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

Thurmans Visit AU Center by 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. Herman Bailey Mrs. Thurman entered Spelman in 1917. Spelman Semi­ nary awarded her a certificate in preparatory music in 1919. After finishing her high school work, she spent one year doing /Wieet the ^4rtiit special work at Spelman. In 1921 with four other Spelmanites she toured as a part of a singing quarted and pianist group Spelman’s new artist-in­ under the direction of Miss Emma Delany (also a Spelman residence is Mr. Herman graduate) in order to raise money for African Missions. Work Bailey, a native of Chicago, in her home town of Dermont, Arkansas was followed by Ill. Mr. Bailey received a B.A. attendance at Oberlin College from which she graduated in degree from Alabama State in 1926. Mrs. Thurman has served as teacher of Music Educa­ Montgomery, Ala., a B.F.A. Left to right, Sitting-. Helen Broughton, Dollie Scott, Leonia McRae, tion, and with the National Student YMCA. degree from the University of Jenelle Studgeon, Joan Gail lard. Left to right, Standing-. Joyce Hunter, From the 15-20 of February she conducted a series of Southern California in Los Vivian Glass, Annie Humber, Melrita Russ, Augustine McDaniels, Cheryl McCoy, Agnes Houston. meetings here at Spelman. They included a one-hour dis­ Angeles, and the M.F.A. de­ cussion of the recent upheaval in China, a meeting with gree from the University of Outstanding Seniors officials of various student groups in the Center that relate Southern California. He has to international affairs, a meeting with members of the Inter­ taught at Florida A & M Uni­ national Room Committee to discuss the room and its use, versity, Clark College, Win- Student Teachers ’67 a meeting with Spelman students who have participated in neba Training College in Win- programs abroad, and a meeting with some Spelman mem­ neba, Ghana, and the Kwane by Alice Graham bers faculty to discuss the need for and problems of establish­ Nkrumah Ideological Institute “Change of Pace .... Long hard hours .... More study­ ing a vigorous international relations club. in Winneba, Ghana. Mr. Bailey ing .... Less sleep .... People .... Wonderful.” These are has served as senior artist in Helen Broughton’s responses to the question, “How do you 18830702 the Ghana Institute of Art and feel about student teaching?” During the first nine weeks of Spelman College High...... Program Culture in Accra, Ghana and the second semester, twenty-five seniors who have minored in by Christine Singleton in the Publicity Department of elementary or seconday education are putting into practice Higher education in the South must seek the greatest de­ the Office of the President in the educational methods which they have learned. Each stu­ gree of excellence in whatever it undertakes. In keeping with Accra. His works are in public dent has assumed the responsibilities of a regular teacher. the trend to provide more and better educational programs for and private collections. Mr. Most of the student teachers are in disadvantaged areas. gifted pupils, Spelman College is quietly and meaningfully Bailey is a man of wide artistic Brenda Smith stated that she is glad that the student teachers expanding an “experiment.” and travel experience. While have been placed in situations where they can get a realistic Known as the “Spelman College High School Scholars he is on campus, the College idea of what teaching involves. Evelyn Ellis, also in a dis­ Program,” it is designed primarily to stimulate and broaden should benefit from both his advantaged area, told of her pleasure when her students reacted the intellectual interests of outstanding high school pupils. artistic talent and the percep­ favorably to their music lessons. Angelique Pullen, working In this program, boys and girls are exposed to a variety of tion and insight he has gained diligently to correct her students’ test papers, expressed her new ideas and to new ways of looking at old ideas. Not only through working and traveling feelings of frustration and concern for her high school history are they exposed to outstanding and stimulating members of on four continents. class which she has had to teach to write and spell. college faculties, but many of the great minds from the Atlanta The student teachers are being confronted with the prob­ area are called upon for the lectures or to lead discussions on Money For lems which plague the urban ghetto schools—overcrowding some topic. and lack of teachers and facilities. One senior expressed con­ The Program, though small, is a cooperative effort on Talented Writers cern for a large group of mentally handicapped pupils who the part of Spelman and the surrounding high schools to The April issue of the Spot­ are not getting any special education or training because of broaden the intellectual horizons of selected pupils from the light will have a literary mag­ the shortage in teachers and facilities. Other seniors voiced area. The College provides the meeting place and the refresh­ azine supplement that will fea­ a concern for the gaps in their own educational preparation. ments for the youngsters. No charges are made. ture original short stories, One student teacher looked up from a pile of books that she The format is quite simple: once each week, during the poems, and essays by students was studying and