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Spe/man Spotlight March 28. I OHO Page 4 THE VOICE OF BLACK WOMANHOOD Editor-In-Chief - Rolonda G. Watts Associate Editor - Pamela Denise Moore Editors Advertising Manager - Phyllis Sawyer An Editor- Ellen Robinson Business Manager - Trevonia Brown Angela Nickerson Circulation Manager - Lavita J ohnson News Editor - Kiron Kanina Skinner Photography Editors - Kirby Ayres Pamela Scott Public Relations Manager - Sheron Covington Religion Editor - Angela Benson Literary Editor - Michelle Dacus Photographers - J oe Louis Ruth Cauthen Kirby Ayres Reporters Michael D. Harris Torri C. Brown Kevin Flemming Disco This Way, By Michael D. Harris Welcome to Atlanta: home of Maynard Jackson, Martin Luther King, Andrew Young, Mr. V’s Figure 8. In four years that I’ve lived in Atlanta I have heard more praise of the Campbellton Road Discos than I’ve heard about the contributions of our distinguished Black Leaders, (with the exception of MLK). It may have occured to you that we young Black are displacing our priorities. Recently, I went to an NAACP Banquet which was quite a memorable evening, and on my way home, dropped a friend off at one of the “Big 3” on Camp bellton Road only to discover that there were probably three times as many Blacks at the disco than there were at the Banquet. Never having been to this club, I decided to go in and check out what was so interesting. After paying $5.00 to get in. I was so dumbfounded by what ap peared to be an earthquake. Af ter practically regaining my sen ses. I convinced myself that it was ‘safe’ to enter into this circus of noise and lights. The noise (music) was so loud that I had to raise my voice four octaves to or der a drink costing $3.00 (that’s $8.00 in the first four minutes, just think if I had a date!!). I stood near the bar for there was no place at all to sit, until I heard a familiar voice which in formed me of a comfortable place to stand. This circus went on seemingly forever with people dressed like A1 Capone. Roy Rogers. Billy- Holiday and Susie Ching Chang Chow (everybody’s got a gimmick). The lights were flashing at such speed and pattern, and with such an array of colors that my suit changed colors and made movements that I thought were impossible of linen. By the way. have you ever heard of subliminals? They are defined as stimuli received into the brain which are below the threshold of consciousness. Can you imagine what kind of messagees are being transmitted from those flashing lights? Disco That Way Amid all the confusion of lights, hypnotic sounds which continue from the time you enter until after you leave a disco are words and phrases like “She’s a big ole freak...she’s the freak of the week..”, and “Don’t hold back, if it feels good-do it”. Maybe I’m mistaken, but it seems that only a couple of years ago a ‘freak’ was something ugly, defor med and/or grotesque. Yet this year my girlfriend has to be a ‘freak’ in order to be fashionable. If Sigmund Freud was alive today, he’d have more than enough data to substantiate his theory of personality, sex, and aggression. Can you remember the last time you turned on your radio and didn’t hear “Groove me, baby”, of “Chase me”? I contend that it is high time that we, as Blacks, take out the time to become aware of what disco has done to our culture. Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, has even gone disco, and proclaimed herself “Queen of Disco”. So now, who is the “Queen of Soul”; or is there ‘soul’ anymore? Soul was once a style that was inate to Blacks only. Today disco is John Travolta. Bee Gees, Donna Summers (whose music prostitutes every black who hears it). We are told through disco that to get a woman, you have to be a “high-steppin’. neat-dressing fella” and all you have to do is go to a disco and “that’s where all the happy people go”. We even have Teddy to tell us how to pick up a woman (without any pressure). And if you don’t get it the way you plan to get it. Barry tells us how to beg and get it. Have you ever noticed that the kid next door, who has repeated the second grade twice, knows “Rapper’s Delight” in its entirety and can sing it without music and not miss one line? Do you find it amusing to hear your daughter or little sister moan, groan, hiss and sleaze along with "Love to love you. baby”? See DISCO p. 7 What Is A Tilly? By Rolonda Watts I’ll never forget the first time I heard about the “Tillies.” My initial reaction was one of total confusion and a great deal of skepticism. I was deeply con cerned about what possessed a grown man to go around calling himself a “Tilly.” I had images of the rosy-cheeked white girl on that banking computer. Depressing! I thought, until the day I found out just what a Tilly is. Tilly is the name of an Atlanta University Centerwide organization of men and women “gathered together to promote brotherhood and protection,” ex plained Samuel “Matcho-Tilly” Matchett, Vice-President of the group. The United Family of Tilly started as a joke on third floor Mays Hall at Morehouse. Poppy Kilgore and Joe Lewis, founders of the group, started calling each other “Poe-Tilly” and “J oe-Tilly.” The name fad dominoed after Spring Break of this year. Everyone in the Tilly group has “o”tacked to the end of their name and “Tilly” added to that. The Tillies don’t feel they are in competition with fraternities and sororities. “We are not a fraternity,” explained Matcho- Tilly, “...but have a fraternal spirit.” Gary “Garo-Tilly” Franklin, Treasurer of the group, explained how he had come to Morehouse expecting a fraternal