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3 • BENNETT BANNER • SEPTEMBER 20, 1996
OPINION • OPINION • OPINION • OPINION • OPINION
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letters*to*the*ed itor
What will you do on Nov. 5th?
The November Elections are
less than two months away and
students will have another
opportunity to be a part of
making history and impacting
policy makers who govern their
lives.
The right to vote is a privilege
that we’ve not always enjoyed as
African Americans and most
especially as women. Our
ancestOTS died so that we could
have that right, Bennett College
students have had a long, proud
and impressive tradition of civic
involvement in local, national
and state elections. They made
their voices heard at the ballot
box each election day.
Student participation in the
formulation of policy through the
electorial process continues to be
cnirial because issues effecting
education, including the survival
of student financial aid, tuition
costs, fees and other essential
areas related to jobs and econom
ics, impact students now and in
the future and are not always
made by “Education Friendly”
politicians. Therefore each and
every student eUgible to vote
should vote Nov. 5 to be able to
strongly influence those indi
viduals who make decisions
about their lives and those of
their families.
The Nov. 5 election will
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determine who will lead this
country and who will represent
us in Congress, including who
will serve North Carolina in the
U. S .Senate -- Harvey Gantt or
Jesse Hehns. It wOl ultimately
determine the fate of majority-
minority districts throughout the
nation and the survival of the
12th Congressional District in
North Carolina. The next
governor, lieutenant governor,
state legislature, secretary of
state, state auditor, district and
superior court judges, local
county commissioners and the
Board of Education will all be
determined when the votes are
counted this November.
In the November 1995 local
city council elections, Bennett
students who were registered to
vote in Guilford County turned
out 73 percent of its overall
registered voters with the women
in Barge Hall voting 100 percent;
Memer 92 percent; Reynolds 88
percent; Player 81 percent;
Pheiffer 73 percent; and Cone
and Jones turning out 60 percent;
and 58 percent of its Guilford
County registered voters
respectively.
While these figures are
exceptional and set a record for
our community, the 1996
Bennett College “Get Out To
Vote Conunittee” (GOTV) is
conunitted to increasing its voter
turn out in November.
Each member of the Bennett
family has a stake in the future of
the college, the community and
nation in which it resides by
being registered and voting on
election day. If you’re not
registered, you can’t vote. If you
don’t vote, you’re not counted
and if you’re not counted, you
can’t be heard. If you are
registered in a county outside of
Guilford (perhaps in your home
town) you need to ask yourself:
Where will I be on
Nov. 5?
Did I Vote in the Last
election?
If you will not be at home to
vote then you must contact your
board of elections early enough
to secure an absentee ballot
(from your board) and return it
before the election deadline. If
it is not received in time you are
not eligible to vote at aU. As a
student attending college in
North Carolina, you are eligible
to vote in Guilford County and
can register up to OcL 11 to vote
this November if you will be 18
years old by election day.
We can be a part of continu
ing the “Bennett College voting
tradition” and take responsibility
for our own empowerment and
survival by voting and make sure
others do.
Dr. Alma Adams
Professor of Art
BELLES
BENNETT COLLEGE IS A VOTING COLLEGE
BE A PART OF MAKING HISTORY AND CONTINUING
THE BENNETT TRADITION BY EXERCISING YOUR
RIGHT AND YOUR VOICE. VOTE NOV. 5
POLITICIANS ARE MADE BY PEOPLE WHO VOTE AND
Of=TEN BY THOSE WHO DON’T, BUT THEY ARE
CONTROLLED BY THOSE WHO VOTE.
Voter Registration is being organized by tiie Bennett GOTV
Conunittee and spmsoring members of the Political
Pacesetters, SGA, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., Alpha
Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., and the National Council of Negro
Women through Oct 10. Students may also contact Dr. Alma
Adams, Steele Hall.
Bennett Polling Place: Reid Memorial Church, at the corner
of Bennett and Julian streets .
Greetings from
SGA leader
The Student (jovemment
Association for 1996-1997
brings greetings to all of the
new and returning students for
this academic year.
We are very excited about
the events planned for this
upcoming year and we are in
the process of recruiting all
students to take an active part
in these activities.
We, the Bennett College
community, are facing critical
times and must begin to call on
each other for assistance.
We are putting it upon you,
the students, to become
interested in the community
surrounding you, to get
involved and to be informed on
the issues that are facing us as
women of color - not only
locally but globally as well.
The SGA is making itself
accessible to everyone in this
community, by making sure
that everyone is counted as a
member of this growing
family.
We are inviting you to
attend an executive board
meeting, every Monday at
noon, to see how we function,
especially if you are interested
in running for a position on
campus next semester.
Student Senate meetings
are every second Thursday, 6
p. m. in Black Hall and Student
Body meetings are every third
Thursday at 6 pjn. in the
Student Union Foyer.
We wish you a productive
school year.
Good Luck.
Amanda Pecchioni,
SGA President
SGA Roster 1996-1997
Amanda Pecchioni,
President
HBCU connection/Board of
Trustees/Parents Association
Amy Alexander, Vice
President
Voter Registration/
Student Senate Chair
Diona Street-Coe,
Recording Secretary
Administrates Connection
Erika Johnson,
Corresponding Secretary
Campus Activities Communicator
Lakeisha Valentine,
Treasurer
Budget/Food Committee
Asha Pinkney,
Parliamentarian
Off-Canpis Students Committee
Jasmine Canady, Miss
Bennett College 1996-1997
Campus Queens/
Conununity Spokes PerscMi
Candance White, Miss Royal
Blue and White
Pre-Alumnae Connection
Tia Smith, Publicist
Community Adviser
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