commented, “I am teaching new math and evening, a group from the high schools meets with an out­ and faculty members. This is I have never had it myself.” standing faculty member or a successful business leader. At an excellent opportunity for all Most of these seniors plan to teach and further their educa­ one meeting, the topic may be some aspect of philosophy; unpublished writers and poets tion. Only one student said that student teaching has made her at another, high energy physics or a chemistry problem, of our campus to see their work decide to pursue another career. Annie Humber and Dorothy foreign affairs, or the basic laws of genetics and concepts of in print. In addition to that Render, both Spanish majors, hope to someday go to Spain and probability; at another, the idea of compassion. there are three awards to be Mexico and perhaps take a few students. Joyce Hunter wearily The Spelman College High School Scholars Program is presented to the students who said, “Student teaching has made me more sympathetic towards being developed and planned by Dr. Richard J. de Pagnier submit outstanding work in teachers.” Agnes Houston and Marian Smith realize the ful­ of the Department of History, with the recognition that the the areas of poetry, the short fillment which teaching a child to think can afford. The Spot­ standard high school curriculum may not offer gifted pupils story, the essay, and drawing. light takes pride in saluting the senior teachers: Helen Brough­ the opportunity to explore the world of ideas. Please help make this the ton, Vernestine Bynes, Carolyn Crockett, Barbara Gantt, The response given this type of program in other colleges best literary magazine ever Vivian Glass, Agnes Houston, Barbara Jackson, Evelyn Ellis, where the originator of the Program has served, has been tre­ printed. You may submit your Virgilyn Gresham, Annie Humber, Joyce Hunter, Leonia Mc­ mendous. Many feel that the program should be expanded in work to Anna Belle Porter, Rae, Cheryl McCoy, Barbara Martin, Barbara Harper, Joan many instances to allow more pupils to attend. Cynthia Smith or you can bring Gaillard, Melrita Russ, Berdie Ricks, Dorothy Render, Marian The first session of the Program was held February 8 in it to the Spotlight office. The Smith, Wenda Faye Smith, Brenda Smith, Dollie Scott, Jenelle Spelman’s Fine Arts Building. The speaker was Dr. William deadline for submitting work Studgeon, and Wilma Webb. Jones of the Department of Chemistry of Emory University. is March 13. Page 2 THE SPELMAN SPOTLIGHT February, 1967 A Nation of Psychotics Letter The Spelman Spotlight Published monthly by the students by Robert L. Terrel, Morehouse College of Spelman College to Anna B. Porter, Editor-In-Chief The American race problem is, to say the least, very Andrea Williams, Associate Editor Henrietta Turnquest, Business Manager complex. Its roots are deeply imbedded in a history that few The Editor Melody McDowell, Yvette Savwoir, Feature Editors if any of us completely understand, and this is tragic. For February 10, 1967 Cynthia Smith, Literary Editor unless we know how the past has ordained the present we Margaret Mills, Cartoonist Joyce Akridge, Berdie Ricks, Photographers can not begin to formulate adequate solutions for the future. Dear Editor: Layout Staff: Yvonne Jackson, Marjorie Rich, Eileen Bass, Joyce Young The registrar shares with The anger, surprise, and bewilderment that many people Advertising Staff: Eileen Bass, Luelia Nichols, Phyllis Johnson the students, faculty, and staff Poet-in-Residence: Joan Gaillard have exhibited in relation to the slogan “Black Power” attests the desire to improve the serv­ Contributors: Marilyn Hunt, Janice Holloway, Ruth Baety to our general ignorance of history. News Editor: Chris Singleton ices for which the office is re­ Dr. Richard Carroll, Faculty Advisor Stokely Carmichael did not wake up in the middle of sponsible. She wishes to assure EDITORIAL POLICY the night this summer crying “Black Power” and then proceed you that she is always aware The Spelman Spotlight is published monthly by students of Spelman to indoctrinate Floyd McKissick. The slogan and its militant of the criticisms made of her College. We welcome articles and letters to the editor from our entire reading advocates are products of a historical situation which began its work. She wants to take this public. These letters and articles do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Spotlight Staff or the majority of Spelman students. We also welcome development almost four centuries ago. opportunity and thank those advertisements, but do not necessarily support the views of our advertisers. Around 1640 the white colonial Planters in America began persons who have made sug­ Monthly deadlines will be posted. to realize that they could no longer count on the prisons and gestions in time enough to put dungeons of Europe to supply them with workers. While her them into effect. For example, “inexhaustible horde of blacks” Africa seemed to offer the the names of the students in With All Due Respect perfect solution to their problems. Africa was not a member of this year’s Student Roster are the European community of nations and since the blacks did listed in strict alphabetical or­ It is the responsibility of a newspaper to respect its reading not belong to the Caucasian race they were considered “dif­ der instead of being