SPELMAN THE VOICE OF BLACK WOMANHOOD SPOTLIGHT VOL XLIII, NO. 1_______________________ ATLANTA, GEORGIA__________________________October, 1975 National Student Manley Govt Endorses Hubert Humphrey Series By Rita D. Ford Spelman College has an­ nounced the Albert E. Manley Within the last decade Convocation Series in honor of Americans have been plagued the College’s fifth president with the ills of Watergate, who plans to retire at the end inflation, depression, and of this academic year. The recession. Now as the country series is expected to provide a approaches a new election : _i > forum for debate of issues of year, another major dilemma Yolande Herron Thelma Sias national relevance and will be open to all people in the A. U. will plague many—who are the Spelman Clark most likely candidates for the Center. dc mocratic ticket? Speakers for the series will This question has been Atlanta University Center SGA include such notables as partially answered. The Harold Eugene Ford, National Student Government, Member, U. S. Congress; Michele McCullough a nation-wide organization of Johnny L. Ford, Mayor, Staff Reporter Sias were in agreement. They college student associations, both foresee their main Tuskegee, Alabama; Vivian W. Henderson, President, has already endorsed Hubert The 1975-76 school year president of Morehouse SGA; problem as being student Clark College; Charles B. Horatio Humphrey. Hum­ brings new SGA presidents to and Larewnec D. Davenport, a apathy. Riekev plans to start Rangel, Member, U.S. phrey, who is a political the A.II, Center. They are: senior from Brooklyn, New the big brother program which Congress; Dr. Alvin L. veteran, became virtually non­ Thelma Sias. a senior from York, president of Morris he feels will “alleviate the Poussaint, Professor of existent after his loss to Mayersville. Mississippi, Brown SGA. What do AU SGA frustrations and tensions” that Psychiatry, Harvard Richard Nixon in the 1968 president of Clark SGA, president expect to achieve can develop among the presidential election and then this year? freshman. Thelma plans to University; Gwendolyn Yolande Herron, a senior Brooks, Pulitzer Prize- his defeat to George from Minneapolis, Minnesota, When asked about problems work very hard with programs Winning Poet; Lerone Ben­ McGovern in the 1972 president of Spelman SGA; foreseen in the 1975-76 school already in existence and be nett, Jr., Historian, Essayist, primaries. Because of the lack Riekev W. Peete, a junior from year and possible resolutions, Novelist, Poet; Madelyn P. of strong competition-Udall, Memphis, Tennessee, both Riekev Peete and Thelma Henry (“Scoop”) Jackson, Continued on page 7 Nix, Attomey-at-Law; Yvonne Lloyd Bentsen, Jimmy Carter, B. Burke, Member, U. S. Milton Shapp, Terrv Sanford, Congress; and Barbara Continued on Page 7 Sizemore, Public Superin­ Urban /Environmental Studies At Spelman College tendent of Schools, By Stephanie Nelson Washington, D. C. TRAVEL ABROAD Staff Reporter The first convocation in her major field of study, the This fall a concentrated (Congressman Ford) is slated Become A unique program with in­ student also receives a cer- course of study, entitled for September 28, 1975 at 3:00 terdisciplinary studies in the p.m., in Sisters Chapel. Merrill Scholar Urban-Enviommental social science division. Urban- Continued on Page 5 Studies, began at Spelman See Dr. Gates Environmental Studies is College. The program, which designed to enable students to For Further Info III is funded by the National study urban and en­ Science Foundation, is a vironmental problems and solutions to these problems which will ultimately face all in the future. The need for urban and environmental studies grew out of the rising perplexities of urban living, population in­ creases and environmental pollution. Although the course concentrates on the social science division, there is still imput from the national sciences for a two-fold study. The urban studies look at living conditions, government, population, and economics. Environmental issues deal with pollution and ecology. The administrative com­ mittee includes: chairperson, Dr. Katherine Brisbane, Dr. Faith Shepard [center] of Ypslanti, Michigan, a Junior at Oran Egleson, Psychology; Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, exchanges ideas with Mrs. Ann Hornsby, Marketing’s W.E. Kern at Mobil Oil’s “Week in the Business Economics; Dr. Harry Lefever, Sherrie Mars nan, w as one oi iZ college students who worked this World” program for outstanding black college sophomores. Sociology; Dr. Lois Moreland, summer in New York advertising agencies, under the auspices of Faith Shepard was of 24 sophomores entitled to participate in Political Science; also. Dr, Mobil Oil’s “Week in the Business World” program by writing the Student Fellowship Program of the American Association of Gladys Bayse, Chemistry. Advertising Agencies. A Spelman senior, Sherrie worked atWells, an award-winning essay. Teh project, now in its eighth year, Sophomores enrolled in one brings outstanding college sophomores for a week-long visit to Rich, Greene, Inc., received