TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1968
THE BENNETT BANNER
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Who Am I?! Belles Seek Answers
Have you ever wondered who
you are, why you are here, or
what your mission is on earth?
Who am I? was the topic put be
fore a group of Dr. Helen Trob-
ian’s humanities students. Here
are very interesting answers to
the question.
Who am I? I am water. I appear
any and everywhere in various
shapes and forms.
Who am I? I am water. I makeup
part of the atmosphere in the
form of H20.
Who am I? I come down in heavy
down pours and form streams
and rivers.
Who am I? I am water. I appear
in the form of ice and snow and
form a white carpet in the win
ter.
Who am I? I am water. I form
the basis of all mixtures. I play
a vital role in the existence of
Bennett College Little Theatre guild performs ‘Buked and
Scorned’.
living things.
Who am I? 1 am water, a habitat
for aquatic plants and animals.
I build up a route for sailing
ships and submarines.
Who am 1? 1 am water. I clean
both animate and inanimate ob
jects.
Who am I? I am water. Where
ever you are. Whatever you do,
1 am water. Water, water, ev
ery. 1 am water.
by Audry Wri^t
Who am I? I am one black face in
a mass of confusion.
Who am I? A mere child strugg
ling with fate so that I might
find my lost identity. One per
son in a million on a descriete
journey to hell. Yet, I have no
fear. Who am I? What am I?
Who am 1? Cupid in the spring
time tempting the struggling
lovers. Who am I? Spring time
with the melting dews of along
winter's year.
Who am I? Old woman time fight
ing to bring this world to see
itself. . .Before it’s too late.
Who am I? An individual filled
with mass confusion and man
identities trying hard to dis
cover Who I am; What I am.
Who am 1? Life with its many
winding roads of guilt each
leading to a new scene of un-
forseer existence.
Where is the end?
Where is the beginning?
Is life full of sin
Or is it worth tending?
by Denise Bibb
Who am I? 1 am mankind’s slave.
I dry man’s tears when he weeps
in despair. I sponge away the
blood spilled in his wars. I
bear his sons that repopulate
his earth. And I bind his wounds
and kiss his scars.
Who am I? Only God really knows.
To no one am I the same.
I’m mother to all, enemy to
none. I am the world’s eternal
maid.
by Evelyn Jackson
Who am I? They say that I’m a
part of the so-called man. I do
God’s chosen work here on
earth. They say that Pm a Ne-
gro~of African descent, that
is. I’m supposed to do “white
man’s” chosen work here on
earth (the Godliest of them all)
Then they tell me that I’m a
Bennett Belle, a Bennett Belle,
Fancy that.
I do the administration's cho
sen work here on campus (by
choice or rather by force)
They tell me that I’m an ideal
Bennett Belle when I sit down
and let the administration do all
of my thinking.
Five in one, oh my dear, God
is only three in one. Five in
one?
What am I? Who am I?
by Jackie Grant
NEW LAMPS
FOR OLD
With the increasing emphasis
on international studies, Ameri
can students, who lead all other
nations in attendance at Italian
universities, are expected to flock
to the ancient schools of that an
cient land in greater number this
year than ever.
Italian universities tradition
ally have been hospitable to for
eigners. The University of Padua,
where Galileo once taught, was
also the alma mater of the great
En^ish 16th Century physician
William Harvey, who discovered
the circulation of the blood.
Oliver Goldsmith also studied
there.
Bologna University, called the
Mother of Universities, claims
for its law school that its cur
riculum stems directly from the
ancient Romans, who were great
ones for legal training. Thomas
a' Becket was a distinguished
alumnus.
The school at Perugia, which
has perhaps the most ambitious
“Universita per gli Stranieri,”
(university for foreigners) was
officially created in 1276, but
legend has it that citizens of an
cient Rome traveled to the one
time Etruscan city to study
augury. The art is no longer
taught there, but Roman history
and Latin are.
All are delightful medieval
cities, repaying the sightseer as
well as the student.
Freshman Class
Has Talent
By SHURONIA BOWE
Seemingly the freshman class
has a weaMi of beairty, but there
is talent as well. Bennett’s board
of dramatic and tbeatrical talents
are personified by Misses Betty
Jones and EdnaWilliams, two co
eds from Albany, Georgia.
Both young lacUes, authors of
the recent theatrical production
“Buked and Scorned”, have had
an active interest in tee theater
since elementary school. As Bet
ty put it, “well you could say I
was born with a little bit of dra
matics already bred in me”.
