Spelman THE VOICE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMANHOOD

VOLUME XXXVI - NO. 9 MARCH 4, 1993

SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK

Rocks Spelman Again

By Riché Daniel and Felice Winston Cleage. "It was extremely good, A standing ovation, people stomping renewing, and affirming," said Dean on the floor, beating on the balcony Hill. wall, and whistle calks describe the end "No Mirrors in my Nana’s House" of the Feb. 26 performance. talked about our fascination with No there wasn’t an extra Bobby looking at ourselves in the mirror. The Brown show that night, nor did Prince song says "I never knew skin too Black, come a couple of weeks early. This never knew my nose was too flat, never show was in Sisters Chapel and it knew my clothes didn’t fit...No Mirror’s featured Sweet Honey in the Rock. in my Nana’s House, the beauty I saw Noted as the world’s premier female in everything was in her eyes." a cappella ensemble, Sweet Honey in Barnwell said how fortunate the the Rock brought their melodious students of Spelman must be when they voices to Spelman once again filling can get their images from each other the audience with affirmations of self, and grow from each other. Sweet Honey in the Rock Photo Spelman College Office of Public Relations culture, community and the ability to She said men have made words to transform the world. describe themselves so that no man can graduate, founded Sweet Honey in the The audience emptied Sisters Chapel As a journey through struggle the be ugly, using such words as rigid, virile Rock in 1973. She, four other vocalists in anxious chatter. concert raised thought-provoking and distinguished. It is time women and a sign language interpreter for the "I’m speechless," said freshman questions concerning AIDS, made words like that for themselves, she hearing impaired now create the music Candice Jenkins. homelessness and love, and combined said. of Sweet Honey in the Rock. Co-Sponsor for the performance was them with African traditional rhythm "Our image of ourselves isn’t clear," "I was impressed because I wasn’t The Fund For Southern Communities styles, gospel, jazz, blues, rap, and she said. "Maybe if we could see going to come but I decided to come which is an association that provides even harmony from the audience. ourselves in the river rather than in because there was going to be an financial support and human resources During "Ballad of the Sit Ins" the dishwater, we may find beauty." interpreter," said Kristi Merriweather, a for grassroots organizations. audience was beckoned by Bernice Nitanju Bolade Casel, a group Spelman junior. "It was so energetic According to Nan Orrock, Executive Johnson Reagon, founder of the group, member since 1985, said women need to and also mellow and the interpreter was Director, the performance raised who said, "African American culture is take more days off. Men would get wonderful. I couldn’t help not dancing $15,000-820,000 for the Fund. a participatory culture." their weight-lifting practice holding up to the beat." There was talk of struggle. the world without our assistance. How Black people have struggled. The men understood her perfectly. How women have struggled. When Coujoe Bandele of AEE Sound SSGA Rallies To Support And a rendition of Roberta Flack’s and Lighting Systems was asked his "Trying Times" set it all in motion. impressions, he simply gestured Ysaye Maria Barnwell, a group "Thumbs Up." member since 1979, described another The song was "Sit Down" but no one Morris Brown type of struggle addressed by the song in the audience could when a verse said "Patchwork Quilt." "father, brother, children and everybody By Kianga M. Ellis free CDs, tapes and posters. "Struggles come in all forms," white turns to her," referring to the The SSGA and Black Market Craig Frazier, Morris Brown’s SGA Barnwell said. "There is one that woman whose work is never done. Productions sponsored a rally Feb. 26 president, addressed the crowd about is...microscopic, it’s called a virus. A Aisha Kahil, a group member since to raise money for Morris Brown the need for all AUC schools to come lot of us don’t want to deal with the 1981, sang the blues for a man she College. together in this time of crisis - "if my fact that something microscopic can loved so much she was going to take a The rally was held from 1:30 p.m. Black College is in trouble, so am I." hurt us... It is devastating our gun and shoot him. to 4:00 p.m. in Read Hall. The SSGA With coverage on the Channel 11 communities." The concert was an experience for Co-Social Chairpersons Kianga Ellis 6:00 news, this rally was held to The spirit in the room was the young and the old, the people and Vera Jordan worked with DJ Lil’ demonstrate students’ continuous tremendous. familiar with Sweet Honey in the Rock John to bring new rap groups Mad Cap support of Morris Brown. When Pearle Cleage, author of Mad and those not so familiar. and Y’all So Stupid, MCA records and The amount of money raised was at Miles, was asked her opinion of the "I love Sweet Honey in the Rock," the African American Marrow Donors less important than raising show she said, "It was wonderful, they said Wendi O’Neal, a Spelman Association to campus that afternoon. consciousness and showing the city of make us all feel stronger." sophomore. "Sweet Honey is my The usual "Manley Friday " crowd Atlanta that shared feelings of support Dean Freddye Hill, Academic Dean life...I’ve grown up on Sweet Honey." relocated to the gym for the festivities and love do exist among the schools of for Spelman College, agreed with Bernice Johnson Reagon, a Spelman and gave donations in exchange for the Atlanta University Center. Page 2 Spebnan Spotlight, Atlanta, GA March 4, 1993 NATIONAI/INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Release Rodney King Trial Revisited ^méritait (Collegiate $>oct£ ântfjologp By Riche Daniel Sister to Sister Editor International Publications The federal court heard opening In addition to the prosecution’s is sponsoring a statements Feb. 25 for the trial of four surprising opening statements, the officers charged with intentionally defense has a surprise witness. violating Rodney King’s civil rights Defense lawyers intend to call one of when he was severely beaten March 3, King’s passengers who testified for the 1991. prosecution in the state trial. gattonai College According to USA Today, Feb. 26, Both sides played the video of federal prosecutor Steven Clymer said King’s beating on Thursday. the police drove King back to their Clymer says it shows King was not station to be stared at by other officers, threatening the police, while defense not to a second hospital with a jail lawyers told the jurors there are actions $oetrp Contesi ward as was reported. not captured by the tape. The defense denies the charge and King is also expected to testify continues with the argument used in the during the trial. According to USA state trial that their actions were Today, King remembers very little about --Spring Concours 1993- justified and were a direct response to what happened that morning because of King’s actions. (He was believed to head injuries. have been on PCP.) While the trial begins for Rodney King, the state is preparing for the trial The prosecution intends to prove open to all college and university students desiring to have their of three black men charged with beating that defendants Lawrence Powell and poetry anthologized. CASH PRIZES will go to the top five poems: Timothy Wind bed when they wrote in Reginald Denny, a white truck driver, in their logs that they took King from one front of news cameras at the start of the hospital to another. rioting sparked by the acquittal of the $100 $50 $25 $20Fourth The idea, according to USA Today, officers in the first King-beating trial. First Place Second Place Third Place $20F,fth is for the prosecution to convince the The prospect of overlapping high jury that if the defense lied about the profile trials adds to concerns about AWARDS of publication for ALL accepted manuscripts in our logs then the jury should not believe rioting, according to USA Today. popular, handsomely bound and copyrighted anthology, anything they say. The Denny case is to begin AMERICAN COLLEGIATE POETS. March 15.

State-paid Interpreter Deadline: March 31 in Parochial School?

By Kelli Moore The Zorbrests moved from Erie, Pa. School would be mesh of church and to Tucson, Az., when Jim Zorbrest state because religion is a "pervasive" reached school age. There were no part of the curriculum. schools for the deaf in Erie, so the According to the 1970 Federal CONTEST RULES AND RESTRICTIONS: Education of the Handicapped Act, the Zorbrests moved to provide a better 1. Any student is eligible to submit his or her verse. New York Times prints "deaf children education for their son. 2. All entries must be original and unpublished. Poems In Arizona, Jim attended the have a right to a free and appropriate previously printed in student publications are acceptable. Arizona State School for the Deaf and education, either in public school or if 3. All entries must be typed, double-spaced, on one side of the Blind. When he reach the sixth grade, they go to private school, through page only. Each poem must be on a separate sheet and must Jim was prepared to enter a mainstream reimbursement to their parents for the bear, in the upper left-hand corner, theNAMEand ADDRESS public school with the aid of a sign- special services they need." of the student as well as the COLLEGE attended. Put name language interpreter. At this time, the The Arizona Attorney General and and address on envelope also! (Alumni Welcome!) state began paying for Jim Zorbrest’s lower courts uphold that "sending a 4. There are no restrictions on form ortheme. Length of poems sign-language interpreter. state-paid interpreter into a religious up to fourteen lines. Each poem must have a separate title. The state continued to pay for the school would create a symbolic union (Avoid “Untitled”!) Small black and white illustrations welcome. interpreter until the Zorbrests decided of church and state, violating the First 5. The judges’ decision will be final. No info by phone! to enroll their son in a Catholic High Amendment." 6. Entrants should keep a copy of all entries as they cannot be School. The Zorbrests asked the The National School Boards returned. Prize winners and all authors awarded publication Catalina Foothills School District Association argues that "...a school will receive a gold-seal certificate ten days after the deadline. whether the state would continue to pay district cannot pay a public employee I.P. will retain one-time publication rights for accepted poems. for the sign-language interpreter in the to serve as a deaf interpreter during Foreign language poems welcome. parochial school. religious worship and religious 7. There is an initial $3 registration fee for the first entry and a fee The questions surrounding this instruction without unconstitutionally of one dollar for each additional poem. controversy have been up in the air for establishing religion." 8. All entries must be postmarked not later than the above the last five years. The case is now on The Zorbrests have received much deadline and fees be paid, cash, check or money order, to: its way to the Supreme Court. support from groups like the American Lower courts that have heard the Jewish Committee and the Baptist Joint case say that providing a state-paid Committee on legal affairs, but all INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS sign-language interpreter in a Catholic supporters and opponents to this case P.O. Box 44044-L must wait for the Supreme Court’s final Los Angeles, CA 90044 verdict. Page 3 Spelman Spotlight, Atlanta, GA March 4, 1993 LOCAL NEWS

