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Front row, left to right: Katherine Pierce, Elizabeth English, Lucia McClintock, Pamela Park er, Betty Schultz, Janet Hayward. Back row: Caroline Warren, Marsha Moore, Mary Shafland, Mary Lee Rugh, Barbara Fick. Missing: Kathy Wothouse. Second Semester Exchange. BEVERLY WHATLEY NAMED SSGA PRESIDENT Annual Religious Emphasis Week To Begin March 1 For many years during this season, the students of the Atlanta Universi ty Center have looked forward to the beginning of Religious Emphasis Week. For many this particular week is a much needed period for reflec tion upon and re-evaluation of their spiritual lives. During this time, the students are given an opportunity to talk over their problems with some of the outstanding religious leaders of our community and nation, as well as with each other. This observance is usually divided into two inter-related programs—that of the Atlanta University Center and that of the individual campuses. This year the Atlanta University Center’s observance of Religious Emphasis Week will take place March 1-4. A committee composed of all the col leges in the Center has met to make plans for this event. They have chosen as guest speaker, Dr. Mordecai John son, former President of Howard University, Washington, D. C. Al though a theme has not as yet been selected, a tentative program has been set up as follows: Worship Services— (All to be held in Sister’s Chapel) Sunday: 3:00 p.m. Monday: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. (Holy Communion) Other activities such as receptions and informal discussion periods fol lowing each service will take place. Tentative plans also call for the pre sentation of “Murder in the Cathe dral” by the St. Rartholomew (Episcopal) Players, directed by Mrs. Katherine Hocking. This performance will probably take place in Dean Sage Hall; time and date will be an nounced. The Spelman Campus program will take place March 1-6. The Campus Speaker is Dr. Clarence Jordan, founder and member of the Koinonia Farm, Americus, Georgia. Dr. Jordan is a native of Georgia. He graduated from the University of Georgia with a B.S. Degree in Agriculture, and Facts Atlanta's Image The New Year opened with an all out drive on the part of high school and college students under the aus pices of SNCC to rid “our fair city” of the law-supported policies of seg regation. This impetus was directed by SNCC Chairman, John Lewis, and Chairman of the Cambridge Non violent Action Committee, Gloria Richardson. The targets were public and private restaurants and hotels. Leaders are also pressing for more jobs for qualified Negroes. To spur the drive on, comedian Dick Gregory has played an active role by picketing, sitting-in, and do ing public speaking at various churches and to diverse organizations throughout the city. On February fourth, Mr. Gregory addressed a large group of students, educators, and workers at a mass meeting held at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church. The main speaker was in troduced by Rev. James Bevell of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He pointed out the ironies of this system of segregation (Continued on Page 4) from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, with a Th.M. Degree (Masters of Theolo gy) and Ph.D. Degree in Greek. For four years he worked in the inner city of Louisville under the Baptist Mission Board and at the same time taught at Simmons University and pastored rural churches. In 1942, he helped launch the Koinonia Farm and has been there since then. He has spoken at many college campuses throughout the U. S. and has written books for senior high and older youths. He is presently working on a “Cotton Patch” translation of the New Testament. Although Dr. Jordan is our speaker for this observance, student commit tees will assume responsibility for all other activities during this week. The program will be similar to that of last year, however, some changes are expected. Opinions The Time Is Now There is in these United States a revolution taking place. A revolu tion, according to Webster, is a com plete change of any kind, an over throw of a government or a social system. Only two points in this def inition apply directly to our purpose. The revolution of today is geared toward a complete change and over throw of a social system. This social system is the cancer that has been eating away at the souls of all Ameri cans for hundreds of years. Segrega tion! A cure of this disease would en tail a complete alteration of the pres ent system. Who are to be the doc tors? Indirectly, the movement, in all honesty, is an attempt to overthrow the government; not as it exists theo retically in the Constitution, but rather as it has been distorted and colored to discriminate against mi nority groups. Two sets of rules exist for Americans in this country. One group of citizens is free, the other is not. It is as simple as that. Ine qualities and injustices prevail on all fronts of American life. However, (Continued on Page 4) Senior Beverly Whatley was re cently appointed president of the Spelman Student Government As sociation. Former president, Betty Stevens, who completed her require ments for graduation after the first semester, made the appointment be fore leaving. Miss Whatley is a na tive of Atlanta, Georgia. She was a recipient of the Merrill Study Grant for the year 62-63, during which time she studied in Norway. Miss