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s p e l m a n 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. Page 1