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SPELMAN
THE VOICE OF BLACK WOMANHOOD'
SPOTLIGHT
Yol. XXVII, No. 4
Atlanta, Georgia
February, 1971
Dr. Manley denies
Spotlight information
By Wanda Smalls
President Albert E. Manley re- paint a mural on the campus,
centiy denied the accuracy of Dr. Manley said it would have
information in a December, 1970 been alright if the student had
Spotlight about his actions on a put the same work on his per-
mural painted in Giles hall by a' sonal canvas.
Clark College student. “if somebody wants to go
The article (Art Department around and put dirty paintings
Protests Dr. Manley’s Mandate) up it > s 0 kay as long as it is not
was written after a meeting of on the walls of this institution,”
students and faculty members Dr. Manley said,
of the Spelman Art Department. i n a meeting to clear up the
he groups discussed the mural matter, Mr. Hans Bhalla, acting
pain e y aniel Depearson. chairman of the Spelman art de-
r. an ey emed several pa rtment, backed up Dr. Man-
statements m the story about the ley>s actions by citing Dr . Man _
incident claiming it an attempt ley . s approval of nude models
to stir up something on this for art stu dents, the Berry Wat-
campus where you (Spotlight Eon exhibition in the Fine Arts
Staff) have failed in the past.” Building which is a collection of
The mural included a series 15 water colors of nudes> and the
e ® ® was entit led “Art Tiger Flower statue in front of
is Life. Dr. Manley said the the Student Services Building.
mural was not approved by any All of these were annroved hv .. ,
instructor in the art department Dr . ^
before the work was begun. The others present at this meeting
Spotlight article implied the op- were Dr. Lois Moreland, Dean
P0 !f 6 ’ he sald ’ of Instruction, Dr. Richard Car-
Dr. Manley criticized the news- ro ll, Spotlight adviser, Wanda
paper staff for not consulting Smalls, Spotlight editor, and
with him about the matter be- G ail Charleston, who wrote the
fore printing the story. He said December article,
the story was told from a biased
Janice Jackson examines merchandise in The Book Store.
Spelman
of dual
studies feasibility
program
Spelman students may be won- The cooperative plan works
Book store
is first
at spelman
By Waltina McElroy
There will be much more ac
tivity going on in Rockefeller
Hall this semester.
Students causing this excite
ment will be taking advantage
of Spelman’s new book store. A
large blue and white sign located
outside Rockefeller Hall has an
arrow pointing down to show
students the way to the Book
Store located in the basement.
The Book Store opened Janu
ary 18.
The new enterprise is owned
by Engineer’s Book Store, 252
North Ave.
In the first weeks of the Book
Store’s existence, Ronnie Ham-
ner, assistant manager of En
gineer’s Book Store, helped with
the first rush of business.
According to Hamner, Dr. Lois
Moreland, Spelman Dean of In
point of view.
Dr. Manley referred to the
article as “clever journalism”
because his name was attributed
to all of his actions but remarks
by teachers and students were
anonymous.
Dr. Manley said the article
gave the impression that he was
against the fact that the mural
Dr. Manley said Depearson was dering about several sets of lit- this way. A student is assigned struction » Jerry Wilkerson, Fir-
reported having spent several erature distributed recently in
nights in Giles Hall to work on mailboxes, on bulletin boards or
the mural. just lying around in the snack
When asked what action was shop that had something to do
taken against the student, Dr. with “Cooperative Education.”
Manley said he is leaving that
up to Clark’s President Vivian Although these releases seemed g an i za ti on . The job is
Henderson. to be another bundle of busy-
“I have no control over Clark, work reading, one would do well
a full-time job in his major area
of study with the cooperation of
the institution and ah industrial
concern, business firm, govern
ment agency, or service-type or-
usually
shared by a pair of students so
nancial Aid Director and Dinnes
Jones, Spelman Business Mana
ger, were directly responsible
for the establishment of the
Book Store.
