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Cole links King's past to our present
Emily Mann
Associate Editor
In the auditorium of a college
that once refused black stu
dents admittance, the com
munity gathered to celebrate
the life of Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., a man who worked
tirelessly so that no one would
again be excluded from any
thing based on the color of
their skin.
Jan. 19 came to a close at
the college with a Martin
Luther King Jr. Commemora
tive celebration and candle
light vigil. The celebration
centered on the speech of the
president of Bennett College,
Johnnetta B. Cole.
Cole, who earned her Ph.D.
in anthropology from North
western University, focused
her speech on what she be
lieved King would have said if
he were at the college, speak
ing primarily about the war in
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Iraq and Sept. 11. Referring to
her field of expertise, she also
reminded the audience that to
anthropologists, there is no
such thing as "race." Address
ing the audience as brothers
and sisters, she started her
speech by recounting how
when no one else would allow
King to speak in Greensboro,
Bennett College asked him to
speak, and he did so on Feb.
11, 1958.
After connecting King to local
history she moved to the pre
sent, saying, "We must not
only remember him, we must
learn from him."
Cole went on to speak of
travesties around the world
from ethnic cleansing in the
former Yugoslavia to geno
cide in Africa and the war be
tween the Protestants and
Catholics in Ireland. She than
focused on the United States,
looking at not only acts of
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A community budget com- j
mittee meeting was held on 1
Jan. 14 in the Founders ;
Gallery to discuss the
progress the budget commit- i
tee has made since the last i
community meeting on Oct. 3.
The committee is working to
reduce the college's draw on
the endowment (which spiked
to 14 percent in 2001 and
stood at nine percent in 2003)
as well as toward balancing
the operating budget by the
2005-2006 academic year.
"I believe the budget com
mittee made a firm commit
ment not to balance the bud
get unfairly on the backs of
one group or another," budget
committee chairman Ray-
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11, saying that King would
have been filled with joy about
the compassion it brought out
in neighbors and also deeply
saddened about the hatred it
caused.
Speaking of King, Cole said,
"It seems to me Dr. King
would have opposed the acts
of our government in the act
of waging war [on Iraq]."
Cole referenced again and
again King's policy of nonvio
lence and anti-war stance.
Her connection of King to to
day, yesterday, and tomorrow
brought her two standing ova
tions. At the end of the night
Cole was presented with the
newly established Dream
Keepers award that is given in
honor of King by college Vice
President and Academic
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mond Johnson said. "The
committee is attacking the
problem from both the rev
enue and expense sides, us
ing many approaches,"
College president Kent
Chabotar also believes the
burden of balancing the bud
get is being fairly distributed.
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