VOL. XXII, NO. 6 SPELMAN COLLEGE 'y ATLANTA, GEORGIA FEBRUARY, 1967

Left to right, Sitting-. Helen Broughton, Dollie Scott, Leonia McRae, Jenelle Studgeon, Joan Gail lard. Left to right, Standing-. Joyce Hunter, Vivian Glass, Annie Humber, Melrita Russ, Augustine McDaniels, Cheryl McCoy, Agnes Houston.

Outstanding Seniors

Student Teachers ’67by Alice Graham

“Change of Pace .... Long hard hours .... More study­ing .... Less sleep .... People .... Wonderful.” These are Helen Broughton’s responses to the question, “How do you feel about student teaching?” During the first nine weeks of the second semester, twenty-five seniors who have minored in elementary or seconday education are putting into practice the educational methods which they have learned. Each stu­dent has assumed the responsibilities of a regular teacher.

Most of the student teachers are in disadvantaged areas. Brenda Smith stated that she is glad that the student teachers have been placed in situations where they can get a realistic idea of what teaching involves. Evelyn Ellis, also in a dis­advantaged area, told of her pleasure when her students reacted favorably to their music lessons. Angelique Pullen, working diligently to correct her students’ test papers, expressed her feelings of frustration and concern for her high school history class which she has had to teach to write and spell.

The student teachers are being confronted with the prob­lems which plague the urban ghetto schools—overcrowding and lack of teachers and facilities. One senior expressed con­cern for a large group of mentally handicapped pupils who are not getting any special education or training because of the shortage in teachers and facilities. Other seniors voiced a concern for the gaps in their own educational preparation. One student teacher looked up from a pile of books that she was studying and commented, “I am teaching new math and I have never had it myself.”

Most of these seniors plan to teach and further their educa­tion. Only one student said that student teaching has made her decide to pursue another career. Annie Humber and Dorothy Render, both Spanish majors, hope to someday go to Spain and Mexico and perhaps take a few students. Joyce Hunter wearily said, “Student teaching has made me more sympathetic towards teachers.” Agnes Houston and Marian Smith realize the ful­fillment which teaching a child to think can afford. The Spot­light takes pride in saluting the senior teachers: Helen Brough­ton, Vernestine Bynes, Carolyn Crockett, Barbara Gantt, Vivian Glass, Agnes Houston, Barbara Jackson, Evelyn Ellis, Virgilyn Gresham, Annie Humber, Joyce Hunter, Leonia Mc­Rae, Cheryl McCoy, Barbara Martin, Barbara Harper, Joan Gaillard, Melrita Russ, Berdie Ricks, Dorothy Render, Marian Smith, Wenda Faye Smith, Brenda Smith, Dollie Scott, Jenelle Studgeon, and Wilma Webb.

Thurmans Visit AU Centerby A. Williams

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Thurman paid a visit to the Atlanta University Center in February. Mr. Thurman is an author and minister and was formerly Dean of Marsh Chapel at Boston University. He is a Morehouse graduate and participated in the Morehouse Centennial activities during his visit here.

Mr. and Mrs. Thurman are the donors of many items on display in the International Room in Rockefeller Hall. Mrs. Sue Bailey Thurman, a 1920 high school graduate of Spel- man, made the presentation on March 18, 1962. She stated that she hoped the gift and the idea behind the room (that of an “International Library-Museum Center”) would open new vistas to the Spelman family and to the community.

Mrs. Thurman entered Spelman in 1917. Spelman Semi­nary awarded her a certificate in preparatory music in 1919. After finishing her high school work, she spent one year doing special work at Spelman. In 1921 with four other Spelmanites she toured as a part of a singing quarted and pianist group under the direction of Miss Emma Delany (also a Spelman graduate) in order to raise money for African Missions. Work in her home town of Dermont, Arkansas was followed by attendance at Oberlin College from which she graduated in 1926. Mrs. Thurman has served as teacher of Music Educa­tion, and with the National Student YMCA.

From the 15-20 of February she conducted a series of meetings here at Spelman. They included a one-hour dis­cussion of the recent upheaval in China, a meeting with officials of various student groups in the Center that relate to international affairs, a meeting with members of the Inter­national Room Committee to discuss the room and its use, a meeting with Spelman students who have participated in programs abroad, and a meeting with some Spelman mem­bers faculty to discuss the need for and problems of establish­ing a vigorous international relations club.

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Herman Bailey

Spelman College High. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Programby Christine Singleton

Higher education in the South must seek the greatest de­gree of excellence in whatever it undertakes. In keeping with the trend to provide more and better educational programs for gifted pupils, Spelman College is quietly and meaningfully expanding an “experiment.”

