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February 28, 1969
THE SPELMAN SPOTLIGHT
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the students liked having all
of the instructors in one place
instead of scattered all over
Giles.
The students complained
that the use of the numbers
was not a good idea, because
they were not being taken in
order. They felt that the first-
come-first-served principle
should have been used. Mrs.
Eagleson responded by saying
that numbers were not being
taken in order because of
cutting; and that she finally
stopped calling the numbers,
because people kept arriving
late. In order to save time,
she began calling the names of
those who were supposed to
be there at that particular
time.
Mrs. Eagleson said that the
reason city students didn’t
know anything about the pro
cedure was because “People
don’t read!” She said that she
had 1,000 copies of the pro
cedures mimeographed and
sent some to be posted on
every bulletin board and left
in the snack shop.
One student thinks that if
the rest of the student body
would agree to being assigned
to classes, according to their
majors and minors, this would
save time and energy. Mrs.
Eagleson says that students
must be allowed to confer
with their advisors and find
out what they need to take.
In the future, she hopes to be
able to let students know up
on arriving at Spelman what
they are required to take in
relation to the major and mi
nor courses of study.
In another step toward
improving future registration,
she plans on using an im
proved registration card on
which multiple copies can be
made at once. It is made of
a special type of paper called
“sensitive” paper.
Mrs. Eagleson does not
open envelopes in the con
ventional way. She opens
three sides. She once saw a
younger person open enve
lopes in this way. When she
questioned the young lady on
why she opened envelopes
that way, the girl told her
that it was her way of making
sure that she left nothing in
it. Mrs. Eagleson used this
anecdote to say that people
shouldn’t be so quick to criti
cize, because “Somebody can
always tell you something.”
Therefore, Mrs. Eagleson will
happily consider any sugges
tions that anyone may have to
offer on the improvement of
registration. As for liberation,
well, we will just have to wait
and see what happens.
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Why live in the past?
HI •
Liberation" con't.
throughout the Third World.”
This is to be done by ridding
the university of “white racist
homosexuals” and those not
teaching the concepts of the
liberation; by rescheduling Af
rican courses no later than
3:30 P.M.; and by giving full
time three-year contracts to
committed members of the
Black faculty.
On the Black Community,
“Our behavior must be di
rected by an honest Brother
hood.” The pamphlet demand
ed that expansion plans of the
last year be distributed to the
entire community by February
15. A committee composed of
a cross-section of all people
in the community must be es-
tablshed for the purpose of
developing a “comprehensive”
community plan, as well as to
seek funds. The current plans
for a university book store are
to be turned over to a student
committee so that by Septem
ber a “university-community
cooperative based on the Af
rican concept of communalism
will have been developed.
Finally, the authors stated
their credo which pledged loy
alty and love for their African
brothers. Floating along with
the “green sheet” was a rumor
of a bomb threat in Rocke
feller Hall.
Registration day — or lib
eration, as some may choose
to call it — began at 8:30
a.m. with special numbers and
IBM envelopes containing blue
cards being issued according
to student’s last names. In an
effort to be as fair as. possible,
people whose names begin
with the last letters of the al
phabet were permitted to reg
ister first. Those whose last
names begin with letters in the
first part of the alphabet regis
tered first last semester. Mrs.
Eagleson, registrar of the col-
lege, said that her original
plan was to issue pink IBM
cards in Howe Hall (but it
was later changed to Read
Hall for “precautionary meas
ures” ). It was decided that
in order to insure that only
Spelman students got into the
building, the cards and num
bers issued in Howe Hall
would then be taken to Read
Hall and exchanged for the
correct IBM cards. After
wards, students were free to
pick up their class cards and
deposit the envelop with all
materials in it at the check
out desk.
While the revolt was taking
place among a few (alleged)
students of the A.U. Center,
Spelman women were quietly
revolting against what may be
called their own personal lib
eration. They were disappoint
ed over what they thought was
an attempt to improve on the
former method of registation
which was the same as this
semester, with three major ex
ceptions: no numbers, no pre
registration, and no Read
Hall. What the girls did not
know was that Mrs. Eagleson
was not familiar with registra
tion procedures that existed
before her arrival at Spelman.
she was only employing a sys
tem which she has used for
many years.
Some people feel that the
only thing which made this
new semester better than the
old one is the fact that most
people had pre-registered dur
ing the last half of the first
semester. Therefore, when
they got ready to register, all
they had to do was to copy
the information from their
dummy schedules — or, as
they are now called, pre-reg
istration sheets. (Those who
failed to pre-register were
charged a $5.00 fine.) Also
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