolyn Carter). There were many more including the traditional Bunnies directly from the Playboy Club. The en tire dormitory was present and a swingin’ time was had by all, considering that it was “a night without the boys”. “Come on in, the water’s fine”. This is a plea from many of us that are already taking advantage of our new pool. The free swim ming hours are numerous. You can go in everyday of the week except Friday and Sunday. Check your bulletin boards for the exact hours and the days you can bring your guests. Please support this and all the activities of the Gym. Speaking of supporting activi ties on campus. What in the world happened to you on the day of the Union picnic? All I have tp say is that you missed some fun and some good food, but as I re member you didn’t miss the food. We complain about not having enough activities but in order to have more we must support the ones we have. Congratulations to SNEA on Music On Campus Sometimes we tend to take for granted those things that we are used to. Such things may be the wonder of love, the beauty of a starlit evening, or the magnifi- cance and splendor of nature. Let us bring it closer to home—Ben nett College. Many things are taken for granted here by the stu dents, however, there appears to be one major organization whose dedication to us is taken for grant ed, perhaps more than others. This is the Senior Choir. Each Sunday, approximately forty-five young women join the processional to the chancel. This is one of the most impressive parts of the vesper service. Dig nified and poised in their white surplius and maroon robes, the choir sings, in addition to hymns and responses, two sacred num bers which are completely mem orized. Certainly we must realize how many hours are spent in preparation for each vesper ser vice, but we take this for grant ed. Surely we realize how earn estly and faithfully Mrs. Craw ford and Miss Alston work in order to give to us the highest calibre of musical performance that their rich backgrounds can offer to us—yet, they too are taken for granted. The courts of law tell us that we ^ are innocent untU proven guilty. Now is the time to resolve within ourselves to leam to ap preciate and respect those things worthy of the same. Next Sun day, don’t let your verdict be guilty. —Joyce Dunn their dance, Ihe theme of which was very appropriate, “Apple for the Teacher.” Good luck to all of you on November second. Lima congratulations to you too on your recent engagement. Sandy Vails welcome back from your stay in the hospital. We missed you and are glad you are better. Here is some food for thought. So, contemplate a while. Difficulties exist to be surmount ed A strenous soul hates cheap suc cess or successes. —^R. M. Emerson “On Man and God” Ebony Fashion Show Review “An exquisite production repre senting the achievements of some of our young Negro talent in the field of fashion, as well as such famous names as Oleg Cassini, Christian Dior and Mr. John.” This phrase of praise could be used to describe nothing other than the Ebony Fashion Fair, held on the eve of October 10, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Dave Green (who was by no means “green”) enticed the au dience, with the essence of a prince charming as he gently con quered the keyboard, producing an atmosphere for elegance. Speaking of a prince charming, I must not forget our suave, deb- onaire little friend with the tight cuffs. The lone male (m(del) tipped and pivoted with the air of Rockefeller, devoting equal time to “tugging at his cuff”. What was in his cuffs? Absolutely nothing, other than starch; how ever it added to his smoothness, which was his objective. By no means iin the back ground, was a lovely array of “sun-kissed” beauties who exem plified elegance in the true sense of the word. What better ambas sadors could one ask for, to rep resent fashion and mankind? The show alone would have been incomplete without . . . WeU, her name is irrevelant anyway, for it wasn’t her name that cap tured and relayed the intricate details, by way of commentary. The ease and grace with which she spoke created a type of fa miliarity, which would incline (jne to believe that she had stitched every seam herself. The fashions constituted attire for every occasion from “attract ing a Billy Goat,” to just “stand ing”, for an entire evening. For attracting a Billy Goat, one mu.5t wear pants and jacket constructed of goat fur, with a corresponding hood to make you visible to the goat, but invisible to your friends. If you like standing, give a “standing party” and wear some of the gorgeous gowns from the show. I guarantee you’ll do noth ing but stand, for there’s no room for walking, much less for doing the “frug” or the “Boomerang.” Head covering ranged from hel mets to delicate mantillias. A more extensive collection would be hard to find. Comparing the Ebony Fashion Fair with the Miss North Caro lina Fashion Show (which I also attended), I must say the latter was “like a penny waiting for change.” —^Ernestine Mitchell INQUIRING REPORTER Do yon think that family style meals and Volnutary Service have lost their meaning on campus? Cheryl Walls, senior elementary education major, Camden, N. J.: “The voluntary dining hall duty, I feel was set up to give the girls a sense of re sponsibility to the school, and their fellow sisters, i Dining hall duty I should give us a |j sense of coopera tion with one another, and should help us to learn respect for our sisters and our school. “At the present, dining hall duty and our family style meals do not seem to be serving these purposes. In the dining hall, we tend to stick with our own class mates and cliques. Dining hall duty we look to as drudgery, and we are very unco-operative to those people who are working for their six week period. We seemed to have acquired a bois terous attitude of loud uncouth, ness as we enter and leave the dining haU. “I think if we go back and try to remember why it is that we have family style meals and dining haU duty we will learn to appreciate them more.” I Rose Graves, junior, sociology