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THE SPOTLIGHT
November, 1970
Carmen Owens
leads Spelman
Spelman senior studies in Ghana
Carmen Owens, Spelman Young
campaign coodinator.
Spelman students plunged full
force in the Andrew Young cam
paign.
Carmen Owens, senior, led the
Spelman forces that worked the
last few weeks of the fifth dis
trict Senate campaign.
Canvassers went out every
week-night at 6:30 to conduct
door-to-door surveys and to dis
tribute campaign literature.
On week-ends, students cover
ed college and high school foot
ball games, professional basket
ball games and church services.
They also covered the Clay-
Quarry fight, October 26.
Carmen also noted that Spel
man contributed more people
and time than ony other school
in the Atlanta University Center.
Financial aid
still available
The financial aid office an
nounces that a limited amount
of financial aid is still available
to those who have need and an
ticipate difficulty in meeting their
financial obligations. This aid is
primarily in the form of National
Defense Student Loans (NDSL).
Interested students should see
Mr. Wilkinson in the financial
aid office for further information.
Cape Coast Castle,” she said. “In
these fortresses owned by Euro
peans, we actually went in the
dungeons where slaves were
kept.”
“Each village was self-suffi
cient, even to the point of making
their own corn meal,” Sibyl
said. “We visited the village of
Bon Wire where ‘Kente’ cloth
is made. ‘Kente’ cloth is worn
by chiefs and dignataries.”
She learned that the people of
Ghana have very long mourning
periods for their dead. “In Ku-
masi, we witnessed the mourning
of the Asantehente, chief of the
African nation,” she said. The
chief died in May and they were
still mourning him in July.
“I went to the Ivory Coast for
four days,” she said. “It is thought
to be one of the most beautiful
places in Western Africa. I Visit
ed the city of Abidjahn there.”
The cities of Ghana give the
impression that women are lib
erated to a certain extent, she
noted. In Abidjahn, women do
all the bargaining and selling of
goods.
“One of the things I found
most exciting wa's the market
in Ghana where women brought
their goods to be bargained and
sold,” she said. “African prints
and all household commodities
could be found here.”
Sibyl found the British colon
ial influence still very great in
Ghana. “I went to legal courts in
Kuma'si and the judges were still
wearing white wigs,” she said.
Hairstyles in Ghana are west
ernized. “Women in the cities
don’t wear Afros,” she said.
“They either wear their hair
braided or under a wig.”
“Some of the bisic facts I had
learned in African history class
es became a reality,” she said.
“Africa is something I think ev
ery Black person should exper
ience.”
Students participated in a 20-
phone' operation at the Cahnolene
Building on Hunter Street. Phon-
ers reminded voters to vote for
Andrew Young, November 3.
“My greatest response was
from the freshman class,” Car
men said. “The Delta Sigma The
ta city-wide chapter also worked
in various campaign phases.”
“Spelman students planned
student participation and were
instrumental in all phases of co
ordination and organization,”
Carmen said.
On election day, the workers
made door-knocks from 3 p.m.
until the polls closed, to remind
citizens to “get out and vote.”
Spelman workers also conducted
transportation pools and a baby
sitting service, and did poll work.
campaigners
By SHERYL HARRIS
A Spelman student participated
in the American Forum for In
ternational Studies program in
Ghana last summer.
Sibyl Moses, senior, studied at
the University of Ghana in La-
gon, Ghana, and the University
of Science and Technology in
Kumasi, Ghana.
At the University of Ghana,
she attended lectures on African
history and culture, African mus
ic and art, and current political
problems.
She went on afternoon field
trips. “We visited villages and
slave fortresses in the Elmine
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