Spelman OTLIGHT the VOICE of AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMANHOOD
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I a Spelman OTLIGHT THE VOICE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMANHOOD Vol. XXXK-NO. 4 November 17, 1993 If ;■ ; |S|!|| Inside: Lest iar 111-? r- ■ Bise» ■■ fl Jressei I lomo bia ISSI: id bi seepages6 & 7 see page 1 Spelmanites Offered Opportunities in Communications by Maleka N. Ingram Advertising Worldwide. Saatchi & goal of the Workshop is "to seek out Department of an agency, and Print Spelman College Career Planning Saatchi is one of the top three some of the most creatively talented Traffic operator. He later worked as a and Placement Center expands their advertising companies in the world. students at America’s finest colleges copywriter, and President and head of focuss on Careers in Communication. Gossett spoke to students in class and universities to introduce them to the Creative Department. Barbara Brown and Cheryl and at an information session about the creative work of advertising, and to When asked about the present being McGinnis, Director and Assistant opportunities and the future outlook of encourage them to consider the the opportune time for minorities in Director of the center, are concentrating advertising. advertising industry as an option." advertising Gossett commented, "It is more on opportunities for careers in His main purpose was to introduce Gossett suggests this will be a time for time to open our [advertisers] eyes." communication. and open the field of advertising to businesses to become familiar with This comment sends a positive message Earlier in the semester an entire day students who think they are interested, students. And a time for students to of change and realization of how was planned for people interested in the but are not sure. As part of his plan make contacts and gain experience. minorities will be depicted in communication field. Major Gossett and the American Advertising Students must go through an application advertising. advertising agencies, newspapers, and Foundation have developed the Milt process. Information can be obtained Gossett displays a genuine concern radio stations were represented. Gossett Creative Workshop. from Ms. Brown in the Career Planning about educating students about On Wednesday, November 10, Two students from Spelman College & Placement Office. Gossett’s advertising. This concern was made students were given the opportunity to will be selectively chosen to participate experience in advertising include even greater when Gossett came in listen and speak with O. Milton in the Workshop. This Workshop will working in the Mail Room of an contact with a Spelman student. Gossett Gossett. Gossett is the Chairman include a two day all expenses paid trip agency; Shipping Room of an agency; said, "I had to find out about that Emeritus of Saatchi & Saatchi to New York in Spring of ’94. The secretary in the Print Production school, Spelman College." The Quiet Analysis of Kathleen Cleaver by Kiini Ibura Salaam group people who equated freedom Fugitive Slave Act expanded the right to pervaded by racism. It creates the Staff Writer with the right to own and acquire oppress throughout the country. context in which we live by enhancing property. The acquisition of property Some thirty years later, the Plessy vs white supremacy and making Emory Assistant Professor of Law, was based on slavery. Therefore, Ferguson case made "separate, but discriminatory practices legal. Cleaver’s Kathleen Cleaver spoke at Convocation Cleaver concludes that in the United equal" legal. Both the Dred Scott case talk exposed the vast discrepancies Thursday, November 4. Dr. Gloria States, political equality and freedom and the Plessy vs Fergusen case ruled between the formal guarantees of the Tinubu, Assistant Professor of was directly tied to the ownership of that a person could be denied specific law and social realities the law Economics at Spelman, introduced slaves. civil rights based solely on their skin promotes. Cleaver with the poem "Nzinga We, as slaves, were the property color. Through this comparison, Throughout her presentation, Revisited" by Atlanta poet and griot and were therefore denied liberty, Cleaver proved that progress is not Cleaver fidgeted and exhibited Askia Toure. freedom and rights. As property, implicit in law. Though laws may nervousness. This introverted Dr. Tinubu chose the poem because slaves were turned into things and were change, the reality of life does not demeanor is a direct contrast to what it portrays woman building, creating recognized as people only in criminal necessarily improve. we Spelman students are accustomed and sacrificing for a better future. For law, i.e. when they broke the law or In 1954, the Brown vs Board of to. We expect convocation speakers to Dr. Tinubu, "Nzinga Revisited" ran away. Education ruling was a major victory