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Friday, November 13, 1981
BENNETT COLLEGE, GREENSBORO, N. 0.
VoL XLIII, No. 4
Infirmary opens
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Mrs. Shirley Preston, RN, is director of the new college infirmary. The director’s
duties are mentally challenging, says Preston.
(photo by Shelly Coston)
by Karen L. Shields
A new era has begun with the
opening of the new infirmary.
Students, for too long, have had
to deal with inadequate health
facilities.
“We are now functioning as a
college infirmary, with many new
goals and useful equipment,”
states Shirley Preston, director of
the infirmary.
The infirmary consists of: one
examining room, one treatment
room and a room for filing charts.
There is a reception and waiting
area, along with a lounge for
cigarette smoking. A counseling
room for one-to-one confrontations
is also available.
There are four rooms with two
beds for seriously ill and over
night patients. These rooms in
clude two emergency buzzers, air
conditioning, a sink and toilet and
plenty of closet space. The rooms
also have a dividing curtain for
individual privacy.
To serve students, a full kitchen
and linen facility was installed.
There are two bathrooms on the
halls for out-patients and a four-
room apartment can be found in
side to meet the needs of the 24-
hour nurse. For safety precautions
the infirmary has four exits and
an adequate amount of fire alarms.
Comp, test draws line
by Rosellen Durham
It’s time for a significant
portion of the student body
to prove its ability to write
effectively during the English
Comprehensive Examination.
The test will be given on
Thursday, Nov. 19, from 8:00-
10:00 a.m. in the Science
Assembly.
Passing the examination is
a requirement for graduation.
All juniors, all junior and
senior transfer students and
any seniors who have previ
ously failed the Comprehen
sive must take it Nov. 19. Any
Belle in these categories who
does not receive official noti
fication of the test should con
tact Dr. Lynn Sadler, chair
person of the communications
department, at ext. 116.
At the test, students choose
an essay topic from a diverse
list of subjects provided for
them and compose an essay in
a minimum of four pages with
writing on alternate lines of
the pages.
Writers are expected to fur
nish a title for the paper, a
thesis statement and a mini
mum of five paragraphs.
The English faculty grades
the papers, and the quality of
each essay is appraised by
two readers. If the verdicts
of the two judges disagree, a
third reader a s s e s e s the
composition.
In the past, most first-time
“Comp” takers have passed.
The test generally does not
present problems to careful,
disciplined writers.
Four major errors or com
binations of such errors will
automatically fail a paper.
The categories of major
errors are: run-on sentences
and sentence fragments; fail
ure of agreement of subject
and verb; verb form errors
(including improper tenses,
wrong principal parts of
verbs and the omission of the
inflectional endings on the
past tense of regular verbs) ;
pronoun errors (faulty ref
erences, pronoun-antecedent
disagreement and wrong
case) ; and a failure of con
sistency of point of view.
According to the test guide
lines, “Chronic problems in
organization, coherence, and
other areas will also fail a
paper.”
In short, the writer must
have something to oa^, and
her ideas must be well-organ
ized, logically presented and
grammatically precise.
The Computer Center has
review materials available to
assist students in preparing
for the test. Instructions for
entering relevant programs
have been posted on the door
of. the CAI Lab. Dr. Nellouise
Watkins, center director, en
courages Belles needing a
brush-up to use the computers.
The judges urge students to
examine their past and recent
writing to spot consistent
grammatical problems and
then to study relevant sec
tions of the English 102 text,
McCuen and Winkler’s “From
Idea to Essay” or other de
pendable books such as “The
Harbrace Handbook.”
It will also be helpful to
compose a “practice” essay or
two, especially if a student
has not been required to write
a composition recently.
Other tips for coping with
the examination include ap
pearing punctually for the
test, bringing a dependable
pen and proofreading the
final composition at least
twice.
Names you should know
Philosopher and film producer
Ronald E. Santoni will show
movies, deliver a speech and visit
classes during a two-day appear
ance sponsored by the Mellon
Grant.
Dr. Santoni, professor of philos
ophy at Denison University, will
speak on “Existentialism and the
Concept of Violence” this Monday,
Nov. 16, at 7:00 p.m. in Science
Assembly. He will also meet with
classes in the same location from
10:00-12:00 a.m. Monday morning.
On Tuesday, Nov. 17, Santoni,
an expert in the peace movement,
will screen the films “Picadon”
and “37th Summer of the Bomb”
in Science Assembly at 1:00. Both
presentations received nationwide
acclaim after being shown by the
Public Broadcasting System.
