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Gfeensijofo, ti. C.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1975 BENNETT COLLEGE, GREENSBORO, N. 0. VOL. XXXXII, NO. 7
Dean Tipton Visits Player Hall For
First of Many Dormitory Dialogues
Dr. Himes Recounts Years of Struggle In
Lecture Commemorating Black History Week
Dean of the College Dr. Chelsea
Tipton, held the first of a series of
of dormitory dialogue sessions in
Player Hall, February 5.
He opened the meeting by de
fining his job as Dean of the Col
lege. Tipton’s position as he sees
it is, “to make things better” for
students and “to help students
who might be having academic
difficulty.” However, he extended
an invitation to visit him anytime
and not necessarily wait for some
kind of trouble.
The main emphasis of his part
of the meeting dealt with infor
mation concerning computerized
instruction, tutorial and under
achiever programs and a continu
ing education program and sum
mer school session. Official an
nouncement of those appointed to
direct these various programs is
pending a formal statement from
President Miller.
Gigi to Play
Feb. 27-Mar. 1
by Cassandra Jones
Gigi, the delightful novel by
Colette, dramatized by Anita Loos,
is the next production scheduled
for the Bennett College Little
Theatre. Directed by Fred A.
Eady, the two-act comedy has a
French setting and takes place
about 1900.
Gigi is a sixteen year old girl
brought up by her mother, grand
mother, and aunt to be a “stylish
cocotte.” They have picked as her
mate Gaston Lachaille, a success
ful sugar merchant in his early
thirties. The action is sparked
with the constant interplay of the
characters in the attempt to ar
range liaison with Lachaille to en
sure Gigi’s future. However, Gigi
has ideas of her own and ma
neuvers for her own ends.
Familiar faces to the Bennett
College stage are the male guest
artists from Greensboro, North
Carolina: Eric Miller portrays
Gaston Lachaille, the notorious
man about town; Keith Miller is
cast as Victor, Alicia’s faihtful but
ler of forty years.
The title role of Gigi is played
by Genevieve McCormick. Gen
evieve is a junior history major
from Raeford, North Carolina, An-
dree, her mother, is Linda Craw
ford, a senior history major from
Whitesville, North Carolina. The
part of Madame Alvarez, Gigi’s
grandmother, is played by Cas
sandra Jones, a freshman ISP maj
or from Montgomery, Alabama.
The reputation of the grand
cocotte, Alicia De St Ephlam, is
personified by a senior social wel
fare major from Washington,
D. C., Renee Carrington. The cast
is rounded out by Norma Jeffries,
a sophomore drama major from
Athens, Georgia, who is the sassy
French maid.
The production dates for Gigi
are February 27, 28 and March 1,
1975. The performance will begin
nightly at 8:00 in the Little The
atre on the campus.
One question raised conccrning
a continuing education program
was whether or not this meant go
ing co-educational. Tipton’s re
sponse to this question was “no.”
In further definition of his posi
tion as Dean, Tipton said he wants
“to make every attempt at im
proving the academic programs of
the college.” This current inter
est will result in a reduction of
majors and a “weeding” of the
catalogue, according to Tipton. He
said, “We want to find out where
our weaknesses are and where our
strengths are and then weed out
weaknesses and accentuate our
strengths.
Dean Tipton will be visiting all
dormitories before the end of this
semester.
Co-op Ed Director
Talks to Freshmen
In an address to members of a
second semester Freshman Studies
group, director of the Co-opera-
tive Education Program, Mae H.
Nash, urged the first year students
to take their career planning
more seriously.
She called this idea, “The First
Step Toward Lifestyle Planning,”
and reminded the students that,
“for the rest of your life you will
spend more time at work than you
will any other single activity.”
She further charged the fresh
men to assess their wants and
needs in order to make wise de
cisions and sound career plans:
“You will explore your interests,
aptitudes and other personal
traits assess your self-awareness
and self-esteem; study a wide
range of occupational opportuni
ties and devise a plan for integrat
ing these into your own personal
career development process.”
Mrs. Nash stated that black
women are still being sought to
fill job openings due to the pas
sage of the Equal Opportunity Act
of 1972 and the Affirmative Ac
tion Programs growing out of that
legislation.
Special note was made of data
on career choices of entering
freshman women between 1966
and 1972. It shows that there have
been increasing percentages of
women aspiring to enter tradition
ally male careers. Black freshmen
women tend to break from
the conventional career aspira
tions substantially more than
white female freshmen.
“Young black women are ap
parently aware of the affirmative
action programs that appear to be
creating a particularly favorable
job market for black female col
lege graduates in positions for
merly closed to them” she said.
