SGA to sponsor 'Shadow Day'
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By Paquita Herring
Banner Editor
The SGA will sponsor a Student Shadow
Day, April 11. Shadow Day is designed so
that area middle school students can
become familiar with the college
enviroimienL The students will be paired
with mentors who will host them for that
day.
Tia Smith, SGA publicist, said that 30
middle school students from Alan and
Lincoln Middle Schools will be paired
with 30 Bennett Belles.
The students will shadow the Belles
by attending classes and eating in the
cafeteria.
In the afternoon shadows will attend
a workshop titled "How to Achieve My
Goals." Later that evening the"shadows"
will attend an ice cream social before
they are picked up by their parents.
The program is free.
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THE BENNETT BANNER
The Newspaper produced by the Phenomenal Women of Bennett College
VOL XK NO. 11
April 4,1997
Bennett College
Greensbtwt), NC 27401
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Belles helping with
passage of NC bill
Signs of springtime
The Bennett College
community has been taking
advantage of the spring
weather. (Top, from left)
Senior Teliece Hughes, a mass
communications major from
California and Charmaine
McKissick-Melton, an assistant
professor in the Mass
Communications, Speech and
Theatre Department take a
break outside after class.
(Bottom, from left) Nazra
Peterson, freshwomen
psychology major from
Greenville, and Latasha
Greshaw, freshwoman dietetics
major from Baltimore, take a
casual stroll from a class.
Photos by Garnish Gentry.
By Brandy Jones
Banner Reporter
A petition for the passage of a measure
that wiU protect women and help them to
improve themselves and their family has
been circulating on the Bennett College
campus.
The petition, in support of" Network
For Women’s Employment" [House Bill#
480], was introduced Feb. 12 to the
general assembly by Dr. Alma Adams, a
representative of N.C. House District 26
and chair of the Visual Arts Depiirtinent.
According to Adiuns, the bill has been
designed to develop a prognun that will
provide assistance for women who have
lost their husband's financial support
through divorce, death or disability. Hie
legislation would also cover any person
who falls in the displaced homemakers
category. Men, although few, may also be
at one time a displaced homemaker.
Women facing these circumstances may
have impaired skills which could lead to
them become unemployed or
underemployed.
Adams said that she circulated the
petition on campus as a way of involving
the students in the process of lobbying and
advocacy. She also said that she wanted to
get Bennett’s name on the official record
supporting the new bill and other bills
relating to women ’ s issues without students
having to be physically present in Raleigh.
Although the petition is not required for
the bill's passage, Adams says that she has
collected more than 100 signatures so far,
Adams explained there are numerous
state wide organizations supporting this
bill. However, 90 percent of the members
in the N. C. House of Representatives are
men who :ue not always sensitive to
womens issues. Adams said that she
believes ;uiimals ;ire treated better ih;ui
women in this slate since shelters lor
luiimals lu'c required in all KX) counties,
:uid shelters and resources for women are
not.
llie men as well as women continue to
deny that domestic violence, which is a
dominantcause for displaced homemakers,
is a problem. The petitions and lobbying
continue to put the pressure on the
legislature to pass the bill.
Adams said that if the new measure is
defeated, she and supporters might
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Ronda Stingley becomes first Miss Nubian Nuance
By Brandy Jones
Banner Reporter
The honor of becoming the first
Miss Nubian Nuance has been
bestowed upon a sophomore from
Milwaukee.
Competing against five other
contestants, Ronda Stingley
coveted the new title, March 23 in
Goode Gym.
The contestants were judged
on talent, school spirit, and their
responses during the question-
and-answer segment.
During the talent portion of the
pageant, Stingley, a mass
communications broadcast
journalism major, performed her
Ronda Stingley
signature piece “Get on Board
with Ms. Pat’ from the play “The
Colored Museum” by George
Wolfe. During "Get on Board"
Stingley took the audience on a
journey as she became an airline
stewardess explaining the many
stereotypes other cultures place on
African-Americans.
Stingley said she feels that her
responsibilities as Miss Nubian
Nuance are to encourage
students to participate in
homecoming activities, preside
over the activities, and serve as
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