Known as the “Spelman College High School Scholars Program,” it is designed primarily to stimulate and broaden the intellectual interests of outstanding high school pupils.

In this program, boys and girls are exposed to a variety of new ideas and to new ways of looking at old ideas. Not only are they exposed to outstanding and stimulating members of college faculties, but many of the great minds from the Atlanta area are called upon for the lectures or to lead discussions on some topic.

The Program, though small, is a cooperative effort on the part of Spelman and the surrounding high schools to broaden the intellectual horizons of selected pupils from the area. The College provides the meeting place and the refresh­ments for the youngsters. No charges are made.

The format is quite simple: once each week, during the evening, a group from the high schools meets with an out­standing faculty member or a successful business leader. At one meeting, the topic may be some aspect of philosophy; at another, high energy physics or a chemistry problem, foreign affairs, or the basic laws of genetics and concepts of probability; at another, the idea of compassion.

The Spelman College High School Scholars Program is being developed and planned by Dr. Richard J. de Pagnier of the Department of History, with the recognition that the standard high school curriculum may not offer gifted pupils the opportunity to explore the world of ideas.

The response given this type of program in other colleges where the originator of the Program has served, has been tre­mendous. Many feel that the program should be expanded in many instances to allow more pupils to attend.

The first session of the Program was held February 8 in Spelman’s Fine Arts Building. The speaker was Dr. William Jones of the Department of Chemistry of Emory University.

/Wieet the ^4rtiitSpelman’s new artist-in­

residence is Mr. Herman Bailey, a native of Chicago, Ill. Mr. Bailey received a B.A. degree from Alabama State in Montgomery, Ala., a B.F.A. degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and the M.F.A. de­gree from the University of Southern California. He has taught at Florida A & M Uni­versity, Clark College, Win- neba Training College in Win- neba, Ghana, and the Kwane Nkrumah Ideological Institute in Winneba, Ghana. Mr. Bailey has served as senior artist in the Ghana Institute of Art and Culture in Accra, Ghana and in the Publicity Department of the Office of the President in Accra. His works are in public and private collections. Mr. Bailey is a man of wide artistic and travel experience. While he is on campus, the College should benefit from both his artistic talent and the percep­tion and insight he has gained through working and traveling on four continents.

Money For Talented Writers

The April issue of the Spot­light will have a literary mag­azine supplement that will fea­ture original short stories, poems, and essays by students and faculty members. This is an excellent opportunity for all unpublished writers and poets of our campus to see their work in print. In addition to that there are three awards to be presented to the students who submit outstanding work in the areas of poetry, the short story, the essay, and drawing.

Please help make this the best literary magazine ever printed. You may submit your work to Anna Belle Porter, Cynthia Smith or you can bring it to the Spotlight office. The deadline for submitting work is March 13.

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The Spelman SpotlightPublished monthly by the students

of Spelman CollegeAnna B. Porter, Editor-In-ChiefAndrea Williams, Associate EditorHenrietta Turnquest, Business ManagerMelody McDowell, Yvette Savwoir, Feature EditorsCynthia Smith, Literary EditorMargaret Mills, CartoonistJoyce Akridge, Berdie Ricks, PhotographersLayout Staff: Yvonne Jackson, Marjorie Rich, Eileen Bass, Joyce Young Advertising Staff: Eileen Bass, Luelia Nichols, Phyllis Johnson Poet-in-Residence: Joan GaillardContributors: Marilyn Hunt, Janice Holloway, Ruth BaetyNews Editor: Chris SingletonDr. Richard Carroll, Faculty Advisor

EDITORIAL POLICYThe Spelman Spotlight is published monthly by students of Spelman

College. We welcome articles and letters to the editor from our entire reading public. These letters and articles do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Spotlight Staff or the majority of Spelman students. We also welcome advertisements, but do not necessarily support the views of our advertisers. Monthly deadlines will be posted.

With All Due RespectIt is the responsibility of a newspaper to respect its reading

public and to print its views on all issues that concern its public. “Rambling Thoughts”, an article by Craig Finley in the January issue of the Morehouse College Maroon Tiger has made us ponder the extent of the freedom and the respon­sibility of the student press. The Spotlight feels it necessary to discuss two aspects of this article: its style and its content. The style that Mr. Finley employed was in poor taste, but he presented many ideas with which we agree.

This year the Spotlight staff has tried to encourage students to speak freely about all campus matters that trouble them. We have not encouraged rash attacks or hasty generalizations about any person or group. It is our belief that the student press should be a dynamic force on the college campus. Writings in this press should be free from undue emotionalism and as rational and logical. Writers should confine themselves to topics with which they are familiar or on which they have done extensive research. When citing actions of members of a group, the writer should make it clear that he is referring to a small segment and not an entire population. “Rambling Thoughts”, though it had useful things to say, abused what the Spotlight staff and all reputable publishers consider basic principles of good journalism.

