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FREE EXPRESSIONS! .
Introduction
by Amelia Hamilton
On behalf of the Spotlight Newspaper staff I
would like to express our feeling behind the
March Issue of the Spelman newspaper. For the
entire year thus far we have been producing a
monthly newspaper in the traditional manner
under the restraints set for us by other officials.
Despite the many obstacles we have confronted
we have attempted to maintain the Spotlight as
a free voice of student expression.
The Spotlight is not a public relations
instrumentality to be used to run a
conglomeration of public service an
nouncements, propaganda, or trite in
formation. Our role is to inform the student
body of campus activities to a certain extent, to
discuss and analyze important campus issues,
to enlighten students on the realities of the out
side world and their effects on the students here
at Spelman, to speak out for student rights
without fear, realizing there are few here brave
enough to speak with us, and to act as a
motivator in the molding and shaping of social
and political thoughts and trends on our cam
pus.
In this month’s issue we have asked the entire
academic body to express whatever feelings,
thoughts, frustrations, joys, hopes, and desires
that they may have for the Spelman Family. We
have layed aside our standard format, let our
hair down so to speak, and said, from the bot
tom of our hearts, what it is we truly feel. We
realize that there will be some members of our
family whose minds are not yet prepared to deal
with the expressions written here and for those
we can only hope one day, they too will reach
the point of coping with reality; we know there
are also some who will not take the time to
enlighten themselves as a result of what has
been written here and for them, we pray that all
they miss out on at Spelman and in the
Spotlight befalls them before old age. For the
intelligent, occasionally brave, and progressive
minded people — turn on to the next few pages
of the Spotlight Free Expressions Issue, if you
dare!!!
Sincerely,
Amelia K. Hamilton
and Staff
To My Spelman
Sisters
by: Debra Annette Rucker
Sisters walk past you,
Look you dead in the eye,
Look you deand in the eye,
Don’t say nothing,
Just walk on by.
Dig that sister,
She’s really hip,
If she doesn’t watch out,
She’s gonna trip.
What you say sister?
You say you’re aware?
Your people are starving,
And you don’t even care.
Talking about Sally,
And talking about Sue,
Listen up Sister,
They’re talking about you.
You think I’m just jiving,
Think I’m playing a game.
Ask any Spelman sister,
She’ll tell you the same.
Party from Friday,
Till Saturday night,
Go to church on Sunday,
All decked out in white.
Give me a shotgun,
Can you spare a joint?
STOP SPELMAN SISTERS!
Do you get my point?
The sisters of Spelman
Are really bad,
Not like Brown or Clark,
All “tired” and “sad”.
It only takes a second,
To open your mouth and speak,
Instead of being cool,
Or humble and meek.
But as long as your keep
Those old mean ways,
You’ll be known as “stuck-up”
For the rest of your days.
You just passed another sister,
You “really” crunched her face,
But you’ll need her later on in life,
Another time, yes, another place.
As-Salaam Alaikum
SPOTLIGHT STAFF
Amelia K. Hamilton
Editor
Debbi Newton
Associate Editor
Cornelia Edwards
Advertising Manager
Sylvia Washington
Business Manager
Valory Mapp
Literary Editor
Indiana University
Soul Revue
by Valory Mapp
The Indiana University Soul Revue is a group
of young performing students organized in Oc-
tober, 1971 at Indiana University,
Bloomington, Indiana. It features 74 talented
instrumentalists, singers, dancers, announcers,
J comedians and is divided into Phase I and
II with 37 performers each. The Revue is a three
credit-hour course at Indiana University en
titled “Soul Music: Culture and Performance.”
It is under the expert direction of Ms. Portia
Maultsby, who received the Ph. D. degree in
Ethnomusicology from the University of Wis
consin and is a faculty member of the
Department of Afro-American Studies at In
diana University, where she teaches courses in
Black music.
The Revue gives student musicians a chance
to use and refine their talents and to work with
the technical aspects of performance. They are
encouraged to write and perform their own com
positions and, if capable, students are given the
opportunity to perform with established record
ing groups.
The Indiana University Soul Revue will be in
concert on March 22, 1975, at 8:00 p.m. here at
Spelman College in Read Hall. Admission is
free for Spelman students and $2.00 for non-
Spelman students.
Rita D. Ford
News Editor
Ms. Beverly Sheftall
Advisor
Marian “Kittye” Cobb, Catherine Alston,
Jacki Payne, Daol Smith, Carolyn T. Woods,
Connaelia Moyston, Livinia Moyston, Mary
Henley, Margaret Lee, Nelwyn McDuffie,
Stephanie Nelson, Sheila Venson, Sylvia Wofford,
Roxie Hughes, Shirley Henderson and Vicki
Poole.
Turn On —
Pearl Primus Visits Spelman
by JoAnn McLean
March 1975
Noted anthropologist, lecturer, and teacher,
Pearl Primus came to Spelman in February to
conduct a six-day workshop in Ethnic dance.
The sessions included lectures, films,
photographs and recordings. Ms. Primus also
brought an exhibition of African sculpture and
fabric from her own collection.
Pearl Primus is a pionner in concert dance for
blacks and was the first to receive great
recognition for her achievements. The themes
of her dances are those of Protest and they are
very often based on Negro Spirituals. After ex
tensive reading she choreographed the first
African dance. Later she received a grant to live
in the African interior with the tribes to learn
their dances. She was the first person permitted
to bring the ceremonial dance of welcome-
FANGA to the African exterior, and then to the
United States.
Ms. Primus has conducted numerous
workshops in England and Africa similar to the
one held here at Spelman. This summer, she will
participate in an International Dance
Workshop in Germany. She is presently a
member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society
and she is a candidate for a PHD. in An
thropology at New York University. Her most
recent honor is being comissioned to form a
Museum for Preservation of African art. She
presently lives in New York City.
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