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THE SPELMAN SPOTLIGHT
May 15, 1963
Page 10
Glee Club
Sit-Ins To Continue
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, May 8-
Joan Baez
To Appear
At MC Soon
The fabulous Joan Baez, whom
Life Magazine called “Queen of
The Folk Singers” will appear at
Morehouse College Gym this
Saturday evening in a benefit
performance for the Student
Non-Vdolent Coordinating Com
mittee and the Emergency Civil
Liberties Committee. Her pro
gram is scheduled to begin at
8:30 p.m. As an added feature,
Banguard Recording Company
will have her concert recorded
for a future record release which
as an indication of the import
ance of this program.
Joan, a thin, almost frail young
lady, has had an almost un
believable rapid rise to national
prominence. Since she began to
have national recognition several
years ago she has sold literally
hundreds of thousands of record
albums and developed a cult of
Baez fans that cuts across almost
all social and economic class
groupings. From country folks to
the highly bred city slickers;
from college age people to the
high school rock and roller, the
name Joan Baez generated an
excitement and loyalty which
very few artists can boast.
Her concert performances
throughout the country have been
greeted with enthusiasm and the
Standing Room Only sign. Letters
for tickets to this event have
come from every state that bor
ders on Georgia.
During this past week Miss
Baez has sung in a benefit show
at Miles College in Birmingham
and travelled with manager in
the Mississippi area where SNCC
field workers are involved in the
voter registration project. Miss
Baez has also come to the de
fense of the famous Pete Seeger,
has given him support when he
was recently barred from per
formance on America’s first
nationally televised folk music
program called “Hootenany”. She
is a girl with strong moral con
victions who is not hesitant to
express these feelings.
Tickets for this event are
available on campus. They may
be purchased from Venecia P.
Gardner, Abby 308. Normally
priced at $3.85, 3.25 and 2.75,
tickets will be available to the
students of the Atlanta Univer
sity Center for $2.00 and $2.50
so more people will be able to
attend this exciting program.
Frederick O’Neill
(Continued from page 5)
out by the very children that
she had bom. Orchids to Mrs.
Allen!
As the play ended, one sat in
his seat rather confused as how
to judge the entire performance.
However, this reviewer feels
that, in spite of a few knocks
here and there which are always
expected in a production, the
play moved rather smoothly, and
one could tell that a great
amount of energy and effort had
been put forth in order to bring
a polished production to the com
munity.
Marie Thomas
Be On The
Watch Tor
MAY 17,1963
(Continued from page 4)
Boggs Smith with an orchid cou
sage for being so wonderful and
patient on the tour. In a word,
she was “together.” We also
gave Dr. James a boutiniere,
and I don’t have to tell you
how great he is. He’s especially
nice on the tour, though.
Old Glee Club members had
a wonderful stay there despite
the fact that Atlanta was begin
ning to look highly desirable,
to put it mildly. There was even
talk of leaving the night after
the concert, and the next morn
ing when we did actually leave,
girls met the bus. suitcase, in
hand.
On the way back home, we
sang songs ranging from “Did
You Ever Think When A Hearse
Rolls By That You May Be The
Next To Die”, to “Homeward”.
Babs Douglas got out that guitar
of hers and we made the bus
rock, as we had done many times
during the past two weeks.
I wish I could recapture half
of the things we did, the places
we visited, the people we met.
I can only say that touring with
the Glee Club during my years
here, I have had some of the
most rewarding, enriching, and
memorable experiences of my
life.
Brenda Hill
(Continued from page 3)
ideas transmitted to them. This
type of atmosphere serves as a
pressure upon academic freedom.
This same type of atmosphere,
says Thomas Halden, is created by
the teacher who lectures from the
same notes year after year, as if
the idea of a particular discipline
never changes. This type of at
mosphere creates another type of
student who strives for complacen
cy rather than understanding;
and if academic freedom is to be
a reality, must be free to question
critically information transmitted
to them.
Last but by no means least, is
the pressure upon academic free
dom which comes from the ad
ministrators to the students. This
pressure may be transmitted in
directly or directly. Indirectly it
may come from the administra
tors to teachers and thus be trans
mitted to the students.
A few months ago an instructor
at Brondiese University in Massa
chusetts interpreted America’s
blockade of Cuba as a drastic and
unforgivable invasion of human
freedom and human dignity. Be
cause of this the instructor was
reprimanded and asked never to
make such statements again. Ra
ther than to be a teacher restrain
ed from teaching the truth as she
saw it, resigned from the Uni
versity, in the name of academic
freedom. Any time teachers are
restrained in speaking their true
opinion, academic freedom is also
constrained.
