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Spelman Spotlight September24, 1979 Page 2 Freshmen on Spelman: An Optomistic View By Susan Hart My experiences and ob servations about Spelman during Freshman Week have given me an optimistic view about my freshman year. I have become aware of the various counseling services designed to aid students with personal and academic problems. The lectures presented to me about college life at Spelman were well planned and coordinated. Instead of feeling inferior to the faculty and ad ministration, I view them as being sincere people who can relate to me, answer questions and refer help or assistance. Before entering Spelman I had heard rumors about Spelman women. I was led to believe they were vain, stiff-necked and arrogant. However, I found this to be untrue. My class members, as well as many of the up perclassmen, are friendly and always greet me with a pleasant “hello.” Their attitude towards me certainly contradicts the distorted rumors. I’ve observed and learned during the course of a few days that a true Spelmanite offers help, love, and moral sup port to her fellow Spelman sisters. A subject that holds interest to me and many other Spelman women is the Morehouse man. By talking with fellow classmates and other AUC students, I found a number of girls have a negative opinion about Morehouse men. Many feel that Morehouse stu dents are high-minded, haughty men. The girls’ opinions seemed to be a rather harse generaliza tion of Morehouse men, so I set out to form my own opinion. The Morehouse man, to me, is an in dividual with his own ideals and values. Most of them are friendly, ordinary young men. There are a few who are stuck on their good looks or material wealth, but this small group is not enough evi dence to place a generalization on Morehouse as a whole. The Student Government Association coordinated a num ber of entertaining activities during Freshman Week. I was rather impressed by some of them, such as the talent show, the initiation and the skits. The mem bers of the SGA were very help ful to me, and a number of other girls, in adjusting and feeling comfortably at Spelman. i® K* lilSill mm Should Spelman Students Have To Pay? Point bunk that crap. If Spelman students were allowed a discount or “free” admission into More house intercollegiate athletic events, I am positive that game attendance could increase, but the economics of the situation are too real to set aside for courteous favors. If Spelman students want “free’ admission in to Morehouse games, I urge them to persuade their board of trustees to incorporate each student into paying a Morehouse sports activity fee, or simply merge the two schools. A more realistic alternative would be an economic boycott by Spelman on all Morehouse games. Spelman’s lack of financial support would force the Morehouse Board of Trustees to eliminate the athletic program at Morehouse. With the athletic program eliminated; no one would have to worry about paying $3.00 to see a football game. By Lorenzo A. Taylor It has come to the attention of this reporter that admission to Morehouse College football and basketball games has increased from $2.50 per student (ad mission charged for last season) to $3.00 per student. Spelman, for obvious reasons, is the only school in the Atlanta University Center that does not have a football team. Spelman receives the shaft not only from Morehouse, but Clark and Morris Brown as well because there is no reciprocal means of making back the money that a Spelman student spends on a Morehouse College football game. It has been suggested that Morehouse is somehow indebted to Spelman because of the female power that the school supplies in the form of cheerleaders, tigeretts, majoretts, homecoming queens and as sorted hollywood starlets. I say, Counterpoint By Melony Matthews I really love Spelman, so far. I could not have chosen a better school to attend, but God didn’t make earth angels nor did he per fect college. Most of us were involved in freshman orientation week. This was a special week set aside to in troduce incoming Freshmen to Spelman. Planned programs, lec tures, and Student Government Activities were held throughout the week. The planned programs were informative, however, I felt they were boring. I liked the way this College says “Welcome Spelman Sister.” This is what makes us feel like a family. Each upperclass volun teer did their best to make sure we enjoyed ourselves and we did. According to my impression, the Spelman ladies are socialable. I think the Student Government is the finest group of ladies I have ever come in con tact with. They are business min ded, congenial, and conducted themselves like ladies. The atmosphere at Spelman is unique. The school is small enough to care about the stu dents, but large enough to have the prestige for a University. However, one reservation I have about Spelman is the tacky and unorganized way the finan cial aid office handled registration. Too many people were given the run-around and too many files were lost. At first I was skeptical about Spelman because it is an all female institution, but with Morehouse across the street, my skepticism quickly faded. The guys at Morehouse are the neatest, friendliest and best looking men I have ever seen. With all things considered, I think I’ve made the best choice in Spelman and I think I’m going to stay. "Taxes are the price we pay for civilized society-” Oliver Wendall Holmes, Jr. By Carolita V. lones It seems to me that Morehouse has once again forgotten or should I say lost perspective of that once great Morehouse- Spelman relationship. The saying still goes, “Behind every great man, there is a great woman.” Why then does Morehouse try so hard to hinder Spelman in sup porting their great men? It is sim ply ridiculous for Morehouse to expect Spelmanites to pay the full adult price to attend a football game. First, Morehouse has failed to produce a winning season in several years. Therefore any sup port offered to the team should be appreciated. I believe the sup port from the alumni and Atlanta community would increase if the football team improved. Everybody likes a winner. Secondly, even though Spel man doesn’t pay an activity fee for joint activities with Morehouse, a student rate of half price could be set up to fray expenses. One must consider the additional expenses of transportation to each home game. Let’s not forget most college students do not have a steady income. Thirdly, the majority ot females associated with Morehouse during the football season (homecoming queens, cheerleaders, band members, tigerettes and majorettes) are Spelman students. Don’t we deserve any consideration? Of course 1 realize Spelman is not officially Morehouse’s sister school. However, I find it dif ficult to imagine Morehouse im porting its Bennett College sisters down to support their athletic efforts. Also, if Morehouse at tempted to recruit females from one of the other co-ed institutions in the Atlanta University Center, I find it unlikely that their true loyalty will ever belong to Morehouse, whereas Spelman has long been Morehouse’s surrogate sister institution, it seems as if we have -been forgot ten this year.