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SPELMAN
THE VOICE
OF BLACK WOMANHOOD
SPO TLIGHT
VOL. XLIII, NO. 1
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
October, 1975
Atlanta University Center SGA
Michele McCullough
Staff Reporter
The 1975-76 school year
brings new SGA presidents to
the A.U. Center. They are:
Thelma Sias. a senior from
Maycrsville. Mississippi,
president of Clark SGA,
Yolande Herron, a senior
from Minneapolis, Minnesota,
president of Spelman SGA;
Rickey W. Peetc, a junior from
Memphis, Tennessee,
president of Morehouse SGA;
and Larewnce D. Davenport, a
senior from Brooklyn, New
York, president of Morris
Brown SGA. What do AU SGA
president expect to achieve
this year?
When asked about problems
foreseen in the 1975-76 school
year and possible resolutions,
both Rickey Peete and Thelma
Sias were in agreement. They
both foresee their main
problem as being student
apathy. Rickey plans to start
the big brother program which
he feels will “alleviate the
frustrations and tensions” that
can develop among the
freshman. Thelma plans to
work very hard with programs
already in existence and be
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National Student
Govt Endorses
Hubert Humphrey
Manley
Series
Yolande Heiron
Spelman
: _» i
Thelma Sias
Clark
By Rita D. Ford
Within the last decade
Americans have been plagued
with the ills of Watergate,
inflation, depression, and
recession. Now as the country
approaches a new election
year, another major dilemma
will plague many—who are the
most likely candidates for the
dc mocratic ticket?
This question has been
partially answered. The
National Student Government,
a nation-wide organization of
college student associations,
has already endorsed Hubert
Horatio Humphrey. Hum
phrey, who is a political
veteran, became virtually non
existent after his loss to
Richard Nixon in the 1968
presidential election and then
his defeat to George
McGovern in the 1972
primaries. Because of the lack
of strong competition—Udall,
Henry (“Scoop”) Jackson,
Lloyd Bentsen, Jimmy Carter,
Milton Shapp, Terrv Sanford,
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Spelman College has an
nounced the Albert E. Manley
Convocation Series in honor of
the College’s fifth president
who plans to retire at the end
of this academic year. The
series is expected to provide a
forum for debate of issues of
national relevance and will be
open to all people in the A. U.
Center.
Speakers for the series will
include such notables as
Harold Eugene Ford,
Member, U. S. Congress;
Johnny L. Ford, Mayor,
Tuskegee, Alabama; Vivian
W. Henderson, President,
Clark College; Charles B.
Rangel, Member, U.S.
Congress; Dr. Alvin L.
Poussaint, Professor of
Psychiatry, Harvard
University; Gwendolyn
Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-
Winning Poet; Lerone Ben
nett, Jr., Historian, Essayist,
Novelist, Poet; Madelyn P.
Nix, Attomey-at-Law; Yvonne
B. Burke, Member, U. S.
Congress; and Barbara
Sizemore, Public Superin
tendent of Schools,
Washington, D. C.
The first convocation
(Congressman Ford) is slated
for September 28, 1975 at 3:00
p.m., in Sisters Chapel.
Sherrie Mars nan, was one of 1/ college students who worked this
summer in New York advertising agencies, under the auspices of
the Student Fellowship Program of the American Association of
Advertising Agencies. A Spelman senior, Sherrie worked atWells,
Rich, Greene, Inc., received a “graduation” certificate from John
Taylor, chairman of the A.A.A.A.’s Equal Employment Opportunity
Committee. She is an English major and a Mass Communications,
minor. Her home is in Nashville.
The need for urban and
environmental studies grew
out of the rising perplexities of
urban living, population in
creases and environmental
pollution. Although the course
concentrates on the social
science division, there is still
imput from the national
sciences for a two-fold study.
The urban studies look at
living conditions, government,
population, and economics.
Environmental issues deal
with pollution and ecology.
The administrative com
mittee includes: chairperson,
Dr. Katherine Brisbane, Dr.
Oran Egleson, Psychology;
Mrs. Ann Hornsby,
Economics; Dr. Harry Lefever,
Sociology; Dr. Lois Moreland,
Political Science; also. Dr.
Gladys Bayse, Chemistry.
Sophomores enrolled in one
of the social science depart
ments are eligible for par
ticipation in the program.
Along with'receiving a degree
Faith Shepard [center] of Ypslanti, Michigan, a Junior at
Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, exchanges ideas with
Marketing’s W.E. Kern at Mobil Oil’s “Week in the Business
World” program for outstanding black college sophomores.
Faith Shepard was of 24 sophomores entitled to participate in
Mobil Oil’s “Week in the Business World” program by writing
an award-winning essay. Teh project, now in its eighth year,
brings outstanding college sophomores for a week-long visit to
Mobil facilities in the New York/Philadelphia area. The program
offers black students a first-hand look at a big company’s
operations and a chance to question directly the people who
have the answers about job opportunities.
Urban/Environmental Studies At Spelman College
By Stephanie Nelson
Staff Reporter
This fall a concentrated
course of study, entitled
Urban-Enviommental
Studies, began at Spelman
College. The program, which
is funded by the National
Science Foundation, is a
unique program with in
terdisciplinary studies in the
social science division. Urban-
Environmental Studies is
designed to enable students to
study urban and en
vironmental problems and
solutions to these problems
which will ultimately face all in
the future.
in her major field of study, the
student also receives a cer-
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