Pressures upon academic free
dom administrators to students are
not always transmitted by way of
teacher to student for it may come
in a direct communication of stu
dents with administrators. Too of
ten administrators expect students
to accept without question long
standing rules. Too often they ex- j
pect them to accept passively pat- |
terns of conduct or rules of order
handed to them. “But how does
this constitute a pressure upon
academic freedom?” you ask. I
answer by saying that academic
freedom requires an atmosphere
where students are allowed to
examine critically and to evalu
ate sincerely any rule handed to
them by administrators.
We must remember the words of
Alfred Whitehead, “A placid doc
trine is not necessarily disastrous;
it may be an opportunity.” How
can the administration on one
hand expect students to examine
critically the laws handed by
The leaders of the Atlanta Uni
versity Center student anti-segre
gation group have vowed that sit-
in attacks on segregated eating
places will continue.
Ralph Moore, of the Committee
on Appeal for Human Rights
(COAHR), and a student at More
house College, said here that 110
students took part in demonstra
tions that resulted in the arrest
of 40 —- including two teachers —
here Saturday, May 6. Also arrest
ed Saturday was Gwen Isles,
COAHR. Chairman and a Spelman
college senior.
Saturday’s demonstrations
brought to “over 60” the number
jailed in the past few weeks.
COAHR members, who have al
ready successfully integrated At
lanta dime store lunch counters
and movie theatres, are pushing
now for integration of private
restaurants.
Twenty demonstrators were ar
rested at one eating place. As At
lanta policemen loaded them into
paddy wagons, they sang, “We
Shall Not be Moved.” About 100
Negro spectators gathered on the
sidewalk to watch and applaud
them as they were taken away.
The current anti - segregation
drive began over a week ago. Sev
eral of the COAHR members —
from Clark, Morehouse, Morris
Brown, and Spelman Colleges —
have been jailed more than once.
COAHR leaders said that they
had made attempts to meet with
restaurant owners to discuss in
tegration.
state and national government,
and on the other hand expect them
to accept passively rules handed
down by administration? This can
not be done. However, any time
there is a clash between the ad
ministration and students there
is an opportunity either for the
administration to show the validi
ty of rules or for the rules to be
changed because they cannot be
validated. But at all times the
student’s voice must be heard as
he cries out with dissatisfaction
for improvement; his cry must be
heeded. If wrong, he must be
shown wrong; but if right, his
cry must be heeded and acted
upon.
Confab Boosted
By Book Review
At the April monthly meeting
of all members of the Board of
Review, Judiciary Board, and the
Student Council, Mrs. Rena Craig,
at the request of Dr. Manley, gave
a report on a most prevocative
book entitled Not Minds Alone by
Kenneth Brown.
The thesis of the book is shall
education deal with minds or the
people who possess the minds? In
other words — can education be
Christian? Mr. Brown’s answer
is a firm yes to this ques
tion.
Highlighting and contrasting
the free and unhampered search
for truth with the well intended,
but illiberal program of religious
indoctrination, Mrs. Craig said
that there must be an honest and
fruitful integration of religion in
the entire educational process.
Ethics and values must be taught
and encouraged. The quality stan
dards of academic excellence in
education must be met, but
“something more” is needed. Ed
ucation must be meaningfully
Christian.
We all have a job to do — the
students, staff and faculty must
consciously give best selves for
furthering the high purposes of
the institution. Campus life must
“tempt the students upward”.
Some expectations to be realized
are:
1. A Christian campus atmos
phere
2. Friendly counsel of faculty
3. Student fellowship
4. Reinforced sense of direction
and high purpose
5. An opportunity to express
Christian social concern
Mrs. Craig completed her report
by 1 paying tribute to Reverend
Rates and Father Scott at Can
terbury House for the religious
guidance which they give to the
students on our college campus.
In our search for truth we must
believe the truth to be God’s truth.
Betty Vanessa Stevens
Students Meet President
On the night of April 18th,
1963, a group of ten students
met with Dr. Manley in Rey
nold’s Cottage. The students who
represented the sophomore, jun
ior, and senior classes spoke at
length on their overall criticisms
of certain aspects of life here at
Spelman.
