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Spelman Spotlight
February 18, 1983
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Editorials & Other Thoughts
Happy Valentine’s Day Wishes
Happy Valentine’s Day to Rico,
I am patiently waiting for the 48
hours. Love, K.L.S.
Steve, With hopes that I’ll soon
get to know you much better...
Happy Valentine’s Day. Love,
K.B.
Van Eric, Who wants a normal
relationship? Ours is much more
exciting! Happy Valentine’s Day!
Lovg, S.C.
Ann, The panther has perhaps
chosen a most formidable prey;
however, he will strike and soon.
Beware! D.R.
Tony, I love you and Happy
Valentine’s Day. Jakki
E “Fast” C-Happy Valentine’s
Day. My love is true. You’ll
always be mine! K.R.
Happy Valentine’s Day to
Morris, From your waterbed
baby. MRS
K.P. really does love C.H.
whether he believes it or not.
Dearest Eddie, Happy Valen
tine’s Day. Love. I know you
think THAT is what you want
right now. But I pray that oneday
you’ll come to realize that other
things are just more important.
KYR
Valentine Wishes to My Head
from His Nose.
To Curtis, Lottie, and Terry, I
love you. Veronica Peggy Green
Happy Valentine's Day to all
the Harry’s and Dick’s.
Calvin Hamlin is loved!
Happy Valentine’s Day J-Byrd.
I don’t know you as of yet, but
I’ve seen you a lot and I am
looking forward to meeting you.
What’s hatnin, Mr. K., The
Mafioso, Happy Valentine’s Day.
Love, Barbie
Happy Valentine’s Day to all
my home people from Chicago.
Love, Karen B.
To my Valentine, SFC, A
relationship has to be true, and
that’s nothing new! But in order
to maintain it, you need me and I
need you! PKF
My Head is to me as my Head is
to me!
Pinkie, Happy Valentine’s Day.
I have been checking you out for
quite a while. We need to get
together over candlelight and
champagne. Stay Beautiful.
Happy Valentine’s Day to all
my brothers and sisters in the
Buzzz family. Love, Gypsy
Happy Valentine’s Day Tom.
Be a bright egg ’cause I know
you’ll be an expensive omelette
soon, Fry baby, fry. Love, Mitzi
Mouse.
To Michael, All is forgiven.
KRT
To my sorors of Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority, Happy Valen
tine’s Day. I love all of you. Love,
Karyn
M.J.R., You were right. I was
wrong. David.
Happy Valentine’s Day Morris.
You will always be my dear
friend. Love Karyn
Happy Valentine’s Day to the
Ladies in Abby Hall. Love, the
R.A. in room 212
To D.C., You slice me up!
Happy Valentine’s Day! K.C.
A purple heart, a hug, a smile
full of wishes of happiness in the
order of Saint Valentine, Happy
Valentine’s Day to my brothers
and sisers of Theta Alpha Phi
Fraternity, Inc. Breep Breep,
Love, Mitzi
Happy Valentine’s Day to the
214, 1:00 All My Children Club.
Love, Chiki.
Suggested Reading.
From
Veronica Green
1st Corinthians
13th Verse
It I speak in the tongues of
men and of angels, but have not
love, I am a noisy gong or a
clanging cymbal. And if i have
prophetic powers, and unders
tand all mysteries and all
knowledge, and if I have all faith,
so as to remove mountains but
have not love, I am nothing. If I
give away all I have, and if I
deliver my body to be burned,
but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and kind; love is
not jealous or boastful; it is not
arrogant or rude. Love does not
insist on its own way; it is not
irritable or resentful; it does not
rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in
the right. Love bears all things,
believes all things, hopes all
things, endures all things. Love
never ends; as for prophecies,
they will pass away; as for
tongues, they will cease; as for
knowledge, it will pass away. For
our knowledge is imperfect and
our prophecy is imperfect; but
when the the perfect comes, the
imperfect will pass away. When I
was a child, I spoke like a child, I
thought like a child, I reasoned
like a child; when I became a
man, I gave up childish ways. For
now we see in a mirrordimly, but
then face to face. Now I know in
part; then I shall understand
fully, even as I have been fully
understood. So faith, hope, love
abide, these three; but the
greatest of these is love.
The Spelman Stereotype: Is It You?
by Karen Burroughs
As a down-to-earth
Spelmanite, with dark skin and
slightly kinky hair, I resent the
stereotypical image of Spelman
women. ALL Spelman women do
not have light skin and long
flowing hair. ALL Spelman
women do not dress everyday as
if they are in a fashion exhibition.
ALL Spelman women do not
walk around looking like they
are directing air traffic with their
noses. (Of course, Spelman may
have more of these types than
other schools in the A.U.C. but it
must be considered that
Spelman is an all women’s
college.)
The fact that Spelman is com
pletely surrounded by walls and
barbed wire fences (with the
wire facing inward, I might add),
does little to dispel our holier -
than - thou image. And our
laughable, over - protective
visitation system is no help
either. After all, we’re treated
like we're fragile, and slightly
better - than - the - rest, so
maybe it’s natural that people
believe that we think we’re
better.
I get tired of hearing that
“Spelman girls don’t speak,” and
“Spelman girls are rich,” and that
“Spelman girls are stuck-up.” I
am a Spelman Woman, and none
of these statements is applicable
to me.
I get tired of being thrown into
a category which I don’t belong
in, 1 get tired of the funny glances
that I receive when I meet
someone from Clark or Morris
Brown. And most of all, I get
tired of being pre-judged
because of the school I attend.
I come now to the question,
“Can anything be done to dispel
this stereotypical image that
people hold of Spelman
Women?” I feel that it may take a
while, but it is possible. Maybe
those Spelmanites who do not
trouble themselves to speak to
other students could begin to do
so. And, maybe, just maybe, they
could summon up a smile to
accompany their greeting. (It’s
not too hard, I’ve tried it.)
And to those students who
ascribe to these stereotypical
views, try not to prejudge
Spelman Women too harshly.
After all, everyone is an in
dividual, and I personally feel
that there are many of us who are
well worth knowing.
Editor-in-Chief
R. Denise Reynolds
Associate Editor
Karen M. Burroughs
Office Manager
Carla Thomas
News Editor
Veronica Greene
Feature Editors
Stephanie Greene
Lisa P. Turner
Business Manager
Michelle Bundridge
Circulation Manager
Glenda Patterson
Lay-out Editor
Lynne Shipley
Photographers
Jo-Anna Griffith
R. Melvin Jones
Nelson Valentine
Reporters
Sharon Jones
Lynette Glover
Sharon Sellers
Angela Jackson
Lisa Hobbs
Thomasina Toles
Nancy Bowman
Copy Editor
Rhonda Killens
Spotlight Advisor
Judy Gebre-Hiwet
Art Editor
Debra Johnson
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