listed by public and to print its views on all issues that concern its ferent” and therefore created for the convenience of men who classes. A secretary made that public. “Rambling Thoughts”, an article by Craig Finley in were white, European, and Christian. Taking these factors into suggestion. The registrar also the January issue of the Morehouse College Maroon Tiger consideration the Planters proceeded with all due speed to thanks those persons who ex­ has made us ponder the extent of the freedom and the respon­ construct one of the most barbaric systems of slavery that the press their willingness to help sibility of the student press. The Spotlight feels it necessary to world has even witnessed. by offering their services. discuss two aspects of this article: its style and its content. As you know, the registrar The style that Mr. Finley employed was in poor taste, but It was not an easy process however, and the Planters had did not see the article “Regis­ he presented many ideas with which we agree. many problems, some of them psychological. Before they tration at Spelman” before it This year the Spotlight staff has tried to encourage students could justify their vicious system to themselves and their was sent to you. The Spotlight to speak freely about all campus matters that trouble them. Christian consciences, they had to reduce the slaves to a status for January 1967 reached the We have not encouraged rash attacks or hasty generalizations that denied their very humanity. The most imminent scholars registrar’s desk after registra­ about any person or group. It is our belief that the student and scientists of the period were commissioned to prove that tion was over. It is the regis­ press should be a dynamic force on the college campus. the blacks were inferior to their white masters. In cases where trar’s belief that action would Writings in this press should be free from undue emotionalism a slave happened to get the notion that he was human the take place much faster if per­ and as rational and logical. Writers should confine themselves master was obligated to erase the error. If he could not change sons who have suggestions to topics with which they are familiar or on which they have the slave’s mind he had no choice but to kill him. These harsh would bring them to the regis­ done extensive research. When citing actions of members of measures were necessary for the continuance of the system and trar rather than route them via a group, the writer should make it clear that he is referring the sanity of the master. “Spotlight.” The registrar can to a small segment and not an entire population. “Rambling If the slave masters had admitted to themselves that their talk faster than she can write. Thoughts”, though it had useful things to say, abused what the slaves were just as human as themselves they would have had In addition, she does not en­ Spotlight staff and all reputable publishers consider basic to stand before their God, their consciences, and their equali- joy the publicizing of her prob­ principles of good journalism. tarian ideas in horrendous condemnation. The system was lems. The students, faculty, and administration of Morehouse pathological and those who invented and perpetuated it de­ The persons who made sug­ and Spelman should be alarmed that such an article could be veloped a psychotic mentality based upon racism and white gestions 1, 2, and 3 are in­ written about the relationship that exists between the “brother- superiority. vited to come to the office and sister” institutions. Perhaps Mr. Finley is not altogether the We, the descendants of those perverted criminals, have explain their propositions. victim of an overactive imagination. There may be some truth inherited their racist mentality as a legacy. This foul legacy Concerning suggestion 4, the in his article. intrudes into all interracial relationships and it is largely registrar has learned from re­ Although the majority of Spelman and Morehouse students responsible for the fact that most whites and Negroes find liable sources that so many are not to be characterized as Mr. Finley’s article would it almost impossible to relate to each other in the absence changes take place during the suggest, there are a conspicuous few. The only people who of fear, mistrust, and apprehension. summer at the Atlanta Univer­ can correct the image that these few project are the students of sity Center that work done Morehouse and Spelman. Mr. Finley is not the only person The present situation is potentially catastrophic because during pre-registration has to who has noticed a disintegration in relationships between the white America is not aware of the fact that the major source of be done all over again on regis­ two schools. Spelman women and Morehouse men must re­ our racial conflicts is embedded deep within its psyche. The tration days. Nevertheless, assess their behavior. fact that they refer to the entire question as “The Negro Prob­ any student who wishes to plan There is a danger that we will begin to put emphasis on lem” is proof of their lack of comprehension. The fact that her schedule for the next se­ people as commodities to satisfy desires and needs. There is most Negroes are no longer willing to compromise with racism mester is free to make an ap­ a danger that love will become merely a “technique” and not adds to the potential explosiveness of the