Georgians Practice Weather Safety

By LaNae Dora TORNADO FACTS Local News Editor During the week of Feb. 22-26, Feb. 22 was officially declared Georgia Emergency Management * The average number of tornadoes Georgians participated in the Severe Family Emergency Preparedness Day. Agency, asked that during the week in Georgia each year is 20. Weather Awareness Week that was On this day, parents were asked to emergency procedures and equipment at both local and state levels be proclaimed by Governor Zell Miller in discuss and rehearse emergency checked by local emergency * Tornadoes can occur at anytime of collaboration with the National Weather weather practices in their homes. management staff, emergency medical the day, but are most frequent in Service. The Emergency Management Georgia during the afternoon and The purpose of the week was to personnel and National Weather service personnel, police officers, evening hours. "educate Georgians about weather- Service conducted a statewide tornado rescue and fire personnel, school safety preparedness and to enhance drill on Feb. 26, in order to test the authorities, and business personnel. * Tornadoes come in all sizes, their ability to respond to severe public’s capabilities to respond during In addition, safety measures and shapes, forms, and colors. Tornadoes weather events," according to a warning. Various schools, businesses severe weather events were published can be as small as a few feet across meteorologist Carlos Garza. These and other collected groups participated in the news media throughout the week. or the width can be as wide as "events" include floods, tornadoes, in the drill. Garza reported that flash floods had one or two miles. lightning and thunderstorms. As part of the drill, a practice been the most frequent cause of death Tornadoes were responsible for tornado warning was issued by the in Georgia than any other weather event. * Nearly 3 out of every 10 tornadoes killing six people in 1992, bringing the Atlanta National Weather Service Since 1973, 64 people have died in flash are strong, with wind speeds total up to 39 since 1973. For this Forecast Office at 9:15 a.m. At 9:40 floods. between 110 and 200 m.p.h. and a reason, tornado safety and preparedness a.m., a two-hour watch went into Lightning has also posed a threat in path length with averages 26 miles. was the focus of the week. effect. this state, taking 42 lives in the same Gary McConnell, director of the time period. Learning The Emory University School of Law presents The Randolph W. Thrower Symposium Desegregation Law: the Fun Way The Changing Vision of Equality in Education By Maleka Ingram Friday, March 5 " He who influences the thought of 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. his time influences the thought of all Tull Auditorium the times that follow," Emory University School of Law On the weekend of February 20-21, Speakers Include : I had the privilege of attending a two- Reverend C.T. Vivian, Director, Center for Democratic Renewal day experimental learning workshop in Gary Orfield , Harvard University School of Education Covington, Georgia. The workshop Theodore Shaw, University of Michigan School of Law Chris Hanson, ACLU of New York was sponsored by Project Adventure, Kevin Brown, Indiana University School of Law Inc. Judge William Hill Fulton County Superior Court Project Adventure’s mission is "to Lucretia Payton-Stewart, Georgia State University be the leading organization in helping others use Adventure education as a Audience Participation Is Welcome catalyst for personal/professional change and growth." For More Information Please Call 727-6830 This particular workshop was set up to get more minorities interested in the field. Along with myself there were three other Spelman students, a few Environmental Studies Comes to CAU students from the University of Georgia in Athens, and three male counselors of Project Awareness. By Kenja McCray All activities for the workshop were Did you know that the Historically Warren room 300 at Clark Atlanta. "minority" students as well as the designed to promote group effort. Black Colleges and Universities The Consortium manager is August parents of such students. Some of the activities included playing Environmental Consortium Curley. The director of education and Environmental racism is a major games, problem solving, and ropes Headquarters is located at Clark training is Richard Bright, a visiting problem. He is working to alert courses. Atlanta University? professor from the Environmental people of the importance of knowing The most exciting and fulfilling of This is good news for all you Protection Agency in Washington, me most recent issues concerning men all the activities for me was the sisters who are interested in D.C. own environments. challenge ropes course called the two- environmental issues. Bright designed the Consortium Bright has also organized an line bridge. The objective of this The Consortium Headquarters has program and said he plans to environmental justice group, which is challenge was to climb up a height of a budget of S500,000 and provides implement it at other HBCUs across committed to cautioning residents in 35 feet and walk across a cable scholarships for graduate and the country. Bright received a grant E.P.A. zone four (which includes the extended from one tree to another. undergraduate students wishing to from the U.S. Department of Energy Atlanta area) of environmental hazards. This challenge was designed to achieve work in environmental fields. for $125,000 per university, per year The group is planning a forum to self-confidence, to overcome fear of Fellowships are also offered for for the consortium. Interested inform the residents surrounding White heights, to follow instructions and to be faculty members at participating students may want to explore the Park of a Combined Sewer Overflow supportive of others. institutions. In addition to Clark- possibility of forming a branch of the which is washing raw sewage right Although the workshop lasted only Atlanta, the consortium includes Consortium here at Spelman. into the park. They need your help. two days, the lessons learned are ones North Carolina A&T, Florida In addition to getting college Here are numerous opportunities to that take most people too long to International, Shaw, Winston-Salem students involved in environmental become involved in helping the ascertain. If interested in attending a State, Savannah State, and Florida issues, Bright is organizing an environment. Environmentalism is not workshop contact the following: Project A&M universities. environmental program for students in just about saving the rain forest, it also Adventure P.O. Box 2447, Covington, If you are interested in finding out grades K-12. Bright is training hits close to home. For more GA 30209. The telephone number is more information, check Haven- teachers in environmental education information contact Kenja McCray at (404) 784-9310. so thev will be able to reach more 523-8281. Page 4 Spebnan Spotlight, Atlanta, GA March 4,1993 CULINARY CORNER Restaurants Serve Vegetarian Cuisine

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

On the Creative Tip: An ‘Exhibition

By Maleka Ingram Carl Williams and Kendel girl’s mirror from her bedroom that Carter, two art students at the was plastered with Michael Jackson Atlanta College of Art, presented an stickers. installation at the Woodruff Arts Some of his paintings were Center Feb. 23 during a reception. modeled around a series of jokes The theme, "Journeys," is an told by Richard Pryor referred to as expression of the African American "Stories about mother f_____ who race traveling out of psychological died funny." slavery. Carter’s sculptures are made of According to Carter, the exhibit scrap metal painted black, represented a "journey from highlighted with straw and wood. oppression using symbolism Although at first glance his through objects of the past to show sculptures appear abstract, there is a how we can go back to the ‘glory symbolic meaning in each of them. days.’" In reference to one of his works The materials on exhibit were that appeared to be an animal paintings by Williams and standing next to a door, Carter said sculptures by Carter. Williams’s he likes to "leave (meanings of the style consists of painted wooden works) to the imagination" of boxes filled with symbolic matter. observers. His art work represents someone These two young African moving through another person’s American artists, Carl Williams and life. For example posted with some Kendel Carter, put on an impressive of his paintings were the pages of a Photograph by Maleka Ingram exhibit. The room was filled to young girl’s diary. In another capacity with the air of genuine painting, Williams simply took a Artist Kendel Carter creativity. Page 5 Spelman Spotlight, Atlanta, GA March 4,1993 ARTS , : ENTERTAINMENT

