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THE BENNETT BANNER
OCTOBER 8, 1982
Will you be history’s victim?
Did George Wallace win the recent Democratic gubernatorial primary in Ala
bama and sweep all the counties in which black voters predominated?
Did Andrew Young, in an unrelated incident, cry at a breakfast of prominent
black leaders last month?
Is a federal grand jury in Winston-Salem considering filing indictments of
civil rights violations against the Klansmen and Nazis who killed Sandra Smith,
former president of the Bennett College SGA?
Available evidence on campus indicates that most Belles are able to answer
anywhere from none to one of these questions although the answers have ap
peared in the news of the last two weeks. On the quadrangle and in dormitories
and classrooms, a newspaper or a copy of Time or Newsweek is as rare as a
shooting star.
Equally unusual is the student who watches the evening news. Dan Rather,
Frank Reynolds and Tom Brokaw are talking to millions of people, but not many
of them live nine months a year between Washington and Gorrell Streets.
A consistent theme has run through the speeches, commentaries and lectures
by visitors and old hands here during the last year.
From David H. Bradley, Jr., novelist and guest last March, to Dr. Katie Dor-
sett and attorney Joe Williams, speakers at the Political Awareness Festival,
to the President of the College and numerous faculty members, the message is
loud and clear: We have to know what’s going on in the world and what to do
about national or international problems or else, in ignorance, we will let our
selves become victims of the complexities we avoid.
The American philosopher George Santayana once claimed that those who do
not remember history are condemned to repeat it. Our knowledge of contempo
rary history is nearly as barren as our understanding of ancient Rome and
Greece, and indeed, even the Bible.
The vast majority of Belles were born during or before 1964. This era in
cludes the civil rights struggle, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal, the
Iranian crisis and an economic recession (and/or depression).
How many of us would like to wake up one morning in the jungle of the
next Vietnam or to send our husbands, relatives and children off on such errands
of death? How many of us would like in any way to contribute to a slaughter
like the one that the Lebanese Christian Phalange, abetted by the Israelis, com
mitted in September against helpless Palestinian refugees?
The message is obvious: read, tune in and learn how the world works now
or else we’ll pay later and pay large.
Incidentally, a note to curious: Yes, George Wallace has won the Democratic
nomination for governor in Alabama, his candidacy much assisted by black
voters. Andrew Young did cry, and some citizens are still trying to put Sandy
Smith’s killers behind bars.
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Letters to tlie editor:
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Editor-in-chief Yolanda DuRant
Associate editor Leslie Barr
Adviser Michael Gaspeny
Cartoonists Norman Barbee
Photographers Sheila Foxworth, Lisa Harris
Reporters
Sharon Alien
Kim Anderson
Agnes Brown
Dee Evans
Shelia Foxworth
Lesiie Hendricks
Deborah Lewis
Teresa Lipscomb
Meiinda Lowery
Kimberly McKnight
Lisa Murray
Tracye Payne
Valerie Reid
Cynthia Spruill
Rhonda Whitted
Connie Williams
College needs more light
Editor:
I think Bennett has a unique
campus because it has maintained
the campus grounds to look like
they did when first constructed.
This is a plus for the outdoor
maintenance staff and the stu
dents because of their help and
concern.
The minus point is the severe
darkness of the campus after dark
due to the poor lig,hting from the
traditional gas lamps.
The poor lighting has deterred
me from going to the computer
room, the library and various
campus activities after dark.
Since we are a college for wom
en we need special protection.
Security officers are very helpful
and effective, concerning safety,
but we need better lighting.
Better lighting would enable
students to go across campus with
less fear to tend to their studies
and also better lighting would
assist security officers by enabling
them to view campus at a long-
range and also protect themselves
as well.
The gas lamps don’t have to be
nullified, but one or two high in
tensity lamps should be added and
the campus would be light enough
so it could be observed at a
glance.
I realize campus funds might
be short, but protection is never
too expensive.
I trust the Administration will
probe this situation before some
thing happens in the negative as
pect concerning a Bennett family
member.
Cynthia Spruill
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Editor:
In the September issue of the
B'anner Vol. XLIV, No. 1, I was
referred to as Dr. Alma Adebo.
Please be advised that my name
is Dr, Ademolo Adebo and not
Alma as incorrectly stated. Also,
I am employed here at Bennett
as an Assistant Professor in Polit
ical Science and not Sociology-
Political Science as incorrectly
reported in your paper.
I request that you correct these
mistakes in you next issue.
Sincerely,
Ademolo Adebo, Ph.D.
The BANNER apologizes for
these errors.
Editor:
I am presently incarcerated in
Washington State Penitentiary in
Walla Walla. One of our most im
portant goals here is to have or
gain correspondence with the out
side world for rehabilitation
(See page 3)