DECEMBER 8. 1994 • BENNETT B \NNER • 3
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story time
Dr. Gloria Gayles a professor In the English
Department , and a visiting professor from
Spelman, telling a story to the children at Irving
Elementary School in Greensboro. Dr. Gayles was
at the school as part of National Education Week
in November.
Campus phones
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“And every time I am either left on
hold or disconnected.”
Cheryl Pitchford, junior from
N.Y, said, “Maybe I have trans
ferred people to wrong places, but
it’s corrected. Butnoonehascome
to me and complained.”
Shaw said she believes that the
students who operate the tele
phones do not need to be trained
for this position.
She said that if she does not
know who to transfer a call to, the
student workers will not know ei
ther.
“If I don’t know [where
to transfer a call] and Ms. [Audrey]
Franklin doesn’t know, who’s the
payroll person, then they [student
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SGA: No more free fun
LaTasha Gordon
Banner Reporter
College students love to
party, but sometimes their fmances
don’t allow them to engage in
them. The Student Government
Association realized this and held
aparty in the gymnasium Nov. 12,
that was free for all area college
students.
Although college ID was
the only requirement for entrance
in the party, students used false
IDs to enter.
“The party ended early
when an officer of the Greensboro
Police Department heard gunfire
east of the campus and advised
that the party end before any seri
ous incidents occurred,” said Chief
of Bennett’s Campus Police Bar
bara Simmons.
“I felt that it made no sense
to make everyone exit if it could
potentially be dangerous outside
of the party,” said Nanaaba Eshun,
a junior mass communications ma
jor from Queens, N.Y.
“If 1 felt that there was di
rect endangerment outside, 1
wouldn’t have advised the students
to go outside in the midst of the
danger,” Simmons said.
Before the party ended there
was an altercation involving a 16-
year-old female and a msilc that
resulted with Chief Simmons in
juring herself.
The male had resisted
Chief Sinmions’ request to leave
the party and as she pushed and
pulled him out of tlie d(X)r, she
broke Iwo nails down to the llesh.
Simmons was rushed to
the Urgent Care Medical Center
for trctiUneni.
“'llie inlenlion of the party
was for all to have free fun,” sjiid
SCiA IVesident Michelle Huff, a
senior political science major
from Baltimore.
“I didn’t expect it to gel
out of hand and since it did we
won’t have ;uiyinore I rce p:irties ”
Mellon program offers
slice of opportunity
workers] just don’t know.”
People calling the
switchboard do not always know
who they are calUng, Shaw says.
Marnell Hughes, a
fresh woman mass communications
major said, “If there are any com
plaints, it’s about transferring stu
dents to the wrong places for the
new staff.”
The Academic Affairs
office is responsible for hiring new
staff, Shaw says. That office
also has information about which
names are listed on the campus
directory.
"It’s nothing thatl can do," Shaw
said.
"I don’t know where everyone
here works. "If they’re not on the
list, than I don’t know.”
Jenee' Hulin
Banner Reporter and Staff
A program to increase the pool
of African Americans with doc
toral degrees is currendy accept
ing applications.
The UNCF/Mellon Minority
Undergraduate Fellowship Pro
gram, in its fifth year, was started
because of "a critical shortage of
minority scholars with Ph.Ds,” said
Dr. Linda Brown, distinguished
professor of humanities.
To be eligible for the scholar
ship, a student must be at least a
junior with a gpa of3.2 for 1995-
96 academic school year, llie
student must also be a U.S. citi
zen and seek a teaching position
in humanities, mathematics, or
one of the science disciplines.
“The program is a wonderful
and tremendous investment for
African American students,”
Brown said.
“It is designed to help students
succeed and is invaluable.”
The program provides a
research stipend, a mentor, re
payment of student loans, and
summer stipends.
Brown is a mentor in the
program for (labriellc Rt)ss, a se
nior Fnglish major from Corpus
Christi, Texas.
As a mentor Brown hel ps
students with research and writ
ing. She also meets reguhirly with
students and helps them wi(h
their application for graduate
sch(X)l.
“The program has been a help
to me," Ross said.
"ll broadens your education and
Dr. Brown has also been helpliil.”
Ross said.
liligible students can ap
ply before J;ui 20.
Books, snacks, and stuff
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Tahja McVay
Banner Reporter
The campus bookstore, located
in the basement of the David Dallas
Jones Student Union, has more to
offer.
Now a student can purchase ice
tea sparkling water, or different
fruit drinks f'^om a machine. In ad
dition assortments of gum and
candy are also available — a big
switch from just textbooks, sup
plies, and Bennett College para
phernalia.
The bookstore management
came up with the idea when the
grill closed two years ago, and stu
dents complained about snack
machines always being out of or-
The Academy for
State and Local
Government
der.
“People started requesting
some sort of snack,” said Kinun
Waller a Bennett graduate and the
bookstore manager.
“Ms. Meachum thought
of Misties [a brand name soft
drink] because she loves them
and 1 thought of candy,” Waller
said.
Revonda Meachum is the Op
erations Director.
But some students said the
vending machine was long over
due.
“It’s good they have one, but it
should have been one in there,”
said Lori Sherpard, a senior from
Detroit.
The machine was ordered the
first week of August and arrived
during Parents’ Weekend in (kto-
ber.
'nie machine is located
inside the Ixwkstore. But .some say
the machine should be placed some
where el.se.
“It really dx:sn’t make a differ
ence because the Ixxikstore isn’t
open that much they should pul it
upstairs,” said Matasha rumer, a
freshwoman from Minneapolis.
A 16 ounce bottle of a
Misties soft drink is 99 cents and a
22 ounce is $1.19, Candy and gum
starts at 25 cents on up.
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AND YOU CHANGE THE WORLD.
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