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Spelman Spotlight, Atlanta, GA
March 4,1993
CAMPUS NEWS
Unjustly Justice...Clive Stafford EAB Urges
Smith speaks on death penalty Enviromental Awareness
Photography by Malcka fngram
Clive Stafford Smith
By Maleka Ingram
Over 30 percent of the people on
death row are mentally retarded.
Because of their mental capacity, they
are easy to confess and show little self-
control.
Another large percentage of people
on death row are women. These are
women who have killed their
boyfriends or husbands after abuse.
Many people on death row are mentally
ill. The majority of people on death
row are African Americans.
Inspiration:
A Voice of
Hazella Rollins
By Joy a Adams
"She has a beautiful voice." "I wish
I could sing like that." These are just
some of the phrases that were heard
Feb. 28 when the voice of Hazella
Rollins, a Spelman alumna, echoed
throughout Sisters Chapel.
The mezzo soprano gave a beautiful
solo recital at Sisters Chapel. Her
recital was the second of a newly
initiated Spelman College Alumnae
Recital Series.
Rollins, a native of Texas, graduated
from Spelman College in 1980. She
received numerous scholarships for
operatic excellence which enabled her
to complete a master’s degree of music
in voice in 1982 and successfully
pursue doctoral study at Northwestern
University.
Rollins has had extensive
performance experience as a recitalist
and as an opera and oratorio soloist.
She has sung principal roles in the
operas Suor Angelica, Juha, and
Vanessa to name a few. She has
worked with the Chicago Opera
Theater, the Gilbert and Sullivan
Society of Chicago, and with two
Atlanta Companies.
"Hazella Rollins has a beautiful
voice and is very inspirational to me,"
said Laquiana Fallin, a sophomore
music major.
While sitting in the audience I
thought of the many talented women
Spelman College has produced and I
felt proud to be a student here at
Spelman.
Spelman is indeed keeping up with
the tradition of producing some of the
most talented African American women
and Hazella Rollins is one of them.
This information regarding death
row was brought to my awareness by
Attorney Clive Stafford Smith. Smith
was the guest speaker at a forum Feb.
25, sponsored by the Spelman College
Philosophy Club.
Smith, originally from England,
attended the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill and Columbia
Law School. He is presently an
attorney involved in prison rights and
the death penalty. Smith was recently
in the news for being the attorney of
Larry Lochart. Lochart was sentenced
to die Feb. 24.
In his informal lecture, Smith
discussed the death penalty, who gets it
and why, and the unjast practices of a
large number of law officials in the
United States. Throughout his lecture
Smith continually referred to the large
number of death row victims and the
small number of attorneys who are
willing to represent them.
Did You Know.,.
...that if you cannot find a magazine
article in Woodruff Library, the
librarian can still get the article to
you in a matter or minutes?
...that if you need a book that is nut
on the shelves of Woodruff Library,
you do not have to wait weeks for an
interlibrary loan to be returned?
Woodruff Library has an account
with eight bookstores in Atlanta. The
book you need may be purchased and
delivered to the library overnight!
Don't leave
Woodruff Library
without the
information you
need!
By Binta Robinson
Matjorie Kimbrough delivered the
SSGA-sponsored convocation address
Feb. 25 for Black Herstory Week.
The computer scientist, faculty
member at Clark Atlanta University,
mother and wife presented her story -
living out her personal vision of
success.
She told of her matriculation at the
majority-white University of
California as a mathematics major and
how she had to utilize the belief that
she was "the smartest one in the
room" to excel in situations that
contained obstacles for black women.
Her mother was responsible for
instilling in her at a young age this
belief, a belief that would prove
By Na’Taki Y. Osborne
"Enhancing Environmental
Education" was the theme of
Environmental Awareness
Week sponsored by the Spelman
College Environmental Task force from
February 22-26, 1993.
The week’s activities included a
video presentation and discussion on
pollution, a forum discussion on the
effects that chemicals have on pregnant
women, the distribution of green and
blue ribbons to promote environmental
awareness among the student body, and
a workshop that gave insight on water
quality assessment, recycling tips,
radon testing, and the use of DNA
probes to detect the presence of lead,
other heavy metals, and harmful
chemicals in drinking water. In
conjunction with the workshop, radon
tubes have been placed in all of the
dormitories on campus in order to
detect the amount of radon present in
the buildings.
Two petitions were initiated and
are still circulating the campus to ask
the cafeteria to use paper products
instead of styrofoam which is not
biodegradable, and to ask the math and
science departments to recycle paper, to
use both the fronts and backs of paper
for tests and assignments, and to use
white paper because colored paper can
not be recycled.
The task force also offered'
environmentally conscious prizes to the
winners of environmental facts quizzes
which asked questions such as how
many trees are saved by each ton of
paper that is recycled, and how many
gallons of drinking water one gallon of
motor oil can contaminate.
The Environmental Task Force is a
useful to her in transcending obstacles
of sex ism and racism.
She was able to transform
negative situations that she
encountered during her twenty years
in the boardrooms of corporate
America as well as while on the road
working and travelling.
She defined the three essential
"S"s that she encouraged Spelmanites
to develop for themselves: success,
sustenance, and self esteem.
According to Marjorie Kimbrough,
success is something that a person
must define for one’s self and a
person must erect a plan to attain it.
For her, success meant "having it all"
as she put, mothering children and
being a spouse as well as being a full
division of the External Affairs Board.
Its mission is to increase campus
awareness of major environmental
issues through outreach programs,
community involvement, and forums.
'Hie task force is comprised of nearly
15 Spelman students and operates
mder the direction of faculty advisor,
Dr. Victor Ibeanusi of the biology
department. The president of the board
is, Alanna Conley, a junior Natural
Science and Environmental Biology
major.
This year’s activities have included
the distribution of literature on how to
recycle, reduce waste volume and
compost kitchen waste, and how to
identify environmentally benign (non-
hazardous to the environment) products
by reading content labels. They also
sold enviro-pops (candy blow pops with
information on energy and natural
resources conservation attached to
them), and presented a display which
illustrated how major corporations have
begun to use environmentally friendly
packaging and ingredients.
Future projects sponsored by the
Environmental Task Force to look for
are the plant-a-tree program, community
service work with the Atlanta Audubon
Society, participation in the Dogwood
Tree Festival in conjunction with the
Southern Recycling Company, placing
plastic recycling bins in dormitories,
(proceeds will go toward sponsoring an
elementary school student to go to
college), establishing work study jobs
requiring students to check and monitor
the recycling bins on campus, presenting
a 1993 Science Day project, and hosting
an Environmental Task Force day in
Piedmont Park which is open to all
interested students.
time career woman.
She went out of her way to fully
execute all roles by performing her
cooking and cleaning on the
weekends and travelling on the job
during the week.
The birth of her first son did not
halt her work. She carried her
newborn son with in her travels all
across the United States.
Sustenance was an equally
important factor that Marjorie
Kimbrough cited as important in
being successful and, for her,
it equated into family.
Kimbrough stressed the importance
of developing a high self-esteem in the
attainment of personal success.
Source: Dr. Charles D. Chnrchwell
Director, Robert W. Woodruff library
Marjorie Kimbrough Defines
Success in SSGA Convocation