Vanessa (Bott Armstrong: Go Travel The Road To Freedom

Something On ‘The Inside By Sabrina Hawkins Arts and Entertainment Editor Already roaming the airwaves, "We are here on a mission" is the dance floors and hip-hop scenes of By Kanika Williams first thing heard when play is pushed London, the Young Disciples were Arts & Entertainment Editor on the tape deck. prepared to share their magic with Jive Records, best known for their "You Can’t Take My Faith Away" The Young Disciples succeed in other artists. R&B and Hip Hop releases from artists is a moving song with a pulsating Latin their mission of making their musical They have created jazzy hip-hop such as Boogie Down Production, R. rhythm. journey fuse with soul, rap, rhythm and remixes for A Tribe Called Quest, Kelly and Public Announcement and A Sometimes the music on blues, and jazz on their album Road to Mary J. Blige and The Dream Tribe Called Quest, has just released a Armstrong’s album sounds too Freedom. Warriors; they also released new contemporary gospel album by computerized and often overpowers Following the smooth, jazzy R&B productions for Loose Ends, Master Vanessa Bell Armstrong. Armstrong’s beautiful voice. In "Father sounds of Soul II Soul, Brand New Ace and Desirie. Some may know Armstrong for her I Stretch", one feels more moved to get Heavies, and Loose Ends, Femi "We take all the kinds of music that popular gospel single "Press It On" or up and dance rather than listen to the Williams and Marc Nelson create a we’ve loved over our lives and her cameo appearance in the television message that she is trying to convey. style that is distinctly their own. integrate them together in a non­ special, "The Women of Brewster "Hie best song on the album has to The buzz of their success in Britain patronizing, forward-thinking way," Place." This year she is attempting to be "The Story Of Calvary." It is one of crossed over to American shores. Marc said. break new ground with her new album, the more traditional songs on the Originally planned to be released solely With the soulful, sultry, soothing Something On the Inside. album. While listening, the focus is on in Britain, the album spawned two Top voice of Carleen Anderson on the Something On the Inside is an the richness and soulfulness of her 10 singles, was nominated for Britain’s tracks "Get Yourself Together Part 1 album that offers a fresh new approach voice rather than the synthesized Mercury Music Prize (equivalent to and Part 2," "Apparently Nothin’," "All to contemporary gospel music. It keyboards. Armstrong’s voice sounds America’s Grammy Award) for Best I Have," "Move On," and "As We experiments with and explores a wide as if she is much more comfortable Album of 1992, then won Britain’s Come," you can’t go wrong with this variety of musical styles. singing songs of this calibre. The Black Music Award in the category of album. "Something On the Inside" is an up­ power and range of her voice really Best Dance Group. So find the Road to Freedom of tempo gospel song with an R&B feel. shines through. A sound this appealing could not which the Young Disciples is preaching It mixes the traditional choir with Something On the Inside is remain Britain’s best kept secret for too in your local record store. contemporary synthesized beats. impressive and innovative due to its long. "Everlasting Love," which is more unique and creative style of gospel inspirational than gospel, is a powerful music. Look out for Vanessa Bell song to a swing tempo. Armstrong. Queen Explores of Race, Gender

By Malaika Kamunanwire mother, Easter, and her father, Master mental oppression. Through their white are fortunate, he said. Despite his love "...She had nothing to fall back on; James. While their relationship appeared oppressors’ eyes, black women were the for Easter, he married Miss Lucy and not maleness, not whiteness, not to be bom out of love, Master James comforting slave girls who worked for pampered and protected her. ladyhood, not anything. And out of the still had "ownership" of Easter. She was hours in the oppressors’ kitchens and Master John treated Miss Lucy profound desolation of her reality she considered property and, as such, plantations, and who satisfied their differently than he treated Easter. When may well have invented herself." inferior. Not only was she black, but she sexual needs. he discovered she was pregnant, he gave - Toni Morrison was female as well. Our relationship with white women Miss Lucy all the respect and protection I have heard this quote applied and In the opening scene of Queen, was very different. In the miniseries, that Easter was denied. Queen only reapplied to many different situations. Easter and the other slaves were being master James’ wife was horrified to knew her father as Master John while After watching the final episode of taunted and teased by a group of white discover that her husband had a child Miss Jane was depicted as the "apple of Alex Haley’s Queen, I realized that this men. Master James intervened not outside their marriage with a slave girl. her father’s eye." miniseries is deserving of its because he believed this treatment of Her mother told her that, "if it wasn’t As black women, we were expected application. slaves was wrong but because the slaves for the slave girl, women would always to deal with this denial of our existence. As I watched the three-part series, I belonged to his family. have to submit to their husbands." While we could give birth to the white felt a mixture of sentiments. I was Easter saw her only power as a black In the eyes of most white women, men’s children, we were not their angry because of the injustices and woman through her sexual relationship black women were their personal maids partners for life, or the bearers of their degradation that we as a people with Master James. She recognized that and their husbands’ sexual pawns. They name. Thus, we were not their equals; experienced and continue to experience. she had no voice. Once Queen was pitied us while they detested us. In a we were their subordinates. I was restless because I felt that all bom, Easter’s father filled Queen with strange way, they seemed to envy the White women’s perceptions of us we worked for in the 1960s and hope that slavery would end one day sexual abuse we suffered at the hands of stem from the dual role we played as thereafter was in vain. Especially when and that slaves would soon be free. As their husbands. their husbands’ concubines and their we see the killing of three little girls in a result of her conditioning, Easter The circumstances of Queen’s birth house slaves. Birmingham, the raping of Tawana discouraged her father from telling were not the norm. Master James loved The miniseries Queen, displayed the Brawley, the slaying of Yusef Hawkins Queen stories that she thought would her mother, Easter, but he would not relationship between black women and and the beating of Rodney King. never come to pass. We were so used to marry her or accept Queen as his child. black men as mutual victims of I was disturbed because I began to being controlled and dominated by the She was just another "child of the oppression. We are our closest allies question how we, as African women in white race that we were conditioned to plantation," a victim of the white man’s and worst enemies. America, define ourselves. Is it through remain slaves mentally and physically. lust. Queen’s first relationship with a the eyes of our oppressors? After the Civil War, where were we Master John, accepting his "duty" as black man was characterized by Queen touched on who we are to to go? Many slaves continued to work a white man, married Miss Lucy, the abandonment. Queen was seduced by white men and white women, black on the plantations in order to survive. daughter of a well-respected and him and then left to raise their son, men and to ourselves. The plantation guaranteed a place to live wealthy family. His father told him that Abner, on her own without the For so long we were the sex slaves, and food to eat. duty came before love and that he must protection or name of the father. Queen field laborers and house servants of Freedom is a state of mind. Once marry a woman with high dowry and already had problems being accepted by white men. In Queen, we saw the you have been socialized to accept your good breeding for the mutual benefit of the white and black race because of her double relationship between Queen’s inferiority, you continue the cycle of both families. Love comes later if you mixed parentage, but it was even harder Continued on page 6 Page 6 Spelman Spotlight, Atlanta, GA March 4, 1993 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT STAYING HERE FOR SPRING BREAK? By Kanika Williams Arts & Entertainment Editor contains furnishings, art work and O.K...So your Spring Break plans * Atlanta Heritage Row photographs. Jamaican restaurant. 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Johann Sebastian Bach Atlanta, GA 30303 * APEX Museum Saturday, March 20, 1993 This museum contains exhibits on 135 Auburn Ave. 8:15 pm * Atlanta Daily World Building local black history figures and Spivey Hall, Clayton State College neighborhoods. It also houses exhibits 145 Auburn Ave Call (404) 961-3683 for tickets. * $15 * that depict the cultural heritage of The site of the nation’s first black- Sunday, March 21, 1993 owned daily newspaper. One of the first African Americans and recognize their 3:00 pm contributions and achievements. training grounds for black printers. Students $1. * Rucker Building Druid Hill Presbyterian Church 158-160 Auburn Ave. 1026 Ponce deLeon Ave. * Atlanta * $15 * * Scitrek Science & Technology Call (404) 872-BACH for more info. Museum Atlanta’s first black built and owned 295 Piedmont Avenue N.E. office building. Erected in 1904. Atlanta, GA 30308 * Wall of Respect Featuring the Star Trek: Federation Auburn park Science exhibit. Adults $6. Paints a depiction of prominent black * George Beach, Ann Jacob Gallery of leaders. Contemporary Art * The Top Hat/Royal Peacock Club Queen March 1-31, Monday-Saturday 10 184-186 Auburn Ave continued from page 5 and as a result we place limitations on a.m. - 9 p.m. Sunday 12:30 p.m. - 5:30 One of the major black entertainment ourselves. Even with all of the men in p.m. centers in the country during the 1940s. as a young black woman trying to raise Queen’s life, she was the mistress of * Photography Exhibit, Atlanta History Cab Calloway, Gladys Knight, James a child by herself. her own fate. With her limited power, Center Brown, Diana Ross and Lxtuis The second black man in Queen’s she decided who she was and what she March 1-July 19 Armstrong were among the many black life served as her husband, true love was not willing to accept. Featuring: On the Set of Gone with entertainers who performed there. and the father Abner never had. He Even if you were offended by the the Wind * Big Bethel A.M.E. Church gave her his name and protection, depiction of black people in Queen, * Fembank Museum of Natural History 220 Auburn Ave. which was needed in order to be Queen should have been watched 767 Clifton Road N.E. This church has been the center of recognized by society. within the context of the time it took Atlanta, GA 30307 the community and the focal point for In those times, we were invisible place. We should recognize the March 1- April 30 social action throughout the country. and insignificant unless someone could constraints placed on our actions as Featuring: A Walk Through Time In claim us. In our long and turbulent * YMCA African women, in that period, and we Georgia. Students with I.D. $4. history with black men, sometimes we 20-24 Butler Street should acknowledge those actions as Take Time To Appreciate Downtown were the mothers of their children, their Built in 1920. The "Y" is the home revolutionary. We must see Queen as a Attractions... of the Hungry Club luncheons, a legal partners or their sexual conquests. * CNN Studio Tours After watching Queen, the most reality of the time during and afk weekly forum for white and black important question we should ask slavery. 1 CNN Center politicians and community leaders. ourselves is "Who are we?" Do we see We must accept all our history, not Marietta Street at Techwood Drive * Herndon Building ourselves solely through the eyes of just the portions we would like to Atlanta, GA 30335 231-245 Auburn Ave. white men, white women and black remember. As the twentieth century 45-minute tour of the headquarters of Alonzo F. Herndon’s home, founder men? comes to a close, we must define who Cable New Network and Headline of the black-owned Atlanta Life If we accept society’s perception of we are and where we are going, in order News. Adults $5. Students under 18 Insurance Company. This 15-room us as the "mules of the world," we are to progress as African American $2.50. mansion was completed in 1910. It letting someone else define who we are women. Page 7 Spelman Spotlight, Atlanta, GA March 4,1993 CAMPUS NEWS

