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THE BENNETT BANNER
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1975
Volleybaii Team Deserves Your Supporl
u,. r;ii==nn to 90 miles Dcr hour and is im-
Dr. McLean Stresses Black Pride to Founder's Day Audience
by Gloria Glisson
Although the volleyball team
experienced a slow start, they aie
still worthy of being watched, ac
cording to team members.
While there are only three re
turning players, Etta Cox, Olivia
Michael and Linda Perkins, the
rermaining team members, Sharon
Brooks, Sheryl Brooks, Fran
Franklin, Lisa Greenalso, Sierra
Joyce, Vanessa Lane, Anita Tay
lor, Joyce Whitted and Micki Win-
ton are progressing.
According to Coach Dorislene
Bowens the team is now involved
in learning skills necessary for
playing power volleyball. The dif
ference in power volleyball and
regular volleyball is that the lat
ter is played by controlling the
ball with the fingertips after the
usually underhand scrrve. ''How
ever," Coach Bowens continued,
"in power volleyball the ball is
usually moving at the speed .>f 60
Admission Counselors
Recruit for Bennett
An expansion of Bennett Col
lege’s recruitment and admissions
program is going into effect this
year. This new program, set up
under the direction of Mrs. Mary
Eady, is designed to give a more
personal approach to the admis
sions effort.
When a young woman inquires
about Bennett or submits an ap
plication, she is assigned a per
sonal admissions counselor. This
counselor will see to it that the
prospective student receives all
the information she needs regard
ing the school, its facilities, cur
riculum, financial aid, and extra
curricular activities.
Previously the college had only
one counselor, Gwenn Hill. In July
Ruth Dennis anqi Rubbie Foster,
both Bennett graduates, joined the
staff. Each has been assigned a
region — northern, central, or
southern.
Another aspect of the recruit
ment program is the involvement
of people outside of the Admis
sions Office.
According to Mrs. Eady, the
new program will not only affect
the number of young women ac
cepted into Bennett, but the qual
ity as well.
The More Food
The Better!!!
by Mellisandre Breathett
Many students are raising ques
tions concerning the limited
amount of food one is allowed to
cat in the cafeteria.
Several reasons for limiting the
amount of food were given by
members of the cafeteria staff and
admini.stration.
The dining hall staff felt that
allowing students to determine the
amount of food they would eat
might mean preparing a greater
amount of food and sometimes this
extra food would go to waste when
it was prepared and not eaten by
the students.
One administration spokesman
said that the rise in food costs
would make it necessary to in
crease students’ room and board
costs.
Student views on the matter
were mixed.
One sophomore said, “I feel that
Bennett students need to be al
lowed to eat as much as they
want, since they have to pay so
much tuition anyway.”
“Because of the limited amount
of food we can get,” commented
a freshman, “we are having per
sonal food bills.”
However, another point of view
was expressed by a senior who
said, “I feel that Bennett needs to
determine the amount of food we
eat, because, frankly, I don’t want
to have my room and board cost
increased.”
to 90 miles per hour and is im
possible to return with regulai'
volleyball techniques.” Therefore,
additional skills cultivated in or
der to play pow'er volleyball in
volve the usage of the heel of the
hand, side of the hand and fore
arm sometimes.
At press time the team had a
record of 0 and 2, losing to both
A&T and Shaw University of Ra
leigh. The coach explained that
the team is playing “advanced
varsity teams with experienced
players while Bennett, not being
a varsity team, has three fresh
men starters.”
by Robyn-Denise Bcrr.\hill
“There must be a new perspec
tive on blackness. Black pride can
not depend on such things as hair
styles,” Dr. Mabel McLean, presi
dent of Barber-Scolia College
told Bennett students and faculty
gathered for the annual Founders
Day convocation.
Dr. McLean said that black
pride had to come from accom
plishment, not from dress or
whether or not someone wore a
eornrow or afro.
Discussing the purpose of col
leges such as Bennett in the 1970s,
she chose to use the format of a
chairman calling a meeting to or
der. Thus, she first took up “old
business,” that is the place of
tradition in the schools of today.
She noted that it was time to re
evaluate tradition and decide what
was meaningful enough to retain
in the present time.
Turning to “new business” she
talked about the need for educa
tional institutions to adapt them
selves to the present. She par
ticularly noted the responsibility
of institutions to extend their in
fluence outside of their own walls
into the community and to allow'
the concerns of the community to
come into the walls and make the
college a part of the real world.
She said that she hoped the
class of 76 would “enter into a
higher agreement — a contract
w'ithin themselves” to cocntribute
something of value to the world
and thus contribute to black pride.
Dr. McLean is a native of North
Carolina. She attended Barber-
Scotia when it was a junior col
lege, then went on to Johnson
C. Smith for her B.A.. She re
ceived her M.A. from Howard and
her Ph.D. from Northwestern Uni
versity.
for thb team to win.
II have to
playdlrtyL
They don’t have cheerleaders or a home field,
but they're a team. They tackle the job of rebuilding
neglected houses in Rochester, N.Y. And reshape
their futures in the balance.
So wading up to their eyebrows in plaster, paint
and grime is just another form of study hall.
The name for all this is WOW. World of Work.
Conceived at Eastman Kodak Company and imple
mented by Rochester Jobs, Inc., a nonprofit organi
zation supported by Kodak and other Rochester
businesses. Every kid in the program had a prob
lem with school work. But these same kids are now
on the way to decent jobs. Decent money. And a
decent opinion of themselves.
RJI administers the program with assistance
from Kodak people on leave from the company and
working for the city school district. They coach the
youths with on-the-job training in vocational skills
every weekday for half a day. The kids learn plumb
ing, carpentry, electrical wiring, whatever interests
them most, as they rebuild homes. The rest of their
time is spent on academics taught by Rochester
City School District and Board of Cooperative Edu
cational Services instructors. And they're making
better marks now than they ever made in regular
school.
Why is a company that builds cameras so inter
ested in building houses? It's good for the commu
nity we live in. The refurbished homes become
dwellings for low-income families. The kids in WOW
turn out to be productive adults. And good citizens
as well. All of which makes for a better town in
which to operate and grow.
In short, it's good business. And we're in busi
ness to make a profit. But while we're busy looking
after business, we're looking forward to a better
society.
It’s the same society our business depends on.
And that's why we care what happens to it.
Kodak.
More than a business.