situation. pointment with her academic a fulfilling experience. The riots which have terrorized our urban cities during advisor and plan what she There are men and women at Morehouse, Spelman, Clark, the last few summers are but ominous indications of future should take. Juniors and sen­ Morris Brown, and Atlanta University who have established unrest. The development of Negritude and Black Conscious­ iors should consult the chair­ meaningful friendships based on mutual respect. These people ness among the black masses has been stimulated by the man of the department in need not fear “lists” that are passed around dormitories or emergence of the third world and black and white Americans which they plan to major. The pointless name calling. They recognize the value of relation­ are moving slowly but surely towards a cataclysmic confronta­ advisors then should notify the ships where ideas can be exchanged and where neither person tion. Dean of Instruction concerning need be subjugated or used to meet the needs of another. the courses that should be Students, not only at Spelman and Morehouse, but at all “The problem of the twentieth century will be the problem scheduled. the colleges in the Atlanta University Center must learn the of the color line,” predicted Dr. W. E. B. DuBois over seventy- The registrar is not alarmed value of self and mutual respect. All the words in the world years ago. He has turned out to be painfully correct. because some students and cannot change the human character unless a person has the “In the twenty-first century there will be no color line,” some faculty members are tired will to change for the better. predicted an angry young Black Nationalist to an angry but at the end of registration days. It is normal for the human approving crowd in Harlem recently. We can choose to ignore the obvious and witness the fulfillment of this apocalyptic body to feel tired after a day’s Many Years of Achievement work. The dictionary defines prediction or we can seriously address ourselves to our racism “exhaustion” as “extreme The Spelman Spotlight congratulates two colleges, More­ and avert armageddon. house and Clark, who are celebrating their one hundredth and weakness or fatigue.” The ninety-eighth anniversaries respectively. These two schools, led We are a nation of racists and racism is an essential part registrar is not aware of any­ by capable presidents, have become excellent institutions. of our national character. The only solution, it appears, is one fainting on registration Though neither is perfect, each has overcome very humble a revision of the national consciousness. Until this is done days. origins. It is hoped that they will continue to advance the our Poverty Programs, Civil Rights Bills, and penitent pil- Sincerely yours, course of education not only for Negro students but for those grimmages to the lairs of sadistic Southern demagogues can Grace Jason Perry of all races. be nothing more than misdirected utopian panaceas. Your Registrar February, 1967 THE SPELMAN SPOTLIGHT Page 3 SSGA News Dr. Manley Plans European Trip Campus by Barbara Pyatt News Briefs Plans for New Policies and Projects Dr. Albert E. Manley will —Spelman young women may feel free to have their depart March 2 from New escorts drive them to the parking lot until curfew time York City for London, Eng­ by News Editor provided they (the young women) show their identi­ land. There he and other American and European edu­ Tentative plans have been fication cards to the night watchman. announced by President Man- —Plans are being made to sponsor more successful co-recs. cators will study various as­ pects of the educational sys­ ley for the construction of a Spelman young women are encouraged to participate more new dormitory. in the activities with their guests. Our hopes are to have tems in different countries. In well-known movies often during the remainder of the London, emphasis will be on * * * year. These ideas were discussed recently in a meeting the secondary grammar school. Aspects of London University Last Thursday night a called by Dr. Manley. “Town Meeting” was held at —SSGA is sponsoring a contest for Best Dressed College and Oxford University will also be studied. Clark College. The villagers Girl. The winner will participate in the Ten Best Dressed included Rev. S. Williams, College Girls Contest under the auspices of Glamour From London, the group Pres. B. Mays, Pres. Manley Magazine. will go to Paris, Marseilles and and the town crier, Stokely —SSGA and the Spanish Club are campaigning for diapers Aix-en-Provence, to study the Carmichael. The outcome: vil­ to send to orphanages in Viet Nam. Feel free to give. French lycee. Florence is the lage stock was torn asunder. PAT COLLINS ------SSGA is re-launching the project “Letters to Soldiers next scheduled stop. The Ital­ in Viet Nam.” If you’d like to write someone contact us. ian classical lycee, science * * * —Project Opportunity needs your help in raising interest lycee, technical institute, and It turns out that “What’s- INTERN among students at Archer High to come to college. Be teacher training institute will His-Name?” Ali and Ernie a big sister to one of the young girls there. Come to our be compared with other sys­ Terrell don’t have a comer on Patricia Collins, a member office for information. tems. The educational system the market of public farces as of the Spotlight