Morehouse Forum Exposes Homophobia

were less subtle and more personal. By Felice Winston and Gay Ojugbana rules" were set and reiterated by the those, he opened the floor up for panelists. The audience was asked to questions from the audience. One male student asked if the respect each other at all times; no One question was,"Was panelists wanted to have children and, if "This has the potential to be a very questions of morality would be homosexuality a choice or biological?" so, what kind of environment would interesting and enlightening forum," answered; if the panelists felt the least Another was, "How did the panelists’ they provide for the child so that their said Alton Elmore Feb. 24 at the bit uncomfortable they would leave; friends and families react to their homosexuality would not be forced upon beginning of "Homosexuality at the and a security guard was on hand to ‘coming out’?" the child. House." remove unruly people. " Not everyone in the gay and "I would not put pressure on my son The Feb. 24 forum was sponsored The tone of the forum was set when lesbian community agrees on (the nature or daughter to start dating and I would by the Morehouse College sophomore Allen asked the audience "Why are you of homosexuality)," McReady said. "I encourage them to be themselves and class. The forum was held in light of here, besides (convocation and believe all people are bom with the not do anything they would regret," said President Clinton’s lifting the ban on assembly) credit?" capacity to love male and female." McReady. "The myth of the nuclear gays in the military and the growing Some students said they needed to Both panelists said that they received family has not worked. What works are tensions in the African American understand the hostility surrounding mixed reactions from their family loving parents." community concerning homosexuality. homosexuality and others offered members. The panelists also expressed their Unlike previous forums this year testimonies of the immorality "My father was very accepting and dual oppression. They said that they, dealing with homosexuality, this forum homosexuality. loving. What hurt the most was the non- too, suffer from the evils of racism and presented panelists to answer the Other questions were, "How do I, as acceptance from my then-brothers of sexism. They also challenged the students’ questions and to dispel some a heterosexual, get rid of KMT," Allen said. Eurocentricity of modern-day descriptive of the myths surrounding homosexuality?" and "With the plight " ‘Coming out’ is not an appropriate gender roles, questioning who has (or homosexuality. The panelists were of African American males in society term. 1 say ‘affirming’ because ‘coming has ever had) the authority to say what Jafari Allen, a Morehouse student, and today, how do I explain to my sons and out’ implies that we have to leave the is "too feminine" or what is "too Lance McReady, an Emory student. daughter your choice?" African American community and join masculine." According to Allen, more panelists In an attempt to keep the forum the gay white community, which is not "Ignorance will always be wherever had been selected but they refused to brief and under control, moderator all-accepting." you go...Our goal was to be a tool, to participate for "fear of their safety." Barnum Nabors prepared a list of The questions from the audience present information to a group of Because of this fear, some "house questions for the panelists. Following

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By Sabrina Hawkins Sexy, entertaining, and funny are studio. some of the words used to describe He didn’t work on the album all Eddie Murphy, the biggest man in alone; he had a little help from his show business. But there is one word friends. The song "Yeah" features a that can completely describe Eddie and wide range of artists. Garth Brooks, DIRECTED BY CHUCK SMITH his many activities and Heavy D, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Patti UiBelle, Herbie Hancock THE SETTING: A hotel room in Harlem, NY in 1965. Dr. King & Malcolm X meet. accomplishments - BUSY. The play is so convincing, one wishes "the meeting ” had actually taken place. The family man, actor, comedian and Stevie Wonder are only seven of and singer has been busy working on the 23 artists featured on the song. FEBRUARY 26 - MARCH 7, 1993 several projects. Along with his work The proceeds of the song will go to on his upcoming movie Beverly Hills Eddie Murphy’s new "Yeah FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 • 8:09 pm • $18.00 Cop III, Eddie Murphy has just Foundation," which is dedicated to SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27 • 8:00 pm • $18.00 completed his latest album Love’s social reform. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28 • 3:00 pm & 7:30 pm • $15.00 Alright. Other songs are "I Was A King" TUESDAY, MARCH 2 • 8:00 pm • $12.00, Students - $10.00 Murphy has always taken his featuring Shabba Ranks, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3 • 8:00 pm • $12.00, Students - $10.00 musical career seriously, even before "Whatzupwitu" featuring Michael THURSDAY, MARCH 4 • 8:00 pm • $15.00 he moved into film and television. His Jackson, and "Desdamona" with guest FRIDAY, MARCH 5 • 8:00 pm • $18.00 music of the past has been quite performer B.B. King. SATURDAY, MARCH 6 • NO SHOW successful with his 1985 #2 hit "Party He also makes a tribute to the SUNDAY, MARCH 7 • 3:00 pm & 7:30 • pm $15 (Prices do not Include any service charges) All The Time" and his 1989 top 40 Beatles, by his remake of "Good Day at single "Put Your Mouth On Me." Sunshine." And with the song "Hey Love’s Alright is portraying positive Joe." he nods to the late Jimi Hendrix. CENTER STAGE 1374 West Peachtree messages to enforce Black leadership Look for Eddie Murphy in an using images and concepts from Black upcoming performance with Shabba history. He began work on his third Ranks on Saturday Night Live, in a album in 1990 resulting in what he guest appearance on the David For Groups, Daytime Matinees or Students Call Khalil - 876-6346 calls "psychedelic psoul" that was Letterman Show, and on The Arsenio For Tickets Call TICKETMASTER - 249-6400 created in his state-of-the-art home Hall Show. Page 8 Spelman Spotlight, Atlanta, GA March 4,1993 CAMPUS NEWS

