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Friday, October 28, 1983
BENNETT COLLEGE, GREENSBORO, N. C.
Vol. XLV, No. 3
Cruise Attraction; One of the many acts whicli surprised and stirred
the crowd at the Cultural Cruise Talent Show was songstress Ednita Bullock,
who by day serves the college as a librarian. Proceeds from the smash show
went to the United Negro College Fund. (photo by M. Davis)
Religion
To offer
When it comes to ideas
about paradise and perdition,
good and evil, piety and sin,
no one is immune to curiosity.
The eight-event lecture/
film series, “Great World
Religions: Significant Influ
ences on American Society,”
will address these ideas and
many more as well as offer
an introduction to the study
of comparative religions.
African religion, Hinduism,
Islam and the Judaic-Chris-
tian tradition will be covered
during presentations through
out November. Programs will
feature scholars with out
standing credentials.
One of the highlights of the
series is a screening of the
Oscar-winning film “Gandhi,”
starring Ben Kingsley and
directed by Richard Atten
borough. The movie, which
appeared in theaters last win
ter, is being shown at Ben
nett before it has appeared
on network television.
The series opens Nov. 3 at
7:30 p.m. when Dr. Charles
H. Long will speak on “Tra
ditional African Religion: A
Spiritual Heritage” in Pfeif
fer Science Assembly.
Long holds a dual position
as the William Rand Kenan
Jr. professor of history of
religion at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
and as professor of religion
at Duke University.
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Dr. Clarence G. Newsome,
assistant professor of Amer
ican Christianity at Duke
Divinity School, will respond
to Long’s commentary.
Long was formerly a pro
fessor at the University of
Chicago where, along with
Mircea Eliade and Joseph
Kitagawa, he founded the
influential journal History of
Religions in 1961.
The series is financed
through grants from the
North Carolina Humanities
Committee and the Program
for Faculty Development in
the Humanities of the An
drew W. Mellon Foundation.
Mr. Jimmy Guess and Dr.
Ruth Lucier are co-directors
of the project.
Other sessions in the series
are:
7:30 p.m.—Nov. 4—“African Art
in Motion” (film); Resource
Scholar; Dr. Charles H. Long.
7:30 p.m.—Nov. 7—“Hinduism’s
‘Satyagraha’ (Grasping the
Truth): a Force for Social
Change”; Lead Speaker: Dr.
Paul B. Courtwright, UNC-G;
Respondent: Dr. Sandra P.
Robinson, Duke University.
7: 30 p.m.—Nov. 8—‘ ‘Gandhi”
(starring Ben Kingsley).
7:30 p.m.—Nov. 14—“Pilgrimage
to Mecca: The Moral Strengths
of Islam”; Lead Speaker: Dr.
Herbert L. Hodman, UNC-
Chapel Hill; Respondent: Dr.
Bruce Lawrence, Duke Univ.
(See Page 4)
Cruise is thrilling trip
a review
by Dee Evans
Who ever claimed coaches
couldn’t sing or recite poetry
or faculty members didn’t
have rhythm; and who ever
said a preacher with a head
and chest cold couldn’t sing
a gospel song like it has never
been sung before?
All these facts and more
happened at the Oct. 14
Parent/Faculty/Staff Cultur
al Cruise Talent Show whose
proceeds went to the United
Negro College Fund. The
theme for the evening was
“A Mind Is a Terrible Thing
to Waste,” with Dr. Nellouise
Watkins as hostess.
The audience was amazed
to see Coach Cathy Mussing-
ton recite original poetry and
then conclude with singing
“People.”
Reverend Vander Russell,
who sang “He’s Only a Pray
er Away,” surprised the audi
ence as well as himself be
cause of his cold. He made
a sudden recuperation and
received a standing ovation.
Another amazing act was
the vocal medley by Mrs.
Ednita Bullock. She proved
that librarians have their
moments too when they take
the stage. “Whisper When
You Want Attention” was
not her motto. She took full
advantage of crescendos.
The ensemble “The Gospel
Belles” inspired the audience
because it could actually cut
a record.
From teachers to security
guards, to administrators and
snack bar attendants, this
group “put everything into it
and made the selection inspir
ing,” according to freshman
Yeshiva Colbert, a political
science major from High
Point. The members of the
group were Odessa Darby,
Barbara McCollum, Vaughn-
etta Carr, Lisa Neal, Rosa
Henryhand, Blonnie Tipton,
Ouida Scarborough, Phyllis
Ethridge and Alma Adams.
The excitement started
with the faculty members
who modeled ’83 fashions.
Opening the show was Jimmy
Guess who was “dressed to
impress” in his white tails,
red cummerbund and bow tie
accented with white shoes.
Suave bola!
Robert Tilidetze opened a
lot of eyes as he paraded
around the stage in his gray
A-L Laboratory is state of the art
by Dr. Wendy Greene
Computers are springing up all
over the educational landscape.
At Bennett College, where com
puter-aided instruction has been
part of math and English pro
grams for more than ten years,
the latest use of computers in
education will come to fruition
in the spring semester when the
word-processor will be the focus
of a federally funded, multi
function laboratory.