for boldly march into Sister’s Chapel and captures the essence of what Cleaver is The central paradox of United States civil rights. It decided unanimously that loudly proclaim their womanhood. as she fights for a significant place for history is that the rise of slavery and "separate, but equal" was illegal. But Cleaver, instead, entered quietly and "oppressed minorities" in law. the rise of liberty took place why, asks Cleaver, a positive ruling for dismantled the law in soft tones. The tall, thin unimposing woman simultaneously. As Cleaver sees it, the Brown vs the Board of Education, but Some sisters took her unassuming analyzed and presented the theme of Constitution protected and legitimized not a couple of years earlier for Plessy speaking style as a signal that sister "How the Law Protects Oppressed the right to oppress by the very basis of vs Fergusen? Cleaver had nothing to teach. These Minorities" with a classic professor-like property ownership. In the 1950’s, Cleaver asserts, the sisters were indeed sorely mistaken. If approach. Describing the law as In 1857, the Dred Scott case and the United States was in competition for they closed their ears to Cleaver, they "complex, important, and persuasive," Fugitive Slave Act granted whites the world power. In their fight against the missed a clear analysis of our position Cleaver asserts that "Law generates the right to "recover" escaped slaves in the "evils" of communism, they certainly in the law. If they closed their minds social relationships that we’ve come to North. The Supreme Court proclaimed could not continue to discriminate to Cleaver, they missed the opportunity think of as normal, such as the the Missouri Compromise, which against blacks. Discrimination was a to embrace a sister-activist who has relationship between parent and child, declares that all states above the Mason mockery of democracy and the United come a long way personally, between races and between police and Dixon line are free states, States was pressed to portray their professionally and politically. If they citizen." unconstitutional. Using the premise that system as superior. closed their hearts to her, they rejected The history of law in our country, a white man should be able to take his In her soft, professor-like tone, a sister survivor. Cleaver explains, was created by a property anywhere he pleases, the Cleaver concluded that the law is Spelman Spotlight, Atlanta, GA November 17, 1993 Spelman College Final Exam Schedule Fall 1993-1994 Note: Exams scheduled after 4:00p.m. at Spelman will be given during ON BEA T the last official scheduled class session(s). by Dominique Jones Exam Date g Timet. Williams and Watson Acquitted Wednesday, Dec. 15 8:00 am. -10:00 am 11:00 a.m. MWI Wednesday, Dec. 15 10:30 a.m. - ¡2:30 pin After weeks of deliberations, jury shake-ups, and the threat of 2:00 p.m. MWF Wednesday, Dec. 15 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 pm. mistrial, Damian Monroe Williams, 20 and Henry Kieth Watson, 29, 3:50 pan. TTH Wednesday, Dec. 15 6:00 pm. - 8:00 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 16 8:00 am. -10:00 am. were acquitted on 1 counts in relation to the Reginald Denny beating 9:25 am. TTH 9:00am. MWF Thursday, Dec. 16 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m that occurred during the L.A. uprisings of 1992. The much publicized 10:00 a.m. MWF 'Thursday, Dec. 16 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. trial’s verdicts came as a surprise; because so much attention was 4:00 p.m. ÍMWE Thursday, Dec. 16 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. 1:00 pm. MWF Friday, Dec. 17 8:00a.m. -10:00am given to the videotapes. However, in the defense of the two young 2:25 p.m. TTH Friday, Dec. 17 10:30 am. -12:30 p.m men, their attorney, Edi Faal, asked jurors to focus on the 8:00 a.m. MWF Friday, Dec. 17 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. circumstances of the riot; which led to the notion that the beating was 3:00 p.m. MWF Friday, Dec. 17 6-00 p m.-3.00 p m ■ Noon ,,/jMWF Saturday, Dec. 18 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. not premeditated. On the final count facing the defendants, Watson 8:00 a.m. TTH Saturday, Dec. 18 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. was found guilty of the misdemeanor charged and was released with time served; while Williams, for disfiguring Denny with a brick, was found guilty of aggravated mayhem, and will serve up to eight years ATTENTION! Georgia Voters in prison. The political education and Giuliani Wins. Campbell & Lomax will Runoff. ELEVATION OF THE BLACK WOMAN GOP Claims Governorship in New Jersey. In a devastating defeat, Mayor David Dinkins of New York, lost VOTE! Nov. 23rd his seat to former New York District Attorney, Rudolf Giuliani. In a contest that was speculated and possibly confirmed to be based on race, Giuliani was abe to generate a small edge over the incumbent.