Belie interns
in White House
PRT BACK ON THE SCENE
“Black Business" restores the lyrical madness
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Denneii siUQBni
Sekinah Hamlin spent the
summer hobnobbing with
BELLE HONOR TENETS
What are they and how do they apply
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noneotherthan Hillary, Bill,
Al, Tipper and Colin in the
nation's capital.
FIGURING OUT FINANCIAL AID
Who, where and how to get it at Bennett
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The Story is on
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THE TRUTH ABOUT PARKING
Editorial seeks your counsel in solving problems of the day
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Thursday, October 7,1993 Bennett College Greensboro, North Carolina 27401 Vol. XLIX, No. 1
Science Entrepreneur
R.O. W. Sciences, Inc. CEO Ralph O. Willianns talks to student after his lecture at ACES Sept.
30. In background is 1969 Bennett grad Jacqueline Venable Richmond, a project manager with
the company.
Renovations making dorm and
campus life pleasant once again
SGA leader suspension
under College review
By Tahja McVay
Banner Reporter
Campus renovations have
been a big event on the Bennett
College campus for more than a
year and the improvements are hav
ing a positive impact on students.
All campus dormitories have
been undergoing major facelifts.
Work on Cone, Jones, Rejmolds,
Pfeiffer and Memer Halls has been
completed while work is continuing
on Barge Hall.
The upperclasswomen on
campus can see considerable im
provements in the donns since the
renovations. So much so that they
say putting up with early morning
bulldozers and piles of dirt, wood
and mud is worth it.
“There has been total reno
vation; the floors aren’t caving in,
and the closets have doors on them,”
said junior, Lori Hawkins who re
sides in Cone.
Jocelyn Biggs was housed in
Cone last year. She says the changes
there are phenomenal.
“I can remember when the
paint was tacky and chipped off.
Now everything is fresh and new,
even the furniture."
“The dorms now have pretty
floors and it looks like we pay
$9,000," said senior Tara Gross. "I
used to wonder where all our money
was going."
Kisheena Wanzer, a senior
said, “It’s nice to see money is being
utilized for creating a better educa
tional enviroment. The renovations
create a more profound enviroment
in which to study and live."
The upgrade of aU dorms is
part of President Gloria Randle
Scott's "Bennett Renaissance" ini
tiative which aims at revitalizing
all areas of campus life beginning
with improvements to the physical
facilities. Among the most recent
additions is air conditioning in the
Continued on page 2
By Kim Hall
Banner Co-Editor
The recent suspension from
Bennett of SGA President-elect
Pamela McCorvey is being reviewed
by a judicial panel of the college at
press time.
McCorvey, a senior math
major from Houston, was notified
upon her return to school at the end
of the sximmer that she had been
suspended by President Gloria
Randle Scott for violating the BeUe
Honor Code. Earlier this semester
at an ACES swearing-in ceremony
for school officers. Dr. Scott an
nounced to the student body that
four students were suspended for
honor code violations, including the
SGA president-elect.
McCorvey's recourse was to
appeal the suspension before a judi
cial committee made up of school
faculty, administrators and stu
dents. That private hearing was
held Sept. 30 with a decision ex
pected to be rendered Oct. 5.
By Delrdre B. Cooper
Student Reporter
As a result of the recruiting ef
forts of Sigma Gamma Rho Soror
ity, Inc., the Bennett College cam
pus now has all four sororities of the
National Pan-Hellenic Council.
Serena Cole, Deirdre B. Cooper,
Dana Whaley, Brooke Walker, and
Dionne Walker were instated as the
charter members of the Nu Nu chap
ter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority,
Sept. 25.
“I am really honored and ecstatic
to have a chapter of Sigma Gamma
Rho Sorority on Bennett’s campus
because Bennett is our home,” said
Cooper, NuNu’s chapter president.
“Equally important, we can now
*♦ UPDATE ♦*
Pamela McCorvey informed the
Banner Oct. 6 that she has received
official notification from the College
reinstating her as a student.
At press time, McCorvey de
clined to make pubUc her comments
on the case citing college privacy
guidelines. But the matter seems to
revolve aroimd McCorvey's involve
ment with a former Bennett student
who faced drug charges in federal
coTxrt last April.
The student was McCorvey's
Big Sister, a tradition at Bennett
where upperclasswomen serve as
mentors for younger students.
Scott promised at a program
on campus last spring that the Col
lege was monitoring the case and
wotild take appropriate action once
the legal trial finished.
Although Scott decHned to
comment on the specifics of the case,
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use Nu Nu as a vehicle to show the
student body what Sigma is about,”
Cooper said.
“Moving from North Carolina
A&T State University to Bennett,
members are ready to begin posi
tively serving the college commu
nity through campus-based
projects.”
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority,
Inc., founded November 1922 at
Butler University, is the youngest
member of the National Pan-Hel
lenic Council.
The sorority whose slogan is
“Greater Service, Greater Progress
is a non-profit organization that
stresses empowering the African-
American community through edu
cation.
NU NU is brand new, finally