Unjustly Justice...Clive Stafford EAB Urges Smith speaks on death penalty Enviromental Awareness This information regarding death By Na’Taki Y. Osborne division of the External Affairs Board. row was brought to my awareness by "Enhancing Environmental Its mission is to increase campus Attorney Clive Stafford Smith. Smith Education" was the theme of awareness of major environmental was the guest speaker at a forum Feb. Environmental Awareness issues through outreach programs, 25, sponsored by the Spelman College Week sponsored by the Spelman Philosophy Club. College Environmental Task force from community involvement, and forums. The task force is comprised of nearly Smith, originally from England, February 22-26, 1993. 15 Spelman students and operates attended the University of North The week’s activities included a mder the direction of faculty advisor, Carolina at Chapel Hill and Columbia video presentation and discussion on Photography by Maleka Ingram Law School. He is presently an pollution, a forum discussion on the Dr. Victor Ibeanusi of the biology Clive Stafford Smith attorney involved in prison rights and effects that chemicals have on pregnant department. The president of the board women, the distribution of green and By Maleka Ingram the death penalty. Smith was recently is, Alanna Conley, a junior Natural blue ribbons to promote environmental Over 30 percent of the people on in the news for being the attorney of Science and Environmental Biology awareness among the student body, and death row are mentally retarded. Larry Lochart. Lochart was sentenced major. a workshop that gave insight on water Because of their mental capacity, they to die Feb. 24. This year’s activities have included quality assessment, recycling tips, are easy to confess and show little self- In his informal lecture, Smith the distribution of literature on how to radon testing, and the use of DNA control. discussed the death penalty, who gets it recycle, reduce waste volume and probes to detect the presence of lead, Another large percentage of people and why, and the unjust practices of a compost kitchen waste, and how to other heavy metals, and harmful on death row are women. These are large number of law officials in the identify environmentally benign (non- chemicals in drinking water. In women who have killed their United States. Throughout his lecture hazardous to the environment) products conjunction with the workshop, radon boyfriends or husbands after abuse. Smith continually referred to the large by reading content labels. They also tubes have been placed in all of the Many people on death row are mentally number of death row victims and the sold enviro-pops (candy blow pops with dormitories on campus in order to ill. The majority of people on death small number of attorneys who are information on energy and natural row are African Americans. willing to represent them. detect the amount of radon present in resources conservation attached to the buildings. them), and presented a display which Two petitions were initiated and illustrated how major corporations have are still circulating the campus to ask begun to use environmentally friendly the cafeteria to use paper products packaging and ingredients. Inspiration: instead of styrofoam which is not Future projects sponsored by the Did You Know,.. biodegradable, and to ask the math and Environmental Task Force to look for A Voice of ...that if you cannot find a magazine science departments to recycle paper, to are the plant-a-tree program, community article in Woodruff Library, the use both the fronts and backs of paper service work with the Atlanta Audubon librarian can still get the article to for tests and assignments, and to use Society, participation in the Dogwood you in a matter of minutes? Hazella Rollins white paper because colored paper can Tree Festival in conjunction with the not be recycled. By Joya Adams Southern Recycling Company, placing "She has a beautiful voice." "I wish ...that if you need a book that is not The task force also offerea" on the shelves of Woodruff Library, plastic recycling bins in dormitories, I could sing like that." These are just environmentally conscious prizes to the you do not have to wait weeks for an (proceeds will go toward sponsoring an some of the phrases that were heard winners of environmental facts quizzes interlibrary loan to be returned? elementary school student to go to which asked questions such as how Feb. 28 when the voice of Hazella Woodruff Library has an account college), establishing work study jobs many trees are saved by each ton of Rollins, a Spelman alumna, echoed with eight bookstores in Atlanta. The requiring students to check and monitor paper that is recycled, and how many throughout Sisters Chapel. book you need may be purchased and the recycling bins on campus, presenting gallons of drinking water one gallon of The mezzo soprano gave a beautiful delivered to the library overnight! a 1993 Science Day project, and hosting motor oil can contaminate. solo recital at Sisters Chapel. Her Don't leave an Environmental Task Force day in recital was the second of a newly Woodruff Libraiy The Environmental Task Force is a Piedmont Park which is open to all initiated Spelman College Alumnae interested students. Recital Series. without the Rollins, a native of Texas, graduated from Spelman College in 1980. She information you received numerous scholarships for need! operatic excellence which enabled her Source: Dr. Charles D. Ckurchwell, to complete a master’s degree of music Director, Robert W. WoodruffLibrary in voice in 1982 and successfully Marjorie Kimbrough Defines pursue doctoral study at Northwestern University. Rollins has had extensive performance experience as a recitalist Success in SSGA Convocation and as an opera and oratorio soloist. She has sung principal roles in the operas Suor Angelica, Juha, and By Binta Robinson useful to her in transcending obstacles Vanessa to name a few. She has Matjorie Kimbrough delivered the of sexism and racism. time career woman. worked with the Chicago Opera SSGA-sponsored convocation address She was able to transform She went out of her way to fully Theater, the Gilbert and Sullivan Feb. 25 for Black Herstory Week. negative .situations that she execute all roles by performing her Society of Chicago, and with two The computer scientist, faculty encountered during her twenty years cooking and cleaning on the Atlanta Companies. member at Clark Atlanta University, in the boardrooms of corporate weekends and travelling on the job "Hazella Rollins has a beautiful mother and wife presented her story - America as well as while on the road during the week. voice and is very inspirational to me," living out her personal vision of working and travelling. The birth of her first son did not said Laquiana Fallin, a sophomore success. She defined the three essential halt her work. She carried her music major. She told of her matriculation at the "S"s that she encouraged Spelmanites newborn son with in her travels all While sitting in the audience I majority-white University of to develop for themselves: success, across the United States. thought of the many talented women California as a mathematics major and sustenance, and self esteem. Sustenance was an equally Spelman College has produced and I how she had to utilize the belief that According to Marjorie Kimbrough, important factor that Matjorie felt proud to be a student here at she was "the smartest one in the success is something that a person Kimbrough cited as important in Spelman. room" to excel in situations that must define for one’s self and a being successful and, for her, Spelman is indeed keeping up with contained obstacles for black women. person must erect a plan to attain it. it equated into family. the tradition of producing some of the Her mother was responsible for For her, success meant "having it all" Kimbrough stressed the importance most talented African American women instilling in her at a young age this as she put, mothering children and of developing a high self-esteem in the and Hazella Rollins is one of them. belief, a belief that would prove being a spouse as well as being a full attainment of personal success. 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SSGA Sponsors Black History Quiz Bowl Forum Raises The Issue By LaNae Dora Local News Editor As the closing event in its Black Herstory Week celebration, the Spelman Student Government Of Sisters In The Struggle Association on Feb. 26 sponsored a Black History Month Quiz Bowl at Peyton Forest Elementary School. In game show fashion, the By Regina Gaskins-Joyner children were asked questions AST Sisterhood sponsored a forum of a womanist theory by women and such as, "When were the first Feb. 23 entitled "Sisters in the Msinghi, one of the 23 founders of men. She said she prefers the new slaves brought to America?" and Struggle" in the LLC-II auditorium. AST, also gave a lesson on courageous "womanist" term as opposed to the "Who founded the Tuskegee Five panelists covered such topic as sisters. Her talk hit very close to "feminist" one coined by many white Institute and became the first "Sisters in the 19th Century," home. She gave accounts of women women during the Women’s president of that college?" The "Women Warriors in the AUC," warriors of the five historically black Movement of the 60s. contestants then buzzed in giving "What We Should Do Now, New colleges in the AUC during the Civil The forum took somewhat of a their answers. Correct responses Womanism," "The Depression of the Rights Movement of the 1960s. curious turn as panelists shared were awarded five points each. 70s," and "Personal Struggles." According to Msinghi, the first sit-ins differing opinions concerning the In the first round, three teams The forum began ceremoniously began right here in the AUC with necessity of theory and the use of the of fourth graders faced each with libations in honor of African and women like Carolyn Long, Mary A. word "feminism." other, and three teams of fifth African American ancestors. During Smith and Herschell Sullivan of Clark, Dr. Patterson explained that graders competed during the libations many well known names Morris Brown and Spelman colleges instead of doing away with the terms second round. The winning team were called out from the audience respectively. used to describe women, we must from each grade - the fourth including Sojourner Truth, Harriet "On March 15, 1960 Sullivan and redefine them. grade Quiz Crushers and the fifth Tubman, and Ida B. Wells; however, Rose Ann Pope drafted ‘An Appeal to Panelist Njere Alghanee, Program grade Quiz Masters - battled for students did not name figures in their Human Rights,’" she said. It was a Director of the Georgia Hunger the last five questions as their own family legacies. The woman Declaration of Liberation. Coalition, argued that we must not get classmates cheered them on. performing libations noticed the These women convinced Dr. Martin bogged down on defining terms and The Quiz Crushers won the occurrence and remarked that we L. King, Jr. to participate in the sit-ins having word wars. She further game with a score of 20 to 5. The often choose prominent historical although he was on probation for other acknowledged the need for us to put fourth grade class was awarded a figures to look up to when we can arrests. Women organized sit-ins and our ideas into action. pizza party from the SSGA. All look around us or in our own