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VOL. XXIV, NO. 4 SPELMAN COLLEGE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA April 11, 1963 STUDENT-FACULTY CONFAB snccru«, The “Students in Activities” night was held Wednesday April 10, and featured folk dances from around the world. At this same time, Mrs. Milldcent Jordan, a prominent alumna, and one of our faculty members, along with Emilie Winston, President of the SSGA, supervised the reporting of gifts. SPURS LOCAL INTEREST One of the projects of the Social Science Club for this year has been a series of open discussions on subjects of current interest. The most recent of these discussions was held Mon day night, March 11, in the gameroom of Abby Hall. Monday night’s topic was “Liberty at Spelman”, or the lack of it, as the case may be. Attendance was very good because students had come to voice their feelings on a topic about which there has been much, too much, discussion and little, too little, ac tion; and faculty members had come to find out “just what j it is the students are complaining about.” Dr. Zinn, the faculty sponsor of the Social Science Club, be gan by reading excerpts from two letters and a report, which “. . . are provocative and will stimu late discussion.” Both letters, he mentioned were unsolicited. The first letter was from a Spelman alumna who is presently matri culating at one of the leading graduate schools in the East. She spoke of how good it was to be in a situation in which everyone was placed on her own and ex pected to act like an adult, rather than given a few privileges and having someone play watch dog, ready to “catch” her in violation of these privileges. The second letter was from a girl who had left Spelman and who attempted to put on paper her reasons for leaving. Among other things she felt that her total personality would become warped if she remained at Spel man, because, “How can anyone grow up any way but warped in a warped situation?” The third excerpts came from the Fall 1962 Report of the Spe cial Human Relations Staff for the National Student YWCA. This report was prepared by two young ladies, one white and one Negro, after a study made of colleges in the Southern region of the country. Their report pointed up the fact that the trouble with Spelman is regional. “The first strike against the Southern student, both Negro and white, (is that his growth is stunted by the insularity of the region. He is nurtured in a cli mate which has kept him from exploring the worlds that lie be yond his gaze. . .the social at mosphere is one of distrust for the different; and classroom learning only more deeply en trenches parental attitudes rather than freeing youth to protest and form its own system of beliefs.” “The very basic need of South ern students is to understand their right to protest—a right they have simply because they are human beings. . .” “. . .Fa culties stifle a vision of the fu ture by constantly holding up personal backgrounds to the students. . .The problems of fa culty-student communication are further aggravated by improper communication between faculties and administration. Faculty mem bers feel that they will jeopar dize their positions by taking very definite stands on any num ber of issues.” Dr. Zinn was followed by a member of the student body who spoke of a general discontent among the students caused chiefly by an attitude of paternalism which Spelman has adopted. “Paternalism in any form induces, or reinforces, immaturity, con formity, and interest among those whose imagination, critical talent, and capabilities for inte grity and growth should be en couraged and given opportunity for development. Removal of res ponsibility for personal decision making from the individual stu dent distorts and weakens a sign ificant phase of the education process. . .We recognize that not all forms of university-imposed disciplines are paternalistic in nature. We can see justification, and even necessity, in the en forcement of some rules and regulations.” Many and varied answers came from the students in reply to the question by one of the faculty members, “Please be specific— just what are you complaining about?” One student brought up the rules which seem illogical, such as the practice of permitting students to wear pants to break fast on Sunday mornings, but not on weekday mornings; not being allowed to wear scarves in the dining hall when a scarf would look much neater than a hairdo made unruly by swimming. (Continued on page 8) Founders Day Processional makes a beautiful assembly line ^~Jraclitionaf Jounder 5 <2), Renews f deuSunt *VHii City In keeping with one of the best-known of Spelman’s many traditions, plans are now being made for the Eighty-Second Founders’ Day Celebration. Each year, a week is set aside for us to pay tribute to Miss Sophia B. Packard and Miss Hariett E. Giles, who in 1880 first began to nurse the dream which was to become a living reality. This week ends on April 11, which is traditionally designated as Founders’ Day. This year, the SSGA-sponsored “Know Your Spelman Quiz” and the pep song contest were held Thursday, April 4, at 11:30 a.m., to begin the week of activities. At this time, the classes entered into a two-way competition. First of all, each class selected someone who “knows her Spel man” to test her knowledge and memory against representatives of the other classes. Secondly, each class wrote and sang a song, which was judged on the basis of such qualities as origina lity, delivery, suitability to oc casion, etc. The Anniversary Vesper Ser vice was held the following Sunday at the regular vesper hour with the Reverend Samuel W. Williams, as the speaker. That same night, at 8:00 in Sis ters’ Chapel, the Spelman Col lege Glee Club presented its an nual spring concert. emoried family has family-style luncheon in Morgan Hall. The SSGA is in charge, and the speaker for the occasion is Cecile Ganpat- singh, the President of the Senior Class. The formal Founders’ Day 'exercises will be held at 3:00 p.m. in Sisters Chapel. At this time Spelman students, faculty and guests will hear Mrs. Sadie T. M. Alexander, Attorney at Law, from Philadelphia, Penna. The cooperation and participa tion of everypne has made this Founders’ Day celebration worthy of past ones. Jean Berrien Coeds Make PI DELTA PHI Honor Society On March 18, the Epsilon Chapter of Pi Delta Phi, the Na tional Honor Society in French, held an initiation in the Lane Lounge of the Samuel H. Archer Physical Education Building on the Morehouse Campus. Six- (Continued on page 8) COAHR Acts On March 14th, over five-hun dred Atlanta University Center students marched on Atlanta’s City Hall requesting that Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. “take action imme diately regarding the breaking down of racial barriers.” The march followed the arrests of William Paul Berrien of Clark College and Amos Brown of Morehouse College, who attempt ed to integrate the Henry Grady Hotel. Students formed a picket line around the hotel’s entrance, immediately after the arrests. Student leaders of the Com mittee On Appeal For Human Rights (COAHR) were respon sible for the organization of the march, picketing, and “sleep-in” demonstrations. (See picture) Notes on Votes Four Mississippi counties - Amite, Clairborne, Lowndes, and Leflore — have been ordered, in a lawsuit, to open their voter registration records to federal inspection. The law suit charges that strict voter requirements were estab lished to discriminate against Negroes. The areas in question have been the scenes of the nearly fatal attacks on SNCC workers like James Travis, Sam Block, and Willie Peacock. Progress in Pine Bluff Students suspended from Ar kansas A. M. & N. College be cause of their participation in desegregation demonstrations, in tegrated the Holiday Inn motor hotel in Pine Bluff, Ark. on March 17th. Similar demonstra tions have been held at Wal greens Drug Store and an F. W. Woolworth’s, but to no avail. Leon Nash, a former Arkansas A. M. & N. College student, was arrested on March 14th and charged with “defacing public property.” He had been placing signs announcing a mass meeting on a utility pole. Law Delays SNCC Workers Donald Harris land John Churchville, field secretaries for the SNCC, were held and threat ened by Sumter County law en forcement officials on March 18th. The two have been active in Sumter’s voter registration drive. Last summer, the sheriff was placed under a federal injunction forbidding his interference with SNCC workers. (Continued on page 8) The Fine Arts Building shows rapid progress April 11, Founders Day, begins with the decoration of the Memo rial Plaques honoring Misses Packard and Giles by the mem bers of the Granddaughters Club. These plaques are located in Howe Hall. Immediately follow ing this ceremony, the Spelman Students picket Henry Grady Hotel while their colleagues stage sleep-in demonstration in lobby of hotel