staff, has re­ of Moscow is also included in illustrated by the “debate” cently. received a new and Observation the program. A Seminar at the between Rev. Williams and unique job appointment. An —Spelman students are very aware of issues of current in­ University of Moscow and Stokely Carmichael. interview with her elicited terest as evidenced by our presence at the Town Meet­ visits to the homes of teachers several facts about the new ing recently held at Clark College. SSGA hopes, however, and professors are planned. sj: * * that we will not be so carried away by Stokely Car­ appointment. The final stop will be East Morris Brown College has michael’s well-turned cliches, his style of delivery, or his Patricia is a Student Intern Germany. completed its own student good looks that we will fail to see the loopholes in his to Mayor Ivan Allen. Her di­ union building. Plans have not rect supervisor is Mr. Dan philosophy, nor that we will miss the basic truths in it. Details of what promises to be an enriching experience will yet been announced for its Sweet, Director of Government opening. Liaison, who is Mayor Allen’s be given when the president administrative assistant. The returns. * * * purpose of the Student Intern Alumnae Corner Congratulations to Mr. Hale, is to get an idea of how the The success or failure of a college can be measured by the THE NEW father of freshman Janice local government is combating memories and achievements of its alumnae. The Spelman PLACEMENT Hale, who was recently elected urban problems—in short, to family knows little about its graduates. The Alumnae Office, legislative representative for become better acquainted with headed by Mrs. Ernestine Brazeal, has a great deal of infor­ DIRECTORS Columbus, Ohio. the intricacies of government. mation about Spelman graduates and is in the process of AT YOUR SERVICE * * * To accomplish this, she reads, sending out a questionnaire to all alumnae in order to secure interviews, observes and ques­ more data. The Spotlight feels that every Spelman woman IN ROCKEFELLER 204 A poem by Dr. Vincent tions. She talks with various should be informed about the achievements of her predeces­ Harding, chairman of the His­ officials of local government. sors. This should give us a pride in our college and restore tory Department at Spelman The job also involves some some of the school spirit that has almost disappeared from has been published in the No­ writing of speeches and reports the campus. vember issue of Negro Digest. in which she presents an or­ The alumnae closest to the majority of the faculty and The poem is titled “To The ganization of the facts she has student body are the class of 1966. At present 51 of these Gallant Black Men Now gathered. former students are teaching, two are employed in govern­ Dead.” This appointment is the first ment service, 6 are working in industry or technology, two in a proposed series of student are engaged in social work and twenty are studying at one internships in offices of gov­ of the following universities: Atlanta University, Columbia ernors, mayors, congressmen, University, Emory University, Howard University, Kent State, A CAREER and other officials throughout McGill (summer), Michigan State, Northwestern, School of AS A the South. It is part of the pro­ Medical Technology, Naval Medical Center, University of gram sponsored by the Voter California at Berkeley, University of Michigan, University of CHICAGO TEACHER Education Project of the Vienna, Wellesley College. Southern Regional Council Several Spelman graduates who have received Ph.D., Excellent Salary—$6,000 up which is a civil-rights orien­ LL.D., and M.D. degrees are now working in the Atlanta Liberal Pension Plan tated group whose purpose is area and making significant contributions. Elsie Edmonson, basically research and infor­ ’30, who received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Paid Sick Leave mation about the underlying Michigan, is now a professor in the English Department at Sylvia Suiti '65 Tenure After Three Years problems of the racial situa­ Morris Brown College; Beulah Johnson Farmer, ’37, who re­ tion. The success of Patricia’s ceived a Ph.D. from New York University, is chairman of the Promotion From Within System internship will help to deter­ English Department at Morris Brown; Lynette Saine Gaines, mine the future shaping of the ’40, who received a Ph.D. in Education from the University Professional Growth internship program. of Chicago, is now on leave from her position as Professor of Opportunities For Patricia served as an intern reading and Director of the Center-Wide Reading Program Additional Income at the Voter Education Project at Atlanta University. during the summer. This to Practicing attorneys in the Atlanta area are Doris Blayton, some degree facilitated her se­ For information on certification ’43, who received the LL.B. degree from John Marshall Law lection for the new post. Her and employment procedures School and Romae Turner Powell, ’47, who received the LL.B. new internship began on Feb­ ruary first and is to last one from Howard University. Write To: semester. When asked her There are three practicing physicians in the city. They DIRECTOR, reaction to the appointment, are Juel Borders Benson, ’54, M.D., Women’s Medical Col­ TEACHER RECRUITMENT she commented, “During my lege of Pennsylvania, who is an obstetrician and