Mrs. Nash who is primaril.y
concerned with placing Bennett
students on job assignments dur
ing their college studies, warned
students of the problems they will
have to face: “You will still have
to knock on twice as many doors
to find one that opens. You will
have to work twicc as hard as
your white counterparts. You
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The long and continuing Black
struggle for liberation was the
subject of Dr. Joseph Himes, UNC-
G sociology professor, who deliv
ered the annual Black History
Week lecture on Thursday, Feb.
13, ill Black Hall 106.
Dr. Himes noted that Black-
White relations in the United
States have been “typically con
flict relations” and that the Black
struggle began long before the
Civil War in the hundreds of slave
Opportunities to participate in
the Experiment in International
Living are still available to those
who file completed applications by
March 1.
The Experiment is an Interna
tional Educational exchange pro
gram which is designed to give
young adults an opportunity to
live abroad; to be exposed to for
eign living, a foreign language to
share the American way of life and
thereby to contribulo personally to
international good will.
Three foreign students spon
sored by the Experijnent arc pres
ently on Bennett’s campus.
Applicants must be between the
ages of 10-30, must be easily
adaptable to difficult situations,
must have a sincere desire to con-
riots and rebellions of tlie pre-war
period and through the work of
such early Black leaders as Fred
erick Douglass.
The period since the Civil War,
Dr. Himes divided into three
parts: the period of self-defense
(1870-early 1900s); the period of
early offensive struggle (1900-
early 1950s); and the modern era
of racial struggle (early 1950s to
the present).
Of the first period, he says that
tribute to international good will;
must live in the Greensboro area
so he can report back to the Inter-
Club council of Greensboro, which
is a sponsor of the program.
They must also sliow evidence
of initiative and curiosity; sliould
exercise a leadershi|) lole in class
room extra-curricular and civic
activities; should demonstrate a
facility for getting along well
with others; and should have sat
isfactory acadejnic record in
school.
Application forms may be ol)-
tained by writing (please do not
call) Mr. David T. Heiberg,
Sternberger School, 518 Holden
Road, Greensboro, N. C. 27410. An
nouncements of recipients of the
awards will be made about March
15.
it was characterized in the South
by a resubjugation of Blacks after
the period of Racial Reconstruc
tion, in which Blacks had boon
placed in positions of power by tho
federal government. Southern
whites retook control of tho re
gion, accomplished economic sub
jugation of Blacks, and passed
Codes disenfranchising Blacks, he
said. As a result, by 1900, Blacks
were again in virtual slavery.
As the second period began, dur
ing the decade of the 1900s, a
shadow of things to come was cast
by the streetcar boycotts organ
ized by Blacks, some of which
lasted as long as five or six years.
Though none of them was com-
Ijletely successful, tho "spirit of
struggle” caught fire. Dr. Himo
said, and a number of important
things occurred. For instance, in
1909 the Niagara Movement began
with a manifesto calling for total
abolition of segregation and ab
solute and complete integration of
Blacks into the American system.
From this movement grew the
NAACP, Dr. Himes said.
In the 1930s, the NAACP, in
carefully selected court cases, be
gan to attack a variety of tlis-
criminatory practices in tho
United States, These culminated in
the 1954 Supreme Court Decision
in Brown vs, the Board of E>luca-
tion (Topeka, Kansas), the famous
desegregation decision. Dr, Himes
told the group.
This decision began the third
and present era of struggle, the
speaker said. Another turning
point, however, was the Mont
gomery Bus Boycotts of tho fol
lowing year, lead by Dr, Martin
Luther King. This introduced tho
concept of organized peaceful
mass action into the Civil Rights
movement, and the next nine yours
were a period of non-violence
dominated by Dr. King.
This period of tho 50s and 60s
Dr, Himes said, wa.s marked by
the rise of new leaders with a
new stylo who made new use of
the old techniques of sit-ins, boy
cotts, mass marches. It was a
“period stamped: non-violence;
Made in America," the speaker
said, Tho loaders were no longer
trying to abolish prejudice, ho
said, because they found it "like
fighting a fog,” Instead they
wanted to change tho structure of
the society and to "weave Black
))eo|)lo organically into the total
fabric of society,” hoping that in
such a society prejudice would die
(jf itself.
Unfortunately, the tactics of this
I)ci i()d did not succeed in produc
ing fuiulamental changes in the
society, Dr, Himos pointed out.
Theiofore, a chang(' in direction
again took place. Dr, King and
Stokoly Carmichael entered into
a running debate on the value of
non-violence versus militance in
which Carmichael coined the
phrase Black Power, Tho idea
caught fire and with the coi7iing of
1964 the period of confrontation
began,
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