The students, faculty, and administration of Morehouse and Spelman should be alarmed that such an article could be written about the relationship that exists between the “brother- sister” institutions. Perhaps Mr. Finley is not altogether the victim of an overactive imagination. There may be some truth in his article.

Although the majority of Spelman and Morehouse students are not to be characterized as Mr. Finley’s article would suggest, there are a conspicuous few. The only people who can correct the image that these few project are the students of Morehouse and Spelman. Mr. Finley is not the only person who has noticed a disintegration in relationships between the two schools. Spelman women and Morehouse men must re­assess their behavior.

There is a danger that we will begin to put emphasis on people as commodities to satisfy desires and needs. There is a danger that love will become merely a “technique” and not a fulfilling experience.

There are men and women at Morehouse, Spelman, Clark, Morris Brown, and Atlanta University who have established meaningful friendships based on mutual respect. These people need not fear “lists” that are passed around dormitories or pointless name calling. They recognize the value of relation­ships where ideas can be exchanged and where neither person need be subjugated or used to meet the needs of another.

Students, not only at Spelman and Morehouse, but at all the colleges in the Atlanta University Center must learn the value of self and mutual respect. All the words in the world cannot change the human character unless a person has the will to change for the better.

Many Years of AchievementThe Spelman Spotlight congratulates two colleges, More­

house and Clark, who are celebrating their one hundredth and ninety-eighth anniversaries respectively. These two schools, led by capable presidents, have become excellent institutions. Though neither is perfect, each has overcome very humble origins. It is hoped that they will continue to advance the course of education not only for Negro students but for those of all races.

A Nation of Psychotics Letterby Robert L. Terrel, Morehouse College

The American race problem is, to say the least, very complex. Its roots are deeply imbedded in a history that few if any of us completely understand, and this is tragic. For unless we know how the past has ordained the present we can not begin to formulate adequate solutions for the future.

The anger, surprise, and bewilderment that many people have exhibited in relation to the slogan “Black Power” attests to our general ignorance of history.

Stokely Carmichael did not wake up in the middle of the night this summer crying “Black Power” and then proceed to indoctrinate Floyd McKissick. The slogan and its militant advocates are products of a historical situation which began its development almost four centuries ago.

Around 1640 the white colonial Planters in America began to realize that they could no longer count on the prisons and dungeons of Europe to supply them with workers. While her “inexhaustible horde of blacks” Africa seemed to offer the perfect solution to their problems. Africa was not a member of the European community of nations and since the blacks did not belong to the Caucasian race they were considered “dif­ferent” and therefore created for the convenience of men who were white, European, and Christian. Taking these factors into consideration the Planters proceeded with all due speed to construct one of the most barbaric systems of slavery that the world has even witnessed.

It was not an easy process however, and the Planters had many problems, some of them psychological. Before they could justify their vicious system to themselves and their Christian consciences, they had to reduce the slaves to a status that denied their very humanity. The most imminent scholars and scientists of the period were commissioned to prove that the blacks were inferior to their white masters. In cases where a slave happened to get the notion that he was human the master was obligated to erase the error. If he could not change the slave’s mind he had no choice but to kill him. These harsh measures were necessary for the continuance of the system and the sanity of the master.

If the slave masters had admitted to themselves that their slaves were just as human as themselves they would have had to stand before their God, their consciences, and their equali- tarian ideas in horrendous condemnation. The system was pathological and those who invented and perpetuated it de­veloped a psychotic mentality based upon racism and white superiority.

We, the descendants of those perverted criminals, have inherited their racist mentality as a legacy. This foul legacy intrudes into all interracial relationships and it is largely responsible for the fact that most whites and Negroes find it almost impossible to relate to each other in the absence of fear, mistrust, and apprehension.

The present situation is potentially catastrophic because white America is not aware of the fact that the major source of our racial conflicts is embedded deep within its psyche. The fact that they refer to the entire question as “The Negro Prob­lem” is proof of their lack of comprehension. The fact that most Negroes are no longer willing to compromise with racism adds to the potential explosiveness of the situation.

The riots which have terrorized our urban cities during the last few summers are but ominous indications of future unrest. The development of Negritude and Black Conscious­ness among the black masses has been stimulated by the emergence of the third world and black and white Americans are moving slowly but surely towards a cataclysmic confronta­tion.

“The problem of the twentieth century will be the problem of the color line,” predicted Dr. W. E. B. DuBois over seventy- years ago. He has turned out to be painfully correct.