gynecologist; first week I’ve learned how lit­ Gwendolyn Cooper Mannings, ’44, M.D., Meharry Medical Chicago Public Schools tle the average person knows College, who is a specialist in internal medicine and diseases Room 1005 of the chest; and Wilmotine Jackson, ’51, M.D., Meharry of the tremendous scope of 228 N. LaSalle Street urban problems and how much Medical College, who is a general practitioner. Chicago, Illinois 60601 effort this local government is In subsequent months we hope to print more news about putting into solving them.” outstanding alumnae. Ellen Long Page 4 THE SPELMAN SPOTLIGHT February, 1967 THE RIGHT TO BE by 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 by Marilyn Hunt Afro-American had the audacity to hope. This hope, however, Black is the color of was misguided; independence meant strictly the political and Courage. economic independence of white Americans from Great Britain. Foresight blended with Soul There were Negroes who fought for that independence and To create could not share in it. There were other Negroes who refused A brighter tomorrow to fight for America’s independence because they could not For the Dark justify giving their lives for the independence of a nation in To come out of the dark. which they were slaves. Harold Scott — MacBeth There was always music for the Afro-American which Black is the color of expressed some feeling from the “soul.” Strength, Another war for America, and again some Afro-Americans Aged endurance THEATER CIRCUIT refused to tight. America participated in three more wars. of another’s loathings, Ironically, they were fought to “make the world safe for de­ aversions, persecutions, mocracy” and to win the freedom of other peoples, each sacri­ Mockery. by Cynthia Smith ficing the lives of thousands of Afro-Americans. At the same But black makes time, Afro-Americans had to fight lynch mobs and racism at A rainbow history. The AMS Players production of Shakespeare’s MacBeth home. In protest there was the Marcus Garvey movement, will be performed the week of March 13 through 18. The Niagara Movement, the Harlem Renaissance, the blues, bus Black is the color of Faith, role of Lady MacBeth is to be played by Broadway star, Diana rides, sit-ins, marches, and jazz. But in the nation of “liberty In some god, Sands, and Harold Scott, a member of the Lincoln Repertory and justice for all,” Afro-Americans are yet seeking the right Some freedom, Group will play MacBeth. Other members of the cast are: to be. Some Homeland. This production attempted to fill the gap between text­ Hilda Jenkins, Patricia Reeves, Georgia Allen, Ann Lanier, All gained in heritage, book Negro history and actual Negro history. Jolie Gaillard, Bonnie Bohannan, La Tania Richards, Sandra Bearing unique culture Bernice Reagan coordinated the musical presentations To the faithful uncultured. Dunson, Johnny Popwell, Leslie Penny, Harold McKelton, of the production and also performed. Mr. Vincent Harding Arthur O’Keefe, Sam Andrews, Paul Rowe, Robert La Prince, narrated. Black is the color Archie Robinson, Phillip Kimball, David Armstrong, Walter Of the misunderstood. Dallas, Henry Everett, James Bell, Howard Wiley, Gregory Misinterpreted in war, Brown, and Charlie Mann. The Enigma on Chestnut Street In poverty, in dogma In society. Miss Sands and Mr. Scott have been working together by Melody McDowell on an interpretation of the play and we are looking forward They can be found sipping coffee at 2 a.m. at the Parmesan Black is the color to seeing how they will handle the important roles of MacBeth House; they can be found segregating themselves in a part Of a limb and Lady MacBeth. The production staff is working very hard of the library “all their own;” they can be found hurrying But a heart. . . down Chestnut Street; they can be found standing on the A mind to design a set that will be visually exciting and that will allow Identical universal productivity the fluidity of movement necessary for Shakespearean pro­ porch of Ware Hall watching everybody who passes. These are the students at Atlanta University. Of all of the schools Of the Universal God. ductions. For many reasons this year’s spring production of the Center, this is the school with which we have the least promises to be one of the best ever presented. contact and of which we have the least knowledge. The population of AU is 953. Of these 953 students, 251 Optimism live in the dormitories of Ware Hall for Men and Bumstead Hall for Women. Over 60 students hail from foreign countries A world of our own including England, various African countries and India. Most maybe of the majors are in the field of Social Work. someday The biggest complaint the students have against the school somehow is the food problem. AU reputedly has the worst food in the we’ll have: Center and all of the students seem to be in accordance when where earth cannot they say a food improvement is needed. Due to the food prob­ reach us lem, most of the students can be found frequenting the Hunter time cannot Street restaurants and snack bars. stop us and society cannot The students acknowledge AU to be a very good univer­ bar us------sity. Over 90% of the students are attending AU on scholar­ we will be as ship. The school sponsors internship programs in the field dawn after twilight. . . of Social Work. AU has a basketball team and other extra­ hand in hand we’ll go curricular