An often published scholar,
Santoni serves as co-editor of
“Social and Political Philosophy.”
His articles have appeared in “The
Progressive” as well as more com
mercial magazines, and he has
done an anthology on religious
language. He recently served on
the faculty at Yale University
where he completed a critical
study of the translated classic on
Jean Paul Sartre, the most prom
inent existentialist, by Francis
Jeanson.
Students interested in Martin
Luther King, Henry David
Thoreau and Albert Camus should
find illumination during Santoni’s
visit.
(Evelyn L. Glenn, reporter)
* * *
The Bennett College Dance
Company has elected its officers.
They are: Monica Jones, pres
ident; Marlene Mack, vice pres
ident; Cheryl Williams, secretary;
and Nedra McGee, treasurer.
The group also includes Evanda
Peay, Kathy Lewis, Susan Smith,
Kimberly Coleman, Tracy Purcell,
Susan Hopkins and Valeria Taylor.
(See Page 5)
The hours are 8:00 a.m.-5:00
p.m. Monday through Friday. The
infirmary is closed on weekends.
“Students must not forget that
24-hour services are available to
them as long as they follow proper
procedures,” said Preston. “Rules
and regulations must be followed
in order to avoid any type of prob
lems.” If a student gets sick in
the dorm or needs an ambulance,
security is to be contacted im
mediately. Nothing can be done
for ill patients if security is not
contacted.
The staff consists of Shirley
Preston, RN; Alice Hayes, RN; Dr.
Preston Clark and Denniss Mason.
According to Preston, Mason’s
position is part-time nurse
consultant.
Preston, a native of McCormick,
S.C., and has many goals and
aspirations for the infirmary.
Preston states one goal as “helping
students obtain and maintain
health by using preventive and
educational aspects which will
enhance their knowledge of physi
cal and mental capabilities.”
Hayes comments that, “the at
mosphere is much more conducive
to better health for the students
than the last.” Clark is maintain
ing his old hours of 9-10:00 a.m.
Monday through Thursday, with
hours if needed on Friday. Ac
cording to Preston these hours are
only temporary.
It should always be kept in mind
that Clark’s hours can be changed
based on the needs of the students.
For her major problem, Preston
cites “lack of funds. With more
money a larger staff would be
put into existence and the doctor’s
hours lengthened.”
The infirmary has many med
ical services to offer—counseling,
health education and referrals if
necessary. In order to stay on top,
Preston says that all rules and
regulations must be followed and
students must not abuse the
services.
The function of the infirmary is
not to take the place of a hospital.
A student that becomes ill and
has to stay 24 hours or more will,
according to Preston, “receive the
care of a 24-hour nurse and daily
visits from Clark.”
Students must battle Reaganomics
by Harolyn Stevenson-Smith
Reaganomics has by far taken
its course in our lives and will
amply change the way of life for
Black people. College students,
professionals and poor people alike
will feel the increasing effect of
“the great cutback” in agonizing
measures.
Our forefathers lived most of
their hours involved in the hard
work to bring about changes that
would enable us to have the same
equal opportunities for American
success and prosperity as our fel
low white men. Yet we have been
on these shores for 400 years and
have yet to see a Black man
elected to the presidency. Our
political progress is pathetic. What
could be the blame for this grand
American error? Can it be blamed
on political apathy of the minor
ity? General disinterest in the
legislative process? No doubt many
of us have questioned this aspect
of Black political development and
have arrived at various theories
as to why the Black man has failed
to usurp leadership power in this
great country.
In the event that some candidate
supported by the general Black
populace were elected, dissension
among the race supercedes the
possibility of seeing him success
ful. This was proven when Shirley
Chisholm ran for the presidency
in 1972. Her book “Unbought and
Unbossed” confirms the split union
of Black people. Since then we
have seen no other Black candi
date come close to the executive
position. Yet while many of our
people gripe and complain about
poor political representation, and
about the pressing ills that weaken
our struggle, we find that slipshod
attention is given to this problem.
The masses have failed to come
up with a workable solution.
Poor people provide the shell
for the fragile body of Black unity.
(See Page 4)
TOOTSIE
Tootsie Toothpaste (Pauline Wyrtch) sang and danced about good mouth
hygiene to over 200 children in Morningside and Ray Warren Homes,
the Cerebral Palsy and Orthopedic School and the Children’s House.
(photo courtesy of Publications Office)