“In the twenty-first century there will be no color line,” predicted an angry young Black Nationalist to an angry but approving crowd in Harlem recently. We can choose to ignore the obvious and witness the fulfillment of this apocalyptic prediction or we can seriously address ourselves to our racism and avert armageddon.

We are a nation of racists and racism is an essential part of our national character. The only solution, it appears, is a revision of the national consciousness. Until this is done our Poverty Programs, Civil Rights Bills, and penitent pil- grimmages to the lairs of sadistic Southern demagogues can be nothing more than misdirected utopian panaceas.

toThe Editor

February 10, 1967 Dear Editor:

The registrar shares with the students, faculty, and staff the desire to improve the serv­ices for which the office is re­sponsible. She wishes to assure you that she is always aware of the criticisms made of her work. She wants to take this opportunity and thank those persons who have made sug­gestions in time enough to put them into effect. For example, the names of the students in this year’s Student Roster are listed in strict alphabetical or­der instead of being listed by classes. A secretary made that suggestion. The registrar also thanks those persons who ex­press their willingness to help by offering their services.

As you know, the registrar did not see the article “Regis­tration at Spelman” before it was sent to you. The Spotlight for January 1967 reached the registrar’s desk after registra­tion was over. It is the regis­trar’s belief that action would take place much faster if per­sons who have suggestions would bring them to the regis­trar rather than route them via “Spotlight.” The registrar can talk faster than she can write. In addition, she does not en­joy the publicizing of her prob­lems.

The persons who made sug­gestions 1, 2, and 3 are in­vited to come to the office and explain their propositions. Concerning suggestion 4, the registrar has learned from re­liable sources that so many changes take place during the summer at the Atlanta Univer­sity Center that work done during pre-registration has to be done all over again on regis­tration days. Nevertheless, any student who wishes to plan her schedule for the next se­mester is free to make an ap­pointment with her academic advisor and plan what she should take. Juniors and sen­iors should consult the chair­man of the department in which they plan to major. The advisors then should notify the Dean of Instruction concerning the courses that should be scheduled.

The registrar is not alarmed because some students and some faculty members are tired at the end of registration days. It is normal for the human body to feel tired after a day’s work. The dictionary defines “exhaustion” as “extreme weakness or fatigue.” The registrar is not aware of any­one fainting on registration days.

Sincerely yours, Grace Jason Perry Your Registrar

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SSGA Newsby Barbara Pyatt

PAT COLLINS

INTERNPatricia Collins, a member

of the Spotlight staff, has re­cently. received a new and unique job appointment. An interview with her elicited several facts about the new appointment.

Patricia is a Student Intern to Mayor Ivan Allen. Her di­rect supervisor is Mr. Dan Sweet, Director of Government Liaison, who is Mayor Allen’s administrative assistant. The purpose of the Student Intern is to get an idea of how the local government is combating urban problems—in short, to become better acquainted with the intricacies of government. To accomplish this, she reads, interviews, observes and ques­tions. She talks with various officials of local government. The job also involves some writing of speeches and reports in which she presents an or­ganization of the facts she has gathered.

This appointment is the first in a proposed series of student internships in offices of gov­ernors, mayors, congressmen, and other officials throughout the South. It is part of the pro­gram sponsored by the Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional Council which is a civil-rights orien­tated group whose purpose is basically research and infor­mation about the underlying problems of the racial situa­tion. The success of Patricia’s internship will help to deter­mine the future shaping of the internship program.

Patricia served as an intern at the Voter Education Project during the summer. This to some degree facilitated her se­lection for the new post. Her new internship began on Feb­ruary first and is to last one semester. When asked her reaction to the appointment, she commented, “During my first week I’ve learned how lit­tle the average person knows of the tremendous scope of urban problems and how much effort this local government is putting into solving them.”

Plans for New Policies and Projects—Spelman young women may feel free to have their

escorts drive them to the parking lot until curfew time provided they (the young women) show their identi­fication cards to the night watchman.

—Plans are being made to sponsor more successful co-recs. Spelman young women are encouraged to participate more in the activities with their guests. Our hopes are to have well-known movies often during the remainder of the year. These ideas were discussed recently in a meeting called by Dr. Manley.

—SSGA is sponsoring a contest for Best Dressed College Girl. The winner will participate in the Ten Best Dressed College Girls Contest under the auspices of GlamourMagazine.

—SSGA and the Spanish Club are campaigning for diapers to send to orphanages in Viet Nam. Feel free to give.

------ SSGA is re-launching the project “Letters to Soldiersin Viet Nam.” If you’d like to write someone contact us.

—Project Opportunity needs your help in raising interest among students at Archer High to come to college. Be a big sister to one of the young girls there. Come to our office for information.