The major portion of this dis
course with Dr. Manley centered
on the infirmary situation, the
“hampering proper chanels’’, abo
lition of the demerit system, the
housemother - resident relation
ship, the need of more specific
rules with a designated punish
ment for the infraction of each
and the food situation in the
dining hall. Some of the pro
blems discussed are presently
being considered by the Student
Council. However, the group’s
concensus was that Dr. Manley
should be made aware of these
petty problems which encumber
the students’ progress in other
areas.
Accordingly, Dr. Manley and
the group proposed several solu
tions to the problems discussed.
Further studies were made of the
problems and reports were sub
mitted to Dr. Manley. It is our
hope that next year all Spelman
students will be witnesses to the
evident changes engendered by
this meeting.
By Josephine Dunbar
(Continued from page 1)
Mrs. Roslyn M. Patterson con
veyed feelings of appreciation on
behalf of the Alumnae. The
speakers expressed themselves
from different points of view,
and used various methods of
presentation, yet, in each in
stance, Dr. Manley was hailed as
being no less than successful.
After traveling over a road
which was very rough in many
places, he has arrived at the
door of his tenth year as Presi
dent of this institution with a
smile and renewed vigor.
In commemoration of his tenth
anniversary, the Spelman stu
dent body, through its President,
Emilie Winston, presented Dr.
Manley with a plague bearing the
following inscription:
“To know you is to love, honor,
and respect you,
For nothing to you is insur
mountable.
The most distant horizon is with
in your firm grasp,
Encompassing a myraid of both
phenomenal and minute tasks.
As long as there is a mountain
to climb,
Expanding horizons are but
moments in time —
To you.
The banquet was indeed a
memorable occasion and special
recognition should be given to
the alumnae for the organization
of the program.
On July 1, of this year, Dr.
Manley will officially completed
ten years of service which have
been termed, “a Decade of Pro
gress.” The Decade will close,
but progress will remain to take
on a new face in order to again
join hands with him for the
years ahead.
Mary Jane Reid
Jean Leslie Bettien
Native Atlantan
Sees Ordination
On May 25th. Deacon William
E. Calhoun, a graduate of More
house College, will become At
lanta’s first Negro to be ordained
priest in the Roman Catholic
Church. At the moment, Deacon
Calhoun is completing his studies
for the priesthood at Saint
Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore,
Maryland. The young priest will
begin his duties in the Archdio-
I cese of Atlanta.
Last week as an exchange stu
dent at Bowdain College I became
impressed by the fact that the
library remained open until
twelve o’clock each night. I con
stantly talked to my roomate
about how wonderful I thought
this was. But in a few days he
reminded me that he didn’t think
this was so wonderful and when
asked why, he said that next year
part of the library will be opened
all night.
I became curious as to just why
the administration made such
changes. Did they volunteer? Did
the students protest? He said nei
ther. A few complaints that they
were not able to study and that
they need more time to study in
the library; so the changes are
made.
I then thought about A. U. and
I merely concluded that academic
freedom does not exist in the
A. U. Center. A few months ago
nearly 4,000 students from all the
undergraduate colleges in the A.U.
center drew up a petition concern
ing Trevor Arnett Library.
Among other things this petition
was signed by the presidents of
all student bodies and a copy of
this petition was presented to each
college president, to the presiden
tial council, and to the library
staff, and I am here to tell you,
that the petition received as much
recognition as the 1954 Supreme
Court Decision on integration re
ceived in Alabama.
But we did receive a response
to the petition! The chairman of
the presidential council wrote,
“In the first place we cannot dis
cuss this matter with the presi
dents of our undergraduate stu
dent bodies, because our agenda
is filled; and secondly, we feel
because the undergraduates con
tribute only 50 dollars per year
for running of the establishment
which cost more than 10,000 dol
lars, then the running of that li
brary should be left to the A. U.
Center.”
The fact is that human rights
to appeal cannot be measured by
financial contribution; for early
in 1960 when the student move
ment began, many people in At
lanta said that because the Negro
in Atlanta paid less than 2 per
cent of the taxes he should not
protest. But the right to protest
is inherent in membership; there
fore, whenever anyone becomes
a member of an institution he
claims the right to protest.
In conclusion, I repeat academic
freedom demands an atmosphere
where students at all times are
encouraged to examine critically
and to study independently. If
academic freedom is to be obtain
ed, or maintained, then students,
teachers, and administrators must
join hands in the creation of such
an atmosphere.
David Satcher
President of the
Morehouse Student
Body