Whatley has expressed that we need more and better communica tion between the Student Council and the student body this semester. This is one of the main things she intends to strive toward this semester. Furthermore, many of the same plans which were begun during the first semester will be further implemented this semester. One of these plans is a constitutional revision which will be undertaken in the very near fu ture. Another pressing item is the presentation of a full financial re port to the student body. As has been pointed out recently the stu dent government is operating on a very limited budget this semester due to the fact that the clubs and organizations on campus have failed to share in the expenses for campus activities undertaken during the first semester. Calendar of Events MARCH March 1—Beginning of Religious Em phasis Week March 5—Peace Corps Representative on Campus, 6:30 P.M. March 6, 7—Water Show, Read Hall March 15—Alumnae Recital, Mrs. Carolyn Diggs and Mrs. Josephine Love, Sisters Chapel March 16—Mid-Semester Exams Be gin These and other issues face Miss Whatley and the Student Council during the coming weeks. One can see then that our new president needs the support and encourage ment of every student here, in order that the SSGA may serve the stu dents well this semester. On Friday, February 7, 1964, the Treasurer’s office at Spelman Col lege was robbed of about $5,000. A Brink’s truck had left only minutes before delivering the payroll. It was about 12:40 and Mrs. Lampkin, the bookkeeper, and Mrs. Martin, the cashier, were just about to leave for lunch. Mrs. Lampkin was waiting in the door for Mrs. Martin when the two men rushed in and said “This is a holdup, give it here.” The leader of the two men march ed Mrs. Martin over to the safe with his gun in her back. He stood behind her while she opened the safe. Mrs. Martin missed the combination the first time, and the gunman asked, “are you stalling.” She answered, “NO, I’m not stalling. I’m nervous. I can’t think. If you took the gun out of my back, maybe I could open it.” The gunman threatened Mrs. Martin with, “You’d better open it, or I’ll shoot your brains out.” The second time she tried the combina tion the safe opened. The gunman dropped the two money sacks in a paper bag which he had sitting on the floor. Mrs. Lampkin was covered by the second gunman throughout the rob bery. She was forced to sit on the window sill and look out of the win dow. The two women were ordered to lie on the floor, and told not to move until the robbers left. After the Welcome Exchange Students Spelman has once again opened its doors to second semester exchange students. This year we can boast of twelve on our campus. As always we welcome them to our community and hope that their stay here will be a rewarding experience. Present ly, we have one student on the year exchange, Marilyn Bartel from Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas. She is a sophomore minoring in Second ary Education and Drama and major ing in English. The exchange stu dents for this semester are Mary Shaflan, a junior from Luther Col lege, Danville, Illinois. Miss Shaflan’s major in Sociology and English with a minor in History. She finds most pleasure in reading, swimming, and music—listening and playing. Her first impressions were a little “foggy” al though she was very impressed with the friendliness of the campus and the interesting classes and faculty found here; Maryler Rugh, a junior from Southwestern College, Win field, Kansas, has a double major— Elementary Education and Spanish. Maryler spends most of her time reading. She, too, was impressed with the friendliness of our students and with the beauty of the campus; Carolyn Warren, also a junior from Southwestern College, in Winfield, Kansas, is majoring in public school music with special emphasis on voice. Her hobbies include those that might be of interest to many young men i.e., cooking, sewing, knitting and hiking. She was impressed that a girl’s school does not seem to be drastically different from that of a coed campus, however, she says, it does not seem to be so tensely in tellectual and competitive; Janet Lynn Haywood, a junior from Illi nois Wesleyan University, Blooming, Illinois, comes to us from Creve Co- eur, Illinois. She is a Sociology major and she spends her free time modern (Continued on Page 4) two men left, Mrs. Martin notified the police. Two Spelman students saw a black ’59 Impala just outside the gate at Chadwick Hall on Leonard St. One man was sitting behind the wheel. Two other men got out of the car and walked across campus through the Chadwick gate. When the two gunmen ran out of the Treasurer’s office and across campus, they were running toward this car. One man got in the front seat, the second got in the back seat. Both lay on the floor as the car sped away. There are many unanswered ques tions about the robbery. Some peo ple feel that it was an inside job because the robbery was planned so well. How did they find out the exact day and time when the Brink’s truck would bring the payroll? How did they know exactly which room to rush to in Rockefeller Hall? The gunmen seemed to know that Mr. Coe and Mrs. Martin are the only two people who know the combina tion of the safe. The leader rushed directly to Mrs. Martin and ordered her to open it. Perhaps these questions will be answered in the near future. 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