outlets. walking and wandering When I asked what the young men thought of Spelman girls, among green daisies and I received these two answers. “They seem to be stuck up” and yellow clover “They can’t stay out late.” However, as a stranger walks into and starlite nights on the hall of either Bumstead or Ware Halls, the atmosphere dewy countysides------becomes noticeably cold. This same feeling is experienced No one will command us, when one walks into the Library Science Department of the Nature will love us, Library. the seas will part for us, Alvin Holmes, President of AU’s student body stated and God will that AU is very anxious to strengthen relationships be­ gaze down tween the schools. A little teamwork is necessary and we smiling. think AU can become an important part of the college com­ Maybe. Diana Sands — Lady MacBeth munity. ------Gaillard ’67

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Spelman Professor Writes The Great Debate From Dr. Drimmer by Kathryn Elaine Watson The jammed packed Davage To You Auditorium on Clark’s campus was the scene of great com­ As you might have heard, I am spending the academic motion. People poured in from year on a post-doctoral fellowship at the School of Oriental all areas to witness an “inter­ and African Studies of the University of London reading esting” debate between Rev. African history. All this is through the generosity of the Non- Samuel Williams, professor at Western Studies Program of the A.U. Center and the Ford Morehouse and pastor of Foundation. Dr. Hubert Ross of A.U. received the other Friendship Baptist Church, grant for this year and he is studying the anthropology of and the controversial Stokely Africa at U.C.L.A. Carmichael, chairman of SN- First: London University doesn’t exist! It is a fiction much CC. like the “A.U. Center.” What you have here is about 30 This debate was sponsored colleges and Institutes and Medical Schools with over 30,000 by Atlanta University. students, each doing work at their own college, often times very small, and generally the students have little contact The smooth-talking M. Car­ with students at the other colleges (sounds familiar?). What michael, appearing very calm you have in reality is a number of independent schools giving and cool, made the opening themselves a big name and possessing a common library and round of the much heated de­ a student union (getting warm?). Students are responsible for Left to right-. Sandra Kell, Lisa Olson. bate. He emphasized his much their own lives and generally their own housing. The whole discussed issue of the impor­ atmosphere is very impersonal, but on the other hand there is tance and role of “black the freedom (or anonymity) to come and go as you like. The youth” in society. His talk students do not have to take exams or courses as you do. Each attacked “the white man.” He is assigned a tutor who theoretically supervises his work, and said, “White people want black who suggests certain courses for the student to take. Students people to react to black power at London only work in their own area, i.e., history, econom­ the way they want them to re­ ics, chemistry, mathematics. At the end of three years, if you’re act.” Continuing on with even still around, you take a series of written examinations extend­ more firmness, he remarked, ing over several days, and if you do well, one receives a B.A. “We say black power and degree. The M.A. and Ph.D. programs are, however, very whites say we mean violence. similar to American programs for the same degree. Whites seek to make black London is great for bookstores, theatres, galleries, pubs (we people the moral conscience have no equivalent in the U.S.), medical care (free even to of America but it is not our foreigners), public transportation, television, and all the rest job to make America moral. . . that makes life here so civilized. There are no Lester Maddoxes Rev. Williams presented or Bo Callaways or other half-baked demagogues. The somewhat fomal and concise people of whatever party accept the fact that the “experts” opening remarks. His opening whomever they might be, should govern and plan in the arguments came from excerpts interests of the masses. People generally vote, unlike Ameri­ of a 1904 essay by the late ca where race and region play a large part, on the basis of W. E. B. Dubois, which read class and economic self interest. Political parties accept the fact in part. “I believe all men are that dog-eat-dog-free enterprise and competition is a thing of Left to right-. Pat Myers, Jan Folks. brothers and alike in soul. . . the past, and they differ mainly on how to achieve the “great I believe in the Negro race...” society.” I would say that England has quietly gone further in this direction than America. There is less of a gap be­ Williams blasted the U.S. for tween rich and poor here. The working man pays no direct tax­ The New Exchangers having gotten off to a wrong es in Britain. Nowhere can you see the immense slums that start because of slavery. He make up 40 % of every great American city. Policemen, unlike by Marilyn Hunt scolded the evils of racist hate in America, do not carry guns, and the death penalty in Britain Spelman welcomes four exchange students for the second and said the U.S. had the re­ has been outlawed. Just a few other items. The fashions semester. They are: Sandy Kell, a student of North Central sources and technical