Observation—Spelman students are very aware of issues of current in­

terest as evidenced by our presence at the Town Meet­ing recently held at Clark College. SSGA hopes, however, that we will not be so carried away by Stokely Car­michael’s well-turned cliches, his style of delivery, or his good looks that we will fail to see the loopholes in his philosophy, nor that we will miss the basic truths in it.

Alumnae CornerThe success or failure of a college can be measured by the

memories and achievements of its alumnae. The Spelman family knows little about its graduates. The Alumnae Office, headed by Mrs. Ernestine Brazeal, has a great deal of infor­mation about Spelman graduates and is in the process of sending out a questionnaire to all alumnae in order to secure more data. The Spotlight feels that every Spelman woman should be informed about the achievements of her predeces­sors. This should give us a pride in our college and restore some of the school spirit that has almost disappeared from the campus.

The alumnae closest to the majority of the faculty and student body are the class of 1966. At present 51 of these former students are teaching, two are employed in govern­ment service, 6 are working in industry or technology, two are engaged in social work and twenty are studying at one of the following universities: Atlanta University, Columbia University, Emory University, Howard University, Kent State, McGill (summer), Michigan State, Northwestern, School of Medical Technology, Naval Medical Center, University of California at Berkeley, University of Michigan, University of Vienna, Wellesley College.

Several Spelman graduates who have received Ph.D., LL.D., and M.D. degrees are now working in the Atlanta area and making significant contributions. Elsie Edmonson, ’30, who received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan, is now a professor in the English Department at Morris Brown College; Beulah Johnson Farmer, ’37, who re­ceived a Ph.D. from New York University, is chairman of the English Department at Morris Brown; Lynette Saine Gaines, ’40, who received a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Chicago, is now on leave from her position as Professor of reading and Director of the Center-Wide Reading Program at Atlanta University.

Practicing attorneys in the Atlanta area are Doris Blayton, ’43, who received the LL.B. degree from John Marshall Law School and Romae Turner Powell, ’47, who received the LL.B. from Howard University.

There are three practicing physicians in the city. They are Juel Borders Benson, ’54, M.D., Women’s Medical Col­lege of Pennsylvania, who is an obstetrician and gynecologist; Gwendolyn Cooper Mannings, ’44, M.D., Meharry Medical College, who is a specialist in internal medicine and diseases of the chest; and Wilmotine Jackson, ’51, M.D., Meharry Medical College, who is a general practitioner.

In subsequent months we hope to print more news about outstanding alumnae.

Dr. Manley Plans European Trip

Dr. Albert E. Manley will depart March 2 from New York City for London, Eng­land. There he and other American and European edu­cators will study various as­pects of the educational sys­tems in different countries. In London, emphasis will be on the secondary grammar school. Aspects of London University and Oxford University will also be studied.

From London, the group will go to Paris, Marseilles and Aix-en-Provence, to study the French lycee. Florence is the next scheduled stop. The Ital­ian classical lycee, science lycee, technical institute, and teacher training institute will be compared with other sys­tems. The educational system of Moscow is also included in the program. A Seminar at the University of Moscow and visits to the homes of teachers and professors are planned. The final stop will be East Germany.

Details of what promises to be an enriching experience will be given when the president returns.

Campus News Briefs

by News EditorTentative plans have been

announced by President Man- ley for the construction of a new dormitory.

* * *Last Thursday night a

“Town Meeting” was held at Clark College. The villagers included Rev. S. Williams, Pres. B. Mays, Pres. Manley and the town crier, Stokely Carmichael. The outcome: vil­lage stock was torn asunder.

* * *It turns out that “What’s-

His-Name?” Ali and Ernie Terrell don’t have a comer on the market of public farces as illustrated by the “debate” between Rev. Williams and Stokely Carmichael.

sj: * *Morris Brown College has

completed its own student union building. Plans have not yet been announced for its opening.

* * *

Congratulations to Mr. Hale, father of freshman Janice Hale, who was recently elected legislative representative for Columbus, Ohio.

* * *

A poem by Dr. Vincent Harding, chairman of the His­tory Department at Spelman has been published in the No­vember issue of Negro Digest. The poem is titled “To The Gallant Black Men Now Dead.”

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Harold Scott — MacBeth

THEATER CIRCUITby Cynthia Smith

The AMS Players production of Shakespeare’s MacBeth will be performed the week of March 13 through 18. The role of Lady MacBeth is to be played by Broadway star, Diana Sands, and Harold Scott, a member of the Lincoln Repertory Group will play MacBeth. Other members of the cast are: Hilda Jenkins, Patricia Reeves, Georgia Allen, Ann Lanier, Jolie Gaillard, Bonnie Bohannan, La Tania Richards, Sandra Dunson, Johnny Popwell, Leslie Penny, Harold McKelton, Arthur O’Keefe, Sam Andrews, Paul Rowe, Robert La Prince, Archie Robinson, Phillip Kimball, David Armstrong, Walter Dallas, Henry Everett, James Bell, Howard Wiley, Gregory Brown, and Charlie Mann.

