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MONYA TOMLINSON
Staff Reporter
The Bennett Banner will be adding something
or someone to its front page: "Pheness" a social
commentary cartoon character.
Pheness [Pronounced "Fee Nes"] and her
comments are the brainchild of Shantilee Otey, a
sophomore from Bedford County, Va. who is
majoring in English.
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The Bennett Banner
The newspaper produced by and for the Phenomenal Women of Bennett College
VOL XXI NO. 2
October 14, 1998
Bennett College
Greensboro, NC 27401
The banner hanging from the balcony in the Student Union advertised
Spirit Week Oct. 5-11. Highlights of the week included the city-wide
volunteer outreach day, the nationally televised videoconference,
"Broken Pledges," and Miss Bennett College’s Coronation. Photo by Marie
Smith, staff photographer.
Two Belles among 46 NC college students
awarded science scholarships, laptops
Two Bennett students were
among the 46 students from 24
North Carolina colleges and uni
versities to be inducted into one of
the largest Glaxo Foundation
classes of aspiring female scien
tists in the 1998 Women in Sci
ence Scholars program.
averages of 3.0 or better. Glaxo
Wellcome provides each school
with a $25,000 endowed scholar
ship, and from that endowment
students receive a scholarship to
ward their education.
As part of the program this year.
Videoconference focusing
on hazing among Greeks
aired on campus
pus and participated in group ca
reer discussions and met with their
mentors.
"We created the program so
that our scholars could have prac
tical guidance during their under
graduate years," said Marilyn , . ,
■ Foote-Hudson, executive director each school was given laptop com-
Hallona KeUy, a sophomore of the Glaxo Wellcome Founda- puters, printers and other accesso-
from Maryland who is majoring in tion, which sponsors the Women ries to aid students with their stud-
chemistry and Bridgette Hager, a in Sciences Scholars program. ies.
nativeof Glen Bumie, Md., who is The scholars program supports Since 1993, the Women m Sci-
majoringinbiologyjoinedtheother scientific studies by female under- ences Scholars Program has com-
students as they attended a day graduate students in the state. bined endowed scholarships with
long session Oct. 5 at the Glax® Students who participate in the a mentoring program that links a
Wellcome's Cornwallis campus, program are selected by their in- student with a Glaxo Wellcome
The students toured the cam- terest in science and grade point woman scientist mentor.
President Gloria Randle
Scott was a panelist in a
nationally televised
videoconference on hazing.
BY KENYA SAMUELS
Editor
A nationally televised inter
active video conference produced
by the publishers of Black Issues
in Higher Education was one of
the activities that took place dur
ing Founder’s Week.
The two-hour videoconference,
"Broken Pledges: Fraternities and
Sororities at the Crossroads," ex
amined hazing among Greek and
non-Greek organizations.
Students, faculty and staff af
filiated with Greek organizations
were invited to attend by the cam
pus president of the Pan- Hellenic
Council, the live video confer
ence which was aired via satellite
by the Telecommunications Pro
gram in Shell Hall Triad Oct. 7.
The videoconference had both
national and local significance to
Bennett College because its topic
related to an alleged post-hazing
incident this past spring semester
involving members of the Zeta Xi
Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority Inc.
Eight panelists including col
lege presidents Gloria Randle Scott
and Earl Richardson of Morgan
State University, provided vari
ous perspectives about hazing.
"Hazing is a power problem,"
said Maureen Syring, assistant di
said Maureen Syring, assistant di
rector of Delta Gamma Founda
tion.
"Hazing is a learned skill, and
none of us are bom knowing how
to haze."
Hank Nuwer, author of the
book Broken Pledges..., said the
laws define hazing differently in
each state.
"Hazing is a felony in North
Carolina," Scott said.
"Hazing as a behavior must be
stopped, " Richardson said. He
also said what scares him is the
physical violence associated with
hazing. Richardson posed the ques
tion as to whether there is a middle
ground to preserving the intake
ritual without becoming abusive.
Richardson and Scott both sug
gested there should be a joint rela
tionship between the Greek orga
nizations and the institutions.
Scott explained the acronym,
"DEEPEN" as a method to elimi
nate hazing. "D" for Dismiss, "E"
for Educate, "E" for Enforce, "P"
for Prosecute, "E" for Empower
ment and "N" for National col
laboration.
Scott said that hazing has not
always been a part of the Greek
culture. "We have perpetuated a
myth that there was always haz
ing." She was not the object of
hazing when she pledged in 1956.
Studio audience members who
were present in the Washington,
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