know­ really “swing” and the young women and men dress in a College, from Niles, Michigan; Patricia Myers, a student at how to eliminate poverty but style unthinkable in America. I think this is due to the greater North Central College, from Chana, Illinois; Lisa Olson, a lacked the moral desire to do acceptance of personal freedom and nonconformity. Even for student at Connecticut College, from Frederick, Maryland; and something about it. The audi­ the executive and middle aged, there is the wild mustache and Jan Folks, a student at Cedar Crest College, from Bethesda, ence applauded approvingly. flowing beard and long hair. Maryland. Williams took on a more The big problem for this nation is psychological, and that The girls all are eager to get to know new people as well “You’e a gifted young man is how to live with the idea that they are no longer top dog in as to gain some idea of what it is like to be in the minority. (meaning Carmichael). . . but the world. To some degree this is good, because the British Sandy says, “I want to become a more integrated person.” no longer have to accept the immense responsibility for run­ They are all adjusting well. When asked her impression of Carmichael fired back with a ning things (something America might learn), but to the Spelman and the Atlanta University System, Jan said, “It’s grin, “Flattery will get you average Englishman this is still hard to take—just as Ameri­ big and friendly.” The girls feel that Spelman’s rules are too nowhere.” cans have a difficult time learning to live with Russia (and restrictive but can be taken in stride. Both the debators fired back vice versa), and China, and as Southern whites have had dif­ Room check, 6:30 a.m. breakfast, barbwire fences, night and forth to one another ques­ ficulty and still do in learning to live in a desegregated society. watchmen with guns are new to them. They consider the tions on the Vietnam war and For Europeans American society is Los Angeles expanded exchange program more worthwhile for students from the questions of a more personal across the country; the South is magnolias and daily lynchings; North, especially those like Jan who have never visited the basis. Carmichael asked Rev. New York is Wall Street and giant corporations. Although South. The girls live in Abby and Manley Halls and will be Williams his view of the war, there is truth in much of this, it is only a small part of the at Spelman for the entire semester. to which he replied, “This war picture. But, we all like to live in our stereotypes, and that shows a kind of stupidity (on probably goes for Americans as well. the part of the U.S.) and we Let me close by sending my best wishes to all, and hoping -NO W- must hurry up and get out of that you might write to us. Our address is 7 Cherrywood Drive, it.” Williams in turn, asked Putney, London S.W. 15. Keep up the fight for us. An Carmichael if he were a citizen. Delivery Service to Spelman College African student has just taught me a saying which I send to “No I am not a citizen because you: I do not enjoy the privileges of I Call Gold PIZZA VILLA a citizen.” Williams asked him Gold is mute. again calling for a more spe­ I call Cloth, 825 Gordon St., S.W. 755-2436 cific answer to which Mr. Car­ Cloth is mute. michael replied, “I am not a It is Mankind that matters. $.50 Delivery Charge $2.00 Min. Order citizen but a colonial subject Mel Drimmer of the United States.” Page 6 THE SPELMANSPOTLIGHT February, 1967 JLiL by Gail Marshall

Four in the A.M. beds, snores, pipe Music, stubborn sleep cross my threshold. What you do on Gone, smoke trail, hand raised, tear dropped March 6. pain wrapped by sad shroud I now wear, farewell. may affect Kissed, glowing still, Spooning, Too soon let this not be wrung from me, the rest of your life! 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 illumi­ nate the poet’s awareness and our own—of the identity of life on different planes. These are my own and par­ tially self-styled Haiku, with­ out 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 re­ sponses 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. That’s when the IBM interviewer will be on and Development, Manufacturing and Mar­ keting. March 16, 1967, The Other campus. When he’d like to talk with you— whatever your area of study, whatever your Side by Staughton Lynd and Some of these areas may not mean much to plans after graduation. Toe Hayden: Reviewer — Dr. you—now. But just let the IBM interviewer Vincent Harding. You’ll find job opportunities at IBM in six ma­ explain a few of them. One may be just the April 13, 1967, The Games jor areas: Computer Applications, Program­ career you’re looking for. It could be the start People Play by Eric Berne: ming, Finance and Administration, Research of something big—your future with IBM. Reviewer — Mr. Carl Ratcliff. May 4, 1967, Are You Run­ IBM ning With Me Jesus? by Mal­ colm Boyd: Reviewer — Dr. C. Franklin Jacks. The Library Club welcomes all students who are interested Whatever your immediate commitments, whatever your area of study, in joining to attend its meet­ sign up for your on-campus interview with IBM, now. ings. The meetings are held on the third Wednesday in each 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. month at 1:00 p.m. in Laura Spelman 6. The president of this organization is Marseille Miles. The sponsor is Mrs. Mexico Micklebury.