Miss Sands and Mr. Scott have been working together on an interpretation of the play and we are looking forward to seeing how they will handle the important roles of MacBeth and Lady MacBeth. The production staff is working very hard to design a set that will be visually exciting and that will allow the fluidity of movement necessary for Shakespearean pro­ductions. For many reasons this year’s spring production promises to be one of the best ever presented.

Diana Sands — Lady MacBeth

THE RIGHT TO BEby Yvette Savwoir

“Ain’t you got a right to the Tree of Life?” This is an appropriate question to ask American Negroes now, not just because it is the month of Negro History Week, but because the American Negro has been institutionally prevented from exercising this right.

The Penny Festival, initiated and sponsored by the Atlanta Cooperative Nursery School, presented a documentary history of the Afro-American with drama, poetry, music, and dance from slavery to the present. Protest, both subtle and blatant, has been a striking trend in Afro-American history. It began when Africans were first stolen from their homes and robbed of their cultures to become the property of other men in another continent. Some did not complete the trip—they jumped overboard.

The Revolution came and brought independence. The Afro-American had the audacity to hope. This hope, however, was misguided; independence meant strictly the political and economic independence of white Americans from Great Britain. There were Negroes who fought for that independence and could not share in it. There were other Negroes who refused to fight for America’s independence because they could not justify giving their lives for the independence of a nation in which they were slaves.

There was always music for the Afro-American which expressed some feeling from the “soul.”

Another war for America, and again some Afro-Americans refused to tight. America participated in three more wars. Ironically, they were fought to “make the world safe for de­mocracy” and to win the freedom of other peoples, each sacri­ficing the lives of thousands of Afro-Americans. At the same time, Afro-Americans had to fight lynch mobs and racism at home. In protest there was the Marcus Garvey movement, Niagara Movement, the Harlem Renaissance, the blues, bus rides, sit-ins, marches, and jazz. But in the nation of “liberty and justice for all,” Afro-Americans are yet seeking the right to be.

This production attempted to fill the gap between text­book Negro history and actual Negro history.

Bernice Reagan coordinated the musical presentations of the production and also performed. Mr. Vincent Harding narrated.

The Enigma on Chestnut Streetby Melody McDowell

by Marilyn HuntBlack is the color of Courage.Foresight blended with Soul To createA brighter tomorrowFor the DarkTo come out of the dark.

Black is the color of Strength,Aged endurance of another’s loathings, aversions, persecutions, Mockery.But black makes A rainbow history.

Black is the color of Faith, In some god,Some freedom,Some Homeland.All gained in heritage, Bearing unique culture To the faithful uncultured.

Black is the color Of the misunderstood. Misinterpreted in war,In poverty, in dogma In society.

They can be found sipping coffee at 2 a.m. at the Parmesan House; they can be found segregating themselves in a part of the library “all their own;” they can be found hurrying down Chestnut Street; they can be found standing on the porch of Ware Hall watching everybody who passes. These are the students at Atlanta University. Of all of the schools of the Center, this is the school with which we have the least contact and of which we have the least knowledge.

The population of AU is 953. Of these 953 students, 251 live in the dormitories of Ware Hall for Men and Bumstead Hall for Women. Over 60 students hail from foreign countries including England, various African countries and India. Most of the majors are in the field of Social Work.

The biggest complaint the students have against the school is the food problem. AU reputedly has the worst food in the Center and all of the students seem to be in accordance when they say a food improvement is needed. Due to the food prob­lem, most of the students can be found frequenting the Hunter Street restaurants and snack bars.

The students acknowledge AU to be a very good univer­sity. Over 90% of the students are attending AU on scholar­ship. The school sponsors internship programs in the field of Social Work. AU has a basketball team and other extra­curricular outlets.

When I asked what the young men thought of Spelman girls, I received these two answers. “They seem to be stuck up” and “They can’t stay out late.” However, as a stranger walks into the hall of either Bumstead or Ware Halls, the atmosphere becomes noticeably cold. This same feeling is experienced when one walks into the Library Science Department of the Library.

Alvin Holmes, President of AU’s student body stated that AU is very anxious to strengthen relationships be­tween the schools. A little teamwork is necessary and we think AU can become an important part of the college com­munity.

Black is the colorOf a limbBut a heart. . .A mindIdentical universal productivity Of the Universal God.