“They took direct concern In
the students’ requests for a
^ ^ book store on Spelman’s campus,”
Morehouse and Morris Brown to take a second look and digest that whlle one 18 working, the Hamner said.
The
was of nudes. He said this was
not the case and that he was students taking courses at Spel- the information,
acting upon the fact that some- mah,” he said. “We’re looking
one had painted on the walls of tor some kind of policy to re-
the institution without permis- P ort students to their own school Cooperative
sion. and its discipline committee.” unique plan of educational en-
Dr. Manley said it would Dr. Manley said in this case, rlchment designed to enhance
have been a different thing if a Spelman student would have se lt-realization by means of in-
the Board of Trustees had or- been referred to the Spelman * egrating
Placement Center defines
Education as: A
other is studying on his campus.
At the end of a specified period
of time, the students change
places. This permits the assign
ment to be covered the year
round by a' pair of students.
According to those connected
with the book store, the response
to the new enterprise has been
good.
dered a professional artist to Judiciary Board.
“The students have been
pleased with the self - service
system which has been set up
in the book store,” Hammer
for angela
ations outside of the formal class
room environment.
Atlanta lawyer
heads defense
By College Press Service
Angela Davis is brilliant and beautiful. But she
is black and she is a Communist. This country is
titillated by the former, threatened by the latter.
Terrified by the combination.
Angela Davis went underground following the
shooting of a judge at the Marin County Court
house in San Raphael, California, when police
attempted to link her name to the killing. She wa's
captured in New York after the FBI made her
number one on its famed most wanted list, was
extradited to California, and arraigned on charges
of murder, kidnapping, add conspiracy to murder
and kidnap. Atlanta lawyer Howard Moore, in
terviewed here, is heading a defense team of five
lawyers, including Allan Brotsky, Mike Tigar, and
Dennis Roberts. Moore has been a' leader in the
struggle for Black Liberation, and has represented,
among others, SNCC, Julian Bond, Stokley Car
michael, and H. Rap Brown.
(con’t on pg. 2)
classroom study with
planned and supervised practical Then> the working student re
experience in educational, voca- turns tQ ^ campus and ^ ^
tional, or cultural learning situ- . , . , ,
studying student takes over the
. , ... Rebecca Allen, a freshman at
job. The same process is invert- „ , , ’ . ......
Spelman and cashier at the book
ed the following two semesters s tore, explained the advantages
What all of this means is sim- so that an individual may be ex- of self-service. She said it is
ply, under the Cooperative pro- posed to the practical on-the- not a case of someone shoving a
gram, students are allowed to j, ob exper i ence on a year round book at the student and telling
receive classroom training and bag j s her that that was the only one
on-the-job experience while in she may buy. The self-service
college by staggering the two system, according to Rebecca,
processes from semester to se- The cooperative plan is im- the Book Store allows the stu-
mester. This program will, there- p0 rtaht because it provides the dent to browse around the store
fore stretch
beyond the
period.
the college career
normal four-year
Spelman College has been fed
erally funded to study the feas
ibility of Cooperative Education
as an extension of the present
curriculum.
student with a dual-type train
ing that will eliminate his going
into a career with “cold feet”
after graduation.
It provides the student with a
and purchase the books she pre
fers.
Spelman’s book store sells
new and used books. According
to Hamner, new textbooks are
sold at publisher’s standard pri
ces. Used books are sold at pri-
reality to learning, develops ces considering the condition of
greater human skills, accelerates the books. Used books in good
maturation and financial aid.
Cooperative Education was
founded in the United States in
1906 at the University of Cin
cinnati, and today, the total
number of institutions in the . . , , ,
-a. * c*. . j <-> j „ good source of labor supply, and
United States and Canada under
condition will bring
price to the seller.
the best
The program is also beneficial
to the empolyer. It provides a
the cooperative plan of study is
270.
facilitates
tention.
recruitment and re-
Larry D. Davis, manager of
Spelman’s Book Store and former
employee of Engineer’s Book
Store, explained the factors
(con’t on p. 4)