This audiolingual laboratory has
grown from a desire to enhance
instruction in the humanities
division.
One group of instructors
using the laboratory will teach
writing on the word-processor.
Another instructor will use the
sound equipment in the laboratory
to improve students’ foreign-
language pronunciation. Yet an
other instructor will use the video
camera and recorder in the lab
oratory to improve student pres
entation of speeches.
The Audio Lingual Laboratory
includes ten IB'M personal com
puters with printers. In the word-
processing area, students will
practice composition skills by
writing paragraphs—and even es
says at the end of the semester—
in response to very specific
assignments.
Since the personal computer
prints multiple copies quickly,
students working in small groups
can critique one another’s work
and suggest revisions. Revisions
can be made quickly and easily,
at once or later, since each stu
dent will hold a complete file of
her work on a diskette.
The advantages of teaching
writing on the word-processor in
clude the ease of revision, the
speed with which final copy is
produced, and the professional ap
pearance of the product. Bennett’s
writing instructors believe, in ad
dition, that the speed of the word-
processor will offer students an
opportunity to write significantly
more expository prose within a
given semester. The added prac
tice should, of course, improve
writing performance.
In the language area, students
will use cassette recorders fitted
with earphones to listen to the
sounds native to the languages
they are studying. They will also
record their own attempts to pro
duce foreign-language sounds.
A library-like cassette-borrow-
ing system will permit students
to review the sounds assigned as
frequently as they like on their
own small tape recorders. The
use of cassette recorders—rather
than the traditional, large tape
machines — will permit greater
flexibility in both student and
faculty use of this equipment.
In the television area, students
will review films of one another
giving speeches under the direc
tion of Bennett’s speech instructor,
Mrs. Mary Hopkins. Both instruc
tor and students can then critique
the speeches as they review them
on videotape. Speech performance,
once students can both see and
hear themselves, will surely
improve.
The laboratory’s function is ex
pected to expand in the future.
The music department, for exam
ple, might wish to use some of the
tape-recording or video equip
ment. Perhaps the foreign-lan
guage instructor will want to ask
advanced students to write on the
word-processor in French or
Spanish. The philosophy instruc
tor may wish to film a visiting
scholar’s remarks and to assign
a review of the videotape to
students.
All of the services of the new
laboratory will augment tradi
tional classroom instruction in the
humanities. Bennett hopes to open
the laboratory to students in the
evening as well as throug^iout the
day.'
The laboratory is underwritten
by a federal grant in response to
a proposal written by Dr. Lynn
Sadler, head of the humanities
division.
tux. What next! Oh, and the
show didn’t end there until
Perry Mack showed that “he
was back” in his gray tux
highlighted with a red cum
merbund and bow tie.
Ralph Fennell, “the man
with the money,” apparently
spent big in order to show off
his black tux and black tie.
He sported satin on the side
of his pants. Education will
never be the same again.
The evening was not com
plete without show-stopper,
Pauline Wyrtch. The audi
ence was rolling in the aisles
during her reading of a new
job policy for benefits and
procedures. It told when an
employee had to take his turn
going to the bathroom, and
when and how to take a leave
of absence, and “please give
a two weeks notice before you
die so that you can train
someone in your area of work
to take over when you’re
gone.”
The show was even fortu
nate to present a celebrity
who will appear on national
television in the near future.
Faye Gleason and her part
ner Maxine Harris performed
a “doggie duet” naming
themselves, “Salt and Pep
per,” literally speaking.
How can there be a show
without President Miller’s
traditional vocal solo.
“Things are going wrong . . .
not through yesteryears but
always.” “Ahhhh,” the view
ers replied sympathetically
while wiping their eyes.
“I got to see a different
side of President Miller that
I never could imagine,” said
freshman Roy Cowan, a biol
ogy major from Winston-
Salem.
“This year the participants
performed more serious acts
which displayed their tal
ents,” said senior profession
al theatre major, Jeanette
Hatch from Atlanta. “I en
joyed last year’s better be
cause the teachers were more
comical,” she added.
The parents created a sense
of pride among the students
who cheered them on. The
parents included J oan
Bridges and Jeanette Pfifer,
vocal soloists, Thelma Walker
and Dola Purcell, dramatic
interpreters and recitationist
Richard Bennett.
Sophomore special educa
tion major, Rhonda Anderson
from Fayetteville commented
that the show “gave the stu
dents a chance to see another
side of the faculty.”
Colbert agreed and added
that she “had a chance to find
out about the faculty for
what they really are —
individuals.”
“I feel that the Faculty
Follies stands out because it
is well put together and dif
ferent than anything else on
campus,” said junior Darlene
Smallwood, from Martins
ville, Va., majoring in
ISP/communications.
Unanimously, it was agreed
that administrator James
Burt was most inspirational
to the audience during his
vocal medley as the finale. He
left the students with the
message — “Climb every
mountain, dream the impos
sible dream and believe in
yourself because we believe
in you.”