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Campus NAACP group to sponsor Open Mic event
BY LA SHAINNA K.
CAMPBELL
Editorial Page Editor
If you are creative and have
talent, and you want ev»yone to
know about it, March 28 could be
your time to shine.
The campus chapter of the
NAACP is sponsoring "Open Mic
Night" where students, faculty and
staff from Bennett and otha cam
puses will showcase their various
taints.
The program, "Express Your
self," will be from 7 to 9 p.m. in the
cafetoia.
"We're looking for positivity
along with creative expression,"
said treasurer for the NAACP
Ayanna Na'im. Na’im is a senior
computer science major from
Philadelphia.
"Any kind of talent will make us
lu^y, frxHn playing an instrument
to reading poetry," said Joy Scott,
president of the campus chapter.
"The mMiey we raise from "Ex
press Yourseir will help us to be
come more visible cm campus."
Scott said. Scou is a junior and
mass communications major from
Newport News, Va.
The open mic {Hogram will be
tfie third fund raisCT for the NAACP
this year. Tickets fw the event are
$1 fOT Bennett students and $2 for
others.
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Bellespeak
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Belles speak out about
mother accused of killing
her five children
News & Features
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It's time to get in shape.
Critic's Comer
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Denzel's latest movie
"John Q." gets four reels.
Bennett Banner
Theatre major
selected as
semifinalist
Bloodhound on campus
Chary Pace, (shownabove) a first-year student ma
joring In mass communications, served as the cam
pus "Bloodhound" mascot, for the American Red
Cross on campus Feb. 20. Delta Sigma Theta Soror
ity, Inc. sponsored the blood drive which took place
In the Student Union. Photo by Takesha Briggins, Banner
Photographer and Reporter.
BY CARAH L. B. HERRING
Banner Reporter
Watch out Halle Berry and J.
Lo. At least one dramatic Belle
will be taking over in no time.
Ruby Thomas, a junior the
atre major fromNew Britain Ccmn.,
was chosen as a semifinalist after a
preliminary competition at the
American College Theater Festi
val at Converse College in
Spartansburg, S. C., Feb. 5 to 9.
Thomas and Kiandra Parks an
other theatre majorcompeted
against approximately 400 other
college actors from six southern
states for the prestigious IreneRyan
Award. Thomas was one of 25
paformers selected to ctmpete as
a finalist
The Irene Ryan Award, named
for the late actress who portrayed
Granny Clampett in the 1960's hit
series "The Beverly Hillbillies" is
a $500 scholarship given to out
standing student performers at
eight ACTF regional festivals na
tionwide.
Thomas and Parks were in
vited to attend the regional compe
tition by ACTF committee repre
sentatives based on their perfor
mances in the play "Indigo Blues."
The two performed in October
during the North Carolina ACTF
State Festival at Meredith College
in Raleigh.
This was the second time Ben
nett has been represented at the
ACTF.
"I was surprised when I first
heard the news. Obviously, they
[the committee members] saw
Theatre Continued on Page 3
Election process changed; all results will be posted
BY NATALIE JORDAN
Banner Reporter
Hear ye! Hear Ye!
The election process has been
revised.
"As of now, there has not been
a dramatic change in the election
process," said Miss Royal Blue
and White, Claudia Pearson.
"The only difference is a print
out [of the election results]."
Eligibility requirements are
the same. To run for SGA presi
dent, vice president. Miss Bennett
College, or Miss Royal Blue and
White, the student must have a 2.8
cumulative grade point average,
60 credit hours, tliree letters of
recomm^dation, and two con
secutive semesters of satisfactory
ACES. For all other SGA execu
tive board positions and class of
ficers, a student must have a 2.5
cumulative grade point average,
two letters of recommendation, and
two consecutive semesters of sat
isfactory ACES.
This year, however, all the elec
tion results, including the number
of votes and their percentages will
be posted. Also there will be a
joint announcement of the SGA
cabinetand the Royal Court In the
past, names of the new Miss Ben
nett andMissRoyalBlue and White
were not released with the cabinet
a(^intments.
Pearson said that a duty of
Election Continued on Page 3