were among the 77 women arrested in "Now we must learn from the of the participants were awarded families. the movement. mistakes of the 60s and 70s... we squeeze bottles. One of the panelists, Spelman "Women were beaten inside the jail must begin to pull all people in our The event was the beginning history professor Dr. Tiffany as well as outside," Msinghi said. communities together including the of a relationship between Peyton Patterson, gave an account of her Given such possibilities these homeless, the poor, and the Forest and Spelman College, said personal history in the struggle women sought out the help of faculty uneducated," she said. According SSGA President Germayne Crow. members such as Dr. Lois Moreland, against oppression and sexism. She to Alghanee, we fall victim many recalled being an activist as early as Professor of Political Science here at times to studying too much and not Spelman. Dr. Moreland advised the age 13 and going on to graduate putting principles into action for the women on their legal rights in case of school only to find out that she had to masses of people. Her statement arrest. work twice as hard as everyone else subsequently received loud claps from Msinghi reiterated the point that because of her race and gender. the audience. few texts present the work of Black "Women could not compete Dr. Patterson interjected stating the intellectually but could compete in women but to counter this "we have to importance of theory in our find evidence of these women playing bed" in the eyes of men, she said. community. She noted that we must a major part in the struggle." Nevertheless, Dr. Patterson recalled understand what capitalism is and its To another panelist, Animata how she proved them wrong role in our lives in order to fight VOTE Umoja, a teacher in Atlanta Public graduating with the highest grade point sexism as it relates to the Black Schools and member of the New average (4.0) in her graduate program. community. African Peoples Movement, sisters in She noted that surviving meant being "Sexism is when men grab, choke, the struggle did more than just change willing to "pay the price" and hit, loud talk, throw things at Black their names and wear African garb. sometimes that involved being alone women...when they adopt a belittling "Black women were active in the and risking one’s health. This tone and the idea that a man is just FOR statement was one of many spoken by fight for self-determination,." Umoja being a man...when they take the role said. "We must govern ourselves. the panelists. They also spoke about of teacher," Umoja said. courageous sisters struggling and That’s self-determination." She also noted a "contradiction in Umoja emphasized the need for us surviving stress for the sake of self- terms" when the wives are doing most to continue to resist imperialism and determination as blacks and as women. of work at home and not able to sexual oppression. Her talk took a SSGA develop as individuals; instead, they Dorothy Naime, a professor at militant turn. She argued for land and are urged to stay home and have Clark-Atlanta University, briefly independence, control of human babies. Umoja called for the adoption discussed courageous sisters in the resources, and a new African nation, against it. 19th century who struggled for self- instead of the "blood-sucking concept For a moment the program turned determination and equality. Many of of imperialism." Umoja noted, into a ‘struggle’ in itself as panelists OFFICERS the names she mentioned were not however, that we cannot fight shared their personal feelings on the ones we would normally be able to imperialism until we fight sexist two issues. Many students felt the find in history books. She described oppression - the subjugation of women degree of tension involved when it such women as Mary C. Coy who by men as the American way of comes to defining terms such a travelled extensively as a writer, nurse, patriarchy. feminism and holding theory at high The audience, predominantly and gold processor; Susie King Taylor esteem. MARCH 19 who organized the first night school female, became aroused and vocal The forum ended in prayer and in during her talk clapping and shouting for adults; and Lucy Terry who fought respect to ancestors. for land rights. in approval. The panelist defined Page 10 Spelman Spotlight, Atlanta, GA March 4,1993 PEROGATIVE ‘Sorority Syndrome’ Plagues SSGA Elections By Elisa Smith Editor-in-Chief I remember four years ago sitting in sorority, one had to be elitist and importantly, they need a plan of action. because of my qualifications, for I did Sisters Chapel listening to the Spelman untouchable? Was the SSGA another They will be "in charge" if elected. not campaign for Spotlight editor Student Government Association "sorority" in disguise? They will be your leaders, your because I was interested in becoming an officers introduce themselves. I Well, since I wasn’t elitist, I could planners, your organizers - your voice to an AKA. The AKAs did not "force" me remember feeling that such a goal of never become an AKA, and if I’d never the administration. to run for the position. The Deltas did being a member of the SGA - though become an AKA, I’d surely never be on 1 dare you to challenge yourself and not threaten me or attempt to make me attainable in high school - was really the SGA. So, now what? question who is allowing the SSGA to abandon my campaign. Clearly, I could out of my league in college. I decided to test my luck. I be dominated by members of sororities not have won solely based on the I had great respect and admiration campaigned for the position of Spotlight who are not always the most qualified support of AKAs and others interested for the officers and I wanted to be a editor. Perhaps I was comforted by my candidates. Surely the 130 members of in becoming AKAs. My position on the part of the campus leadership, but I did unopposed campaign. Perhaps I was sororities on Spelman’s campus are not SSGA was not a prerequisite for my not think the SSGA was for "plain, comforted by my family’s the only students interested in campus membership in Alpha Kappa Alpha. ordinary" students. Not once during encouragement. Perhaps I was life. If I had not become an AKA, I my freshman year did I attend an comforted by my experience working on Contrary to popular belief, it is not would still be editor of the Spotlight. SSGA meeting, for I thought they were the Spotlight staff. Surely, I was most necessary to compromise your integrity Perhaps I was lucky to escape the not for "mere" freshmen. comforted by Jocelyn’s prodding - after for the sake of sorority or SSGA supposed "sorority syndrome." Surely, When I became a sophomore, I was all, I would be assuming her position. membership. Surely, you elected me I was just qualified. still in awe (literally) of the SSGA (And, by the way, she is a member of officers. I was hoping that Spelman Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.) would prepare me to be a student Reflecting on my experiences as an government officer (giving me at least SSGA officer before becoming an AKA the potential) before graduation, but I and after, I am appalled to hear that a was wondering when this great very qualified student who is Spelman Spotlight transformation would occur. (One year campaigning for an SSGA position has had already past.) been asked to abandon her campaign STAFF Then I decided to get involved with because her opponent is a member of a the student newspaper. I was even a sorority. I am discouraged to hear that Editor-in-Chief Elisa Smith little timid when I went to the meeting. a very qualified student has refused to Associale Editor Jamellah Braddock These feelings were very odd to me seek a position because the "sorority Staff Advisor because I had been very active in high syndrome" has infected the SSGA so Leisha Stewart school. I could not understand why I much that the organization appears had this "untouchable" image of the ineffective. SECTION EDITORS SSGA. It is not surprising to me that I soon became the layout editor of historically members of sororities have Arts & Entertainment Sabrina Hawkins the Spotlight and 1 developed a held positions of leadership; part of the Kanika Williams friendship with the then-editor-in-chief, sororities’ aim is to inscribe and Campus News Felice Winston Jocelyn Coleman. I began feeling enhance leadership skills. What has Celebrate Our Queendom Donniea Gordon more and more comfortable about the shocked me is that members of Culinary Corner Marisa DeSailes SSGA, and I even attended a meeting Spelman’s student body - seasoned with Environmental Awareness Vanessa Raye once or twice. At the meeting, I was high school valedictorians, SGA Expressions Stefanie Dunning not made to feel like an outsider by the presidents and class officers - have officers. I even considered empowered undeserving members of Health News Sonya Daniels campaigning for the position of editor. sororities by relinquishing their own Local News LaNae Dora It was not too long after I had goals due to fear and intimidation. National/Imcrnational News Kelli Moore begun to erase my image of the SSGA If you cannot seek to fulfill your Prerogative Afua Abdullah’ as somewhat elitist that I discussed goals, then perhaps you are not Sister to Sister Riche Daniel with some friends my interest in leadership material. And if you cannot becoming a member of Alpha Kappa vote based on qualifications, then COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS Alpha Sorority, Inc. perhaps your ballot should go unmarked. And it was not too long after that 1 do not know what the outcome of Advertising Charmagne Helton discussion that my friends and I this election will be. 1 will not be here Distribution Angele Harrison realized that most (if not, all) of the next year to witness the success of the officers of the SSGA were members of SSGA. But I feel confident that you, Photography Maleka Ingram sororities. the students, will not allow yourselves Pamela Jones I had heard from my older sister that to be shortchanged by electing sorority and fraternity affiliations lackadaisical, self-serving, ineffective, The Spelman Spotlight welcomes letters to the editor, clouded the qualifications of SGA unapproachable students to the SSGA. artwork and submissions to Expressions. Editorial opinions candidates at Hampton University. My I challenge you to observe the board expressed on these pages do not necessarily represent the cousin and some friends affirmed that in upper Manley, to read the flyers. I editorial position of the Spotlight. All submissions will this happened at Tuskegee University, challenge you to attend the speeches and be considered for publication as space permits. Submissions also. Surely, this could not be the debates. Listen to the candidates! should be sent through Campus Mail via P.O. Box 1234. happening at Spelman! I dare you to challenge them! I dare The Spotlight is published bimonthly and has a circulation Did that mean that in order to be a you to ask substantive questions! I of 3,000. The Spotlight staff meets on Mondays at 6:00 p.m. part of the SSGA, one had to be a part dare you to question the candidates’ 'lhe office is located in Lower Manley, room 104. of a sorority; and to be a part of a motives, realizing that, more Deadline for next issue: March 22, 1993 SSGA Elections Next meeting: March 19, 1993 March 19 Page 11 Spelman Spotlight, Atlanta, GA March 4, 1993 PEROGATIVE