a “graduation” certificate from John of the social science depart­ Mobil facilities in the New York/Philadelphia area. The program Taylor, chairman of the A.A.A.A.’s Equal Employment Opportunity ments are eligible for par­ offers black students a first-hand look at a big company’s Committee. She is an English major and a Mass Communications, ticipation in the program. operations and a chance to question directly the people who minor. Her home is in Nashville. Along withTeceiving a degree have the answers about job opportunities. f I From The Editor Institute Of The Black Work/ Debbi Newton Editor-in-chief Margaret Lee Political Editor The beginning of a new academic year often signals potential productivity for those who choose wisely the priorities of their time. Located on the corner of Whether we expect to participate or not. 1975-76 will be a year of Chestnut and Beckwith, is a decision-making. viable institution that often Should Wack celebrate the bicentennial? Should graduating goes unrecognized by A. U. Spelman students seek graduate studies, or the alternative of center students. Housed in a medium-sized frame structure practical on-the-job employment? Which presidential candidate is the Institute of the Black should the National Student Association or the National Black World more commonly Congressional Caucus endorse? Who will be the next president of referred to as IBW. Founded Spelman College? in 1969 by a group of Hi: hlv skilled personnel-staff, faculty, and administration can prominent black scholars like aid in the extent of participation which takes place within this Vincent Harding, the director College community. However, it will be the students themselves of IBW; Stephen Henderson; w ho dec ide the roles they will assume in shaping their futures, the Gerald McWorter; and A. BI future of Spelman College, the future of the Atlanta University Spelman S.G.A. Spellman, the Institute was Center, and the future of the society at large. born out of the belief that only when blacks "understand and For the first time in Spelman's history, an entering class of more Angela Pendergrass than four hundred ydung women have been enrolled, forty-four ot know their past and present Reporter can they ultimately begin to whom are upperclassmen and returning students. These women deter their own destiny. The represent thirty-seven states including Hawaii, and six foreign The 1975-76 Student Political Science major from Institute of the Black World , ountries including the Bahamas. Vietnam. Nigeria, the Republic of Government Association Georgia. Parlamentarían is was at first a part of the Martin South Africa. Kenya, and Rhodesia. proudly announces that this Zenora Mitchell, a senior Luther King Jr. Memorial three are National Merit Achievement Finalists and two are will be a dynamite academic Political Science major from Center. However, after a year exc hange students from Wcllcsly and Smith Colleges. All of these year ¡or all Spelmanites. The Washington, D.C.; Treasurer of working together the two will be involved in decision-making for the first time, from S.G.A. is determined to Helena Humphrey, a senior groups decided to form Spelman ‘•yard.’’ provide quality in both social Economics major from Texas; separate organizations. For To aid that decision-making, the Spelman Spotlight becomes a and cultural activities Editor of the Spotlight, Debbie the past five years IBW has public forum—your forum as students as well as the forum of the throughout the year. Newton, a senior Political been working independently to re-define the educational and surrounding black West-End community. Our position is to initiate Science major from, Illinois; The student government Associate Editor of the political direction of the Black exchange and to facilitate the flow of response among our readers. officers who have pledge to do community. The issues presented here are challenges that each of us must Spotlight, Valory Mapp, a their very best for all Spelman junior English major from The dominant concern is the confront. They reflect new and urgent dilemmas of the day that Sisters are: President Yolande Georgia; Editor of Reflections, need to know and understand compel us to communicate and to become more collectively in­ Herron, a senior Psychology Jann Washington, a senior the political, economic, and novative in discovering the means to their possible solution. major from Minnesota; Vice- cultural history of the struggle Presented here are the ideas of yet another human being sket­ President Janice Robinson, a Sociology major from Texas: of Black people. IBW is ched in black and white. It is an attempt to record the historical, junior Political Science major Associate Editor of Reflec­ dedicated to preserving the from Florida; Social Chairman tions. Diedre Yarborough, a “long tradition of politically- political, artistic, and social experience emerging from within the junior Music major from mecca commonly considered the Atlanta University Center com­ Jetta Edwards, a senior conscious black scholarship Philosophy and Economics Illinois: and Angela Pen­ that W.