“Having this deep alto voice”
she said, “and having been active
in oratorical contests, chapel
programs, plays, and skits in ad
dition to doing plain ole excessive
talking, has helped.”
Both Edna and Betty attribute
their interest and success in the
play to their grandmother, the
late Mrs. Arlena Hinson’s influ
ence. “Buked and Scorned” is
really the written version of ap
proximately three years of prac
tice, acting, and compiling infor
mation on the Negro. The finish
ing touches of the play were pro
vided by Mr. Eady, director of the
Little Theater Guild and partici
pating members.
Edna, who does most of the sec
retarial recording, though both
share similar ideas, says that the
two began writing as a team in the
8th grade and began acting as a
result of pure interest. “Wenev
er really ever wrote down any
thing, and “Buked and Scorned”
is our first attempt at doing any
thing of this nature.”
But after this start they both
have hopes for the future.
Inexperienced ^Banner’ Staffers
Show Professional Promise
By DOUGLAS MCADOO
“I have the information. What
do you want me to say?”
“Oh, you do. Good. How are
you going to use it? Feature or
strai^t news?”
“I don’t know. What’s the dif
ference?”
“Well, there’s a great deal of
difference. If it’s strai^t news
you stick to the facts. Every
thing is strictly objective with no
personal opinion. If it’s a feature,
you play upon an angle. Person
ality plays a big part.”
“Oh, I see. I don't know how
I'm going to do it. But I'll do
something.”
The reporter is Beverly Cook,
a freshman Biology major from
Washington, D.C. Beverly is tiie
inquisitive kind. You know what I
mean, questions all the time.
Your early impression is that she
is trying to be a “wise guy”, or
in this case, a “wise gaL” But
you quickly find out differently.
She is dead serious; she wants to
ing. If Pm not around when they
arrive, inevitably I'll find a note
saying, “I was here and you were
not. So Pm leaving.”
This means that nothing is go
ing to be done until I am with
them. This is the only negative
trait in the whole group.
Dimples Armstrong, Shuronia
Bowe, and Winoa Griffin oddly
enou^ are three freshmen from
the same town, Elizabeth City.
know.
The story is completed. And it
is something. Something to be
proud of. It may be a feature or
news story; but one thing is sure,
it will be well done and in good
taste.
This is typical of the students
who make up the “Bennett Ban
ner” staff. They are few, more
than likely freshmen, a lone so
phomore, and an occasional jun
ior or so. Seniors always say
they're too busy.
Highly intelligent. Banner re
porters love to write. If gotten
together, they can turn out an ed
ition in no time at all in a higjily
professional manner. Their only
drawback is lack of experience.
None worked on a newspaper in
high school.
The drawback is not in ter ms of
writing ability, since like in ev
erything else there is room for
improvement. But inrealizing
how much they are capable of do-
And oddly again, the most versa
tile writers on the staff. Dimples
is the possessor of great wit and
ingenuity. Word games, fea
tures, editorials (light), make no
difference to her. The result is
the same, a fine piece of work.
The same is true of her “hom-
ies.” They really go at it with a
great deal of umph.
Everything Jannifer English
touches turns out to be a feature.
The lone active sophomore on the
staff, Jan has a way with words,
and is out front in this specialty.
Recently, she has been boning up
on the editorial. Her first appears
in this edition. Jan could have a
bri^ future in journalism. She
calls Efland home.
Darwin Prioleau, a freshman
from Long Island, New York, is
another excellent feature writer.
Darwin is, also, responsible for
recruiting most of the other staff
members. She has a burning de
sire to be a journalist; and all in
dications are that she will make'
it.
Rose Cole, a freshman from
Durham, completes the staff reg
ulars. Rose has been primarily a
news reporter.
Others have come and worked
spasmodically, but these have
been the back bone of the “Ban
ner” this year. With their reten
tion and a few like additions next
year, the “Bennett Banner”
shows promise of being a top-
notch college paper next year, and
for years to come.
•A VACATION TIP'
Swimming Warning
When you go swimming at the seashore, beware of the
“rip current” that can carry you seaward. The warning
is from the Environmental Sciences Services Administra
tion, which explains that a rip current is a strong, narrow
current flowing straight out from shore. It can be spotted
by the break, or cross-pattern, in lines parallel to the
beach that are formed by surf. If you get caught in a
rip current, ESSA advises you to swim parallel to the
beach until you are out of the current, rather than swim
against it.