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■■■HiiniiKl Spelman College Begins Expansion Program Because of a rapidly increasing enrollment, Spelman Col lege is undertaking a $1,850,000 building program. A new dormitory, new dining room, and a renovated classroom build ing are included in this project. The new dormitory, planned by the New York firm of Rogers, Butler, and Burgun, will be built south of Dorothy Sheppard Manley Hall. It will be of the same architectural design as Manley Hall and is being financed by endowment funds of the college. A total of 161 students will live in the 76 double rooms and 9 single rooms of the new dorm. Barring strikes and inclement weather, the building should be com pleted by January 1, 1968. The dining hall will be expanded by the construction of a room adjacent to the faculty-senior dining room. This addition will accommodate approximately 100 students and will have an additional serving line. There is a possibility that it will be completed by September, 1967. The four floors of Giles Hall, which have cost $800,000 to renovate, will be completed by this summer. This building will provide a new home for the Spelman Library, new class room space, and a new language laboratory. Dr. Manley breaks ground for new dormitory. Religious Emphasis Week A different approach was made toward the observance of Religious Emphasis Week in the Atlanta University Center and at Spelman College this year than that used in the recent past. Stress was placed on activities sponsored by several campus organizations rather than featuring a week-long visitor to the campus. The theme was “Religion and Human Re lations.” Centerwide, there were two events on Sunday, March 5th which served as an expression of institutional cooperation. Dr. Robert McAfee Brown, Professor of Religion and Director of the Special Programs in Humanities at Stanford University, California, spoke in the joint worship service in Sisters Chapel on Sunday afternoon and led a discussion among stu dents and faculty members in the evening in the Sadie G. Mays Lounge of Mays Hall, Morehouse College. This was the totality of centerwide activities. Spelman College made use of drama, panel discussion, film, worship and lectures as it observed the week of religious activities. Dr. Brown and The Reverend Ben H. Richardson of Chicago, Illinois, Religious Emphasis Week speaker at Morehouse College, spoke to Spelman students on two dif ferent occasions during the week in religion classes. An inter racial and interfaith group of young people, sponsored by the National Conference of Christians and Jews, presented a playlet titled, “Some of My Best Friends” in the International Room, Rockefeller Hall, on Monday evening. The Spelman College YWCA was in charge of this activity which involved a discussion based on the drama that was presented. A Re ligious Emphasis Week Seminar was held on Tuesday morn ing in cooperation with the Freshman Orientation program at Spelman College. They followed the theme, “Developing Our Moral and Spiritual Selves”. The Social Science Club sponsored a panel discussion on the subject, “Christianity and the Black American”, in Laura Spelman Rockefeller Hall on Tuesday afternoon. In the eve ning, the Non-Western Studies Program of the Atlanta Uni versity Center presented “An Evening With Pearl S. Buck” in Sisters Chapel. The film classic, Quo Vadis, was shown in Howe Hall on Wednesday evening under the sponsorship of the Sunday Forum. The Reverend Warren Scott delivered the weekly lenten meditation in the Prayer Room of Sisters Chapel at noontime on Wednesday. The week’s activities came to a close on Thursday morning when Mrs. Eliza Paschal, chairman of the newly created Atlanta Community Relations Commission, spoke at the weekly Spelman College Convocation in Sisters Chapel. The Atlanta University Center Religious Emphasis Week Committee is evaluating the present type of center-wide and campus activities and will make some interesting innovations for the future. Pearl Buck Speaks Here by Catharine Watson Pearl Buck, who spoke at Spelman College on March 16, 1967, made these com ments about the Americans and the Chinese. “I think that these are two of the greatest people on earth, but I’m afraid of a war that might erupt. . . However I am confident that Communism will pass away from China.” Miss Buck gave a summary of Chinese history emphasizing the effects of Western missionaries and traders and the Communists. Although she gave much in formation about China, a country she knows well, Miss Buck centered her talk around her personal experiences in the field of adoption. In 1949 she founded Welcome House, Inc., an adoption agency which finds permanent homes for children of Asian-American parentage. There are many children in Asia, referred to by Miss Buck as the “new people”, who were fathered by American soldiers stationed in the various cities of Asia. These children are victims of scorn and prejudice. They are unable to attend school and are not considered legalized citizens. Of the Asian-Ameri- can child, Miss Buck said, “He is our child, too.” Miss Buck was the first American woman to be award ed the Nobel Prize for Liter ature. She has written 70 books. Her appearance in the Atlanta University Center was sponsored by the Atlanta Uni versity Western Studies Com mittee.