An End to Complacency...

By Stefanie Dunning arrival and during my tenure at discontent lives beside sisterhood, along with anyone else with the sun Expressions Editor Spelman. knowledge and love here at Spelman. bom into their skin.... I write this article with the hope that It would be very easy to say that Discontent of some sort lives in the This attitude of "What in the world it will not fall on deaf ears. I write Spelman is the best place in the world, hearts of all of us when dealing with our can I do?" is what keeps people at the this article with the hope that it will be the best thing that ever happened to me school, no matter how much we love it. bottom. It is this complacency that the understood, as well as read. I write - thebestthebestthebest. This is easy to Now, sisters, do not sigh here and world is counting on to be the this article because I love myself and I say because for most of us, it is stop reading. It is not enough to discuss destruction of our people. Anyone can love the community of people from drummed, fed and forced into our the complexities of the issues with our destroy you, me, or us if we help them. which I came and with whom I heads. There is no way to forget that roommates, boyfriends and friends. It is Anyone can tell us that we don’t have proceed. Spelman has a monopoly on advantages not enough to complain childishly to any rights if we let them. I am a first-year student here at for Black women. advisors or deans. We must motivate Things at Spelman can change for Spelman, and like many of you, I came Nevertheless, let us not become ourselves into action. If YOU want the better if we want them to. Things in to Spelman from a basically white blinded by the salvation of Spelman, something to change YOU must do the world can change if we want them environment. I came to Spelman for with the good comes the bad. It is something about it. to. We can change if we want to. thinking that I would be too "weird", our duty and responsibility to see our The problems experienced by the Life and the quality of it are two too "proper", too everything that problems clearly for what they are. It student body, us, are only amplified by values and endeavors worth fighting for. contradicted the image I saw of is also our obligation to the school we inaction. Use your talent, whatever it They are worth being unpopular for. Spelman. love to try to make it better. may be to change the things that you Let today be the day that you open your I have tried systematically and don’t like. Write letters. Circulate mouth, pick up a pen, start a petition, constantly throughout my life to be This article is a cry against petitions, talk to administrators or SSGA make an appointment.... what others wanted me to be, which complacency. How many times have officials. Do whatever it takes to make Let today be the day that you make was what was "normal." My mother you found yourself infuriated by the sure that the people who can help you a commitment. The next time that you wanted me to be this, my grandmother way some of the faculty members have know that you have a problem. open your mouth to complain about wanted me to be that and we all know treated you? How many times have you What you do here at Spelman will Spelman or anything else for that what the white indoctrinated society experienced outright unprofessionalism affect you later in life. I don’t just matter, make sure that you are also that we all grow up in wants me to be. when dealing with certain secretaries mean your education or extracurricular complaining about your own However, I could never deny the and administrators? How many times activities. I mean that if you learn to complacency. It takes more than fact that I was uniquely and has someone told you, rather rudely and accept the status quo (good or bad) here walking, talking and dressing like inconsequentially me. unnecessarily, "Get your priorities at Spelman, you will learn to accept it someone who wants change - a I could never be the sheep who straight!" or "To be a Spelman in the larger world. revolutionary, if you will. jumped when told and followed when woman..."? You will begin to think that the Do something revolutionary by led. I could never be "simple", easy, I am sure we have all heard it. I ghettoes are just part of life. You will deciding to act on your displeasure and or even quiet for that matter. have heard complaints about it echoing begin to think that the drug problem will pain. Do something revolutionary by Therefore, I don’t see any reason why all over campus, from dorm and locker never be solved and that white people being heard. Do something my silence should begin during my rooms to the cafeteria. The onslaught of will always control African Americans revolutionary by doing something at all.

The Shrines of the Black Madonna ...A Call to Action Bookstore and Cultural Center

wanting and waiting to receive on- By Ilene T. Jones cafeteria and in your dorm rooms. invite you to hear campus housing. It is so easy to have an attitude about I recently wrote a letter to the This fee not only does not consider administrators of this college to voice what you think is wrong, but it is much those students who barely make it more productive to get involved, be my serious concerns about the new throughout two semesters financially, $500 fee to be assessed in July. informed and communicate with Professor but it also does not lend any administrators. This new fee was sprung on consideration to those students who students, the few who were present, at My mother often warns that you Derrick Bell experience financial difficulty during can’t complain if you don’t try to make the Jan. 30 Town Meeting. the summer often caused by family As explained, this fee is being a change. sickness, death or insufficient job assessed because 10 percent of the Yes, the administrators of this security. students who claim housing for the college have a responsibility to listen While I recognize and appreciate the and work for the betterment of our spring semester cause an importance of the monies generated "administration shuffle" by not academic and student life on this from room and board, I truly believe notifying those in the Officer of campus; but, we as students have an that there is a better method of Faces at the Residential Life that they will be living obligation to ourselves, to our parents preventing this "administrative shuffle." off campus. who pay, and to our future sisters to Bottom of the I suggest that those who choose to Those who do not pay this fee will take responsibility for our social and Well: The live off campus after an established academic development at Spelman. forfeit their on-campus housing for that deadline in July or August be assessed semester. If you want to stop feeling helpless Permanence of a fee. This will prevent those who do GET INVOLVED. I find this fee and its reasoning not contribute to the problem from Racism ridiculous and outrageous. Attend SSGA meetings every being asked to the pay the price. To assess a $500 fee to 90 percent Tuesday at 11:00 a.m., come to the I urge students to examine this issue town meetings, write your newspaper of the students for 10 percent of the and let the administrators know how Fri., March 5 students’ behavior is unjust and and administrators. you feel about the policies that affect Our education is our unnecessary. you. 6 - 7:30 p.m. Additionally, having been number responsibility. 125 on the waiting list, I know that I challenge my sisters to do more We cannot ask the administrators to there have always been students than just complain to your friends in the give more than we are willing to give. 946 Abernathy Blvd. For more information cali 752-6125 Page 12 Spelman Spotlight, Atlanta, GA March 4, 1993

The Shrines of the Black Madonna Bookstore and Cultural Center invite you to hear

Professor Derrick Bell

as he speaks from and autographs copies of his latest book

Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism

Friday, March 5, 6-7:30 p.m. 946 Abernathy Blvd. S. W.

(See the live television interview with Professor Bell on March 5, Noon News, WAGA Channel 5)

For more information, call 752-6125 Page 13 Spelman Spotlight, Atlanta, GA March 4, 1993 SISTER TO SISTER "Celebration in Black " Strengthens Bonds of Sisterhood

By Riché Daniel When we began rehearsals for this together. We had shared food, we had We did everything from trusting Sister to Sister Editor performance we were faced with the shared clothes and shoes (costumes), perfect strangers to lead us blindly unique challenge of putting on the first we had shared beds (in between running and jumping, to falling Once a year the students of Spelman "Celebration in Black" performance rehearsals) and we had shared rides (for backwards off of a four feet high table College are given an opportunity to written, produced, directed and those who lived off campus). into the arms of sisters who might not build bonds of sisterhood that transcend performed by an all-female cast. We were sharing our inner most be so "anxiously" awaiting the fall. everything including dormitories, From there, the experiences became thoughts and feelings with people we After all is said and done we lived classifications, majors and homestates. more unique and memorable by the probably would never have met under the bonds that permeate throughout the This unique experience is called minute. normal circumstances. We readily history of Black women. preparation for "Celebration in Black" When rehearsals began we knew accepted advice from people who knew Although we were working hard to and though each of us complained of faces. We were familiar with some nothing about us. be, feel, and create our characters and late night practices, unnecessary people through classes and other Through the concentration games, the situations in which we performed, it attitudes, "too small" roles, and activities. Some of us were best the voice exercises, and the character was the bonds of sisterhood we created incomplete scripts, it was a most friends, some were roommates. Some sketches that revealed more about each that built our characters for us. memorable and enjoyable experience. didn’t know each other at all. of us than anyone realized, we were We began to care for each other, feel It really confirmed the Spelman At the end of the last performance able to really become "Spelman for each other, really know each other sisterhood we all boast about. we had all spent over 100 hours sisters." and in that way we were able to feel the pain our foremothers and foresisters felt.