OptimismA world of our ownmaybesomedaysomehowwe’ll have:where earth cannotreach ustime cannotstop usand society cannotbar us------we will be asdawn after twilight. . . hand in hand we’ll go walking and wandering among green daisies and

yellow clover and starlite nights on

dewy countysides------No one will command us, Nature will love us, the seas will part for us, and God will gaze downsmiling.

Maybe.------ Gaillard ’67

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February, 1967 THE SPELMAN SPOTLIGHT Page 5

Spelman Professor Writes

From Dr. Drimmer To You

As you might have heard, I am spending the academic year on a post-doctoral fellowship at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London reading African history. All this is through the generosity of the Non- Western Studies Program of the A.U. Center and the Ford Foundation. Dr. Hubert Ross of A.U. received the other grant for this year and he is studying the anthropology of Africa at U.C.L.A.

First: London University doesn’t exist! It is a fiction much like the “A.U. Center.” What you have here is about 30 colleges and Institutes and Medical Schools with over 30,000 students, each doing work at their own college, often times very small, and generally the students have little contact with students at the other colleges (sounds familiar?). What you have in reality is a number of independent schools giving themselves a big name and possessing a common library and a student union (getting warm?). Students are responsible for their own lives and generally their own housing. The whole atmosphere is very impersonal, but on the other hand there is the freedom (or anonymity) to come and go as you like. The students do not have to take exams or courses as you do. Each is assigned a tutor who theoretically supervises his work, and who suggests certain courses for the student to take. Students at London only work in their own area, i.e., history, econom­ics, chemistry, mathematics. At the end of three years, if you’re still around, you take a series of written examinations extend­ing over several days, and if you do well, one receives a B.A. degree. The M.A. and Ph.D. programs are, however, very similar to American programs for the same degree.

London is great for bookstores, theatres, galleries, pubs (we have no equivalent in the U.S.), medical care (free even to foreigners), public transportation, television, and all the rest that makes life here so civilized. There are no Lester Maddoxes or Bo Callaways or other half-baked demagogues. The people of whatever party accept the fact that the “experts” whomever they might be, should govern and plan in the interests of the masses. People generally vote, unlike Ameri­ca where race and region play a large part, on the basis of class and economic self interest. Political parties accept the fact that dog-eat-dog-free enterprise and competition is a thing of the past, and they differ mainly on how to achieve the “great society.” I would say that England has quietly gone further in this direction than America. There is less of a gap be­tween rich and poor here. The working man pays no direct tax­es in Britain. Nowhere can you see the immense slums that make up 40 % of every great American city. Policemen, unlike in America, do not carry guns, and the death penalty in Britain has been outlawed. Just a few other items. The fashions really “swing” and the young women and men dress in a style unthinkable in America. I think this is due to the greater acceptance of personal freedom and nonconformity. Even for the executive and middle aged, there is the wild mustache and flowing beard and long hair.

The big problem for this nation is psychological, and that is how to live with the idea that they are no longer top dog in the world. To some degree this is good, because the British no longer have to accept the immense responsibility for run­ning things (something America might learn), but to the average Englishman this is still hard to take—just as Ameri­cans have a difficult time learning to live with Russia (and vice versa), and China, and as Southern whites have had dif­ficulty and still do in learning to live in a desegregated society. For Europeans American society is Los Angeles expanded across the country; the South is magnolias and daily lynchings; New York is Wall Street and giant corporations. Although there is truth in much of this, it is only a small part of the picture. But, we all like to live in our stereotypes, and that probably goes for Americans as well.

Let me close by sending my best wishes to all, and hoping that you might write to us. Our address is 7 Cherrywood Drive, Putney, London S.W. 15. Keep up the fight for us. An African student has just taught me a saying which I send to you:

I Call Gold Gold is mute.I call Cloth,Cloth is mute.It is Mankind that matters.

Mel Drimmer

Left to right-. Sandra Kell, Lisa Olson.

Left to right-. Pat Myers, Jan Folks.

The New Exchangersby Marilyn Hunt

Spelman welcomes four exchange students for the second semester. They are: Sandy Kell, a student of North Central College, from Niles, Michigan; Patricia Myers, a student at North Central College, from Chana, Illinois; Lisa Olson, a student at Connecticut College, from Frederick, Maryland; and Jan Folks, a student at Cedar Crest College, from Bethesda, Maryland.

The girls all are eager to get to know new people as well as to gain some idea of what it is like to be in the minority. Sandy says, “I want to become a more integrated person.”

They are all adjusting well. When asked her impression of Spelman and the Atlanta University System, Jan said, “It’s big and friendly.” The girls feel that Spelman’s rules are too restrictive but can be taken in stride.

