Belle to compete
in USA Pagent
Sophomore Radiah
Hyatte has been selected
to participate in the 1994
Miss North Carolina USA
Pageant in Charlotte. The
winner of the pageant will
represent North Carolina in
February 1994 in the Miss
USA pageant.
FOUNDERS' WEEK
A pictorial look at coronation, convocation and other events
Pages 4 & 5
TRIBUTE TO A BELLE CIVIL RIGHTS PIONEER
Belle's contribution during sit-ins remembered
Page 2
HEALTH CENTER REACHES OUT TO STUDENTS
Family planning program gains momentum
Page 6
"SHOOP, SHOOP, SHOOP”
Salt N' Pepa's latest reviewed
Page 3
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The E&eimett Baimer
‘Student Newspaper of the Phenomenal Women of Bennett College"
Thursday, November 4,1993
Bennett College
Greensboro, North Carolina 27401
Vol. XVI, No. 2
McCorvey charts SGA course
after surviving rocicy start
By Kim Hall
Executive Editor
The controversy surroxmding
Pamela McCorvey’s suspension has
ended and she has been foxmd not
guilty by Bennett College.
The Banner spoke with
McCorvey about plans are for this
academic year.
As SGA president, McCorvey
said she will try to encovirage par
ticipations in class activities that
class officers have sponsored and
better inform students about what
is happening with administration,
student representatives, their class
officers, SGA, and the student union
advisory board.
McCorvey wants to play a piv
otal role on being active on this
campus.
Her first step is to install a
comment and concern box so that
the student body will be better rep
resented and have a chance to voice
their opinions.
“We want to act upon what
they want and how they will better
the Cconpus, “ McCorvey said.
McCorvey’s key ingredients for
makixig this a successful year is to
establish better hnes of communi
cation between administration, stu
dent representatives and students..
She says that she hopes to accom
plish this by requesting that Dr.
Tijuana Mosby, Dean Jimmie
Gravely and other administrators
to attend SGA meetings.
“I think that they should be at
our disposal when we honestly need
them. The student body meeting is
once a month and I’m sure they can
find the time,” McCorvey said.
McCorvey said that she wants
all the members of the Bennett
Growth, development part of plan
Student Government President Pamela
McCorvey.
College family to know that they
aren’t supporting an individual
representative but that they are
supporting and bettering
Bennettnett College.
Under the leadership of Kim
berly Harper, SGA president 1992-
Continued on page 7
Bennett WITS
attend conference
By Amber Williams
Banner Reporter
Four students represented
Bennett at the National Black Lead
ership Initiative on Cancer confer
ence at North Carolina Central
University Oct. 14.
Juniors Dara Nix-Stevenson,
Leondra Radford and sophomores
Amber Williams, and Amanda
Morris attended the six-hour con
ference sponsored by Women In
True Scholarship a community ser
vice and cultural enrichment orga
nization recently renewed on
Bennett’s campus.
Recent WITS activities in
clude a bake sale and fund-raisers
for future excursions.
“WITS has brought me back
in touch with the spirit of commu
nity service,” Nix-Stevenson said.
Throughout the day, participants
Continued on page 7
Scott says "Renaissance" will revolutionize Bennett
Tracey E. Fox
Banner Reporter
“Renaissance” means to renew
or revive. The Renaissance under
way at Bennett is designed to do
just that.
President Gloria Randle Scott
adopted the term to represent the
current and anticipated changes un
derway at Bennett both in improve
ments to physical facilities and the
enhancement of programs ofi’ered
by the College.
"The Bennett Renaissance is,a
return of youthful vigor, freshness,
zest and productivity," Scott said.”
Scott chose the Renaissance
concept because of the Hatrlem Re
naissance of the late 1920s, a time
which witnessed African Americans
returning to their roots.
During that era, new ideas
in art, literature, dance, and other
forms of artistic expression sur
faced. That Renaissance brought
out new self-esteem among Afri
can Americans that Scott hopes
will be reproduced for Bennett
students.
“The impact that Harlem
Renaissance had on African
Americans brought about ideas
for what a Renaissance can do for
Bennett College,” Scott said.
Scott said that one of her
many objectives for the Bennett
Renaissance, since becoming
president of Bennett in 1987, has
been to refurbish the dormitories.
“I discovered during my re
view of the College that the stu
dents seemed irritated an on edge.
That bothered me.”
Scott met with the student
body once a month and foiind many
students were irritated because
of their living conditions on cam
pus.
Since that time, Merner,
Jones, Cone, Pfeiffer, Re5molds and
Player dormitories have been re
furbished and reconditioned. Work
is still being done on Barge.
Additional dormitory space
may be needed because the Col
lege plans to implement a cam
paign that involves recruiting stu
dents from areas of the United
States where Bennett College is
not very well known, such as Okla
homa, Indiana, California, and
Iowa.
According to Scott, if such
an increase does occur more dorms
will be provided.
Also included in the Bennett
Renaissance is the elimination and
of some academic programs, along.
with revi
sion and the
accredita
tion of oth
ers.
A new
high tech li
brary, as
well as a new
social sci
ence build
ing is being
planned.
Scott has been securing fi
nancial support for the Bennett
Renaissance through private gifts
and grants.
The Bennett Renaissance is
scheduled to be completed by the
year 2000.
Dr. Gloria R. Scott