Sleepless Nights

I have never seen a black woman in such a heavenly light As the fire that exudes from these walls. Breaths of ancient lives lingering in it, Drawing us to it, Begging us to ask it For the magic that makes things come together. Bright African colors coupled with exasperated smiles. On the eve of the end Ama, graceful and agile, I take mental photographs of what will be memories. Keeping in step while waving her arms and yelling, "Gotta make a straight line!" Keelah running things, Kenja, with her bad self, "Let’s move it like we want to get out of here, and pro-JECT!" Directing each dancer to raise her leg above her head. Nicole and Colette directing folks, Sisters speaking to us through their movement. Richelle working those slides, Kelly, singing up a storm with those slippers on. Stacey taking care of business in the lightbooth, Laquiana’s voice physically raising the hairs on our necks. Meer a and Dejay creating 100 years Malika, the embodiment of dignity. (out of twenty bucks and some closets) And Ina - full of passion. Donnica watching it come together. Me, I’m cherishing every face, every movement, every word- Sisters’ Chapel at two in the morning, Those filled with resentment as well as those said with love. Again. But are we listening to ourselves as we go through the motions ? Attitudes flying. Do we hear the words we’ve been saying When we talk about our grandmothers and great - grandmothers? Backstage talk, English majors, Economics majors, Music majors, Women who must have tossed in their sleep, Telling our business to people we never saw before. Looked up at ceilings and skies, Talking about where we come from, And into their faces in mirrors, What our schools were like, In the waters. Men Searching, scheming, praying. (or boys, as the case may be.) Real women who were stolen, Bukola hyping herself up to like Christopher Williams. And stolen from, Darla, still on them crutches, Raped, Kanika tripping off her one - liner. Beaten up, locked up, and locked out. Real women who didn ’t sleep, We don’t always get the chance to breathe each others’ air. But pushed always forward, To find out where we come from, Who survived. Who we are, For what? And why. For whom? To even stop to ask a sister her name. And when we do, Yes, we are tired. We do it in the name of wasting valuable time But three weeks and a few sleepless nights are Which could be spent memorizing Only a small part of this endeavor. Somebody’s theories on something someone said was important. This work is labor of love for our mothers, And a prayer that in their shadows But now, We might strive to shine ever on as brightly as they do, On the eve of this celebration And leave in the fire of these walls a breath of our lives We decided to have on purpose, For our daughters. The only word that comes to mind is (completed 4:41 am, February 13, 1993) Beautiful. By Mendi D.S. Lewis Page 14 Spelman Spotlight, Atlanta, GA March 4, 1993 HEALTH NEWS Vitamins: Are They Really Necessary?

By Sonya Daniels Health News Editor The effects of supplementary to fully develop. vitamins have been debated by Researchers have also discovered a scientists over the years. Some link between folic acid and the scientists believe that taking vitamins prevention of cervical cancer. Women are unnecessary - that people can get who have beer exposed to a virus that all of the nutrients they need from the causes cervical cancer are five times as food they eat. likely to develop precancerous lesions if More and more scientists are now they have low levels of folic acid. beginning to suspect that traditional Antioxidants - vitamins C, E and views of vitamins have been too beta carotene - appear to be able to PHARMACISTS...An Integral Part of limiting. It has been discovered that diffuse the volatile toxic molecules that Today’s vitamins - often in doses higher than are a byproduct of normal metabolism in those reaim mended - may protect cells. Healthcare Team. against different illnesses. Vitamins C and E appear to reduce Risks of cancer, birth defects, the risk of cataracts by at least 50 cataracts and heart disease may be percent according to one Canadian lowered by certain vitamins, studies study. Vitamin C concentrates in the Xavier University show. eye making it especially efficient. So far scientists have identified 13 Studies have found that vitamin E of Louisiana organic substances that are commonly may be helpful in preventing free labeled vitamins. In the human body, radicals from injuring the heart. The COLLEGE OF PHARMACY vitamin seems to speed up recovery in they play a vital role in helping For more information regulate the chemical reactions that patients who have had coronary-bypass call or write to: protect cells and convert food into operations. Xavier University of Louisiana The recommended daily vitamin COLLEGE OF PHARMACY energy and living tissue. 7325 Palmetto Street Some vitamins are produced within intake varies for different ages and New Orleans, LA 70125 (504) 483-7424 the body, such as vitamins D, K, biotin sexes. To simplify matters, the FDA and pantothenic acid. Most vitamins (since 1968) has taken the highest must be ingested. Recommended Daily Allowances - those As a class of compounds, vitamins appropriate for teenage boys - and are known to produce dramatic effects endorsed them as the national standard. WALTER KAITZ when missing from the diet. Some In 1990, the FDA announced plans to effects of vitamin deficiency include change this policy. FOUNDATION scurvy, pernicious anemia, and rickets. Nutritionists and doctors agree that CABLE'S RESOURCE FOR DIVERSITY® Low vitamin C intake appears to be everyone’s basic needs could be met by associated with a higher risk of cancer, eating a diet rich in vegetables and Attention Graduates with work experience! low levels of folic acid with a greater fruits. The ideal diet would consist of WKF is actively recruiting successful ethnic minority professionals for management opportunities in the cable television industry. chance of birth defects and high three to five servings of vegetables daily; two to four servings of fruit; six calcium consumption with a decreased WALTER KAITZ FOUNDATION CABLE to 11 servings of breads, rice, pasta and danger of osteoporosis. MANAGEMENT PROGRAM Folic acid, also known as folate, is grains; and two to three servings of Following an assessment process carefully designed to identify new a form of vitamin B which appears to meat, eggs, poultry and dried beans. talent for the cable industry, selected candidates are hired for available guard against two forms of neurological Unfortunately, only nine percent of positions which utilize their professional skills and experience. defects affecting newborns in the U.S. - adults manage to consume five servings of vegetables and fruits each day. spina bifida and anencephaly. In spina PLACEMENT OPPORTUNITIES (SAMPLING) bifida there is incomplete closure of the Those who do not have an ideal diet •General Managers spine and in anencephaly the brain fails should research supplementary vitamins. •Management Trainees •Financial Analysis •Marketing Directors •Affiliate Salespersons •Account Executives

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The Palm of Your Hand

"I love you. . .I’m sorry. . .Please forgive me," you said.

I just sat there shaking my head. I felt like a deflated balloon searching for hot air in the Antarctic. I could feel the condensation on my chest, that came from my melting heart. The Inside Me "What are you smiling at?" "Nothing" you said, as you came over to hug me, -A Poem To and For The Other 2 Us’s knowing you had me just where you wanted me.

My friends called me foolish, and my sister shook her head. My mother always told me not to give second chances. Take my solemn Eight months later, and you proved them all right. Face like the bitter Pin-fingers of the cold Wind You seem content to let us drift farther Know that it down the river of lost friends and lost loves. Is My life jacket will mean nothing My protection my if you do not reach for it. Shield against Besides The world my arms are still sore from throwing the jacket before.

Take my unsmiling Communication is a powerful tool, Mouth for all its and your silence has communicated a lot. Beauty I sit and watch you drift farther away from me Trust not while I wave goodbye with a sigh of sorrow The Conventional ijie Intepretation of then relief. Emotion I can walk around My still lips You will always have my love. The hedge Are only representations Now it’s intertwined with disappointment. Only to Find Of quiet Passion I finally realized that the palm of your hand Myself And Confusion is not a warm or safe place to be. Again On the Gone Tame OtherSame Side - ‘sorry didn't do it’ My Night-time I am Searching Eyes only Say that I For the mirror Visit That won’t shatter Daily my When I look Upon Homeland and My face Take glad refuge For the time and place In the silence Of my existences And comfort Of my mind I am Searching Visited again I Cried Two Tears To recall everything Each day I KnewKnow I’ll be the same To settle into Call me I cried two tears today... This person And I’ll come I cried two tears for the breadbox encapsulating my I cannot see But expect only conscience, and for the air seeping through the box. But that I know is The truth to live I cried two tears for the conclusion.... Me On my face and the beginning of the conclusion... No giddy smiles I cried two tears for the truths that hurt I am Searching No jolly eyes and the lies that don’t No gleeful face I cried two tears for the tears that flow like blood., For the reason Only the true me and the tears that clot... That I can see me The real me I cried two tears for not. In your eyes The Inside Me I cried two tears for the hate and for the hate, Why I can be and for the love and for the love; Who I am -Stefanie Dunning I cried two tears for all they were worth.... In your arms Expressions Editor I cried two tears for you and for you.... And why and for me and for me You existed with I cried two tears for life and for lives, Me all along I cried two tears for short hellos and long goodbyes.... I cried two tears for the lies. I am Searching I cried two tears because pain and suffering know not tears Societal Branding because hate and love know not tears But am glad because tears don’t wash life away For us three because tears don’t wash the mind away A difinitive Path The level of understanding that I have of my surroudings because tears represent everything and Converged and Is to me insulting, nothing....0, 2. ini': nity... Forged all the Because the world around me, I cried two tears today, but my mind did not hear. Same Peering....looking above me, still Bom of Root Labels and dowplays me, -Amri B. Johnson Steady in Herds and degrades me, burns me- Growth And this is apalling to me. We climb ever But it is of ample understanding, Since it is afraid of our rounding, as a result of, We climb ever The Societal Branding.

-Amri B. Johnson Page 16 Spebnan Spotlight, Atlanta, GA March 4,1993

The Shrines of The Black Madonna Bookstore and Cultural Center invite you to a Celebration of Sisterhood In an evening with Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole President of Spelman College as she speaks from and autographs copies of her new book

Conversations: Straight Talk with America’s Sister President

with Introduction of Dr. Cole and Remarks by author and playwright Pearl Cleage

Sunday, March 7, 1993 7:00 p.m. 960 Abernathy Blvd., SW

For more information call 752-6125