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THE BENNETT BANNER
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1972
EDITORIAL
Discipline And Self-Respect
Now that vacation is over, it is time for the sisters
to resume the tasic of achieving an education. We all
know the importance of an education to Blacl women
in getting a job and helping our people. But, do we
know that also of importance to the Black woman, is
discipline?
Black women throughout centuries have >been
known to be very well disciplined. But recently, sisters
have been swayed by fads of all sorts. We have become
irresponsible, lacking respect for self as well as for
others.
Some of us have taken to wearing out in public,
what before was known as personal articles (e.g. hair
rollers, bedroom slippers, etc.). During visitation hours,
we pass through the parlors in bathrobes, and bed
clothes, embarrasing fellow sisters and their guests ^
you wouldn’t like that done to you, so think of others.
We have become loud and boisterous in public
shedding the cloak of a woman to become equal to our
male counterpart. But which man wants to become in
timate with another man! Our Bennett sisters have been
pictured as running behind men. We call to theni out
of windows to carry on conversations, run over to A&T
“to look”, and stop them in cars — we have no pride.
The man does not have to do the courting anymore.
Think about it!
We have no respect for the rights of other sisters.
We destroy the property of others. But then we cannot
keep what belongs to us; so how can we treat the prop
erty of others better. Some of us disturb those who are
studying or getting that much needed sleep. But these
in turn are the first to get angry when disturbed. We
have become irresponsible to the point where we no
longer clean up behind ourselves. We must remem
ber that other sisters were not made to be personal
maids to us.
Sisters, this is an appeal to you as Bennett students
and Black women. Before we engage upon an activity,
any activity, we should first think of the consequence it
would have upon the total community. We must become
more disciplined. We must acquire more self-respect
because only then can we learn to respect others.
WORDS OF WISDOM . . .
“The whole history of the progress of human
liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her
august claims have been born of earnest strug
gle. ... If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet de
precate agitation, are men who want crops with
out plowing up the ground, they want rain without
thunder and lightning. They want the oceans with
out the awful roar of its many waters.
“This struggle may be a moral one, or it may
be a physical one, or it may be both moral and
physical, but it must be a struggle. Power con
cedes nothing without a demand. It never did and
it never will. . . . Men may not get all they pay for
in this world, but they must certainly pay for all
they get. If we ever get free from the oppressions
and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their
removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering,
by sacrifice, and if needs be, by our lives and the
lives of others.”
—Frederick Douglass
(1817-1895)
ILLITERACY IN U. S.
RESEARCH GRANT
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be used for improving bio
medical research,” Dr. Sayles
added, “a natural by-product
will be the improvement of
training in the health-related
professions in general.” Ben
nett College currently offers
programs in Pre-Medicine,
Pre-Nursing, Pre-Pharmacy,
Pre-Dentistry, Medical Tech
nology, Medical Dietetics,
Physical Therapy, and Medi
cal Secretarial Science.
Commenting specifically
about the Minority Schools
Biomedical Support Award,
Dr. Sayles indicated that “the
funds were made available to
the minority schools out of
recognition of long neglect in
funding by Federal agencies,
and to provide opportunities
for these schools and these
students which have not been
available in years past.” Ob
taining research funds is a
highly competitive business,
and schools which have been
denied the resources to build
top-notch prograrhs have,
nonetheless, been expected to
be equally productive. As a
result of this grant, Bennett
College expects to be ready
to compete successfully for
additional research funding—
with any school—before the
term of this grant expires.
Dr. Sayles noted that this
grant augmented by a $50,-
000 Health Sciences Curricu
lum Planning and Improve
ments project and a $5,000
Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Research Training Project
comes at an important time
in the growth of the Division
of Sciences and will play a
significant role in enabling
the college to retain its status
as a top ranking institution
for the training of students
for careers in medical fields.
It seems astonishing that
the country which boasts the
world’s highest standard of
living should also have one
of the world’s highest illiter
acy rates. But it’s true.
In the United States, a
country which prides itself
on its space achievements,
there are 3 million adults
who are totally unable to read
and write. In addition.
DR. HANKINS
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hours of credit earned
through participation in the
institute may be used for the
renewal of the North Carolina
Teacher’s Certificate.
Each participant will re
ceive $600 for the duration
of the institute. Tuition and
fees will be waivered for all
participants.
Other staff members are:
Dr. Norman Licht, Bennett;
Dr. Hugh Hagaman, UNC-G;
Joe Carter, doctorial candi
date, UNC-G; Mr. William
Alcorn, Bennett; Mrs. Amy
Reynolds, Bennett; and Mrs.
Carrie Shute, Bennett. Mrs.
Joan Johnson is secretary.
Instructional Student Assist
ants are: Barbara Dawkins,
David Licht, and Carol Coley.
another 20 million read so
poorly that they are classi
fied as “functional illiterates”
by the U.S. Office of Educa
tion.
By sharp contrast, the So
viet Union has an illiteracy
rate of 2 percent and the
small country of Sweden has
none.
Since Black people in this
country have historically been
denied an education, it doesn’t
take much imagination to
figure out who makes up the
bulk of the 23 million illiter
ates.
—excerpted from
The African World
Newsletter
PHY. ED. INSTITUTE
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The institute included a
working staff of 14 talented
professionals such as instruc
tors from A&T, Winston-Sa
lem, Guilford College, and
not to mention those hard
working Belles which include:
Florence L. Darby and Eliza
beth Hemingway senior ma
jors; Debra McFadden junior
major; and Delores Scott, A.
Jean Jackson, and Vanessa
Curry sophomore physical
education majors.
THE BENNETT BANNER STAFF
1972-1973
Editor
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