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Belle team wins $2,500
in national college bowl
A team of six Bennett Belles won two
matches and earned a share of a $305,000
grant in the 10th annual Honda Campus AU-
StarChallenge atHowardUniversity in Wash
ington, D.C. March 11-15.
The Bennett team competed against stu
dents from other historically black colleges
and universities. The team from Florida A&M
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Bellespeak
Sports
Clitic's Comer
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The Oscars and
African Americans
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Martial arts demon
stration on campus
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TLC earns two stars
for new album
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NO. 9 Maidi 19,1999
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Greensboro, NC 27401
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Bennett students and a reporter from the Washington Post (standing behind the
students) wait in the Intelor Department's Yates Auditorium in Washington D.C.
for the Black History program to start. (Far right) A federal employee makes final
preparations for the program.
Bennett delegation travels
to Washington to participate
in Black History Program
BY MONYA TOMLINSON
Staff Reporter
A delegation of approximately
30 Bennett students, faculty, and
staff traveled by charter bus to
Washington D.C. Feb. 25 to repre
sent the College at a Black History
Program sponsored by the U.S.
Department of the Interior and the
Bureau of Land Management
The program featured the newly
released 72-minute audio tape of
the speech by the Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.," that had been
delivered in 1958 in the Annie
Memer Pfeiffer Chapel. The rare
recording of King's oratory is
thought to be the only recording of
any King speech from that histori
cal year.
The original tape “ a Sears reel-
to-reel magnetic tape - was kept in
the Bennett College archives for
41 years, until Dr. Ruth Lucier,
professor of religion and philoso
phy, and others moved to get it
remastered. Modem technology
and a Frederick, Md., restoration
specialist brought King's words to
Domlnque Carter new
Miss Nubian Nuance
BY BRANDY JONES
Editor
Bennett College has a new Miss
Nubian Nuance.
Dominque Carter was crowned
at the third annual Miss Nubian
Nuance pageant March 10.
Carter, a freshwoman from
Woodbridge, Va., competed
against three other contestants
T amara Boy ton, Audrey Freeman,
Sheriea Waters.
The contestants were judged
on their expressions of talent,
school spirit, and their responses
during the question-and-answer
segment.
During the talent segment of
the pageant. Carter performed her
dramatic interpretation of the
poem “Africa” by Maya Angelou.
While performing, the piece.
Dominque Carter
Carter explained how slaves were
robbed of their pride, heritage, and
self-respect and how African
Americans should be proud that
African Americans have risen
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life again.
During the program, members
of the College Choir and Reader’s
Theater performed for an audience
which included federal employ
ees, members of the press, and
students from a local high school.
Copin College, and Bowie State
University.
President Gloria Randle Scott,
who was present at the program,
introduced the tape of the speech
Choir makes history
during Midwest tour
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BY MONYA TOMLINSON
Staff Reporter
The Bennett College Choir made
history during their Midwest Tour
Feb. 27 - March 6.
The 27 choir members, choir
director Valerie Johnson, and stu
dent accompanists Gajarah Jack
son and Ashely Baker traveled by
charter bus to Finley and Colum
bus, Ohio, Detroit, and Chicago.
The group also took a short trip to
Canada.
The highlights of the annual tour
took place in Detroit.
When the group visited Hitsville
U.S .A. they became the first choir
to sing at the original Motown Stu
dios.
The choir was present during a
mucial tribute to African-Ameri
can composerR. Nathaniel Dett, at
the Detroit's Museum of African
American History. Dett ,now de
ceased, taught music and con
ducted the choiratBennett in 1937.