spirit and was discouraged when he did not find it. “Spirit...is what Morehouse should have, not that we (the Tillies) have a monopoly on it (spirit), we just want tp spread it.” The Tillies boasted about their Tilly spirit nights, claiming to be the loudest and most spiritual group around. They said they challenge any other group that thinks they can outspirit them. That might be hard to do since the Tillies alone have a mem bership of 86, (41 men and 45 women). The group also boasted about the fact that they have not recruited one memDer. As they put it, “They came looking for Tilly.” The president of Tilly is Will “Woe-Tilly” Dawkins, J r. Each Tilly carries a business card that bears the Tilly motto. The main objective of the group is to help others. They have sponsored such programs as a Thanksgiving canned goods drive, spirit nights for the Morehouse basketball team, and a college student tutorial program. They have also raised money for the United Negro College Fund in Basketball competition. To be a Tilly all one has to do is express interest, understand the concept, and get to know the Tilly members. Unlike frater nities there is no pledging period. Morehouse faculty and staff members participate in Tilly as well. Dean Nix is the “Honorary Daddy Tilly” and Mrs. Alexan der, head resident of Mays Hall, is known to the group as “Mom Tilly.” Dr. Barksdale participated in one of the Tilly spirit nights. “It’s amazing,” said Garo- Tilly,” how so many people from such diverse backgrounds and in terests can all come together and be so close.” It is amazing, I thought to myself as I sensed the strong ties of brotherhood in the six Tilly gentlemen that sat in front of me. The gleam of friendship that eluded was one I’ve so seldom seen in this Atlanta University Center Complex. Thank good ness someone took the initiative to promote it. , Can Women Outperform Men in Sports? By Juanito V. labat National News Bureau Could women outperform men in sports? Could a women’s basketball team, for instance, clobber a men’s quintet? Could a woman excel in a marathon now participated in mostly be men? “Crazy questions,” says a chauvanist friend who believes in the all-time superiority of the male over the female in activities that require stamina and en durance, activities like athletics. But, Prof. Wildor Hollmann, a leading specialist in sports medicine in West Germany’s Cologne Sports Academy, doesn’t think the questions are that crazy. Dr. Hollmann believes women have a good chance of out performing men in many sports events, including the sprints, swimming, cycling, rowing, and some ball games. Now, maybe, but pretty soon. Instances where women out perform men in sports events have been increasing in recent years. For instance: * Billie Jean King defeated male chauvanist Bobby Riggs in a much ballyhooed tennis match a few years ago. * Marlova Lubatska, a 23-year old Yugoslavian teacher, last September took part in an all men swimming competition in Senegal and won the gold medal in the 100-meter and 200-meter freestyle events. * Last August, Michiko Yuichi. 18-year old Japanese girl basketball player, played with her school’s male cage team against a visiting New Zealand squad and came out with a total of 38 points, the highest in dividual score in that game. * Nina Sutamonkorn of Bangkok, Thailand, competed in an all-male cycling contest last September and won the cham pionship with power to spare. * Kelly Cornish, 18-year old girl athete of a high school in Philadelphia, Pa., won 15 variety letters at school—four in hockey, four in basketball, four in soft- ball, and one in track and field, a record for letters won by a female in her school and tying the school record for male athletes. * In Hungary last year, 19-year old Cornelia Holoppan beat a field of 10 male swimmers in three events in an open swim ming contest in Debrecen. In claiming that women have the potentials to outperform men in some sports events. Dr. Hollman took into consideration not the build of the female but the way her body works. “It has been found that the heart and blood circulation of women prior to menopause are. on the whole, more stable and resilient than men’s,” Hollman said. In the Cologne Sports Academy, Hollman embarded on Scientific experiments with a view to harnessing these at tributes of the woman’s body for _ competitive sports. TTwas discovered that not only the lungs and heart of the female are more resilient than those of the male but also that their oxygen transport is more economical than man’s. Their muscular metabolism, too, is equipped to cope with greater strain. “As a result,” Hollmann said, “women are naturally better suited than men to withstand strain over long periods.” Hollmann also said that over long distances women swimmers are superior to men in every respect. It can onle be a matter of time, he claimed, before women account for every world swim ming record. The Cologne sports medicine specialist added that a similar trend could be expected in long distance running. This is because women not only need less oxygen than men, they also usually weigh less than men, an abvious ad vantage. In principle, according to Hollmann, the natural physical advantages women enjoy ought to apply to rowing and cycling, too. Whether the females can outstrip the males in these events remains to be seen, however, sin ce both muscle and stamina also count toward performance. But then again, the doctor said it has been found out that man’s muscles tire faster than woman’s because they either are fed less oxygen or they utilize oxygen less efficiently.