major, Los Angeles, Calif.: j “It can plain ly be seen that I the students ; don’t know the original meaning of the family , style meals, for if they did, they would not run into the dining hall for meals as they do nor would they sit with the same people every night. “As for the voluntary service —a list is posted with names on it telling you what you are re quired to do for the next six weeks, if requirements are not fulfilled you are penalized — is this voluntary service?” Rosalind Corbett, sophomore, psychology major, Wilmington, N. C.: “To provide ample opportun ities and experi ences in daily ; living that will stimulate prac tice in the art and science of home - making: iThis seems to , have been the original purpose and meaning of family-style meals and “Voluntary” student services on our campus. How ever, as time changes, so do con notations. I feel that this, though not to a great extent, has hap pened to Bennett. The family- style meals are accepted as everj-- day practice taken for granted. The “Voluntary” student services are accepted as compulsory chores. This should not be!” Ana Turner, freshman, English major, Cincinnati, Ohio: “Yes, if our I evening meal in Jlthe dining hall pis family style, 1^1 hope I never 'have the same axperience in my dome. This meal s generally look- d upon as mere- y the one for which one does not have to wait in line for. Stu dents feel that this idea of volun tary service isn’t really voluntary, out rather an extra chore”. MORE LETTERS Come ’65 and Johnson will come to the white house, family, ranch, livestock and all. Diplo mats watch your step! m “Thank You, Choir This is a comment that will be very much appreciated by the Senior Choir here at Bennett Col lege. Do you realize that the choir practices every week day night except Wednesday and prac tices at 12:00 noon on Saturday? Did you know they have to leam a new song every week for Ves pers, besides getting ready for various concerts for the year? Did you know that they too are average students, sometimes car rying 21 hours, very tired some nights but go on because they love the choir and will always stick by it. So say “thank you” | choir for making such a fine contribution to the Vesper service. They deserve it. MALCOLM X (Continued from Page 1) on your ideals and values, it is the individual responsibility of every human to make an ethical attempt in improving his world. It is fantasy, mere foolishness, to feel that one must fight hate with hate. It is fantasy to assume that one race is superior to anoth er race. Every race has had its “day in the sun.” The black race was “called” civilized, and the white race barbaric up into the medieval area. The white race is “called” civilized now in com parison to our black brothers in Africa. This writer argues that there is no good definition for the so called term “civilized” and there fore cannot feel justified in call ing one race superior to another, whatever his color might be. The writer cannot justify hostility and hatred as cohorts no matter what the end of that hostility and hatred might be. The writer who has seen or read of the oppressed who built their better world out of nothing cannot justify, therefore, the ac tions of a man of self pity. —Andrea Mast TO MY BENNETT SISTERS,- On Sunday, how many of us say that we don’t have time to go to church because we have to study? What kind of an excuse is that for not going to church? Don’t we know that if it wasn’t . . „ „ . „ , . . , Columbia, S. C., was recently for God we might not even have . Irene Walker Heads Dormitory Council Miss Irene E. Walker, of '65, of . „ , . ; elected president of the Inter be here to i „ study? What is there is important' an opportunity to College, and Miss Gretta Middle ton, ’66, of Charleston, S. C. was named secretary. The council is composed of rep resentatives of each of the seven campus residence halls, with Miss Mildred Tucker, director of resi- about a test that you can’t take time out to worship God? When God could make it pos sible that we won’t even be able to take the test. Shouldn’t it be the other way around, I don’t have time to study right now I , , . _ , , , Tin i J dence ufe, as advisor, have to go to church, I’ll study ’ later? How many of us pray and ask him to help us to pass our test? Sure, we say well, we have to go to vesper anyway, but do we truly get the same thing out of vesper that you would get out of church? Think, Bennett Sis ters, God made it possible for us to come here, shouldn’t we put him first? —Nellie Campbell Man Must Develop 2 Life Dimensions “Man’s salvation is contingent upon his development to the full est of the vertical and horizontal dimensions of life,” the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, of Atlanta, Ga., told the vesper audience, October 25. The minister, who serves the West Hunter Street Baptist Church and is secretary-treasurer of the Southern Christian Leader ship Conference, spoke on ‘'Life’s Supreme Question.” “Salvation is life’s supreme question,” he declared, “but when I speak of salvation, I do not mean a place in some faraway kingdom, but the extension of one’s life beyond the grave. One must make his life so rich and meaningful that it will not end In death but extend into the lives of yet unborn generations.” Putting God first involves the vertical dimension of life, but loving one’s neighbor involves the horizontal dimension. Both are essential if one is to attain eternal life, he said. N. C. PASTOR TO SPEAK Speaker for the 4 p.m. vesper service on Sunday, November 8, will be the Rev. Orion N. Hutch inson, pastor of Love Methodist Church, at Walkertown, N. C. SAMPSON’S PHARMACY Prescription Druggist Free Delivery Phone BR 4-2455 914 Gorrell Street GREENSBORO, N. C. Boston's Cafe 918 Gorrell Street HOURS: Monday-Thursday 6:00 A,M.-8:30 P.M. Friday & Saturday 6:00 A.M.-9:30 P.M. Home Cooking!!!! WELCOME TO Wynn’s Drug Store Prescriptions Compounded with Care Deluxe Fountain Service Dial BR S-UU 814 Gorrell Street GREENSBORO, N. C.
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