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SPELMA N THE VOICE OF BLACK WOMANHOOD SPO TLIGHT Volume VI April, 1976 ATLANTA, GEORGIA Students Petition For Black Woman President Lerone Bennett Manley Convocation Features Historian In March The Albert E. Manley Convocation Series presented its ninth guest speaker for the year, historian Lerone Bennett. The Spelman family and friends were greatly enlightened by Lerone Bennett as he opened his message speaking about the state of this country and the state of Black people in this country. Mr. Bennett talked of the seriousness involved in the decisions that will be made in America on its 200-year an niversary and of the poverty, deprivation and oppression that many Blacks continue to live in throughout America. In 1 reference to the condition of Black people in America today, Mr. Bennett said to the students of the Atlanta University Center, “I hope they will un derstand me when I say that the times are so desperate, the odds are so momentous, that no student, certainly no Black student, has a right, at this time, to do less than his best on behalf of Black people and on behalf of himself.” “Seeds for the Next Harvest” was the title of Mr. Bennett’s message. In it he said that “In Continued on page 11 Morehouse SGA A First For Spelman If Efforts Are Successful Jeta Edwards Margaret Lee LERONE BENNETT Until March 22, 1976 the issue of who would be the next president of Spelman College was primarly discussed within small groups in dorms and in passing. This was primarily the case because it was taken for granted by many of the Spelman students that the next president Embezzlement Uncovered Silvia Wofford Associate Editor On April 6, the Advisory Board of Morehouse College unanimously aquitted Harold Spence, S.G.S. vice-president, Geroge Little, treasurer, and Gregory Battle, former recording secretary, on charges of conspiracy to embezzle due Morehouse Student To Publish Book Of Original Poems Cuy Louise-Julie Guy Louise-Julie, a freshman student at Morehouse College has written a book of original poems which will be published by the University of Lubum- bashi in Zaire, West Africa. The book, entitled A Man, contains approximately 50 compositions and is written entirely in French. Mr. Louise- Julie was contacted by Dr. Ngonzola, a professor in the Atlanta University Center. Dr. Ngonzola had read one of Mr. Louise-Julie’s poems written in French and became quite in terested in the young man’s work. Following contact with the Ambassador of Zaire, it was agreed that Mr. Louise-Julie’s works would be published. The book will be on the market during the latter part of December 1975 or the first of January 1976. In addition to publishing this book, Mr. Louise-Julie appears regularly on the television program “Future Shock”, hosted by internationally known c oul singer James Brown. Mr. Louise-Julie is a pre-med major at Morehouse College. to unsufficient evidence. The Board will adminsiter a stiff letter of warning and advice to the three gentlemen to never sign a documnet without reading it thoroughly. Rickey Peete, ex-president of Morehouse’s Student Government Association was found guilty of embezzlement aid misrepresentation of the Student Government Association funds. He must also restitute the entire sume of Continued On Page 19 Rickey W. Peete SGA President Black Women And The ERA For those of us unfamiliar with it, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) states: “Section 1. Equality of Rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” “Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the pro visions of this article.” To understand our stake in the ERA as black women, we should understand several basic facts regarding the Amendment. The ERA would establish a fun damental legal principle; that the law must deal with the particular attributes of in dividuals, not with dassifications attributed to one by virtue of sex. Just as the Fourteenth Amendment established the Continued on page 14 of Spelman College would be a Hack woman. The issue to demand the next president of the oldest Black woman’s institution in the nation be a Black woman was spearheaded by a group of approximately twenty-five freshman, who were shocked at the second ap pearance of Dr. David Steward on the Spelman campus. Dr. Steward is dean of students at the University of Pennsylvania, aid one of the three final candidates in the selection process for president of Spelman’s College. By April 1, 1976, the Spelman Student Government Association was called upon to take a leadership role in demanding that Spelman College have a Black woman as her next college president. Continued on Page 19 1976 Election Year By Ronny E. Jones 1976 is more than America’s Bicentennial Anniversary: it is a presidential election year. A presidential election year is the time when smiling, ganolous politicians swarm all over the nation soliciting votes. Votes are requisite for election; they are the life-sustaining force of political asphants. Thus, the latter tries to sell them on the issues, accomplishments in the past and promises for the future. But far too often, the Hack and poor masses of America receive an inadequate product after the election. However, this group represents a considerable potential political power which can be bought to bear on the political process. The context of the times Continued on page 14