Room check, 6:30 a.m. breakfast, barbwire fences, night watchmen with guns are new to them. They consider the exchange program more worthwhile for students from the North, especially those like Jan who have never visited the South. The girls live in Abby and Manley Halls and will be at Spelman for the entire semester.

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The Great Debate

by Kathryn Elaine WatsonThe jammed packed Davage

Auditorium on Clark’s campus was the scene of great com­motion. People poured in from all areas to witness an “inter­esting” debate between Rev. Samuel Williams, professor at Morehouse and pastor of Friendship Baptist Church, and the controversial Stokely Carmichael, chairman of SN- CC.

This debate was sponsored by Atlanta University.

The smooth-talking M. Car­michael, appearing very calm and cool, made the opening round of the much heated de­bate. He emphasized his much discussed issue of the impor­tance and role of “black youth” in society. His talk attacked “the white man.” He said, “White people want black people to react to black power the way they want them to re­act.” Continuing on with even more firmness, he remarked, “We say black power and whites say we mean violence. Whites seek to make black people the moral conscience of America but it is not our job to make America moral. . .

Rev. Williams presented somewhat fomal and concise opening remarks. His opening arguments came from excerpts of a 1904 essay by the late W. E. B. Dubois, which read in part. “I believe all men are brothers and alike in soul. . . I believe in the Negro race...”

Williams blasted the U.S. for having gotten off to a wrong start because of slavery. He scolded the evils of racist hate and said the U.S. had the re­sources and technical know­how to eliminate poverty but lacked the moral desire to do something about it. The audi­ence applauded approvingly.

Williams took on a more “You’e a gifted young man (meaning Carmichael). . . but Carmichael fired back with a grin, “Flattery will get you nowhere.”

Both the debators fired back and forth to one another ques­tions on the Vietnam war and questions of a more personal basis. Carmichael asked Rev. Williams his view of the war, to which he replied, “This war shows a kind of stupidity (on the part of the U.S.) and we must hurry up and get out of it.” Williams in turn, asked Carmichael if he were a citizen. “No I am not a citizen because I do not enjoy the privileges of a citizen.” Williams asked him again calling for a more spe­cific answer to which Mr. Car­michael replied, “I am not a citizen but a colonial subject of the United States.”

Page 6 THE SPELMANSPOTLIGHT February, 1967

JLiLby Gail Marshall

Four in the A.M. beds, snores, pipe

Music, stubborn sleep cross my threshold.

Gone, smoke trail, hand raised, tear dropped

pain wrapped by sad shroud I now wear, farewell.

Kissed, glowing still, Spooning, Too soon let

this not be wrung from me, please?

Ache? Me? Why? I know not, you neither

Therefore my “pain” we cannot share.

The Haiku that most are familiar with are seventeen syllable poems almost always with a season keyword. They are usually fleeting responses or impressions which illumi­nate the poet’s awareness and our own—of the identity of life on different planes.

These are my own and par­tially self-styled Haiku, with­out the season keyword. Need there be a season in which I must categorize my feelings? These Haiku deal with me! Sounds selfish, huh? Sorry about that! But who do I “think” I know better than myself? Fleeting thoughts and impressions sure, but the re­sponses to them are captured in seventeen syllables I’ve labeled “My Haiku.”

Library Club Activities

During the second semester, the Library Club will present the following book reviews.

March 16, 1967, The Other Side by Staughton Lynd and Toe Hayden: Reviewer — Dr. Vincent Harding.

April 13, 1967, The Games People Play by Eric Berne: Reviewer — Mr. Carl Ratcliff.

May 4, 1967, Are You Run­ning With Me Jesus? by Mal­colm Boyd: Reviewer — Dr. C. Franklin Jacks.

The Library Club welcomes all students who are interested in joining to attend its meet­ings. The meetings are held on the third Wednesday in each month at 1:00 p.m. in Laura Spelman 6. The president of this organization is Marseille Miles. The sponsor is Mrs. Mexico Micklebury.

What you do on March 6. may affect the rest of your life!

That’s when the IBM interviewer will be on campus. When he’d like to talk with you— whatever your area of study, whatever your plans after graduation.

You’ll find job opportunities at IBM in six ma­jor areas: Computer Applications, Program­ming, Finance and Administration, Research

and Development, Manufacturing and Mar­keting.

Some of these areas may not mean much to you—now. But just let the IBM interviewer explain a few of them. One may be just the career you’re looking for. It could be the start of something big—your future with IBM.

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Whatever your immediate commitments, whatever your area of study, sign up for your on-campus interview with IBM, now.

If, for some reason, you aren’t able to arrange an interview, drop us a line. Write to: Manager of College Recruiting,IBM Corporation, Room 810, 1447 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30309. IBM is an Equal Opportunity Employer.